Ukrainian Scientists - Trofim Lysenko, Sergei Korolev, Mykhaylo Maksymovych, Mikhail Tugan-Baranovsky, Waldemar Haffkine, Yuriy Drohobych (Paperback)

Please note that the content of this book primarily consists of articles available from Wikipedia or other free sources online. Pages: 41. Chapters: Trofim Lysenko, Sergei Korolev, Mykhaylo Maksymovych, Mikhail Tugan-Baranovsky, Waldemar Haffkine, Yuriy Drohobych, Valentin Glushko, Yuri Kondratyuk, Vladimir Porfiriev, Arkhip Mikhailovich Lyulka, Emmanuil B. Chekaliuk, Volodymyr Horbulin, Vladimir Chelomey, Mykola Tomenko, Mykhailo Drahomanov, Vasily Karazin, Anatoliy A. Morozov, Oleksandr Garmash, Oleksander Ohloblyn, Max Levchin, Gleb Lozino-Lozinskiy, Oleksandr Bogomoletz, Borys Paton, Sergei Kruchinin, Nikolay Mitrofanovich Krylov, Valery Korepanov, Michael Zgurovsky, Sergey Bushuyev, Mikhail Kravchuk, Stanislav Nikolaenko, Vladimir Filatov, Olena Apanovich, Russell Zguta, Alexander Lerner, Mykhailo Vaschenko-Zakharchenko, Viktor Kyrpychov, Mykola Tsybulenko, Alexander Dmitrievich Zasyadko, Volodymyr Kostyantynovych Vysokovych, Grygori N. Dolenko, Vladimir Dergachev, Yurii Mitropolskiy, Isaak Mazepa, Nikolai Amosov, Vladimir Marchenko, Valeriy Zaporozhan, Danylo Zabolotny, Fedir Abramov, Pavel Blonsky, Oleksandr Mikolaiovich Sharkovsky, Vladimir Mackiw, Anatoly Babko, Anatoly Samoilenko, Leo Palatnik, Ivan Sleszynski, Vikentiy Khvoyka. Excerpt: Sergei Pavlovich Korolev (Ukrainian: , Russian: Sergej Pavlovi Korolev, also transliterated as Sergey Korolyov; born 12 January 1907 in Zhytomyr, Russian Empire (now Ukraine); died 14 January 1966 in Moscow, Russia) was the lead Soviet rocket engineer and spacecraft designer in the Space Race between the United States and the Soviet Union during the 1950s and 1960s. He is considered by many as the father of practical astronautics. Although Korolev was trained as an aircraft designer, his greatest strengths proved to be in design integration, organization and strategic planning. Arrested for alleged mismanagement of funds (he spent the money on yet unsuccessful experiments with rocket devices), he was imprisoned in 19...