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...
Gravitational Slingshot Trajectory adopted by Apollo-11 program to reach the Moon is named after...
New Mexico Museum of Space History: "Yuri Vasilievich Kondratyuk (1897-1942). Born as Aleksandr Shargei, he took a new name to avoid persecution during the...
Most titled football player of the former USSR returns as Dynamo Kyiv head coach
"Mikhailichenko began his football career in the youth system of Dynamo Kyiv and made his debut in the Soviet Top League in 1981 being...
Ukrainian who opened Space to Humankind: Sergei Korolev was born Jan. 12, 1907
The man who would open space to Humankind, Sergei Pavlovich Korolev, was born on 12 January 1907 in Zhytomyr, Ukraine. His mother Maria...
Elbe Day iconic photo: American Robertson and Ukrainian Silvashko
April 25, 1945, the day American troops and the troops of the First Ukrainian Front met at the Elbe River, near Torgau in Germany...
Oksana Baiul, the first Winter Olympic champion of independent Ukraine, 1994
Known as the “Swan of Odessa,” Baiul was one of the most graceful and artistically accomplished skaters in the history of the sport....
De-Russification of Ukrainian art, – DW
New York museum has renamed an Edgar Degas painting to recognize its Ukrainian, not Russian, theme, and acknowledged formerly Russia-designated artists as Ukrainian. Barley...
Kazimir Malevich, a Ukrainian avant-garde artist was born in Kyiv on Feb. 23, 1879
Kazimir Malevich, an artist of Polish descent, was born in Ukraine on Feb. 23, 1879. His father was Polish, director of sugar refineries. The surname...
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...
Wladimir Klitschko should be added to Undisputed Heavyweight Boxing Champions’ list, – LinealBoxChamp
In early 2014, Wladimir Klitschko held the WBO +IBF + WBA belts. There were no other titlists. The WBC title was vacant. Wladimir had defeated Povetkin...