Ukrainian Myron Diduryk, “the finest battlefield company commander I had ever seen” – the...

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“Bravo Company, 2nd Battalion had good, solid, professional noncoms, and its troops had served together for a long time. It was a good rifle...
“Mazeppa” by Louis Guisnet, 1874

Lord Byron’s one of the most famous poems devoted to Ukrainian Hetman Ivan Mazeppa

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Mazeppa is a narrative poem written by the English romantic poet Lord Byron in 1819. It is based on a popular legend about the early life of Ivan...

Igor Sikorsky decided to build World’s First Four-Engine Airplane while still living in his...

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"The general idea of a large flying ship with several motors, and comfortable closed cabins, had been an ideal for a long time, but none had been designed. It...

Igor Sikorsky’s First Trial Helicopter Assembled in Kyiv in 1909

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"As time went on, I became well acquainted with the various aeronautical engines, having spent much time in a few factories, and finally made...

Injustice towards Sergei Korolev after Gagarin’s first man into space flight

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Academician Boris Chertok in his three-volume memoirs Rockets and People translated into English and published by NASA's History Division, recollected: "It grieved us when we...

Ukrainian Yevdokia Zavaliy, the only Soviet female commander of a Marines platoon during WW2:...

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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...

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…...

Alex Trebek was born July 22, 1940. His original family last name was Terebeychuk....

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Alex Trebek was born in Sudbury, Ontario, Canada, on July 22, 1940, the son of George Edward Trebek (né Terebeychuk), a chef who had emigrated from Ukraine as...

Ukrainian Chief Scientist of the U.S. Air Force credited for initiation of GPS: Michael...

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But Yarymovych knew the idea of space-based navigation was beautiful; it just wasn’t being sold right. He went to his boss, Air Force...

Kazimir Malevich showed the tragedy of Holodomor, himself fell victim to Stalinism

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“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...