| Taras Shevchenko | | | | participation in a very big tournament was in |
| | | | 1994 when he played a UEFA champions league |
| Taras Shevchenko was in Kyiv on 25 February | | | | game against Spartak in Moscow. He was only |
| 1814. He was the son of Hryhoriy and Kateryna | | | | 18 at that time and being a player in a |
| Hrushivsky-Shevchenko. He showed his | | | | champion's league at the age of 18 should be |
| intelligence by reading and writing at an | | | | appreciated for his courage and talent. He |
| early age, and he attended Imperial Academy | | | | scored his first goal in an international |
| of Arts School located in St. Petersburg. He | | | | game against the greatest team of Germany |
| studied art, music and literature. He did a | | | | Bayern Munchen, at the age of 18. |
| lot of paintings and Karl Briullov discovered | | | | |
| his talent and trained him even further. | | | | In 1997, he scored a hat-trick, which means |
| During his years of painting, he has received | | | | scoring 3 goals in a game, against the one of |
| a lot of Silver Medals for his paintings. | | | | the greatest teams of Spain Barcelona. Dynamo |
| Later on, he became a well-known poet in | | | | Kyiv won the game 4-0 and after this game his |
| Ukranian history. His most famous collection | | | | talent was soon discovered by an Italy's one |
| of poems was called Kobzar and it was created | | | | of the greatest teams A.C Milan in Milano. |
| in 1840. His poems were mostly based on the | | | | The team agreed to pay a young player around |
| stories of Cossacks and history of Ukraine. | | | | $26 million which is a huge amount for a very |
| His view of art was mostly focused on | | | | young player who only previously played in |
| nationalism of Ukranian people and culture. | | | | his country. He is currently the Ukrainian |
| | | | best national team scorer and he plays with |
| | | | Veronin in the national team as the strikers. |
| | | | In 1998, he becomes the top scorer in |
| Brotherhood of Sts. Cyril and Methodius | | | | Champions league which is considered the |
| | | | toughest tournament in the world. In 2004, |
| Brotherhood of Sts. Cyril and Methodius | | | | Andriy Shevchenko was chosen as the European |
| consisted a group of religious people who | | | | Footballer of the Year and received the |
| were trying to adopt a Christian belief | | | | golden shoe. The living legend of football, |
| during their everyday lives. The people were | | | | Abedi Pelé, gave a speech in which he |
| wealthy and far- sighted who thought that the | | | | thought he was one of the top 125 greatest |
| future would be hard for their people if | | | | living footballers in 2004. Last summer, |
| there were no changed. They tried to keep the | | | | Russian petroleum millionaire Abramovich, |
| organization secret because of the strict | | | | president of Chelsea, offered his club 50 |
| ruling back at that time. One of their | | | | million Euros but the club refused to lose |
| well-known members was Taras Shevchenko who | | | | him. A.C. Milan and Italy President Silvio |
| was idealist and educated enough to give his | | | | Berlusconi, have signed a contract with |
| support to this organization. | | | | Shevchenko to keep him with A.C Milan until |
| | | | 2009. He can be considered as one of the best |
| The organization leader was Mykola Kostamarov | | | | strikers in the world according to my |
| who was born in 1817, fought for freedom, | | | | observations. |
| independence and uniqueness of Ukranian | | | | |
| nation. The Brotherhood of Sts. Cyril and | | | | 26 April 1986 Chornobyl ( Chernobyl) |
| Methodius wanted each Slavic state to have | | | | |
| their own language, own culture and not | | | | Chernobyl was an accident in 1986 which was |
| dependent to one big regime. They wanted | | | | the result of mismanagement and wrong design. |
| everyone to be equal and they did try to make | | | | Steam explosion resulted in %5 of the |
| a lot of reforms to get rid of the ruling | | | | radiation to be spread to the atmosphere. |
| strategy on their nation and they wanted to | | | | |
| be unlike their neighbors such as Poland and | | | | 28 people soon died in four months after the |
| Russia because of their willing for | | | | explosion from radiation and/or thermal |
| independence and freedom. They considered the | | | | burns. Seven years after the Three Mile |
| city Kyiv as the center of their nation, and | | | | Island nuclear meltdown in the United States, |
| private organization. While they were trying | | | | a much larger and major nuclear incident |
| to do their actions and reforms secretly, | | | | happened in Chernobyl in the former USSR on |
| Taras Schevchenko's support had been realized | | | | April 26, 1986. Although both of these |
| and he had been sent to Siberia. The | | | | incidents could be traced to human and design |
| organization was a great work which | | | | errors, to a large extent, there is a great |
| influenced many Ukranians to gain their | | | | difference between these two nuclear |
| freedom after those years. | | | | accidents. In the Three Mile Island incident |
| | | | there were no injuries or deaths involved. |
| Andriy Shevchenko | | | | The problem was contained within the plant. |
| | | | No excessive amount of radioactive gases |
| Andriy Shevchenko is probably the most | | | | leaked out from the nuclear plant. Later |
| well-known Ukranian through-out the world | | | | investigations revealed that no contamination |
| recently. He was born on September 29, 1976 | | | | whatsoever of plants, animals, and the |
| in a city called Dvirkivschyna. He spent most | | | | environment within the radius of the plant |
| of his life in the capital Kyiv. His talent | | | | was in any way related to the nuclear |
| was seen in a youth tournament and he was | | | | accident. At Chernobyl, massive damage to |
| transferred to Dynamo Kyiv. In the age of 14, | | | | plants, animals, and the environment within |
| he participated in the Ian Rush Cup located | | | | the radius of the power plant were affected. |
| in Wales and he became the goal scorer and | | | | Thirty-one people died in the incident mainly |
| many well-known clubs sent their scout teams | | | | from fires resulting from the reactivity |
| to watch his games randomly. He started his | | | | power increase accident. Radioactive gases |
| professional football carreer with Dynamo | | | | leaked out of the plant causing contamination |
| Kyiv with the training of his formal trainer | | | | and resulting from the evacuation of close to |
| Valeri Lobanovsky. He soon become on of the | | | | 135, 000 people. A one square mile of pine |
| most talented player of the team and he was | | | | forest within the plant had to be buried as |
| invited to participate at the Ukrainian | | | | further preventive measure. There was even |
| Olympic team. His career in Ukraine consisted | | | | evidence of delayed health effects from |
| of five Ukrainian Championships and three | | | | people contaminated with the radioactive |
| Ukrainian Cups which are a very big number | | | | gases. |
| for a short amount of time. His first | | | | |