Bakhmach is a city located in Nizhyn Raion of Chernihiv Oblast (province), in northern Ukraine. It hosts the administration of Bakhmach urban hromada, one of the hromadas of Ukraine. It has a population of 17,410.
Oleg Vasilyevich Koshevoy was a Soviet partisan and one of the founders of the clandestine organization Young Guard, which fought the Nazi forces in Krasnodon during World War II between 1941 and 1945.
Lebedyn is a city in Sumy Oblast, Ukraine. Lebedyn serves as the administrative center of Lebedyn Raion. It is administratively incorporated as a city of oblast significance and does not belong to the raion. Population: 24,600 An air base is located nearby. The city also has a railway station.
The Declaration of State Sovereignty of Ukraine was adopted on July 16, 1990 by the recently elected parliament of Ukrainian SSR by a vote of 355 for and four against.
Yaroslav Semenovich Stetsko was the leader of Stepan Bandera's Organization of Ukrainian Nationalists (OUN), from 1968 until his death. In 1941, during the Nazi German invasion of the Soviet Union, he was self-proclaimed temporary head of an independent Ukrainian government declared by Stepan Bandera. Stetsko was the head of the Anti-Bolshevik Bloc of Nations from the time of its foundation until 1986, the year of his death.
The Nachtigall Battalion, also known as the Ukrainian Nightingale Battalion Group, or officially as Special Group Nachtigall, was the subunit under command of the German Abwehr special operations unit Lehrregiment "Brandenburg" z.b.V. 800. Along with the Roland Battalion it was one of two military units formed February 25, 1941 by head of the Abwehr Wilhelm Franz Canaris, which sanctioned the creation of the "Ukrainian Legion" under German command. It was composed of volunteer "Ukrainian nationalists," Ukrainians operating under Stephan Bandera's OUN orders.
The 'Roland Battalion, officially known as Special Group Roland, was the subunit under command of the Abwehr special operations unit Lehrregiment "Brandenburg" z.b.V. 800. Along with the Nachtigall Battalion it was one of two military units formed on 25 February 1941 by head of the Abwehr Wilhelm Franz Canaris, which sanctioned the creation of the "Ukrainian Legion" under German command. It was composed primarily of occupied Poland citizens of Ukrainian ethnicity directed to unit by Bandera's OUN orders.
Bilhorod Kyivskyi or Belgorod Kievsky was a legendary city-castle located in Kievan Rus' that was located on the right bank of Irpin River and was mentioned in chronicles.
Maria Zankovetska was a Ukrainian theater actress. There are some sources that date her birth to August 3, 1860.
Ahatanhel Yukhymovych Krymsky was a Ukrainian Orientalist, linguist and polyglot, literary scholar, folklorist, writer, and translator. He was one of the founders of the All-Ukrainian Academy of Sciences (VUAN) in 1918 and a full member of it and of the Shevchenko Scientific Society from 1903.
Georgiy Afanasyev was a Ukrainian historian, politician, and diplomat. Minister of Foreign Affairs of the Ukrainian State (1918). Received a master's degree for his thesis: "The main points of the ministerial Turgot" (1884); and his doctoral dissertation was: "The Conditions of the Grain Trade in France at the End of the 18th Century" (1892). From 1888 he lectured at the Odessa University. He read in Odessa and Kiev.
Volodymyr Potulnytskyi is a Ukrainian historian who specializes in European medieval history, Ukrainian political science, intellectual history, historiosophy and historiography of Eastern Europe.
Serdyuk were mercenary infantry units kept by the Hetman's Zaporizhzhya Army from the second half of the 17th century through the first quarter of the 18th century and formed the Hetman's guard. Serdyuk recruited mainly from the Ukrainian population and the Kozaks of Cossack Hetmanate and Zaporizhian Sich. The average Serdyuk regiment consisted of 400-500 soldiers. They served at the border and inside the country, and guarded the Hetman's residence. By decree of the Russian Tsar on July 14, 1726, the convivial serdyuk's units were disbanded.
Samiilo Vasyliovych Velychko — Ukrainian Cossack-nobility chronicler, the author of the first systematic presentation of the history of the Ukrainian Cossack state.
Dokiya Humenna was a Ukrainian and Ukrainian American writer, one of the most prolific authors of the literary Ukrainian diaspora.
Igor Vayner,, nicknamed “Igorqa” was a Ukrainian architect, counter-revolutionary activist. He is known for sabotage of soviet expansion to the Western Ukraine region, specifically Vinnytsia.
Arts of Ukraine is a collection of all works of art created during the entire history of Ukraine's development.
The History of Ukrainian literature includes laws of the historical and literary process, literary genres, trends, works of individual writers, features of their style, and the importance of artistic heritage in the development of Ukrainian literature.
Manifesto to the Ukrainian people with ultimate demands to the Ukrainian Rada is an official document of the Council of People's Commissars of the Russian Soviet Federative Socialist Republic, prepared by the Chairman of the People's Commissar Vladimir Lenin, People's Commissar for Foreign Affairs Leon Trotsky, People's Commissar of Nationalities Joseph Stalin.
Kharkiv University History Museum is one of the first history museums created at higher educational institutions of Ukraine. Now it is located on the second floor of the main building of V. N. Karazin Kharkiv National University.
