Rostislav Rurikovich, Prince of Torchesk (1195–1205), Grand Prince of Kiev, Prince of Vyshhorod (1205–1210), Prince of Halych (1207). Son of Rurik Rostislavich and Anna of Turov.
Sloboda Ukraine, usually referred to locally as Slobozhanshchyna, is a historical region located in northeastern Ukraine and southwestern Russia. It developed and flourished in the 17th and 18th centuries on the southwestern frontier of the Tsardom of Russia. In 1765, it was converted into the Sloboda Ukraine Governorate.
Martyn Pushkar was a Ukrainian Cossack military leader. From 1648 he was polkovnik of Poltava regiment. After Bohdan Khmelnytsky's death, Pushkar, being one of the senior colonels in the Hetman State, was considered a candidate for the hetmancy, but Ivan Vyhovsky was elected instead. Together with Iakiv Barabash Pushkar led an uprising against Vyhovsky in 1657. After inflicting several defeats on Vyhovsky's Cossacks and his Crimean allies, Martyn Pushkar was killed in a battle near his native Poltava on 1 June 1658. His rebellion ended in failure. He founded the Exaltation of the Cross Monastery, which was built in a Cossack Baroque style in Poltava, to commemorate a victory over the Poles.
Shahany Lagoon is a salty lagoon on the Black Sea coast of Ukraine in Bilhorod-Dnistrovskyi Raion of Odesa Oblast. The lagoon is in the complex of Tuzly Lagoons, connected with the Alibey Lagoon. The area of the water body is 70 km2, salinity is about 30‰. The lagoon is separated from the Black Sea by a sandbar.
Khorol is a river in Ukraine, a tributary of the Psel in the Dnieper River Basin. It is 308 kilometres (191 mi) long and has a drainage basin of 3,340 square kilometres (1,290 sq mi). The Khorol River sources its water near the village of Chervona Sloboda in Nedryhailiv Raion, Sumy Oblast.
The Supii is a river in Ukraine, 130 km in length, a left tributary of the Dnieper. The Supii finds its source in Nizhyn Raion, Chernihiv Oblast.
MateuszRudkowski was a Ukrainian-Polish composer of choral and piano music.
The development of technology in Ukraine in the modern sense began at the end of the 18th century. It started from the machinery in textile industry. Later the technology of steel making, crystal, glass, porcelain and faience production began to develop, especially in Volyn. In the 19th century the discovery of deposits of iron ore and coal, and the construction of railways started off the period of industrial capitalism. Mechanization and machinery began to play an increasingly important role. The establishment of a large number of machine-building enterprises began.
Ivan Shishmanov was a Bulgarian writer, ethnographer, politician and diplomat. He served as Ambassador of Bulgaria to the Ukrainian State and the Ukrainian People's Republic.
Yaryzhka or Orthography of Slobozhanshchyna is the name of the Russian 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.
Dokiya Humenna was a Ukrainian and Ukrainian American writer, one of the most prolific authors of the literary Ukrainian diaspora.
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.
Kalenyk Vasyliovych Sheikovskyi was a Ukrainian linguist, ethnographer, publisher, teacher.
Verchoslava Vsevolodovna (?–1222), was a Grand Princess of the Kiev by marriage to Rostislav II of Kiev, Grand Prince of Kiev. After the death of her spouse, she participated in church politics, and it is noted that she supported different candidates for the appointments of Bishoprics financially. She was born to Vsevolod the Big Nest.
Constance of Hungary (?-1302), was a Queen consort of Galicia and a Grand Princess of Kiev by marriage to Leo I of Galicia, Grand Prince of Kiev.
Mykhailo Svitenkyi was a Ukrainian priest and public figure.
Fedir Ernst was a Ukrainian art historian, museologist and cultural activist. Among his most notable works is a tour guide around Kyiv published in 1930. He was a member of Shevchenko Scientific Society, Historical Society of Nestor the Chronicler, Ukrainian Society of Plastic Arts., All-Ukrainian Archaeological Society of the Ukrainian Academy of Sciences.
Oleksandr Stepanovych Yakymchuk was a painter and educator from Korets in Volhynia (Ukraine).
Plisnesk archaeological complex is a group of archaeological sites located near the khutir of Plisnesk, at the source of the Buzhok river.
