Faithful to life, faithful to death

About Ukrainian poetess Olena Teliga (Shovhenova), we know very little. For a long time her name was buried with the body in a mass grave, hidden under Soviet ideological restrictions and controls, unfair erased from people's memory.

Plan K.E. Tsiolkovsky

"Many people think that I'm busily about the rocket and care about its fate for the rocket itself. It would be a grave mistake - wrote Tsiolkovsky. – The rocket for me is just the way only, a method of penetration into the depths of space, but not an end in itself.

Engineer and inventor James Watt

January 19 marks 270 years since the birth of James Watt (1736-1819), English inventor, whose name is called watt power unit. Improvement of the steam engine made by Watt, was one of the most outstanding events in the history of technology.

Academician Victor Glushkov - cybernetics pioneer

Victor Glushkov was born August 24, 1923 r.u Rostov-on -Don in the family of a mining engineer. In 1929 the family moved in Shahty. In June 1941 Victor Glushkov with honors graduated from high school №1 Shahty .He was going to join the Physics Department of Moscow State University .

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