George Kistiakowsky: Ukrainian who made Manhatten Project work and first Atomic bomb explode

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The US Government called on Dr. Kistiakowsky to help solve the problem with the new weapon the physicists at Los Alamos had been struggling...

SpaceX turns to Ukrainian AN-124 plane for emergency delivery of oversized rocket parts to...

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"Jan 3, 2018 Subject: Request for Antonov Support SpaceX requests An-124 to transport rocket hardware (payload fairing halves) to expedite processing of the coming missions.. US Domestic...

Scythian ceremonial gilded silver cup from Gaimanova Mogila Royal Kurgan in Ukraine

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"The most outstanding work of Scytho-Classical art found in the Gaimanova Mogila kurgan is a small spherical gilded silver cup, with two flat horizontal...

Harold Hardrada, Last Viking King, while serving as the commander of Byzantine Varangian Guard,...

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"When he was fifteen years old, in 1030, Harald fought in the Battle of Stiklestad together with his half-brother Olaf Haraldsson (later Saint Olaf). Olaf sought to reclaim...

Ice Age Mammoth Ivory Bracelets from Mezin in Ukraine May Be the Most Ancient...

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Iryna Vavilova and Tetyna Artemenko from the Main Astronomical Observatory of the NAS of Ukraine in their 2009 article ‘The ancient cultural framework of...

Georgy Voronoi: founder of the geometric theory of numbers, creator of “Voronoi Diagram”

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Vorony, Heorhii b 28 April 1868 in Zhuravka, Pyriatyn county, Poltava gubernia, d 20 November 1908 in Warsaw. Mathematician; corresponding member of the Saint Petersburg Academy of Sciences from...

Canada celebrates Ukrainian Heritage Day on Sep. 7

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There had been some immigration of Ukrainians to Canada as early as 1812. However, the first recorded Ukrainian immigrants to Canada were Ivan Pylypiw and Wasyl Eleniak, farmers from Galicia....

Strongest Soviet invasion Army of WW2. What was it doing in western Ukraine in...

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Modern Russian as well as former Soviet propagandists have been trying to imply that the USSR began to form its armies only after World...

AN-124 helps out Boeing in extreeme freezing conditions in Canada

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Ukrainian plane delivered a Boeing 777 engine from Zurich to Canadian Iqaluit where the Boeing was stuck with 233 passengers travelling to Los Angeles.  With the temperature being -30C, many specialists say...