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Ukraine Tours through the YouTube, section one: Introducing Ukraine!




This is Ukraine Tours through the YouTube, section one: Introducing Ukraine!

The other four sections are linked at the bottom of this page - all sections are linked together and there is a link back to Home on each. They are:

section two: Eastern and East Central Ukraine

section three: Along the Black Sea

section four: West Central and Western Ukraine

section five: the People of Western Ukraine

Enjoy this section of Ukraine Tours through the YouTube!

Music of Ukraine

Sofia Rotaru Odna Kalyna

Ukrainian ballad Ridna Maty Moya/Native mother of mine

Three female singers playing banduras from Poltava Mazepa Fest

Male musician at festival Mazepa Fest

UKRANIA - The Willow, Presentation of ensemble's second staff.


Classical Musical Talent of the Youth in Ukraine and Surround.  Young talent and serious music.

Yana Sharopanovskaya is shown in a live performance at Apogee's 2006 International Music Festival in Odessa at the age of fourteen.

Apogee Merit Scholar Vladimir Kochnev is shown in a live performance at the age of thirteen. Odessa, Ukraine

Dmitrij Smirnov: Apogee World Scholar, Saint Petersburg (Russia) Within four months of Apogee identifying and assisting Smirnov, he was awarded the grand prizes at the most prestigious competitions for young violinists in both Russia and Europe, and recognized as the world's top young violinist.

Apogee Merit Scholar Olga Zadorozhnuik is shown in a live performance at Apogee's 2006 International Music Festival in Odessa at the age of sixteen.

Simion Gronic, Apogee Merit Scholar of Chisinau (Moldova) is shown in a live performance at Apogee's 2006 International Music Festival in Odessa at the age of ten. He is shown performing on six different instruments in the course of the festival, and he also followed this by becoming an award winning trumpeter by the age of eleven.

Apogee Merit Scholar and Rising Star Award laureate Arseniy Chubachin is shown in live performance at Apogee's 2006 International Music Festival in Odessa at the age of seventeen.

Dance in Ukraine

bboy Battle | Ukraine vs Russia (I think this is called dance.)

Eurovision Dance Contest - Ukraine (Quickstep and Freestyle)

Disabled dancers freewheel to success. A group of dancers in Ukraine have shown that disability is no barrier to achieving poise and grace on the dance floor.


About the folk style dance in Ukraine:

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The Dance of the Zaporozhian Cossacks is a classic Hopak dance. This is an exact letter for letter transliteration from Ukrainian with the root word hop imitating the sound of a jump, bounce, skip!

It is a stylized but faithful presentation of Cossacks celebrating at their Sich in the Dnieper River at Zaporizhzhia (above the rapids).

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There are other folk dances. The Kolomeyka is a social dance style named for the old city of Kolomyya in south western Ukraine where it was created. This dance is enjoyed during festive occasions such as holidays, marriages, celebrations.

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Here you see young Ukrainians enjoying their party and traditional dance.



Dance of the Zaporozhian/Ukrainian Cossacks

Cossack dance - Ukrainian Dance; This is an excerpt from the "Birth of the dance" - famous movie about Virsky Ukrainian dance company, filmed when Pavlo Virsky was alive.

Kolomeyka - Part One; An EXCITING Ukrainian dance video taped live at Taran's first CD release party!

Kolomeyka - Part Two; The second part of the EXCITING Ukrainian dance competition that took place during Taran's first CD release party!

Christmas Music, Ukraine

Dobry Vechir Toby, Ukrainian Christmas Carol

Dobry Vechir Tobi Ukrainian stars singing

Ruslana dobryj vechir tobi

Ukrainian Christmas Carol, In Ukraine this is more appropriately a New Years song.

Ukrainian Greeting Song: Dobry Vechir; To see the words click on "more info"

Vasyl Melnykovych, Kolyada Pastyri

Ukrainian Easter Celebration

Pascha 21: Blessing of the Baskets (St. Elias Church, Brampton, Ontario Canada) The service is in Ukrainian.

Traveling Ukraine Rivers

Dnipro

The Danube river in Ukraine

Rafting 2006 Rafting at Yuzhniy Bug river, Ukraine

Tisza Tura, canoing on Tisza river, Ukraine. This clip has a second of long distance nudity, shot from across the river

Ukrainian Driving?

Ukraine driving. A very funny look at how people drive in Kiev?

Ukrainian Driving (L'VIV) .RoMan.D.: A normal traffic light stop showing Ukrainian drivers and their short temper.

I’m thinking about taking the train in Ukraine.

Ukraine Railways with cabine rite and several Ukraine trains

Narrow gauge railway Zarichne-Antonivka. The train crosses the Stryi river by a wooden bridge near Mlynok.

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