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...that during the Shuliavka worker's uprising of 1905 Shuliavka neighborhood in Kiev to clean the area of any resistors to their movement?
...that Vasyl Krychevsky Ukrainian artist , designed the state emblem of the Ukrainian National Republic at the request of Mykhailo Hrushevskyi ?
...that the Emperor of Russia, Alexander III bought the art of Ukrainian realist painter Vladimir Orlovsky ...that Swedish-Ukrainian relations Charles XII was named protector of Ukraine in the first Ukrainian constitution of 1710 and that Hetman Pylyp Orlyk lived in Sweden 1716–1720?
...that the Russian composers Peter Tchaikovsky , Nikolai Rimsky-Korsakov and Serge Rachmaninoff used Ukrainian folk melodies ...that Polish-Ukrainian relations fall of communism , and both countries now have a strong strategic relationship?
...that the Ukrainian Baroque architecture Western European Baroque in that its designs were more constructivist, had more moderate ornamentation, and were simpler in form?
...that according to Ukrainian folklore , the girl who finds Chervona Ruta Red Rue " in Ukrainian , on the Ivan Kupala Day , will be happy in love?
...that the 11th century Duke Yaropolk Izyaslavich Eastern Orthodox saint ?
...that in 1956, the Pidhirtsi Castle Lviv Oblast , Ukraine. burned for three weeks costing US$ 12 million in damages?
...that the Holy Trinity Church Kamianets-Podilskyi , Ukraine, until it was destroyed by the Soviets in 1935?
...that the February 9, 1918 Treaty of Brest-Litovsk Ukrainian People's Republic and the Central Powers that helped clear Bolshevik forces from Ukraine?
...that the official cause of the Great Fire of 1811 Podil neighborhood of Kiev , was children playing with fire?
...that Khotyn Fortress pictured Battle of Khotyn between the Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth and the Ottoman Empire in 1621, is one of the Seven Wonders of Ukraine ?
...that in the Ukrainian-Soviet War Russian Empire , and then the Soviet Union ?
...that the strength of the Ukrainian People's Army war with Soviet Russia ?
...that the Contracts House pictured Kiev , Ukraine , was visited by writers Honoré de Balzac , Nikolai Gogol , Alexander Pushkin , and poets Adam Mickiewicz and Taras Shevchenko ?
...that Natalka Poltavka Vasyl Avramenko , was the first Ukrainian language film produced in the United States ?
...that the Soviet 383rd Rifle Division miners , from the Ukrainian Donets Basin ?
...that Ukrainian realist artist Apollon Mokritsky serf and talented artist Taras Shevchenko to the Ukrainian and Russian intelligentsia ?
...that red and black were the most common colors of traditional Ukrainian embroidery (pictured ) ?
...that Ukrainian impressionist Ivan Trush Vasyl Stefanyk , Lesya Ukrainka , Mykhailo Drahomanov , Mykola Lysenko , and Ivan Franko ?
...that Viktor Pynzenyk Ukraine 's Minister of Finance , is also a professor of economics at Lviv University ?
...that korovai Ukrainian wedding bread, baked from wheat flour and decorated with braids ?
...that the massacre in Vinnytsia Soviet secret police NKVD in the purges of 1937-1938 was investigated in 1943 during the German invasion of Ukraine and used in the propaganda war against the Soviet Union?
...that under the leadership of the Ukrainian Ministry of Defense emblem Ukraine became the first country in history to voluntarily give up its nuclear weapons ?
...that Valentyn Rechmedin Ukrainian journalist and writer, received the Order of the Red Star after World War II ?
...that Canada was the first Western country to recognize Ukraine 's independence in 1991?
...that after the death of Ukrainian novelist Mykhailo Kotsiubynsky Vinnytsia , films were made and his son was executed for having counter-revolutionary contacts?
...that Serhii Vasylkivsky painting Taras Shevchenko to draw upon Ukrainian historical and ethnographic themes?
...that the Orthodox cave monastery in Bakota Ukraine is said to have been founded by St. Anthony of Kiev ?
...that while the Ukrainian Chortkiv offensive Polish army , the initial success of this desperate attack by the Ukrainian Galician Army is considered its finest hour in the Polish-Ukrainian War ?
...that Khotyn Fortress and Kyiv Pechersk Lavra are part of the Seven Wonders of Ukraine ...that members of Sub-Carpathian Reformed Church Soviet Union and were sent to Gulag labour camps in Siberia ?
...that in 1990, some 300,000 people created a 300 mile human chain stretching from Lviv to Kiev on the 71st anniversary of the Act Zluky ...that the first Baptist Ukraine took place in 1864 on the river Inhul of today's Kirovohrad Oblast ?
...that the 1646 Union of Uzhhorod Basilian monastic order on the model of the earlier Union of Brest ?
...that the Poltava Bandurist Capella , directed by Hnat Khotkevych Soviet ensemble to be invited to tour North America ?
...that Oleh Lysheha Lviv University , was the first Ukrainian poet to receive the PEN Award for Poetry in Translation ?
...that the Hill of Ash Kerch was the first Scythian royal mound excavated in modern times?
...that some scholars interpret the petroglyphs of Kamyana Mohyla Ukraine as precursors of the Sumerian cuneiform script ?
...that Anthony of Kiev Kiev Pechersk Lavra monastery when it gained 12 members because he felt it was crowded?
...that the red column of the Kruty Heroes Memorial colonnade of the famously red-colored main building of the Kiev University where many of the Ukrainian cadets slain at the 1918 Battle of Kruty had studied?
...that the Sviatohirsk Lavra (pictured) , an Orthodox Christian monastery in eastern Ukraine that dates back to the 1500s, was recently rebuilt anew after being destroyed by the Soviets in the 1930s?
...that although Russian is the most common first language in some parts of Ukraine ...that reopening of the Cemetery of the Defenders of Lwów picture ...that during the Nazi occupation of Ukraine , a secret synod of Ukrainian bishops in Pochaiv Lavra created the Ukrainian Autonomous Orthodox Church canonically linked to the Moscow Patriarchate ?
...that Kyiv's Museum of Western and Oriental Art ...that the National Art Museum of Ukraine's pictured independence in 1991 ?
...that the National Philharmonic Society of Ukraine Bolshevik Club after the Russian Revolution ?
...that the proposals for a new Crimean flag collapse of the Soviet Union included a white flag with seven rainbow colors at the top and a blue-white-red tricolor design, which was officially adopted in 1999?
...that the Vorontsovsky Palace pictured English architect Edward Blore ?
...that the Grand Crimean Central Railway Sevastopol in the Crimean War ?
...that the Palanok Castle picture Mukacheve , Ukraine , was used as an all-European political prison after the fall of the French Bastille , and as a shelter for the Crown of St. Stephen , protecting it from Napoleon I 's troops?
...that St. George's Cathedral below ) in Lviv , Ukraine served as the mother church of the Ukrainian Greek Catholic Church during the 19th and 20th century ?
...that St. Cyril's Monastery picture Kiev , Ukraine was closed by the Tsarist Government and its living quarters were converted into a hospital and later an insane asylum , which lasted until the mid-late 20th century ?
...that in the Battle of Zhovti Vody Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth faced 1:10 odds for 18 days before its final defeat by the Cossack -Tatar alliance?
...that the remains of the Lviv High Castle Lviv , Ukraine , was used as the foundation for a kurgan , constructed in memory of the 300-anniversary of the Union of Lublin ?
...that Hetman Petro Konashevych-Sahaidachny Cossack army as students to prevent a Kievan school's conversion to a Jesuit Collegium ?
...that Ostap Veresai kobzar from Ukraine , performed at the Winter Palace in Saint Petersburg , Russia ?
...that Taras Fedorovych Cossack leader, led a Cossack and peasant uprising over the issue of the Cossack register ?
...that in 1057 , Saint Anthony of Pechersk singled-handedly dug out the Near Caves Kiev , Ukraine part of Kiev Pechersk Lavra ?
...that for organizing a revolt on an Ottoman slave galley and freeing Christian slaves, Hetman Ivan Sulyma Pope Paul V ?
...that the clocks on the Great Lavra Belltower Kiev Pechersk Lavra was blown up during the Second World War ?
...that the Ukrainian Catholic University Catholic university to be opened and operated by an Eastern Rite Catholic Church ?
...that a recent fire in the open air Museum of Folk Architecture and Life of Ukraine picture arson , set to cover up the theft of a valuable collection of the eighteenth-century cassones exhibited in the burned building?
...that the legend of the Gold of Polubotok Cossack Pavlo Polubotok deposited 200,000 gold coins at the Bank of England in 1723 and that the money owed to Ukraine is supposedly valued at twenty times the world's gold reserve ? (picture )
...that the Swallow's Nest Crimea , Ukraine , is a medieval -type castle which has survived an earthquake measuring 6-7 on the Richter scale ? (picture... )
...that Vasyl Karazin Kharkiv University , was not allowed to attend the opening ceremony?
...that the Zymne Monastery Volynia is believed to have been named after a winter palace of Vladimir the Great that formerly stood on the spot?
...that the Lviv Opera and Ballet Theater Lviv , Ukraine combines details of the Renaissance and Baroque ?
...that the 1710 Bendery Constitution Hetman Pylyp Orlyk was one of the first state constitutions in Europe?
Lviv Opera and Ballet Theater ...that when the Cabinet of Ministers of Ukraine issued the decree to construct the Donetsk Metro 1991 , the completion date was set for 2002, but due to the unstable economic situation of the city, it is still not complete?
...that St. Michael's Golden-Domed Monastery Kyiv may have been the first Russian and Ukrainian church to have a golden dome, now so typical of vernacular church architecture?
The Potemkin Stairs ...that the Potemkin Stairs pictured ) located in Odesa, Ukraine create an optical illusion , where either the landings or the stairs are invisible depending on an observer's vantage point?
...that the Kiev tram electric tramway in the Russian Empire , and the second one in Europe after the Berlin Straßenbahn ?
...that the Lviv tram May 5 , 1880 in Galicia (then part of Austria-Hungary ), is one of the last urban transit systems in the former Soviet Union to still use grooved rail ?
...that with some 150,000 customers per day, the Seventh-Kilometer Market Odesa , Ukraine , is among the largest markets of the world and consists almost entirely of shipping containers ?
...that tickets bought for the ceremonial opening of Kiev Republican Stadium June 22 , 1941 were still valid 7 years later, as the event was "postponed until after the Victory " due to the Nazi invasion to the USSR ?
...that the statues of St. Andrew and Samson from the Fountain of Samson Kiev were stored in a museum before the beginning of WWI , saving them from destruction by the Bolsheviks ?
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