Valentina Radzymovska: founder of the Ukrainian school of physiologists and biochemistsValentyna Radzymovska (1886–1953) was a Ukrainian physician and scientist who was one of the first in the world to study the influence of acid-base balance on living cells and laid the foundations of the Ukrainian school of physiologists and biochemists. A professor at Kyiv and Lviv institutions, a participant in the liberation struggle and public and political life, she survived arrest in the case of the “Union for the Liberation of Ukraine”, Nazi occupation, and emigration to Germany and the USA. Leading figures of the Ukrainian movement gathered in her Kyiv apartment, and her scientific works combined laboratory experiments with concern for the health of children and tuberculosis patients. The portrait recreates the image of a woman for whom science, Ukraine, and human dignity were inseparable.

Sikorsky at the wheel of one of the first aircraft models

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.

Ksenia Desni, a scene from the film

Ksenia Desny in white dress

Xenia Desni portrait

Xenia Desni A, Eberth, Berlin

Ksenia Desni "Ross", Berlin

Doctor Elie Metchnikoff, in his laboratory, Nature & Science

Kondratyuk, Portrait

John C. Houbolt at blackboard, showing his space rendezvous concept for lunar landings.Lunar Orbital Rendezvous (LOR) would be used in the Apollo program. Although Houbolt did not invent the idea of LOR, he was the person most responsible for pushing it at NASA.

The father of the cell phone is Martin Cooper.

Martin Cooper shows FCC Commissioner Benjamin Hooks the first DynaTAC cell phoneCooper, left, showing FCC commissioner Benjamin Hooks the first cell phone, the DynaTAC, in 1973. "There was unanimity within Motorola regarding AT&T: they could not be allowed to extend their monopoly […] We had to beat them; we had to beat the monopoly."

Vira Kholodna

Sofia Yablonska with a camera

Irena Bohdanova in a dress

Natalie Wood on the phone

Natali Wood

Sikorsky in Kyiv with the first helicopter model

Maya Deren with a cat

Maya Deren in Kyiv as a child with her mother, 1918

Korolev S.P. at the age of six

Ihor Sikorsky seated at the forward edge of his first airplane desing, S-1

A still from “Ritual in Transfigured Time,” with Rita Christiani, Anaïs Nin, and Deren in the foregr

Unknown photograph of Maya Deren

Maya Deren in the scene of the movie "Meshes of the afternoon"

Maya Deren in mirror

Dzyga Vertov

The first woman elected as adjunct professor of the University of St. Volodymyr - Polonska-Vasylenko

Father of the electric tram - Fedir PirockiUsing and relying on Pirockyj's scientific developments, Werner von Siemens created the first electric trams in Europe. What did Pirocki do a year later in Kyiv.

Haffkin saves the world from CholeraHe studied at Odessa University, from where he was expelled for participating in the political organization "Narodna Volya". After refusing to use anti-cholera vaccination in a number of European countries, Volodymyr Khavkin worked in India from 1896, where he created the first ever vaccine against cholera.

She anticipated American underground cinemaThe artistic style of Eleonora Maya Deren anticipated American underground cinema. In 1943, she made one of the most influential experimental films in American cinema, Meshes of the Afternoon, in collaboration with cinematographer Alexander Hammid.

Soul of Ukrainian cinema Ivan MykolajchukPlayed 34 roles in movies, wrote 9 scripts and has two directorial works. In the Ukrainian SSR, communist party marked him as "untrustworthy", but nation called him "the soul of Ukrainian cinema".

Sikorsky solved the riddle of Da VinciCreator of the world's first airplanes: four-engined (1913), heavy four-engined bomber and passenger plane (1914), transatlantic seaplane (1934), serial single-screw helicopter (1942), Sikorsky S-29-A. Designer of the first US amphibious aircraft.

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.

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.