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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 ...
He starred in MGM's Eskimo/Mala the Magnificent, which was filmed entirely on location in Alaska. His son, Dr. Ted Mala, became an influential Alaska Native physician, and was also Commissioner of Health and Social Services during Hickel's second governorship. Eva McGown (1883–1972), Fairbanks hostess and chorister.
Russia sold Alaska to the United States in 1867 for $7.2 million, and 92 years later, it became the 49th state.
The transliteration Kyiv was legally mandated by the Ukrainian government in 1995. [12] The transliteration was approved by the Tenth United Nations Conference on Standardization of Geographical Names in 2012, but did not catch on internationally. [13] [14] Prior to 2019, there were few cases of organizations switching to the "Kyiv" spelling.
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] 1940 - Soviet executions of Polish officers and intelligentsia during the Katyn massacre. [24] German troops entering Kyiv in 1941. 1941 22 June: German invasion of the Soviet Union starts, with Kyiv ...
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 ...
In 1808, Redoubt Saint Michael was rebuilt as New Archangel and became the capital of Russian America after the previous colonial headquarters were moved from Kodiak. A year later, the RAC began expanding its operations to more abundant sea otter grounds in Northern California , where Fort Ross was built in 1812.