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Men's national team of Ukraine in fencing gained the silver of the World Championship

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Men's national team of Ukraine in fencing in the final of the team tournament at the World Cup lost to the national team of France - 37:45. The composition of our team for this match was as follows: Bogdan Nikishin, Igor Reizlin, Anatoly Gerei and Roman Svichkar. The French were considered the undisputed favorites of the finals, but our guys were able to give a real fight to an eminent rival. Our boys began to fight not very confidently, but on the move thanks to Spurk Svicharka got assured and to the final match came up with a score of 35:35. In the last match, Anatoly Gerei confronted the three-time world champion and Olympic champion Rio-2016 in the team squad Yannik Borel. Unfortunately, the Frenchman's experience played a major role. As a result, our team gave way - 37:45. Ukrainians  Bogdan Nikishin, Anatoliy Gerey, Igor Reizlin and Roman Snichkar at the start of the team tournament defeated teams of Kong (45:40), Hungary (45:36) and Italy (37:34). In the sem...

"Yuzhmash" develops a spaceship

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The device is designed for delivery to low-Earth orbits of cargo and astronauts The state enterprise Design Bureau Yuzhnoye named after Yangel (Dnepr) is developing an orbital space plane to ensure multiple deliveries to low near-earth orbits and the return of various cargoes and cosmonauts from orbits, the Yuzhny press service reports. It is also noted that the design bureau develops a multi-purpose transport space module for solving the tasks of orbital customer servicing of satellites (orbital inspection, transfer to predetermined orbital positions, maintaining in given orbital positions, reduction to target orbits in case of transfer to off-design orbits). In Yuzhniy, it also notes that the bureau continues to develop remote sensing satellites for general, detailed and ultra-detailed optical observation: Sich-2-1, Sich-2M and Sat4EO, as well as Mikrosat scientific and technological satellites and CubeSat, GS-1 and Aerosol-UA. Recall that in April, the Antares launch vehicle wi...

Antonov resumes cooperation with Cuba

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Antonov state enterprise resumes service of six regional passenger jets of the Cuban airline Cubana de Aviacion. This is reported by the press service of the state enterprise. According to the agreement with the leasing company South American Aircraft Leasing S.A. (SAAL), Panama, at the first stage, the company's specialists are already conducting an assessment of the technical condition of all An-158 airplanes of the Cuban air carrier. Upon completion of this work, the second stage will begin to restore the airworthiness of six aircraft. As a result, they will form a "technical first aid kit" - a warehouse of spare parts that will help in the uninterrupted operation of aircraft. The first two An-158 plan to restore in the first quarter of 2020. It is noted that the "Antonov" for the first time delivered the An-158 to Cuba in April 2013. The sixth car was handed over to the customer in 2015. The warranty period of the Ukrainian company ended in 2017. Earlier it...

The sculpture of chess players was installed in the park of Shevchenko

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There was the opening of the 19th mini-sculpture of the "Look!" (Shukay) Project. It becames the mini- skulpture of Kiev chess. She was installed in the park of Shevchenko, in a place where more than 50 years old the Kyiv people played chess. The opening of the sculpture fell on the International Chess Day, which, according to the organizers, was an accidental coincidence. - A certain combination is installed on the chessboard - a chess end-game. And you know that we have a sign near every sculpture. The legend of this is: crave me and make a horse, "said Julia Bevzenko, author of the" Look! "Project. The sculpture can be found in the park of Shevchenko, at the entrance, which is closer to the street of Lva Tolstoy at the intersection with Volodymyrska Street. Recall that the eighteenth mini-sculpture project was dedicated to Igor Sikorsky.

Harlan's bright triumph at the World Championships. VIDEO

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Olga Harlan defeated Sophia Velykaya in the final with a score of 15:14 and became the only four-time world champion in fencing with a saber.

Lomachenko best: Legendary Mike Tyson visited Kiev

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Tyson in Ukraine The former absolute world champion visited Kiev on a working visit. Recently, 53-year-old Mike became the face of the Parimatch company and flew to the capital to star in an advertisement of his partners. Parimatch is actively working with the fight lovers market - in the past, their official ambassador was MMA star Conor MacGregor. "I was 11 years old and I stole something. They put me in a colony for theft. They showed us a film about Ali, and after 10 minutes he came to us. Everyone just went crazy. And at that moment I thought that I want to be like him. I wanted to be as respected as he was, "- said Tyson. Tyson in Ukraine Tyson in Kiev “Lomachenko is the best, but I don’t know the second guy (Usik). In any case, he’s not as cool as Vasiliy. I don’t personally know Lomachenko,” the boxer answered the question about Ukrainian champions. “Iron Mike” talked about everything: about the Ukrainian wife of his former coach, about who...

See the brightest photos of our players from holidays.

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Almost a month after the end of the football season in most European championships and players went on a well-deserved vacation. Someone from the Ukrainian footballers flew to Turkey and Bali, and someone visited Great Britain, France and the United States. While our players quietly return from their holidays and start preparing for the new season, we tell about their vacation in the summer off-season. Shakhtar's midfielder Viktor Kovalenko tanned under a scorching sun in Antalya. His teammate Bohdan Butko, along with his wife, chose the wonderful island of Bali as the place to rest.     One of the leaders of Dynamo Viktor Tsigankov, accompanied by a charming stranger, relaxed in the Maldives, where the fans were delighted with very frank photos. Let's add that after Maldives a couple went to London.             The goalkeeper of Kiev, George Bushchan also went to the resort. Which is not known for sure.   ...