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Wandering the Edge
A Podcast about Ukrainian History with a Spot of Travel
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Listen to Wandering the Edge, a History podcast by Larysa Zariczniak. Stream 110 episodes in English, follow new audio stories, and play episodes online on Radio and Podcast.
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Odesa - Ukraine's Misunderstood Coastal Capital
Did Catherine the Great found Odesa? No, it's been around for centuries and is far more European than it is Russian! So what other myths sur...
Boychukists - the Avant-Garde's of Ukrainian Modernism
What does Lufthansa, Picasso and the Ukrainian Foreign Affairs Building have in common? They all have links to Mykhailo Boychuk - Ukraine's...
Lviv - the Gateway to Ukraine
While officially founded in 1256, Lviv has been around since the 5th century. It's importance to Ukrainian history has been due to its trade...
The United Nations and Ukraine
Ukraine was a founding member of the United Nations. It really didn't do much when the Soviet Union was around, but since 1991 it has been o...
Kharkiv - a Very Cossack City
Kharkiv is Ukraine's second city - second largest, second populous but certainly not the so-called "young city" that Soviet myths like to fa...
Ukraine and the Soviet-Afghan War
The Soviet-Afghan War begin in 1979 and lasted almost ten years. Ukrainians made up of 25% of the Soviet Armed Forces while it fought in Afg...
The History of Kyiv
When did the capital of Ukraine become established? How many myths are associated with it's founding? Who actually founded it because there...
The First and Last Hetman of Ukraine
Dmytro Vyshnevetsky "Baida" was the first Hetman of Ukraine in the 16th century. Kirillo Razumovsky was the last Hetman of Ukraine in the 18...
Etched in Memory - an Interview with Christina Paschyn about the Crimean Tatars
In the 100th episode of Wandering the Edge, Christina Paschyn, director and producer of Etched in Memory discusses the complicated history o...
The History of Ukrainian Money!
The modern Ukrainian currency is the hryvnia, but it is older than Russia! What was the hryvnia and how did it come to be Ukraine's currency...
Ukrainian Displaced Person's Camps
There were thousands of Ukrainians who refused to be repatriated back to the Soviet Union after the end of the Second World War in Europe. T...
The Ukrainian Helsinki Group
The Ukrainian Helsinki Group was filled with varied dissident Ukrainians who wanted Ukrainian independence, self determination and the safeg...
Ukrainian Insurgent Army - Part 2
The Ukrainian Insurgent Army had hundreds of thousands of soldiers and supporters but how did they win their battles and how did they loose?...
Ukrainian Insurgent Army - Part 1
The Ukrainian Insurgent Army was an underground Ukrainian guerrilla army that was active during the Second World War and fought against both...
The Soviet Union's Ukraine Show Trials
Did you know the Soviet Union's first show trial was in Ukraine? It happened in 1930 in Kharkiv against the Union for the Liberation of Ukra...
Ukraine's Political Assassinations - both By and Against
Ukraine and Ukrainians have used political assassinations to push their agenda into the spotlight or protest grievances against Ukrainians....
Russia's Use of Soft Power - an Interview with Dr. Lada L. Roslycky
What is "soft power" and how did/does Russia use it not only in Ukraine but among other so-called "Western" countries? This question along w...
Mykhailo Hrushevsky - Ukraine's First Historian-President
Why is Mykhailo Hrushevsky so venerated among Ukrainian historians? And why are his histories so important to Ukrainian historiography? And...
Operation "Vistula" (Akcja „Wisła”) - the 1947 Ukrainian Resettlement
In 1947, the Polish communist state internally displaced the rest of their 150,000 Ukrainian minority. They spattered them among the now emp...