Sergey Bubka’s pole vault outdoor best of 6.14m celebrates its 25th anniversary
"Sergey Bubka’s world and European outdoor best of 6.14m is one of the most enduring marks in the record books and looks poised to celebrate...
Nicholas Chain Bridge in Kyiv was the largest bridge in Europe
The bridge was designed by Irish engineer Charles Blacker Vignoles. Construction started in 1848 and was completed in 1853. The 776-metre-long (2,546 ft) bridge was the...
Mysterious Trypillia Culture in Ukraine was older than Egyptian and Sumerian ones. It constructed...
In the 1890s, while excavating an Upper Paleolithic site in central Kyiv, Czech archaeologist Vikenty Khvoika discovered artifacts of a later civilization. The pieces of pottery...
Jim Morrison in Ukrainian embroidery shirt presented to him by Andy Warhol
Andrew Warhola was the fourth child of Ondrej Warhola (Americanized as Andrew Warhola, Sr., 1889–1942) and Julia (née Zavacká, 1892–1972), whose first child was born in their homeland and died...
During his speech in Kyiv in 1972, President Nixon named Kyiv the “City of...
"As I think of a way to describe our feelings on this occasion, I noted that in history--and this city is so full of...
John Steinbeck describes the ruins of Kyiv-Pechersk Lavra, St. Sophia and sarcophagus of Yaroslav...
"We went from this little plaster city, so new that it has not even been built yet, to the ancient monastery on the cliff....
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...
Ukraine’s Influence on the Runway Is Bigger Than You Think – Vogue
https://www.vogue.com/article/ukraine-influence-runway-fashion-week
George Kistiakowsky: Ukrainian who made Manhatten Project work and first Atomic bomb explode
The US Government called on Dr. Kistiakowsky to help solve the problem with the new weapon the physicists at Los Alamos had been struggling...
Camille Ewald, Mike Tyson’s Ukrainian adoptive mother
Camille Ewald was born March 10, 1905, in Staromishchana, Ukraine, and was the daughter of the late Hnat and Anastasia Pershyn Ewaschuk. "Ms. Ewald...
