Waterfowl Scythian Pole-Top from Alexandropol Kurgan

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Scythian bronze Pole-top: a waterfowl (swan?), 4th c. B.C., Alexandropol Kurgan, Dnipro region, Ukraine. Griffins Pole Tops >

Ivan Kharchenko personally defused more than 1500 bombs weighing more than...

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A Soviet Army Military engineering Colonel and Hero of the Soviet Union, Kharchenko continued his military service until retirement in 1964. Until...

World Famous Ukrainians

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Celebreties Let us start with Wayne Gretzky's speech at "United for Ukraine" event - it has some information that may surprize you. Milla Jovovich who calls herself "a humble...

Term “Little Russia” and the beginning of occupation of Ukraine (Quotes...

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Just last week a Ukrainian historian and politician stated that it has come a time to name the time after the October Revolution when...

A mysterious Trypillya culture in Ukraine was older than the Egyptian...

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There was a mysterious culture in Eastern Europe between 5,500 to 2,700 BC which constructed sophisticated, organized, densely-populated settlements - only to burn them...

War in Ukraine was years in the making – Atlantic Council

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http://www.atlanticcouncil.org/blogs/ukrainealert/war-in-ukraine-was-years-in-the-making

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Ukrainian Cossacks – the power of Freedom. (Quotes from a Harvard...

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Russian soldier’s first-aid kit vs Ukrainian one

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Russian soldier's first-aid kit is above and a Ukrainian one below.

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Scythian Queen from Tovsta Mogyla Kurgan: A Pendant Earring

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The man in the central grave of Tovsta Mogyla Kurgan had a cuirass on him. The cuirass pauldrons (shoulder pads) had pieces of thick...

Athenian-type helmet from Scythian barrow in Ukraine

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In 1845, near the village of Zvenyhorodka in the Cherkasy oblast of Ukraine, a notable barrow was opened. The barrow was different from the...

Marble sarcophagus of King of Rus Yaroslav the Wise and his...

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Weighing 6 tons, it is located at St. Sophia Cathedral in Kyiv, Ukraine. The "Gardariki, Ukraine" e-book has more details about it.