Chernobyl electrician Oleksander Lelechenko saved his younger colleagues from radiation exposure by walking through...
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"Ordering younger workers to stand down, 47-year-old electrician Aleksandr Lelechenko repeatedly ventured into the irradiated electrolysis room in an...
‘Harbingers of the Resurrection’ by Nikolai Ge
https://www.wikiart.org/en/nikolai-ge
Terry Sawchuck, the famous Hockey Hall of Fame goalie, was named ‘Ukey” because of...
"Terrance Gordon Sawchuk (December 28, 1929 – May 31, 1970) was a Canadian professional ice hockey goaltender who played 21 seasons in...
Hollywood star of Ukrainian descent Vera Farmiga joins campaign #ArmUkraineNow
She published her picture with the hashag at her Instagram page.
Vera Farmiga is known for her roles in movies like Source...
Kistiakowsky, Truman, Stalin, dental drill, 10-dollar bet with Oppenheimer: The Trinity Atomic Bomb Test...
On April 11, 1945, Oppenheimer sent Groves the news that Kistiakowsky had managed to produce implosive compressions so perfectly symmetrical that...
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...
Oksana Baiul, the first Winter Olympic champion of independent Ukraine, 1994
Known as the “Swan of Odessa,” Baiul was one of the most graceful and artistically accomplished skaters in the history...
Chuck Palahniuk of Ukrainian descent
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chuck_Palahniuk
Vasily Ignatenko, one of the Chernobyl firefighters to die in May, 1986
Ignatenko was among the firefighters that got closest to the exposed reactor core as they attempted to extinguish fires on the...
Ukrainian Myron Diduryk, “the finest battlefield company commander I had ever seen” – the...
“Bravo Company, 2nd Battalion had good, solid, professional noncoms, and its troops had served together for a long time. It was...