Презентация на тему Ukraine - our motherlandkyiv – the mother of the russion cities and towns

Varangians who first settled around Ladoga and Novgorod, then

gradually moved southward eventually reaching Kiev about 880. Kievan Rus' included the western part of modern Ukraine, Belarus, with larger part of it situated on the territory of modern Russia. According to the Primary Chronicle the Rus' elite initially consisted of Varangians from Scandinavia.

During the 10th and 11th centuries, it became the largest and most powerful state in Europe. In the following centuries, it laid the foundation for the national identity of Ukrainians and Russians. Kiev, the capital of modern Ukraine, became the most important city of the Rus'.

told the legend, - are the first rulers of

Kyiv

Askold and Dir and Oleg of Novgorod

in the reign of Bohdan Khmelnytsky
In 1648, Bohdan Khmelnytsky

led the largest of the Cossack uprisings against the Commonwealth and the Polish king John II Casimir.






But there are many different factors, which claim that Cossacks were also robbers and murderers.

in Russia and the Soviet Union, when people suffered

from horrible hunger.

The World War II. About 8,000,000 people died.

warmly welcoming country.