poland behind them to the south lay the steppe, where the crimean khanate ruled. it is believed that for the first time ukraine appeared on european maps in the middle of the 17th century, thanks to the french military engineer in the polish service , guillem webaplan. he wrote a description of these territories, mapped them and called ukraine several dnieper provinces of the commonwealth at about the same time, the term ukraine began to be used in kazakh correspondence to refer to the lands of the hetmanate state, which was created and conquered from poland by bohdan khmelnitsky, from the name of which until 1648 the steppe borderland of the polish kingdom was called . ukraine has become the name of the kazakh state, formed on the lands of the three crown eastern voivodeships, kiev braslav and chernikov. only after the accession of ukraine to russia in 1654 in the year in official papers, ukraine appears which is called little russia or little russian ukraine on the left bank of the dnieper, the right bank was called polish ukraine, the inhabitants of the left-ba

moscow kingdom and the wild steppe, not inhabited by the territory adjacent to the lands of the crimean khanate, kiev in the 17th century was just a provincial town on the eastern outskirts of the commonwealth the term itself, grandfather boy, later the invention of historians bogdan khmelnitsky and his contemporaries called this territory the lands of the zaporizhzhya army or malasia minor russia. the crossroads of cultures of trade routes, the intersection of the geopolitical interests of the largest european and world powers, all this predetermined the nature of historical processes in ukraine. and if the state with the name ukraine is only about 30 years old, then the history of the territory with the name ancient russia, little russia, new russia has several centuries . vladimir and the entry of little russia into the russian kingdom under khmelnitsky, the annexation of crimea to russia and the emergence of new russia under catherine ii, the emergence of the ukrainian ssr, its hero and traitors during the years of the great patriotic war, the collapse of the soviet union and the beginning

the dnieper and were controlled by poland behind them to the south, lay the steppe, where the crimean khanateuled. it is believed that ukraine first appeared on european maps in the middle of the 16th century, thanks to the french military engineer in the polish service, hyom viplan, he compiled a description of these territories, put them on a map and named several non-provincial provinces as ukraine. the commonwealth ca. at the same time, the term ukraine began to be used in kazakh correspondence to refer to the lands of the hetman state, which was created and conquered from poland by bohdan khmelnitsky, from whose name the steppe borderland of the polish kingdom was called until 1648. ukraine has become the name of the kazakh state, formed on the lands of the three crown eastern voivodeships of the kiev brotherhood and chernihiv only towards the end of the eighteenth century. they are beginning to be called ukrainians. like this, if ukraine and ukrainians appeared in general terms, so that they would not talk about it today different historians and politicians in ukraine, but about how the

the results of the russian-turkish wars, these lands were conquered in different years from the crimean khanaten empire. they stretched along the coast of two seas, the black sea and the sea of ​​azov in the west, reaching the moldavian principality. today, these are the western borders of the odessa and nikolaev regions in the center and in the north covered the current zaporozhye dnipropetrovsk and kirovohrad regions, and in the east part of the dpr and the lc half of the 18th century, territory of novorossiya. it was expanded by military settlers and noble landowners who received land here. the term itself was invented and put into circulation by catherine the great, according to her plan, this was how the new earth should have been called. with little russia and great russia, novorossiysk province was formed by the highest decree in 1764, its territory during several reforms changed until 1802, the most turbulent period in the development of novorossia under prince potemkin, at the behest of catherine, new cities were laid, yekaterinoslav. kherson odessa and many others built a fleet develo