Chornobyl electrician Oleksander Lelechenko saved his younger colleagues from radiation exposure by walking through...

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Lelechenko is a beautiful Ukrainian last name because it derives from the Ukrainian word leleka which in English means stork. Unfortunately, many popular accounts of the Chornobyl...

‘Harbingers of the Resurrection’ by Nikolai Ge

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R.I.P., NHL Hall-of-Famer Dale Hawerchuk

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The leading scorer in the first iteration of the Winnipeg Jets and a member of the Hockey Hall of Fame Dale Hawerchuk passed away...

Ivan Piddubny, Ukrainian World-Famous Wrestler Whose Legacy Russia Tried to Appropriate

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Two years ago, in 2021, Google devoted a Doodle to the 150th anniversary of the world-famous wrestler Ivan Piddubny. The text of it is:...

Valery Khodemchuk: the first victim of Chornobyl disaster and for whom Reactor #4 became...

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Valery Khodemchuk was born on 24 March 1951 in the village of Kropyvnia which is almost exactly halfway between Kyiv and Chornobyl. With the...

Ukrainian boy was catching sweets from American planes during the Berlin Airlift in 1948....

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One of the engineers laying the foundation of the Apollo systems in 1962 was Michael Yarymovych, born Mikhail Yarymovych in pre-WWII Ukraine. In his...

Women Ukraine is Proud of

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Every nation honors their mothers, sisters, daughters. Ukraine does too. Ukraine has all the reason to be proud of its women and here are...

Hollywood star of Ukrainian descent Vera Farmiga joins campaign #ArmUkraineNow

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She published her picture with the hashag at her Instagram page. Vera Farmiga is known for her roles in movies like Source Code with Jake...