biography of a famous person

2. • A lot of names of Ukrainian towns and cities are
connected with the names of their national
heroes such as Ivan Sirko, Olexa Dovbush, and
Ustim Karmaliuk. The Ukrainian people
remember their heroes. There are a lot of songs
and legends about them, and they appear in the
works of Shevchenko, Marko Vovchok, and
Panas Mirny.
• Even now around the island Khortitsa, in Kiyiv,
Lviv and the towns of the Carpathian Mountains
there remain the traces of unforgettable pages
of the Ukrainian history.

4. We’d like to tell you about
Bogdan Khmelnitsky

5. Bogdan (Zinoviev ​​) M.
Khmelnitsky (born 27
December 1595and died, † 27
July 1657), was a Ukrainian
military, politician and
statesman

6. He was head of the National
Liberation War of the
Ukrainian people in the middle
of the XVII century, founder of
the Ukrainian State (Cossack
Army), Hetman of Ukraine
(1648-1657 pp.)

7. In 1630 he took part in the Cossack
rebellion. He served as military
secretary in Chygyryn. In January,
1648 Bohdan Khmelnitsky went to
Zaporizhzhya Sich, which initiated
the War of national liberation of the
Ukrainian people.