Carolyn, I know about a background of both these Ukrainian tomato varieties from Al Lefkowitz. But what I can't understand is why he named one of them in Ukrainian (Khirkiv) and one in Russian (Kiev) instead of Kyiv, which is how Ukrainian language spells the name of their capital  And Khirkiv is right in Ukrainian language, but the Russian (Soviet) name of this city is Kharkov :wink:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kharkiv
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kiev
As for existence of such tomato varieties. Of course, no You need to know our former Soviet system of naming varieties to understand that there can be such tomato names on this side of the world 
But I really appreciate you heirloom naming system after people's names and places of origin :wink:
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1 kg=2.2 lb , 1 m=39,37 in , 1 oz=28.35 g , 1 ft=30.48 cm , 1 lb= 0,4536 kg , 1 in=2.54 cm , 1 l = 0.26 gallon , 0 C=32 F
Andrey a.k.a. TOMATODOR
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