World champion in classical women's wrestling (1915) - Maria Yakymovna KovacIn 1913 she came to Odessa to earn money. On the recommendation of friends she moved to study with famous wrestlers in St. Petersburg, where she signed a contract to perform at women's championships, in circuses, and theaters. During performances she bent iron with her teeth, lay down under the platform over which a car was passing. In 1914 she defeated the Scottish ring star Kelt, the Bulgarian Glovcheva, the Romanian Vasilescu, in 1915 in Kyiv—the world champion K. Giraldi from Revel (now Tallinn). At the beginning of World War I she moved to the city of Zhmerynka (now Vinnytsia Oblast), graduated from medical courses. In 1917–22 she worked as a nurse (in particular in the Hnivan hospital); in 1922–23—a typist of the Hnivan city executive committee, in 1937–59—a Vinnytsia Oblast sugar trust. I did not return to sports.

Borchynia Zavidna Agafia RodionovnaShe was 190 cm tall and weighed about 170 kg. In 1904–10 she studied wrestling with I. Poddubny, who helped her create strength moves that even men could not repeat, and also performed with him at tournaments. She broke chains, bent horseshoes in one hand, lifted a “two-pounder” (about 33 kg) with one little finger, held eight people in the “wrestling bridge” position on her, did a “carousel” with an iron rail, the ends of which were held by 3–4 people; a 164-kilogram stone block was broken on her chest with hammers. From 1911 she performed independently in the Russian Empire, the countries of Europe, Central and Central Asia, and Africa. Before World War I, she was the only woman in the Russian Empire who received a patent for the right to hold French wrestling championships. In 1918–20, she lived in Nikopol. During one of her performances, she was injured, but after recovering, she continued to perform. The house where the athlete lived has been preserved in Nikopol.

Rally in support of the Central Rada, Kyiv, summer 1917

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.

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.

Mariupol Plant named after Ukrainian metallurgist Zot Ilyich Nekrasov - One of the key industrial centers of the entire Azov region of the 20th century.

Volodymyr Bozhyk, conductor of the Kobzar Choir, with choir members. Los Angeles, 1963.

Family tree

Shevchenko's ring from the Tarnavsky Museum

Pupils of the Institute of Noble Ladies at a dance lesson

Naum Slutzky

Ivan Dotsenko - pilot-Indian chief

1776 map of the Crimean peninsula

An inhabitant of Tatar Crimea, 1700

Crimean Khan Akhmet Giray (1519)

Ukrainian Karaites

Participants of the Kurultai. In the center are representatives of the Bakhchisarai Muslim Organization led by Sh. Gasprinskaya.

Bride's room. Exposition of the National Museum of the Crimean Tatars, 1920's (Bakhchysarai)

Kapskhor in Crimea: Evening Occupations of the Tatars

Crimean Tatar Ornek

Crimean Tatar women

Crimean Tatar cemetery in Bakhchysarai. Photo source: Holos Krymu newspaper.

The village of Uskut after the deportation of the Crimean Tatars, 1945.

Deported Crimean Tatars in a special settlement in the city of Krasnovishersk (now in Perm Krai, Russia), 1948. Photo source: Association of Muslims of Ukraine.