About the book: 2006 / Ukraine gave the world many bright and interesting personalities. And the hundred heroes of this book are only a small fraction of them. The authors tried to present in it the most prominent figures of the past and present, who glorified the country with their works and talent and influenced the course of its history. Therefore, next to the biographies of those who have long been considered a symbol of the Ukrainian nation (B. Khmelnitsky, T. Shevchenko, L. Ukrainka, I. Franko, M. Grushevsky and many others), there are essays about those who for a long time remained outcasts for their countries (I. Mazepa, S. Petlyura, V. Vinnichenko, N. Makhno, S. Bandera). The book also contains biographies of heroes of the political horizon, participants in the “orange” revolution - V. Yushchenko, Y. Tymoshenko, A. Lytvyn, P. Poroshenko and others - those who today are the hallmark of Ukraine in the world.