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...

Natalie Wood and Elizabeth Taylor, 1948

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Natalia Zakharenko is the real name of this Hollywood star actress (“West Side Story” film had 11 Academy Award nominations). Her grandparents had to leave...

Georgy Voronoi: founder of the geometric theory of numbers, creator of “Voronoi Diagram”

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Vorony, Heorhii b 28 April 1868 in Zhuravka, Pyriatyn county, Poltava gubernia, d 20 November 1908 in Warsaw. Mathematician; corresponding member of the Saint Petersburg Academy of Sciences from...

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...

Wladimir Klitschko should be added to Undisputed Heavyweight Boxing Champions’ list, – LinealBoxChamp

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In early 2014, Wladimir Klitschko held the WBO +IBF + WBA belts. There were no other titlists. The WBC title was vacant. Wladimir had defeated Povetkin...

Kistiakowsky & Gordian Knot of Los Alamos’ Ski Slope

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Working against the clock to build weapons that might end a long and bloody war strained life at Los Alamos but also heightened it…...

Monuments to Igor Sikorsky in Kyiv opened by Mayor Vitaly Klitschko

Igor Sikorsky was born in Kyiv and achieved world fame while still living in it. For example, he set the World Speed Record and...

Igor Sikorsky: ‘My family is of Ukrainian origin’. Official document

When one opens Igor Sikorsky's Wikipedia page, in the "Early Life" paragraph one can read the following sentence: "When questioned regarding his roots, he would...

Philip Kotler, Ukrainian-American Father of Modern Marketing

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Philip Kotler (born May 27, 1931) is an American marketing author, consultant, and Professor Emeritus; the S. C. Johnson & Son Distinguished Professor of International Marketing at the Kellogg School...

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...