Bohdan Khmelnitsky meeting Patriarch Macarius III of Antioch near Kyiv in 1654
Paul of Aleppo (1627 - 1669) was a Syrian archdeacon, traveler, and writer. He accompanied his father, Patriarch Makarios III of Antioch, on a journey from Aleppo...
Ukrainian High Jumper Yaroslava Mahuchikh is Women’s European Athlete of the Year
"Yaroslava Mahuchikh continues to raise the bar in every sense. She won gold in Roma 2024 in June, then broke the 37-year-old world record...
5 Most Famous Ukrainian Americans
Ihor Sykorski - the father of helicopter engineering. Assembled his first two trial helicopters while still living in his native Kiev. He also engineered...
Mykola Pymonenko whose works inspired Kazimir Malevich. His Hopak painting was bought by the...
Mykola Pymonenko was a Ukrainian realist painter who lived and worked in Kyiv. Pymonenko is best known for his urban and rural genre scenes of...
Kazimir Malevich showed the tragedy of Holodomor, himself fell victim to Stalinism
“Malevich was the only artist who showed the tragic situation of the Ukrainian peasants during forced collectivization in the USSR” – wrote Jean-Claude Markade, French...
First ever X-ray in the US was performed on the invention of Ukrainian scientist...
“On January 19, 1896, young Eddie McCarthy of Hanover fell while skating on the Connecticut River and fractured his left wrist”. He was attended...
Kazimir Malevich, a Ukrainian avant-garde artist was born in Kyiv on Feb. 23, 1879
Kazimir Malevich, an artist of Polish descent, was born in Ukraine on Feb. 23, 1879. His father was Polish, director of sugar refineries. The surname...
First Sputnik was launched Oct. 4, 1957. Korolev, Glushko were two major contributors to...
Asif Azam Siddiqi is a professor of history with a specialization in the history of science and technology. When the Soviet archives opened in the 1990s,...
Ukrainian who opened Space to Humankind: Sergei Korolev was born Jan. 12, 1907
The man who would open space to Humankind, Sergei Pavlovich Korolev, was born on 12 January 1907 in Zhytomyr, Ukraine. His mother Maria...
‘Flying Cossacks’ US Aviation Subdivision during the Vietnam War
"DALLAS — Twenty-five years after being formed in Texas, the Flying Cossacks of 1964-1965 held their first reunion. The surviving pilots who could be...
