# Great Ukrainians: the final top 10 of the 2008 TV poll

Yaroslav the Wise, Mykola Amosov and Stepan Bandera: the final top 10 of the Inter TV project Velyki Ukraintsi (2008), with each one's share of the vote in the final round of 16 May 2008. The project's head, Vakhtang Kipiani, later said the voting had been manipulated.

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## Top 10

1. **Yaroslav the Wise** (0 · ▲0 ▼0) — 978–1054, Grand Prince of Kyiv. 40% of the final vote.
2. **Mykola Amosov** (0 · ▲0 ▼0) — 1913–2002, heart surgeon. 19.88% of the final vote.
3. **Stepan Bandera** (0 · ▲0 ▼0) — 1909–1959, leader of the OUN nationalist movement. 16% of the final vote.
4. **Taras Shevchenko** (0 · ▲0 ▼0) — 1814–1861, poet and painter. 9.3% of the final vote.
5. **Bohdan Khmelnytskyi** (0 · ▲0 ▼0) — 1595–1657, Hetman of the Zaporozhian Host. 4.02% of the final vote.
6. **Valeriy Lobanovskyi** (0 · ▲0 ▼0) — 1939–2002, football coach. 3.18% of the final vote.
7. **Viacheslav Chornovil** (0 · ▲0 ▼0) — 1937–1999, politician and dissident. 2.63% of the final vote.
8. **Hryhoriy Skovoroda** (0 · ▲0 ▼0) — 1722–1794, philosopher and poet. 1.73% of the final vote.
9. **Lesya Ukrainka** (0 · ▲0 ▼0) — 1871–1913, poet and playwright. 1.64% of the final vote.
10. **Ivan Franko** (0 · ▲0 ▼0) — 1856–1916, writer and thinker. 1.49% of the final vote.

How is this ranking ordered? By people's votes: each ▲ adds a point and each ▼ takes one away. Anyone can vote and add what is missing.