Velyki Ukraïntsi

The Greatest Ukrainians (Ukrainian: Великі українці) was a Ukrainian TV project. The programme was the result of a vote conducted to determine whom the Ukrainian public considers the greatest Ukrainians have been in history.

The show is running under a license from the BBC and originally appeared on British TV under the name 100 Greatest Britons and was a successful show. Such countries as Canada, France, Germany, the Netherlands and many others have also created their own versions.

Results

The TV show was broadcast on Inter being 90–180 minutes long during Sunday prime-time. The host of the program, Savik Shuster, started primaries (pre-voting) during his other Friday talk show The Freedom with Savik Shuster. The co-host of the programme was Inter's news anchor Hanna Homonai. Pre-voting took place in a number of Ukrainian cities such as Kyiv, Lviv, Yalta, Kharkiv, Odesa, Donetsk, Simferopol, Nizhyn, Mykolaiv, Ostroh, Chernivtsi, and Kamianets-Podilskyi.

Top Ten

On 11 April 2008, the top 100 of Great Ukrainians were announced. The top 10 was to be re-voted, and the results were shown on 16 May 2008. The final top 10 were:[1]

  1. Yaroslav I the Wise (40% of the votes)
  2. Mykola Amosov (19.88%)
  3. Stepan Bandera (16%)
  4. Taras Shevchenko (9.3%)
  5. Bohdan Khmelnytskyi (4.02%)
  6. Valeriy Lobanovskyi (3.18%)
  7. Viacheslav Chornovil (2.63%)
  8. Hryhoriy Skovoroda (1.73%)
  9. Lesia Ukrainka (1.64%)
  10. Ivan Franko (1.49%)

11  100

11. Ivan Mazepa
12. Roman Shukhevych
13. Vasyl Stus
14. Mykhailo Hrushevskyi
15. Vitaliy Klychko and Volodymyr Klychko
16. Volodymyr I of Kyiv
17. Serhiy Korolov
18. Mykola Hohol
19. Andrey Sheptytskyi
20. Viktor Yushchenko
21. Yuliya Tymoshenko
22. Oleksandr Dovzhenko
23. Volodymyr Lenin
24. Volodymyr Dal
25. Lina Kostenko
26. Symon Petliura
27. Leonid Bykov
28. Petro Konashevych-Sahaidachnyi
29. Ivan Kotliarevskyi
30. Volodymyr Ivasiuk
31. Solomiya Krushelnytska
32. Nestor Makhno
33. Andriy Shevchenko

34. Danylo of Halychyna
35. Serhiy Bubka
36. Pylyp Orlyk
37. Ivan Mykytovych Kozhedub
38. Levko Lukianenko
39. Volodymyr Vernadskyi
40. Yevhen Konovalets
41. Mykola Lysenko
42. Sydir Kovpak
43. Olha of Kyiv
44. Volodymyr Shcherbytskyi
45. Oleh Antonov
46. Yevheniy Paton and Borys Paton
47. Bohdan Stupka
48. Yosyf Slipyi
49. Mykhailo Bulhakov
50. Volodymyr Boiko
51. Leonid Kravchuk
52. Petro Mohyla
53. Ivan Sirko
54. Sofiya Rotaru
55. Anatoliy Solovianenko
56. Oleh Blokhin

57. Liliya Podkopaieva
58. Volodymyr II Monomakh
59. Mykola Hrynko
60. Nina Matviyenko
61. Ihor Sikorskyi
62. Viktor Yanukovych
63. Leonid Brezhniev
64. Sviatoslav Vakarchuk
65. Illia Riepin
66. Mariya Zankovetska
67. Ivan Mykolaichuk
68. Vasyl Virastiuk
69. Ivan Pulyui
70. Mykola Ivanovych Pyrohov
71. Oles Honchar
72. Vasyl Symonenko
73. Mykhailo Kotsiubynskyi
74. Raisa Kyrychenko
75. Nazariy Yaremchuk
76. Ruslana Lyzhychko
77. Yana Klochkova
78. Les Kurbas

79. Petro Symonenko
80. Kostiantyn Vasyl Ostrozkyi
81. Roksolana
82. Pavlo Skoropadskyi
83. Oleksiy Stakhanov
84. Kateryna Vasylivna Bilokur
85. Ivan Bohun
86. Vasyl Sukhomlynskyi
87. Anton Makarenko
88. Petro Kalnyshevskyi
89. Mykola Fedorovych Vatutin
90. Oleh Skrypka
91. Ivan Piddubnyi
92. Illia Illich Mechnykov
93. Mykyta Khrushchov
94. Olena Teliha
95. Oleh Koshovyi
96. Ostap Vyshnia
97. Dmytro Vyshnevetskyi
98. Valentyn Yenevskyi
99. Viktor Hlushkov
100. Tomb of the Unknown Soldier

Great Ukrainians series

An hour-long documentary was filmed on each of the top 10 nominees, each of them hosted by a celebrity advocate, who delivered a passionate argument as to why their choice should be voted the greatest Ukrainian of all. The series concluded with a debate on the merits of each selected Ukrainian, bringing all of the advocates together to make a final plea to voters.

No. Great Ukrainian Celebrity Supporter
1 Mykola Amosov Vitaliy Korotych
2 Stepan Bandera Vakhtang Kipiani
3 Valeriy Lobanovskyi Leonid Kravchuk
4 Hryhoriy Skovoroda Ostap Stupka
5 Lesia Ukrainka Roman Viktiuk
6 Ivan Franko Sviatoslav Vakarchuk
7 Bohdan Khmelnytskyi Dmytro Korchynskyi
8 Viacheslav Chornovil Taras Chornovil
9 Taras Shevchenko Bohdan Stupka
10 Yaroslav I the Wise Dmytro Tabachnyk

Controversy

Manipulations

The Chief of Great Ukrainians project, journalist Vakhtang Kipiani, informed the public in his blog, that the voting system had been manipulated by unknown persons. He stated that a couple of days prior to publishing the results he was aware of a possible win for Yaroslav the Wise. Prior to that, with a huge lead in first place was the controversial Stepan Bandera. For example, the winner, Yaroslav I, received 60,000 votes in one month and almost 550,000 in just one day. Mykola Amosov, who took second place, received almost 150,000 votes in just one day. Kipiani said that if these manipulation hadn't taken place Yaroslav would not have won.

Among other Great Ukrainians for whatever reasons appeared Volodymyr Lenin as well as such names like Stakhanov, Hlushkov, and Vatutin.

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