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Why the Far East Was Called Zelenyi Klyn, Green Ukraine, New Ukraine, and Zakytayshchyna
For more than a century of Ukrainian settlement in the Far East, the territory we know today as Zelenyi Klyn has gone by several different names. “Green Ukraine,” “New Ukraine,” “Far Eastern Ukraine,” and “Zakytayshchyna” are not different regions, but different names for the same phenomenon: the mass settlement of Ukrainians in the southern Far East and the formation there of a stable national community that numbered hundreds of thousands of people and had its own self-gover

Дальневосточное движение за независимость Зеленого Клина
Sep 85 min read


Zelenyi Klyn: How the USSR Forced Ukrainians to Forget Their Roots
How did an entire people, who once made up the majority in the Zelenyi Klyn region, come to be forced to hide their own roots?

Дальневосточное движение за независимость Зеленого Клина
Sep 55 min read


Program of the Far Eastern Movement for the Independence of Zelenyi Klyn
We have published the program of our Far Eastern Movement for the Independence of Zelenyi Klyn — a document we have worked on for a long time and taken very seriously. Now everyone can read it in Russian, Ukrainian, and English.

Дальневосточное движение за независимость Зеленого Клина
Aug 313 min read
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