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84-697: Taurida Governorate was an administrative-territorial unit ( guberniya ) of the Russian Empire . It included the territory of the Crimean Peninsula and the mainland between the lower Dnieper River with the coasts of the Black Sea and Sea of Azov . It formed after the Taurida Oblast was abolished in 1802 during Paul I's administrative reform of the territories of the former Crimean Khanate , which were annexed by Russia from

168-484: A Russified though multiethnic Soviet people was officially promoted, according to which the non-Russian nations were relegated to second-class status . Despite this, many Ukrainians played prominent roles in the Soviet Union, including such public figures as Semen Tymoshenko . The creation of a sovereign and independent Ukraine in 1991, however, pointed to the failure of the policy of the "merging of nations" and to

252-715: A descendent of Old East Slavic. In Western and Central Europe it was known by the exonym "Ruthenian". In the 16th and 17th centuries, with the establishment of the Zaporozhian Sich , names of Ukraine and Ukrainian began to be used in Sloboda Ukraine. After the decline of the Zaporozhian Sich and the establishment of Imperial Russian hegemony in Left Bank Ukraine, Ukrainians became more widely known by Russians as " Little Russians ", with

336-467: A distinct lack of a Ukrainian state, as its territories were on a number of occasions, annexed by its more powerful neighbours. The watershed period in the development of modern Ukrainian national consciousness was the struggle for independence during the creation of the Ukrainian People's Republic from 1917 to 1921. A concerted effort to reverse the growth of Ukrainian national consciousness

420-517: A further 1.9% are Protestants and 0.4% are Latin Catholics . As of 2016, 16.3% of the population does not claim a religious affiliation, and 1.7% adheres to other religions. According to the same survey, 70% of the population of Ukraine declared to be believers, but do not belong to any church. 8.8% do not identify themselves with any of the denominations, and another 5.6% identified themselves as non-believers. Ukrainian cuisine has been formed by

504-452: A governor of an oblast or a krai . The Russian Empire had nine governorates in modern-day Ukrainian territories: Chernigov , Kharkov , Kherson , Kiev , Podolia , Poltava , Volhynia , Yekaterinoslav , and Taurida . Additional lands annexed from Poland in 1815 were organized into the Kholm governorate in 1912. After the events of 1917, which led to the declaration of independence of

588-517: A number of princes in medieval Kiev, as well as for some of the Byzantine emperors , while others occupied key administrative positions in Kievan Rus' society, and eventually became slavicized. Besides other cultural traces, several Ukrainian names show traces of Norse origins as a result of influences from that period. Differentiation between separate East Slavic groups began to emerge in

672-634: A number of principalities. The quarreling between the princes left Kievan Rus' vulnerable to foreign attacks, and the invasion of the Mongols in 1236. and 1240. finally destroyed the state. Another important state in the history of the Ukrainians is the Kingdom of Ruthenia (1199–1349). The third important state for Ukrainians is the Cossack Hetmanate . The Cossacks of Zaporizhzhia since

756-668: A similar percentage of Haplogroup R1a-Z280 (43%) in their population—compare Belarusians , Russians , and Lithuanians and (55%, 46%, and 42% respectively). Populations in Eastern Europe which have never been Slavic do as well. Ukrainians in Chernivtsi Oblast (near the Romanian border) have a higher percentage of I2a as opposed to R1a, which is typical of the Balkan region, but a smaller percentage than Russians of

840-544: A single cluster positioned between the Northern on one side, and Western European populations on the other. [4] There was a significant overlap with Central European populations as well as with people from the Balkans . In addition to the close geographic distance between these populations, this may also reflect the insufficient representation of samples from the surrounding populations. The Ukrainian gene-pool includes

924-559: A study identified more than 13 million genetic variants, representing about a quarter of the total genetic diversity discovered in Europe. Among these nearly 500,000 are previously undocumented and likely to be unique for this population. Medically relevant mutations whose prevalence in the Ukrainian genomes differed significantly compared to other European genome sequences, particularly from Western Europe and Russia. Ukrainian genomes form

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1008-476: A very close lexical distance between the two. Historically, state-inforced Russification saw the Ukrainian language banned as a subject from schools and as a language of instruction in the Russian Empire . The oppression continued in various ways while Ukraine was a part of the Soviet Union . However, the language continued to be used throughout the country, especially in the western part . Ukraine

1092-602: Is Ukrainian , and the majority adhere to the Eastern Orthodox Church . By total population, the Ukrainians form the second-largest Slavic ethnic group after the Russians . Historically, under rule from various realms, the Ukrainians have been given various names by their rulers. Some of the states that have governed over the Ukrainian people include the Polish–Lithuanian Commonwealth ,

1176-790: Is often called the " Breadbasket of Europe ", and its plentiful grain and cereal resources such as rye and wheat play an important part in its cuisine; essential in making various kinds of bread. Chernozem , the country's black-colored highly fertile soil, produces some of the world's most flavorful crops. Popular traditional dishes varenyky ( dumpling ), nalysnyky ( crêpe ), kapusnyak (cabbage soup ), nudli (dumpling stew ), borscht ( sour soup ) and holubtsi ( cabbage roll ). Among traditional baked goods are decorated korovai and paska ( easter bread ). Ukrainian specialties also include Chicken Kiev and Kyiv cake . Popular drinks include uzvar ( kompot ), ryazhanka , and horilka . Liquor (spirits) are

1260-621: The Kievan Chronicle under the year 1187. The terms Ukrainiany (first recorded in the Galician–Volhynian Chronicle under the year 1268 ), Ukrainnyky , and even narod ukrainskyi (the Ukrainian people) were used sporadically before Ukraintsi attained currency under the influence of the writings of Ukrainian activists in Russian-ruled Ukraine in the 19th century. From the 14th to the 16th centuries

1344-739: The Crimean People's Republic (1917-1918), while the rest remained in qn undefined status including the city of Sevastopol , which remained the main naval base of the Black Sea Fleet of the Russian Republic . The mainland counties were declared part of the Ukrainian People's Republic, yet remained under the effective jurisdiction of the Taurida Governorate. On November 20, [ O.S. November 7] 1917

1428-539: The Crimean People's Republic on December 13, 1917, which was the first Muslim Democratic state. The Tatar republic covered the peninsular portion of the former governorate, while its northern counties ended up temporarily under jurisdiction of the Yekaterinoslav Governorate . However neither Ukraine nor the Crimea managed to hold on to their territories and were overrun by Bolshevik Red Guards in

1512-593: The Free lands of the Don Cossacks . It has natural borders, being surrounded by the waters of the Black Sea and the Sea of Azov . The mainland and the peninsular parts of the region differ significantly. The total area of the governorate was 63,538 km (24,532 sq mi) of which the mainland portion consisted of 38,405 km (14,828 sq mi) and is largely black earth steppe land. The population of

1596-721: The Grand Duchy of Finland , Congress Poland , Russian Turkestan and others. There were also military governors such as Kronstadt , Vladivostok and others. Aside from governorates, other types of divisions were oblasts (region) and okrugs (district). This subdivision type was created by the edict ( ukase ) of Peter the Great on December 18, 1708 "On the establishment of the gubernias and cities assigned to them", which divided Russia into eight governorates . In 1719, governorates were further subdivided into provinces ( Russian : провинции , romanized :  provintsii ). Later

1680-542: The Habsburg monarchy , the Austrian Empire , and then Austria-Hungary . The East Slavic population inhabiting the territories of modern-day Ukraine were known as Ruthenians , referring to the territory of Ruthenia ; the Ukrainians living under the Russian Empire were known as Little Russians, named after the territory of Little Russia . The ethnonym Ukrainian (a term associated with the Cossack Hetmanate )

1764-844: The Holodomor . The Soviet regime remained silent about the Holodomor and provided no aid to the victims or the survivors. But news and information about what was going on reached the West and evoked public responses in Polish-ruled Western Ukraine and in the Ukrainian diaspora . Since the 1990s the independent Ukrainian state, particularly under President Viktor Yushchenko , the Ukrainian mass media and academic institutions, many foreign governments, most Ukrainian scholars, and many foreign scholars have viewed and written about

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1848-664: The Khanate of Crimea was annexed from the Ottoman Empire by Catherine the Great ’s Russia . Soon after, Taurida Oblast was established. During the reign of Paul I the oblast was abolished, but in 1802 re-established as a governorate (guberniya). It was a part of the Russian Empire until the Russian Revolution of 1918. Following the 1917 October Revolution , the ethnic Tatar government proclaimed

1932-899: The Kuban , for example, have vacillated among three identities: Ukrainian, Russian (an identity supported by the Soviet regime ), and " Cossack ". Approximately 800,000 people of Ukrainian ancestry live in the Russian Far East in an area known historically as " Green Ukraine ". In a 2011 national poll of Ukraine, 49% of Ukrainians said they had relatives living in Russia. According to some previous assumptions, an estimated number of almost 2.4 million people of Ukrainian origin live in North America (1,359,655 in Canada and 1,028,492 in

2016-527: The Ottoman Empire in 1783. The governorate's centre was the city of Simferopol . The name of the province was derived from Taurida ( Greek : Ταυρική ), a historical name for Crimea. Today the territory of the governorate is part of the Autonomous Republic of Crimea , Kherson and Zaporizhzhia Oblasts of Ukraine , which were annexed by Russia after their 2022 invasion , but remain internationally recognized as part of Ukraine. In 1783,

2100-785: The Russian Empire . The newly established Ukrainian government, the Central Rada , headed by Mykhailo Hrushevsky , issued four universals, the Fourth of which, dated 22 January 1918, declared the independence and sovereignty of the Ukrainian National Republic (UNR) on 25 January 1918. The session of the Central Rada on 29 April 1918 ratified the Constitution of the UNR and elected Hrushevsky president. During

2184-685: The Seventh-day Adventist Church , Jehovah's Witnesses . A 2020 survey conducted by the Razumkov Centre found that majority of Ukrainian populations was adhering to Christianity (81.9%). Of these Christians, 75.4% are Eastern Orthodox (34% of the Orthodox Church of Ukraine and 13.8% of the Moscow Patriarchate, and 27.6% are simply Orthodox), 8.2% are Greek Catholics, 7.1% are simply Christians,

2268-605: The Slavic migrations of the 6th and 7th centuries CE. The state of Kievan Rus united the East Slavs during the 9th to 13th centuries. East Slavic tribes cited as "proto-Ukrainian" include the Volhynians , Derevlianians , Polianians , and Siverianians and the less significant Ulychians , Tivertsians , and White Croats . The Gothic historian Jordanes and 6th-century Byzantine authors named two groups that lived in

2352-669: The Soviet era (1917–1991), official historiography emphasized "the cultural unity of 'proto-Ukrainians' and 'proto-Russians' in the fifth and sixth centuries". A poll conducted in April 2022 by " Rating " found that the vast majority (91%) of Ukrainians (excluding the Russian-occupied territories of Ukraine ) do not support the thesis that "Russians and Ukrainians are one people ". Ukrainians, like most Europeans, largely descend from three distinct lineages: Mesolithic hunter-gatherers , descended from populations associated with

2436-632: The Third Universal of the Tsentralna Rada of the Ukrainian People's Republic proclaimed the territory of the Ukrainian Republic as comprising: Volyn Governorate , Kiev Governorate , Podolia Governorate , Chernigov Governorate , Poltava Governorate , Kharkov Governorate , Yekaterinoslav Governorate , Kherson Governorate and Taurida Governorate (not including Crimea ). After occupation of Ukraine by Bolsheviks during

2520-734: The Ukrainian People's Republic , these governorates became subdivisions, which also annexed Ukrainian-inhabited parts of Mogilev , Kursk , Voronezh and Minsk governorates in 1918. By the end of the Soviet–Ukrainian War in 1920, the Bolsheviks had made them part of the Ukrainian SSR . Soviet Ukraine was reorganized into 12 governorates, which were reduced to nine in 1922 upon the Soviet Union 's founding, and then replaced with okruhas in 1925. The West Ukrainian People's Republic in former Austro-Hungarian Empire territory

2604-592: The Ukrainian–Soviet War , the Taurida Governorate became finally split between Russian soviet republics of the Donetsk-Krivoi Rog Soviet Republic and Taurida Socialist Republic of Soviets. The Imperial census of 1897 found that the population of the governorate consisted of 1,447,790, with 762,804 male and 684,986 female. In 1897 289,316 people lived in the cities, constituting 19.98% of the total population. The ethnicities of

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2688-483: The United States , Brazil , Kazakhstan , Italy and Argentina . According to some sources, around 20 million people outside Ukraine identify as having Ukrainian ethnicity, however the official data of the respective countries calculated together does not show more than 10 million. Ukrainians have one of the largest diasporas in the world. The East Slavs emerged from the undifferentiated early Slavs in

2772-564: The second largest ethno-linguistic group among Eastern Orthodox in the world. Ukrainians have their own autocephalous Orthodox Church of Ukraine headed by Metropolitan Epiphanius , where it is the most common church and in the small areas of Ukraine the Ukrainian Orthodox Church who were under the jurisdiction of the Moscow Patriarchate is the smaller common. The Russian invasion of Ukraine impacted

2856-591: The 1920s, under the Ukrainisation policy pursued by the national Communist leadership of Mykola Skrypnyk , Soviet leadership encouraged a national renaissance in the Ukrainian culture and language. Ukrainisation was part of the Soviet-wide policy of Korenisation (literally indigenisation). During 1932–1933, millions of Ukrainians were starved to death by the Soviet regime which led to a famine , known as

2940-437: The Holodomor as genocide and issued official declarations and publications to that effect. Modern scholarly estimates of the direct loss of human life due to the famine range between 2.6 million (3–3.5 million) and 12 million although much higher numbers are usually published in the media and cited in political debates. As of March 2008, the parliament of Ukraine and the governments of several countries, including

3024-749: The Kievan Rus', became influenced by the Byzantine Empire ; the first known conversion was by the Princess Saint Olga who came to Constantinople in 945 or 957. Several years later, her grandson, Prince Vladimir baptised his people in the Dnieper River . This began a long history of the dominance of the Eastern Orthodoxy in Ruthenia (Ukraine). Ukrainians are majority Eastern Orthodox Christians, and they form

3108-666: The N1c1 lineage found among Finno-Ugric, Baltic, and Siberian populations, and also less R1b than West Slavs . In terms of haplogroup distribution, the genetic pattern of Ukrainians most closely resembles that of Belarusians. The presence of the N1c lineage is explained by a contribution of the assimilated Finno-Ugric tribes. Within Ukraine and adjacent areas, there are several other distinct ethnic sub-groups, especially in western Ukraine: places like Zakarpattia and Halychyna . Among them

3192-458: The Paleolithic Epigravettian culture; Neolithic Early European Farmers who migrated from Anatolia during the Neolithic Revolution 9,000 years ago; and Yamnaya Steppe pastoralists who expanded into Europe from the Pontic–Caspian steppe of Ukraine and southern Russia in the context of Indo-European migrations 5,000 years ago. In a survey of 97 genomes for diversity in full genome sequences among self-identified Ukrainians from Ukraine,

3276-601: The Russian Empire as Magometians) who mainly lived in the peninsular portion of the guberniya , Crimea itself. They were the main force that after the next 10 years established the first Muslim democratic state of the Crimean People's Republic . Beside the Magometians and Jews there were only eight (8) other non-Christian followers in the whole guberniya (not necessarily Atheists ). 44°56′53″N 34°06′15″E  /  44.9481°N 34.1042°E  / 44.9481; 34.1042 Guberniya Selected governorates were united under an assigned governor-general such as

3360-464: The Soviet Union into particular territorial units was subject to numerous changes, especially during the 1918–1929 period. Because of the Soviet Union's electrification program under the GOELRO plan , Ivan Alexandrov directed the Regionalisation Commission of Gosplan to divide the Soviet union into thirteen European and eight Asiatic oblasts , using rational economic planning rather than "the vestiges of lost sovereign rights". Eventually, in 1929,

3444-411: The UK, Israel, Slovakia, Kyrgyzstan, Austria, Uruguay and the former Yugoslavia . Generally, the Ukrainian diaspora is present in more than one hundred and twenty countries of the world. The number of Ukrainians in Poland amounted to some 51,000 people in 2011 (according to the Polish Census ). Since 2014, the country has experienced a large increase in immigration from Ukraine. More recent data put

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3528-448: The Ukrainian diaspora and Ukrainian academics of "ignoring, glossing over, or outright denying" his role in this and other war crimes. The Ukrainian state has occupied a number of territories since its initial foundation. Most of these territories have been located within Eastern Europe, however, as depicted in the maps in the gallery below, has also at times extended well into Eurasia and South-Eastern Europe. At times there has also been

3612-455: The United States have recognized the Holodomor as an act of genocide . Following the Invasion of Poland in September 1939, German and Soviet troops divided the territory of Poland. Thus, Eastern Galicia and Volhynia with their Ukrainian population became part of Soviet Ukraine. When the German armies invaded the Soviet Union on 22 June 1941, those regions temporarily became part of the Nazi-controlled Reichskommissariat Ukraine . In total,

3696-409: The United States). Large numbers of Ukrainians live in Brazil (600,000), Kazakhstan (338,022), Moldova (325,235), Argentina (305,000), (Germany) (272,000), Italy (234,354), Belarus (225,734), Uzbekistan (124,602), the Czech Republic (110,245), Spain (90,530–100,000) and Romania (51,703–200,000). There are also large Ukrainian communities in such countries as Latvia, Portugal, France, Australia, Paraguay,

3780-539: The Western European model (presented by political philosopher Vyacheslav Lypynsky ) were unsuccessful until the 1990s. Territorial loyalty has also been manifested by the historical national minorities living in Ukraine. The official declaration of Ukrainian sovereignty of 16 July 1990 stated that "citizens of the Republic of all nationalities constitute the people of Ukraine." Due to Ukraine's geographical location, its culture primarily exhibits Eastern European influence as well as Central European to an extent (primarily in

3864-420: The Zaporozhian Sich, with the Hetmanate and with their struggle against Poles, Russians, Turks and Crimean Tatars) and to themselves and their language as Ruthenians / Ruthenian . With the publication of Ivan Kotliarevsky 's Eneyida (Aeneid) in 1798, which established the modern Ukrainian language , and with the subsequent Romantic revival of national traditions and culture, the ethnonym Ukrainians and

3948-425: The command of Roman Shukhevych, UPA began the ethnic cleansing. Shukhevych was one of the perpetrators of the Galicia-Volhynia massacres of tens of thousands of Polish civilians. It is unclear to what extent Shuchevych was responsible for the massacres of Poles in Volhynia, but he certainly condoned them after some time, and also directed the massacres of Poles in Eastern Galicia. Historian Per Anders Rudling has accused

4032-422: The enduring strength of the Ukrainian national consciousness. Today, one of the consequences of these acts is Ukrainophobia . Biculturalism is especially present in southeastern Ukraine where there is a significant Russian minority. Historical colonization of Ukraine is one reason that creates confusion about national identity to this day. Many citizens of Ukraine have adopted the Ukrainian national identity in

4116-411: The far north and east of the peninsula was mostly inhabited by Ukrainians . Major urban centres were Simferopol , Sevastopol , Theodosia , Bakhchisaray , and Yalta in Crimea, and Aleshki, Berdyansk , and Melitopol on the mainland. The governorate comprised three counties ( uyezds ) on the mainland: and five counties and two city authorities ( gradonachalstvo ) on the peninsula: Before 1820

4200-404: The following Y- haplogroups , in order from the most prevalent: Roughly all R1a Ukrainians carry R1a -Z282; R1a-Z282 has been found significantly only in Eastern Europe. Chernivtsi Oblast is the only region in Ukraine where Haplogroup I2a occurs more frequently than R1a, much less frequent even in Ivano-Frankivsk Oblast . In comparison to their northern and eastern neighbors, Ukrainians have

4284-402: The governorate consisted of seven counties, including Tmutarakan county on the Taman Peninsula on the eastern side of the Kerch Strait . The Yalta and Berdyansk counties formed later. From 1804 to 1829 there also existed the gradonachalstvo of Feodosiya; and in 1914 Yalta county became the gradonachalstvo of Yalta. In December 1917 the governorate split, with most of the peninsula forming

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4368-444: The homeland as in " nash rodnoi kraj " (our homeland), and the other "edge, border", and originally had the sense of "periphery", "borderland" or "frontier region". According to another theory, the term ukraina should be distinguished from the term okraina : whereas the latter term means "borderland", the former one has the meaning of "cut-off piece of land", thus acquiring the connotation of "our land", "land allotted to us". In

4452-537: The last three centuries the population of Ukraine experienced periods of Polonization and Russification , but preserved a common culture and a sense of common identity. Most ethnic Ukrainians live in Ukraine, where they make up over three-quarters of the population. The largest population of Ukrainians outside of Ukraine lives in Russia where about 1.9 million Russian citizens identify as Ukrainian, while millions of others (primarily in southern Russia and Siberia ) have some Ukrainian ancestry. The inhabitants of

4536-412: The late 15th century controlled the lower bends of the river Dnieper, between Russia, Poland and the Tatars of Crimea , with the fortified capital, Zaporozhian Sich . Hetman Bohdan Khmelnytsky is one of the most celebrated and at the same time most controversial political figures in Ukraine's early-modern history. A brilliant military leader, his greatest achievement in the process of national revolution

4620-417: The later medieval period, and an East Slavic dialect continuum developed within the Polish–Lithuanian Commonwealth , with the Ruthenian language emerging as a written standard. The active development of a concept of a Ukrainian nation and the Ukrainian language began with the Ukrainian National Revival in the early 19th century in times when Ruthenians (Русини) changed their name due to the region name. In

4704-431: The latter part of the 19th century, in Transcarpathia until the 1930s, and in the Prešov Region until the late 1940s. The modern name Ukraintsi (Ukrainians) derives from Ukraina (Ukraine), a name first documented in 1187. Several scientific theories attempt to explain the etymology of the term. According to the traditional theory, it derives from the Proto-Slavic root *kraj-, which has two meanings, one meaning

4788-405: The majority of Ukrainian élites espousing Little Russian identity and adopting the Russian language (as Ukrainian was outlawed in almost all contexts). This exonym (regarded now as a humiliating imperialist imposition) did not spread widely among the peasantry which constituted the majority of the population. Ukrainian peasants still referred to their country as "Ukraine" (a name associated with

4872-420: The medieval state of Kievan Rus' , which first split into Ruthenian and Russian . The Ruthenian languages then evolved into modern-day Ukrainian, Belarusian and Rusyn . In modern-day Ukraine, most of its population are also fluent in Russian and many use it as their native tongue. Comparisons are often made between Ukrainian and Russian. Yet, there is more mutual intelligibility with Belarusian, and

4956-413: The most known are Hutsuls , Volhynians , Boykos and Lemkos (otherwise known as Carpatho-Rusyns – a derivative of Carpathian Ruthenians ), each with particular areas of settlement, dialect, dress, and folk traditions. Ukraine has had a very turbulent history, a fact explained by its geographical position. In the 9th century the Varangians from Scandinavia conquered the proto-Slavic tribes on

5040-515: The nation's tumultuous history, geography, culture and social customs. Chicken is the most consumed type of protein , accounting for about half of the meat intake. It is followed by pork and beef . Vegetables such as potatoes , cabbages , mushrooms and beetroots are widely consumed. Pickled vegetables are considered a delicacy. Salo , which is cured pork fat, is considered the national delicacy. Widely used herbs include dill , parsley , basil , coriander and chives . Ukraine

5124-476: The notion of a Ukrainian language came into more prominence at the beginning of the 19th century and gradually replaced the words "Rusyns" and "Ruthenian(s)". In areas outside the control of the Russian/Soviet state until the mid-20th century ( Western Ukraine ), Ukrainians were known by their pre-existing names for much longer. The appellation Ukrainians initially came into common usage in Central Ukraine and did not take hold in Galicia and Bukovina until

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5208-432: The number of Ukrainian migrant workers at 1.2 – 1.3 million in 2016. In the last decades of the 19th century, many Ukrainians were forced by the Tsarist autocracy to move to the Asian regions of Russia, while many of their counterpart Slavs under Austro-Hungarian rule emigrated to the New World seeking work and better economic opportunities. Today, large ethnic Ukrainian minorities reside in Russia , Canada ,

5292-412: The number of ethnic Ukrainians who fought in the ranks of the Soviet Army is estimated from 4.5 million to 7 million. The pro-Soviet partisan guerrilla resistance in Ukraine is estimated to number at 47,800 from the start of occupation to 500,000 at its peak in 1944, with about 50% being ethnic Ukrainians. Of the estimated 8.6 million Soviet troop losses, 1.4 million were ethnic Ukrainians. In 1943, under

5376-615: The number of governorates was increased to 23 . By the reform of 1775, subdivision into governorates and further into uezds ( Russian : уезды ), was based on population size, and the term guberniya was replaced by the synonym of Russian origin: namestnichestvo ( наместничество ), sometimes translated as "viceroyalty", other times as " vicegerency ". The term guberniya , however, still remained in use. These viceroyalties were governed by namestniki ( наместник ) (literal translation: "deputy") or " governors general " ( генерал-губернатор , general-gubernator ). Correspondingly,

5460-415: The past 20 years. According to the concept of nationality dominant in Eastern Europe the Ukrainians are people whose native language is Ukrainian (an objective criterion) whether or not they are nationally conscious, and all those who identify themselves as Ukrainian (a subjective criterion) whether or not they speak Ukrainian. Attempts to introduce a territorial-political concept of Ukrainian nationality on

5544-402: The period are considered to have been largely opportunists and men of little vision who could not muster broad popular support for their policies. There were roughly 4 million Ukrainians at the end of the 17th century. At the final stages of the First World War, a powerful struggle for an independent Ukrainian state developed in the central Ukrainian territories, which, until 1917, were part of

5628-506: The religious identity of some Ukrainians. In the Western region known as Halychyna , the Ukrainian Greek Catholic Church , one of the Eastern Rite Catholic Churches has a strong membership. Since the fall of the Soviet Union there has been a growth of Protestant churches ( Baptists , Evangelism , Pentecostalism ) There are also ethnic minorities that practice other religions, i.e. Crimean Tatars ( Islam ), and Jews and Karaim ( Judaism ). Also, some Ukrainians are members of

5712-464: The south-east of Europe: Sclavins (western Slavs) and Antes . Polianians are identified as the founders of the city of Kiev and as playing the key role in the formation of the Kievan Rus' state. At the beginning of the 9th century, Varangians used the waterways of Eastern Europe for military raids and trade, particularly the trade route from the Varangians to the Greeks . Until the 11th century these Varangians also served as key mercenary troops for

5796-403: The subdivision was replaced by the notions of oblast, okrug , and raion . Oblast as a unit was used even before the revolution, although unlike governorates it designated remote areas that usually incorporated huge swaths of land. In post-Soviet states such as Russia and Ukraine, the term Guberniya is considered obsolete, yet the word gubernator was reinstated and is used when referring to

5880-429: The term governorate general ( генерал-губернаторство , general-gubernatorstvo ) was in use to refer to the actual territory being governed. The office of governor general had more administrative power and was in a higher position than the previous office of governor. Sometimes a governor general ruled several governorates. By the ukase of the Russian Senate of December 31, 1796, the office of governorate general

5964-405: The territory of today's Ukraine, Belarus, and western Russia and laid the groundwork for the Kievan Rus' state. The ancestors of the Ukrainian nation such as Polianians had an important role in the development and culturalization of Kievan Rus' state. The internecine wars between Rus' princes, which began after the death of Yaroslav the Wise , led to the political fragmentation of the state into

6048-463: The urban population were Russians (49.1%), Tatars (17.16%), and Jews (11.84%), with only 31 people living in cities who chose not to disclose their identity. By the Imperial census of 1897 there were around 1,100,000 Eastern Orthodox followers, just over 30,000 Catholic , around 70,000 Protestant Christians and about the same number of Judaic followers. Only 13% of population were Muslims (known in

6132-514: The western portions of the European part of what is now known as Russia, plus the territories of northern Ukraine and Belarus ( Ruthenia ) were largely known as Rus , continuing the tradition of Kievan Rus' . People of these territories were usually called Rus or Rusyns (known as Ruthenians in Western and Central Europe). The Ukrainian language is, like modern Russian and Belarusian,

6216-478: The western region). Over the years it has been influenced by movements such as those brought about during the Byzantine Empire and the Renaissance. Today, the country is somewhat culturally divided with the western regions bearing a stronger Central European influence and the eastern regions showing a significant Russian influence. A strong Christian culture was predominant for many centuries, although Ukraine

6300-469: The whole region was 1,634,700 in 1906. At that time, the mainland part of the governorate was mostly populated by Ukrainians and a large Russian minority, but had significant ethnic minorities of Germans , Bulgarians , Armenians and Jews , while major ethnic groups of the Crimean peninsula were Crimean Tatars and Russians with German , Greek , Poles , Armenian, and Karaim minorities, while

6384-676: The winter of 1917-18. Briefly in early 1918 the bolsheviks split the governorate territories between the Taurida Soviet Socialist Republic and the Donetsk-Krivoi Rog Soviet Republic before being overrun by the forces of the Ukrainian People's Republic with military assistance from the German Empire . The governorate bordered Yekaterinoslav Governorate and Kherson Governorate to its north. The Strait of Kerch bordered

6468-480: Was adopted following the Ukrainian national revival . Their affinity with the Cossacks is frequently emphasized, for example, in the Ukrainian national anthem . Citizens of Ukraine are also called Ukrainians regardless of their ethnic origin, and Ukrainian nationals identify themselves as a civic nation . The modern name Ukraintsi (Ukrainians) is derived from Ukraina (Ukraine), a name first documented in

6552-559: Was also applied to subdivisions of the Kingdom of Poland ("Russian Poland") and the Grand Duchy of Finland . After the February Revolution , the Russian Provisional Government renamed governors into governorate commissars . The October Revolution left the subdivision in place, but the governing apparatus was replaced by governorate soviets ( губернский совет ). Actual subdivisions of

6636-612: Was also the center of conflict between the Catholic, Orthodox and Islamic spheres of influence. Ukrainian ( украї́нська мо́ва , ukraі́nska móva ) is the sole official language in Ukraine. It belongs to the East Slavic branch of the Slavic languages . Written Ukrainian uses the Ukrainian alphabet , one of many based on the Cyrillic alphabet . The language is a lineal descendant of the colloquial Old East Slavic language of

6720-402: Was begun by the regime of Joseph Stalin in the late 1920s, and continued with minor interruptions until the most recent times. The man-made Famine of 1932–33 , the deportations of the so-called kulaks , the physical annihilation of the nationally conscious intelligentsia, and terror in general were used to destroy and subdue the Ukrainian nation. Even after Joseph Stalin's death the concept of

6804-486: Was demoted to the previous level of governorate, and Russia was again divided into governorates, which were subdivided into uezds, further subdivided into volosts ( волость ); nevertheless several governorates general made from several governorates existed until the Russian Revolution of 1917 . The governorate ( Russian : губе́рния , Polish : gubernia , Swedish : län , Finnish : lääni ) system

6888-417: Was inhabited by pagan tribes until Byzantine rite Christianity was introduced by the turn of the first millennium. It was imagined by later writers who sought to put Kievan Rus' Christianity on the same level of primacy as Byzantine Christianity that Apostle Andrew himself had visited the site where the city of Kiev would be later built. However, it was only by the 10th century that the emerging state,

6972-599: Was not subdivided into governorates, and would be annexed by the Second Polish Republic from 1920 until the Soviet invasion of 1939 . There is another meaning of the word as it denoted a type of estate in Lithuania of the until 1917. Ukrainians Ukrainians ( Ukrainian : українці , romanized :  ukraintsi , pronounced [ʊkrɐˈjinʲts⁽ʲ⁾i] ) are an East Slavic ethnic group native to Ukraine . Their native tongue

7056-741: Was the formation of the Cossack Hetmanate state of the Zaporozhian Host (1648–1782). The period of the Ruin in the late 17th century in the history of Ukraine is characterized by the disintegration of Ukrainian statehood and general decline. During the Ruin Ukraine became divided along the Dnieper River into Left-Bank Ukraine and Right-Bank Ukraine , and the two-halves became hostile to each other. Ukrainian leaders during

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