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Ukrainian dialects
Ukrainian dialects are the regional varieties of the Ukrainian language, divided into a northern (Polisian) group and a southern group split into southeastern and southwestern dialects, separated by a wide transitional belt.
Ukrainian emigration to Canada and the United States
Ukrainian emigration to Canada and the United States is the wave-based movement of Ukrainians to North America, bringing roughly 250,000 to the US and 170,000 to Canada by 1914.
Ukrainian famine of 1921–1923
The Ukrainian famine of 1921–1923 (Ukrainian: голод 1921–1923 років) was the first famine under Soviet rule in Ukraine, caused by drought, requisitioning, and grain exports to Russia.
Ukrainian folk song
Ukrainian folk song (українська народна пісня) is the traditional orally transmitted song of the Ukrainian people, one of the oldest forms of Ukrainian folklore, known for its rich polyphony and spanning ritual, historical, and lyrical genres.
Ukrainian Free University
Ukrainian Free University, also known by its German name Ukrainische Freie Universität, is a private Ukrainian-language university founded in exile in Vienna in 1921, based in Munich since 1945.
Ukrainian futurism
Ukrainian futurism (ukraïns'kyi futuryzm) was an avant-garde movement in Ukrainian literature and art, founded by Mykhail' Semenko in 1914 and suppressed in the early 1930s.
Ukrainian Galician Army
The Ukrainian Galician Army (Ukrainian: Українська галицька армія, UHA) was the regular army of the West Ukrainian People's Republic, fighting Poland and the Bolsheviks from November 1918 to April 1920.
Ukrainian Greek Catholic Church (Українська греко-католицька церква)
The Ukrainian Greek Catholic Church (Українська греко-католицька церква) is a Byzantine-rite Eastern Catholic Church in communion with Rome, established in 1596 and claiming over 5.5 million faithful.
Ukrainian Greek Catholic Metropolitanate of Lviv
The Ukrainian Greek Catholic Metropolitanate of Lviv (Львівська митрополія УГКЦ) is a metropolitan province of the Ukrainian Greek Catholic Church, seated in Lviv and proclaimed in 2011 under Ihor Vozniak.
Ukrainian Ground Forces (Сухопутні війська України)
Ukrainian Ground Forces (Сухопутні війська України), the largest branch of the Armed Forces of Ukraine, formed 1996; mechanized, tank, artillery, air defense, aviation and drone components under four operational commands; main combat force since 2014 and 2022.
Ukrainian Helsinki Group
The Ukrainian Helsinki Group, founded in Kyiv in 1976, monitored Soviet human rights violations and became the largest and most repressed of the Soviet Helsinki groups.
Ukrainian hryvnia
The Ukrainian hryvnia (UAH, ₴) is the national currency of Ukraine, issued by the National Bank of Ukraine and divided into 100 kopiykas; it has circulated since September 1996.
Ukrainian identity card
The Ukrainian identity card is Ukraine's plastic ID-1 national identity card, issued by the State Migration Service since 1 January 2016 to replace the 1994 booklet internal passport.
Ukrainian Insurgent Army (Українська повстанська армія)
The Ukrainian Insurgent Army (Українська повстанська армія, UPA) was a Ukrainian nationalist guerrilla army formed in 1942 that fought German occupation and Soviet forces into the 1950s.
Ukrainian karbovanets
The Ukrainian karbovanets (український карбованець), known as the kupon, was Ukraine's currency in 1917–1920 and from 1992 to 1996, when it was replaced by the hryvnia at 100,000 to 1.
Ukrainian language
Ukrainian language (українська мова), an East Slavic Indo-European language and Ukraine's sole state language, distinct from Russian and Belarusian. It has three dialect groups (northern, southwestern, southeastern), a Cyrillic writing system, distinctive affricates and /г//ґ/, and rising everyday use since 2015.
Ukrainian literary Baroque
Ukrainian literary Baroque (Українське літературне бароко) is the literature produced in Ukrainian lands from the late sixteenth to the eighteenth century in the ornate Baroque style.
Ukrainian Lutheran Church (Українська Лютеранська Церква)
The Ukrainian Lutheran Church (Українська Лютеранська Церква) is a confessional Lutheran denomination in Ukraine, the only Lutheran church in the world using the Byzantine rite.
Ukrainian Military Organization
The Ukrainian Military Organization (UVO) was an underground revolutionary organization formed in 1920 by veterans of the Ukrainian struggle for independence to continue the armed fight for an independent Ukrainian state.
Ukrainian modernism
Ukrainian modernism (український модернізм) was the modernist movement in Ukrainian art, literature, and theater from about 1890 to the early 1930s, ended by Stalinist repression.
Ukrainian national clothing
Ukrainian national clothing (український народний костюм) is the traditional ensemble dress of Ukrainians, centered on the embroidered vyshyvanka shirt, with regional complexes (Polissia, Podillia, Carpathians, Middle Dnipro, Slobozhanshchyna, South), roots traced to Kyivan Rus, and modern status as an identity symbol owned by 67% of Ukrainians.
Ukrainian National Council (West Ukrainian People's Republic)
The Ukrainian National Council (Українська Національна рада) was the supreme legislative body of the West Ukrainian People's Republic, formed in Lviv on 18 October 1918 amid the collapse of Austria-Hungary.
Ukrainian National Democratic Alliance
The Ukrainian National Democratic Alliance (UNDO) was the main legal Ukrainian political party in interwar Poland, founded in Lviv in 1925 and active in Galicia until 1939.
Ukrainian national revival
The Ukrainian national revival (Українське національне відродження) was an 18th- and 19th-century movement in the Russian and Austro-Hungarian empires advocating national-cultural revival and nation formation.
Ukrainian Navy (Військово-Морські Сили Збройних сил України)
The Ukrainian Navy (Військово-Морські Сили Збройних сил України), also called the Naval Forces of Ukraine, is the maritime branch of Ukraine's armed forces, defending its sea borders since 1918.
Ukrainian occupation of Kursk Oblast
The Ukrainian occupation of Kursk Oblast was a 2024–2025 military offensive into Russia. It involved Ukrainian forces and North Korean troops, and marked the first foreign army penetration since WWII.
Ukrainian People's Republic (Українська Народна Республіка)
Ukrainian People's Republic (UNR, Українська Народна Республіка), state proclaimed 1917 by the Central Rada, independent from January 1918; ended 1921 after the Warsaw Treaty and Riga, government-in-exile until 1992.
Ukrainian People's Republic of Soviets
The Ukrainian People's Republic of Soviets, also called the Soviet Ukrainian People's Republic, was the first Soviet Ukrainian state, proclaimed by Bolsheviks in Kharkiv in December 1917.
Ukrainian Physicists' Tournament for University Students
The Ukrainian Physicists' Tournament for University Students (Всеукраїнський студентський турнір фізиків, VSTF) is an annual team competition, founded in 2000, where students solve research problems in physics fights.
Ukrainian polemical literature
Ukrainian polemical literature (полемічна література) is the body of publicistic writings on religious and church questions produced in the Ukrainian lands from the late 16th to the 17th century.