In 1880, in the town of Sestroretsk near St. Petersburg, the world’s first electric tramline was put into operation. It…

The Sikorsky R‑4 was the world’s first serial helicopter, and the first helicopter included in the inventory of the US…

The design of the world’s first two‑circuit turbojet engine was developed from 1939‑1941 by Ukrainian Arkhip Lyulka, who was born…

This capacitor was designed by scientists at Lviv Polytechnic National University from 1990‑2011 under the leadership of Hryhoriy Ilchuk in…

Ukrainian scientists have made a decisive contribution to the success of the Soviet space program, and Ukrainian companies were the…

Between 1802‑1803, Vasily Petrov, who studied at the Kharkiv Collegium, discovered the phenomenon of the electric arc and described the…

In 1914, Volodymyr Chelomey was born in Siedlce, the Russian Empire, which is now modern‑day Poland. A few months after…

The MBR R‑7 placed into space orbit the first artificial Earth satellite and first manned spacecraft. It was designed by…

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, a Soviet space shuttle, was created by the Molniya design bureau headed by Ukrainian designer Hlib Lozyno-Lozynsky (born in…