The development of Science and technology in Ukraine has its beginning in the 18th century, when the Kyiv Mohyla Academy became a noted research centre. A great page in Ukraine

Ukraine

Ukraine is a country in Eastern Europe. It has an area of 603,628 km², making it the second largest contiguous country on the European continent, after Russia...

’s history was the Ukrainian Academy of Sciences. Its founder was a very talented man - Volodymyr Vernadsky.

Notable people

A group of famous people made a valuable contribution to Ukraine’s science from its first steps. They were noted historians Antonovych and Hrushevsky, mathematician Boholiubov, botanists Fomin and Kholodny, scientists in medicine Filatov, Yanovsky, Bohomolets and others.

Space science

Ukrainian science achieved great success after World War II

World War II

World War II, or the Second World War , was a global conflict lasting from 1939 to 1945, involving most of the world's nations—including all of the great powers—eventually forming two opposing military alliances: the Allies and the Axis...

. The Ukrainian scientist Korolyov was one of the noted space

Spaceflight

Spaceflight is the act of travelling into or through outer space. Spaceflight can occur with spacecraft which may, or may not, have humans on board. Examples of human spaceflight include the Russian Soyuz program, the U.S. Space shuttle program, as well as the ongoing International Space Station...

 designers. Ukraine’s scientists developed the “ Vulcan” unit for welding

Welding

Welding is a fabrication or sculptural process that joins materials, usually metals or thermoplastics, by causing coalescence. This is often done by melting the workpieces and adding a filler material to form a pool of molten material that cools to become a strong joint, with pressure sometimes...

 in space. Yevhen Paton and his son Boris are well-known all over the world as masters in the field of electric welding.