Milla ‘The Fifth Element’ Jovovich was born in Kyiv, Ukraine on Dec. 17, 1975

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The actress calls herself "a humble Ukrainian girl".Milla's words on her Facebook January 30, 2014, during Ukrainian Revolution of Dignity, meant a lot to...

Alexander Archipenko, Ukrainian prominent sculptor inspired by Scythian Art

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M. Shkandrij in his 'Avant-Garde Art in Ukraine' published in Boston in 2019, wrote that Alexander Archipenko "called for a renewal of “ancient polychromy which is far...

Kids Diana Show: Pocket.watch Plans to Turn 6-Year-Old Ukrainian YouTuber Into Global Enterprise

Diana, the bubbly and charismatic young star of YouTube’s Kids Diana Show, already has a massive following of 123 million subscribers across the globe. Now the...

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:...

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...

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...

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...

Ukrainian who discovered X-rays but didn’t receive credit for it: Ivan Puluj

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As Noble Prize's official webpage describes it: "On the evening of 8 November 1895, Röntgen was in his laboratory studying how cathode-ray tubes emit...

Bees’ survival is crucial for humankind. This single invention by Ukrainian P. Prokopovych started...

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"We all depend on the survival of bees,” – states the United Nations explaining the reason for designating May 20 as World’s Bee Day....

Ukrainian who created the best jet engines in the world: Arkhyp Lyulka was born...

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In 1926, a young man from the Kyiv region entered Kyiv Polytechnic Institute. The man's first name was Arkhyp, and his last name was...