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.

1. 10 Outstanding
Personalities
Of Kharkiv
august 2016 Janna Pennanen (C)
Ukraine

2. Gregory Skovoroda
1722 - 1794
The Ukrainian philosopher G.S. Skovoroda was
such an extraordinary and diversified personality,
educated Ukrainians called him "our Pythagoras",
"Ukrainian Socrates", "grassland Lomonosov".
There were very few such national personages as
was Skovoroda, he is greatly admired and
remembered by the people. The vagrant poet and
thinker's legendary life left its traces in Ukrainian
national speech: sometimes as a joke or a saying,
sometimes as an aphorism attributed to
Skovoroda.
In XIX century copies of Skovoroda's portraits
used to be put up in many houses in Ukraine.
His portrait is now also on Ukrainian 500 hrivna's
banknote.

3. Vasily Karazin
1773 - 1842
Vasily Nazarovich Karazin was
a Ukrainian enlightenment figure, intellectual,
inventor, founder of The Ministry of National
Education in Russian Empire and scientific
publisher. He is the founder of Kharkiv University
(now — V.N. Karazin Kharkiv National University).
Kharkiv National University named after Karazin

4. Ilya Repin
1844 - 1930
Ilya Efimovich Repin was born in Chuhuiv, Kharkiv
region. He was a leading painter in Russian
Empire and sculptor of the Peredvizhniki artistic
school. An important part of his work is dedicated
to his native country, Ukraine.
Throughout his career, he was drawn to the
common people from whom he himself traced his
origins, and he frequently painted country folk,
both Ukrainian and Russian.
In later years he also painted members of the
Imperial Russian elite, as well as portraits of the
novelist Leo Tolstoy, the scientist Dmitri
Mendeleev, the composer Mussorgsky, the
philanthropist Pavel Tretyakov, and the Ukrainian
poet and painter, Taras Shevchenko.

5. Ilya Repin

6. Ilya Mechnikov
1845 - 1916
Ilya Mechnikov was born in the village Ivanivka,
near Kupiansk, Kharkiv region in Ukraine.
He graduated Kharkiv University and was a
remarkable scientist in Russian Empire and
Europe.
Worked at microbiology, physiology and
immunology.
Ilya Mechnikov and Paul Ehrlich were jointly
awarded the 1908 Nobel Prize in Physiology or
Medicine "in recognition of their work on
immunity“.
Mechnikov institute in Kharkiv

7. Mykola Barabashov
1894 - 1971
Mykola Barabashov was a Ukrainian astronomer.
His main scientific works focused on studies of
planets and the Moon, particularly their surface by
the photometric methods. He discovered the
"quasi­mirrow" nature of light reflection from
the visible surface of Venus, and found out that
the optical thickness of the atmosphere of Jupiter
above the cloud cover is small, and light and dark
bands are at about the same height.
Mykola Barabashov estabslihed Planetarium
in Kharkiv. A small planet and a crater on Mars
were named after Mykola Barabashov.
The Presidium of the Academy of Sciences
of Ukraine founded Barabashov Prize.
metro station in Kharkiv, named after Barabashov

8. Joseph Schillinger
1895 - 1943
Joseph Moiseyevich Schillinger was
a composer, music theorist,
and composition teacher who originated
the Schillinger System of Musical Composition.
This is a method of musical composition based on
mathematical processes.
Schillinger was a professor at The New School in
New York City and taught such celebrated
musicians as George Gershwin, Glenn
Miller, Benny Goodman, and a host of Hollywood
and Broadway composers. There are a limited
number of Certified Schillinger Teachers in the
world.

9. Valentina Grizodubova
1909 - 1993
Valentina Stepanovna Grizodubova was one of the
first female pilots in the Soviet Union.
Born in Kharkiv, the Russian Empire (present­
day Ukraine), she was the daughter of Stepan
Vasil'yevich Grizodubov, a pioneer aircraft­
designer.
On September 24–25, 1938, as the team
commander, she completed the 5,908.61 km
(3,671.44 miles) flight of the "Motherland" on the
Antonov ANT­37, setting an international
women's record for a straight­line distance flight
(FAI Record File Number 10444). She had already
accumulated 5.000 hours' flight before her historic
flight.
Grizodubova Museum in Kharkiv

10. Yuri Knorozov
1922 - 1999
Yuriy Valentinovich Knorozov born in Kharkiv and
was a Soviet linguist, epigraphist, and ethnologist,
who played a major role in the decipherment
of Mayan hieroglyphic writing.

11. Boris Chichibabin
1923 - 1994
Boris Alekseyevich Chichibabin (born Polushin)
was a dissident poet.
June 1946 had been arrested and sentenced to
five in the camps for "anti­Soviet agitation". The
cause of his arrest was his poetry itself.
After his release from the camps he lived
in Kharkiv, and became one of the most famous
and best­loved members of the artistic
intelligentsia of the city, i.e., from the 1950s to
1980s. From the end of the 1950s, his poetry was
widely distributed throughout the Soviet
Union as samizdat. Official recognition came only
at the end of his life in the time of perestroika.
street in Kharkiv, named after Chichibabin

12. Lyudmila Gurchenko
1935 - 2011
Lyudmila Gurchenko was a popular actress in the
Soviet Union during the 1950s ­ 1980s.
She was born in Kharkiv, Ukraine, USSR.
At age 21, after starring in the musical Carnival
Night, Gurchenko overnight achieved fame as well
as celebrity status. The Soviet cultural
establishment deemed her style too western and
too out of line with Soviet standards.
Gurchenko starred in many films, which helped
showcase her multifaceted dramatic talent.
Ludmila Gurchenko wrote a book about her life
during German occupation in Kharkov and about
her life in the beginning of her Acting Career.
house in Kharkiv, where L.Gurchenko lived

13. august 2016 Janna Pennanen (C)
Kharkiv is mind of Ukraine