Historian Every Saturday: Ihor Stambol. He knew how to defeat Russia: what you should know about Yuriy Lypa (19.04.2025)
A lecture by historian Ihor Stambol (the “Historian Every Saturday” series) on the geopolitics of Yuriy Lypa. Key points: Ukraine’s Black Sea orientation (Crimea, the Black Sea, the Pontic heritage); Lypa’s geopolitical trilogy (“The Destiny of Ukraine”, “The Black Sea Doctrine”, “The Partition of Russia”); the continued relevance of his thesis about the disintegration of Russia (as against the Western view of Russia as a “monolith”); and Lypa’s tragic fate, murdered by the NKVD in 1944. A source for the article on the geopolitics of Yuriy Lypa.
Key moments
- 30:22 Black Sea orientation: Crimea, the Black Sea, the Greek (Pontic) heritage
- 40:36 The trilogy: 'The Destiny of Ukraine', 'The Black Sea Doctrine', 'The Partition of Russia'
- 40:04 A tragic fate: murdered, his family kept under surveillance
- 1:03:34 'The Partition of Russia' today: the West sees Russia as a 'monolith' — this is mistaken