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unusual facts about Middle Asia



Ilya Ulyanov

Ilya Ulyanov was born in Astrakhan, to Nikolai Vasilievich Ulyanov (1765—1838) (sometimes as Ulyanin), a port-city tailor and a former serf who came from Sergachsky District, Nizhegorod Governorate and received his freedom from an landowner Stepan Mikhailovich Brekhov; and Anna Alekseyevna Smirnova (1793—1871), a daughter of a rich city-dweller Aleksei Lukianovich Smirnov (a son of Lukian Smirnov who hailed from rich Oirats of Middle Asia).


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2011 FIBA Asia Championship qualification

The 2011 Middle Asia qualifying tournament for ‘Stans’ section of the Middle Asia was held on July 31, 2011 in Navoiy, Uzbekistan.

Kolchak army offensive

At January, 22, 1919 Red's 1st Army connected with Turkestan Army, advanced from the Middle Asia; at January, 24, Red's 4th Army captured Uralsk.

Twenty Days Without War

The "Twenty Days Without War" film describes the life of Major Lopatin (actor Yuri Nikulin (1921-1997)), military journalist during World War II, who went to his hometown of Tashkent (Uzbekistan) in Middle Asia at the end of 1942 to spend a 20-day leave following the Battle of Stalingrad and to see the shooting of a film based on his wartime articles he has written, and where he was romantically involved with woman, played by the talented actress Ludmila Gurchenko (1935-2011).