Nizhny Novgorod - Nizhny Novgorod Nizhny Novgorod (Russian Нижний Новгород) (sometimes written in English Nizhniy-Novgorod or Nizhni Novgorod), is the third largest city in Russia, with a population of 1.5 million. It lies in the Privolzhsky District, at the confluence of the Oka and the Volga rivers, and is the economic and cultural center of the vast Volgo-Vyatski region. Nizhny Novgorod was known from 1932 to 1990 as Gorki (Gorky), after the Russian writer Maxim Gorki, who was born here in 1868. During Soviet rule, Nizhny Novgorod was closed to foreigners. According to an old saying, Saint Petersburg was the head of Russia, Moscow was the heart and Nizhny Novgorod was its pocket. Some say that Nizhny Novgorod is more Russian than both Saint Petersburg and Moscow are, because.
Kremlin - alarm if any enemy was approaching. The oldest secular structure still standing is the Palace of Facets (1491), which holds the imperial thrones, it was commissioned by Ivan IV (the Terrible). Next oldest is the first home of the royal family, the Terem Palace. The original Terem Palace was commissioned by Ivan III, but most of the existing palace was built in the 17th century. The Terem Palace and the Palace of Facets are linked by the Grand Kremlin Palace. This was commissioned by Nicholas I in 1838. It was the largest structure in the Kremlin and cost 11 million rubles to build. It contains reception halls, a ceremonial red staircase, and private apartments. The Northeast corner of the Kremlin is occupied by the Arsenal, it was originally built for Peter.
Vladimir Vasilevich Markovnikov - Vasilevich Markovnikov was a Russian chemist born in Nizhny Novgorod December 22, 1838 died in February 1904. Markovnikov is best known for the Markovnikov Rule which he developed in 1869. The rule is useful for predicting the molecular structures of products of addition reactions. Since he never published in any language besides Russian his work remained largely unknown until 1889. Markovnikov also contributed to organic chemistry by finding carbon rings with more than six carbon atoms, a ring with four carbon atoms in 1879, and a ring with seven in 1889. External Links http://www.pmf.ukim.edu.mk/PMF/Chemistry/chemists/markovnikov.htm.
Vladimir Steklov - 1926) was a Russian mathematician, mechanician and physicist Steklov was born in Nizhny Novgorod, Russia. He died in Gaspra, Crimea, USSR, (now Ukraine). See also: Steklov Mathematical Institute.
Volga River - above sea level north-west of Moscow and about 320 kilometres south-east of Saint Petersburg, the Volga heads east past Yaroslavl, Nizhny Novgorod and Kazan. From there it turns south, flows past Samara and Volgograd, and discharges into the Caspian Sea below Astrakhan at 28 metres below sea level. The Volga has many tributaries, most importantly the Kama, the Oka, the Vetluga, and the Sura rivers. The Volga and its tributaries form the Volga river system, which drains an area of about 1.35 million square kilometres in the most heavily populated part of Russia. The Volga Delta has a length of about 160 kilometres and includes as many as 500 channels and smaller rivers. The Volga freezes for most of its length during three months of each year. It drains most of.
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Federal districts of Russia - Khants and Mansis Autonomous district of the Yamal-Nenetses Chelyabinsk Oblast Privolzhsky District (Volga District): (northwest of Kazakhstan) Bashkortostan (republic) Chuvashia (republic) Kirov Oblast Mari El (republic) Mordovia (republic) Nizhny Novgorod Oblast Orenburg Oblast Penza Oblast Perm Oblast Autonomous district of the Komi-Permyaks Samara Oblast Saratov Oblast Tatarstan (republic) Udmurtia (republic) Ulyanovsk Oblast Northern Caucasus: (in the extreme southwest, between Ukraine and Kazakhstan) Adygeya (republic) Astrakhan Oblast Chechnya (declared independence in 1991; 2 wars with Russia, 1994-1996 and 1999-present. Most countries do not recognize Chechen independence. c.f.) (republic) Dagestan (republic) Ingushetia (republic) Kabardino-Balkaria (republic) Kalmykia (republic) Karachay-Cherkessia (republic) Krasnodar Region North Ossetia-Alania (republic) Stavropol Region Rostov Oblast Volgograd Oblast Northwestern Russia: Arkhangelsk Oblast Autonomous district of the Nenetses Kaliningrad Oblast Leningrad Oblast Karelia (republic) Komi (republic) Murmansk Oblast Novgorod Oblast Pskov Oblast.
Tatars - NW slopes, described under the general name of Tartary. This last name has almost disappeared from geographical literature, but the name Tatars, in the above limited sense, remains in full use. The present Tatar inhabitants of the Russian empire form three large groups-those of European Russia and Poland, those of Caucasus, and those of Siberia. The discrimination of the separate stems included under the name is still far from completion. The following subdivisions, however, may be regarded as established: The Kazafi Tatars, descendants of the Kipchaks settled on the Volga in the 13th century, where they mingled with survivors of the old Bulgarians (NB! the most of Bulgaria population survived: they hadn't keept their language, but we can say, that Kazan Tatars are 'Bulgars') and partly with Finnish stems. They number.
Aleksandr Lyapunov - sudden death of his father Aleksandr was educated by his uncle R. M. Sechenov, brother of the famous philosopher Ivan Mikhailovich Sechenov. At his uncle's Lyapunov learned with his cousin, his intended Nataliya Rafailovna. In 1870 his mother moved with her sons to Nizhny Novgorod, where he started to attend the third class of the gymnasium. He passed gymnasium in 1876 with distinction. He studied at the Physical mathematical faculty of the University at Saint Petersburg, where he was a schoolfellow of Markov. In the beginning he listened to Mendeleev's lectures on chemistry. After a month he transferred to the mathematics department of the university, but he continued attending the chemistry lectures. Mathematics was taught at that time by Chebyshev and his students Aleksandr Nikholaevich Korkin and Egor Ivanovich Zolotarev. Lyapunov.
Crucifixion - "On 24 April at St Julien I saw a small party of Germans about 50 yards away. I lay still and in about half an hour they left. I saw what appeared to be a man in British uniform. I was horrified to see that the man was literally crucified, being fastened to the post by eight bayonets. "He was suspended about 18" from the ground, the bayonets being driven through his legs, shoulders, throat and testicles. At his feet lay an English rifle, broken and covered with blood." The event supposedly happened to, according to a Red Cross Nurse and multiple testimonies from men of the same unit, a Harry Banks of Canadian 48th Highland Regiment. This story was widely used in the black propaganda of the time, together with.
Transportation in Russia - Russia: St. Petersburg. Central Russia: Moscow. Northern Caucasus: - Privolzhsky District (Wolga District): Nizhny Novgorod, Samara; under construction: Kazan. Urals Federal District: Yekaterinburg, Chelyabinsk. Siberian Federal District: Omsk, Novosibirsk; under construction: Krasnoyarsk. Russian Far East: - Highways: total: 948,000 km (including 416,000 km which serve specific industries or farms and are not maintained by governmental highway maintenance departments) paved: 336,000 km unpaved: 612,000 km (including 411,000 km of graveled or some other form of surfacing and 201,000 km of unstabilized earth) (1995 est.) Waterways: total navigable routes in general use 101,000 km; routes with navigation guides serving the Russian River Fleet 95,900 km; routes with night navigational aids 60,400 km; man-made navigable routes 16,900 km (January 1994 est.) Pipelines: crude oil 48,000 km; petroleum products 15,000 km; natural gas 140,000 km.
Privolzhsky District - autonomy on most issues and correspond to some of Russia's ethnic minorities) marked by a *, with some cities: Bashkortostan * Chuvashia * Kirov Oblast Mari El * Mordovia * Nizhny Novgorod Oblast Nizhny Novgorod Orenburg Oblast Penza Oblast Perm Oblast Autonomous district of the Komi-Permyaks Samara Oblast Samara Saratov Oblast Tatarstan * Kazan Udmurtia * Ulyanovsk Oblast.
Oka river - Volga. Cities and towns that stay on Oka Puschino-na-Oke Serpukhov Nizhny Novgorod.
Nikolai Ivanovich Lobachevsky - February 24 1856) was a Russian mathematician. Lobachevskii was born in Nizhny Novgorod, Russia. His father Ivan Maksimovich Lobachevskii, worked as a clerk in an office which was involved in land surveying while Nikolai Ivanovich's mother was Praskovia Alexandrovna Lobachevskaya. Nikolai Ivanovich was one of three sons in this poor family. When Nikolai Ivanovich was seven years of age his father died and, in 1800, his mother moved with her three sons to the city of Kazan in western Russia on the edge of Siberia. There the boys attended Kazan Gymnasium, financed by government scholarships, with Nikolai Ivanovich entering the school in 1802. In 1807 Lobachevskii graduated from the Gymnasium and entered the University of Kazan as a free student. Kazan State University had been founded in 1804, the result of.
Maxim Gorky - he lived abroad; after his return to the Soviet Union he accepted the cultural policies of the time, although he was not permitted to leave the country. The town of his birth was renamed Gorky in his honour in 1932, but it reverted to its original name of Nizhny Novgorod in 1990..
Mily Balakirev - bringing together the composers known as The Five than for his own music. He was born at Nizhny-Novgorod, and had the advantage as a boy of living with Oulibichev, author of a biography of Mozart, who had a private band, and from whom Balakirev obtained a valuable education in music. At eighteen, after a university course in mathematics, he went to Saint Petersburg, full of national ardour, and there made the acquaintance of Mikhail Glinka. Round him gathered César Cui and others, and in 1862 the Free School of Music was established. In 1869 Balakirev was appointed director of the imperial chapel and conductor of the Imperial Musical Society. His influence as a conductor, and as an organizer of Russian music, give him the place of a founder of a new.
Moscow Metro - a deep part of the Arbatskaya was the beginning of the Cold War. Stations are very deep and were planned to serve for hiding people even in the case of nuclear war. After finishing the line in 1953, the upper tracks between Pl. Revolyutsii and Kievskaya were closed. In fact they were reopened in 1958 as a part of the Filyovskaya. In the further development of the metro, the term stages was not used anymore, although sometimes the stations opened in 1957-1958 are referred to as the fifth stage. The Moscow Metro has broad gauge, 1524 mm, like the regular Russian railways, and third rail supply. The average distance between stations is 1800 m (!), the shortest (585 m) section being between Aleksandrovskiy Sad and Arbatskaya and the longest (3.5 km).
List of metro systems - Turkey Kazan, Russia: under construction Kharkov, Ukraine Kiev, Ukraine Krivoy Rog, Ukraine Lille, France (VAL) Lisbon, Portugal (Metropolitano de Lisboa) Liverpool, United Kingdom (Merseyrail) London, United Kingdom 1863 London has two public metro systems; The London Underground also known as The Tube, and the Docklands Light Railway. There was also a third narrow-gauge system for parcels: the Post Office Railway. Lyon, France (Metro) Madrid, Spain (Metro) – List of Madrid metro stations Marseille, France (Metro) Milan, Italy Minsk, Belarus Moscow, Russia (Moskovskoye Metro) Munich, Germany (U-Bahn) Naples, Italy Newcastle upon Tyne, United Kingdom (Tyne & Wear Metro) Nizhny Novgorod, Russia Nuremberg, Germany (U-Bahn) Oporto, Portugal Oslo, Norway (T-banen = tunnel track) http://tramandmetro.info/tbane-1.html Paris, France 1900 (Le Métro, RER and Orlyval) – List of Paris metro stations Prague, Czech Republic (Metro, trams,.
List of Metropolitans and Patriarchs of Moscow - .
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