Ukraine - The Saint Sophia Cathedral in Kyiv is one of Ukraine’s most famous monuments on the UNESCO World Heritage list. The church's name is derived from the Hagia Sophia in Constantinople. It was built in the 11th century and served as the burial place of ...

Ukraine - The Chernobyl nuclear disaster was a major accident involving one of the reactors at the Chernobyl Nuclear Power Plant, which occurred in 1986 near the town of the same name in Ukraine (then part of the Soviet Union), close to the Belarusian border. ...

Ukraine - The Cathedral of the Holy Transfiguration is a Ukrainian Orthodox cathedral in the Ukrainian city of Odessa. Empress Catherine the Great, the founder of Odessa, commissioned the construction of a church dedicated to the Transfiguration of the Lord. Construction ...