10th century Kyiv Easter Egg discovered in Sweden
"Glazed ceramic Resurrection egg. The egg is made of glazed fired clay. It varies in colour from bright chocolate brown to dark green. The...
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...
Death Match with Nazis, Three Best Players of the World, Top-10 Coach Ever –...
Dynamo Kiev is not just the best and most titled football team in the former Soviet Union or Eastern Europe - the British Football Magazine 4-4-2 ranks...
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...
Ukraine’s Snake (Zmiiny) Island Is Where Achilles Supposedly Went Mad and Wiped Out the...
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...
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...
William Kurelek & his Ukrainian Maze
Future "Christian mystic, bestselling author and illustrator", William Kurelek was the eldest of the seven children of Ukrainian emmigrant family in northern Alberta and Manitoba. Experience of his...
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...
The world’s first railway electrification system and electric tram were invented by Ukrainian Fyodor...
"..engineer of Ukrainian origin and inventor of the world's first railways electrification system and electric tram. While the commercialization of his inventions in Russia...
Ukrainian boy was catching sweets from American planes during the Berlin Airlift in 1948....
One of the engineers laying the foundation of the Apollo systems in 1962 was Michael Yarymovych, born Mikhail Yarymovych in pre-WWII Ukraine. In his...
