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Igor Sikorsky’s record-breaking 1,200 km-long flight on ‘Ilya Muromets’ plane from Petrograd to Kyiv...

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"There was one more important test flight as well as demonstration left to be accomplished, namely a long journey across the country. Until then...
Oleksiy_Mykhaylychenko_in_2016

Most titled football player of the former USSR returns as Dynamo Kyiv head coach

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"Mikhailichenko began his football career in the youth system of Dynamo Kyiv and made his debut in the Soviet Top League in 1981 being...

Usyk and Klitschko Brothers 15 Years Ago

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Not the Onion Material: The Man in the Middle will become the Undisputed Heavyweight Boxing Champion of the World and Will Surpass the Achievements...

Andriy Yarmolenko brings victory for WestHam United over Sevilla

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"On 112 minutes, Andriy Yarmolenko found the game's decisive moment, netting from close range after Bono could only parry Pablo Fornals' low shot." WHU...
Painting “Mazeppa” by Louis Guisnet, 1874

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...

Ukrainian who discovered X-rays but didn’t receive credit for it: Ivan Puluj

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As Noble Prize's official webpage describes it: "On the evening of 8 November 1895, Röntgen was in his laboratory studying how cathode-ray tubes emit...

Natalie Wood, ‘West Side Story’ film star, in her Ukrainian national dress

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'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...

Natalie Wood and Elizabeth Taylor, 1948

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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...

Ukrainian Sergei Korolev the day he was returned to Moscow prison after one year...

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

First Sputnik was launched Oct. 4, 1957. Korolev, Glushko were two major contributors to...

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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,...