Latynina Larisa Semionivna (born in 1934)
Larisa Semionovna Latynina is a famous Soviet gymnast. Larisa Latynina holds a lot of important Olympic records.
The first cosmonaut from the Earth. By the 75th anniversary of Y.O.Haharin
On April 12, 1961 the first man flew into space. It was a citizen of the Soviet Union Yuri Gagarin.
Bulgakov Sergey Nikolaevich
Sergey Nikolaevich Bulgakov (1871-1944) was a Russian religious philosopher, a professor, theologian, economist. In 1901-1906 he was a lecturer in Kyiv Polytechnic Institute.
Kobelev Oleksandr Vasyliovych
O.V. Kobelev (1860, Tsarskoye Selo - 30.09.1942, Kyiv, buried in the cemetery Lukianivka) - famous Kyiv architect, teacher, member of the St. Petersburg Union of Architects.
O.K. Antonov and his aircraft on the coins
The right to print the money is one of the attributes of statehood. The first state on the territory of today’s Ukraine – Kiev Rus – strengthened its sovereignty by minting its own coins in X-XI centuries.
General Designer of Space Technology V.P. Glushko
Valentin P. Glushko was born in Odessa, September 2, 1908. In the 1919-1924 he studied at a vocational technical school. At the same time in 1920-1922 he studied at the Conservatoire to play a violin.
Polish aviator from Ukraine Hippolyte Lossovskyi: unknown
The history of humanity is comparable to the rapid flow of water, historical materials not stored by society or its individual personalities disappear like a fallen leaf that falls into this stream.
The Man of past and future Renaissance [scientist-paleontologist and science fiction writer I. Yefremov]
One hundred years ago, on April 22, 1908 Ivan Efremov paleontologist outstanding scientist and science fiction writer was born. Somebody, however, mentioned this event a year ago, because the writer in his youth to find work added some years to his age.
Skoblikov Olexandr Pavlovych. Unforgettable Meetings with the Master
O. P. Skoblikov was one of the masters whose works added to the memory of eminent creators who had greatly contributed to science, education and culture of Ukraine.
Faithful to life, faithful to death
About Ukrainian poetess Olena Teliga (Shovhenova), we know very little. For a long time her name was buried with the body in a mass grave, hidden under Soviet ideological restrictions and controls, unfair erased from people's memory.