The stories deal with the history of the emergence of the phenomenon of Ukrainianism and its formation from a human community to an ethnos, which during its development acquired national features and characteristics that transformed it from an ethnic group into a sovereign European state.The structure of the publication consists of stories (stories), which popularly reveal the essence of the national traditions of Ukrainians, the main features of their life and way of life. The main state, folk and religious holidays, rituals and traditional events that occur in their everyday life are popularly narrated.