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Volodymyr Danylenko. Kapelyukh Sikors‘koho. (Sikorsky's Hat)

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Volodymyr Danylenko. Kapelyukh Sikors‘koho. (Sikorsky's Hat)
"Due to a delay of flights in the snow-covered "Boryspil" airport, two strangers meet. While waiting for flights' resuming, one of them narrates an unbelievable story, how a woman and a hat influenced success of the prominent aircraft designer.

Saturated with the real facts that reveal the biography of the outstanding personality and the epoch's character, the novel "Sikorsky's Hat" is a story of love, which was transformed into infatuation with aircrafts. It is to this unknown page in the secret life of the designer-to-be with a woman that the world must be grateful for appearance of the helicopter. A novel about the wonderful love of the young Igor Sikorsky and Karolina Huliy, feelings to whom he carried all through his life, about emigration of "obsessed" people from Ukraine, "small-Russia" complexes and the successful Ukrainians who devoted their talents to strange countries."

In Ukrainian.

Type of the edition: hard cover

Format: 104x200 mm

Number of pages: 290

Publisher: Piramida, Lviv

Publisher: Piramida
Catalogue number: ISBN 9789664411872
Year: 2010

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