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Ukrainian Pontifical Minor Seminary
The Ukrainian Pontifical Minor Seminary was a Ukrainian-language Catholic secondary school in Rome, founded in 1951 in France and run by Ukrainian Salesians; it was the only Ukrainian-language minor seminary in Western Europe.
Ukrainian pop (post-Soviet)
Ukrainian pop (post-Soviet) is the Ukrainian-language popular-music scene that took shape after independence in the 1990s, launched by the 1989 Chervona Ruta festival and defined by Ruslana's 2004 Eurovision win.
Ukrainian postmodernism
Ukrainian postmodernism (український постмодернізм) is the current in Ukrainian literature that emerged in the mid-1980s with the group Bu-Ba-Bu of Yuri Andrukhovych, Oleksandr Irvanets, and Viktor Neborak.
Ukrainian Premier League (Українська Прем'єр-ліга)
The Ukrainian Premier League (Українська Прем'єр-ліга) is the top men's football league in Ukraine, founded in 1992 and played by 16 clubs in a 30-match season.
Ukrainian Radical Party
The Ukrainian Radical Party (Українська радикальна партія), founded in Galicia in October 1890 by Ivan Franko and Mykhaylo Pavlyk, was the first modern Ukrainian political party.
Ukrainian realism
Ukrainian realism is the realist movement in Ukrainian literature and art of the second half of the 19th century, with Taras Shevchenko as its founder and writers including Ivan Nechui-Levytsky, Panas Myrny, and Ivan Franko.
Ukrainian romanticism
Ukrainian romanticism (український романтизм) was a literary movement of the 1810s to 1860s, centered first at Kharkiv University, that celebrated the Cossack past and folk song while shaping a modern Ukrainian literature.
Ukrainian Russian-language literature
Ukrainian Russian-language literature is the body of writing in Russian by authors from Ukraine, including Nikolai Gogol and Mikhail Bulgakov, whose boundaries remain politically contested.
Ukrainian Social Democratic Labour Party
The Ukrainian Social Democratic Labour Party (USDRP) was a Ukrainian Marxist party founded in Kyiv in December 1905, which led governments of the Ukrainian National Republic during the revolution of 1917 to 1921.
Ukrainian Soviet literature
Ukrainian Soviet literature was the Ukrainian-language writing produced in the Ukrainian Soviet Socialist Republic from the early 1920s until 1991, including the experimental 1920s Executed Renaissance, largely destroyed by Stalin's purges of the 1930s.
Ukrainian Soviet Socialist Republic (Українська Радянська Соціалістична Республіка)
Ukrainian Soviet Socialist Republic (УРСР, Ukrainian SSR): Soviet republic proclaimed in Kharkiv 1917, founding USSR republic 1922, capital Kyiv from 1934, 51.7 million people in 1989, ended by independence declaration 24 August 1991.
Ukrainian State (Українська Держава)
The Ukrainian State (Українська Держава), or Second Hetmanate, was Ukraine under Hetman Pavlo Skoropadsky, 29 April to 14 December 1918: a conservative, German-backed regime in Kyiv that reversed Central Rada land reform, built the Ukrainian Academy of Sciences, and fell when Germany withdrew.
Ukrainian strikes on Wildberries warehouses
Ukrainian drone campaign begun 17–18 July 2026 against Wildberries, Russia's largest online retailer ("Russia's Amazon"). About 20 sites struck, seven of ten biggest hubs knocked out, over a fifth of warehouse capacity damaged; Ukraine cites military supply role, which the company denies.
Ukrainian Venture Capital Association
The Ukrainian Venture Capital Association (UVCA), formally the Ukrainian Venture Capital and Private Equity Association, is a Kyiv-based non-profit founded in 2014 with 50 members managing about $5 billion.
Ukrainian Village, Manhattan
Ukrainian Village, also called Little Ukraine, is a Ukrainian enclave in Manhattan's East Village centered on East 6th-7th Streets and Second Avenue, settled from Galicia since the 1870s, anchored by St. George Ukrainian Catholic Church (1905), the Ukrainian Museum, Veselka, and the Ukrainian National Home.
Ukrainian War of Independence
The Ukrainian War of Independence (Ukrainian: Vyzvolni zmahannia, "Liberation Struggle"), also called the Ukrainian Revolution, was the 1917–1921 struggle for an independent Ukrainian state, ending in Soviet rule.
Ukrainian Yiddish literature
Ukrainian Yiddish literature is the body of Yiddish-language writing produced in present-day Ukraine, using the southeastern Yiddish dialect and flowering in the 1860s and under early Soviet rule.
Ukrainian–Soviet War
The Ukrainian–Soviet War (українсько-радянська війна) was the intermittent struggle for control of Ukraine from 1917 to 1921, fought between Ukrainian independence forces and pro-Bolshevik forces.
Ukrainianization
Ukrainianization (ukraïnizatsiia) was a Soviet policy pursued in the Ukrainian SSR from 1923 to 1933 to expand the Ukrainian language and Ukrainian participation in Party and state institutions.
Ukrainians (українці)
Ukrainians (українці) are the East Slavic nation native to Ukraine, speaking Ukrainian; formerly called Rusyns or Little Russians, they formed a nation-state only in the 20th century, with independence in 1991.
Ukrainka (Украинка) (air base)
Ukrainka (Украинка), also known as Seryshevo, is a Russian long-range aviation air base in Amur Oblast that hosts Tu-95MS strategic bombers under the 326th Heavy Bomber Division.
Ukrainska Khata
Ukrainska Khata (Українська хата, "The Ukrainian Hut") was a monthly literary and political journal published in Kyiv from 1909 to 1914 under editor Pavlo Bohatsky.
Ukrenergo
Ukrenergo (НЕК «Укренерго») is Ukraine's sole state-owned electricity transmission system operator, established in 1998 to control and run the main power grid, which it synchronized with Continental Europe in 2023.
Ukrinform
Ukrinform (Укрінформ) is Ukraine's national state news agency, founded March 16, 1918 as the Ukrainian Telegraph Agency. State-funded, EANA member, publishing in eight languages; transferred to Derzhkomteleradiocom on January 1, 2026.
Ukrtransnafta
Ukrtransnafta is Ukraine's state-owned operator of the trunk oil pipeline system, created in 2001 as a wholly owned subsidiary of Naftogaz, moving crude to refineries and Europe.
Ukrzaliznytsia
Ukrzaliznytsia, also called Ukrainian Railways (Укрзалізниця), is Ukraine's fully state-owned national railway company, created in 1991 and operating the country's rail network, freight, and passenger trains.
UKTV
UKTV is a British multi-channel broadcaster owned by BBC Studios, operating U&Dave, U&Drama, U&W, U&Yesterday, U&eden, U&GOLD and U&alibi plus the free streaming service U (formerly UKTV Play), rebranded from UKTV in July 2024.
Uku Jürjendal
Uku Jürjendal, "The Thunder" (born 1989, Tallinn), Estonian GLORY heavyweight kickboxer, 1.93 m, about 113.9 kg; stopped Badr Hari at Glory 89 (2023); GLORY record 3-4, career 20-10 with 16 KO per GLORY.
Uku Masing
Uku Masing (born Hugo Albert Masing, 1909–1985) was an Estonian poet, theologian, and philologist who hid his Jewish student during the Nazi occupation, earning recognition as Righteous Among the Nations.
Ukulele
Ukulele (ʻukulele, "jumping flea"): small four-string Hawaiian plucked lute developed in the 1880s by Madeiran makers Nunes, Dias, and Espírito Santo; re-entrant GCEA tuning; popularized by Kalākaua and the 1915 Panama-Pacific Exposition.