Andriy Maslovskyy

Ukrainian Catholic University is a private scientific and educational theological institution in Lviv.

The founder of modern UCU is the Foundation of St. Clement, the ultimate beneficiary of which is the owner. Borys Hudziak, and the founders are also Anna Kozak and Myroslav Marynovych. At the same time, the university is considered the successor of the Greek Catholic Theological Academy, which was founded in 1928 on the initiative and with the blessing of Metropolitan Andrei Sheptytsky on the basis of the Theological Seminary.

After the closure of the Academy in April 1945, its mission and functions were taken over by the Ukrainian Catholic University. st. Clement in Rome, organized and headed in 1963 by Metropolitan Joseph the Blind. In 1994, the Academy was reestablished as the Lviv Theological Academy (LBA), and in the summer of 2002, the Academy was reorganized into the Ukrainian Catholic University.

In 1998, the LBA received international accreditation. The first rector of the restored LBA was Fr. Mihailo Dimid. In 2000, he was succeeded by Fr. Borys Gudziak, who in 2002 by the decision of the Foundation of St. Clement was appointed the first rector of UCU. Since 2013, the rector is Fr. Dr. Bogdan Prah, Bishop Boris Gudziak - President.

Throughout history, theological teaching has taken various forms; for example, during the first centuries of Christianity its expression was the oral tradition of the Liturgy. It was not until the Middle Ages that schools and universities emerged in the West, where theology as a science began to be studied.

In response to the challenge of the Protestant Reformation and the Catholic Counter-Reformation, the first Ukrainian theological schools emerged, particularly in Ostroh and Lviv, which significantly influenced the religious and cultural revival of Ukraine in the late 16th century. After the Brest Union, in the conditions of church division and inter-confessional confrontation, different conditions were created for the development of education and theology in both branches of the Kyiv Church.

For the Orthodox Church of the 17th century, this division proved to be extremely fruitful, in particular due to the reforms of Petro Mohyla and the activities of his offspring, the Kyiv-Mohyla Academy. The theological synthesis between East and West, the general openness to the "free sciences", the willingness to introduce theology into culture and culture into theology, contributed to the fact that the Academy became the intellectual center of all Eastern Christianity.

Attempts by the Greek Catholic Church to develop its own school system during this period were unsuccessful - and only a few clergy were able to study at Catholic universities and papal colleges. Under the conditions of post-Tridentine uniformity and constant lack of national intellectual forces, a tradition arose to rely on foreign educational and scientific institutions, on foreign forces and minds, a tradition that is firmly entrenched in the Church and resulted in Latinization and cultural Polonization.

Changes took place only at the end of the 18th century, when the Greek Catholic General Seminary in Vienna (1774) was founded with the assistance of the Austrian authorities, which was moved to Lviv in 1783. For a century and a half, seminarians studied at the faculties of philosophy and theology at Lviv University, although even in this educational institution it was not possible to revive and nurture the traditions of Kyiv Christianity.

In the twentieth century, the organization of theological education of the Ukrainian Greek Catholic Church has undergone significant changes. As early as 1905, at a session of the Austrian parliament, Metropolitan Andrei Sheptytsky demanded the establishment of a Ukrainian university. The hardships of the First World War and the unfavorable political circumstances of the time did not allow this intention to be realized quickly.

The actions of the Polish authorities were the impetus for the intensification of the development of Ukrainian higher education in Galicia. Thus, in 1918, in line with the general policy of Polonization at the University of Lviv, Ukrainian departments were closed, Ukrainian professors were fired, and the pressure of church Latinization intensified. The secret Ukrainian university, which became a temporary refuge for Ukrainian professors and students, was forcibly liquidated in 1925. In this context, Metropolitan Andrei Sheptytsky took the initiative to establish a higher theological school.

On February 22, 1928, Metropolitan Sheptytsky issued a decree on the establishment of the Greek Catholic Theological Academy in Lviv, and on October 6, 1929, its grand opening took place. The first rector is Fr. Dr. Joseph the Blind. Having united around itself the leading circles of the Western Ukrainian intelligentsia, the Academy immediately became the center of theological and philosophical sciences. It was the only Ukrainian higher education institution in what was then Poland. During the 10 years of its existence, the Academy has grown significantly: new faculties and departments have been opened, the number of professors has increased to 40, the publishing business has been developed, and a library has been formed. At the end of 1931, a museum was established at the Academy, headed by Dr. Mykhailo Dragan. From the very beginning, the Theological Academy has tried to introduce Eastern perspectives, to inculturate theology, although the boundaries for such initiatives in the Catholic Church, including up to the Second Vatican Council, were quite narrow.

After the arrival of Soviet troops in Galicia in September 1939, the Academy was closed and students were repressed. As a result of the German bombing on September 15, 1939, the Academic Church of the Holy Spirit and the library were destroyed. During the German occupation, training resumed at the Academy, albeit with a small teaching staff. Of the 500 students who studied in 1941–1944, only 60 received diplomas. After the repeated Soviet occupation in the spring of 1945, the Theological Academy was finally closed. A significant number of graduates and professors of the Academy (including the long-term rector and, after the death of Metropolitan Andrei, the Head of the UGCC Joseph the Blind) found themselves in the Siberian Gulag or in exile.

However, the Church survived in the catacombs: bishops and priests secretly conducted their pastoral work, monasteries operated, and seminarians studied underground. Professors and spiritual mentors in these circumstances were mostly former teachers and graduates of the Academy.

The situation with theological education was difficult for Greek Catholics who were in exile. Due to the lack of their schools, they were again forced to "borrow" knowledge where foreign issues were discussed. In 1963, after 18 years of imprisonment and camps, the head of the UGCC, Joseph the Blind, arrived in Rome. One of his first decrees concerned the establishment of the Ukrainian Catholic University; shortly afterwards, the Patriarch founded the College of St. Sophia. Students of UCU and the College of St. Sophia under the spiritual care of Patriarch Joseph thought that the Church needs its theology, its approach to theology, it needs to have its own scientific and educational institution. Already in the 1970's and 1980's, Ukrainian seminarians studying in Rome considered the prospect of establishing a Ukrainian Catholic theological faculty and developed appropriate curricula that would meet the needs of our Church. Later, thanks to their efforts, the restoration of the Lviv Theological Academy began.

In 1992, with the blessing of the Head of the UGCC, Supreme Archbishop Myroslav Ivan Cardinal Lyubachivsky, a commission was set up to restore the Theological Academy. In 1994, the Lviv Synod of Bishops voted to restore the LBA. In September of the same year, the Academy was officially opened. After the opening of the Academy in 1994, the admission of students and the first two years of study, the leadership of the LBA began work on its accreditation. In 1998, the Academy was recognized by the Congregation for Catholic Education. The bachelor's degree in theology, awarded to the Academy's first graduates in 1999, is recognized by all Catholics and many non-Catholics in the world. Since 1999, the research unit of the Institute of Liturgical Sciences has been operating.

On June 28, 2002, the Academy was reorganized into the Ukrainian Catholic University. In 2003, UCU opened its own publishing house.

In the summer of 1999, the Academy hosted graduation ceremonies for the first twenty-eight graduates. For the first time in the Ukrainian Higher Theological School, lay people received a bachelor's degree, for the first time in Ukraine women became certified theologians, and for the first time a diploma issued by a Ukrainian theological institution had international recognition.

Since 2004, the UCU has had the Institute of Ecumenical Studies, which has an autonomous status and conducts research and educational work in the field of interfaith and interreligious relations. Ecumenical and distance learning programs of ecumenical sciences operate on the basis of the institute.

In 2007, the Ukrainian Catholic University received licenses from the Ministry of Education of Ukraine to train specialists in Theology (Theology) and History (Bachelor's, Specialist, Master's) and Social Pedagogy. -qualification level - bachelor).

The Secretariat of the International Christian Movement "Faith and Light" in Ukraine is located on the territory of the University.

On June 30, 2015, the State Accreditation Commission of the Ministry of Education and Science of Ukraine decided to grant a license to the Ukrainian Catholic University to prepare bachelors in 6.050101 "Computer Science" in the field of knowledge 0501 "Informatics and Computer Science".

Graduates of the CS @ UCU program will have a state diploma with the qualification "Information Technology Specialist".

"Freedom Lecture" in memory of Oleksandr Kryvenko is an annual public lecture at the Ukrainian Catholic University in memory of journalist Sashko Kryvenko. It is informally organized by Krivenko's comrades every year close to his birthday (May 13).

The topic of the lecture is about freedom in a broad sense and personal understanding of the lecturer. The structure of the action: a word-memoir about O. Kryvenko, a word-presentation of the lecturer, the lecture itself. Traditionally, at the same time as the lecture, the Kryvenko Prize for Progress in Journalism is awarded to the best Ukrainian publicist.

Readers:

• 2004 - Adam Michnik, editor of the Polish "Gazeta Wyborcza";
• 2005 - (experimental) premiere of the documentary;
• 2006 - Bogumila Berdychowska, Polish publicist;
• 2007 - Savik Shuster, journalist;
• 2008 - Fr. Boris Gudziak, Rector of UCU;
• 2009 - Yuri Andrukhovych, writer;
• 2010 - Anton Oliynyk, Professor (Institutional Economics), Memorial University (Canada), Higher School of Economics (Russia).
• 2011 - Vsevolod Rechytskyi, constitutional expert of the Kharkiv Human Rights Group.
• 2012 - Serhiy Rachmanin, Deputy Editor-in-Chief of the Mirror of the Week.
• 2013 - Natalia Yakovenko, historian.
• 2014 - Akhtem Seitablaev, film director.
• 2015 - Elena Styazhkina, historian.
• 2016 - Svyatoslav Vakarchuk, musician.
• 2017 - Boris Kherson, writer.
• 2018 - Igor Kozlovsky, theologian.
• 2019 - Yaroslav Hrytsak, historian.

The idea of ​​creating a state-of-the-art campus appeared in 1999, when UCU purchased an unfinished theater building of the Prykarpattia Military District, including an area of ​​4 hectares, near Stryj Park. Already in June 2001, Pope John Paul II, together with His Beatitude Lubomyr Husar and the bishops of the UGCC, consecrated the cornerstone of the future town. After a long break on September 5, 2010, a capsule was laid for the construction of the UCU campus. The consecration was carried out by the then head of the UGCC, Patriarch Lubomyr Husar, and Bishop Borys Gudziak together with the bishops of the UGCC.

The Collegium project was carried out by the American firm KMW (Kallmann McKinnell & Wood Architects), which was selected from among 15 firms participating in the tender. The project was adapted by the Ukrainian company UDG (Ukrainian Design Group). Lviv-based construction company TVD was engaged in construction gene contracting. Construction began in August 2010 and was completed in September 2012. The total area of ​​the Collegium is 7,500 square meters, the size of an average football field.

On August 26, 2012, the Collegium named after Patriarch Joseph the Blind on the basis of the campus of the Ukrainian Catholic University. The head of the UGCC Sviatoslav (Shevchuk) and Bishop Borys (Gudziak) together with the bishops and priests of the UGCC held the consecration ceremony of the newly built Collegium.

The college is home to about 200 students, three teachers and several staff members, as well as three Redemptorist sisters, who create a special university community and a homely atmosphere. The college has a special housing for people with special needs from the community "L'Arche" ("Ark"). The Collegium also has about a hundred living rooms. A significant part of the premises will be occupied by various workshops and clubs, a choir room, a cinema hall, a gym, student self-government rooms and a laundry.

• Faculty of Philosophy and Theology
• Faculty of Humanities
• Faculty of Health Sciences
• Faculty of Social Sciences
• Faculty of Applied Sciences
• UCU Lviv Business School

1. Ukraine Kyiv center
2. Ukraine School of Management of the Ukrainian Catholic University
3. USA Ukrainian Catholic Educational Foundation - USA
4. Italy Institute of St. Pope Clement in Rome
5. United Kingdom Ukrainian Institute in London
6. Canada Ukrainian Catholic Educational Foundation - Canada
7. Argentina UCU branch in Argentina

• Solchanyk Bohdan Zinoviyovych - from the Heavenly Hundred.
• Boris (Gudziak)
• Miroslav Marinovich
• Yaroslav Hrytsak
• Mihailo Dimid

Stepan Petrovich Giga (sometimes Giga, born November 16, 1959, in the village of Bilky) is a Ukrainian pop singer (tenor), composer, and People's Artist of Ukraine (2002). Member of the National League of Composers of Ukraine.

Stepan Giga was born on November 16, 1959 in the village of Bilky, Irshava district, Zakarpattia region. From the 7th grade until the very end of the music school, Stepan Giga was a member of the ensemble "Green Carpathians", later he became the leader of this group.

He studied at the Uzhhorod Music School for three years (1980-1983) instead of four. He passed the external exams. While studying, he received a special permit from the Ministry of Culture of Ukraine to freely attend the educational process.

In the second year of the Philharmonic he became a soloist of the extremely popular synthesis group "Stozhary" (at the Chernihiv Philharmonic), while working as a soloist of the opera studio of the Kiev Conservatory, led by People's Artist of the Soviet Union Dmitry Hnatiuk.

In 1988 he was a soloist of the Transcarpathian Regional Philharmonic. A year later, Stepan Giga formed the jazz-rock band Beskids. In 1989, the band "My Friends" was formed, with which Stepan Giga still works.

In 1991, the Beskid band was disbanded and Giga lost his job. Then he tried to arrange, began to write songs. He later founded the recording studio GIGARecords.

In 1995 the first solo album "My Friends" was released. Later, two more appeared: "Natalie Street" and "Roses for You".

On February 20, 1998 he became the Honored Artist of Ukraine, on December 28, 2002 he received the honorary title of People's Artist of Ukraine.

Stepan Giga is married, his wife Halyna is a former administrator of the Transcarpathian Philharmonic, and now the director of the GIGARecords recording studio. The couple is raising two children - a daughter Kvitoslava and a son Stepan.

Stepan Giga lives and works in Ivano-Frankivsk.

• 1995 - "My friends"
• 1997 - "Queen", Studio "ALEX"
• 2001 - "Natalie Street", Studio "6 Seconds"
• 2004 - "Roses for You", Studio "6 Seconds"
• 2014 - "Road to the Temple", Studio "6 Seconds"

• Honored Artist of Ukraine (1998);
• Order of Prince Constantine of Ostroh 1st degree (2000);
• People's Artist of Ukraine (2002);
• Order of the Cossack Glory of the 3rd degree (2003);
• Golden Disc Award (Munich, 2003);
• Order of the Nativity of Christ (2004);
• Order of Andrew the First-Called II degree (2005);
• Order of Andrew the First-Called I degree (2006);
• Order of Merit of the III degree (2009).

DZIDZIO (Ukrainian: Dzidzo, slang for Grandpa) is a Ukrainian pop band formed in 2009 with the support and support of Andriy Kuzmenko and Oleg Turk, based on the band's protagonist, the comedic character Dzidz, invented by Mykhailo Khoma.

Performs in the genre of "comedic anti-glamorous pop". In addition to literary Ukrainian, he also uses dialect in his songs.

So far, the band has released three albums - "HA-HA-HA", "DZIDZIO hits" and "DZIDZIO Super-Puper" and made a number of clips and films.

Since 2017, the band consists of four musicians - Jijo, Lamour, Agrus and Rumbambar.

DZIDZIO was formed in Novoyavorivsk, Lviv region, on September 9, 2009. Shortly after Kuzma's song "Old Photos" performed by DZIDZIO, a new music project entered the media space of Ukraine.

In 2009, Kuzma wrote the music and lyrics for the band "Yalta", which later helped DZIDZIO gain popularity.

Jijo became popular on the Internet thanks to his well-known monologues about "Mason's pig", which is the "ideological inspiration" of the band. The band's fan club on the Russian social network VK exceeded 200,000, and the number of views of the band's videos on the official DZIDZIO YouTube channel exceeded 11 million per year.

In 2011, a video for the song "Sama-sama" was shot in Spain. In the summer of 2012, the premiere of the music video for the song "Ha-ha-ha" was held at the capital's club "Byblos". At the presentation of the video, several web conferences on well-known portals and radio stations, the Internet audience watched the concert online on the band's official YouTube channel, and the band's app for iPhone and Android was released.

In September 2012, DZIDZIO visited the annual Oktoberfest in Munich, where the guys chatted with local beer and music lovers, as well as festival guests from around the world who remembered the band for their bright Oktoberfest costumes and live performances.

On November 20, 2012, DZIDZIO released their debut CD album "HA-HA-HA".

In the spring of 2013, the guys met with a new song "Neighbors", a clip of which the musicians presented in mid-March. It traditionally starred the heroine of all clips of the band DZIDZIO, their muse - Hope. Also in March, the band DZIDZIO released the first personal karaoke disc in the Ukrainian music space in DVD format.

On May 18, 2013, a significant event in the history of the band took place - a solo concert at the Arena Lviv stadium. The concert became significant for the band DZIDZIO. They were the first at the new stadium, which was built before "Euro 2012", the concert was attended by 25,000 spectators. Before the performance, the audience had the opportunity to see on the big screen a cartoon about the creation of the band DZIDZIO called "Birth of a Legend", which was later also presented on the official channel of the band on YouTube. The final chord of this show was the premiere of the song "I'm lucky".

In the fall of 2013, the band's frontman hosted the show "Sing If You Can" on the New Channel. On December 8, 2013, the full band took part in a music marathon on Independence Square during the Revolution of Dignity.

In the summer of 2015, DZIDZIO presented a new video "I'm going to my mother", shot in Portugal. A tour of Canada took place in the summer of 2015.

In March 2016, one of the founders, Lesyk, left the band with a scandal. According to Khoma, Lesyk did not agree with the band's move to Kyiv, so he wanted to sell his share of property rights for 5,200,000 hryvnias, which other members refused to buy. As a result, Lesyk presented his share in the band of Andriy Kuzmenko's mother at the UNIAN press conference, and guitarist Orest Halytsky came to the band under the pseudonym Lyamur (godfather of Yulik's son).

In August 2017, a feature film entitled "DZIDZIO Double Bass" was presented to the general public. In September 2017, the keyboardist of the band Yulik left the band, but the Gulyak brothers joined the band: Volodymyr Hulyak (Agrus) became the new keyboardist, and Serhiy Hulyak (Rumbambar) became the new drummer.

On August 21, 2020, the soloist of the band DZIDZIO Mykhailo Khoma performed the anthem of Ukraine with the Youth Symphony Orchestra. In August 2020, the soloist of the band DZIDZIO Mykhailo Khoma received the title of Honored Artist of Ukraine from President Volodymyr Zelensky.

Musicians:

• "Jijo" - Mykhailo Khoma (2009 - present) - vocal, founder and leader of the band;
• "Lamur" - Orest Halytsky (2016 - present) - guitar, backing vocals;
• "Gooseberry" - Vladimir Gulyak (2017 - present) - keyboards, backing vocals;
• "Rumbambar" - Sergei Gulyak (2017 - present) - drums.

Interestingly, Gooseberry and Rumbambar are brothers. The band's management includes concert director Andriy Lyuby and sound director Serhiy Lyba.

"Lesyk" - Oleg Turko (2009-2016) - guitar, backing vocals, founder of the band.

"Yulik" - Nazariy Huk (2012 - 2017) - keyboards, backing vocals.

• The song "Hysterics" was recorded together with VovaZiL'vova, but the version was released on the radio without the participation of the rapper.
• Mykhailo Khoma, the band's leader and vocalist, used the Nadsyansky dialect in his "monologues", thanks to which he gained his first popularity. In addition, he used profanity. In "Matsonka" he tells about a sexual adventure during a trip to Kyiv. In other stories, the main character next to him is a piglet named Mason. "Mason Four" went on the radio in censorship.
• The band leader, unlike his colleagues, appeared on stage with a beard and mustache. Since 2016, Jijo has been wearing a real beard. Mykhailo Khoma is a childhood friend of Andriy Kuzmenko (Kuzma), whom he considers the "first teacher" (and who is mentioned in the third and fourth Masonics). Instead, another of Kuzma's longtime colleagues and a former member of the Skryabin band, Andriy Pidluzhny, who appeared on M1 as Andron's bearded grandfather back in 2003, accuses Khoma of plagiarism. They say that the image of Dzidz is the "licked" grandfather Andron.
• The song "Gopa-hopa" was sung by Polish bands "Cliver" and "Liderdance".
• After the release of the song "Yalta", a parody called "Slatino" appeared on the Internet, as well as a parody of the soloist of the group "Red Mold" Sergei Levchenko called "Kvasim", which also used surzhik.
• The guys consider the girl Nadezhda to be the mascot of the band, who starred in each of their videos.
• Mason's pig's snout is the symbol of the band.
• On May 18, 2013 TM "LIMO" together with the singer officially presented ice cream "Dzidzio".
• DZIDZIO's YouTube channel has almost 400 million views.
• The song "Sama-sama" sounded in the 2nd series of the series "Servant of the People".
• The group's soloist appears in the series "Servant of the People" in the 2nd and 3rd series of the first season.
• On February 27, 2016, the premiere of the talent show “Ukraine has talent. Children "(season 8), where Jijo is a new member of the jury.
• On March 4, 2017, the second season of the children's talent show "Ukraine has talent. Children "with the participation of Dzidzio as a member of the jury.
• On August 31, 2017, the full-length film "DZIDZIO Double Bass" was released nationwide. The Sun was a partner and co-producer of the project.
• In early 2018, the shooting of the second feature film "DZIDZIO First Time" was announced.

Antytila is a Ukrainian pop-rock band from Kyiv, formed in 2007. The frontman of the band is Taras Topolya. The Antibody repertoire consists mainly of songs in Ukrainian.

In the spring of 2007 the band with the song "I will not forget the first night" took part in the TV program "Chance". He was the only participant in the project who performed unaccompanied and performed his own song, not a resounding hit. The band did not win the show, but a week after the program aired, the song "I will not forget the first night" was downloaded more than 30,000 times from the band's official website. The song was broadcast on several radio stations.

The date of the band's creation can be considered June 21, 2004 (the first performance of the band's leader Taras Topoli with the song "Antibody" in one of the clubs in Kyiv). But in the usual lineup - January 2008. After the TV project "Chance" there were changes in its composition, began active work on a new sound and fresh material. In December 2008, the band released their first full-length album, Buduvudu (16 songs). The album was accompanied by the debut video of "Buduvud", which was often broadcast on Ukrainian music channels, and in two weeks of rotation led the hit parade of the M1 channel.

In 2008, the band Antitila won the Grand Prix of the Pearls of the Season Music Festival. The music group was included in the presentation collection "Art Olympus of Ukraine 2008-2009" for the preservation of Ukrainian melody in contemporary youth and pop art. MTV channel invited the band to go on an all-Ukrainian tour.

In 2008-2010, Antibody collaborated with the Catapult Music Production Center. Participated in festivals, TV and radio programs, music projects.

In 2009, the band became one of five nominees from Ukraine for the MTV EMA-2009 (Europe Music Awards). New clips have been released - "Take yours", "Pink Maidens", "Choose".

In the summer of 2010 Antitila stopped cooperating with Catapult Music: the keyboardist and arranger Serhiy Vusyk took over all the management and concert activities. At the same time, the musicians get the right to represent Ukraine at the European festival Sighetu Marmatiei in Budapest. "Antibodies" became the headliners of the "MTV Headbangers" scene.

At the end of 2010 the band went on the first independent club tour of the cities of Ukraine.

The band's song "And I Discovered You" in 2010 became the soundtrack to the short film "Dog Waltz" with Ada Rogovtseva in the lead role. The film is part of the film anthology "Lovers in Kiev". A video clip based on this film appeared.

In 2011, several songs appeared in the Russian film "Hide and Seek", and the musicians themselves took part in the tape, starring themselves. In the summer of the same year, the band recorded the official anthem of the Ukrainian stage of the Formula 1 race on the water. That's how the song "F1H2O" appeared, and later a video clip.

In the fall of 2011, the band finished work on their second album "Choose". The presentation of the album took place in Kyiv, then the band went on a promotional tour in Ukraine. On the album "Choose" 11 songs and 3 bonuses, including the Russian-language song "Look at me", which in 2012 was included in the fateful Russian hit parade "Devil's Dozen 13" radio station "Our Radio" and for three months on top . The concept of the disc has a pronounced social orientation of the texts and a heavier sound of the band. In the songs, in addition to love lyrics, the band touches on acute social issues.

Critics noted that for the first time in a long time, the young Ukrainian band, making its debut, immediately conquered the Russian audience. "Antibodies" released a video for the song "Look at me", which was directed by the cult Ukrainian artist Victor Pryduvalov.

In the summer of 2012, the world saw the video "And all night", and the song became the main summer hit in Ukraine. Behind him came the Invisible. The song drew attention to the problem of abortion.

The musicians spent almost the entire autumn of 2012 on an all-Ukrainian open air tour, touring all the major cities of the country. Up to 20,000 spectators attended some of the band's performances.

In November, the band worked hard on a joint song "Polynesian Winter" with the rock band "Tabula Rasa". The video for the Russian-Ukrainian winter hit was shot on the main football arena of Ukraine - NSC "Olympic".

Without interrupting the creative and concert process, Serhiy Vusyk, keyboardist and arranger of the band, became the author of the soundtrack to the joint Ukrainian-Nigerian film "Light as a Feather". The film premiered at the Cannes Film Festival this summer.

In late 2012-early 2013, "Antibody" was awarded in 5 nominations for the "Devil's Dozen" award from the Moscow station "Our Radio" for creative achievements in the field of rock 'n' roll. The band also gave their first concert in Russia, in the Moscow club "16 tons". In February 2013, the band presented a new music video for the Russian-language song "You are my bride."

February 2013 - the band goes on a concert tour in Ukraine, called "Language". The tour began in the Chimera Hall in the center of Lviv. The song "Let's Go (Language)" was created especially for the tour, the video of which was presented on May 18 during the final concert in Kyiv.

May 15, 2013, the National Music Ceremony "Ukrainian Song of the Year" continues. In the nomination "The Future of Ukrainian Song", the band receives the musical award "Hit Band of 2012". "Antibodies" garnered the most votes from viewers for the song "Invisible". The music video for this song also won the "Best Music Video of 2012" award in the rock nomination, according to the music internet portal "Navsi100".

2013 - the band presents the music video "Like Angels" and the third album "Above the Poles".

2014 - "Antibodies" go on an international tour of the same name in support of the new album and at the same time volunteer, helping ATO soldiers. In the same year, Viktor Raevsky left the band, and Nikita Astrakhantsev took the place of the new bass guitarist.

In January 2015, a video for the song "Always Mine" is released, which is dedicated to Ukraine and its defenders.

On May 23, 2015, the band released their fourth album "Everything is beautiful".

September 2015 - director Kadim Tarasov creates an unusual video for "Antibodies" for the song "I don't have enough of you". Serhiy Vusyk plays the main role in it.

Musicians continue to volunteer. Influenced by these events, Taras Topolya wrote the song "In the Books". The upcoming hit becomes one of the band's dramatic tracks. In November 2015, a music video for this song was released.

January 2016. A few days before the anniversary of the tragedy that took away the leader of the band "Skryabin" Andriy Kuzmenko, "Antibodies" presents a video for the rendition of the song "People as ships". Taras Topolya has already performed this song together with the musicians of the band "Skryabin" during concerts in memory of Kuzma in Kyiv and Lviv.

At the end of 2015, Antibody is preparing a new concert program for the all-Ukrainian tour "Everything is Beautiful" in support of the album. The tour started on February 13, 2016 in Lviv and ended on April 1 in Mykolayiv. The band gave 20 concerts, gathering 20 full halls, six of which were filled to capacity. In between tours, the clip "Milk" is released. After the Ukrainian part of the tour, guitarist Mykita Chukhrienko leaves the band, and Dmytro Zholud takes his place. In the renewed line-up, the musicians begin the festival season, and in July go to New York with a big concert as part of the Nadiya Ye festival.

On September 10, 2016, the clip "Dance" was presented.

End of September 2016 Antibodies are the headliners of the Bloor West Village Festival in Toronto.

Upon returning to Kyiv, the band is actively working on a new album "Sun", while preparing to shoot a music video for the song "Lonely". The plot is kept secret until its online presentation on November 22. The main role in this work was played by the famous actor Alexei Gorbunov, and the director is Victor Priduvalov. The song "Lonely" becomes one of the leaders in the upcoming album, and also the soundtrack to the series of the same name, the music for which was written by the band's keyboardist Sergei Vusyk.

On December 9, "Antibodies" presents a new maxi-single "Sun", which consists of 9 songs. The album is presented in electronic form on all known online-resources, as well as on tangible media - CDs and Flash-cards in DigiPak packaging.

At the end of 2016, Antibody announces the largest tour of the Sun in their history, 2017, which includes about 50 concerts over three months. In addition to regional centers, its geography covered the frontline cities of Ukraine: Severodonetsk, Pokrovsk, Kramatorsk, Mariupol. The tour started in Lviv, crowded with fans of the "Southern EXRO" hall on February 14. In March, the band managed to play 29 concerts. During the tour, frontman Taras Topolya, together with the UNICEF U-Report project, visits Ukrainian universities, where he meets with students and talks to them about important topics of today.

The Ukrainian part of the tour ends on April 22 in the city of Sambir. In a few days, "Antibodies" will travel across the Atlantic Ocean, opening a touring history of the cities of America and Canada, namely: Chicago, Minneapolis, New York, Dallas, Houston, Seattle and Vancouver, gathering full houses everywhere.

The point in the large-scale tour "Sun" was the final open-air concert on the helipad of the CEC "Park" on May 25, which gathered more than 3 thousand listeners.

At the end of the "Sun" tour, Antibodies, together with directors Dmytro Manifest and Dmytro Shmurak, will start shooting a video for the song "Fara". The clip was presented on July 11 in an online broadcast on the YouTube channel "New Channel". The video work "Lights" became the fourth filmed track from the album "Sun".

At the end of the summer of 2017, the band is changing, replacing Denis Shvets and Nikita Astrakhantsev, drummer Dmitry Vodovozov and bassist Mikhail Chirko.

In the updated line-up, after the autumn concert break, "Antibodies" presents the first studio work. The premiere of the song "TDME" (short for "Where We Are") and lyric video took place on November 30, 2017. The premiere of the official video work "TDME", which is not a video, but a short film, took place on the YouTube channel of the group in the format of an online presentation on December 21, 2017. This hit became the soundtrack of the TV series "School".

On March 14, 2018, Antibody performed at the SXSW (South by Southwest) International Festival in Austin, Texas, USA. The band performed on the stage of the Sheraton Backyard Hotel Bar, where they presented a 40-minute version of their TDME concert program. [16] In late April, the band embarked on a TDME tour of North American cities, visiting six cities in the United States and three in Canada.

On August 1, the band presented a music video for the second work from their sixth studio album "Hello" - "Catch the moment". The video features members of the band with their relatives, including Taras Topolya and his wife Olena.

On November 1, 2018, a video for the song "Lego" was released, which is the soundtrack to the Ukrainian romantic comedy "I, you, he, she" from "Studio Quarter-95". Zelensky, who plays the main role, took part in the shooting of the video. Excerpts from the upcoming film were also shown in the video. The video quickly gained popularity and garnered more than a million views on YouTube in two weeks.

The album Hello, along with a clip for the title track, was released online on April 12, 2019.

The band joined the action "That's how memory works" dedicated to the memory of Danylo Didik with the song Ptaha.

• Taras Topolya - vocals, lyrics
• Serhiy Vusyk - keyboards, arrangements (since 2008)
• Mykhailo Chirko - bass (since 2017)
• Dmitry Acorn - guitar (since 2016)
• Dmitry Vodovozov - drums (since 2017)

• Oleksiy Skuridin - drums (until 2011)
• Erland Sivolapov - drums (2011-2012)
• Victor Raevsky - bass (2008-2015)
• Nikita Chukhrienko - guitar (2008-2016)
• Denis Shvets - drums (2012-2017)
• Nikita Astrakhantsev - bass (2015—2017)

• 2008 - "Buildingwood"
• 2011 - "Choose"
• 2013 - "Above the Poles"
• 2015 - "Everything is beautiful"
• 2016 - "Sun"
• 2019 - Hello

• 2008: Miami
• 2008: Construction
• 2009: Choose
• 2009: Pink Virgins
• 2010: Take yours
• 2011: White Crow
• 2011: Look at me
• 2012: And I discovered you
• 2012: Anthem F1H2O
• 2012: And all night
• 2012: Invisible
• 2012: Polynesian winter
• 2013: To you my bride
• 2013: Let's go let's go
• 2013: Like angels
• 2014: Above the poles
• 2015: Always mine
• 2015: I don't have enough of you
• 2015: In the books
• 2016: People as ships
• 2016: Milk
• 2016: Dance
• 2016: Alone
• 2017: Lights
• 2017: TDME
• 2018: Dance
• 2018: The Lonely Man
• 2018: Catch the moment
• 2018: Lego
• 2019: Believed
• 2019: Hello
• 2019: Symphony
• 2019: There will be a son
• 2019: Stand Up
• 2020: Cinema
• 2021: Masquerade
• 2021: Stand up

• 2017 - "Lonely" (the song "Lonely" plays at the beginning of each series)
• 2018 - "School" (song "TDME" plays at the beginning of each series)
• 2018 - "I, you, he, she" (song "Lego")

Danylo Romanovych, or King Danylo or Danylo Halytsky (b. 1201 - 1264) - King of Russia (1253–1264), ruler of the Halych-Volyn principality (1238–1264). Prince of Galicia (1205-1206, 1211-1212, 1230-1232, 1233-1234, 1238-1264), Vladimir (1205-1208, 1215-1238). The last independent Grand Duke of Kyiv (1239-1240). Representative of the Romanov family, a branch of the Volyn Monomakhovich family from the Rurik dynasty.

Son of Roman Mstislavich and daughter of the Byzantine Emperor Isaac II Angel. He took part in the battle of Kalka against the Mongols, was wounded (1223). After his father's death, he restored and rebuilt the Galician-Volyn state created by Roman. In alliance with the Polovtsians, he defeated the Galician boyar opposition led by Rostislav Mikhailovich and the Hungarian-Polish interventionists at the Battle of Yaroslavl (1245). He was attacked by the Mongols (1241) and declared himself their vassal (1245). He made alliances with Rome, the Teutonic Order, and Polish and Hungarian rulers. He tried in vain to form a European anti-Mongol coalition.

Hoping for the help of Western allies, he received from Pope Innocent IV the royal crown and Catholic clergy (1253). As an ally of the Hungarians, he took part in the war for the Austrian heritage (1252-1253). He contributed to the development of cities: he built Kholm, Lviv, Kremenets, Danyliv, Stizhok, and restored Dorogychyn. The time of his reign was the time of the greatest economic and cultural rise and political strengthening of the Galicia-Volyn state. He died in Holm. National hero of Ukraine.

• Danilo Romanovich (Ukr: Данілъ Романович) is a Ukrainian tradition with a patronymic.
• King Daniel is a popular name to emphasize the royal title.
• Daniel I - in the Western tradition with the number of the ruler.
• Danilo Halytsky is a Russian historiographical name adopted by Ukrainian authors of the 19th century.

After the death of his father, Grand Duke Roman Mstislavych (1205), his young children Danylo and Vasylko had no chance of retaining power in Halych.

Roman's widow, Princess Anna and her sons moved from Halych to Volodymyr in Volhynia, where her husband was buried. In 1206 she and Vasylk went to Cracow, Daniel was sent to the court of Hungarian King András II, where he spent 6 years. Anna served as regent to her young sons until 1215, when Daniel began to rule in Vladimir on his own - then went to the monastery.

Grandchildren of Yaroslav Osmomysl, Mstislav Udatny, other descendants of Roman's relatives, Roman's son-in-law Mykhailo Chernihivsky and his son Rostislav claimed their dynastic rights to Halych. The related dynasties of the Arpads (Hungary) and the Piast (Poland) also claimed Galician lands.

1211 - boyars installed Daniel to rule in Galicia, but expelled in 1212.

1214 - Hungarian King András II of Hungary and Prince Leszko I of Cracow decide to imprison Hungarian King Koloman and Polish Princess Salome (aged 5 and 3, respectively) in Halychyna with the consent of Pope Innocent III. At the same time, Galicia was ceded to Hungary, and the Romanovs were left with Volhynia.

For more than 10 years, the young Romanovichs played almost no role in the turbulent events that unfolded in their estate. In 1215, with the support of Prince Leszek I of Krakow, White Daniel became a prince in Volodymyr in Volhynia. Having taken over the city, the princes began to pursue an independent policy. The main role was played by Daniel as a senior, Vasilko became his assistant and ally.

When Prince Mstislav Udatny of Toropets conquered Halych, he became related to Daniel, marrying his daughter Anna in 1219. This marriage was the result of an agreement between the Volyn Monomakhovychs and the Smolensk ones, who fought for the Galician heritage, which broke out after the death of Roman near Zavykhost in 1205. Leszko I White, quarreling with Mstislav, expelled him and imprisoned in Halychyna his son-in-law - the Hungarian king Koloman in 1220. Mstislav, with the help of Daniel, expelled the Hungarians from Halych in 1221.

In 1223, together with other Russian princes, he took part in the battle of Kalka against the Mongols. He was wounded in the chest and retreated from the battlefield.

Soon there were disputes between Danylo and his father-in-law over power in Halych. They were quarreled even more by their cousin Danylo, the Belgian prince Alexander Vsevolodovich, who at one time tried in vain to seize Volhynia. In 1225 he armed Mstislav against Danylo, who fought for Halych in alliance with Leszek I the White. Mstislav called on the Polovtsians, while Alexander assured him that Danilo intended to kill his father-in-law. Later Danilo and Mstislav reconciled, in 1228 they fought together with the Hungarian king.

• Galician boyars (especially Sudislav) persuaded Mstislav Udatny before his death to hand over Halych not to Daniel, but to his son-in-law, Hungarian King Andrew
• Danilo and Vasylk conducted a successful campaign in Lutsk against Yaroslav Igorevich, which ended with the capture of the city and the annexation of the principality to the Romanovs. Immediately after the campaign, Danylo handed over Lutsk and Peresopnytsia to Vasylk
• Danilo and Vasilko conducted a successful campaign in Chortoryisk, which was ruled by Pinsk princes hostile to Danilo. The campaign ended with the capture and annexation of the city to the possessions of Daniel Romanovich and the captivity of the Pinsk princes.

In response, a large coalition of Rostislav Pinsky, Mykhailo Chernihivsky, and Volodymyr Rurikovich, together with the Polovtsians, in 1228 laid siege to the town of Kamyanets, owned by Danylo. The initiator of the campaign was Rostislav Pinsky, who took revenge for the captured children. However, Danylo and Vasylko, in alliance with Oleksandr Vsevolodovych, made an unexpected campaign in Kyiv - Mykhailo Chernihivskyi and Volodymyr Kyivskyi were forced to lift the siege and reconcile with Danylo.

Having united Volhynia, Danylo handed it over to his brother Vasylka (1230), and he himself began the struggle for the Galician land. In 1229, his supporters in Galicia invited Daniel to the throne. He laid siege to the city and, despite the burning of the bridge across the Dniester by the townspeople, captured Halych. Danylo Romanovych released the captured Prince Andrew, but later he, with the support of the boyar Sudislav and his father - Hungarian King András II - made another (unsuccessful) attempt to capture Halych.

Galician boyars in conspiracy with Alexander Belzky were preparing to assassinate Danylo, but Vasylko's brother accidentally exposed the conspiracy. Danilo and Vasylk started a war against Alexander, who fled to Hungary, from where, together with the Hungarian army of King Andrew, he approached Halych and took him.

In 1232 Danylo, in alliance with the Grand Duke of Kyiv Volodymyr Rurikovich and the Polovtsians, fought unsuccessfully against the Hungarians. Soon, during the siege of Halych by the Volynians, King Andrew died, and Daniel ascended the Galician throne.

In 1233 the Hungarian army was defeated near Shumsk. Before the battle, Danylo Romanovych prayed in the city church of St. Simeon.

In 1235 Mykhailo Chernihivsky occupied Halych and left his son Rostislav there.

Leontiy Voitovych does not rule out the possibility of the coronation of Danylo Romanovych, which could have been carried out by Emperor Frederick II Hohenstaufen in Vienna in 1237.

In 1238 Danylo managed to take Halych and finally seize the Halych principality. He defeated the Knights of the Dobrzyń Order in the Battle of Dorogichyn and regained the lands of the Brest region bordering on Mazovia. That year he conquered the principality of Turov.

1239 (1240) - occupied Kiev, where there was no prince, put there his governor - Governor Dmitry.

In December 1240, voivode Dmytro led the defense of Kiev from the hordes of Khan Batu - the city could not be defended.

In 1241 the hordes of Khan Batu marched on Volhynia and Halych. At that time, Daniel was not on his lands - he went to Hungary with his son Leo to woo the royal daughter Constance. When he was refused, he went to Poland, where he remained until the departure of the Tatars. His possessions were devastated; to save at least something, Dmitry persuaded Batu to go to the eels.

Returning to Galicia, Daniel was forced to suppress the boyar revolt. After that, his longtime enemy Rostislav Mikhailovich attacked the Galician lands several times during 1241-1245 in alliance with the Russian princes, or with the Poles, or with the army of his father-in-law, the Hungarian king.

In the 1240s, Danilo founded the town of Kholm on the Ugorka River. Here, on the western borders of his state, as far as possible from the Tatars, he moved his capital from Halych. At Daniel's urging, it was inhabited by numerous artisans, builders fleeing the Tatars, and foreigners. The main building of the Hill was the majestic and ornate church of John Chrysostom. Other temples were built: Kuzma and Demyan, the Blessed Virgin.

On August 17, 1245, at the Battle of Yaroslavl, the troops of Daniel and his brother Vasylko defeated the regiments of Prince Rostislav of Chernihiv, Galician boyars, Hungarians and Poles, which ended almost 40 years of struggle for power over the Galicia-Volyn principality. This battle was one of the largest in the history of Russia in the XIII century.

Until then, the Galicia-Volyn principality was not subject to Tatar tribute. After the Battle of Yaroslavl, Khan Mautsi sent an ambassador to Daniel with the demand: "Give Halych!". Danilo, thinking, replied: "I will not give my cock, but I will go to Batu himself."

He was forced to go to the khan's court in Sarai and recognize his dependence on the Golden Horde. Although he was received there quite graciously, the humiliations he endured forced the chronicler to end the story of this journey with the words: "The evil honor of the Tatars is worse." "Danilov Romanovich, the former Grand Duke, who owned the Russian land, Kiev and Vladimir and Halych." In negotiations with Batu, Danylo reaffirmed his authority over the Galicia-Volyn principality, but not over Kyiv. In addition, he was obliged to send his army to participate in Batu's campaigns in Poland, Lithuania, Hungary and sometimes pay tribute.

Good relations with the Tatars, however, benefited Daniel Romanovich: King Bela IV of Hungary agreed to marry his daughter Constance to Daniel's son, Leo. This family connection led to the participation of Daniel in the struggle of the Hungarian king with the Czechs for the Austrian heritage. At the same time, his son Roman married the heir to the throne of the Duchy of Austria-Styria Gertrude and in the early 1250s (after the death of her father, Duke Frederick II) Daniel claimed his rights to his possession as a dowry of his daughter-in-law. He intervened in the war for the Austrian throne, but his participation in it (with the help of the Poles) was unsuccessful.

At this time, Lithuania began to gain strength under King Mindaugas. Danilo went to war with Lithuania, but Mindauh reconciled with him, gave his daughter to Danylo's son Shvarn, and gave the cities of Novgorod, Slonim and Vovkovysk as a dowry for her.

Forced submission to the Tatars burdened the prince. He marched on the border with the Tatars on the rivers Sluch and Goryn - against the so-called "Tatar people", built fortifications (Kremenets and Danilov were never taken by the Tatars), began the reorganization of the army, whose strike force was a heavily armed cavalry, and peasant and bourgeois militia, sought an alliance with the West, in particular, was inclined to the proposals received from Pope Innocent IV. On the way to the Horde, the papal ambassador Plano Carpini talked with Vasilko about the unification of the churches (1246). Daniel himself agreed to receive the royal crown from the Pope, and on October 7 (according to other sources - in December) 1253 he was crowned in Dorogichyn by the papal legate Abbot Opizo.

On the way to the Horde, Plano Carpini met Vasylko Romanovych in Lenchytsia at the end of 1245. After this meeting, Carpini went to Volhynia, probably to Volodymyr, where he read a papal bull before the Russian bishops and called to join the Catholic Church. However, he did not receive an answer to his proposal, because Daniel was in the Horde at the time. It was halfway to the Horde that the papal legate met Daniel. The result of their negotiations was that Daniel sent the abbot of the monastery of St. Gregory to Lyon (then the Pope's residence) to establish relations with the papal curia. As a result, a long correspondence was established between the Pope and Daniel.

On May 3, 1246, the curia sent 7 letters to Danylo Romanovych. However, the result of the correspondence was only that the Pope sent Archbishop Albert, who was to announce in the Galician lands the alleged union of the Orthodox Church with the Catholic Church. At the same time, the Pope for a long time gave promises of military assistance from Catholic states. Losing hope for this help, Daniel interrupted the correspondence of 1248. He resumed contacts through the mediation of the Hungarian king in 1252, when the Mongol hordes of Kuremsa approached the borders of the Galicia-Volyn principality.

Pope Innocent IV in 1253 - The Pope appeals to the Christians of Bohemia, Moravia, Serbia, Pomerania and Prussia to crusade against the Tatars, and sends an embassy to Daniel, headed by the legate Opizo with the royal crown and scepter. In the town of Dorogichyn in December 1253 (January 1254) the papal legate crowned and anointed Danylo Romanovych, who received the royal award "from all his bishops", emphasizing that he was crowned (which was also an open challenge to the Golden Horde, because as a vassal of Khan Daniel Danilo had the right to do so) not only he but Russia itself.

In 1254, Prince Daniel finally realized that all his contacts with Rome did not provide prospects for the organization of a real anti-Horde coalition.

In March 1255, the new Pope Alexander IV, under the pretext of Daniel's intransigence in religious matters, broke the agreement of his predecessors to have Russia under the protection of the "throne of St. Peter" and began to persuade Lithuanian King Mindaugas to attack Daniel's possession. The following year, Romanovich completely cut off contact with the papal curia.

Convinced of Rome's inability to organize a crusade against the Golden Horde, in 1256 he severed ties with the Papal Curia and fought against the Horde on his own.

On February 13, 1257, in his address to the bishops of Olomouc and Wroclaw, Pope Alexander IV directly accused Prince Daniel of refusing to serve the apostolic throne, despite the "spiritual and long-lasting good deeds" of the Roman Curia. At the end of the letter, the pope stated the need to "use the help of the secular authorities against this king" if the mentioned bishops fail to subdue Daniel. Other documents of the papal curia also testify to the "apostasy" of King Daniel. Pope Alexander IV allowed Mindauh to conquer Russian lands, and granted the Crusaders, who opposed the Russians, a remission of sins. These documents testify to the actual futility of the coronation of Prince Daniel.

No one responded to the Pope's call for a crusade. The king retained the title, severed ties with the Pope and began to prepare for resistance on his own. The time was favorable - after the death of Batu in the Horde began to be hostile; Tatar temnik (governor) in this part of was weak Kuremsa.

At the end of 1254 he began a military campaign against the Tatars. Kuremsa tried to counterattack and marched with his army near Kremyanets, then near Volodymyr-Volynsky and Lutsk, but was defeated. This was the first Russian victory in the fight against the Horde.

1254–1255 - the king's army liberated the lands along the Southern Bug, Slucha and Teteriv from Kuremsa's troops, and took Vozvyagel. Danylov managed to defend himself from the Tatars of Bakota (Podillya) and return the cities they occupied in Volhynia.

In Karakorum, the great khan (emperor) Khubilai was established, and the enterprising Burundai was appointed in place of Kuremsa. He quarreled with the king and Mindaugas, achieved that in his campaign in Lithuania in 1258 took part Galician wives led by Vasylko Romanovich, despite the fact that Daniel was Mindaugas' matchmaker.

King Daniel had no allies - Bela was weakened by the defeat of the Czechs (he again tried to seize the Austrian heritage). When Burundai demanded that the king come to him, he sent his son Leo instead, and went to Poland himself.

Demonstrating his strength, Burundai came to Galicia and Volhynia with a large army, declaring: "If you want to live in harmony with us, then scatter all your cities." Danilo and Vasilko were forced to destroy everything they had built for many years. They dismantled the fortifications of Lutsk, Kremyanets, Danilov, Lviv (named after the prince's son Lev). The Galician-Volyn state lost its main strongholds in the war with the Horde. Only Holm was saved. In 1260, Burundian troops left Galicia and Volhynia.

The Tatars also forced the Galician wives to take part in their campaign in Poland. In 1262, Vasilko repulsed a plundering raid by Lithuania, catching up and destroying Lithuanians burdened with booty near the town of Nebel.

In 1262, in Ternava, he met with the Polish prince Boleslaw V the Shy, held negotiations on the demarcation, "laying a number of borders between the Russian and Lyad lands."

Of all the external actions, the most successful was his campaign against the Yatvyags, who were finally forced to pay tribute.

He fought against feudal strife caused by the aspirations of the Galician boyars and the Chernihiv-Siversky and Kyiv princes to prevent the strengthening of the power of Danylo Romanovych and his brother Vasylko in the Galician-Volyn principality. He relied on the support of small and medium-sized feudal lords and burghers interested in strengthening the prince's power.

From 1251 to 1253, Danylo Halytsky donated land in the Brest region to Khan Tegak's Polovtsians to protect northern Volhynia from attacks by the Yatvyags and Lithuanians. The nomads founded 40 settlements there and preserved their identity until the beginning of the 16th century.

He reformed the army, creating heavily armed infantry from the peasants, tamed the nobility.

He pursued an active pro-Western policy. Under his rule, Western European cultural influences spread, and appropriate state administrative forms were instilled, in particular in the life of cities. He built a number of new cities (Kholm, Lviv, etc.), moved the capital from Halych - the city of boyar uprisings - to Kholm.

In order to strengthen the international authority of the state, in 1246 he founded an ecclesiastical Orthodox metropolitanate in Halychyna, which took over the functions of the All-Russian one. One of the prince's ascetics, the printer Kirill, was appointed metropolitan.

In 1264 the king fell ill and died in Holm, where he was buried in the Church of the Holy Virgin, which was built during his lifetime. The chronicler, mourning his death, called him "the second after Solomon."

The strengthening of the Grand Ducal power in the Volyn-Galician principality in the time of Daniel was a temporary phenomenon. During the reign of his successors, the tendencies to feudal fragmentation, provoked by the boyar elite, resumed.

The Galician-Volyn state, having existed for more than a century, extended its power to most of the lands of present-day Ukraine. Hrushevsky considered this state formation to be the most direct successor of Kievan Rus. It owed its success and viability to the outstanding personality of King Daniel. After his fall, the successors of Kievan Rus declared themselves the Grand Duchy of Lithuania (with the official Old Ukrainian language and Orthodoxy), and then the Kingdom of Moscow.

• Father: Roman (c. 1152–1205), Prince of Novgorod (1168–1170), Vladimir (1170–1187, 1188–1205), Galician (1187–1188, 1199–1205), Grand Duke of Kyiv (1204)
• Mother: Euphrosyne-Anna (d. After 1219) - probably the daughter of the Byzantine Emperor Isaac II Angel and Irina, Grand Duchess of Kiev (1203-1205).

Brothers and sisters:

• Fedor (? —After 1200) ∞ Vasilko, a Galician prince-bastard
• Elena (? —After 1241) ∞ Michael, Prince of Chernihiv
• Vasilko (c. 1205–1269), Prince of Belz (1207–1211), Brest (1208–1210, 1219–1228), Przemyśl (1209–1219), Peresopnytsia (1225–1229), Lutsk (1229–1238), and Volodymyr (1238—1269)
• Salome (c. 1204 / 1205—1235) ∞ Sviatopolk II, East Pomeranian prince

1st wife (from 1219): Anna Mstislavna, daughter of the Galician prince Mstislav Udatny.

• Heraclius (c. 1223 to 1240), died young
• Leo (c. 1228 — c. 1301), prince of Przemyśl (1240–1269), Belz (1245–1269), and Galician (1264–1301)
• Pereyaslav (? —1283) ∞ Zemovit I, Prince of Mazovia
• NN (? -?) ∞ Andrew, Prince of Vladimir-Suzdal
• Sophia (? -?) ∞ Henry V, Count of Schwarzburg
• Roman (c. 1230 — c. 1261), prince of Novogrudok (1251–1256), prince of Kholm (? —1261), duke of Austria (1252–1254)
• Mstislav (? —After 1292), prince of Lutsk (1264—1292), Vladimir (1288—1292)
• Schwarn (? -After 1292), Prince of Kholm and Grand Duke of Lithuania (1264-1269)

2nd wife: Niece of the Lithuanian King Mindaugas I, daughter of his younger brother Dovsprunk - name unknown, wife Daniel not later than 1252.

• NN (? —P. 1253), died infants -? Volodymyr
• NN (? —P. 1253), died in infancy

In his honor are named:

• 24th separate mechanized Berdychiv Iron Brigade named after Prince Danylo Halytsky
• "King Daniel International Sports Society" [19]
• Plastovyi Kurin UPYU h. 1 im. King Daniel. The village of Lviv.

• Resolution of the Verkhovna Rada of September 7, 2011 "On the celebration of the 810th anniversary of the birth of the first King of Russia-Ukraine Danylo Halytsky".
• Lviv Danylo Halytsky International Airport.
• On December 25, 2015, Vinnytsia City Council renamed 40th Anniversary of Victory Street to Danylo Halytsky Street by its decision № 71, thus restoring its historical name.
• Danylo Halytsky Street (Lutsk).
• Danylo Halytsky Street (Dnipro).
• Danylo Halytsky Boulevard in Ternopil.
• King Danylo Street in Ivano-Frankivsk.

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