The largest pre-WW1 plane – Sikorsky’s S-22 ‘Ilya Muromets’ – made its maiden flight...
Igor Sikorsky flew "Ilya Muromets" plane personally from Petersburg to his native Kyiv setting several world records. As it turns out though, the true...
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....
Ivan Puluj and long hair of one of his female students
One of Puluj's students, Katherine Stozitska, after asking permission from her parents, cut her very long hair that was almost touching the ground and...
Ukrainian Folk-Dance Solo on a Canadian TV Show
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wJMZKyfuKtY
Mysterious Trypillia Culture in Ukraine was older than Egyptian and Sumerian ones. It constructed...
In the 1890s, while excavating an Upper Paleolithic site in central Kyiv, Czech archaeologist Vikenty Khvoika discovered artifacts of a later civilization. The pieces of pottery...
Antonov helps out Boeing in the extreme freezing conditions
Ukrainian AN-124 "Ruslan" made a flight from Zurich, Switzerland to Canadian Iqaluit with an engine for Boeing-777 which had to make an emergency landing...
Outstanding Ukrainian Rockets. Elon Musk’s Favorite – Zenith
CNN's Rapid Fire revealed that SpaceX founder's favorite rocket after his own Falcon 9 is Ukrainian Zenith https://money.cnn.com/video/news/2015/05/13/elon-musk-rapid-fire-interview-rachel-crane.cnnmoney/index.html (For those who would like to know of...
Ukraine Vyshyvanka/ Embroidery Shirt Day
In 2020, Google created a Doodle honoring the Ukrainian embroidered shirt in commemoration of International Vyshyvanka Day: "Held each year on the third Thursday of May, this...
John Steinbeck depicts Ukrainians and their difference from Russians
Different looks, heartiness “Everyone had told us it would be different once we got outside of Moscow, that the sternness and the tenseness would not...
