Outstanding Ukrainian Planes

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-  Antonov An-2 recently has been included in the Guiness Book of Records as the only plane that's been in production for 70 years!! Unfortunately, some countries like North...

Ukraine-Born Inventor Creates World’s Most Powerful and Efficient Engine

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Kiev Politechnical Institute graduate Dr. Nickolay Shkolnik moved to the USA where he founded his own company and where together with his son...

Guinness record setter Antonov An-2 plane

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"Although not the largest biplanes ever, the biggest double-wing aircraft currently in common use is the Antonov An-2 / An-3, which has a wingspan of 18.8...

Ukrainian who discovered X-rays but didn’t receive credit for it: Ivan Puluj

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As Noble Prize's official webpage describes it: "On the evening of 8 November 1895, Röntgen was in his laboratory studying how cathode-ray tubes emit...

Ukraine’s Snake (Zmiiny) Island Is Where Achilles Supposedly Went Mad and Wiped Out the...

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At last world media start seeing that some of the Greek myths actually take place in the area of present-day Ukraine. "The most striking...

Kyiv’s Museum of Microminiatures: The Biggest Collection of Tiny Things, – The Daily Beast

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"Hidden inside a Kiev religious complex lies the mind-blowing Museum of Microminiatures, which holds ships carved out of gold, books of poetry, and tiny...

25 things you didn’t know about Ukraine, the heart of Europe – Telegraph

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https://www.telegraph.co.uk/travel/destinations/europe/ukraine/articles/amazing-fact-you-probably-didnt-know-about-ukraine/

Canada celebrates Ukrainian Heritage Day on Sep. 7

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On September 6, 1891, the first two Ukrainian settlers, Ivan Pylypiv and Vasyl Yelyniak from the village of Nebylova in Galicia, arrived at the...

Toughest Open-Air Gym in Europe

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It is situated right in the center of Kyiv, on the island amidst Dnieper river which divides Kyiv on two almost equal parts - "left bank Kyiv" and "right...

Igor Sikorsky set a world speed record of 113 km/h on his plane in...

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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...