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