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Kyiv, labelled Kiou, in a detail of Ortelius's 1562 map "Russiae, Moscoviae et Tartariae Descriptio" (Description of Rus, Muscovy, and Tartary). Kyiv became a part of the Grand Duchy of Lithuania after the Battle at Blue Waters in 1362, when Algirdas, Grand Duke of Lithuania, beat a Golden Horde army. During the period between 1362 and 1471 ...
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 ...
Kyiv National Academic Theatre of Operetta founded. Demolition of St. Michael's Golden-Domed Monastery begins. 1935 - Demolition of Fountain of Samson. 1936 - National Botanical Garden founded. 1939 - Staff of the Consulate of Poland in Kyiv arrested by the Soviets following the Soviet invasion of Poland at the start of World War II. [23]
The history of the Russian Orthodox Church begins with the Christianization of Kievan Rus' in 988 during the reign of Vladimir the Great. [1] [2] In the following centuries, Kiev and later other cities, including Novgorod, Pskov, Rostov, Suzdal and Vladimir, became important regional centers of Christian spirituality and culture. [1]
Ukraine International Airlines, is the flag carrier and the largest airline, with its head office in Kyiv [268] and its main hub at Kyiv's Boryspil International Airport. It operated domestic and international passenger flights and cargo services to Europe, the Middle East, the United States, [230] Canada, [269] and Asia.
In the sixth to seventh centuries, the borders of three cultural groups of monuments converged on the Polans land — Kyiv Oblast — Prague, Penkiv and Kolochyn cultures, and in the eighth to tenth centuries — Luka-Raikovetska and Volyntsevo culture. From the very beginning, Kyiv was the center of not one, but several tribal groups ...
V. Toporov, without directly touching on the topic of the Kyivan dynasty, presented his own hypothesis about the origin of the toponym "Kyiv" (advocated by the late Omeljan Pritsak [10]), namely: "Al-Masudi's report on the Khazar army and its leader, promoted to the rank of wazir, named Aḥmadu 'bnu Kūyah, ie Ahmad, son of Kui, was analyzed.
Kyiv is the romanized official Ukrainian name for the city, [10] [11] and it is used for legislative and official acts. [12] Kiev is the traditional English name for the city, [10] [13] [14] but because of its historical derivation from the Russian name, Kiev lost favor with many Western media outlets after the outbreak of the Russo-Ukrainian ...