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Was Ukraine ever part of Russia?
After World War II, the western part of Ukraine merged into the Ukrainian Soviet Socialist Republic, and the whole country became a part of the Soviet Union. Ukraine gained its independence in 1991, following the dissolution of the Soviet Union.
Who founded Ukraine?
Part of Scythia in antiquity and settled by Getae, in the migration period, Ukraine is also the site of early Slavic expansion, and enters history proper with the establishment of the medieval state of Kievan Rus, which emerged as a powerful nation in the Middle Ages but disintegrated in the 12th century.
What was Ukraine called before?
Official names
1919–1937: Ukrainian Socialist Soviet Republic. 1937–1991: Ukrainian Soviet Socialist Republic. 1941–1944: Reichskommissariat Ukraine (under German occupation) 1991–present: Ukraine.
