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L esson 60 Merits and Achievements of prominent Ukrainians

M ay, 2012 The Sociological group "Rating" presented a special project "Famous Ukrainians of all times", determining the best of the best. People expressed their opinion solely with the help of open questions.

1. Brainstorming

Can you list the top ten in the right order according to the percentage?

1. Ivan Franko 

58.7%

2. Hryhorii Skovoroda 

22.5%

3. Mykhailo Hrushevskyi

20.1%

4. Lesya Ukrainka

12.7%

5. Yaroslav the Wise 

10.8%

6. Ivan Mazepa 

7.7%

7. Taras Shevchenko

5.7%

8. Stepan Bandera 

5.6%

9. Vitali Klychko 

4.3%

10. Bohdan Khmelnytsky

3.8%

2 . Think smart!

A) Fill in the table putting “+” where appropriate.

Historian

Sports-man

Artist

Doctor

Pianist

Dancer

Actor

Oleksandr Bogomolets

Serge Lifar

Vira Kholodna

Ivan Piddubny

Dmytro Doroshenko

Maria Prymachenko

Sviatoslav Richter

B) Find photos of these famous Ukrainians.

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C) Match the name of the prominent Ukrainian and his/her achievement.

Mykola Amosov

Valentyn Hlushko

Hryhorii Skovoroda

Ivan Aivazovsky

Ivan Mykolaichuk

Olha Kobulianska

Anton Makarenko

Volodymyr Ivasiuk

  1. His songs, mostly about love to geographical features and regional customs, were perceived as rousing nationalist sentiment in listeners.

  2. In the aftermath of the Russian Revolution he established self-supporting orphanages for street children - including juvenile delinquents - left orphaned by the Russian Civil War. 

  3. On April, 2012, his canvas View of Constantinople and the Bosphorus was sold at Sotheby’s auction in London for a record $5.2 million (3.2 million pounds).

  4. He also became responsible for supplying rocket engines for Sergei Korolev, the designer of the R-9 (SS-8 Sasin). Among his designs was the powerful RD-170 liquid propellant engine.

  5. He inspired other Ukrainian artists, actors, singers and writers who were searching for their Ukrainian identity in the Soviet era.

  6.  Many of his philosophical songs were often encountered in the repertoire of blind itinerant folk musicians known as kobzars..

  7. She depicted the struggle between good and evil and the mystical force of nature, predestination, magic, and the irrational in many of her stories of peasant life.

  8. He is known for his inventions of several surgical procedures for treating heart defects.