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unusual facts about the Ukraine



Jerzy Pajaczkowski-Dydynski

Jerzy Kazimierz Pajączkowski-Dydyński (Lwów, Austro-Hungary, (now the Ukraine), July 19, 1894 - Boarbank Hall, Grange-over-Sands, England, December 6, 2005) was Polish veteran of World War I and UK's oldest man at the time of his death at the age of 111 and one of the last surviving veterans of the First World War living in the UK.


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Alexis Brimeyer

In August 1984 Brimeyer's mother, who now styled herself as "Princess Olga Beatrice Nikolaevna Romanovskaia Dolgoroukaia, Princess of the Ukraine, Countess di Fonzo", married Alfonso Yorba (also known as the Major General Bruce-Alfonso de Bourbon, Prince of Condé, or more simply, Bruce Conde).

Alma, Virginia

The doctor, who relocated to Page County around 1851 is said to have been a follower of events of the Crimean War, and is believed to have named the little village either for the Battle of Alma or the Alma River, in the Ukraine.

Armenians in Austria

The very active, well organized Armenians of the Ottoman province of Suczawa (Bukowina, today a part of the Ukraine) were annexed by the Austrian Empire and Armenians automatically became citizens of the Empire.

Autoeponym

Pirogov embalming technique: Nikolay Pirogov himself was preserved by methods he developed and his body is still on display in a room temperature glass-lid coffin in the Ukraine.

Boris Shramko

Excavations at Bilske Horodyshche (Більське городище) near the village of Belsk in the Ukraine have led to suggestions by archaeologist Boris Shramko and others identifying it as the Scythian capital Gelonus.

Chris Barty

Barty made his international debut on 1 April 2012, at the 2012 AFC Dream Asia Cerebral Palsy Tournament in Abu Dhabi, and has since competed at tournaments in the Ukraine and Spain.

Eduard von Falz-Fein

Honorary Insignia of the President of Ukraine (1994) - for long-term selfless activity to return to the Ukraine national cultural values, personal contribution to the renewal of the reserve Askania-Nova

Fighting for Freedom

Fighting for Freedom: The Ukrainian volunteer Division of the Waffen-SS is a book by Richard Landwehr on the 14th Waffen-Grenadier Division of the SS (the first Ukrainian division).

Gehlen Organization

Unheralded tasks, such as observations of the operation of Soviet rail systems, airfields and ports were as important as was infiltration in the Baltic and the Ukraine, using former Kriegsmarine E-boats from bases in Turkey.

Hamid Reza Noorbakhsh

He studied Iranian classical music under the supervision of Mohammad Reza Shajarian and has performed with several music ensembles, including the Shams Ensemble and the Aref Ensemble, as well as with the Ukraine Philharmonic Orchestra.

Ida Rhodes

Ida Rhodes (birth name Hadassah Itzkowitz) was born in a Jewish village between Nemyriv and Tulchyn in the Ukraine.

Johann Konrad Wilhelm Löhe

From the small town of Neuendettelsau, he sent pastors to North America, Australia, New Guinea, Brazil, and the Ukraine.

Karina Brez

She immigrated from the Ukraine in 1989, moving to Jackson Heights, New York, and later years to Palm Beach, Florida.

L'envol d'Icare

L'envol d'Icare (The Flight of Icarus) is a score written (but never performed) as a ballet by the Ukrainian composer Igor Markevitch in 1932–33.

Le Vin de solitude

It tells the story of an dysfunctional middle class Jewish family living in Kiev in the Ukraine during in the early years of the 20th century.

Lothar Franz von Schönborn

In 1726, Emperor Charles VI granted Palanok Castle with Mukacheve, Chynadiyovo and 200 villages in the Kingdom of Hungary (today part of the Ukraine) to Elector Lothar Franz who had not only elected and crowned him, but had remained one of his most influential political supporters within the Empire.

Louise Boyd

The journey, by car, rail, boat and on foot took her first from Lviv to Kovel (these towns are in the Ukraine today), and then to KobrinPinskKletskNesvizhSlonim (these towns are in Belarus today).

Lubomyr Kuzmak

Lubomyr Kuzmak was born August 2, 1929, in a former region of the Ukraine, known today as Baligrod, Poland.

Martti Välikangas

After qualifying Välikangas worked in Yuzovka in Russia (present-day Donetsk in the Ukraine), but had to leave in a hurry with the onset of the Bolshevik Revolution.

Mika Stadium

The first ever goal in Mika Stadium was scored by the Ukraine U-19 player Andriy Yarmolenko with a penalty kick at the 18th minute of the match.

Mohamed Makhzangi

He was based in the Ukrainian city of Kiev at the time of the Chernobyl disaster in 1986, and this formed the basis of his book Memories Of A Meltdown.

Paul Crowley

He played for the club during their European adventure, as they beat ÍBV from Iceland and Shakhter Karagandy from Kazakhstan, before losing to Karpaty Lviv of the Ukraine, 5-1 on aggregate in the Third Qualifying Round.

Raymond Asquith, 3rd Earl of Oxford and Asquith

He is now a company director of the Ukrainian corporation owned by Dmytro Firtash, and is also active in various organizations that work or promote charitable activities in the Ukraine.

Royal Rifle Volunteers

In 2002 the Royal Rifle Volunteers took part in a major NATO "Partnership for Peace" exercise in the Ukraine codenamed Exercise COSSACK EXPRESS.

Slavyanka, Azerbaijan

Along with a number of other villages in northwestern Azerbaijan, Slavyanka was settled in 1844 by the Doukhobors, members of a Pacifist dissenter Christian group resettled to Transcaucasia by Nicholas I from the Molochna River settlements in today's Zaporizhia Oblast of the Ukraine.

Socalled

The documentary includes footage of the first "Klezmer Cruise", in which a boatload of klezmer fans sailed down the Dnieper River in the Ukraine.

The Swan Road

The Swan Road (Ukrainian: Лебединий Шлях, Lebedynyy Shlyakh) is the third album by the Ukrainian black metal band Drudkh, released in 2005.

Theodor Poesche

Based on the physical characteristics attributed to Indo-Europeans (fair hair, blue or light eyes, tallness, slim hips, fine lips, a prominent chin) by the philologist Ludwig Geiger, Poesche placed the origin of the Aryans in the vast Rokitno Marshes, then in the Russian Empire, now covering much of the southern part of Belarus and the north-west of the Ukraine, where albinism was common.

Tsar Cannon

It was given to the Ukrainian city of Donetsk and now is installed near the Donetsk city administration building.

Vladimir Peftiev

In 2010 the Ukrainian publication Delo has estimated Peftiev's wealth at USD 1bn which made him the richest man in Belarus.

Yeva-Genevieve Lavlinski

Yeva-Genevieve Lavlinski is a Law school graduate from the Ukraine and a screenwriter with screen plays registered with the Writers Guild.

Zed Radio

The USA Department built another studio in Antelope Valley, and the Ukraine Department rented a professional radio studio from TRK Grani.