Few people realize that skydiving—an extreme spectacle—was often performed right in the heart of urban…
Category: History
The story continues: the first monuments to Taras Shevchenko in Kharkiv. Throughout its 360-year history,…
More stories about the first Shevchenko monuments in Kharkiv. In 1912, an apartment building designed…
The legendary oceanographer and Arctic explorer Fridtjof Nansen was awarded the Nobel Prize in 1922.…