History of Kiev city History of Kiev city Anna of Byzantium was a Byzantine noblewoman (+ after 1219), the Princess of Galicia ca 1200 - 1205, and the Grand Princess of Kiev 1203 - 1205. ...more on Wikipedia about "Anna of Byzantium"
Babi Yar, Russian:Бабий яр, ( Ukrainian:Бабин яр, Babyn Yar) is the name of a ravine situated outside the Ukrainian city of Kiev. It was the site of a massacre of Jews and other civilians by the Nazis, with assistance from Ukrainian collaborators, during World War II. It was conducted by Franz Jaeckeln. ...more on Wikipedia about "Babi Yar"
The Battle of Kiev was a huge encirclement battle in Ukraine during World War II. It lasted from mid-August to September 26, 1941 as part of Operation Barbarossa. In Soviet military history it is referred to as Kiev Defense Operation (Киевская оборонительная операция), with dates July 7 — September 26, 1941. ...more on Wikipedia about "Battle of Kiev (1941)"
The Coat of Arms of Kiev (Kyiv) features Archangel Michael, wielding a flaming sword and a shield in an azure field. ...more on Wikipedia about "Coat of Arms of Kiev"
Dmitry Grigoriyevich Bogrov ( ) ( 1887 - 1911) was the assassin of the Russian Prime Minister Pyotr Stolypin. ...more on Wikipedia about "Dmitry Bogrov"
Professor Evgeny Oscarovich Paton ( ; ) was a Soviet Ukrainian engineer who established the E. O. Paton Electric Welding Institute in Kiev. He was the father of Borys Paton. ...more on Wikipedia about "Evgeny Paton"
Georgiy Ruslanovich Gongadze ( , May 21, 1969 – September 2000?) was a Ukrainian journalist kidnapped and murdered in 2000. The circumstances of his death became a national scandal and a focus for protests against the government of the then President, Leonid Kuchma. Gongadze's killers have yet to be publicly identified or put on trial, although two men accused of his murder were arrested in March 2005. His widow Myroslava Gongadze and their two children received political asylum in the United States and have lived there since 2001. ...more on Wikipedia about "Georgiy R. Gongadze" Simply http://www.shortopedia.com!
The History of Kiev (also spelled Kyiv as per ), the largest city and the capital of Ukraine, is long and remarkable. ...more on Wikipedia about "History of Kiev"
Kiev Arsenal mutiny, sometimes called the January Rebellion, happened in the center of Kiev (Kyiv), Ukraine in January 29, 1918. The Bolshevik-organized workers of the Arsenal factory in Kiev staged an armed revolt against the Ukrainian Tsentral'na Rada government. Ukrainian troops loyal to the Rada be sieged and shelled the compound. The mutiny helped Bolshevik forces to storm the city and finally gain the control over it. ...more on Wikipedia about "Kiev Arsenal mutiny"
Kiev Institute of Electrotechnology in Kiev, Soviet Union (now Ukraine) was a part of the Ukrainian Academy of Sciences. It is known primarily for the prominent achievements in the field of computers, made in early 1950s by Sergei Alekseyevich Lebedev. ...more on Wikipedia about "Kiev Institute of Electrotechnology"
The Kiev Offensive (or Kiev Operation) was a Piłsudski-led attempt by the Second Polish Republic to wrest control of central and eastern Ukraine, or of a substantial part of it, from warring Ukrainian factions and Soviet Russia. The stated goal of the operation was to create an independent Ukraine allied with Poland, though many ethnic Ukrainians viewed it as a Polish effort to seize Ukraine and rallied to fight in the ranks of the Red Army. An initial major military operation in the Polish-Soviet War, this campaign was conducted from April to June 1920 by the Polish Army in alliance with Ukrainian People's Republic forces under the nationalist leader Symon Petliura, opposed by the Bolshevik-led Red Army, likewise with Ukrainian participation. ...more on Wikipedia about "Kiev Offensive (1920)"
Kievan Rus′ was the early, mostly East Slavic state dominated by the city of Kiev, located in modern Ukraine, from about 880 to the middle of the 12th century. From the historiographical point of view, Kievan Rus' is considered a predecessor state of three modern East Slavic nations: Belarus, Russia and Ukraine. The reigns of Vladimir the Great ( 980- 1015) and his son Yaroslav I the Wise ( 1019- 1054) constitute the Golden Age of Kiev, which saw the acceptance of Orthodox Christianity and the creation of the first East Slavic written legal code, the Russkaya Pravda ...more on Wikipedia about "Kievan Rus'"
Kyi (alt. sp. Kiy, Kij or Kyj), Schek and Khoriv ( three brothers, sometimes mentioned along with their sister Lybid
Lysa Hora ( Ukrainian: Лиса Гора; Russian: Лысая гора (Lysaya Gora); literally "Bald Mountain") is a large woody hill in the Ukrainian capital Kiev (Kyiv), near the confluence of the Dnieper and Lybid' rivers. The mount supposedly takes its name from the fact that one slope of the hill is not covered by trees. ...more on Wikipedia about "Lysa Hora" It must be www.shortopedia.com. History_of_Kiev_city
Lysa Hora or Bald Mountain ( Ukrainian: Лиса гора, Lysa hora, pl. Lysi hory; Russian: Лысая гора, Lysaya gora, Polish: Łysa Góra) is a concept of East Slavic, and particularly Ukrainian, folk mythology related to witchcraft. According to legends, witches and other paranormal creatures periodically gather on the "bald mountains" for their " Sabbath". Mentions of Lysi Hory can be found in various historical and literary sources, such as in the writings of Nikolay Gogol and Mikhail Bulgakov (who uses it in The Master and Margarita as the mountain where Christ was crucified). The exact origins and factual evidences of the concept are unclear. ...more on Wikipedia about "Lysa Hora (paranormal)"
Lyudmila Mikhailovna Pavlichenko ( Ukrainian: Людмила Михайлівна Павліченко, Russian: Людмила Михайловна Павличенко; July 12, 1916 Bila Tserkva, Ukrainian SSR - 10 October, 1974) was a soldier for the Soviet Union and a Soviet sniper. ...more on Wikipedia about "Lyudmila Pavlichenko"
Myroslava Gongadze ( ) is a Ukrainian journalist. Her husband Georgiy Gongadzewas abducted and murdered in 2000. The death of Gongadze had a huge effect on modern history of the country. Since then Myroslava holds a strong and active public position regarding the political and cultural circumstances in Ukraine which led to ...more on Wikipedia about "Myroslava Gongadze"
Ukraine's "Orange Revolution" ( Ukrainian: Помаранчева революція) of 2004- 2005 was a series of protests and political events that took place throughout the country in response to allegations of massive corruption, voter intimidation and direct electoral fraud during the 2004 Ukrainian presidential election. ...more on Wikipedia about "Orange Revolution"
The Polish capture of Kiev was an episode in the internal struggle for power in the state of Rus between Sviatopolk I of Kiev and his brother Yaroslav I the Wise. After having been expelled from Kiev by Yaroslav and his Novgorodian adherents, Sviatopolk withdrew to the court of his father-in-law, Boleslaus I of Poland. He persuaded the latter to support his cause and enter the conflict on his side. The army of Boleslaus, aided by German and Hungarian mercenaries, crossed the borders in 1018 and reached Kiev later the same year. ...more on Wikipedia about "Polish capture of Kiev (1018)"
Sergei Alekseyevich Lebedev (Серге́й Алексе́евич Ле́бедев) ( November 2, 1902, n.s. – 1974) was a Soviet scientist in the field of electrical engineering and computer science. He was a full member of the Ukrainian Academy of Sciences (inducted in 1945) and the USSR Academy of Sciences (inducted in 1953). ...more on Wikipedia about "Sergei Alekseyevich Lebedev"
The subdivisions of Kiev ( ), the capital of Ukraine, include the formal administrative subdivision into raions and the more detailed informal subdivision into historical neighborhoods. ...more on Wikipedia about "Subdivisions of Kiev"
The Central Rada or Tsentralna Rada ( ) was a representative body formed in 1917 in Kiev (Kyiv) to govern the Ukrainian People's Republic— which was first an autonomous polity and then later a fully independent state. It achieved this by a gradual process, moving from being a representative solely of ethnic Ukrainians, to the incorporation of other ethnic and national groups in Ukraine, and issuing a series of four "Universals", or Declarations which began with Ukrainian autonomy within a democratic federal Russia and ended with sovereignty and complete national independence for the Ukrainian People's Republic. ...more on Wikipedia about "Tsentral'na Rada"
Ukrayina bez Kuchmy! or UBK ( Ukrainian: Україна без Кучми!—Ukraine without Kuchma!) was a mass protest campaign that took place in Ukraine in 2000– 2001. It was organized by the political opposition, influenced by the Cassette Scandal and aimed mainly to demand the resignation of President Leonid Kuchma. ...more on Wikipedia about "UBK"
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