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2 unusual facts about Komi Republic


Komi Republic

The most important higher education facilities include Syktyvkar State University and Ukhta State Technical University.

Usa River

Usa River (Komi Republic), a river in Komi Republic, Russia, draining the west side of the Northern Urals


Aleksandras Stulginskis

In 1941 Stulginskis and his wife were arrested by the Soviet NKVD and deported to a gulag in the Krasnoyarsk region, while his wife was deported to the Komi area.

Koinia

Koinia was named in 1993 with the description of the type species K. silantjevi, based on fossils that were found near the Vym River in the Komi Republic.

Lake Komi

Lake Komi was a prehistoric periglacial lake formed in the region of the present-day Russian Komi Republic when the Barents Sea outlet of the Pechora River was blocked by ice during the Weichselian Glaciation.

Nenets Autonomous Okrug

Further plans by Russian railways include the construction of two railways linking settlements in Zapolyarny Municipal District, one, a line running 210 km from Vorkuta, in the Komi Republic, to Ust-Kara in the far east of the district, and another running from Sosnogorsk, also in the Komi Republic, to Indiga in the west of the district.

Pechora-Ilych Nature Reserve

The nature reserve is located in the south-eastern corner of the Komi Republic (Troitsko-Pechorsky District), on the western

Pitirim Sorokin

Pitirim Alexandrovich Sorokin (Russian Питири́м Алекса́ндрович Соро́кин; January 21, 1889, Turja north of Syktyvkar, Yarensk uyezd, Vologda Governorate (now Knyazhpogostsky District, Komi), Russian Empire – February 11, 1968, Winchester, Massachusetts) was a Russian American sociologist born in modern-day Komi (Finno-Ugric region of Russia).


see also

Mulda

Mulda, Russia, an urban-type settlement under the jurisdiction of Vorkuta, Komi Republic, Russia

Pechorsk

Troitsko-Pechorsk, an urban-type settlement in the Komi Republic, Russia

Yarenga

Yarenga River, a river in the Komi Republic and Arkhangelsk Oblast, Russia