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unusual facts about Kyiv



Alex Teixeira

He came on as a 64th minute replacement for Henrikh Mkhitaryan but could not prevent Shakhtar from losing 3–1 to Dynamo Kyiv.

Alexis Kochan

Her musical theatre credits include the world premiere of Warren Sulatycky's play 'Babas' at the Persephone Theatre in Saskatoon in 1994, where Ms. Kochan worked with Canadian Hungarian director Tibor Feheregyhazi and performed a number of the songs from her 'Czarivna' and Paris To Kyiv' recordings.

Domagoj Vida

On 17 March, Vida scored his first goal for Dynamo Kyiv early in the game against Vorskla after a corner kick taken by Andriy Yarmolenko, by an excellent header, having forestalled Pavlo Rebenok and goalkeeper Serhiy Dolhanskyi.

FC Borysfen Boryspil

Later in 1997 after a conflict within the club's administration CSKA-Borysfen changed its name once again to FC CSCA Kyiv and CSCA of lower leagues was renamed to CSCA-2 Kyiv.

Institute of International Education

Current REACs are located in the following cities around the world: Lima, Mexico City, Rio de Janeiro, Budapest, Kyiv, Bratislava, Amman, Accra, Johannesburg, Lahore, Delhi, Beijing, Tokyo, and Kuala Lumpur.

Irina Vysheslavska

Irina Vysheslavska studied in Kyiv's State Art School with Taras Shevchenko.

Kiev Oblast

The municipality of Slavutych is located within the borders of the neighboring Chernihiv Oblast on the eastern bank of the Dnieper river and the municipality has no common border with the Kyiv Oblast.

Kyiv Post

From December 14, 2010, the Kyiv Post began blocking all internet traffic from the United Kingdom (UK) as a protest against English defamation law.

Lesya Ukrainka street, Lutsk

It became very important and prestigious because it was a part of the Kyiv-Brest highway that crossed through the city in the 1860s.

Luka Zhidiata

Luka opposed the Kyivan Grand Princes' appointments of Hilarion and Efrem as metropolitans of Kyiv, not simply to oppose Kyiv, but because it was the prerogative of the Patriarch of Constantinople to name the Kyivan metropolitan.

Mykhaylo Chornyi

Mykhaylo Chornyi studied art from 1956 to 1961 at Odessa State Art College n.a. M. Grekov, and same year he entered Kyiv Art Institute (nowadays The National Academy of Fine Arts and Architecture, which graduated with a Master's Degree in Fine Arts in 1968 (professors: Mykhaylo Khmelko and Victor Shatalin.

Obolon CJSC

On 21 February 2013 FC Obolon Kyiv withdrew voluntary from the Ukrainian First League after Obolon CEO Slobodyan had refused to finance the club after goalkeeper Kostyantyn Makhnovskyi was sold by the club without his consent.

Oleksiy Logvynenko

Siegfried Lenz "Deutschstunde" ("The German lesson") (Kyiv: Soviet writer, 1976)

Petro Herkulan Malchuk

Petro Herkulan Maltschuk, OFM (Мальчук Петро Геркуліан Ukrainian, born July 7, 1965 in Slobozia-Raşcov, Moldova) is the current Roman Catholic Archbishop of Kyiv-Zhytomyr.

Prolisky

The local council is located in Schaslyve, a neighboring village located on the opposite side of the Boryspil Highway, which connects Kiev and the Boryspil International Airport and is part of Highway M-03, Kyiv-Kharkiv.

Red University Building

The walls of the building are painted red and the heads and bases of the columns are painted black, corresponding to the colors of the stripes on the Order of St. Vladimir (founded in 1782), as Kyiv University used to bear the name of this Order.

Sergei Baltacha

Sergei Pavlovich Baltacha (born 1958), former USSR, Dynamo Kyiv, Ipswich Town and St Johnstone football player

Sergey Kuznetsov

Syarhey Kuznyatsow (born 1979), Belarusian footballer with FC Metalist Kharkiv and FC Arsenal Kyiv

Sports Ground, Kiev

The program of the Olympiad included such sports as track and field, marathon, soccer, wrestling, weight-lifting, fencing, swimming, gymnastics, equestrianism, bicycle and motorcycle racing along the Kiev – Chernihiv – Kyiv route.

Surkis

Ihor Surkis (born 1958), Ukrainian businessman and chairman of football club Dynamo Kyiv

Sviatoslav Tagon

At the time, Petlura was living in Lviv, and when a general amnesty was announced, he moved to Kyiv where he continued his independence work.

Ukraine prison ministry

The Patriarchal Curia of the Ukrainian Greek-Catholic Church is an organ of Sviatoslav Shevchuk, Major Archbishop of Kyiv and Halych, which coordinates and promotes the common activity of the UGCC in Ukraine to make influence on society in different spheres: education, policy, culture, etc.

Valeriy Khmelko

In 1992, on the basis of this Center, he co-founded, together with Volodymyr Paniotto and Michael Swafford, Kyiv International Institute of Sociology and became its President.

Viktor Bannikov Memorial Tournament

The games of the tournament were played at stadiums in Kyiv and towns in Kiev Oblast: Boryspil, Makariv, Obukhiv, Borodianka.

Viktor Maslov

Victor Maslov (1910–1977), head coach of Dynamo Kyiv in the 1960s


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