Outstanding Ukrainian Planes
- Antonov An-2 recently has been included in the Guiness Book of Records as the only plane that's been in production for 70 years!! Unfortunately, some countries like North...
Ukraine-Born Inventor Creates World’s Most Powerful and Efficient Engine
Kiev Politechnical Institute graduate Dr. Nickolay Shkolnik moved to the USA where he founded his own company and where together with his son...
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...
Ukrainian who discovered X-rays but didn’t receive credit for it: Ivan Puluj
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...
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...
Kyiv’s Museum of Microminiatures: The Biggest Collection of Tiny Things, – The Daily Beast
"Hidden inside a Kiev religious complex lies the mind-blowing Museum of Microminiatures, which holds ships carved out of gold, books of poetry, and tiny...
25 things you didn’t know about Ukraine, the heart of Europe – Telegraph
https://www.telegraph.co.uk/travel/destinations/europe/ukraine/articles/amazing-fact-you-probably-didnt-know-about-ukraine/
Canada celebrates Ukrainian Heritage Day on Sep. 7
On September 6, 1891, the first two Ukrainian settlers, Ivan Pylypiv and Vasyl Yelyniak from the village of Nebylova in Galicia, arrived at the...
Toughest Open-Air Gym in Europe
It is situated right in the center of Kyiv, on the island amidst Dnieper river which divides Kyiv on two almost equal parts - "left bank Kyiv" and "right...
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...
