Lord Byron’s one of the most famous poems devoted to Ukrainian Hetman Ivan Mazeppa
Mazeppa is a narrative poem written by the English romantic poet Lord Byron in 1819. It is based on a popular legend about the early life of Ivan...
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...
SpaceX turns to Ukrainian AN-124 plane for emergency delivery of oversized rocket parts to...
"Jan 3, 2018 Subject: Request for Antonov Support SpaceX requests An-124 to transport rocket hardware (payload fairing halves) to expedite processing of the coming missions.. US Domestic...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
