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,...
Chuck Palahniuk of Ukrainian descent
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Alex Trebek was born July 22, 1940. His original family last name was Terebeychuk....
Alex Trebek was born in Sudbury, Ontario, Canada, on July 22, 1940, the son of George Edward Trebek (né Terebeychuk), a chef who had emigrated from Ukraine as...
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...
The World’s First Kidney Transplant by Ukrainian Dr. Yurii Voronyi in 1933
Yurii Voronyi (1895-1961) was the first doctor in the world to perform renal transplantation in the clinic. The operation was conducted in 1933 in...
Bohdan Khmelnitsky meeting Patriarch Macarius III of Antioch near Kyiv in 1654
Paul of Aleppo (1627 - 1669) was a Syrian archdeacon, traveler, and writer. He accompanied his father, Patriarch Makarios III of Antioch, on a journey from Aleppo...
Bill Mosienko scored fastest hat trick in NHL history 23 March, 1952
Bill Mosienko (1921-1994) was a Ukrainian-Canadian professional ice hockey right winger who played 14 seasons in the National Hockey League (NHL) for the Chicago Black...
Ballet Puff Tutu was invented by Ukrainian Oscar-Winning costumier Barbara Karinska
“There is Shakespeare for literature, Karinska for costumes!” (George Balanchine) "When George Balanchine was asked by the Ford Foundation in 1963 what was the thing...
Natalie Wood and Elizabeth Taylor, 1948
Natalia Zakharenko is the real name of this Hollywood star actress (“West Side Story” film had 11 Academy Award nominations). Her grandparents had to leave...
Igor Sikorsky decided to build World’s First Four-Engine Airplane while still living in his...
"The general idea of a large flying ship with several motors, and comfortable closed cabins, had been an ideal for a long time, but none had been designed. It...
