George Kistiakowsky: Ukrainian who made Manhatten Project work and first Atomic bomb explode
The US Government called on Dr. Kistiakowsky to help solve the problem with the new weapon the physicists at Los Alamos had been struggling...
Ukrainian Yevdokia Zavaliy, the only Soviet female commander of a Marines platoon during WW2:...
Born in 1924, Yevdokia Zavaliy was raised in a small village in the Mykolaiv region of Ukraine, where she worked on a farm. She was brutally exposed...
Natalie Wood, ‘West Side Story’ film star, in her Ukrainian national dress
'Natalia Zakharenko' is the real name of this Hollywood star actress ("West Side Story" film won 11 Academy Award nominations). Her grandparents had to leave...
Bees’ survival is crucial for humankind. This single invention by Ukrainian P. Prokopovych started...
"We all depend on the survival of bees,” – states the United Nations explaining the reason for designating May 20 as World’s Bee Day....
‘Easter morning prayer” by Ukrainian painter Mykola Pymonenko
Read about Mykola Pymonenko and his prominent works >
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 women at work. As seen by John Steinbeck and Robert Capa in 1947
" Shevchenko has never been one of the best farms because its land is not of the first quality, but before the war it...
World Famous Ukrainians
Celebreties Let us start with Wayne Gretzky's speech at "United for Ukraine" event - it has some information that may surprize you. Milla Jovovich who calls herself "a humble...
Ukrainian Cossack leader Ivan Mazepa and Lord Byron’s poem devoted to him
Near the end of the 17th century, Ukrainian Cossacks had a Hetman whose name would be known all over Europe and later on around...
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...
