Why Crane. About this Website
Thank you for visiting my website. This site was created with the purpose to help you discover beautiful country of Ukraine. Why Crane anyway? Not just because...
Ukrainian Novikov, 24, World’s Strongest, Sets New World Record in Deadlift
November 17, 2020 during the World's Strongest Man Finals, Oleksii Novikov set a New World Record - 537.5kg (1185lb) 18-Inch Deadlift. But in this...
Ukrainian Special Operations Forces Dog
(Probably not, but looking cool and threatening)
Ukrainian postage stamp to feature mine clearance dog Patron
"Patron" translated into English as Cartridge. The dog is helping to clear the Kyiv region from different kinds of exposived and is almost a...
John Steinbeck praises Ukrainian hospitality and cuisine: ‘Ukrainian borscht is a meal in itself’
Ukrainian Village House There is a hall, which is a combination storeroom and entrance.From there one goes into the kitchen, a white plaster room, with...
John Steinbeck describes post-WW2 Ukraine. (1947 Kyiv trip)
Excerpts are from “A Russian Journal” written by John Steinbeck after his trip with a famous war photographer Robert Capa to the Soviet Union...
John Steinbeck depicts Ukrainians and their difference from Russians
Different looks, heartiness “Everyone had told us it would be different once we got outside of Moscow, that the sternness and the tenseness would not...
Exclusive coins dedicated to Ukraine to appear in the USA
Investment coins with Ukrainian symbols have been issued in the United States. “American silver investment coins with denominations of 1 US dollar in 2022...
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...