Ilya Repin was born on August 5, 1844 in Ukraine. Story behind his most...
On 26 July 1878, he did his first pencil drawing of the merry Zaporozhians drafting their defiant letter to the sultan. Although Repin was...
Women Ukraine is Proud of
Every nation honors their mothers, sisters, daughters. Ukraine does too. Ukraine has all the reason to be proud of its women and here are...
Ukrainian-American Sgt. Michael Strank was 1 of 6 Marines who raised flag on Mt....
" Michael Strank (November 10, 1919 – March 1, 1945) was a United States Marine Corps sergeant who was killed in action during the Battle of...
Scythian Couple locked in loving embrace for 3,000 years found in burial in...
The burial of the Scythian pair, husband and wife was found in the Ternopil region in Ukraine. It dates to circa 1,000 B.C. Professor...
Scythian Battle-Scene Golden Comb from Solokha Royal Kurgan in Ukraine
A true masterpiece of Scythian metalwork, an extraordinary Gold Comb crested with fighting Scythians was discovered in Solokha Royal Kurgan in Zaporizhzhia region of...
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...
Ballistic missiles deployed to Cuba during the Cuban Missile Crisis of 1962 were both...
The book 'Rockets and People' is part of the NASA History Series. It was written by the Soviet Academician Boris Chertok. The Preface to...
Ukraine in Space
Sergei Korolev - the leading Soviet rocket engineer and spacecraft designer was born in Zhytomir, Ukraine. It is due to his genius, the Soviet Union...
Ivan Kozhedub, a Ukrainian, was the highest scoring Allied and Soviet fighter pilot of...
Unfortunately, after World War II, he remained in the military and went on to command the 324th Fighter Aviation Division during Soviet operations in...
