Пантелеймон Куліш у шапціPanteleimon Kulish (1819–1897) was a key figure in the Ukrainian cultural revival. He authored the first Ukrainian historical novel, The Black Council (1857), and worked as a publisher and editor (including the journal Osnova), as well as an ethnographer and historian. He developed the phonetic Ukrainian orthography known as “Kulishivka,” translated Shakespeare and worked on a translation of the Bible, helping to establish standards for the literary Ukrainian language. He moved in the circle of Taras Shevchenko, was married to the writer Hanna Barvinok (Oleksandra Bilozerska), and was connected to the intellectual milieu of the Cyril and Methodius Brotherhood. He hailed from the then Chernihiv Governorate (now Sumy Oblast).

Ivan ZavadskyBorn in 1780 near Hadyach in Poltava Oblast. He was a circumnavigator and polar explorer, cartographer, hydrographer, and collector of natural history collections. During 1819–1821, he served as deputy captain on the warship Vostok (Russian: Шкхид), which made a circumnavigation of the Southern Ocean in search of a route to the South Pole. This expedition was one of the first to discover Antarctica and the islands near it: the South Sandwich Islands, Alexander I, and Peter I. Since the days of Soviet historiography, Ivan Zavadovsky has been called a Russian, as has Lysyansky. Ivan Zavadovsky. Photo from open sources. One volcanic island was named in honor of Zavadovsky. In 2016, the government of South Georgia and the South Sandwich Islands printed four postage stamps "Zavadovsky Island". Another island in the Western Ice Shelf near Antarctica was also named after him. In Oleksandr Dovzhenko's film story "Antarctica", Ivan Zavadovsky is one of the main characters.

Vasyl Vasiliovych Tarnovskyj Junior admires his collection of Cossack antiquities. Kachanivka

Stoianov at the Batumi Classical Gymnasium

The first foreigner who boldly defended the rights of Georgians to their native languageA teacher, ethnographer, and defender of cultural heritage in the 19th century - Olexander Stoianov

A watering hole under a bridge in a city in Yunnan province by Sofia Yablonska

Sofia Yablonska sits on the hood of a car in Morocco

Two boys riding two bulls in the town of Angkor

Traveling by car on the beaches of the island of Borneo by Sofia Yablonska

An unknown man in an unknown place called Talifou in the lens of Sofia Yablonska

Ferry crossing on the island of Borneo during the travels of Sofia Yablonska

A crowded city street in Yunnan province in the eyes of Sofia Yablonska

Interesting constructions of places in Yunnan province by Sofia Yablnska

Sofia Yablonska films residents selling fresh fruit at a bazaar in Yunnan Province

View from an airplane flying over the island of Borneo in the lens of Sofia Yablonska

Fishermen on the island of Borneo through the eyes of Sofia Yablonska

The sacred temples of Angkor in the lens of Sofia Yablonska

A boat against the background of the mountains of Yunnan province in the lens of Sofia Yablonska

The streets of Yunnan province in the eyes of Sofia Yablonska

Sofia Yablonska with armed men at Angkor

Sofia Yablonska films Angkor

Yunnan is a province in southwest China. Portrait of a local resident by Sofia Yablonskaya

Jablonska with her husband Jean-Marie Oudin on horseback in Vietnam in the city of Tonkin

Bangkok from the water by Sofia Yablonskaya

Traditional costumes at the celebration in Angkor through the eyes of Sofia Yablonska

Phnom Bakheng, a Hindu temple in the shape of a temple mountain in the lens of Sofia Yablonska

7-headed dragon, Angkor Wat, Cambodia through the eyes of Sofia Yablonska

The beach of the island of Borneo through the eyes of Sofia Yablonska

Halong Bay in Vietnam through the lens of Sofia Yablonska

Sofia Yablonska at Angkor

Portrait of Sofia Yablonska on the ship

The statue of the god at Angkor through the eyes of Sofia Yablonska

In the wild tropics

A half-naked girl with a basket on her head

Pierce in the tropics in the eyes of Sofia Yablonska

Yablonska in a costume from the east

From Yablonskaya's journey

View from the ship

Yablonska in full height

Sofia Yablonska with a camera

A girl in a hat

A girl in a hat