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• Stetsenko, Kyrylo   b. May 12, 1882  d. April 29, 1922
  Composer, Conductor, Religious Figure. Considered one of the foremost Ukrainian composers of the 20th Century, and a key influence in his country's short-lived independence during the late 1910s. Kyrylo Hryhorovych Stetsenko was born in Kvitkiv and graduated from Kiev's Saint Sophia Seminary in 1903. He did not take holy orders but remained affiliated with the Orthodox Church as a teacher and choir director. Around this time he met the Ukraine's greatest contemporary musician, Mykola...[Read More] (Bio by: Robert Edwards)
  Saint Paraskeva Church, Vepryk, Kiev, City of Kiev, Ukraine
  Plot: Churchyard
   
• Stolypin, Peter Arkadievich    b. April 14, 1862  d. September 18, 1911
  Prime Minister of Russia to Tsar Nicholas II. Perhaps the only man who might have forestalled the revolution. His grave was covered up and hidden during Communist rule. He was assassinated, before the eyes of the Tsar and his family, by a double-agent during a performance of Rimsky-Korsakov's 'The Tale of Tsar Saltan' at the Kiev Opera House.
  Cause of death: Assassinated
  Refectory Church, Caves (Pecherskaya) Monastery, Kiev, City of Kiev, Ukraine
   
• Tomb of the Unknown Ukrainian Soldier [memorial] 
  Unveiled on May 8, 1967, at Dniepr Park Kiev, Ukraine, the monument is dedicated to the memory of all the unknown Ukrainian soldiers who gave their lives for the nation in World War II. (Bio by: John "J-Cat" Griffith)
  Dniepr Park, Kiev, City of Kiev, Ukraine
   
• Turchak, Stepan    b. February 28, 1938  d. October 23, 1988
  Conductor.
  Baykova Cemetery, Kiev, City of Kiev, Ukraine
   
• Ukrainian Civil War Student Memorial   d. 1918
  Memorial to the 300 Ukrainian students killed by the Bolsheviks in the Ukrainian Civil War in 1918.
  Askoldova Mohyls, Kiev, City of Kiev, Ukraine
   
• Ukrainka (Kosach-Kvitka), Lesya (Larysa Petrovna)    b. February 25, 1871  d. August 1, 1913
  Poetess and founder of modern Ukrainian literature. Her most famous poem is 'Song of the Wood.'
  Baykova Cemetery, Kiev, City of Kiev, Ukraine
   
• Vatchenko, Oleksei Fyedorovich    b. February 25, 1914  d. November 22, 1984
  First Secretary of Ukrainian communist Party (i.e. political leader of Ukraine under the Soviet Regime).
  Baykova Cemetery, Kiev, City of Kiev, Ukraine
   
• Volodomyr, Archbishop    b. 1925  d. 1995
  Patriarch (Archbishop) of the Ukrainian Church.
  Saint Sophia's Cathedral, Kiev, City of Kiev, Ukraine
   
• Yaroslav the Wise, Prince    b. 1017  d. February 20, 1054
  Prince of Kiev. He defeated the Pechenegs and established kiev as a center of power, trade and culture .
  Saint Sophia's Cathedral, Kiev, City of Kiev, Ukraine
   

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