Prehistoric Ukraine, as a part of the Pontic steppe in Eastern Europe, played an important role in Eurasian cultural events, including the spread of the Chalcolithic and Bronze Ages, Indo-European mig
The goddess Demeter in a Greek fresco from Panticapaeum in the Bosporan Kingdom (a client state of Rome), 1st century AD, Crimea
A gold stater of Bosporan king Tiberius Julius Sauromates II, his bust depicted on the obverse with the Greek legend "BACΙΛΕΩC CΑΥΡΟΜΑΤΟΥ", and on the reverse the heads of Roman emperors Septimius Severus and Caracalla, dated 198 or 199 AD
Kievan Rus' at its height
The Holodomor, also known as the Ukrainian famine, was a massive man-made famine in Soviet Ukraine from 1932 to 1933 that killed millions of Ukrainians. The Holodomor was part of the wider Soviet fami
History of Ukraine
…1930s turned to Russification. In 1932 and 1933, millions of people in Ukraine, mostly peasants, starved to death in a devastating famine, known as the Holodomor. It is estimated that 6 to 8 million people died from hunger in the Soviet Union during this period, of whom 4 to 5 million were Ukrainians. After the…
Starved peasants on a street in Kharkiv, 1933, Ukraine's capital at the time
Postcard commemorating the 15th anniversary of the Holodomor, which shows Stalin looking at his kolkhoz built on a pile of starved Ukrainians. Published in 1948 by the Ukrainian Youth Association.
A "Red Train" of carts from the "Wave of Proletarian Revolution" collective farm in the village of Oleksiyivka, Kharkiv oblast in 1932. "Red Trains" took the first harvest of the season's crop to the government depots. During the Holodomor, these brigades were part of the Soviet Government's policy of taking away food from the peasants.
A print from a postcard designed by Zofia Nalepińska-Bojczuk, referring to the Holodomor, 1935