The World’s First Kidney Transplant by Ukrainian Dr. Yurii Voronyi in 1933
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...
Ivan Puluj and long hair of one of his female students
One of Puluj's students, Katherine Stozitska, after asking permission from her parents, cut her very long hair that was almost touching the ground and...
Ukraine in Space
Sergei Korolev - the leading Soviet rocket engineer and spacecraft designer was born in Zhytomir, Ukraine. It is due to his genius, the Soviet Union...
Ukrainians in NHL
Did you know that the greatest Wayne Gretzky is half-Ukrainian (on his father's side) and grew up in Ukrainian environment? His father Walter says that the only Slavic...
Canada mints Ukrainian Easter Egg pure gold coin
https://www.mint.ca/store/coins/pure-gold-coin---eternal-blessing-pysanka---mintage-250-2019-prod3480019
Proto-Indo-European Language originated in Ukraine сa. 6,000 years ago: Hittites were the first to...
"Ever since eighteenth-century scholars recognised that Latin, Greek, and Sanskrit all descended from a common language, researchers have been consumed with determining who first...
Cossacks on horseback, Ukrainian music accompany Stanley Cup through Dauphin, – CBC News
"This is the first time that somebody who grew up on this town and played minor hockey in this town has come back to...
Giant abandoned space-age saucer: Kiev Bus Garage Number 7 – CNN
https://edition.cnn.com/travel/article/ukraine-abandoned-space-age-saucer
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...
Yin-Yang symbol originated in the area of present-day Ukraine
The earliest known depiction of Yin-Yang symbol belongs to the Trypillia culture and dates to 5200 B.C. The oldest preserved drawing of this symbol...














