At the beginning of cinema stood Ukrainian mechanic Yosyp Timchenko together with physicist Mykola Lyubimov, who two years before the discovery of the Lumiere brothers, developed a “snail” – a jumping mechanism.In 1893, films shot using a kinescope were already being shown in Odessa, thus outpacing the Lumières. But Timchenko failed to patent his device. His kinescope is still stored in the storage rooms of the Polytechnic Museum in Moscow.
Timchenko was also the author of automatic meteorological, physical and astronomical instruments, for which he received awards at world exhibitions. He participated in the creation of the first model of the Freudenberg automatic telephone exchange.
Father Mykola Lysko - one of the first priests who arrived in the Ukrainian community of the first settlers of the state of Paraná in Brazil
A man from the Ukrainian community, the first immigrants in Brazil, demonstrates the art of having many children on the doorstep of his house
The first streets of Ukrainian emigrants in Brazil
Wedding family photo of the first immigrants from Ukraine in Brazil
Tree stumps in the first Ukrainian settlements in Brazil
The Gazdas are ready to explore the vast expanses of Brazil, which will later become the state of Paraná and the city of Prudentópolis.
Construction of the first roads in the state of Paraná, in the Brazilian jungle, by Ukrainian immigrants
Brazilian gentlemen from Ukraine in nice suits
Ukrainian farmers have greatly improved the Paraná region in terms of agro-industry, and this trend continues to this day.
The first Brazilian harvests of the first Ukrainians on the continent in wild conditions
Basilian priests Tiko and Diva
The first printing press in Prudentopolis
Father Athanasius. The grand opening of the new printing house in 1938.
Father Athanasius, 1st Ukrainian Church
Ostapiv Veselka Kom Ephraim Krevey
Church with carriages
Seminary of Mercia Guimaraes
Sister of Josaphat I. Raphael
Sister Josaphat College is expanding
Church of St. Basil the Blessed in Prudentopolis
Church of Hope Ternoski
Wedding of Anair Lopez
Dionysius Opushkevych Ukrainian Club
Another club November 12
Mércia Guimarães, Workers' Club і Cine Oriente
Father Athanasius' Immigrants
Father Atanasio's Immigrant Barracks 1896
Marcelo Escolinha Immigrants
Father Atanasio's Immigrant Barracks
Brazilian Ukrainian Immigrants in senador Correa Machado
Anna Sten in Nana (1934), dark room
Anna Sten in Nana (1934)
Anna StenUkrainian-born Hollywood actress Anna Sten (1908 – 1993) rose from Kyiv’s theatre scene and early Soviet silents to German talkies before Samuel Goldwyn brought her to the United States, promoting her as “the next Greta Garbo.” Notable films include Nana (1934), We Live Again (1934) and The Wedding Night (1935). Her cosmopolitan career and star-making myth embody the transnational currents of 1930s cinema.
Nudie Cohn in his store with "Nudie and his Mandolin" vinyl
A watering hole under a bridge in a city in Yunnan province by Sofia Yablonska
Sofia Yablonska sits on the hood of a car in Morocco
