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Ukraine Named 100 Great Ukrainians
by Marina Pristinskaya
Ukrainian TV channel leads the “Velykiye Ukraintsi” project. Through voting each Ukrainian citizen has a chance to choose the figure, which is considered to be the Great Ukrainian.
100 outstanding Ukrainians are the historical or nowadays figures, writers, politicians, scientists, sportsmen, etc. Similar project the “Great Britons” was already accomplished in Great Britain.
The first stage of the project “Great Ukrainian” was finished and chosen the hundred of the Great Ukrainians. The whole list of great Ukrainians is disclosed through TV programs and documentary movies about each contender.
The first ten Great Ukrainians
 1. Yaroslav The Wise (983-1054)
The Great Kievan Prince, outstanding politician.
Kievan Rus reached the highest point of development and became a powerful European State with his contribution.
St. Sophia Cathedral, Golden Gates, Georgiyevsky Cathedral were found in the time of Yaroslav the Wise. The first collection of Rules and the first library started its work under his guidance.
 2. Nikolay Amosov (1913-2002)
A scientist and a doctor, who brought his contribution into the sphere of surgery, heart and lung diseases.
Amosov performed gullet-lungs and heart surgeries under the threat of near death and under such conditions, when nobody else could have performed them. He saved thousands of lives.
Amosov formulated a hypothesis on the information processing mechanisms of the human brain, published in 1965, which for a couple of decades became the bible for several generations of Department's researchers (and not only for them). His ideas were put forward in his book "Modeling of Thinking and of the Mind ".
 3. Stepan Bandera (1909-1959)
A politician, Ukrainian Nationalist leader who headed the Organization of Ukrainian Nationalists (OUN), during World War II was interned in Nazi concentration camp; murdered by a KGB agent in Munich.
 4. Taras Shevchenko (1814-1861)
Ukrainian poet, writer and painter.
His literary heritage is regarded to be the foundation of modern Ukrainian literature and the modern Ukrainian language. Shevchenko's poetry contributed greatly to the growth of Ukrainian national consciousness, and his influence on various facets of Ukrainian intellectual, literary, and national life is still felt to this day.
There are many monuments and museums to Shevchenko throughout Ukraine, most notably at his memorial in Kaniv and in the center of Kiev. The Streets and Parks, Metro station and University, named by the name of Taras Shevchenko.
 5. Bohdan Khmelnytsky (1595-1657)
A hetman of the Zaporozhian Cossacks.
With the goal of creating an independent Ukrainian state Khmelnytsky made the uprising against the Polish-Lithuanian magnates. He concluded the Treaty with of Russia, Ukraine was put under the rule of Russian Empire and later became a part of the Soviet Union.
His role in the events of Ukraine and his actions are viewed differently by the contemporaries, so there are quite opposing views on his legacy. But obviously he shaped future of Ukraine and significantly changed the balance of power in Eastern Europe.
 6. Valery Lobanovsky (1939-2002)
Head Ukrainian football coach.
Lobanovsky is most famous for his spells managing the Ukraine national football team- Dynamo Kyiv, and the USSR national football team.
Under his managing Dynamo Kyie won 8 times the champion place in the USSR and won the European Championship. He was famous for both his highly scientific and harsh disciplinarian approaches to management.
 7. Vyacheslav Chornovil (1937-1999)
Ukrainian politician, Soviet time dissident and journalist.
A long-time advocate of Ukrainian independence, he was one of the most prominent political figures of the 1990s in newly independent Ukraine. He was pursued for his ”anti-Soviet propaganda".
 8. Hrygorii Skovoroda (1722-1794)
Free thinking philosopher, teacher and poet,
Skovoroda is an ancestor of the Ukrainian classical philosophy, whose book "Kharkov Fables" became a part of Ukrainian literary heritage. The philosopher led a life of an itinerant thinker-beggar. In his tracts and dialogs, biblical problems overlap with those examined earlier by Plato and the Stoics.
 9. Lesya Ukrainka (1871-1913)
One of the best woman poet and writer in Ukrainian literature, leader of the Ukrainian nation movement.
She has enriched the Ukrainian poetry with new themes and motives Ukrainka called for struggle, to clearing of the Ukrainian people from the Moscow bondage.
 10. Ivan Franko (1856-1916)
Ukrainian poet, writer, social and literary critic, journalist and political activist.
Franko was a political radical, and a founder of the socialist movement in western Ukraine.
One of the first realists in the Ukrainian literature, created in a genre of political poetry, the public lyrics and the children’s literature. Besides his own literary work, he also translated the works from 14 languages into the Ukrainian language.
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