Krynytsya (The Well), your wellspring for Ukraine and Ukrainians

British post-punk musicians Peter Solowka and Len Liggins founded the folk-rock group The Ukrainians in Leeds, England, in 1991. They have produced and played more than 150 distinctly unique tracks and several albums since then and traveled to perform in concerts in many places including the UK, Canada, Poland and Ukraine. https://www.the-ukrainians.com/

Here are three of their music videos.

Cherez Richku, Cherez Hai (Across the River and through the Meadow)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LYqiydP1Ox0&feature=youtu.be&t=110

This is a song written by The Ukrainians in 1991. It features the choir "Volya" from Manchester, England.

Souveniry (Souvenirs)

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6bQWiIH0k78

from their "Diaspora" album

Zvidky Vy? (Where Are You From?)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gPPogHlXNU4

from their most recent studio album "Summer in Lviv"

Prof. Thomas Prymak, Research Associate at the Chair of Ukrainian Studies, the University of Toronto, discusses the origin and history of Ukrainian and Slavic surnames. For additional background about him: https://utoronto.academia.edu/TPrymak.

An interview with Val Bogattchouk, the CEO of Nova UA federal credit union headquartered in Clifton, N.J. Since the 1960's Nova UA (originally Self-Reliance) has offered banking and other financial services to the local Ukrainian-American community in the Clifton-Passaic area of New Jersey. It has also actively supported various community cultural and social institutions. https://novafcu.com/

Uliana Skits'ka is a Ukrainian broadcast journalist based in Lviv. She started her journalism career in 2014 working at “24 News channel” preparing the infotainment programs “Made in Ukraine” and “Ours”. For these programs she researched biographies of people of Ukrainian descent. The result of this work was a book "#Ours on the world map" ("#НАШІ на карті світу"). The book covers 80 Ukrainians or people of Ukrainian descent who are well known or in some cases unknown. Her profiles include American filmmaker Steven Spielberg, former New York City mayor Ed Koch and 19th century Ukrainian painter Ilya Repin among others. Uliana discusses her book and journalism career.

Christian Raffensperger is professor of history at Wittenberg University in Springfield, Ohio, and an associate with the Harvard Ukrainian Research Institute (HURI). He discusses his scholarly exploration of dynastic relations in Kyivan Rus' and the impact on genealogy for Ukraine and Eastern and Western Europe. The Harvard University Ukrainian Research Institute's Rus' Genealogy Project. http://gis.huri.harvard.edu/historical-atlas/rus-genealogy.html

Anatoli Sienczenko is President of the New Kuban Education Welfare Association in Buena Vista, New Jersey. He is also the ataman of the New Kuban Kozaks. He tells the story of the Kuban Kozaks and how his family emigrated to the U.S. and to this southern New Jersey community of Kozaks and their descendants.

British Ukrainian journalist Askold Krushelnycky talks about his family history and his 40-year career as a journalist. He is currently the U.S. correspondent for the Kyiv Post. He is also the author of the 2006 book, “An Orange Revolution – A Personal Journey Through Ukrainian History”. https://www.kyivpost.com/author/askoldyk?cn-reloaded=1

Chicago expat Areta Kovalsky who now lives and works in Lviv, Ukraine, talks about her experiences and discusses her Galicia history web site Forgotten Galicia. https://forgottengalicia.com/

Roman Brygider is the producer and director of the documentary film

"Our Ukrainian American Legacy". He talks about his own Ukrainian

ancestry and why he decided to make a documentary film about the

Ukrainian-American community.

Nazar Danylkiv, Director of the UCU School of Ukrainian Language and Culture School, and Maryana Burak, its Academic Director, talk about how this popular program was founded, who its students are and current course and cultural activity offerings. https://studyukrainian.org.ua/