ukraine history

When even those who don’t live in the capital remember Kyiv Day – that’s when the chestnut trees bloom. Usually, it’s at this time that one of the city’s symbols flourishes, greatly enhancing the festive atmosphere. Kyiv’s birthday is celebrated on the last Sunday of May. In 2025, this day falls on May 25. This year, the capital’s anniversary is […]

Kyiv is much older than it was attributed to in the USSR (and it would be worth reviewing this and publishing the real numbers officially), but I know that you, my beloved city, will live many times longer! Suddenly you didn’t know: In 1982, the Soviet authorities held a magnificent celebration of “1500 years of Kyiv” — but in fact, […]

The National Kyiv-Pechersk Lavra Reserve will present a large-scale exhibition titled “Mazepa: The Strategy of a European Ukraine” starting May 24, All the documents and artifacts gathered for the exhibition confirm that Ukraine has always been an integral part of Europe, Istorychna Pravda reports. This was announced by the National Kyiv-Pechersk Lavra Reserve. Ivan Mazepa’s struggle for the freedom and […]

Imagine the moment when an ordinary act of digging a cellar in your own yard suddenly unveils a secret frozen in time for millennia, and over time it becomes clear that the traditional Ukrainian house – or rather its ancient prototype – is the first known land-based dwelling in human history. This is exactly what happened in 1965 in the […]

Did you know that Ukraine is a land of a special destiny? Everyone remembers the recent meeting between Zelensky and Trump at the Vatican. And the discussions about the presence of the Ukrainian coat of arms—the Tryzub—on a fresco of Prince Volodymyr in the Vatican. Which is a paradox! It is forbidden to depict national coats of arms in the […]

Ukrainian – American singer Kelsie Kimberlin interviewed the Head of Defence Work Department of the Bucha District State Administration Danylo Burovin, who defended the region from the russian invasion back in 2022, and continue to protect the sky over the Kyiv region from russian air attack now. Kelsie Kimberlin: Hello. Danylo Burovin: Hello. Kelsie Kimberlin: Nice to meet you and […]

1. Trypillia culture (5500–2750 BCE)   2. Cultural successors of Trypillia – Yamna culture (3300–2600 BCE)   3. Cimmerians (10th–7th century BCE)   4. Scythians (7th–3rd century BCE)   5. Sarmatians (3rd century BCE – 3rd century CE)   6. Antes and Sclaveni (4th–7th century CE)   7. Polians, Drevlians, Severians, Tivertsi, Ulichi (7th–10th century CE)   8. Population of […]

From our peculiar official history, we learn that the first inhabitants of modern-day Ukraine were the Trypillians, who created the world’s oldest Trypillian civilization or culture. Then, they seemingly disappeared—either evaporated or flew to another planet. After them, the Scythians supposedly fell from the sky. The same story happened with the Sarmatians. After their “departure,” the Antes appeared out of […]

On July 30, 1863, the “Valuev Circular” was adopted, banning religious and educational literature in the Ukrainian language. This is a historical monument to the “friendship of peoples” and at the same time a pointer to the direction of movement (fuck you) to the fighters for the rights of the Russian language in Ukraine. “There never was, is not, and […]

Fewer and fewer remain in their right minds who know how Ukraine’s Constitution was created and, most importantly, why it was crafted the way it is. So listen, dear boys and girls, I will tell you how it really was. It’s almost impossible to believe, but in those ancient, dark yet romantic times — at the end of the last […]

All of Europe had family ties to Kievan Rus, today’s Ukraine! And all this happened 100 years before the creation of the “village” of Moscow. Kyiv gave Europe 158 queens and kings. You are looking at a historical image – a portrait of Queen Anna (about 1000 years old), made in the church of Hagia Sophia in Kyiv. All the […]

50,000 books were destroyed by russia in Kharkiv just in one strike yesterday. First, they will kill your artists. They will beat the painters to death behind garages, drive the poets to suicide, rot the journalists and historians in camps, shoot the priests, and force the musicians to sing their songs. Then they will open cinemas, literary schools, and conservatories. […]