In 1650, Kyiv had impressive ramparts remains, deep protective ditches, tombs of several kings,...
Guillaume Le Vasseur de Beauplan (1600 - 1673) was a French-Polish cartographer, engineer and architect. Here is his description of Kyiv around the year 1650: "Kiow, otherwise called...
Igor Sikorsky set a world speed record of 113 km/h on his plane in...
In the autobiography "The Story of the Winged-S", Igor Sikorsky recalled: "For my future work, I had to use experimental data obtained from the...
Canada celebrates Ukrainian Heritage Day on Sep. 7
On September 6, 1891, the first two Ukrainian settlers, Ivan Pylypiv and Vasyl Yelyniak from the village of Nebylova in Galicia, arrived at the...
Most famous Scythian silver Amphora/Vase from Chertomlyk Royal Kurgan in Ukraine
The Amphora was found in 1863 in an impressive kurgan in the vicinity of Nikopol city in Ukraine and instantly taken to Hermitage. The...
+Ulfberh+T Viking-type sword that most likely belonged to Kyiv King Sviatoslav the Brave
The sword, which is associated with the name of Sviatoslav the Brave, was accidentally 'fished out' on November 7, 2011 near Khortytsia Island. The...
Ukrainian Kistiakowsky, not Oppenheimer, should be credited for the first U.S. atomic bomb successful...
American journalist and historian Richard Rhodes, in his Pulitzer Prize-winning book The Making of the Atomic Bomb, named George Kistiakowsky a key figure in...
The World’s First Kidney Transplant by Ukrainian Dr. Yurii Voronyi in 1933
Yurii Voronyi (1895-1961) was the first doctor in the world to perform renal transplantation in the clinic. The operation was conducted in 1933 in...
Duga-3 Over-the-Horizon Monster Radar near Chornobyl. The Russian Woodpecker
"you are in the middle of the Chernobyl Exclusion Zone, and your tour guide asks, with just a hint of guile, if you would like...
John Steinbeck describes the ruins of Kyiv-Pechersk Lavra, St. Sophia and sarcophagus of Yaroslav...
"We went from this little plaster city, so new that it has not even been built yet, to the ancient monastery on the cliff....
Germans demo fly Antonov-225 XXXL-scale model
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