Ukrainian Alexei Berest hoists Victory Banner over Reichstag on May 01, 1945
" On 30 April 1945, after long days of street combat in Berlin, the 150th Division attacked the Reichstag. On 1 May, at about 03:00, Berest...
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...
Chuck Palahniuk of Ukrainian descent
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‘Easter morning prayer” by Ukrainian painter Mykola Pymonenko
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Valery Khodemchuk: the first victim of Chornobyl disaster and for whom Reactor #4 became...
Valery Khodemchuk was born on 24 March 1951 in the village of Kropyvnia which is almost exactly halfway between Kyiv and Chornobyl. With the...
Ukrainian Chief Scientist of the U.S. Air Force credited for initiation of GPS: Michael...
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...
World’s first Anti-Reflection Lens Coating invented by Ukrainian A. Smakula in 1935 became German...
Without the invention of anti-reflection lens coatings, modern lenses couldn’t exist. With nothing added to the surface of a glass lens, about 4% of...
Ukrainians who created Nuclear Missile Shield of the USSR: Korolev, Glushko, Yangel, Chelomey
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 Myron Diduryk, “the finest battlefield company commander I had ever seen” – the...
“Bravo Company, 2nd Battalion had good, solid, professional noncoms, and its troops had served together for a long time. It was a good rifle...
Kistiakowsky, Truman, Stalin, dental drill, 10-dollar bet with Oppenheimer: The Trinity Atomic Bomb Test...
The quotes below are taken from the Pulitzer Prize-winning book The Making of the Atomic Bomb by American journalist and historian Richard Rhodes: "On April...
