Music:

Prialia by Mykola Leontovych

Platon Maiboroda Academic Choir, UA: Ukrainian Radio

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Tavern Loop One by Alexander Nakarada | https://www.serpentsoundstudios.com

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Shelter Song by Alexander Nakarada | https://www.serpentsoundstudios.com

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Red Forest by Arthur Vyncke | https://soundcloud.com/arthurvost 

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In this episode we talk about the competion of Khazars and Vikings over the Slavic tribal unions in Dnieper region, foundation of Kyiv and its unification with Novhorod by Varangian prince Oleh in 882, which marked creation of the Kyivan Rus.

Episode researches first mentions of Slavs, reveals their role in the Migration Period and Great Slavic Settlement. It describes mostly the first half of the first millenium AD, when the territory of Ukraine became the arena of struggle between Slavic and Turkic people.

Episode describes the domination of nomadic tribes in Ukrainian lands during Bronze Age and Early Iron Age (II millenium BC - III century AD). It reveales role of Cimmerians, Scythians, Sarmatians, as well as Greeks and Romans in the history of Ukraine.

Pictures:

Golden Pectoral: https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/3/3b/Pektoral111.JPG

Videos:

Scythians and Sarmatians of ancient Ukraine: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jkeWai9hzog

Texts:

Introducing the Scythians: https://blog.britishmuseum.org/introducing-the-scythians/

Maps:

Location of Royal Scythian Mounds: https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/0/0a/Scythian_capital_and_royal_kurgans.png

Articles about genetics of nomads:

Shifts in the Genetic Landscape of the Western Eurasian Steppe Associated with the Beginning and End of the Scythian Dominance https://www.cell.com/current-biology/fulltext/S0960-9822(19)30712-2?_returnURL=https%3A%2F%2Flinkinghub.elsevier.com%2Fretrieve%2Fpii%2FS0960982219307122%3Fshowall%3Dtrue

History of Ukraine from appearance of the first man to the decline of Trypillian civilisation (mid-third millenium BC).

Additional materials on Trypillian culture.

Videos:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Gq5IrsWVQAs

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AgY4SMheKlY

Maps:

https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/b/bc/Cucuteni-Tripol%27ye_Culture_Outline_Map.png/657px-Cucuteni-Tripol%27ye_Culture_Outline_Map.png

Pictures: 

https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/2/2c/Trypillian_city_%28Maydanets%29.jpg

https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/1/10/Talianki_%28Trypillian_city%29.jpg

Articles:

http://www.encyclopediaofukraine.com/display.asp?linkpath=pages%5CT%5CR%5CTrypilianculture.htm

https://www.messynessychic.com/2020/04/23/what-made-these-forgotten-ancients-build-glorious-cities-only-to-burn-them-every-60-years/