Ukrainian boy was catching sweets from American planes during the Berlin Airlift in 1948....
One of the engineers laying the foundation of the Apollo systems in 1962 was Michael Yarymovych, born Mikhail Yarymovych in pre-WWII Ukraine. In his...
Kvitka ‘Kacey’ Cisyk, Ukrainian-American famous singer was born April 4, 1953
Per Wikipedia, Kvitka "Kacey" Cisyk (Ukrainian: Квітка Цісик; Квітослава-Орися Цісик, Kvitka Tsisyk; April 4, 1953 – March 29, 1998) was an American coloratura soprano of Ukrainian ethnicity. Cisyk, a...
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...
Anna Muzychuck, Ukrainian Chess Grandmaster, chose to lose her Two Titles but not feel...
Anna Muzychuk is a Ukrainian chess grandmaster (GM). She is the fourth woman in chess history to attain a FIDE rating of at least 2600. She has been...
Ukrainian Yevdokia Zavaliy, the only Soviet female commander of a Marines platoon during WW2:...
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...
Mykola Pymonenko whose works inspired Kazimir Malevich. His Hopak painting was bought by the...
Mykola Pymonenko was a Ukrainian realist painter who lived and worked in Kyiv. Pymonenko is best known for his urban and rural genre scenes of...
Philip Kotler, Ukrainian-American Father of Modern Marketing
Philip Kotler (born May 27, 1931) is an American marketing author, consultant, and Professor Emeritus; the S. C. Johnson & Son Distinguished Professor of International Marketing at the Kellogg School...
Enterpreneur: Longest Reigning Heavyweight Boxing Champion Dr. Wladimir Klitschko On Achieving (And Maintaining) Peak...
According to Wikipedia, his boxing career recorded 64 wins in 69 fights, of which 53 were by knockout. Throughout his two decades in...
Ukrainian High Jumper Yaroslava Mahuchikh is Women’s European Athlete of the Year
"Yaroslava Mahuchikh continues to raise the bar in every sense. She won gold in Roma 2024 in June, then broke the 37-year-old world record...
Sergey Bubka’s pole vault outdoor best of 6.14m celebrates its 25th anniversary
"Sergey Bubka’s world and European outdoor best of 6.14m is one of the most enduring marks in the record books and looks poised to celebrate...
