...that during the Shuliavka worker's uprising of 1905, groups of 150 armed men patrolled the streets of the
Shuliavka neighborhood in
Kiev to clean the area of any resistors to their movement?
...that the official cause of the Great Fire of 1811, which lasted for three days and burned down the whole
Podil neighborhood of
Kiev, was children playing with fire?
...that the massacre in Vinnytsia by the
Soviet secret police
NKVD in the
purges of 1937-1938 was investigated in 1943 during the
German invasion of
Ukraine and used in the propaganda war against the Soviet Union?
...that the proposals for a new Crimean flag after the
collapse of the Soviet Union included a white flag with seven rainbow colors at the top and a blue-white-red tricolor design , which was officially adopted in 1999?
...that when the
Cabinet of Ministers of Ukraine issued the decree to construct the Donetsk Metro in
1991, the completion date was set for 2002, but due to the unstable economic situation of the city, it is still not complete?
...that St. Michael's Golden-Domed Monastery in
Kyiv may have been the first Russian and Ukrainian church to have a golden dome, now so typical of vernacular church architecture?
The Potemkin Stairs
...that the Potemkin Stairs (pictured) located in
Odesa, Ukraine create an
optical illusion, where either the landings or the stairs are invisible depending on an observer's vantage point?
...that at its first years Kiev Zoo had to move its animals into the food storage of the main
Kievrailway station for the winter?
...that the longest of the Kiev bridges, the 1,543 metres long Paton Bridge over the
Dnieper River, constructed in
1953 was the first fully
welded steel construction of such length at that time?
...that during the Shuliavka worker's uprising of 1905, groups of 150 armed men patrolled the streets of the
Shuliavka neighborhood in
Kiev to clean the area of any resistors to their movement?
...that the official cause of the Great Fire of 1811, which lasted for three days and burned down the whole
Podil neighborhood of
Kiev, was children playing with fire?
...that the massacre in Vinnytsia by the
Soviet secret police
NKVD in the
purges of 1937-1938 was investigated in 1943 during the
German invasion of
Ukraine and used in the propaganda war against the Soviet Union?
...that the proposals for a new Crimean flag after the
collapse of the Soviet Union included a white flag with seven rainbow colors at the top and a blue-white-red tricolor design , which was officially adopted in 1999?
...that when the
Cabinet of Ministers of Ukraine issued the decree to construct the Donetsk Metro in
1991, the completion date was set for 2002, but due to the unstable economic situation of the city, it is still not complete?
...that St. Michael's Golden-Domed Monastery in
Kyiv may have been the first Russian and Ukrainian church to have a golden dome, now so typical of vernacular church architecture?
The Potemkin Stairs
...that the Potemkin Stairs (pictured) located in
Odesa, Ukraine create an
optical illusion, where either the landings or the stairs are invisible depending on an observer's vantage point?
...that at its first years Kiev Zoo had to move its animals into the food storage of the main
Kievrailway station for the winter?
...that the longest of the Kiev bridges, the 1,543 metres long Paton Bridge over the
Dnieper River, constructed in
1953 was the first fully
welded steel construction of such length at that time?