[5] Zghursky then claimed that recently discovered manuscripts in Matenadaran supposedly mentioned Kiev as a settlement 2,500 years ago, and sent documents of this to UNESCO in Paris.

[5] The city council then offered to celebrate the 2000th anniversary of Kievan Rus' and Kiev, but the European experts at the UNESCO headquarters disagreed with the new date suggested.

[5] Another suggestion made previously by numismatists was basing the foundation on a Roman follis coin of Byzantine emperor Anastasius I Dicorus (r. 491–518) found in Zamkova Hora; this argument would eventually prove to be decisive.

[6] When a 1500-year-old anniversary was discussed, the chairman of the National Academy of Sciences of Ukraine Borys Paton who was also present half-jokingly told mayor Zghursky: "Hurry up and go to the podium and agree.

[5] The back-and-forth negotiations between Moscow and Kiev, which according to Zghursky lasted two years in 1980 and 1981 and involved the exchange of "endless correspondence – memos, historical information, clarifications, etc.

[5] In 1981, historian Omeljan Pritsak (Harvard University) similarly wrote critically about the much-touted upcoming celebration, denying the claim that Kiev could have been founded in 482, as well as drawing attention to the ideological and political bias of the holiday.

[1] Despite the questionable claims about the supposed 1500-year age of the city, several politicians would go on to embrace 482 as the date of the legendary foundation, including former Kyivan mayor Oleksandr Omelchenko, who utilised it in order to argue the Ukrainian capital was much older than Moscow.