The biggest tank battle of all time took place in Ukraine on June 23,...
The largest tank battle of WW2 is largely unknown, but it took place in western Ukraine in the triangle between the cities of Dubno,...
Largest open-air museum in Europe
At the outskirt of Kyiv there is a unique Pyrohiv National Museum of Ukrainian Architecture & Culture which has examples of typical Ukrainian rural dwellings from...
Largest Aviation Museum in Eastern Europe
CNN ranked it as # 6 in the WORLD actually. Ahead are only Aviation museums in France (1), UK (1) and the USA (3). "This museum houses one of the world's...
Neil Armstrong while in the USSR collected a handful of soil from outside Yuri...
"When American astronaut Neil Armstrong visited the Soviet Union after his historic flight to the Moon, he collected a handful of soil from...
Turret of Russian tank: ‘I can fly, my friend!”
This Russian tank was blown up by Ukrainian defenders on May 6th near Novoazovsk in Donetsk region. Novoazovsk has been occupied by Russia since...
Most unusual and possibly most ancient Scythian barrow near Kyiv: Perepyatykh kurgan
E. Minns in the "Scythians and Greeks" book published in 1913: "An isolated example recalling this type is the barrow called Perepjatikha, in the...
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...
Ukrainian Kistiakowsky, not Oppenheimer, should be credited for the first U.S. atomic bomb successful...
American journalist and historian Richard Rhodes, in his Pulitzer Prize-winning book The Making of the Atomic Bomb, named George Kistiakowsky a key figure in...
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...