🚀 ARC WELDING
Between 1802‑1803, Vasily Petrov, who studied at the Kharkiv Collegium, discovered the phenomenon of the electric arc and described the…
🚀 ROCKET SHIELD OF THE USSR
In 1914, Volodymyr Chelomey was born in Siedlce, the Russian Empire, which is now modern‑day Poland. A few months after…
🚀 LIQUID FUEL MISSILE CARRIER MBR R‑7
The MBR R‑7 placed into space orbit the first artificial Earth satellite and first manned spacecraft. It was designed by…
🚀 EKRANOPLAN: THE CASPIAN SEA MONSTER
The Caspian Sea Monster ekranoplan, or KM—invented by Rostyslav Alekseyev—was the world’s heaviest aircraft until the introduction of the Anotonov‑225…
🚀 BURAN
Buran, a Soviet space shuttle, was created by the Molniya design bureau headed by Ukrainian designer Hlib Lozyno-Lozynsky (born in…
🚀 CORNEA TRANSPLANTATION – VLADIMIR FILATOV EYE SURGERY SCHOOL
The first known successful corneal transplantation took place in Olomouc (now Czech Republic) in 1905. The surgeon planted corneas from…