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unusual facts about Kirov-class battlecruiser


Kirov class

Kirov-class battlecruiser, Project 1144 Orlan missile-armed cruisers built for the Soviet Navy in 1980 and serving now in the Russian Navy;


Admiral class

Admiral-class battlecruiser, of which four were planned for the Royal Navy near the end of World War I but only one completed

Aga Khan Lycée, Khorog

The Lycée, part of the Aga Khan Education Services (AKES), is built on the premises of the former School #3 (named after Kirov), a school with a distinguished history in Gorno Badakhshan Autonomous Oblast (GBAO).

Agano-class cruiser

As completed, the main armament was the same type of 152 mm (6 inch) gun as used on the Kongō-class battlecruisers, some of these weapons having been removed from the Fusō and Kongō classes during their modernizations in the early and late 1930s, respectively.

Alla Sizova

Amongst other roles, Sizova received great acclaim as Princess Aurora in the 1964 Kirov production Tchaikovsky's The Sleeping Beauty opposite Yuri Solovyov.

Amagi-class battlecruiser

Amagi and Akagi were both intended for conversion, but an earthquake damaged the hull of Amagi so extensively that the ship was scrapped.

--changed this from Kaga-class--> battleship, but with a thinner armored belt and deck and a modified secondary battery arrangement.

The class design was 820 ft 3 in (250 m) long at the waterline, and 826 ft 1 in (251.8 m) overall.

The September 1923 Great Kantō earthquake in Tokyo caused significant stress damage to the hull of Amagi.

Bilbao Crystallographic Server

Asen K. Kirov, a Ph.D. student from Sofia University, Bulgaria contributed to the server, working on programs dedicated to irreducible representations and extinction rules.

Boris Farmakovsky

Boris Farmakovsky (1870, Vyatka — July 29, 1928 near Leningrad) was a Russian archaeologist, who began professional excavations of the ancient Greek colony of Olbia in Ukraine.

Borodino-class battlecruiser

There were suggestions to improve the machinery with geared turbines, turbo-electric drive, or Föttinger's hydraulic transmission, but these were more theoretical than practical.

Courageous-class battlecruiser

During her sea trials in November 1916 off the River Tyne, Courageous sustained structural damage while running at full speed in a rough head sea.

Finnish coastal defence ship Ilmarinen

The Soviet Baltic Fleet was the obvious threat, and the Finnish vessels were meant to deter the largest Soviet ships, such as the battleships Marat and Oktyabrskaya Revolutsiya, as well as the cruiser Kirov, from venturing too close to Finnish shores.

Gecatogomphius

Gecatogomphius is known from the holotype PIN 1156/1, a three-dimensionally preserved nearly complete lower jaw found on the bank of the Vyatka River near the town of Gorki in the Kirov Oblast, and from PIN 4310/1 a single maxillary tooth plate from Berezovye Polyanki in Tatarstan.

Grand Theatre, Swansea

The company, which started in Bristol, is a group of young dancers, most whom trained in Russia at the Bolshoi and Kirov academies.

History of Deportivo de La Coruña

A mix of veterans and younger players with the likes of Claudio, Ribera, López-Rekarte, Canales, Liaño, Kirov and Kiriakov formed the team guided by coach Marco Antonio Boronat, and Deportivo looked on their way to safety after an impressive 5-2 win in March, 1992 against Sporting de Gijón with three goals by Uralde.

Indefatigable-class battlecruiser

Whilst standard British practice at that time was for these costs to exclude armament and stores, for some reason the cost quoted in The Naval Annual for Indefatigable includes the armament.

During this hunt, she was attached to the Australian Naval and Military Expeditionary Force and provided support during the Force's invasion of Rabaul, in case the German squadron was present.

Inna Zubkovskaya

Zubkovskaya did not dance frequently in the West, although in 1961 when the Kirov made its first appearances outside Russia, she was the first-cast Odette-Odile in Swan Lake and was partnered by Vladilen Semyonov.

Kirov Academy of Ballet

Graduates of The Kirov Academy of Ballet include Patricia Zhou, Sascha Radetsky, Rasta Thomas, Michelle Wiles, Danny Tidwell, Tyler Nelson, Oscar Hawkins, Maria Bystrova, Adrienne Canterna and Ashley Canterna.

Kirov class

Kirov-class cruiser, Project 26 cruisers that were built for the Soviet Navy in 1939-1944, served in the World War II and decommissioned by 1974.

Kirov Oblast

On the territory of Kumyonsky District is famous resort town of federal significance Nizhneivkino, which on treatment and rest come to residents of the Kirov region and many regions of Russia.

Kirov wolf attacks

Two hundred wolf packs had been counted in the area's forests, and sightings of wolves in the city of Kirov's streets (namely Khlinovskaya, Vodoprovodnaya, and Gorbacheva streets) became common.

Kirov, Kirov Oblast

Khlynov was incorporated into the Grand Duchy of Moscow in 1489 and became known throughout Russia for its clay statuettes and whistles.

Kongō-class battlecruiser

After serving as a transport and support-ship during the Second Sino-Japanese War, Kirishima escorted the aircraft carrier strikeforce bound for the attack on Pearl Harbor in December 1941.

Kronshtadt-class battlecruiser

Battleship 'B' was redesignated as Project 25 and given the task of destroying Treaty cruisers and German pocket battleships.

Mackensen-class battlecruiser

At the launching ceremony, dockyard workers named the ship Noske, after Reichswehr Minister Gustav Noske.

Michele Wiles

She studied at the Kirov from 1991 to 1997, during which time she also participated in summer programs at the Joffrey Ballet and The Royal Ballet.

Moltke-class battlecruiser

However, Admiral Alfred von Tirpitz, along with the Construction Department, argued that increasing the number of guns from 8 to 10 would be preferable, as the 28 cm guns had been deemed sufficient to engage even battleships.

The Turkish government attempted to preserve the ship as a museum, including an offer to West Germany to sell the ship back in 1963, but none of the efforts were successful.

Neo-Communist Party of the Soviet Union

In all, there were 32 members in NCPSU, mainly in Moscow and Moscow Oblast, but there were also groups in Kirov (2 members), Leningrad (2 members), in Ukraine (Dnepropetrovsk, 2 members), in Georgia (Tbilisi and Rustavi, 2 members), in Latvia (Riga, 1 member).

O-class battlecruiser

In war, these forces would collaborate with the three battlecruisers by occupying convoy screens while U-boats and one or more of the O class took out the cargo-carrying merchant ships.

Richard Winsor

He toured with Ballet Central during his third year and danced at the Kirov Masterclass at Sadlers Wells under the direction of Irek Mukhamedov.

Sergey Kirov

The cities of Kirov, Kirovohrad, Kirovakan, and Kirovabad, as well as a few Kirovsks, were renamed in Kirov's honor after his assassination.

Sojuzpatent

Sojuzpatent has offices in Moscow, Astrakhan, Vologda, Kirov, Kostroma, and Novosibirsk; it is the headquarters of the national group of the International Association for the Protection of Intellectual Property (AIPPI) since its foundation in 1965.

Soviet destroyer Yakov Sverdlov

During the evacuation of the Soviet Navy from Tallinn to Kronstadt during Operation Barbarossa, Yakov Sverdlov was assigned as an escort to the flagship Kirov.

Vladimir Ponomaryov

Vladimir Ponomaryov (choreographer) (1892-1951), Soviet choreographer known for staging La Bayadère in 1941 for Kirov Ballet

Vyatka horse

The Vyatka breed was influenced by the climate and terrain of the Kirov, Udmurtia and western Perm regions; Estonian horses and Kleppers brought to northern Russia by Novgorod colonists from the 14th century may have affected its conformation, as may later imports of Estonian horses for mining work in the Ural Mountains.

Yuri Sergeevich Lavrov

During the Second World War Yuri Lavrov and his family was evacuated with the theatre to Kirov, then to Novosibirsk in Siberia.


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