Roman Serbyn is an historian, and a professor emeritus of Russian and East European history at the University of Quebec at Montreal, and an expert on Ukraine. He currently resides in Montreal, Canada.
A serdyuk was a member of mercenary infantry units kept by the Hetman's Zaporozhian Host during the second half of the 17th century and the first quarter of the 18th century. They formed the Hetman's guard and were recruited mainly from the Ukrainian population of the Cossack Hetmanate and Zaporozhian 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 a decree of the Russian Tsar dated July 14, 1726, the existing serdyuk units were disbanded.
Samiilo Vasyliovych Velychko — was a Ukrainian Cossack nobleman and chronicler who wrote the first systematic presentation of the history of the Cossack Hetmanate.
Yaryzhka or Orthography of Slobozhanshchyna is the name of the pre-revolutionary orthography used to write and print works in the Ukrainian language in the Russian Empire. Yaryzhka included all the letters that were part of the Russian Cyrillic alphabet of the pre-revolutionary period: ы, ъ, and so on.
Kholodnyi Yar is a relict forest area in the Cherkasy Oblast in Ukraine, which has historical and environmental significance.
Arts of Ukraine is a collection of all works of art created during the entire history of Ukraine's development.
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 Chairman of the Council of People's Commissars Vladimir Lenin, People's Commissar for Foreign Affairs Leon Trotsky, People's Commissar of Nationalities Joseph Stalin.
The Ruthenian Trinity was a Galician literary group led by Markiian Shashkevych, Yakiv Holovatskyi, and Ivan Vahylevych, which began a national and cultural revival in the western Ukrainian lands in the late 1820s (1833-1837). They were representatives of Romantic nationalism in Ukraine. and played a crucial role in the development of Ukrainian nationalism. The three all first met as students at the Greek Catholic Theological Seminary in Lviv.
The Second Universal of the Ukrainian Central Council is a state-political act, universal of the Central Council of Ukraine, which fixed the agreements between the Ukrainian Central Rada and the Provisional Government of Russian Republic. Proclaimed by Volodymyr Vynnychenko 16 July [O.S. 3 July] 1917 in Kyiv, at a solemn meeting at the Pedagogical Museum in response to a telegram from the Provisional Government to the Central Rada.
The Third Universal of the Ukrainian Central Council is a state-political act, universal of the Central Council of Ukraine, proclaiming the formation of the Ukrainian People's Republic. Accepted 20 November [O.S. 7 November] 1917 in November in Kyiv.
Nova Sich or Pidpilnenska Sich was the administrative and military center of the Zaporozhian Cossacks in 1734–1775, established after the return of the Zaporozhian Lowland Army to the Russian protectorate as a result of the signing of the Lubny Treaty. The last Zaporozhian Sich was located on a large peninsula, washed by the river Pidpilna.
Peter Mytrofanovych Kravchenko was a Ukrainian artist and public figure.
Andriy Mykhailovych Bandera was a Ukrainian chaplain and politician. He was member of the Ukrainian National Rada of the Western Ukrainian People's Republic, veteran of the Polish-Ukrainian war, member of the Shevchenko Scientific Society, a priest of the Ukrainian Greek Catholic Church, and father of Stepan Bandera.
The National Academy of Medical Sciences of Ukraine was established by the Decree of the President of Ukraine of February 24, 1993 No. 59 [59/93]. The academy is a state-owned research organization on medicine and health care, which operates in accordance with the legislation of Ukraine on a self-governing basis.
Traditional Ukrainian wedding – is a wedding in Ukrainian folk everyday life – a complex mixture of rites of different days, in which elements of the ancestral exogamic era, Greek-Byzantine religious-mystical influences and newer Ukrainian ones are distinguished.
Society of Ukrainian Women, was a women's organization in Ukraine, founded in 1884.
Kateryna Andriivna Rubchakova was a Ukrainian actress of universal transformation and a singer in lyrical soprano. Prima donna of the Galician Theater.
According to some historians, the Old Russian people were a unified ethnic group that emerged from East Slavic tribes of the Kievan Rus. The foundations for this theory were laid by Sergei Tokarev and further developed by Boris Rybakov and Pyotr Tretyakov. However, this theory is controversial among historians.
Koshylivtsi is a village in Tovste settlement hromada, Chortkiv Raion, Ternopil Oblast, Ukraine.
The Battle of Yaroslavl (1245) was a battle fought on 17 August 1245 near San next to the town of Yaroslavl, between the Kingdom of Galicia–Volhynia led by Daniel of Galicia and Vasylko Romanovych supported by the Cumans and the Galician opposition supported by Hungarians and Poles. The battle resulted in the defeat of the Galician opposition.
