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Outline of Ukrainian history
Outline of Wikipedia articles about Ukrainian history
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This is a topical guide to articles about the History of Ukraine.
Ukraine[a] is a country in Eastern Europe. It is the second-largest country in Europe by area, after Russia, which borders it to the east and northeast.[b] It also borders Belarus to the north; Poland and Slovakia to the west; Hungary, Romania and Moldova to the southwest; and the Black Sea and the Sea of Azov to the south and southeast.[c] Kyiv is the capital and largest city, followed by Kharkiv, Odesa and Dnipro. The official language is Ukrainian. Ukraine covers 603,628 km2 (233,062 sq mi),[2] and has an estimated population of 39 million as of 2025[update].[3]
Ukrainian history starts with the Kyivan Rus',[4] the medieval state centered on Kyiv,[5] which the Mongol invasion of 1240 broke apart.[6][7] Rule from outside followed for four centuries, first from the Grand Duchy of Lithuania,[8] and then the Polish–Lithuanian Commonwealth,[9] until the Cossack uprising of 1648 created a Hetmanate that lasted under Russian suzerainty until Catherine II abolished it. By 1800 the territory was split between the Russian Empire and the Habsburg monarchy,[10] and the national movement grew differently on each side of that line.[11][12][13] As a result of World War I,[14] and its aftermath in the Russian Revolution and Civil War, both the Russian Empire and the Austro-Hungarian Empire fell in 1917, and the Ukrainian People's Republic that emerged lasted only until the Bolsheviks crushed it in 1921.[15] Seven decades of Soviet rule followed,[16] which included the Holodomor,[17] and then Second World War and the Holocaust in Ukraine.[18][19] Independence came in 1991, and the period since has been shaped by disputes over Ukraine's alignment: the Orange Revolution, the Maidan of 2013–14 and the Russian invasions from 2014 to the present.[20]
Overviews
- History of Ukraine - (c. 32,000 BCE–present) - Survey of Ukrainian history from prehistory to the present.
- Name of Ukraine - History and etymology of the country's name.
Archaeological cultures in Ukraine
- Bug–Dniester culture - (c. 6300–5500 BCE) - Neolithic culture between the Southern Bug and Dniester rivers.
- Catacomb culture - (2500–1950 BCE) - Bronze Age steppe culture.
- Chernoles culture - (c. 1050–725 BCE) - Forest steppe culture linked to early Slavic and Scythian farmers.
- Chernyakhov culture - (c. 200–500 CE) - Multi-ethnic culture of the Roman period associated with the Goths.
- Cucuteni–Trypillia culture - (c. 5050–2950 BCE) - Neolithic–Eneolithic culture of southeastern Europe.
- Dnieper–Donets culture - (c. 5000–4200 BCE) - Prehistoric culture north of the Black Sea.
- Middle Dnieper culture - (c. 3200–2300 BCE) - Archaeological culture of the Dnieper basin and Belarus.
- Multi-cordoned ware culture - (c. 2200–1800 BCE) - Bronze Age steppe culture.
- Repin culture - (c. 3950–3300 BCE) - Eneolithic culture of Eastern Europe.
- Scythian culture - (c. 900–200 BCE) - Culture of the Iron Age nomads of the Pontic steppe.
- Sredny Stog culture - (c. 4500–3500 BCE) - Eneolithic culture of the Dnieper–Don steppe.
- Srubnaya culture - (c. 1850–1450 BCE) - Late Bronze Age culture of the Volga–Ural and Pontic steppe.
- Usatove culture - (c. 3500–3000 BCE) - Late Trypillian steppe culture near the northwestern Black Sea coast.
- Yamnaya culture - (c. 3300–2600 BCE) - Archaeological culture of the Pontic steppe.
- Zarubintsy culture - (3rd century BCE–1st century CE) - Iron Age culture of Eastern Europe.
Pre-modern history
Ancient history
- Scythia - (c. 700–300 BCE) - Region of Eurasia in antiquity.
- Tyras - (c. 600 BCE–c. 400 CE) - Ancient Greek city-state on the Dniester estuary.
- Scythian campaign of Darius I - (513 BCE) - Achaemenid expedition into Scythia.
- Sarmatians - (5th century BCE–4th century CE) - Large Iranian confederation of classical antiquity.
- Bosporan Kingdom - (c. 438 BCE–c. 527 CE) - Greco-Scythian state near the Sea of Azov.
- Crimea in the Roman era - (47 BCE–c. 340 CE) - Crimea under Roman rule.
- Oium - (3rd century–4th century) - Gothic area of Scythia.
Medieval history
- Antes people - (6th century–602) - Early Slavic people of Eastern Europe in the Early Middle Ages.
- Polans (eastern) - (6th century–9th century) - East Slavic tribe around the middle Dnieper and Kiev.
- Dulebes - (6th century–10th century) - Early Slavic tribal union in Volhynia.
- White Croats - (7th century–10th century) - Early Slavic tribe and ethnic group.
- Saltovo-Mayaki culture - (700–950) - Early Slavic archaeological culture of the Pontic steppe.
- Route from the Varangians to the Greeks - (c. 800–1100) - Medieval trade route between Scandinavia and the Byzantine Empire.
- Fortress of Tustan - (9th century–16th century) - Rock-cut fortress and customs post in the Carpathians.
- Rus' Khaganate - (c. 830–890s) - Early Rus' polity in Eastern Europe.
- Kievan Rus' - (c. 880–1240) - East Slavic state centered on Kiev.
- Cumania - (10th century–1241) - Turkic confederation of tribes on the Pontic steppe.
- Cumans - (11th century–1241) - Turkic nomadic people.
- Brodnici - (12th century–13th century) - People of the lower Danube and Dniester region.
- Disintegration of Kievan Rus' - (1132–1240) - Political fragmentation of the Rus' lands.
- Kingdom of Galicia–Volhynia - (1199–1349) - Kingdom in Eastern Europe.
Modern pre-Soviet history
Early modern history
- Little Russia - (14th century–20th century) - Historic and geographic term for Ukraine.
- Ruthenian Voivodeship - (1434–1772) - Historical region in the Kingdom of Poland.
- Podolian Voivodeship - (1434–1793) - Voivodeship in the Kingdom of Poland.
- Kiev Voivodeship - (1471–1793) - Subdivision of the Grand Duchy of Lithuania and the Kingdom of Poland.
- Opryshky - (16th century–19th century) - Outlaw bands and rebel movement in the Carpathian Mountains.
- Russo-Turkish wars - (1568–1918) - Series of conflicts between the Russian and Ottoman empires.
- Polish–Lithuanian Commonwealth - (1569–1795) - Aristocratic republic in Europe.
- Volhynian Voivodeship (1569–1795) - (1569–1795) - Voivodeship in Lithuania, then Poland.
- Sloboda Ukraine - (17th century–18th century) - Historical region straddling present-day Ukraine and Russia.
- Ukrainian Baroque - (17th century–18th century) - Distinctive Baroque style in architecture and art.
- Khmelnytsky Uprising - (1648–1657) - Cossack rebellion in the Polish–Lithuanian Commonwealth.
- Left-bank Ukraine - (1667–1793) - Historical region east of the Dnieper.
- Right-bank Ukraine - (1667–1793) - Historical region west of the Dnieper.
- Constitution of Pylyp Orlyk - (1710) - Constitution drawn up for the Cossack Hetmanate by Hetman Pylyp Orlyk.
- Koliivshchyna - (1768) - Haidamaka peasant and Cossack rebellion on the right bank.
Crimean Khanate
- Black Sea slave trade - (antiquity–19th century) - Trafficking of people across the Black Sea.
- Giray dynasty - (1431–1783) - Ruling dynasty of the Crimean Khanate.
- Crimean–Nogai slave raids in Eastern Europe - (1441–1774) - Ottoman-backed Turkic raids for captives.
- Crimean Khanate - (1441–1783) - Crimean Tatar state.
- List of Crimean khans - (1441–1783) - Rulers of the Crimean Khanate.
Cossack Hetmanate
- Zaporozhian Host - (15th century–18th century) - Military forces of the Zaporozhian Cossacks.
- Zaporozhian Cossacks - (c. 15th century–1775) - Cossack host centered on the lower Dnieper.
- Cossack Hetmanate - (1648–1764) - Cossack state under Russian suzerainty.
Zaporozhian Sich
- Zaporozhian Sich - (c. 1552–1775) - Fortified Cossack polity beyond the Dnieper rapids.
- Nova Sich - (1734–1775) - Last of the Cossack Siches, on the lower Dnieper.
- Liquidation of the Zaporozhian Sich - (1775) - Russian destruction of the Cossack polity.
History of Ukraine (1795–1918)
- Ukrainian national revival - (c. 1798–1900) - Movement to revive Ukrainian language, culture and national identity.
Ukraine in World War I
- Battle of Galicia - (1914) - Battle on the Eastern Front of World War I.
- Ukraine during World War I - (1914–1918) - Ukrainian lands under Russian and Austro-Hungarian rule during the war.
- Ukrainian Sich Riflemen - (1914–1920) - Ukrainian unit of the Austro-Hungarian army.
- Brusilov offensive - (1916) - Russian offensive on the Eastern Front.
- Kerensky offensive - (1917) - Last Russian offensive of World War I.
- 1918 Ukrainian coup d'état - (1918) - Coup d'état in the Ukrainian People's Republic.
- Treaty of Brest-Litovsk (Ukraine–Central Powers) - (1918) - Peace treaty between the Ukrainian People's Republic and the Central Powers.
Russian Revolution and Soviet era
Ukrainian War of Independence
- Free Cossacks - (1917–1918) - Volunteer self-defense militia.
- Russian Civil War - (1917–1922) - Multi-party war in the former Russian Empire.
- Ukrainian War of Independence - (1917–1921) - Series of conflicts over Ukrainian statehood.
- Ukrainian–Soviet War - (1917–1921) - War between Ukrainian forces and the Bolsheviks.
- Anti-Hetman Uprising - (1918) - Revolt against Hetman Pavlo Skoropadsky.
- Battle of Kruty - (1918) - Battle of the Ukrainian–Soviet War.
- Battle of Lemberg (1918) - (1918) - Fight for Lviv in the Polish–Ukrainian War.
- Crimea Operation (1918) - (1918) - German and Ukrainian offensive into Crimea.
- Kiev Arsenal January Uprising - (1918) - Bolshevik-organized workers' revolt.
- Operation Faustschlag - (1918) - Last action on the Eastern Front of World War I.
- Polish–Ukrainian War - (1918–1919) - Conflict between the Second Polish Republic and Ukrainian forces.
- Soviet westward offensive of 1918–1919 - (1918–1919) - Red Army advance following the German withdrawal.
- 1919 Soviet invasion of Ukraine - (1919) - Red Army offensive that drove the Directorate from Kiev.
- Battle of Peregonovka - (1919) - Battle of the Russian Civil War.
- First Winter Campaign - (1919–1920) - Ukrainian People's Army raid behind Soviet and White lines.
- Hryhoriv Uprising - (1919) - Anti-Bolshevik revolt led by Otaman Nykyfor Hryhoriv.
- Hutsul Republic - (1919) - Unrecognized state in the Hutsul region of Transcarpathia.
- Kholodny Yar Republic - (1919–1922) - Ukrainian partisan state.
- Polish–Soviet War - (1919–1921) - Conflict between Poland and Soviet Russia.
- Bolshevik–Makhnovist conflict - (1920–1921) - Falling-out between the Bolsheviks and the Makhnovists.
- Galician Soviet Socialist Republic - (1920) - Bolshevik state in eastern Galicia.
- Kiev offensive (1920) - (1920) - Polish and allied Ukrainian offensive that briefly captured Kiev.
- Second Winter Campaign - (1921) - Final campaign of the Ukrainian People's Army.
- Treaty of Riga - (1921) - Treaty that ended the Polish–Soviet War.
Ukrainian People's Republic
- Central Rada - (1917–1918) - Legislature of the Ukrainian People's Republic.
- Free Cossacks - (1917–1918) - Volunteer self-defense militia.
- Sich Riflemen - (1917–1919) - Infantry formation of the Ukrainian People's Republic drawn from Galician volunteers.
- Ukraine after the Russian Revolution - (1917–1921) - Period of competing Ukrainian, Bolshevik and White authorities.
- Ukrainian People's Army - (1917–1921) - Army of the Ukrainian People's Republic.
- Ukrainian People's Republic - (1917–1921) - State proclaimed in the wake of the Russian Revolution.
- 1918 Central Powers occupation of Ukraine - (1918) - Military occupation by German and Austro-Hungarian forces.
- 1918 Ukrainian coup d'état - (1918) - Coup d'état in the Ukrainian People's Republic.
- Directorate of Ukraine - (1918–1920) - Governing committee of the Ukrainian People's Republic.
- Ukrainian Galician Army - (1918–1919) - Army of the West Ukrainian People's Republic.
- Ukrainian Soviet Republic - (1918) - Bolshevik-proclaimed socialist state.
- Ukrainian State - (1918) - Client state of the German Empire under Hetman Skoropadsky.
- West Ukrainian People's Republic - (1918–1919) - Short-lived state in eastern Galicia.
- Ukrainian Death Triangle - (1919) - Military situation at the end of World War I.
- Government of the Ukrainian People's Republic in exile - (1921–1992) - Government in exile.
- Mykhailo Hrushevsky - (1866–1934) - Ukrainian historian and politician.
- Pavlo Skoropadsky - (1873–1945) - Cossack officer who ruled as Hetman of the Ukrainian State.
- Andriy Livytskyi - (1879–1954) - Ukrainian politician, diplomat and lawyer.
- Symon Petliura - (1879–1926) - Ukrainian military leader.
- Volodymyr Vynnychenko - (1880–1951) - Writer and first head of government of the Ukrainian People's Republic.
- Isaak Mazepa - (1884–1952) - Ukrainian politician.
- Mykola Livytskyi - (1907–1989) - Ukrainian-American politician.
- Mykola Plaviuk - (1925–2012) - Ukrainian political activist.
Russian Revolution in Ukraine
- Central Rada - (1917–1918) - Legislature of the Ukrainian People's Republic.
- Crimean People's Republic - (1917–1918) - Self-declared state in Crimea.
- Kiev Bolshevik Uprising - (1917) - Bolshevik uprising in Kiev.
- Ukraine after the Russian Revolution - (1917–1921) - Period of competing Ukrainian, Bolshevik and White authorities.
- Ukrainian People's Republic - (1917–1921) - State proclaimed in the wake of the Russian Revolution.
- Ukrainian People's Republic of Soviets - (1917–1918) - Soviet republic aligned with the Russian SFSR.
- Borotbists - (1918–1920) - Left-wing party of Ukrainian socialist revolutionaries.
- Communist Party of Ukraine (Soviet Union) - (1918–1991) - Ruling party of Soviet Ukraine, banned after independence.
- Crimean Regional Government - (1918–1919) - Successive regimes on the Crimean Peninsula.
- Directorate of Ukraine - (1918–1920) - Governing committee of the Ukrainian People's Republic.
- Free soviets - (1918–1921) - Basic form of organization in the Makhnovshchina.
- Makhnovshchina - (1918–1921) - Ukrainian anarchist movement.
- Odessa Soviet Republic - (1918) - Short-lived Soviet republic centered on Odesa.
- Provisional Workers' and Peasants' Government of Ukraine - (1918–1919) - Bolshevik government set up in opposition to the Directorate.
- Ukrainian Soviet Republic - (1918) - Bolshevik-proclaimed socialist state.
- West Ukrainian People's Republic - (1918–1919) - Short-lived state in eastern Galicia.
- Crimean Socialist Soviet Republic - (1919) - Soviet state in Crimea.
- Regional Congress of Peasants, Workers and Insurgents - (1919–1920) - Decision-making assembly of the Makhnovist movement.
- Ukrainian Soviet Socialist Republic - (1919–1991) - Constituent republic of the Soviet Union.
- Georgy Pyatakov - (1890–1937) - Ukrainian revolutionary and politician.
Ukraine in the Russian Civil War
- Russian Civil War - (1917–1922) - Multi-party war in the former Russian Empire.
- Southern Front of the Russian Civil War - (1917–1921) - Military theater of the Russian Civil War.
- Ukrainian War of Independence - (1917–1921) - Series of conflicts over Ukrainian statehood.
- Ukrainian–Soviet War - (1917–1921) - War between Ukrainian forces and the Bolsheviks.
- Anti-Hetman Uprising - (1918) - Revolt against Hetman Pavlo Skoropadsky.
- Battle of Kruty - (1918) - Battle of the Ukrainian–Soviet War.
- Central Powers intervention in the Russian Civil War - (1918–1920) - German, Austro-Hungarian and Ottoman operations in the former Russian Empire.
- Donetsk–Krivoy Rog Soviet Republic - (1918) - Self-declared Soviet republic in the Donbas.
- Kiev Arsenal January Uprising - (1918) - Bolshevik-organized workers' revolt.
- Makhnovshchina - (1918–1921) - Ukrainian anarchist movement.
- Red Cossacks - (1918–1939) - Bolshevik Cossack military unit.
- Revolutionary Insurgent Army of Ukraine - (1918–1921) - Anarchist army of peasants and workers.
- Ukrainian Soviet Army - (1918–1919) - Bolshevik military formation raised in Ukraine.
- 1919 Soviet invasion of Ukraine - (1919) - Red Army offensive that drove the Directorate from Kiev.
- Battle of Peregonovka - (1919) - Battle of the Russian Civil War.
- Chyhyryn Soviet Republic - (1919) - Short-lived Soviet republic around Chyhyryn.
- Hryhoriv Uprising - (1919) - Anti-Bolshevik revolt led by Otaman Nykyfor Hryhoriv.
- Kholodny Yar Republic - (1919–1922) - Ukrainian partisan state.
- Polish–Soviet War - (1919–1921) - Conflict between Poland and Soviet Russia.
- Ukrainian Death Triangle - (1919) - Military situation at the end of World War I.
- Bolshevik–Makhnovist conflict - (1920–1921) - Falling-out between the Bolsheviks and the Makhnovists.
- Galician Soviet Socialist Republic - (1920) - Bolshevik state in eastern Galicia.
- Nestor Makhno - (1888–1934) - Ukrainian anarchist revolutionary.
- Fedir Shchus - (1893–1921) - Ukrainian anarchist and military commander.
- Semen Karetnyk - (1893–1920) - Ukrainian revolutionary.
Ukrainian Soviet Socialist Republic
- Communist Party of Ukraine (Soviet Union) - (1918–1991) - Ruling party of Soviet Ukraine, banned after independence.
- Emblem of the Ukrainian Soviet Socialist Republic - (1919–1991) - State emblem of the Ukrainian SSR.
- Flag of the Ukrainian Soviet Socialist Republic - (1919–1991) - Flag of the Ukrainian SSR.
- Ukrainian Soviet Socialist Republic - (1919–1991) - Constituent republic of the Soviet Union.
Interwar Soviet Ukraine
- Executed Renaissance - (c. 1920–1938) - Generation of writers and artists destroyed by Stalinist repression.
- 1921–1923 famine in Ukraine - (1921–1923) - Famine in the south brought on by drought and grain requisitioning.
- Ahatanhel Krymsky - (1871–1942) - Ukrainian academic.
- Alexander Dovzhenko - (1894–1956) - Soviet-Ukrainian filmmaker.
- Causes of the Holodomor - (1932–1933) - Debate over collectivization, requisitioning and Soviet policy as causes of the famine.
- Collectivization in the Ukrainian Soviet Socialist Republic - (1928–1933) - Collectivization campaign in Soviet Ukraine.
- Holodomor genocide question - (1932–1933) - Debate over whether the famine amounted to genocide.
- Holodomor - (1932–1933) - Man-made famine in Soviet Ukraine.
- Law of Spikelets - (1932) - Soviet decree on theft of grain from collective farms.
- League of Ukrainian Nationalists - (1925–1929) - Nationalist group that merged into the OUN.
- Les Kurbas - (1887–1937) - Ukrainian theater director.
- Mykola Khvylovy - (1893–1933) - Ukrainian author.
- Ukrainization - (1923–1933) - Soviet policy promoting the Ukrainian language and culture.
- Valerian Pidmohylny - (1901–1937) - Ukrainian novelist.
- Vinnytsia massacre - (1937–1938) - Mass executions carried out by the NKVD near Vinnytsia.
Ukraine in World War II
- Organisation of Ukrainian Nationalists - (1929–1940) - Ukrainian nationalist movement.
- Act of restoration of the Ukrainian state - (1941) - Nationalist proclamation of a Ukrainian state in Lviv.
- Anti-Soviet resistance by the Ukrainian Insurgent Army - (1944–1960) - Nationalist insurgency against the Soviet Union.
- Carpatho-Ukraine - (1938–1939) - Short-lived autonomous region and unrecognized state.
- Dmytro Klyachkivsky - (1911–1945) - Ukrainian Insurgent Army commander.
- Dnieper–Carpathian offensive - (1943–1944) - Soviet offensive that cleared German forces from the right bank.
- Donbas strategic offensive (August 1943) - (1943) - Red Army offensive that retook the Donbas.
- German occupation of Crimea during World War II - (1941–1944) - Axis occupation of the Crimean Peninsula.
- Hungarian invasion of Carpatho-Ukraine - (1939) - Hungarian occupation following the region's declaration of independence.
- Massacres of Poles in Volhynia and Eastern Galicia - (1943–1945) - Massacres of Poles by Ukrainian nationalists.
- Nikopol–Krivoi Rog offensive - (1944) - Soviet offensive in the lower Dnieper region.
- Odessa Offensive - (1944) - Soviet offensive that retook Odesa.
- Reichskommissariat Ukraine - (1941–1944) - German civil administration over the occupied territory.
- Roman Shukhevych - (1907–1950) - Ukrainian nationalist militant.
- Soviet annexation of Eastern Galicia and Volhynia - (1939) - Soviet takeover of Polish-ruled territory under the Molotov–Ribbentrop Pact.
- Soviet occupation of Bessarabia and Northern Bukovina - (1940) - Soviet annexation of territory taken from Romania.
- Stepan Bandera - (1909–1959) - Ukrainian nationalist leader.
- Ukraine in World War II - (1939–1945) - Ukrainian lands under Soviet, German, Romanian and Hungarian rule.
- Ukrainian Insurgent Army - (1942–1949) - Ukrainian nationalist partisan army.
- Vasyl Kuk - (1913–2007) - Ukrainian nationalist activist, militant and academic.
- Young Guard (Soviet resistance) - (1942–1943) - Anti-fascist group in occupied Krasnodon.
The Holocaust and Nazi collaboration
- 14th Waffen Grenadier Division of the SS (1st Galician) - (1943–1945) - Ukrainian division of the Waffen-SS.
- 1941 Odessa massacre - (1941) - Romanian massacre of Jews in occupied Odesa.
- Babi Yar - (1941–1943) - Ravine in Kyiv and site of mass shootings of Jews.
- Bogdanovka concentration camp - (1941–1942) - Romanian concentration camp for Jews in the Transnistria Governorate.
- Ivanhorod Einsatzgruppen photograph - (1942) - Photograph of an Einsatzgruppen killing.
- Nachtigall Battalion - (1941) - German-controlled Ukrainian military unit.
- Roland Battalion - (1941) - Abwehr-formed Ukrainian battalion, counterpart to the Nachtigall Battalion.
- Syrets concentration camp - (1942–1943) - Nazi concentration camp on the outskirts of Kyiv.
- The Holocaust in Ukraine - (1941–1944) - Mass murder of Ukraine's Jews under German and Romanian occupation.
- Ukrainian collaboration with Nazi Germany - (1941–1945) - Collaboration by auxiliaries, officials and military units under occupation.
Postwar Soviet Ukraine
- Population exchange between Poland and Soviet Ukraine - (1944–1946) - Transfers of Poles and Ukrainians across the new postwar border.
- 1979 Dniprodzerzhynsk mid-air collision - (1979) - Mid-air collision that killed everyone aboard both aircraft.
- 1989 Soviet miners' strikes - (1989) - Mass coal-miner strikes in the Donbas and other Soviet basins.
- Anthem of the Ukrainian Soviet Socialist Republic - (1949–1991) - Anthem of the Ukrainian SSR.
- Internationalism or Russification? - (1965) - Book by Ivan Dziuba attacking Soviet nationality policy.
- Kramatorsk radiological accident - (1980–1989) - Radiation exposure caused by a lost caesium capsule sealed in an apartment wall.
- Operation Vistula - (1947) - Forced resettlement of Ukrainians within Poland.
- Repatriation of Poles (1955–1959) - (1955–1959) - Return of Poles from the Soviet Union to Poland.
- Sixtiers - (1950s–1960s) - Generation of Ukrainian writers and dissidents.
- Soviet annexation of Transcarpathia - (1945–1946) - Transfer of Transcarpathia from Czechoslovakia.
- Soviet famine of 1946–1947 in Ukraine - (1946–1947) - Postwar famine caused by drought and continued state grain procurement.
- Transfer of Crimea to Ukraine - (1954) - Territorial transfer within the Soviet Union.
Chernobyl disaster
- Chernobyl Nuclear Power Plant - (1977–2000) - Decommissioned nuclear power plant near Pripyat.
- Chernobyl disaster - (1986) - Nuclear accident at reactor No. 4.
- Chernobyl exclusion zone - (1986–present) - Restricted area around the destroyed reactor.
- Chernobyl Mi-8 helicopter crash - (1986) - Helicopter crash during the cleanup operation.
- Deaths due to the Chernobyl disaster - (1986–present) - Deaths attributed to the accident.
- Effects of the Chernobyl disaster - (1986–present) - Health, environmental and economic consequences of the accident.
- Elephant's Foot (Chernobyl) - (1986–present) - Radioactive mass created during the meltdown.
- Investigations into the Chernobyl disaster - (1986–present) - Soviet and international inquiries into the causes of the accident.
- Outline of the Chernobyl disaster - (1986–present) - Structured index of topics relating to the accident.
- Slavutych - (1986–present) - City built to rehouse workers from the plant.
Post-Soviet independent Ukraine
Independent Ukraine (1989–2014)
- 1989–1991 Ukrainian revolution - (1989–1991) - Mass movement that led to independence.
- 1991 Ukrainian independence referendum - (1991) - Vote approving the Declaration of Independence.
- 1991 Ukrainian presidential election - (1991) - First presidential election of independent Ukraine, won by Leonid Kravchuk.
- Declaration of Independence of Ukraine - (1991) - Act declaring independence from the Soviet Union.
- Declaration of State Sovereignty of Ukraine - (1990) - Resolution of the Verkhovna Rada declaring sovereignty.
- Euromaidan - (2013–2014) - Protests sparked by the government's turn away from the European Union.
- Orange Revolution - (2004–2005) - Protests against a rigged presidential election.
- People's Movement of Ukraine - (1989–present) - Pro-independence organization, later a political party.
- Revolution of Dignity - (2014) - Uprising that ousted President Viktor Yanukovych.
- Revolution on Granite - (1990) - Student hunger strike and protests in Kyiv.
- Ukraine without Kuchma - (2000–2001) - Protest campaign against President Leonid Kuchma.
- Ukrainian involvement in the Iraq War - (2003–2008) - Ukrainian military participation in the Iraq War.
Ukraine since 2014
- Ukraine in the 2026 Iran war - (2026–present) - Ukrainian involvement in the war with Iran.
Russo-Ukrainian war
- 2014 Crimean status referendum - (2014) - Referendum on Crimea's status held under Russian military control.
- 2014 Russian annexation of Crimea - (2014) - Russian seizure and annexation of the Crimean Peninsula.
- Allegations of genocide of Ukrainians in the Russian invasion of Ukraine - (2022–present) - Debate over whether Russian conduct in the invasion amounts to genocide.
- Attacks on civilians in the Russian invasion of Ukraine - (2022–present) - Strikes and other attacks on the civilian population.
- Belarusian involvement in the 2022 Russian invasion of Ukraine - (2022–present) - Use of Belarusian territory and infrastructure to support the invasion.
- Chechen involvement in the 2022 Russian invasion of Ukraine - (2022–present) - Chechen units fighting on both sides of the war.
- Child abductions in the Russo-Ukrainian war - (2014–present) - Deportation and forced transfer of Ukrainian children to Russia and Russian-held territory.
- Outline of the Russo-Ukrainian war - (2014–present) - Structured index of topics relating to the war.
- Prelude to the 2022 Russian invasion of Ukraine - (2021–2022) - Russian military buildup and diplomatic crisis before the full-scale invasion.
- Russian annexation of Donetsk, Kherson, Luhansk and Zaporizhzhia oblasts - (2022) - Russian annexation of four partly occupied oblasts.
- Russo-Ukrainian war (2022–present) - (2022–present) - Full-scale Russian invasion and the war that followed.
- Russo-Ukrainian war - (2014–present) - Ongoing conflict between Russia and Ukraine.
- Sexual violence in the 2022 Russian invasion of Ukraine - (2022–present) - Rape and other sexual violence documented in occupied areas.
- Ukrainian resistance during the 2022 Russian invasion of Ukraine - (2022–present) - Armed and civil resistance under Russian occupation.
- War crimes in the 2022 Russian invasion of Ukraine - (2022–present) - Violations of the laws of war attributed to the belligerents.
- War in Donbas - (2014–2022) - Fighting in the east between Ukraine and Russian-backed forces.
People
- Stepan Bandera - (1909–1959) - Ukrainian nationalist leader.
- Alexander Dovzhenko - (1894–1956) - Soviet-Ukrainian filmmaker.
- Mykhailo Hrushevsky - (1866–1934) - Ukrainian historian and politician.
- Semen Karetnyk - (1893–1920) - Ukrainian revolutionary.
- Mykola Khvylovy - (1893–1933) - Ukrainian author.
- Dmytro Klyachkivsky - (1911–1945) - Ukrainian Insurgent Army commander.
- Ahatanhel Krymsky - (1871–1942) - Ukrainian academic.
- Vasyl Kuk - (1913–2007) - Ukrainian nationalist activist, militant and academic.
- Les Kurbas - (1887–1937) - Ukrainian theater director.
- Andriy Livytskyi - (1879–1954) - Ukrainian politician, diplomat and lawyer.
- Mykola Livytskyi - (1907–1989) - Ukrainian-American politician.
- Nestor Makhno - (1888–1934) - Ukrainian anarchist revolutionary.
- Isaak Mazepa - (1884–1952) - Ukrainian politician.
- Symon Petliura - (1879–1926) - Ukrainian military leader.
- Valerian Pidmohylny - (1901–1937) - Ukrainian novelist.
- Mykola Plaviuk - (1925–2012) - Ukrainian political activist.
- Georgy Pyatakov - (1890–1937) - Ukrainian revolutionary and politician.
- Fedir Shchus - (1893–1921) - Ukrainian anarchist and military commander.
- Roman Shukhevych - (1907–1950) - Ukrainian nationalist militant.
- Pavlo Skoropadsky - (1873–1945) - Cossack officer who ruled as Hetman of the Ukrainian State.
- Volodymyr Vynnychenko - (1880–1951) - Writer and first head of government of the Ukrainian People's Republic.
Topical
Famines in Ukraine
- 1921–1923 famine in Ukraine - (1921–1923) - Famine in the south brought on by drought and grain requisitioning.
- Causes of the Holodomor - (1932–1933) - Debate over collectivization, requisitioning and Soviet policy as causes of the famine.
- Holodomor genocide question - (1932–1933) - Debate over whether the famine amounted to genocide.
- Holodomor - (1932–1933) - Man-made famine in Soviet Ukraine.
- Law of Spikelets - (1932) - Soviet decree on theft of grain from collective farms
Chernobyl disaster
- See section above on Chernobyl
Ukraine history-related lists
- List of wars involving Ukraine - (830s–present)
- Chronology of Ukrainian language suppression actions - (1620–present) - Official measures restricting the use of the Ukrainian language.
- Historical regions in present-day Ukraine - Historic territories including Galicia, Volhynia, Podolia and Sloboda Ukraine.
- List of aviation shootdowns and accidents during the Russo-Ukrainian war - (2014–present)
- List of Black Sea incidents involving Russia and Ukraine - (1994–2019)
- List of Heroes of Ukraine - (1998–present) - Recipients of the country's highest state honor.
- List of invasions and occupations of Ukraine - (1450–present)
- List of massacres in Ukraine - (1240–present)
- List of military engagements during the 2022 Russian invasion of Ukraine - (2022–present)
- List of ship losses during the Russo-Ukrainian war - (2014–present)
- Outline of the Chernobyl disaster - (1986–present) - Structured index of topics relating to the accident.
Timelines
- Timeline of the Russian annexation of Crimea - (2014) - Chronology of the Russian seizure and annexation of Crimea.
- Timeline of the war in Donbas - (2014–2022) - Chronology of the fighting in the east before the full-scale invasion.
- Timeline of the prelude to the Russian invasion of Ukraine - (2021–2022) - Chronology of the military buildup and diplomatic crisis before the invasion.
- Timeline of the Russo-Ukrainian war (2022–present) - (2022–present) - Index to the periodized timelines of the full-scale war.
- Timeline of the Russo-Ukrainian war (24 February – 7 April 2022)
- Timeline of the Russo-Ukrainian war (8 April – 28 August 2022)
- Timeline of the Russo-Ukrainian war (29 August – 11 November 2022)
- Timeline of the Russo-Ukrainian war (12 November 2022 – 7 June 2023)
- Timeline of the Russo-Ukrainian war (8 June 2023 – 31 August 2023)
- Timeline of the Russo-Ukrainian war (1 September – 30 November 2023)
- Timeline of the Russo-Ukrainian war (1 December 2023 – 31 March 2024)
- Timeline of the Russo-Ukrainian war (1 April – 31 July 2024)
- Timeline of the Russo-Ukrainian war (1 August – 31 December 2024)
- Timeline of the Russo-Ukrainian war (1 January 2025 – 31 May 2025)
- Timeline of the Russo-Ukrainian war (1 June 2025 – 31 August 2025)
- Timeline of the Russo-Ukrainian war (1 September 2025 – 31 December 2025)
- Timeline of the Russo-Ukrainian war (1 January 2026 – 31 May 2026)
- Timeline of the Russo-Ukrainian war (1 June 2026 – present)
Historiography of Ukraine
- Holodomor genocide question - (1932–1933) - Debate over whether the famine amounted to genocide.
- Historiography of the massacres of Poles in Volhynia and Eastern Galicia - (1943–1945) - Historiographical debate over the massacres of Poles.
Works about Ukrainian history
History books
- Internationalism or Russification? - (1965) - Book by Ivan Dziuba attacking Soviet nationality policy.
- East West Street - (2016) - Book by Philippe Sands on Hersch Lauterpacht, Raphael Lemkin and the origins of genocide and crimes against humanity.
- Handbook on the history of Ukraine - Multi-volume encyclopedic reference on Ukrainian history.
- History of Ukraine-Rusʹ - (1895–1933) - Ten-volume monographic series by Mykhailo Hrushevsky, covering antiquity to the later 17th century.
- Kyiv: An Encyclopedic Handbook - (1981) - First universal encyclopedic reference work on Kyiv.
- Makhno and Memory - (2020) - Study by Sean Patterson of competing Makhnovist and Mennonite narratives of the civil war.
- Sketches from a Secret War - (2005) - Book by Timothy Snyder on interwar Poland and Soviet Ukraine through the life of Henryk Józewski.
- The Anarchism of Nestor Makhno, 1918–1921 - (1976) - Study of Nestor Makhno by Michael Palij.
- The Lemberg Mosaic - Account of the destruction of Jewish Lemberg by Jakob Weiss, built around two survivors' memoirs.
- Ukraine: A History - (1988) - Survey of Ukrainian history by Orest Subtelny.
Books about the Holodomor
- Bloodlands - (2010) - Book by Timothy Snyder.
- The Harvest of Sorrow - (1986) - Book by Robert Conquest.
- Holodomor: The Unknown Ukrainian Tragedy (1932–1933) - (2013) - Book coordinated by José Eduardo Franco and Beata Cieszynska.
- Red Famine - (2017) - Book by Anne Applebaum.
Primary sources
- Hypatian Codex - Manuscript.
- Brief Description of Little Russia - (1730s) - Ukrainian chronicle by an anonymous author.
- Chernihiv Chronicle - (17th century–18th century) - Work of Cossack chronicle writing.
- Chronicle of the Grand Duchy of Lithuania, Ruthenia and Samogitia - (1520s) - Second redaction of the Belarusian–Lithuanian Chronicles, written in Ruthenian among the aristocracy of Vilnius.
- Description of Ukraine - (1651) - Account of Ukraine by the French engineer and cartographer Guillaume Le Vasseur de Beauplan, who served Władysław IV Vasa.
- Eyewitness Chronicle - (17th century) - One of the three Cossack chronicles and a fundamental source on the Khmelnytsky Uprising and The Ruin.
- History of the Ruthenians - (c. 1800) - Anonymous historico-political treatise that shaped Ukrainian national identity.
- The History of the Zaporizhian Cossacks (Myshetsky) - (18th century) - Account of the Sich and the Zaporozhian Cossacks.
- Hrabianka Chronicle - (17th century–18th century) - Cossack chronicle compiled by polkovnyk Hryhorii Hrabianka of the Hadiach Regiment.
- Huklyv Chronicle - (1660–c. 1812) - Transcarpathian chronicle written in a wooden church near the village of Huklyvyi.
- Hustyn Chronicle - (17th century) - Church Slavonic chronicle of Ukrainian history to 1598.
- Kresowa księga sprawiedliwych - Collection of testimony on Ukrainians who sheltered Poles during the massacres in Volhynia, published by the Institute of National Remembrance.
- Novhorod-Siverskyi Chronicle - (18th century) - Landmark of Ukrainian historical thought covering the years 706 to 1760.
- Praise to Vytautas - (15th century) - Panegyric to Vytautas the Great and an early work of Ruthenian secular prose.
- Samiilo Velychko Chronicle - (c. 1720) - Cossack chronicle of the years 1620 to 1700 by the clerk Samiilo Velychko.
- Volyn Short Chronicle - (16th century) - Lithuanian chronicle in Ruthenian, part of the Supraśl Manuscript.