Quote: At the weekend, Inter television publicized the outcome of voting on “Big Ukrainians” project, and disclosed the top hundred. Some of those “Big Ukrainians” were present in the television studio: Hero of Ukraine, famous Soviet dissident and person who was one of the initiators of the Ukrainian independence, Levko Lukyanenko [#38], first president of the independent Ukraine Leonid Kravchuk [#51], and leader of the Ukrainian Communist Party Petro Symonenko [#79].
So far it is unclear how exactly positions are distributed among the names in the top ten, and who will head the list of Big Ukrainians. The second tour of voting is taking place. In alphabetical order, the top ten looks as follows:
As for the top hundred, it mostly includes political figures and statesmen. In addition to mentioned-above Khelnytskiy, Yaroslav Mudry, Kravchuk and Lukyanenko, the hundred also includes hetman Ivan Mazepa [#11], the first Ukrainian President Mykhaylo Hrushevskiy [#14], Kyiv Rus Prince Volodymyr the Great [#16], President of Ukraine Victor Yushchenko [#20], Pm of Ukraine Yulia Tymoshenko [#21], Vladimir Lenin [#23], Symon Petrlyura [#26], King Danylo Halytskiy [#34], hetman Pylyp Orlyk [#36], Princess Olga [#43], Victor Yanukovych [#62], Leonid Brezhnev [#63], hetman Dmytro Bayda-Vyshnevetskiy [#97], and others.
The list also includes many cultural figures: writer Mykola Gogol [#18], film director Oleksander Dovzhenko [#22], poetess Lina Kostenko [#25], actor Leonid Bykov [#27], founder of the new Ukrainian literature Ivan Kotlyarevskiy [#27], composer Volodymyr Ivasyuk [#30], opera singer Solomia Krushelnytska [#31], composer Mykola Lysenko [#41], actor Bohdan Stupka [#47], writer Mykhaylo Bulhakov [#49], opera singer Anatoliy Solovyanenko [#55], actor Mykola Hrynko [#59], “golden voice” of Ukraine Nina Matviyenko [#60], artist Illya Ryepin [#65], actress Maria Zankovetska [#66], actor Ivan Mykolaychuk [#67], writer Mykhaylo Kotsyubynskiy [#73], singer Raisa Kyrychenko [#74], singer Nazariy Yaremchuk [#75], theater reformator Les Kurbas [#78], artist Kateryna Bilokur [#84], poetess Olena Teliha [#94], writer Ostap Vyshnya [#96].
The youngest Big Ukrainian is swimmer Yana Klochkova, 25, four-time winner of the Olympic Games. The oldest – Princess Olga, who ruled the Kyiv Rus after her husband was killed.
22 Big Ukrainians are our contemporary. The most outstanding of them are the Klitschko brothers [#15].
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