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Front: Founding Viking brothers Kyi, Schchek and Khoury with sister Libyd standing at bow of ship
Back: Cathedral of St. Sophia in Kiev
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Front: Saint Vladimir Svyatoslavich the Great (958-1015), Grand Prince of Kiev
Vladimir I converted to Christianity in 988, and proceeded to baptise the
whole Kievan Rus.
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Front: Taras Shevchenko (1814-1861), Ukrainian poet and painter
Shevchenko was born in central Ukraine, then part of the Russian Empire. The son
of a serf, Shevchenko became not only an artist and a painter but one of the most
versatile people of 19th century. The first collection of Shevchenko's poems was published under the title
Kobzar("Minstrel") in 1840. It became a harbinger of the works of one of the
greatest humanist writers of all times.
Back: Kiev State University
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Ukraine, bordered by Russia, Belarus, Poland, Slovakia and Hungary, was the
Ukrainian Soviet Socialist Republic of the U.S.S.R. Became independent in 1991.
For a more detailed
country profile, see CIA World Factbook on Ukraine.
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