Mayya Gil had been walking across Cropsey Avenue in front of her apartment in Bensonhurst near 24th Avenue around 12:40 p.m.

Life indeed takes unpredictable turns. Recently, a 95-year-old woman in New York, who had survived the Nazi invasion of ...

Mayya Gil, a 95-year-old New Yorker who survived the Nazi invasion of Ukraine, the Chernobyl disaster, and the COVID-19 pandemic, tragically died after being struck by a cargo van while crossing the s ...

In fact, Inna Braverman almost never got a chance to see the ocean at all. Inna Braverman was born in Ukraine on April 11, 1986, 15 days before the Chernobyl disaster. “I was one of the babies that ...

A 95-year-old Brooklyn woman, a survivor of some of the 20th ... Mayya Gil, who lived through the Nazi occupation of Ukraine, the Chernobyl nuclear disaster, and the COVID-19 pandemic, died ...

She fled to Kyiv with her mother and brother when she was 12 years old, according to a 2020 profile from The New York Times. When the Chernobyl disaster happened in 1986, several of Gil's other ...

The Chernobyl nuclear disaster of 1986 was a pivotal moment which ultimately accelerated the collapse of the USSR, making it one of the most historically significant events in recent history.

In 1986, the Chernobyl nuclear reactor in the Soviet Union, now in Ukraine, exploded, spewing massive amounts of radioactive material into the environment. Almost four decades later, the stray ...