Ivan Kharchenko personally defused more than 1500 bombs weighing more than 500 kilograms each...
A Soviet Army Military engineering Colonel and Hero of the Soviet Union, Kharchenko continued his military service until retirement in 1964. Until...
Unique antique AN-70 creates sensation at Saudi Arabia airshow
The unique Antonov AN-70 short takeoff and landing (STOL) multipurpose cargo aircraft flew from Gostomel air terminal near Kiev to UAE for its international debut at the...
Unfinished AN 225 airplane lies hidden in Kyiv warehouse – CNN
Antonov, however, says finishing the build should be relatively simple.Growing private sector interest in space exploration, tourism and communications -- and the prospect...
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...
Turret of Russian tank: ‘I can fly, my friend!”
This Russian tank was blown up by Ukrainian defenders on May 6th near Novoazovsk in Donetsk region. Novoazovsk has been occupied by Russia since...
Harold Hardrada, Last Viking King, while serving as the commander of Byzantine Varangian Guard,...
"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...
Milla ‘The Fifth Element’ Jovovich was born in Kyiv, Ukraine on Dec. 17, 1975
The actress calls herself "a humble Ukrainian girl".Milla's words on her Facebook January 30, 2014, during Ukrainian Revolution of Dignity, meant a lot to...
Mezhyrich Mammoth Bone Hut is the most ancient human architecture known on earth. It...
In 1965 in central Ukraine, a farmer expanding his cellar dug up the lower jawbone of a mammoth and other large bones. Further excavations...
Guinness record setter Antonov An-2 plane
"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...
