‘Scythian Square’ of Herodotus: Borders of Scythia 2500 years ago

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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=p8T0Uowrltw When one searches for the boundaries of Scythia, one sees many different maps with boundaries stretching all the way to India and Afghanistan. While...

Scythian King with Famous Comb from Solokha Royal Kurgan in Ukraine:...

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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7Z761ftJkko One of the largest Scythian Royal kurgans, the 18 meter-high Solokha kurgan in the Zaporizhzhia region of Ukraine, on the left bank of the...

Scythian Golden Comb with Battle Scene from Solokha Royal Kurgan in...

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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SnUhpAFYKPY A true masterpiece of Scythian metalwork, an extraordinary Gold Comb crested with fighting Scythians was discovered in the Solokha Royal Kurgan in the Zaporizhzhia...

Ancient Lyubech in Ukraine: Ancestral home of Volodymyr the Great, Gateway...

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Lyubech is currently a rural settlement in Chernihiv Oblast, northern Ukraine. It is located 200 kilometers north of Kyiv, and near the border with...

He, Who Fights Alone: Volodymyr Monomakh, fearless hunter and Kyiv Rus’...

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Volodymyr Monomakh was born a year before the death of Yaroslav “the Wise.” Vsevolod, Volodymyr’s father, was Yaroslav’s youngest son. The Primary Chronicle records...

Pereyaslavl, Volodymyr Monomakh’s native city: His decisive battles against Polovtsians

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Primary Chronicle for the year 1054 states: “Yaroslav, Great Prince of Rus', passed away. While he was yet alive, he admonished his sons with...

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This man coined the word ‘Genocide’. Here is Dr Lemkin’s speech...

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Rafał Lemkin was a lawyer of Polish-Jewish descent who is best known for coining the word genocide in 1943 or 1944 from genos (Greek for family, tribe, or race) and -cide (Latin for killing) (Wikipedia). On September...

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Kyiv Radial Fibulae: Made by Rus people, not Goths

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Dostoyevsky: ‘Scratch a Russian and you will find a Tartar’

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‘Kremlin’ derives from Tartar word for fortress

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Tauric Chersonesus in Crimea vandalized by Russians in the 18th century,...

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Edward Daniel Clarke (1769-1822) wrote in his famous book 'Travels in Russia' which became a bestseller in 19th-century Europe: "The country included within the isthmus...

Igor Sikorsky: ‘My family is of Ukrainian origin’. Official document

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When one opens Igor Sikorsky's Wikipedia page, in the "Early Life" paragraph one can read the following sentence: "When questioned regarding his roots, he would...