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However, Kyiv city still suffered great losses from the attacks, such as missile strikes that killed multiple people, with the city's inner metro stations being used as air raid shelters. [65] On 2 April 2022, the Russian assault of Kyiv Oblast was defeated and Ukraine re-occupied the whole of Kyiv Oblast.
Kyiv hosts many universities, the major ones being Kyiv National Taras Shevchenko University, [141] the National Technical University "Kyiv Polytechnic Institute", [142] Kyiv-Mohyla Academy [143] and the Kyiv National University of Trade and Economics. Of these, the Mohyla Academy is the oldest, founded as a theological school in 1632, but ...
Two centuries later Guillaume le Vasseur, sieur de Beauplan became one of the more prominent cartographers working with Ukrainian data. His 1639 descriptive map of the region was the first such one produced, and after he published a pair of Ukraine maps of different scale in 1660, his drawings were republished [by whom?] throughout much of Europe. [2]
It is the second significant town in Donetsk to fall to the Russians this month after Moscow claimed control of Kurakhove roughly 20 miles to the northeast. The city of Toretsk, further north, has ...
Old Kyiv historically represents the city of Yaroslav the Wise before it was presumably destroyed by the Mongol invasion of Batu Khan in 1240. Originated at the Old Kyiv Hill (Starokyivska Hora), it was created in contrast to the Lower City, Podil .
Six different armies – those of the Ukrainians, the Bolsheviks, the Whites, the Entente [French], the Poles and the anarchists – operated on its territory. Kiev changed hands five times in less than a year. Cities and regions were cut off from each other by the numerous fronts. Communications with the outside world broke down almost completely.
Kyiv’s forces have been in the town, located 105 kilometers (65 miles) southwest of the city of Kursk, since last Wednesday, but this is the first confirmation from the Ukrainian president that ...
1806 - The First City Theatre (Kyiv) inaugurated. 1810 City subdivided into 4 administrative districts. Chapel built at Askold's Tomb. [4] 1811 - Great fire of Podil. 1817 - Contracts House rebuilt. 1833 - Baikove Cemetery established. 1834 - Vladimir University relocates to Kyiv from Vilna. [4] 1835 Town government format replaces Magdeburg ...