Ukrainian who discovered X-rays but didn’t receive credit for it: Ivan Puluj

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As Noble Prize's official webpage describes it: "On the evening of 8 November 1895, Röntgen was in his laboratory studying how cathode-ray tubes emit...

Neil Armstrong while in the USSR collected a handful of soil from outside Yuri...

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"When American astronaut Neil Armstrong visited the Soviet Union after his historic flight to the Moon, he collected a handful of soil from...

John Steinbeck depicts Ukrainians and their difference from Russians

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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...

In 1710 the Ukrainian Cossacks drafted one of Europe’s first state constitutions, which had...

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http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Constitution_of_Pylyp_Orlyk

Most famous Scythian silver Amphora/Vase from Chertomlyk Royal Kurgan in Ukraine

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The Amphora was found in 1863 in an impressive kurgan in the vicinity of Nikopol city in Ukraine and instantly taken to Hermitage. The...

Kyiv Aviation Museum among 10 best in the world, – CNN

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"This museum, operated by Ukraine's National Aviation University, houses one of the world's biggest displays of aviation technology.The majority of the aircraft are ones...

Unfinished AN 225 airplane lies hidden in Kyiv warehouse – CNN

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Antonov, however, says finishing the build should be relatively simple.Growing private sector interest in space exploration, tourism and communications -- and the prospect...

Israeli currency features notable Jewish figures from Ukraine

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"The Government of Israel has issued new twenty- and fifty-shekel banknotes, having replaced two natives of Ukraine with two cultural figures also connected...

The World’s First Kidney Transplant by Ukrainian Dr. Yurii Voronyi in 1933

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Yurii Voronyi (1895-1961) was the first doctor in the world to perform renal transplantation in the clinic. The operation was conducted in 1933 in...

Teenager Daria Bilodid, Ukraine, makes Judo history

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Paris Grand Slam gold medallist Daria BILODID (UKR) was crowned the youngest world judo champion in history with a sensational performance in Baku....