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**Wladimir Klitschko** (born 25 March 1976) is a Ukrainian heavyweight boxer. Klitschko is the WBA (Super), IBF, WBO, IBO Ring Magazine heavyweight champion. His older brother Vitali Klitschko is the current WBC heavyweight champion. Klitschko is the longest reigning Heavyweight Champion in history for the IBF, WBO IBO heavyweight titles, both in measurements of defenses and time the 7th longest reigning heavyweight champion of all time. As of 2011, Boxrec rates Klitschko as the number 2 pound-for-pound in the world. Ring Magazine currently rates Klitschko as the number six pound-for-pound boxer in the world.

Klitschko was born in Semipalatinsk (now Semey, Kazakhstan). Though a celebrity in his former adopted home of Germany, he moved with his older brother Vitali to Beverly Hills, California, USA, in 2004. Their father, Vladimir Rodionovich Klitschko (1947–2011), was a Soviet Air Force major general and a military attaché of Ukraine in Germany. He was also one of the commanders in charge of cleaning up the effects of the Chernobyl disaster in 1986 and was afterward diagnosed with cancer. Their mother is Nadezhda Ulyanovna.

In the summer of 1996, Klitschko finished Pereyaslav-Khmelnitsky Pedagogical Institute (Ukraine) and was accepted in the postgraduate study program of Kiev University. On 18 January 2001 in a conference hall of Kiev University of physical science and sports, Klitschko presented his doctoral dissertation and was awarded a PhD in Sports Science. Klitschko speaks five languages: Ukrainian, Russian, Polish, German and English. At the beginning of his professional career, he began using the German transliteration of his name, Wladimir.

On 14 October 2000, in Cologne's Kölnarena (Germany), Klitschko won the WBO Heavyweight Championship from American Chris Byrd. Byrd had previously upset his elder brother Vitali (who pulled out injured during their bout). After five successful defenses of the WBO belt, Klitschko suffered an upset loss to Corrie Sanders. Sanders battered Klitschko for two rounds knocking him out on 8 March 2003, in Hannover, Germany.

**Taras Shevchenko** born in the family of a serf. Early left an orphan, was a shepherd, workman for pop. Literacy is learned from the rural sexton. From 1829 lived with the landowner in the city. Vilnius, and since he moved to st. Petersburg (the beginning of 1831) was given (in 1833) in learning the craft master Ширяеву. In the Spring of 1838 Shevchenko was purchased from feudal bondage. Many of the works of Shevchenko set to music. The Poem " Думи мої думи ", the ballad " Порчена " (" Реве та стогне Дніпр широкий ") became a folk songs. Shevchenko is also known as an artist. In 1838-45 he studied in Petersburg to K. P.Bryullov. In exile, he wrote many emotional landscapes of Ukraine and Kazakhstan. Taras Grigorievich Shevchenko - founder of the new Ukrainian literature, founder of critical realism and revolutionary-democratic movement in the Ukrainian literature and art.


 * Lesia Ukrayinka** is a pseudonym of Larysa Petrivna Kosach. She was born on February 25th, 1871 in Novohrad-Volynsky and died on August 1st, 1913 in Surami, Georgia. She was poet, dramatist, writer, critic, who was the foremost woman writer in Ukrainian literature and a leading figure in its modernist movement.

The daughter of intellectuals, Ukrayinka was stricken with tuberculosis in 1881 and travelled widely thereafter in search of a cure. The collections "Na krylakh pisen" (1893; "On the Wings of Songs"), "Dumy i rnriyi" (1899; "Thoughts and Dreams"), and "Vidhuky" (1902; "Echoes") established her as the leading young Ukrainian poet of the day. She married the musical expert and specialist in folklore Klyment Kvitka in 1907.

Ukrayinka concentrated on poetic dramas from about 1906 on. Folk songs and fairy tales provide the framework for "Lisova pisnya" (1912; "Forest Song"), in which Ukrayinka reflects the problems between good and evil. Her historical drama "Boyarynya" (1914; "The Noblewoman") is a psychological tragedy centring on a Ukrainian family in the 17th century.

Ukrayinka also wrote short stories and critical essays and did masterful translations of works by Homer, William Shakespeare, Lord Byron, Victor Hugo, and Ivan Turgenev.

Klitschko brothers are Ukrainian boxers. Vitaliy was born in 1971, July 19 and Vladimir was born in 1976.They are world champions in box and hard-f ight. They are Candidates of Science in 1997. Theirs lives are very interesting and variety. Ukrainian President invite brothers to part of the delegation includes in German. Vitaliy is appeared on the evening memory of M. Bulgakov. Vladimir act in the fiml “Ocean’s Elevens Friends ”.

Vitaliy is a aspirant to the post of Kyiv mayor. They can speak Ukrainian, Russian, German and English languages. They are have a business in USA, German and Ukraine. Most of time they are live in German. Brothers are tops the list of hard-fight on the portal “boxrec” for many years. Brothers are very popular in the world. They are UNESCO ambassadors.



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