The Greatest Ukrainians

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The Greatest Ukrainians (Ukrainian: Великі українці) is an Ukrainian TV project which is in its production stage as a nationwide TV talk show. Audience of the talk show is about to participate in interactive voting for famous Ukrainian persons.

The show is running under a license from the BBC and originally has appeared on British TV under the name 100 Greatest Britons which has had there nationwide success. Such countries as Canada, France, Germany, Holland and many others have also created their own versions. Every country have demonstrated a specific approach especially in selection of their famous persons. The same way in Ukraine the show is about to have hot discussions in regards to who of famous persons in Ukraine can be considered Great Ukrainians.

The TV show is scheduled to be broadcasted in 2007-2008 season on Inter (TV channel) being 90-180 minutes long during Sunday prime-time. Host of this program Savik Shuster is about to start primaries (pre-voting) during his another Friday talk show The Freedom with Savik Shuster. Co-host of the programme is Inter's news anchor Hanna Homonay. Pre-voting has been made in number of Ukranian cities such as Kiev, Lviv, Yalta, Kharkiv, Odessa, Donetsk, Simferopol, Nizhyn, Mykolayiv, Ostroh, Chernivtsi, and Kamianets-Podilskyi.

On April 11th, 2008, the top 100 of Great Ukrainians were announced. The top 10 is to be re-voted, and the results will be show on May 16th, 2008. They are:

The 11-100 list:

 11. Ivan_Mazepa
 12. Roman_Shukhevych
 13. Vasyl_Stus
 14. Mykhailo_Hrushevskyi
 15. Vitali_Klitschko and Wladimir_Klitschko
 16. Vladimir_I_of_Kiev
 17. Sergey_Korolyov
 18. Nikolai_Gogol
 19. Andrey_Sheptytsky
 20. Viktor_Yushchenko
 21. Yulia_Tymoshenko
 22. Alexander_Dovzhenko
 23. Vladimir_Lenin
 24. Vladimir_Dal
 25. Lina_Kostenko
 26. Symon_Petliura
 27. Leonid_Fyodorovich_Bykov
 28. Petro_Konashevych-Sahaidachny
 29. Ivan_Kotlyarevsky
 30. Volodymyr_Ivasyuk
 31. Solomiya_Krushelnytska
 32. Nestor_Makhno
 33. Andriy_Shevchenko
 34. Daniel_of_Galicia
 35. Sergei_Bubka
 36. Pylyp_Orlyk
 37. Ivan_Nikitovich_Kozhedub
 38. Levko_Lukyanenko
 39. Vladimir_Vernadsky
 40. Yevhen_Konovalets
 41. Mykola_Lysenko
 42. Sydir_Kovpak
 43. Olga_of_Kiev
 44. Volodymyr_Shcherbytsky
 45. Oleg_Antonov
 46. Evgeny_Paton and Borys_Paton
 47. Bohdan Stupka
 48. Josyf_Slipyj
 49. Mikhail_Bulgakov
 50. Vladimir_Boiko
 51. Leonid_Kravchuk
 52. Peter_Mogila
 53. Ivan_Sirko
 54. Sofia_Rotaru
 55. Anatoliy_Solovianenko
 56. Oleg_Blokhin
 57. Lilia_Podkopayeva
 58. Vladimir_II_Monomakh
 59. Nikolai_Grinko
 60. Nina_Matviyenko
 61. Igor_Sikorsky
 62. Viktor_Yanukovych
 63. Leonid_Brezhnev
 64. Svyatoslav_Vakarchuk
 65. Ilya_Repin
 66. Mariya Zankovetska
 67. Ivan_Mykolaychuk
 68. Vasyl_Virastyuk
 69. Ivan_Pulyui
 70. Nikolay_Ivanovich_Pirogov
 71. Oles_Honchar
 72. Vasyl_Symonenko
 73. Mykhailo_Kotsiubynsky
 74. Raisa_Kyrychenko
 75. Nazariy_Yaremchuk
 76. Ruslana
 77. Yana_Klochkova
 78. Les_Kurbas
 79. Petro_Symonenko
 80. Konstanty_Wasyl_Ostrogski
 81. Roxelana
 82. Pavlo_Skoropadskyi
 83. Alexey_Stakhanov
 84. Katerina_Vasilivna_Bilokur
 85. Ivan_Bohun
 86. Vasyl_Sukhomlynskyi
 87. Anton_Makarenko
 88. Petro_Kalnyshevsky
 89. Nikolai_Fyodorovich_Vatutin
 90. Oleg_Skrypka
 91. Ivan_Poddubny
 92. Ilya_Ilyich_Mechnikov
 93. Nikita_Khrushchev
 94. Olena_Teliha
 95. Oleg_Koshovyi
 96. Ostap_Vyshnia
 97. Dmytro_Vyshnevetsky
 98. Sviatoslav_I_of_Kiev
 99. Victor_Glushkov
100. Tomb_of_the_Unknown_Soldier

[edit] 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	Nikolai Amosov	Vitaly Korotich
2	Stepan Bandera	Vakhtang Kipiani
3	Valeri Lobanovsky	Leonid Kravchuk
4	Hryhorii Skovoroda	Ostap Stupka
5	Lesya Ukrainka	Roman Viktiuk
6	Ivan Franko	Sviatoslav Vakarchuk
7	Bohdan Khmelnytsky	Dmytro Korchynsky
8	Vyacheslav Chornovil	Taras Chornovil
9	Taras Shevchenko	Bogdan Stupka
10	Yaroslav I the Wise	Dmytro Tabachnyk

[edit] Manipulations

Chief of project “Great Ukrainians”, journalist Vakhtang Kipiani inform the public in his blog, that system of vote vas manipulated by unknown persons. For example, winner, Yaroslav I, the Wise received 60.000 votes in whole month and almost 550.000 in just one day. Nikolay Amosov, that stays in second, receive almost 150.000 votes in just one day.