Serge Lifar, world ballet great, recollects his native Kyiv of 1905-1921
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,...
Chornobyl electrician Oleksander Lelechenko saved his younger colleagues from radiation exposure by walking through...
Lelechenko is a beautiful Ukrainian last name because it derives from the Ukrainian word leleka which in English means stork. Unfortunately, many popular accounts of the Chornobyl...
Women Ukraine is Proud of
Every nation honors their mothers, sisters, daughters. Ukraine does too. Ukraine has all the reason to be proud of its women and here are...
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...
First Sputnik was launched Oct. 4, 1957. Korolev, Glushko were two major contributors to...
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 Cossack leader Ivan Mazepa and Lord Byron’s poem devoted to him
Near the end of the 17th century, Ukrainian Cossacks had a Hetman whose name would be known all over Europe and later on around...
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...
Powerful speech in Canadian Parliament by “proud Ukrainian-Canadian” Minister of Foreign Affairs
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...
Vasyl Ivanchuk, Ukrainian eccentric Chess Grandmaster
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...
Natalie Wood, ‘West Side Story’ film star, in her Ukrainian national dress
'Natalia Zakharenko' is the real name of this Hollywood star actress ("West Side Story" film won 11 Academy Award nominations). Her grandparents had to leave...
