People on Ukraine's street signs

Taras Shevchenko

153 Taras Hryhorovych Shevchenko was a Ukrainian poet, writer, artist, public and political figure, folklorist, and ethnographer. He wrote poetry in Ukrainian and prose in Russian.

Vladimir Lenin

68 Vladimir Ilyich Ulyanov, better known as Vladimir Lenin, was a Russian revolutionary, politician and political theorist. He was the first head of government of Soviet Russia from 1917 until his death...

Yuri Gagarin

61 Yuri Alekseyevich Gagarin was a Soviet pilot and cosmonaut who, aboard the first successful crewed spaceflight, became the first person to journey into outer space. Travelling on Vostok 1, Gagarin...

Ivan Franko

42 Ivan Yakovych Franko PhD was a Ukrainian poet, writer, social and literary critic, journalist, translator, economist, political activist, ethnographer, and the author of the first detective novels...

Mykhailo Hrushevsky

40 Mykhailo Serhiiovych Hrushevsky was a Ukrainian academician, politician, historian and statesman who was one of the most important figures of the Ukrainian national revival of the early 20th century....

Bohdan Khmelnytsky

39 Zynoviy Bohdan Mykhailovych Khmelnytsky of the Abdank coat of arms was a Ruthenian nobleman and military commander of Zaporozhian Cossacks as Hetman of the Zaporozhian Host, which was then under the...

Lesya Ukrainka

39 Lesya Ukrainka was one of Ukrainian literature's foremost writers, best known for her poems and plays. She was also an active political, civil, and female rights activist.

Maxim Gorky

28 Alexei Maximovich Peshkov, popularly known as Maxim Gorky, was a Russian and Soviet writer and proponent of socialism. He was nominated five times for the Nobel Prize in Literature. Before his...

Yaroslav the Wise

20 Yaroslav I Vladimirovich, better known as Yaroslav the Wise, was Grand Prince of Kiev from 1019 until his death in 1054. He was also earlier Prince of Novgorod from 1010 to 1034 and Prince of Rostov...

Sadovaya Street

19 Sadovaya Street or Garden Street is a major thoroughfare in Saint Petersburg, Russia, passing through the historic city center.

Nikolai Gogol

18 Nikolai Vasilyevich Gogol was a Russian novelist, short-story writer, and playwright of Ukrainian origin.

Vladimir the Great

16 Vladimir I Sviatoslavich or Volodymyr I Sviatoslavych, given the epithet "the Great", was Prince of Novgorod from 970 and Grand Prince of Kiev from 978 until his death in 1015. The Catholic Church...

Alexander Pushkin

16 Alexander Sergeyevich Pushkin was a Russian poet, playwright, and novelist of the Romantic era. He is considered by many to be the greatest Russian poet, as well as the founder of modern Russian...

Daniel of Galicia

15 Daniel Romanovich (1201–1264) was Prince of Galicia, Volhynia, Grand Prince of Kiev (1240), and King of Ruthenia (1253–1264). He was the son of Roman Mstislavich of Volhynia and Anne-Euphrosyne, the...

Mykhailo Kotsiubynsky

15 Mykhailo Mykhailovych Kotsiubynsky was a Ukrainian author whose writings described typical Ukrainian life at the start of the 20th century. Kotsiubynsky's early stories were described as examples of...

Sergei Kirov

13 Sergei Mironovich Kirov was a Russian and Soviet politician and Bolshevik revolutionary. Kirov was an early revolutionary in the Russian Empire and a member of the Bolshevik faction of the Russian...

Vasyl Stus

13 Vasyl Semenovych Stus was a Ukrainian poet, translator, literary critic, journalist, and an active member of the Ukrainian dissident movement. For his political convictions, his works were banned by...

Francis II Rákóczi

13 Francis II Rákóczi was a Hungarian nobleman and leader of the Rákóczi's War of Independence against the Habsburgs in 1703–1711 as the prince of the Estates Confederated for Liberty of the Kingdom of...

Valery Chkalov

12 Valery Pavlovich Chkalov was a Russian and Soviet test pilot awarded the title Hero of the Soviet Union (1936).

Alexander Dukhnovych

12 Alexander Vasilyevich Dukhnovych was an Transcarpathian Ruthenian priest, poet, writer, pedagogue, and social activist of the Russophile orientation. He is considered as the awakener of the Rusyns.

International Workers' Day

12 International Workers' Day, also called Labour Day in some countries and often referred to as May Day, is a celebration of labourers and the working classes that is promoted by the international...

Mikhail Lomonosov

12 Mikhail Vasilyevich Lomonosov was a Russian polymath, scientist and writer, who made important contributions to literature, education, and science. Among his discoveries were the atmosphere of Venus...

Stepan Bandera

11 Stepan Andriyovych Bandera was a Ukrainian far-right leader of the radical militant faction of the Organization of Ukrainian Nationalists, the OUN-B.

Mikhail Frunze

10 Mikhail Vasilyevich Frunze was a Soviet revolutionary, politician, army officer and military theorist.

Ivan Kotliarevsky

10 Ivan Petrovych Kotliarevsky was a Ukrainian writer, poet, playwright, and social activist, regarded as the pioneer of modern Ukrainian literature. His main work is the poem Eneida, a travesty of...

Karl Marx

9 Karl Marx was a German philosopher, social and political theorist, economist, journalist, and revolutionary socialist. He is best-known for the 1848 pamphlet The Communist Manifesto, and his...

Vladimir Komarov

9 Vladimir Mikhaylovich Komarov was a Soviet test pilot, aerospace engineer, and cosmonaut. In October 1964, he commanded Voskhod 1, the first spaceflight to carry more than one crew member. He became...

Andrey Sheptytsky

9 Andrey Sheptytsky OSBM was a prelate and theologian of the Ukrainian Greek Catholic Church who served as Metropolitan of Galicia and Archbishop of Lviv from 1901 until his death in 1944. His tenure...

Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky

8 Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky was a Russian composer during the Romantic period. He was the first Russian composer whose music made a lasting impression internationally. Tchaikovsky wrote some of the most...

Avgustyn Voloshyn

8 The Rt Rev. Avgustyn Ivanovych Monsignor Voloshyn , also known as Augustin Voloshyn, was a Carpatho-Ukrainian politician, teacher, essayist, and Greek Catholic priest of the Eparchy of Mukachevo in...

Подгорная, Нинель Ивановна

8 Нинель Ивановна Подгорная — советская и российская театральная актриса.                             

Ivan Mazepa

8 Ivan Stepanovych Mazepa was a Ukrainian military, political, and civic leader who served as hetman of the Cossack Hetmanate in 1687–1709. His long and stable rule was marked by economical and...

Yakov Sverdlov

7 Yakov Mikhailovich Sverdlov was a Russian revolutionary and Soviet politician. A key Bolshevik organizer of the October Revolution of 1917, Sverdlov served as chairman of the Secretariat of the...

Markiian Shashkevych

7 Markiian Semenovych Shashkevych was a priest of the Ukrainian Greek Catholic Church, a poet, a translator, and the leader of the literary revival in Western Ukraine.

Alexander Suvorov

7 Count Alexander Vasilyevich Suvorov-Rymniksky, Prince of Italy was a Russian general and military theorist in the service of the Russian Empire.

Ivan Michurin (biologist)

7 Ivan Vladimirovich Michurin was a Russian practitioner of selection to produce new types of crop plants, Honorable Member of the Soviet Academy of Sciences, and academician of the Lenin All-Union...

Ivan Bohun

6 Ivan Bohun was a Zaporozhian Cossack colonel. A close associate and friend of Bohdan Khmelnytsky, he opposed both the pacts with the Polish–Lithuanian Commonwealth and with the Tsardom of Russia.

Yevhen Konovalets

5 Yevhen Mykhailovych Konovalets was a Ukrainian military commander and political leader of the Ukrainian nationalist movement. He is best known for his role in the Ukrainian War of Independence as...

Olga of Kiev

5 Olga was a regent of Kievan Rus' for her son Sviatoslav from 945 until 957. Following her baptism, Olga took the name Elenа. She is known for her subjugation of the Drevlians, a tribe that had killed...

Viacheslav Chornovil

5 Viacheslav Maksymovych Chornovil was a Ukrainian Soviet dissident, independence activist and politician who was the leader of the People's Movement of Ukraine from 1989 until his death in 1999. He...

Roman Shukhevych

5 Roman-Taras Osypovych Shukhevych was a Ukrainian nationalist and a military leader of the nationalist Ukrainian Insurgent Army (UPA), which during the Second World War fought against the Soviet Union...

Volodymyr Ivasiuk

5 Volodymyr Mykhailovych Ivasiuk was a Ukrainian songwriter, composer and poet. He is the author and composer of the widely popular song "Chervona Ruta" popularized by Sofia Rotaru in 1971, and later...

Leo Tolstoy

4 Count Lev Nikolayevich Tolstoy, usually referred to in English as Leo Tolstoy, was a Russian writer. He is regarded as one of the greatest and most influential authors of all time.

Petro Grigorenko

4 Petro Grigorenko or Petro Hryhorovych Hryhorenko was a high-ranking Soviet Army commander of Ukrainian descent, who in his fifties became a dissident and a writer, one of the founders of the human...

Amet-khan Sultan

4 Amet-khan Sultan was a highly decorated Crimean Tatar flying ace in the Soviet Air Force with 30 personal and 19 shared kills who was twice awarded the title Hero of the Soviet Union. Despite having...

Hryhorii Skovoroda

4 Hryhorii Skovoroda, also Gregory Skovoroda or Grigory Skovoroda, was a philosopher of Ukrainian Cossack origin who lived and worked in the Russian Empire. He was a poet, a teacher and a composer of...

Adam Mickiewicz

4 Adam Bernard Mickiewicz was a Polish poet, dramatist, essayist, publicist, translator and political activist. He is regarded as national poet in Poland, Lithuania and Belarus. He also largely...

Panas Myrny

4 Panas Myrny was a famous Ukrainian prose writer and playwright writing in Ukrainian language. He wrote in literary realism creating innovative social novels and stories from the life of the people.

Vasyl Stefanyk

4 Vasyl Semenovych Stefanyk was an influential Ukrainian modernist writer and political activist. He was a member of the Austrian parliament from 1908 to 1918.

Myron Tarnavsky

4 Myron Omelianovych Tarnavsky was a supreme commander of the Ukrainian Galician Army, the military of the West Ukrainian People's Republic.

Садовый переулок

4 Садо́вый переу́лок — название улиц в различных населённых пунктах бывшего СССР.                     

Yuriy Fedkovych

3 Osyp-Yuriy Adalbertovych Fedkovych was a Ukrainian writer, poet, folklorist and translator.         

Lajos Kossuth

3 Lajos Kossuth de Udvard et Kossuthfalva was a Hungarian nobleman, lawyer, journalist, politician, statesman, revolutionist and governor-president of the Hungarian State during the war of independence...

Bohdan Lepky

3 Bohdan Teodor Nestor Sylvestrovych Lepky, was a Ukrainian writer, poet, scholar, public figure, and artist.

Alexander Dovzhenko

3 Alexander Petrovich Dovzhenko, also Oleksandr Petrovych Dovzhenko, was a Soviet film director and screenwriter of Ukrainian origin. He is often cited as one of the most important early Soviet...

Ivan Petrov (army general)

3 Ivan Yefimovich Petrov was a Soviet Army General.                                                   

Dmitry Ilyich Ulyanov

3 Dmitri Ilyich Ulyanov was a Russian and Soviet physician and revolutionary, the younger brother of Aleksandr Ulyanov and Vladimir Lenin. A dedicated Marxist, Ulyanov worked as a correspondent of his...

Sergei Korolev

3 Sergei Pavlovich Korolev was the lead Soviet rocket engineer and spacecraft designer during the Space Race between the United States and the Soviet Union in the 1950s and 1960s. He invented the R-7...

István Széchenyi

3 Count István Széchenyi de Sárvár-Felsővidék was a Hungarian politician, political theorist, and writer. Widely considered one of the greatest statesmen in his nation's history, within Hungary he is...

Zoya Kosmodemyanskaya

3 Zoya Anatolyevna Kosmodemyanskaya was a Soviet partisan. She was executed after acts of sabotage against the invading armies of Nazi Germany. After stories emerged of her defiance towards her...

Oleksa Dovbush

3 Oleksa Dovbush was a famous Ukrainian outlaw in the Polish–Lithuanian Commonwealth, leader of the opryshky movement, who became a folk hero.

Pavlik Morozov

3 Pavel Trofimovich Morozov, better known by the diminutive Pavlik, was a Soviet youth praised by the Soviet press as a martyr. Evidence has emerged since the dissolution of the Soviet Union of the...

Dmytro Vitovsky

3 Dmytro Dmytrovych Vitovsky was a Ukrainian politician and military leader.