Old Slavic

Many of the families evacuated from Pripyat moved to this city, Slavutych – the old Slavic name of the nearby Dnieper River.

Along the road peasants cheered his triumphant return from six years exile, welcomed him in the old Slavic way with bread & salt.

While the ancient Greek alphabet gave rise to the ordinary Greek alphabet and the Latin, the Greek alphabet of later times furnished elements for the Coptic, the Gothic, and the old Slavic alphabets.

St. Ilya is the Christian representative of the old Slavic god of Thunder, Perun, as well as of the prophet Elijah.

Many small cities still had log houses in the old Slavic style, with thatched or shingled roofs, patched up shabbily from time to time.