| Taras Shevchenko | | | | invited to participate at the Ukrainian Olympic |
| Taras Shevchenko was in Kyiv on 25 February | | | | team. His career in Ukraine consisted of five |
| 1814. He was the son of Hryhoriy and Kateryna | | | | Ukrainian Championships and three Ukrainian Cups |
| Hrushivsky-Shevchenko. He showed his intelligence | | | | which are a very big number for a short amount |
| by reading and writing at an early age, and he | | | | of time. His first participation in a very big |
| attended Imperial Academy of Arts School | | | | tournament was in 1994 when he played a UEFA |
| located in St. Petersburg. He studied art, music | | | | champions league game against Spartak in |
| and literature. He did a lot of paintings and Karl | | | | Moscow. He was only 18 at that time and being a |
| Briullov discovered his talent and trained him even | | | | player in a champion’s league at the age of |
| further. During his years of painting, he has | | | | 18 should be appreciated for his courage and |
| received a lot of Silver Medals for his paintings. | | | | talent. He scored his first goal in an international |
| Later on, he became a well-known poet in | | | | game against the greatest team of Germany |
| Ukranian history. His most famous collection of | | | | Bayern Munchen, at the age of 18. In 1997, he |
| poems was called Kobzar and it was created in | | | | scored a hat-trick, which means scoring 3 goals in |
| 1840. His poems were mostly based on the | | | | a game, against the one of the greatest teams |
| stories of Cossacks and history of Ukraine. His | | | | of Spain Barcelona. Dynamo Kyiv won the game |
| view of art was mostly focused on nationalism of | | | | 4-0 and after this game his talent was soon |
| Ukranian people and culture. In the beginning of | | | | discovered by an Italy’s one of the greatest |
| the 1850’s, he was sent to Novopetrovskoe | | | | teams A.C Milan in Milano. The team agreed to |
| fortress and banned from Ukrainian roots where | | | | pay a young player around $26 million which is a |
| he continued his art work secretly under strict | | | | huge amount for a very young player who only |
| Russian regime. One of his collections was called | | | | previously played in his country. He is currently |
| Zakhaliavni Knyzhechky. He remained the rest of | | | | the Ukrainian best national team scorer and he |
| his life in St. Petersbugh with the escort of | | | | plays with Veronin in the national team as the |
| national security. After the death of Tsar Nicholas, | | | | strikers. In 1998, he becomes the top scorer in |
| ruler of Russia, Taras Schevchenko was | | | | Champions league which is considered the |
| permitted in Ukraine but he soon after he died in | | | | toughest tournament in the world. In 2004, Andriy |
| March 10, 1861 and millions of Ukranians showed | | | | Shevchenko was chosen as the European |
| respect to his work after his death. | | | | Footballer of the Year and received the golden |
| | | | shoe. The living legend of football, Abedi Pelé, |
| Brotherhood of Sts. Cyril and Methodius consisted | | | | gave a speech in which he thought he was one of |
| a group of religious people who were trying to | | | | the top 125 greatest living footballers in 2004. |
| adopt a Christian belief during their everyday lives. | | | | Last summer, Russian petroleum millionaire |
| The people were wealthy and far- sighted who | | | | Abramovich, president of Chelsea, offered his club |
| thought that the future would be hard for their | | | | 50 million Euros but the club refused to lose him. |
| people if there were no changed. They tried to | | | | A.C. Milan and Italy President Silvio Berlusconi, have |
| keep the organization secret because of the strict | | | | signed a contract with Shevchenko to keep him |
| ruling back at that time. One of their well-known | | | | with A.C Milan until 2009. He can be considered as |
| members was Taras Shevchenko who was | | | | one of the best strikers in the world according to |
| idealist and educated enough to give his support | | | | my observations. |
| to this organization. The organization leader was | | | | 26 April 1986 Chornobyl ( Chernobyl) |
| Mykola Kostamarov who was born in 1817, | | | | Chernobyl was an accident in 1986 which was the |
| fought for freedom, independence and uniqueness | | | | result of mismanagement and wrong design. |
| of Ukranian nation. The Brotherhood of Sts. Cyril | | | | Steam explosion resulted in %5 of the radiation to |
| and Methodius wanted each Slavic state to have | | | | be spread to the atmosphere. |
| their own language, own culture and not | | | | 28 people soon died in four months after the |
| dependent to one big regime. They wanted | | | | explosion from radiation and/or thermal burns. |
| everyone to be equal and they did try to make a | | | | Seven years after the Three Mile Island nuclear |
| lot of reforms to get rid of the ruling strategy on | | | | meltdown in the United States, a much larger and |
| their nation and they wanted to be unlike their | | | | major nuclear incident happened in Chernobyl in |
| neighbors such as Poland and Russia because of | | | | the former USSR on April 26, 1986. Although both |
| their willing for independence and freedom. They | | | | of these incidents could be traced to human and |
| considered the city Kyiv as the center of their | | | | design errors, to a large extent, there is a great |
| nation, and private organization. While they were | | | | difference between these two nuclear accidents. |
| trying to do their actions and reforms secretly, | | | | In the Three Mile Island incident there were no |
| Taras Schevchenko’s support had been | | | | injuries or deaths involved. The problem was |
| realized and he had been sent to Siberia. The | | | | contained within the plant. No excessive amount |
| organization was a great work which influenced | | | | of radioactive gases leaked out from the nuclear |
| many Ukranians to gain their freedom after those | | | | plant. Later investigations revealed that no |
| years. | | | | contamination whatsoever of plants, animals, and |
| Andriy Shevchenko | | | | the environment within the radius of the plant |
| Andriy Shevchenko is probably the most | | | | was in any way related to the nuclear accident. |
| well-known Ukranian through-out the world | | | | At Chernobyl, massive damage to plants, animals, |
| recently. He was born on September 29, 1976 in | | | | and the environment within the radius of the |
| a city called Dvirkivschyna. He spent most of his | | | | power plant were affected. Thirty-one people died |
| life in the capital Kyiv. His talent was seen in a | | | | in the incident mainly from fires resulting from the |
| youth tournament and he was transferred to | | | | reactivity power increase accident. Radioactive |
| Dynamo Kyiv. In the age of 14, he participated in | | | | gases leaked out of the plant causing |
| the Ian Rush Cup located in Wales and he became | | | | contamination and resulting from the evacuation |
| the goal scorer and many well-known clubs sent | | | | of close to 135, 000 people. A one square mile of |
| their scout teams to watch his games randomly. | | | | pine forest within the plant had to be buried as |
| He started his professional football carreer with | | | | further preventive measure. There was even |
| Dynamo Kyiv with the training of his formal | | | | evidence of delayed health effects from people |
| trainer Valeri Lobanovsky. He soon become on of | | | | contaminated with the radioactive gases. |
| the most talented player of the team and he was | | | | |