Shche ne vmerla Ukrainy i slava, i volia, which means Ukraine has not yet perished, nor her glory and freedom, is the national anthem of Ukraine. The words were written in 1862 by the ethnographer and poet Pavlo Chubynskyi, and the music was composed by the Greek Catholic priest Mykhailo Verbytskyi, becoming popular among Ukrainians in Galicia in the 1860s. It was adopted as the anthem of the Ukrainian People's Republic in 1918, and after a long period of suppression under Soviet rule it was restored as the state anthem after independence, with a law in 2003 fixing its text. It has gained new prominence since the Russian invasion of 2022.
Before and after
- 6 December 1917Halifax explosion
- 16 December 1917Birth of Arthur C. Clarke
- 21 December 1917Birth of Heinrich Böll
- from 1918 to 1920Georgian–Ossetian conflict (1918–1920)
- 1918Shche ne vmerla Ukrainy i slava, i volia
- 1918Publication of Mer Hayrenik
- 1918Founding of Hebrew University of Jerusalem
- from January 1918 to December 19201918–1920 flu pandemic
- from 1918 to 1922Japanese intervention in Siberia
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