Famous Ukrainians

Ms. Chrystia Freeland who called herself a proud Ukrainian-Canadian delivered a strong speech in Canadian Parliament yesterday. "The single most important pillar of this, which emerged following the...

In the autobiography "The Story of the Winged-S", Igor Sikorsky recalled: "For my future work, I had to use experimental data obtained from the...

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Born in Ruthenia (now Rohatyn, Ukraine) to a Ruthenian Orthodox priest, she was captured by Crimean Tatars during a slave raid and eventually taken via the Crimean slave trade to Istanbul, the Ottoman capital. She entered the Imperial Harem where...

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...

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...

“On January 19, 1896, young Eddie McCarthy of Hanover fell while skating on the Connecticut River and fractured his left wrist”. He was attended...

“There is Shakespeare for literature, Karinska for costumes!” (George Balanchine) "When George Balanchine was asked by the Ford Foundation in 1963 what was the thing...

Vasyl Ivanchuk was awarded the title of Grandmaster by FIDE in 1988. A leading chess player since 1988, Ivanchuk has been ranked at No. 2 on the FIDE world rankings three...

Serge Lifar was "a Ukrainian dancer and choreographer, and one of the greatest male ballet dancers of the 20th century. Lifar was also a choreographer,...