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 who played the most crucial role in creating the first US atomic bomb:...
Atomic Heritage Foundation has the following entry: "George Kistiakowsky (1900-1982) was a Ukrainian-American physical chemist.He joined the Manhattan Project in late January 1944, leaving...
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...
Real Madrid manager Carlo Ancelotti names his rivals in best manager debate: Spain’s Guardiola,...
"Real Madrid manager Carlo Ancelotti has revealed which managers are his competitors for being the best coach in the last 30 years. Real Madrid manager...
Kistiakowsky & Gordian Knot of Los Alamos’ Ski Slope
Working against the clock to build weapons that might end a long and bloody war strained life at Los Alamos but also heightened it…...
Solomiya Krushelnytska, world-famous Ukrainian lyric-dramatic soprano of the first half of the 20th century
Solomiya Krushelnytska (1872 – 1952) was a Ukrainian lyric-dramatic soprano, considered to be one of the brightest opera stars of the first half of the...
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...
Georgy Voronoi: founder of the geometric theory of numbers, creator of “Voronoi Diagram”
Vorony, Heorhii b 28 April 1868 in Zhuravka, Pyriatyn county, Poltava gubernia, d 20 November 1908 in Warsaw. Mathematician; corresponding member of the Saint Petersburg Academy of Sciences from...
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...
Meeting at the Elbe: Lt. William Robertson (U.S. Army) and Lt. Alexander Silvashko (First...
April 25, 1945, the day American troops and the troops of the First Ukrainian Front met at the Elbe River, near Torgau in Germany...
