Mykhailo Pylypovych Kravchuk was born on September 27, 1892 in the village of Chovnytsia, Kivertsiv District, Volyn, in the family of a surveyor.
Volodymyr L. Symyrenko (1891-1938) – doctor of agricultural sciences, Professor of Horticulture, Head of the Department of fruit farms of the Kiev Polytechnic Institute. In 1915 he graduated from the Kiev Polytechnic Institute. Since 1929 - professor.
Sergei Pavlovich Korolev (1907-1966) - Soviet scientist and designer in the field of rocketry and astronautics, chief designer of the first rockets, artificial earth satellites, manned spacecraft, the founder of practical space industry, academician of the USSR (1958), member of the Presidium of
