Horlytskyy Lev Izrailevich. Creator of victory’s weapons

Modern war - it's not just war of tanks, aircraft, manpower, this along with everything else, as well war of scientific laboratories.

Academic I.V. Kurchatov

Lev Izrailevich Horlytskyy is the earliest explorer of a new kind of weapon - self-propelled guns (SPG). He is the chief designer of SPG: SU-122, SU-85, SU-100, which were taken up in 1942-1944 and have proven to be very effective fighting machine.

Jean Foucault and his pendulum

I will not hide that I was honored to have the opportunity to attend and speak at this important event, although held it was held in our own KPI, but without exaggeration, it is necessary to talk about an event of national importance. I am referring to the opening of 24 February 2011, I repeat, in Ukraine, this Foucault pendulum.

A fsnowflake. A Clock. A Candle ...

As every holiday New Year has its own attributes. It is even difficult to imagine New Year greeting card or some New Year issue of the newspaper without such items, as Santa Claus , Christmas tree and Christmas decorations, frosted windows and the snowflakes, the clock and the candles.

April 12 - International Day of Cosmonautics

Of all the pieces exhibited in the Department of Aviation and Astronautics State Polytechnic Museum, the viewers’ attention is attracted by the lander of spacecraft "Voskhod", which had been in space.

The origins of the Ukrainian aviation

December 17, 2003 was one hundred years from the time when the brothers Orvill and Wilbur Wright made the first manned flight on the airplane engine "Flayer -1". The range of the first flight was 37 meters and it lasted 12 seconds. That brief flight opened a new era in human history.

Amazing "inventions" of wildlife

The man is the king of nature. This phrase, known to everyone since childhood, has already "had a dry mouth" (especially today, when the nature  "thanks" to our irrational attitude with the earthquakes, hurricanes, the greenhouse effect and other manifestations of its power).

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