No fantasies. Just centuries of Ukraine’s story, uncensored.
A cross-referenced reference work on Ukraine — its land, history, people, culture, economy, and the ongoing war. Terms shown as links open their own entry; the same term is linked wherever it first appears on a page.
872 entries in 7 categories. See the A–Z index, the knowledge graph, orsearch.
Land & Geography(161)
Cities, rivers, regions, and the physical landscape of Ukraine.
- Alushta
- Belovodskoye
- Beskids
- Bila Tserkva
- Bila Tserkva Raion
- Bohuslav Raion
- Boryslav
- Boryspil
- Borzsa
- Buchach
- Bukovel
- Carpathian Biosphere Reserve
- Carpathians
- Cherkasy
- Chernihiv
- Chernivtsi
- Chernobyl
- Chervonohryhorivka
- Chortkiv
- Chyhyryn
- Chyhyryn Raion
- Crimea
- Danube Delta
- Divisions of the Carpathians
- Dnieper
- Dniester
- Dniester Canyon
- Dnipro
- Donbas
- Donets
- Donetsk
- Donetsk National Technical University
- Eastern Europe
- Fastiv
- Galicia
- Halych
- Horishni Plavni
- Hoverla
- Hutsuls
- Ivano-Frankivsk
- Ivano-Frankivsk National Medical University
- Ivano-Frankivsk National Technical University of Oil and Gas
- Ivano-Frankivsk Oblast
- Ivano-Frankivsk Raion
- Iziaslav
- Izmail
- Kamchatka Peninsula
- Kamianets-Podilskyi
- Kharkiv
- Kharkiv National University of Radioelectronics
- Kharkiv Oblast
- Kherson
- Khmelnytskyi
- Khortytsia
- Khotyn
- Khotyn Fortress
- Khotyn National Nature Park
- Khotyn Raion
- Kramatorsk
- Kremenchuk Reservoir
- Kremenets Castle
- Krymske
- Kryvorivnia
- Kryvyi Rih
- Kryvyi Rih Metrotram
- Kryzhopil
- Kyiv
- Kyiv Fortress
- Kyiv Pechersk Lavra
- Kyiv Reservoir
- Kyiv Zoo
- Little Russia
- Luhansk
- Lutsk
- Lutsk Raion
- Lviv
- Lviv High Castle
- Lysychansk
- Makiivka
- Mariinskyi Park
- Mariupol
- Melitopol
- Mother Ukraine Monument
- Mukachevo
- Mykolaiv
- Mykolaiv Oblast
- Mykolaiv Raion
- Mykolaiv Shipyard
- Mykolayiv State Agrarian University
- Nadia
- National Historical Museum of Ukraine
- National University of Physical Education and Sport of Ukraine
- Novomoskovsk
- Odesa
- Odesa Catacombs
- Odesa National Maritime University
- Oleshky Sands
- Olesko
- Olesko Castle
- Pecherskyi District
- Pereiaslav
- Pervomaisk
- Pidhirtsi Castle
- Pochayiv Lavra
- Polesia
- Poltava
- Polygon
- Pripyat River
- Prut
- Pyrohiv
- Rava-Ruska
- Rivne Oblast
- Rivne Raion
- Roman Catholic Archdiocese of Lviv
- Rosava River
- Saint Sophia Cathedral
- Sakhalin
- Sambir
- Sea of Azov
- Sevastopol
- Shatsk National Natural Park
- Sheptytskyi
- Soledar
- State University of Trade and Economics
- Sumy
- Sviatohirsk
- Syr Darya
- Ternivka
- Ternopil
- Ternopil Castle
- Ternopil Raion
- Treaty of Moscow
- Truskavets
- Tysmenytsia
- Ukraine
- Ukrainian Carpathians
- Ukrainian Institute of National Remembrance
- Uzh River
- Vasylivka
- Velykyi Bychkiv
- Vinnytsia
- Vistula
- Vorskla
- Vuhledar
- West Ukrainian National University
- Western Bug
- Yalta Conference
- Zakarpattia Oblast
- Zaliznyi Port
- Zaporizhzhia
- Zavodske
- Zbarazh Castle
- Zboriv
- Zbruch
- Zhytomyr
- Zmiivka
- Znamianka
- Zolote
- Zorya-Mashproekt
- Zvenyhorod
- Zvenyhorodka
History(133)
From Kyivan Rus' and the Cossacks to independence.
- Abakan
- Andriivskyi Descent
- Anti-Ukrainian sentiment
- Baba Yaga
- Battle of Batih
- Battle of Kiev
- Battle of Kruty
- Battle of Lwów
- Battle of Poltava
- Battle of the Dnieper
- Battle of Zboriv
- Bohdan Hawrylyshyn
- Bohdan Khmelnytsky
- Bohuslav
- Borshchahivka
- Borysthenes
- Bratslav
- Bukovina
- Chechen–Russian conflict
- Chernobyl disaster
- Chop
- Cinema of Ukraine
- Cossack Hetmanate
- Cossack raids
- Cossack song
- Cossackia
- Cossacks
- Crimea – Gold and Secrets of the Black Sea
- Crimean Khanate
- Crimean War
- Cucuteni–Trypillia culture
- Danylo Halytsky Lviv National Medical University
- Declaration of Independence of Ukraine
- Decommunization in Ukraine
- Deportation of the Crimean Tatars
- Dmitri Shostakovich
- Dmytro Yavornytsky
- Dnieper Ukraine
- Eastern Galicia
- Euromaidan
- Evgeny Sokolov
- Executed Renaissance
- First Partition of Poland
- Geography of Ukraine
- Golden Gate
- Great Famine
- Halič
- Heorhii Narbut
- Hetman
- History of Crimea
- History of Kyiv
- History of the Cossacks
- History of the Jews in Ukraine
- Holodomor
- Hrushevsky Street
- Intermarium
- Khmelnytsky Uprising
- Kievan Rus'
- Kingdom of Galicia–Volhynia
- Kyiv Metro
- Lysenkoism
- Maslenitsa
- Mikhail Gorbachev
- Mikhail Kovalchuk
- Mikhail Lomonosov
- Modern history of Ukraine
- Mykola Voronyi
- National Academy of Sciences of Ukraine
- Nestor the Chronicler
- Nikita Khrushchev
- Nikolai Gogol
- October Revolution
- Operation Vistula
- Orange Revolution
- Orel
- Pale of Settlement
- Peremyshl
- Podolia
- Pohrebyshche
- Post-Soviet states
- Prizrak
- Prosvita
- Protestantism in Ukraine
- Prykarpattia
- Radio Ukraine
- Religion in Ukraine
- Revolution of Dignity
- Revolution on Granite
- Rivne
- Rus' people
- Russian Revolution of 1905
- Rusyns
- Ruthenian
- Sarmatians
- Scythians
- Second Partition of Poland
- Sich Riflemen
- Slavutych
- Soviet famine of 1932–1933
- Soviet occupation of Ukraine
- Syvash Bay
- Tetiana Chornovol
- Theatre in Ukraine
- Transcarpathia
- Transnistria
- Treaty of Pereyaslav
- Ukraine during World War I
- Ukrainian architecture
- Ukrainian avant-garde
- Ukrainian Baroque
- Ukrainian Democratic Party
- Ukrainian folklore
- Ukrainian grammar
- Ukrainian historical regions
- Ukrainian National Assembly – Ukrainian National Self Defence
- Ukrainian National Revival
- Ukrainian Orthodox Church – Kyiv Patriarchate
- Ukrainian People's Party
- Ukrainian People's Republic
- Ukrainian rock
- Ukrainian Soviet Socialist Republic
- Ukrainian War of Independence
- Ukrainian–Soviet War
- Ukrainians in Poland
- Ukrainization
- Uman
- Uzhhorod
- Vladimir Lenin
- Volhynia
- West Ukrainian People's Republic
- Yalta
- Yaremche
- Zaporizhian Sich
Russia–Ukraine War(102)
The invasion, key battles, and the conflict since 2014.
- 2022 Kharkiv counteroffensive
- 2022 Kherson counteroffensive
- 2022 Russian invasion of Ukraine
- Admiral Makarov
- Alexander J. Motyl
- Alina Pash
- Anatoly Shariy
- Aptiv
- Arsen Avakov
- Artem Dovbyk
- Artem Sytnyk
- Azov Brigade
- Battle of Bakhmut
- Battle of Debaltseve
- Battle of Donetsk Airport
- Battle of Ilovaisk
- Battle of Kharkiv
- Battle of Kyiv
- Battle of Mariupol
- Battle of Mariupol
- Battle of Mykolaiv
- Battle of Sievierodonetsk
- Battle of Sumy
- Borodianka
- Bucha massacre
- Catholic Church in Ukraine
- Crimean Tatars
- Daniel of Galicia
- Daria Kaleniuk
- Defenders of Ukraine Day
- Dmytro Yarosh
- Dnipropetrovsk Oblast
- Donetsk International Airport
- Donetsk People's Republic
- Elections in Ukraine
- FC Zorya Luhansk
- First Battle of Kharkov
- Full-scale Russo-Ukrainian war
- George Tuka
- Gromada
- Gulag
- Haidamaka
- Hanna Malyar
- Igor Girkin
- Irpin
- Kerch Strait incident
- Kramatorsk railway station attack
- Kremlin
- Kyiv offensive
- Luhansk Oblast
- Luhansk People's Republic
- Marina Abramović
- Mariupol theatre airstrike
- Ministry of Defence of Ukraine
- Minsk agreements
- Moskva
- Myrhorod
- National Guard of Ukraine
- Oleh Liashko
- Oleksandr Vysotskyi
- Operation Barbarossa
- Pavlo Klimkin
- Radomysl Castle
- Right Sector
- Romania–Ukraine relations
- Russia–Ukraine gas disputes
- Russia–Ukraine relations
- Russian annexation of Crimea
- Russian occupation of Crimea
- Russian war crimes
- Russo-Ukrainian war
- Samopomich
- Second Battle of Kharkov
- Serhiy Haidai
- Siege of Chernihiv
- Siege of Mariupol
- Snake Island
- Snake Island campaign
- Southern Bug
- Soviet invasion of Poland
- Sudak
- Sviatohirsk Lavra
- Sviatoshyn
- Sviatoshynskyi District
- The Holocaust in Ukraine
- Transnistria conflict
- Ukrainian Cultural Foundation
- Ukrainian Ground Forces
- Ukrainian National Army
- Ukrainian presidential election
- Ukrainian Red Cross Society
- Vasyl Slipak
- Volodymyr Hroisman
- Vorkuta Gulag
- Vostok Battalion
- War in Donbas
- Yavoriv
- Yelena Gagarina
- Yevgeny Prigozhin
- Yevhen Konoplyanka
- Zhukovka
- Zolochiv Castle
Government & Politics(117)
The state, its institutions, leaders, and constitution.
- 2004 Ukrainian presidential election
- 2006 Ukrainian parliamentary election
- 2007 Ukrainian parliamentary election
- 2010 Ukrainian presidential election
- 2012 Ukrainian parliamentary election
- 2015 Ukrainian local elections
- 2019 Ukrainian parliamentary election
- 2019 Ukrainian presidential election
- 2020 Ukrainian local elections
- Administrative territorial entity of Ukraine
- Andrii Parubii
- Andrii Yermak
- Anne of Kyiv
- Armed Forces of Ukraine
- Batkivshchyna
- Belarus–Ukraine relations
- Bessarabia
- Boris Nemtsov
- Borys Filatov
- Borys Hrinchenko
- Borys Tarasyuk
- Burgerinitiatief
- Cabinet of Ministers of Ukraine
- Central Election Commission of Ukraine
- Central Rada
- Civic nationalism
- Constitution of Ukraine
- Constitutional Court of Ukraine
- Council of Europe
- Crimea crisis
- Crimean Tatar
- Decentralisation in Ukraine
- Dmytro Razumkov
- Education in Ukraine
- Foreign relations of Ukraine
- Green Ukraine
- Grigory Leps
- Hennadiy Avdyeyenko
- Hryhorii Skovoroda
- Human rights in Ukraine
- Hungary–Ukraine relations
- Igor Sikorsky Kyiv Polytechnic Institute
- Independent Ukraine
- Iryna Venediktova
- Judicial system of Ukraine
- Kherson Oblast
- Kyiv City State Administration
- Kyiv Oblast
- Latin Church in Ukraine
- Law of Ukraine
- Liberal Party of Ukraine
- Local government in Ukraine
- Lustration in Ukraine
- Lviv City Council
- Lviv Oblast
- Maiden's Prayer
- Maksym Kryvonis
- Memorial in Commemoration of Famines' Victims in Ukraine
- Ministry of Education and Science of Ukraine
- Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Ukraine
- Ministry of Internal Affairs of Ukraine
- Ministry of Justice of Ukraine
- Moldova–Ukraine relations
- Mykola Azarov
- Mykola Hrinchenko
- Mykola Shchors
- Nadiya Savchenko
- National Security and Defense Council of Ukraine
- National University «Yuri Kondratyuk Poltava Polytechnic»
- Nikolay Aleksandrovich Tikhonov
- Odesa International Airport
- Odesa Oblast
- Oleh Sentsov
- Oleh Skrypka
- Oleksandr Dovzhenko
- Oles Honchar Dnipro National University
- Organization of Ukrainian Nationalists
- Parliamentary Assembly of the Council of Europe
- Party of Regions
- Pavlo Skoropadsky
- Pavlo Tychyna Uman State Pedagogical University
- Pensions in Ukraine
- Petro Poroshenko
- Political party in Ukraine
- President of Ukraine
- Prime Minister of Ukraine
- Republic of Abkhazia
- Rus' Khaganate
- Security Service of Ukraine
- Servant of the People
- Shche ne vmerla Ukrainy i slava, i volia
- Social Democratic Party of Ukraine (united)
- Soviet Union
- State Emergency Service of Ukraine
- Ukraine-NATO relations
- Ukraine–European Union relations
- Ukrainian Americans
- Ukrainian Communist Party
- Ukrainian Democratic Alliance for Reform
- Ukrainian historiography
- Ukrainian Institute
- Ukrainian Insurgent Army
- Ukrainian nationalism
- Ukrainian Orthodox Church (Moscow Patriarchate)
- Ukrainian Socialist Party
- Ukrainian State
- Ukrainian Women's Union
- Vasyl Symonenko
- Verkhovna Rada
- Victor Pynzenyk
- Viktor Medvedchuk
- Viktor Yanukovych
- Vladimir Putin
- Vladimir Vysotsky
- Volodymyr Zelenskyy
- Zolochiv
- Zubrytsya
People & Society(117)
The Ukrainian people, language, and religious life.
- 20th Congress of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union
- Anatoliy Solovyanenko
- Andriy Shevchenko
- Andriy Yarmolenko
- Antonov Airlines
- Apostolic Nunciature to Ukraine
- Artem Dzyuba
- Babi Yar
- Bahmut
- Bohdan Stupka
- Borys Paton
- Borys Voznytskyi Lviv National Art Gallery
- Cherkasy Oblast
- Chernivtsi Oblast
- Chernobyl Exclusion Zone
- Coat of arms of Ukrainiae
- Denys Shmyhal
- Derkach
- Dmytro Kuleba
- Dmytro Pavlychko
- European Solidarity
- Eurovision Song Contest 2016
- Eurovision Song Contest 2017
- Flag of Ukraine
- Gaidai
- Gorodok
- History of Ukraine
- History of Ukrainian nationality
- Igor Sikorsky
- Independence Day of Ukraine
- Intercession of the Theotokos
- Ivan Aivazovsky
- Ivan Franko
- Ivan Kotliarevskyi
- Ivan Mazepa
- Ivan Sirko
- Jamala
- Kirovohrad Oblast
- Kreminna
- Kropyvnytskyi
- Kyiv National University of Culture and Arts
- Leonid Kravchuk
- Leonid Kuchma
- Les Kurbas
- Lesya Ukrainka
- LGBT rights in Ukraine
- Lviv University
- Maidan Nezalezhnosti
- Makariv
- Matryoshka doll
- Mavka: The Forest Song
- Mikheil Saakashvili
- Museum of the Great Patriotic War
- Mykhailo Hrushevskyi
- Mykola Hlushchenko
- Mykola Leontovych
- National University of Kyiv-Mohyla Academy
- Nina Matviienko
- Odesa International Film Festival
- Oksana Zabuzhko
- Oleh Blokhin
- Oleksandr Turchynov
- Olga Kurylenko
- Ostap Bender
- Patriarch of Moscow and all Russia
- Poltava Oblast
- Ramstein Air Base
- Rohatyn
- Roman Sushchenko
- Rus
- Rusalka
- Ruslana Lyzhychko
- Ruthenia
- Saint George's Cathedral
- Sakharov Prize
- Sergei Bubka
- Sergei Korolev
- Serhiy Zhadan
- Shchedryk
- Shevchenko National Prize
- Slavic religion
- Sofia Rotaru
- Sumy Oblast
- Sviatoslav I of Kiev
- Taras Bulba
- Taras Shevchenko
- Tawrija
- Ternopil Oblast
- UEFA Euro 2012
- Ukraine men's national football team
- Ukraine women's national football team
- Ukrainian
- Ukrainian Canadian Congress
- Ukrainian Civil War
- Ukrainian diaspora
- Ukrainian embroidery
- Ukrainian folk music
- Ukrainian independence referendum
- Ukrainian National Museum
- Ukrainian Orthodox Church
- Ukrainian parliamentary elections
- Ukrainian World Congress
- Ukrainians
- Ukrainians in Italy
- Vasyl Stus
- Viktor Yushchenko
- Vinnytsia Oblast
- Vitali Klitschko
- Volodymyr Viatrovych
- Western Ukraine
- Witold Pilecki
- Women in Ukraine
- Yevhen Konovalets
- Yevpatoriya
- Yulia Tymoshenko
- Zaporozhian Cossacks
- Zhytomyr Oblast
Culture & Arts(131)
Cuisine, music, folk traditions, and national symbols.
- Arsenalna
- Bandura
- Baturyn
- Bohdan Lepky
- Book of Wisdom
- Borscht
- Borscht Belt
- Cabbage roll
- Chernivtsi University
- Chervona Ruta
- Cossack Mamay
- Crimean Tatar culture
- Culture of Ukraine
- Dakh Daughters
- Dance in Ukraine
- Dmytro Bortnianskyi
- Dmytro Hnatyuk
- Dnipro Art Museum
- Dovzhenko Film Studios
- Dumka
- Easter egg
- FC Dynamo Kyiv
- Fine Arts Museum Kharkiv
- Gritsenko
- Hetmanate
- Hopak
- Iryna Bilyk
- Iryna Vilde
- Ivan Franko Museum
- Ivan Franko National Academic Drama Theater
- Ivan Karabyts
- Ivan Malkovych
- Karpaty
- Kherson Art Museum
- Khrushchyovka
- Kobzar
- Kobzar
- Kolomyjka
- Kryvyi Rih National University
- Kupala Night
- Kutia
- Kyiv City Ballet
- Kyiv Music Fest
- Kyiv National Academic Theatre of Operetta
- Kyiv Post
- Lviv National Academy of Arts
- Lviv National Museum
- Lviv Philharmonic
- Lviv Polytechnic
- Lviv Theatre of Opera and Ballet
- Mavka
- Mezhyhirya
- Mikhail Bulgakov
- Mikhail Sholokhov
- Minorities in Ukraine
- Molodist Kyiv International Film Festival
- Music of Ukraine
- Mykola Lysenko
- Myroslav Skoryk
- National Academy of Arts of Ukraine
- National Art Museum of Ukraine
- National Ballet of Ukraine
- National Forestry University
- National Museum of Literature of Ukraine
- National Museum of Natural History
- National Museum of the History of Ukraine in World War II
- National Museum Тaras Shevchenko
- National Opera of Ukraine
- National Philharmonic of Ukraine
- Odesa Film Studio
- Oksana Baiul
- Oksana Lyniv
- Oles Honchar
- Ostrih Bible
- Ostroh Academy
- Paska
- Pavlivka
- Pavlo Tychyna
- Pavlo Tychyna Museum
- Pavlo Zibrov
- Pavlovo
- Petrykivka painting
- Podil
- Potato pancake
- Pravda
- Pripyat
- Psycho-Pass
- Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky
- Pysanka
- Pysanka Museum
- Rag doll
- Rushnyk
- Salo
- Savchuk
- Sofiyivsky Park
- Sviatoslav Vakarchuk
- Svyatogor
- Taras Shevchenko National University of Kyiv
- Ternopil Regional Art Museum
- The Velveteen Rabbit
- Trembita
- Ukrainian Contemporary Art
- Ukrainian cuisine
- Ukrainian Greek Catholic Church
- Ukrainian literature
- Ukrainian Museum
- Ukrainian National Women's League of America
- Ukrainian opera
- Ukrainian State Film Agency
- Ukrainian traditional costumes
- Uzhhorod Castle
- Uzhhorod National University
- Varenyky
- Vasyl Krychevsky
- Vernadsky National Library of Ukraine
- Vernissage
- Viktor Tikhonov
- Viktor Tsoi
- Vira Vovk
- Visual arts of Ukraine
- Vladimir Shcherbakov
- Vladimir the Great
- Vynnyky
- Vyshyvanka
- Yevhen Hutsalo
- Yevhen Stankovych
- Zhovkva
- Zhovkva Castle
- Zinaida Serebryakova
- Zlata Ognevich
- Zukra
Economy & Industry(111)
Agriculture, currency, and the wider Ukrainian economy.
- Agriculture in Ukraine
- Antonov
- ArcelorMittal Kryvyi Rih
- Astarta Holding
- Avdeyevka Coke and Chemical Plant
- Azovstal
- Bakhchysarai
- Bakhmut
- Banking in Ukraine
- Baryshivska Hromada
- Beer in Ukraine
- Black Sea Shipping Company
- Borshchiv
- Boryspil International Airport
- Category:Steel industry in Ukraine
- Centrenergo
- Chernihiv Oblast
- Chernobyl Nuclear Power Plant
- Chornomornaftogaz
- Chuhuiv
- Chumak
- Clairette blanche
- Coal in Ukraine
- Cyborgs: Heroes Never Die
- Demographics of Ukraine
- Dnipropetrovsk Oblast State Administration
- Dniprorudne
- Donetsk Oblast
- Drohobych
- DTEK
- Economy of Ukraine
- Electricity in Ukraine
- Energoatom
- Energy in Ukraine
- Enerhodar
- Ferrexpo
- Gulliver's Travels
- Henichesk
- Hryshko National Botanical Garden
- Hryvnia
- Ihor Kolomoyskyi
- Illich Steel & Iron Works
- Industry in Ukraine
- Interpipe Group
- Kharkiv Tractor Plant
- Khmelnytskyi Oblast
- Kremenchuk
- Kryvbas
- Kyiv National Economic University named after Vadym Hetman
- Kyiv Zhuliany International Airport
- Kyivstar
- Lviv National Environmental University
- Metinvest
- MHP
- Ministry of Economy
- Ministry of Finance of Ukraine
- Ministry of Infrastructure of Ukraine
- Motor Sich
- Nafpaktos
- Naftogaz of Ukraine
- National Bank of Ukraine
- Natural gas in Ukraine
- Nizhyn
- Nova Post
- Nuclear power in Ukraine
- Oschadbank
- Ostriv
- Pavlohrad
- Pifdenne
- Pivdenmash
- Postbank
- PrivatBank
- Pyriatyn
- Rail transport in Ukraine
- Renaissance Capital
- Republic of Ukraine
- Rivne Nuclear Power Plant
- Roshen
- Rusal
- Sarny
- Shipbuilding in Ukraine
- Siberia
- Siverskodonetsk
- State Property Fund of Ukraine
- State Statistics Service of Ukraine
- Stepan Bandera
- Svitlovodsk
- Telecommunications in Ukraine
- Television in Ukraine
- Tourism in Ukraine
- Transport in Ukraine
- Ukraine east
- Ukraine International Airlines
- Ukrainian Defense Industry
- Ukrainian Dramatic Theatre of Maria Zankovetska
- Ukrainian Exchange
- Ukrainian Railways
- Ukrainian Village
- Ukrainian wine
- Ukrainska Pravda
- Ukrnafta
- Ukrtelecom
- VARTA AG
- Volyn Oblast
- Zakarpattia
- Zaporizhzhia Nuclear Power Plant
- Zaporizhzhia Oblast
- Zhmerynka
- Zhovti Vody
- Zhydachiv
- Zolotonosha