eng Science and Education Publishing American Journal of Educational Research 2333-4770 2014-12-14 2 12B 83 86 10.12691/education-2-12B-15 EDUCATION2014212B15 article Anatoliy Kuzminskyy ntaras7@ukr.net 1 Bohdan Khmelnytskyy National University of Cherkasy, Ukraine The article offers a short survey of the Ukrainian generations of 1900 through 2000. It details on the main features of the epoch and the environment in which generation Y was formed. The author specifies on the generation born in 1983 -2003 and connects it with the peculiar features of the 'millennials' entry into higher education. http://pubs.sciepub.com/education/2/12B/15/education-2-12B-15.pdf generation Y formation Millennial Students higher education