Famous Ukrainians

"The question of Nikolai Gogol’s “belonging”—especially now, as Ukrainian and Russian cultures, long bound by an imperial past, are severing their ties before our...

Katheryn Winnick - born in Etobicoke, Ontario, and is of Ukrainian descent. She spoke Ukrainian as her first language and did not begin speaking English until she was eight years old. She began...

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...

In 1926, a young man from the Kyiv region entered Kyiv Polytechnic Institute. The man's first name was Arkhyp, and his last name was...

The man who would open space to humankind, Sergei Pavlovich Korolev, was born on 12 January 1907 (30 Dec 1906 old calendar), in Zhitomir,...

News Site in the USA: "Netflix’s “Queen Cleopatra”, a four-part docuseries exploring the life and reign of Cleopatra, was released this month to almost...

In Dec. 2020, Doodle celebrated the 120th birthday of a Ukrainian painter with the following words: "Kateryna Bilokur, a self-taught virtuoso earned international renown for...

Joseph Vincent Charyk (September 9, 1920 – September 28, 2016) was widely credited as the founder of the geosynchronous communications satellite industry. He was born...

In the autobiography "The Story of the Winged-S", Igor Sikorsky recalled: "I had several hobbies. For a time I was making electrical batteries and...

"There was one more important test flight as well as demonstration left to be accomplished, namely a long journey across the country. Until then...