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2018 In Ukraine
Events in the year 2018 in Ukraine. Incumbents *President of Ukraine, President: Petro Poroshenko *Prime Minister of Ukraine, Prime Minister: Volodymyr Groysman Events June C14 (Ukrainian group) gained international notoriety after reports it was being involved in violent attacks on Romani people, Romany camps.Ukrainian Militia Behind Brutal Romany Attacks Getting State Funds , Radio Free Europe (June 14, 2018)Ukraine Roma camp attack leaves one dead , BBC News (24 June 2018) November 2018 Kerch Strait incid ...[...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Ukraine
Ukraine is a country in Eastern Europe. It is the List of European countries by area, second-largest country in Europe after Russia, which Russia–Ukraine border, borders it to the east and northeast. Ukraine also borders Belarus to the north; Poland and Slovakia to the west; Hungary, Romania and Moldova to the southwest; and the Black Sea and the Sea of Azov to the south and southeast. Kyiv is the nation's capital and List of cities in Ukraine, largest city, followed by Kharkiv, Odesa, and Dnipro. Ukraine's official language is Ukrainian language, Ukrainian. Humans have inhabited Ukraine since 32,000 BC. During the Middle Ages, it was the site of early Slavs, early Slavic expansion and later became a key centre of East Slavs, East Slavic culture under the state of Kievan Rus', which emerged in the 9th century. Kievan Rus' became the largest and most powerful realm in Europe in the 10th and 11th centuries, but gradually disintegrated into rival regional powers before being d ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Shevchenko Scientific Society
The Shevchenko Scientific Society (), founded in 1873, is a Ukrainian scientific society devoted to the promotion of scholarly research and publication. Unlike the government-funded National Academy of Sciences of Ukraine, the society is a public organization. It was reestablished in Ukraine in 1989 during the fall of the Soviet Union, after being exiled from Ukraine since 1940. The society now has branches in several countries around the globe, such as the United States, Canada, Australia, and France. The organisation is named after the famous Ukrainian poet, writer, artist, public and political figure, Taras Shevchenko. History It was founded in 1873 in Lemberg (today Lviv), at that time the capital of the Austrian crown land of Kingdom of Galicia and Lodomeria, as a literary society devoted to the promotion of Ukrainian language literature initially under the name Shevchenko Society. It was established soon after another cultural society, better known as Prosvita (Enlight ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Ivan Drach
Ivan Fedorovych Drach (; 17 October 1936 – 19 June 2018) was a Ukrainian poet, screenwriter, literary critic, politician, and political activist. Drach played an important role in the founding of Rukh – the People's Movement of Ukraine – and led the organisation from 1989 to 1992. Biography Ivan Drach was born 17 October 1936, in Telizhyntsi, Kyiv Oblast, Ukrainian SSR and died in 2008 at the age of 81. Early life Drach was born to a family of collective farmers His father worked in a beet sugar refinery and Drach's mother worked on a farm. Education After finishing high school, Ivan Drach complied with military service, after which he studied in the Faculty of Language and Literature of Kyiv University from 1959 to 1963. Drach would write in his diaries and then note in later interviews that students at University looked down on him for his peasantry and Ukrainian language. Poetry career At this time, Drach visited the popular "Klub tvorchoyi molodi" () Club for Crea ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Kira Muratova
Kira Georgievna Muratova (; ; ; née Korotkova, 5 November 1934 – 6 June 2018) was a UkrainianKira Muratova: The Zoological Imperium // award-winning film director, screenwriter and actress, known for her unusual directorial style. Muratova's films underwent a great deal of in the , yet still Muratova managed to emerge as one of the leading figures in contemporary [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Vadim Mulerman
Vadim Iosifovich Mulerman (; 18 August 1938 – 2 May 2018) was a Soviet, Ukrainian and American singer (baritone). He was awarded the titles of Honored Artist of the RSFSR (1978) and Merited Artist of Ukraine. In 1971, by the decision of Sergey Lapin, the then Chairman of the USSR State Committee for Radio and Television (Gosteleradio), Mulerman, along with several other singers of Jewish descent, was de facto barred from appearing on television. Since 1989, Mulerman lived in the United States, where, in Florida, founded and managed a children's musical theater. As of 2008, he lived in Kharkiv and worked in a youth musical theater. Mulerman died on 2 May 2018 in New York City at the age of 79. Selected songs * "King the Winner" (, 1968, based on the poem "Le retour du roi" by Maurice Carême) * "Lada" (, 1968) *: �"Lada" (live on Russian television in 2013)on YouTube * " No Coward Plays Hockey" (1968) *: �Listen on Yandex Music* "How Nice to Be a General" () * "Hut ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Grigory Gamarnik
Grigory Aleksandrovich Gamarnik (; ; April 22, 1929 – April 18, 2018) was a world champion wrestler and the first Greco-Roman wrestling world champion from Ukraine. Biography Gamarnik was Jewish, and was born in Zinovievsk (today's Kropyvnytskyi), Ukraine, in the Soviet Union. He was trained by USSR wrestling trainers German Sandler and Armenak Yaltyryan. Wrestling career In 1948, he won second place in light middleweight class wrestling, at the All-Union Youth Contests in the USSR. Gamarnik was world lightweight (67 kg) Greco-Roman wrestling champion at the 1955 World Wrestling Championships in Karlsruhe, Germany, beating out silver medalist Kyösti Lehtonen of Finland and bronze medalist Gustav Freij of Sweden. He came in second in the 1958 World Wrestling Championships in Budapest, Hungary, in welterweight (73 kg) Greco-Roman wrestling, behind gold medalist Kazim Ayvaz of Turkey and ahead of bronze medalist Valeriu Bularca of Romania. He came in fifth ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Kateryna Boloshkevich
Kateryna Ivanivna Boloshkevich (; 19 May 1939 – 28 March 2018) was a Ukrainian weaver and statesperson who was a weaver at the of the Ministry of Light Industry of the Ukrainian SSR and an elected deputy of the ninth convocation of the Supreme Soviet of the Ukrainian Soviet Socialist Republic. Previously, she worked at the after she graduated from high school. Boloshkevich was a delegate to the 24th Congress of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union, the and was on the Central Audit Commission of the Communist Party of Ukraine. She was a two-time recipient of the Order of Lenin and got the Order of the Red Banner of Labour, the Hero of Socialist Labour and the . Biography On 19 May 1939, Boloshkevich was born into a family of a collective farmer in the village of , Zhytomyr Raion, Zhytomyr Oblast, Ukraine. Following her graduation from high school, she worked at the . From 1961, Boloshkevich worked at the building of the of the Ministry of Light Industry of the Ukrainian ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Mykhaylo Chemberzhi
Mykhaylo Ivanovych Chemberzhi (, 15 July 19445 March 2018) was a Ukrainian composer, teacher, scientist and politician. Director of . Biography He was born on July 15, 1944, in the city of Izmail, Odesa region. In 1967, he graduated from the Odesa State Music College, began his teaching career at the children's music school in Izmail. Scientific publication Author of about 60 scholarly publications. Composer of works in a variety of genres, including orchestral works, opera and ballet Ballet () is a type of performance dance that originated during the Italian Renaissance in the fifteenth century and later developed into a concert dance form in France and Russia. It has since become a widespread and highly technical form of .... Notes References External links Біографія на сайті Національної спілки композиторів України* ttp://naps.gov.ua/ua/press/releases/1354/ Відійшов у вічність /Сайт ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Pyotr Bochek
Pyotr Semyonovich Bochek, (; 3 March 1925 – 9 February 2018) was a junior lieutenant of the Soviet Army during World War II and a Hero of the Soviet Union. He was born in the Obrazhiivka village, Ukrainian SSR. He was drafted in November 1943 and commenced active war duty in January 1944. He was awarded the title Hero of the Soviet Union ( Gold Star Medal No. 5867) on March 24, 1945 for heroism during the crossing of the Vistula River. He was also awarded the Order of Lenin (comes with the Hero title), Order of the Great Patriotic War, Order of Glory The Order of Glory () was a military decoration of the Soviet Union established by Decree of the Presidium of the Supreme Soviet on November 8, 1943. It was awarded to soldiers and non-commissioned officers of the Red Army as well as to aviation ..., and several medals. References 1925 births 2018 deaths Heroes of the Soviet Union Recipients of the Order of Lenin Recipients of the Order of Glory Recipients of the ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Myroslav Popovych
Myroslav Popovych (; 12 April 1930, Zhytomyr – 10 February 2018, Kyiv) was a Ukrainian philosopher, DA, professor, Academician of the National Academy of Sciences of Ukraine. Biography Popovych was born on 12 April 1930 in Zhytomyr, in the Ukrainian SSR of the Soviet Union (in present-day Ukraine). In 1953 he graduated from the Taras Shevchenko University, philosophy department. In 2001 he became the director of the Skovoroda Institute of Philosophy of the National Academy of Sciences of Ukraine The National Academy of Sciences of Ukraine (NASU; , ; ''NAN Ukrainy'') is a self-governing state-funded organization in Ukraine that is the main center of development of Science and technology in Ukraine, science and technology by coordinatin .... In 2003 he was elected Academician of the Ukrainian National Academy of Sciences. Publications * "On the Philosophical Analysis of the Science Language" ("О философском анализе языка науки") (1966) * "Logi ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Leonid Kadeniuk
Leonid Kostyantynovych Kadenyuk (, 28 January 1951 – 31 January 2018) was the first astronaut of independent Ukraine to fly into outer space. In 1997, he flew on NASA's Space Shuttle Columbia, Space Shuttle ''Columbia'' as part of the international mission STS-87. Kadenyuk held the rank of major general in the Ukrainian Air Force. He was Deputy of Ukraine of the 4th convocation, adviser to the Prime Minister of Ukraine, Chairman of the State Space Agency of Ukraine, and Honorary degree, Honorary Doctor of Chernivtsi University, Chernivtsi National University. From 2015 until his death, he served as president of the Aerospace Society of Ukraine. Designated a Hero of Ukraine in December 1999, he is the namesake of the Chernivtsi International Airport, Chernivtsi Leonid Kadenyuk International Airport. Life Early life and education Leonid Kadenyuk was born on 28 January 1951 in the village of Klishkivtsi in the Khotyn Raion of the Chernivtsi Oblast in Ukraine, to ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
NASU Institute Of Encyclopaedic Research
The Institute of Encyclopaedic Research of the National Academy of Sciences of Ukraine is a Ukrainian state-supported academic research and publishing organization based in Kyiv (Tereshchenkivs'ka St, 3, Shevchenkivs'kyi, Kyiv), Ukraine. Its main lines of research activities are: * Fundamental, pilot and applied encyclopedia studies; * Elaboration of scholarly and methodological principles for producing various types of encyclopedias; * Studying, analyzing and generalizing international and national experience in encyclopedic knowledge, in particular, in preparation and printing of encyclopedias; History and structure The Institute of Encyclopaedic Research was established by and it is under the authority of the National Academy of Sciences of Ukraine (NAS). It was established on April 14, 2004 as a result of reorganization through merging of The Encyclopaedia of Modern Ukraine Coordinating Bureau and The Ukrainian International Committee on Science and Culture under the N ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
