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Event · 1917–1917
The Battle of Zborov took place on 1–2 July 1917 (the main fighting was on 2 July) near the town of Zboriv in Galicia, now in Ternopil Oblast, Ukraine. The Czechoslovak Riflemen Brigade, serving in the Russian army during the Kerensky…
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Event · 1868–1947
The Volhynian Czechs are descendants of emigrants from Bohemia and Moravia who, from 1868 (earlier according to some sources), bought land in the Volhynia Governorate of the Russian Empire and founded Czech villages with schools…
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Person · 1883–1923
The Czech writer Jaroslav Hašek (1883–1923), author of The Good Soldier Švejk, was captured by the Russians at Chorupany near Dubno in Volhynia on 24 September 1915, joined the Czechoslovak units and lived and worked in Kyiv from 1916 to…
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Person · 1895–1979
The Czechoslovak general and later president Ludvík Svoboda (1895–1979) commanded the first Czechoslovak battalion in the USSR, which fought at the village of Sokolovo in the Kharkiv region in March 1943. In autumn 1943 the 1st…
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Person · 1867–1916
The Czech violin maker František Špidlen (1867–1916) worked from 1886 in Kyiv in the workshop of his compatriot Jindřich Jindříšek, and in 1895, according to Czech Wikipedia, obtained his own trade licence there. The Encyclopedia of Modern…
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Person · 1847–1927
The Czech opera singer (tenor), director and teacher Antonín Barcal (1847–1927) won an engagement with the Kyiv opera company after concerts in Russia in 1870. According to the Czech Theatre Encyclopedia he toured with the Kyiv company to…
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Person · 1858–1920
Theodor (Fedir) Hejda (1858–1920), a native of Plzeň, was a teacher and Orthodox priest among the Czechs of Volhynia. According to Czech Wikipedia he became a priest in Kvasyliv in 1889 and on 16 April that year began holding services in…
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Person · 1853–1929
The Czech mechanical engineer and politician Ferdinand Vitáček (1853–1929) worked in Kyiv from the 1880s until 1912: according to Czech Wikipedia he arrived in 1880 to build a branch of a works, and in 1896 became director of the First…
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Person · 1865–1931
The conductor of Czech origin Jan Palice, known as Ivan Osipovych Palytsyn (1865–1931), studied at the Kyiv Music School with the violinist Otakar Ševčík. In 1901–1906 he was chief conductor of the newly built Kyiv Opera House, where in…
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Person · 1852–1934
The Czech violinist and teacher Otakar Ševčík (1852–1934) taught violin from 1875 to 1892 at the music school of the Kyiv branch of the Russian Musical Society. According to Ukrainian Wikipedia he had briefly worked at the Kharkiv music…
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Organisation · 1919–2026
Charita Česká republika (Caritas Czech Republic) is a Catholic charitable organisation founded in 1919 by the Czech Bishops' Conference; it consists of ten legal entities and hundreds of city and parish charities. After the 2022 invasion…
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Person · 1964
Petr Fiala (born 1 September 1964 in Brno) is a Czech political scientist and politician, Prime Minister of the Czech Republic in 2021–2025 and former rector of Masaryk University. On 15 March 2022 he travelled by train to Kyiv with the…
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Project · 2024–2026
The ammunition initiative is a project that Czechia has coordinated since February 2024: the Czech side finds and buys artillery shells outside Europe, and other states pay for them (notably the Netherlands, Denmark, Canada and Norway).…
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Project · 2022–2026
Dárek pro Putina (Gift for Putin) is a Czech public fundraiser launched in spring 2022 by businessman Dalibor Dědek and now run by Nadační fond pro Ukrajinu (the Foundation for Ukraine). The money buys military and civilian equipment for…
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Organisation · 1992–2026
The Czech humanitarian and human-rights organisation Člověk v tísni (People in Need) has existed since 1992. It has helped in Ukraine since 2014 (home repairs, water, psychosocial support), and after the full-scale invasion of February…
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Person · 1961
Petr Pavel (born 1 November 1961 in Planá) is the fourth President of the Czech Republic, a retired army general, former Chief of the General Staff of the Czech Armed Forces (2012–2015) and Chair of the NATO Military Committee (2015–2018).…
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Person · 1912–1943
The Czechoslovak officer Otakar Jaroš commanded a company that defended the village of Sokolovo in March 1943 and fell there on 8 March 1943. He was posthumously made a Hero of the Soviet Union; his memory is kept in Sokolovo and Kharkiv.…
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Person · 1874–1967
Josef Girsa was born in Shepetivka into a Czech family and until 1917 managed estates and enterprises in the Russian Empire, including in the Podolia, Kyiv and Chernihiv governorates. On 28 June 1921 he headed the Czechoslovak trade…
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Person · 1882–1952
The Czech writer Ivan Olbracht often stayed in Subcarpathian Rus in 1931–1936, settled in Koločava and wrote the reportage Země bez jména (1932), the novel Nikola Šuhaj loupežník (1933) and other works about the region. According to Czech…
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Person · 1857–1924
The businessman Jindřich Jindříšek worked in Kyiv from the early 1880s, where he opened a music-instrument shop, chaired the Czech Jan Amos Komenský society and the Kyiv Czech committee and supported the Czechoslovak movement. After the…
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Person · 1875–1954
Václav Girsa was born in Shepetivka into a family of Volhynian Czechs, studied in Kamianets-Podilskyi and from 1902 or 1903 worked as a physician in Kyiv. During the First World War he was a member of the Kyiv Czech Committee, set up a…
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Person · 1812–1871
The Prague writer, historian and geographer Karel Vladislav Zap worked as a civil servant in Lviv from 1836 and, according to the Encyclopedia of Ukraine, studied Ukrainian history, ethnography and literature, knew figures of the Galician…
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Person · 1865–1944
The Czech archaeologist, Slavist and ethnologist Lubor Niederle, author of Slavic Antiquities, according to the Encyclopedia of Modern Ukraine proposed the Vistula-Dnieper theory of the Slavic homeland, visited Kyiv in 1893 and 1899 and…
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Person · 1872–1945
The Czech pianist and teacher Vilém Kurz moved to Lviv in 1898 at the invitation of the Galician Music Society and taught at its conservatory until 1919; Ukrainian pianists were among his students. He later worked in Brno and Prague, where…
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Person · 1855–1937
The Czech conductor, composer and teacher Josef Přibík conducted at opera theatres in Kharkiv, Lviv and Kyiv and, from 1894, in Odesa, where he became a conservatory professor in 1919. According to the Encyclopedia of Modern Ukraine he…
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Place · 2007–2026
Gopak is a grocery shop at Komunardů 1129/27 in Prague’s Holešovice district, listing Ukrainian and Caucasian products. A directory gives business ID 27911471. The direct ARES record was checked on 2 November 2026, but its connection with…
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Place · 2026–2026
Pampuška is listed in 2026 as a Ukrainian bistro and grocery venue at Boleslavova 474/17 in Prague’s Nusle district. Waze, foodora and Wolt consistently list the address. Some provider URLs retain the older label Louskáček, which does not…
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Place · 2023–2026
TaTyŠo was a Ukrainian bistro at Zelená 744/4 in Prague’s Bubeneč district. A 2023 interview dates its opening to early that year. In 2026 its directory entry is marked inactive, while the same premises list a Japanese restaurant, EBISU.…
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Place · 2022–2026
Bistro Soloha is a Ukrainian bistro currently listed at Jana Masaryka 326/36 in Prague and associated with Smakolyky s.r.o., company ID 17569940. Operator posts from August 2024 refer to a second branch and also to Panská 1. The present…
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Place · 2020–2026
The Boršč is a Ukrainian dining venture in Prague operated by The Borsch s.r.o. (business ID 09739017). In 2026 it lists a restaurant at Dukelských hrdinů 967/10 in Holešovice, distinct from the company’s registered office. Reports about…
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Event · 2023–2027
Měsíc Ukrajiny 2026 was the fourth Ukrainian cultural and theatre festival presented by Městská divadla pražská between 24 February and 24 March 2026. Its announced programme featured Ukrainian theatre, Kharkiv-focused art, discussion and…
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Event · 2016–2026
Holešovická tržnice advertised Vyshyvanka Day on its Tržní náměstí for 21 May 2026, 11:00–22:00, with music, dance, workshops, a craft market and community activity. Its event notice names the Archetyp association and OPU as collaborators.…
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Event · 2026–2026
The third Ukrainian Culture Festival was advertised for 16 August 2026 outside Cross Club in Prague-Holešovice. Its organizer’s website gave 11:00–21:00, whereas the venue’s calendar lists an end time of 04:00 the following day; those…
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Event · 1944–2017
The remains of Ukrainian poet Oleksandr Oles (Kandyba) and his wife Vira were reburied in Kyiv on 29 January 2017 after transfer from Prague. Ukraine’s government had issued order 33-r on 18 January, and the Czech Embassy reported a…
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Event · 1925–2025
The US air raid on Prague on 14 February 1945 severely damaged the building of the Museum of the Ukrainian Liberation Struggle in Nusle. Historical accounts by Mykola Mushynka and later researchers describe deaths, damage and the salvage…
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Event · 1925–1934
R0105 addresses conflicting classifications of the founding congresses of the Union of Ukrainian Émigré Plast Scouts (SUPÉ), whose institution is already catalogued separately as R0048. A Plast historical account reports the first Prague…
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Event · 1925–2025
R0104 is the foundation event of Prague’s Museum of the Ukrainian Liberation Struggle in May 1925. Ukrainian Free University academics, notably art historian Dmytro Antonovych, were closely associated with the initiative. A historical…
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Event · 1922–1938
R0103 distinguishes stages in the 1922 foundation of the Ukrainian Economic Academy at Poděbrady. Historical studies describe 22 April as the practical commencement of activities; the Ukrainian Institute of National Memory identifies 28…
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Event · 1920–1945
The Ukrainian Free University was established in Vienna early in 1921 and moved its academic activities to Prague after its first semester. The university’s institutional history and Czech National Library materials support an autumn 1921…
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Event · 1917–2020
Following the upheavals of 1917–1921, interwar Czechoslovakia became a major centre of Ukrainian émigré education and culture. The state-sponsored Russian Assistance Action launched in 1921 helped establish a network of schools, research…
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Event · 1917–2026
The Prague School of Ukrainian Poetry is a retrospective literary label for an informal network of interwar Ukrainian émigré writers, including Yevhen Malaniuk, Yurii Darahan, Oleh Olzhych, and Olena Teliha. Although strongly connected to…
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Work · 1902–2005
Seven Letters (1937) is Natalia Livytska-Kholodna’s second poetry collection, issued in Warsaw by the Ukrainian émigré press Variah. The title evokes the seven letters of the Ukrainian word for Ukraine, and literary criticism reads the…
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Work · 1902–2026
Fire and Ashes (1934) is the first poetry collection by Natalia Livytska-Kholodna, published in Warsaw by the Ukrainian émigré publisher Variah. Its modernist love poetry provoked diverging contemporary reactions and is now studied in…
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Work · 1899–2020
Stephanos I is a Prague poetry collection by Ukrainian émigré Oleksa Stefanovych, issued by Dniprovi Porohy. A surviving library copy is catalogued as 79 pages plus one unnumbered page. Its date remains unresolved: scholarly references…
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Work · 1918–2026
Earth and Iron is Yevhen Malaniuk's third poetry collection, published in Paris by Tryzub in 1930. It reflects the upheavals of Ukraine's struggle for independence and belongs to the author's transnational literary career rooted in…
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Work · 1917–2023
*Stylet i stylos* is Yevhen Malaniuk’s first poetry collection, published in Poděbrady in 1925 by a publisher named “Kyiv.” A library catalogue records 47 pages and poems from 1923–1924. “Kyiv” in the imprint is the publisher’s name, not…
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Work · 1989–2026
Porohy is a Ukrainian cultural and political magazine associated with the Ukrainian Initiative in the Czech Republic. Its own websites give both 1993 and 1994 as a starting year, requiring verification against the first issue. The magazine…
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Work · 1924–2026
Suspilstvo (La société) was a scholarly collection issued by the Ukrainian Institute of Social Sciences in Prague under the editorship of Mykyta Shapoval between 1925 and 1927. Three physical volumes incorporated paired book numbers I–II…
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Work · 1927–2026
Rozbudova natsii was a Ukrainian political periodical published in Prague between 1928 and 1934 as the organ of the Leadership of Ukrainian Nationalists. Czech library holdings and Ukrainian archival inventories identify individual volumes…
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Work · 1923–2026
Proceedings of the Ukrainian Historical-Philological Society in Prague comprise five documented volumes issued in 1926, 1939, 1941, 1942 and 1944. The series preserves a major record of Ukrainian émigré scholarship. A catalogue description…
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Work · 1926–1996
Knyholiub was a Ukrainian bibliographic and book-history periodical published in Prague in 1927–1932 by the Ukrainian Society of Friends of the Book. Its short-run issues connected Ukrainian émigré scholarship with Czech librarianship.…
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Work · 1922–2026
Nova Ukraina was a Prague-based Ukrainian political and cultural periodical issued from 1922 to 1928. Initially fortnightly, it became a monthly publication in 1923. Its shifting editorial board and diverse contributors make issue-level…
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Work · 1922–2023
*Sahaidak* is a poetry collection by Yurii Darahan, published in Prague in 1925 by the Ukrainian Civic Publishing Fund. A library record identifies the volume as Book One, containing poems from 1922–1924 and comprising 64 pages. Recent…
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Work · 1840–2026
The two-volume Prague edition of Taras Shevchenko's Kobzar bears the imprint year 1876, although its first volume was printed in late 1875. Ukrainian editors and organizers including Sofiia and Oleksandr Rusov and Fedir Vovk worked with…
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Place · 1347–2026
The historic premises of Charles University connect medieval Prague with Ukrainian academic life in interwar Czechoslovakia. The university was founded in 1348, while the Carolinum became its central historic site in the 1380s. Ukrainian…
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Place · 1232–2026
The Klementinum is a historic library and architectural complex in central Prague, whose Jesuit construction began in 1556. It now houses the Czech National Library. Of particular importance for Czech–Ukrainian heritage is the Slavonic…
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Place · 1088–2026
Nusle is a historical Prague district and cadastral territory. A municipal encyclopedia records an earliest written reference in 1088, elevation to town status in 1898, and incorporation into Greater Prague on 1 January 1922. Most of the…
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Place · 1925–2025
Řevnice is a Czech town closely associated with the Ukrainian secondary school established in Prague in 1925 and located in Řevnice approximately from 1927/1928 to 1937. Czech library and local sources date the transfer to 1927, while a…
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Place · 2023–2026
Fingerova 2181/9 in Prague’s Stodůlky district is the registered seat of Plast – ukrajinská skautská organizace v České republice, z.s., registration number 19929307. A public registry notice records its registration on 9 December 2023 and…
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Place · 2026–2026
Ukrainian School No. 1 in Prague lists Štěpánská 568/10 in New Town as its contact location, and describes itself as a full-day school using a Ukrainian curriculum. Its legal operator, dates of occupation, premises agreements and…