10 Outstanding Personalities Of Kharkiv, Ukraine
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23 August is Kharkiv City Day, my native city in Ukraine. This is to give my respect to my Motherland and tell about some remarkable people origin from Kharkiv. Of cause, there is much more outstanding people were born, studied and/or worked and lived in Kharkiv. To tell about them needs another slideshow. At times of ex-USSR Kharkiv played an important role in scientific work with spacecraft and spacelaunch. Today Kharkiv is the 2nd important city in the East of Ukraine with about 1.7 mln people, 300 thousands of them are students. Kharkiv has the biggest number of universities in the country, is the city of industry, trade and IT.
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10 Outstanding Personalities Of Kharkiv, Ukraine
- 2. Gregory Skovoroda 1722 - 1794 TheUkrainianphilosopherG.S.Skovorodawas suchanextraordinaryanddiversifiedpersonality, educatedUkrainianscalledhim"ourPythagoras", "UkrainianSocrates","grasslandLomonosov". Therewereveryfewsuchnationalpersonagesas wasSkovoroda,heisgreatlyadmiredand rememberedbythepeople.Thevagrantpoetand thinker'slegendarylifeleftitstracesinUkrainian nationalspeech:sometimesasajokeorasaying, sometimesasanaphorismattributedto Skovoroda. InXIXcenturycopiesofSkovoroda'sportraits usedtobeputupinmanyhousesinUkraine. HisportraitisnowalsoonUkrainian500hrivna's banknote.
- 3. Vasily Karazin 1773 - 1842 VasilyNazarovichKarazinwas aUkrainianenlightenmentfigure,intellectual, inventor,founderofTheMinistryofNational EducationinRussianEmpireandscientific publisher.HeisthefounderofKharkivUniversity (now—V.N.KarazinKharkivNationalUniversity). KharkivNationalUniversitynamedafterKarazin
- 4. Ilya Repin 1844 - 1930 IlyaEfimovichRepinwasborninChuhuiv,Kharkiv region.HewasaleadingpainterinRussian EmpireandsculptorofthePeredvizhnikiartistic school.Animportantpartofhisworkisdedicated tohisnativecountry,Ukraine. Throughouthiscareer,hewasdrawntothe commonpeoplefromwhomhehimselftracedhis origins,andhefrequentlypaintedcountryfolk, bothUkrainianandRussian. Inlateryearshealsopaintedmembersofthe ImperialRussianelite,aswellasportraitsofthe novelistLeoTolstoy,thescientistDmitri Mendeleev,thecomposerMussorgsky,the philanthropistPavelTretyakov,andtheUkrainian poetandpainter,TarasShevchenko.
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- 6. Ilya Mechnikov 1845 - 1916 IlyaMechnikovwasborninthevillageIvanivka, nearKupiansk,KharkivregioninUkraine. HegraduatedKharkivUniversityandwasa remarkablescientistinRussianEmpireand Europe. Workedatmicrobiology,physiologyand immunology. IlyaMechnikovandPaulEhrlichwerejointly awardedthe1908NobelPrizeinPhysiologyor Medicine"inrecognitionoftheirworkon immunity“. MechnikovinstituteinKharkiv
- 7. Mykola Barabashov 1894 - 1971 MykolaBarabashovwasaUkrainianastronomer. Hismainscientificworksfocusedonstudiesof planetsandtheMoon,particularlytheirsurfaceby thephotometricmethods.Hediscoveredthe "quasimirrow"natureoflightreflectionfrom thevisiblesurfaceofVenus,andfoundoutthat theopticalthicknessoftheatmosphereofJupiter abovethecloudcoverissmall,andlightanddark bandsareataboutthesameheight. MykolaBarabashovestabslihedPlanetarium inKharkiv.AsmallplanetandacrateronMars werenamedafterMykolaBarabashov. ThePresidiumoftheAcademyofSciences ofUkrainefoundedBarabashovPrize. metrostationinKharkiv,namedafterBarabashov
- 8. Joseph Schillinger 1895 - 1943 JosephMoiseyevichSchillingerwas acomposer,musictheorist, andcompositionteacherwhooriginated theSchillingerSystemofMusicalComposition. Thisisamethodofmusicalcompositionbasedon mathematicalprocesses. SchillingerwasaprofessoratTheNewSchoolin NewYorkCityandtaughtsuchcelebrated musiciansasGeorgeGershwin,Glenn Miller,BennyGoodman,andahostofHollywood andBroadwaycomposers.Therearealimited numberofCertifiedSchillingerTeachersinthe world.
- 9. Valentina Grizodubova 1909 - 1993 ValentinaStepanovnaGrizodubovawasoneofthe firstfemalepilotsintheSovietUnion. BorninKharkiv,theRussianEmpire(present dayUkraine),shewasthedaughterofStepan Vasil'yevichGrizodubov,apioneeraircraft designer. OnSeptember24–25,1938,astheteam commander,shecompletedthe5,908.61km (3,671.44miles)flightofthe"Motherland"onthe AntonovANT37,settinganinternational women'srecordforastraightlinedistanceflight (FAIRecordFileNumber10444).Shehadalready accumulated5.000hours'flightbeforeherhistoric flight. GrizodubovaMuseuminKharkiv
- 10. Yuri Knorozov 1922 - 1999 YuriyValentinovichKnorozovborninKharkivand wasaSovietlinguist,epigraphist,andethnologist, whoplayedamajorroleinthedecipherment ofMayanhieroglyphicwriting.
- 11. Boris Chichibabin 1923 - 1994 BorisAlekseyevichChichibabin(bornPolushin) wasadissidentpoet. June1946hadbeenarrestedandsentencedto fiveinthecampsfor"antiSovietagitation".The causeofhisarrestwashispoetryitself. Afterhisreleasefromthecampshelived inKharkiv,andbecameoneofthemostfamous andbestlovedmembersoftheartistic intelligentsiaofthecity,i.e.,fromthe1950sto 1980s.Fromtheendofthe1950s,hispoetrywas widelydistributedthroughouttheSoviet Unionassamizdat.Officialrecognitioncameonly attheendofhislifeinthetimeofperestroika. streetinKharkiv,namedafterChichibabin
- 12. Lyudmila Gurchenko 1935 - 2011 LyudmilaGurchenkowasapopularactressinthe SovietUnionduringthe1950s1980s. ShewasborninKharkiv,Ukraine,USSR. Atage21,afterstarringinthemusicalCarnival Night,Gurchenkoovernightachievedfameaswell ascelebritystatus.TheSovietcultural establishmentdeemedherstyletoowesternand toooutoflinewithSovietstandards. Gurchenkostarredinmanyfilms,whichhelped showcasehermultifaceteddramatictalent. LudmilaGurchenkowroteabookaboutherlife duringGermanoccupationinKharkovandabout herlifeinthebeginningofherActingCareer. houseinKharkiv,whereL.Gurchenkolived
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