Trending Now
Ukraine Paid the Bill of WW2
Saturday Evening Post on January 27, 1945 Edgar Snow UKRAINE PAYS THE BILL "After an exhaustive personal survey, a Post editor says Ukraine has suffered more from...
Amazons in European Scythia [Ukraine]: Fighting side-by-side with men
https://youtu.be/W58UguK4DEY In the past century, intense archaeological excavations of the Scythian period kurgans were conducted in Southern Ukraine. The findings revealed that in Scythian times, female...
Scythian Trousers & Their Decorations
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ps2tin2JYhw Scythian artifacts offer a unique opportunity to explore the details of Scythian attire and weapons. For example, let’s take a closer look at one...
Stalin planned to deport ALL Ukrainians to Siberia after WW2, Khrushchev...
‘On the Cult of Personality’ was a report by Nikita Khrushchev, made to the 20th Congress of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union...
Not Iranians. Scythians originated in Ukraine [Yamna + Trypillia Cultures] –...
In 2025, an article by geneticists Lehti Saag, Olga Utevska, and a number of Ukrainian archaeologists was published ‘North Pontic crossroads: Mobility in Ukraine...
‘Scythian Square’ of Herodotus: Borders of Scythia 2500 years ago
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...
Must Read
Ice Age Mammoth Ivory Art from Mezin Paleolithic site in Ukraine....
American professor of literature Joseph Campbell in his famous book The Masks of God: Primitive Mythology shares quite an interesting observation on the culture of the area and...
Ukraine’s Snake (Zmiiny) Island Is Where Achilles Supposedly Went Mad and...
At last world media start seeing that some of the Greek myths actually take place in the area of present-day Ukraine. "The most striking...
Fingers point at Russian state over Petya hack attack on Ukraine,...
“As important government systems have been targeted, then in case the operation is attributed to a state, this could count as a violation...
‘With at least 1,000 years of authentic history, no other nation...
Lancelot Lawton was a British historian, military officer, scholar of Ukrainian studies, activist, and international political journalist. In the early 1930s, he contributed to...
Why Crane. About this Website
Thank you for visiting my website. This site was created with the purpose to help you discover beautiful country of Ukraine. Why Crane anyway? Not just because...
Chumaks, the Ox-Cart Drivers: Ukrainians named the Milky Way Galaxy after...
"We met frequent caravans of the Malo-Russians , who differ altogether from the inhabitants of the rest of Russia. Their features are those of...
Stalin re-established the Russian Orthodox Church in September 1943. Why?
After the Bolshevik Coup of 1917, the Russian Orthodox church was forbidden and many cathedrals were ruined. But for some reason, almost a quarter...
‘Between Hitler and Stalin: Ukraine in World War II’ documentary. Narrated...
"The film "Between Hitler and Stalin" chronicles the struggle between the Nazi and Soviet regimes, from a Ukrainian perspective. The documentary recounts the events...
Kyiv Rus’ gold cloisonné enamel medallions dating to 1000-1200 AD in...
Title: Chain with Birds and Geometric MotifsDate: 1000–1200Geography: Made in Kyiv (probably), UkraineCulture: Kyivan Rus’Medium: Cloisonné enamel, goldDimensions: Overall: 4 9/16 x 15/16 x 3/16 in. (11.6 x 2.4 x...
The Crimean War started on March 27, 1854: Parallels to current...
The experience of the Crimean War of 1854 has several striking analogies with Putin’s war on Ukraine that started in 2014 with the invasion...