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100 unusual facts about Moscow


1996–97 Vysshaya Liga season

CSKA Moscow won the Western Conference, and Metchel Chelyabinsk won the Eastern Conference.

Aleksey Belevsky-Zhukovsky

Count Sergei Alexeevich Belevsky-Zhukovsky (17 February 1903 Moscow – 27 November 1956 Los Angeles) married in 1926 Nina Botkine (1901–1966) and had one daughter Helene.

Alexis Guignard, comte de Saint-Priest

Alexis Guignard, comte de Saint-Priest (27 April 1805 Saint Petersburg - 29 September 1851 Moscow) was a French diplomat, historian, and Peer of France.

Anatoly Voronin

On the morning of October 16, 2006, he was found knifed to death in his flat in Central Moscow.

Arkady Severny

Severny was born Arcady Dmitrievich Zvezdin in the town of Ivanovo near Moscow in Jewish family.

Arthur Kronfeld

1941 Degenerated at power, Moscow and Krasnojarsk; with the titel: The bloody gang of the degenerated also Swerdlowsk 1942.

Balwant Gargi

His plays were translated into 12 languages, and have been performed around the world, including Moscow, London, New Delhi and around the USA.

Battle of Lake Khasan

The conflict started on July 15, when the Japanese attaché in Moscow demanded the removal of Soviet border troops from the Bezymyannaya (сопка Безымянная, Chinese name: Shachaofeng) and Zaozyornaya (сопка Заозёрная, Chinese name: Changkufeng) Hills to the west of Lake Khasan in the south of Primorye, not far from Vladivostok, claiming this territory by the Soviet–Korea border.

Carl Gustaf Roos

During the course of this battle he was captured, and was later taken to Moscow as a prisoner.

Carl Winberg

In the 1930s, Winberg was active in the Communist opposition led by Karl Kilbom, independent from Moscow and opposing Stalinism.

Chevaline Re-entry Body

Chevaline was devised as an answer to the improved Soviet defences around Moscow, the system being intended to increase the probability of at least one warhead penetrating the city's Anti-ballistic missile (ABM) defences, something which the Royal Navy's earlier Polaris RVs were thought to be unlikely to do.

Colby Armstrong

His only goal of the tournament was the game-winning goal in the gold medal game against Finland in Moscow, which Canada won 4–2.

Cretan Gendarmerie

From Time of Moscow: "Unfortunately not all countries have the brave men of Crete in order to create such a Gendarmerie."

CrossTalk

Billed as the flagship program of the network, it is hosted by American journalist Peter Lavelle from RT's studios in Moscow.

Deinodryinus areolatus

Deinodryinus areolatus is known only from a single fossil, the holotype, specimen number PIN No. 964/60, which is housed in the A.A. Borissiak Paleontological Institute, Russian Academy of Sciences, in Moscow.

Destroy All Monsters

Godzilla attacks New York City, Rodan invades Moscow, Mothra lays waste to Beijing, Gorosaurus (wrongly identified as Baragon) destroys Paris, and Manda attacks London, which is set in to motion to take attention away from Japan, so the aliens can establish an underground stronghold near Mt. Fuji in Japan.

Egyptian Collection of the Hermitage Museum

Since the 1870s Golenishchev had collected an impressive private Egyptian collection, which was sold to the Pushkin Museum in Moscow in 1909, shortly before he emigrated.

Electric Masada: At the Mountains of Madness

At the Mountains of Madness is a 2005 double live album by American composer and saxophonist John Zorn's Electric Masada featuring performances recorded in Moscow and Ljubljana.

Eva Evdokimova

The first American to do so, Evdokimova won the Varna International Ballet Competition in 1970, having been snubbed earlier that year in a Moscow competition.

Francis Adam Goodman

It is probable that he perished in the snows on their retreat from Moscow.

George Vari

Vari made his fortune in international real estate development, building Paris' Tour Montparnasse, six of the pavilions at Expo 1967 in Montreal, and Moscow's Hotel Cosmos.

Glacio

In 2012, superstar Madonna asked her manager to fly over some of Glacio’s ice cream delicacies to Moscow, after tasting them on her tour in Belgium.

High Kick!

She asked for a divorce from Min-yong, wishing to study abroad in Moscow, but came back to Korea in short time.

History of Adjara

After overnight talks with Russian Foreign Affairs Minister Igor Ivanov, Mr. Abashidze resigned and departed the country for Moscow.

Ibragimkhalil Daudov

Russian investigators say Daudov brought his wife and another woman to Moscow in 2009 to carry out a suicide attack on people celebrating New Year's Eve near the Kremlin, but their bomb exploded hours earlier in a Moscow suburb.

Informbiro period

As a result, Yugoslavia fell outside of the Soviet sphere of influence, and the country's brand of communism, with its independence from the Soviet line, was called Titoism by Moscow and considered treasonous.

Internal Military Service

Teodor Kufel born in 1920, later in 1954 the graduate of KGB school in Moscow.

There are speculations that gen. Edmund Buła had ordered to copy lists of WSW Informants and agents and sent it to Moscow, to KGB's Third Main Directorate, and some of them to GRU.

James McHugh Construction Co

Though most projects are located in the Chicago area today, McHugh was the first American contractor to open an office in Moscow after the fall of Communism.

Jewish Life Television

Its spotlight on Israel and Jewish life is facilitated by broadcast studios in Los Angeles, New York City and Toronto as well as bureaus in Jerusalem, Tel Aviv, Washington, D.C., Miami, London and Moscow.

Kasli iron sculpture

Many of world wide known historical artistic sculptures and figures at Moscow and Saint Petersburg - and even iron made furniture at Winter palace - was produced at Kasli factory.

Kolchak army offensive

The purpose of northern advancing was to connect with North Russia Front and to strike on Petrograd; the purpose of southern advancing was to crush the front of Reds on the middle Volga river and to strike on Moscow.

Konstantin Mamontov

During the march on Moscow, Mamontov and his men carried out in August 1919 a raid behind enemy lines to disrupt the rear of the Red Army.

Kostrzyn–Słubice Special Economic Zone

The Zone is situated near main roads including the international E30 (A2), E65 (A3) and E28 motorways and near to the ParisBerlinWarsawMoscow international railway line.

La Maraude

The tactic was particularly flawed whenever an army was forced to retreat over land which it had already scavenged as in the retreat from Moscow.

Leonid Malashkin

Little is recorded of Malashkin's career; born in Moscow, he received his musical training abroad, and in 1870 began teaching voice at the Kiev Theological Seminary.

Liber XV, The Gnostic Mass

Aleister Crowley wrote The Gnostic Mass — technically called Liber XV or "Book 15" — in 1913 while travelling in Moscow, Russia.

Louis-Auguste-Victor, Count de Ghaisnes de Bourmont

Taken prisoner during the retreat from Moscow, he managed to escape and rejoin the French army.

Madhur Bhandarkar

Chandni Bar, Best Film at Zimbabwe International Film Festival 2003 and Technical Award for Best Background Music Score at Moscow International Film Festival 2003.

Mainz rail bypass

Scheduled passenger trains occasionally run on this section of line, such as the Jan Kiepura, which runs between Amsterdam and Warsaw via Frankfurt, (with a through coach to Moscow).

Manthos and Georgios Rizaris

Manthos Rizaris, the elder brother, moved to Moscow, in order to work in his uncle’s trading business.

Marina Golub

Died in Moscow on the night of 9 to 10 October 2012 in a road accident.

Marius Kahan

Featuring prominent players from London’s session scene, it attracted critical acclaim and enjoyed extensive airplay on 102.2 Jazz FM and Solar Radio in the UK, as well as being playlisted as far afield as Moscow and Budapest.

Mart Stam

An illustration of it appeared on the front cover of Adolf Behne's book, Der Moderne Zweckbau, and articles on it written by Lissitzky appeared in an issue of the Moscow-based architectural review, ASNOVA News (journal of ASNOVA, the Association of New Architects), and in the German art journal Das Kunstblatt.

Math in Moscow

Math in Moscow (MiM) is a one-semester study abroad program for North American and European undergraduates held at the Independent University of Moscow (IUM) in Moscow, Russia.

Michitarō Komatsubara

After spending 1926-1927 as an instructor at the War College, he returned to Moscow again as a military attache from 1927-1929.

Mike Raven

He also acted on stage in Moscow in the 1950s with John Gielgud, and occasionally played flamenco guitar music in a Spanish restaurant in London.

Mil Mi-60

The Mil Mi-60MAI is a three-seat light helicopter first seen as a mockup at Moscow Salon in 2001.

Moscow 2042

The ideology has changed somewhat, into a hodgepodge of Marxism-Leninism and Russian Orthodoxy (Genialissimo himself is also Patriarch).

Moscow Ballet

The Bolshoi Ballet, based in Moscow in Russia has often been referred to generically as "The Moscow Ballet"

Moscow United Methodist Church

Moscow United Methodist Church is located in Moscow, Pennsylvania, on Church Street near Main Street.

Moscow, Camden and San Augustine Railroad

The MCSA operates a 6.9 mi (11.1 km) line from Camden to an interchange with the Union Pacific Railroad in Moscow, Texas.

Moscow, Iowa

The Iowa Interstate Railroad operates an estimated one to three trains per day through Hinkeyville.

Moscow, Maine

The site was put up for online auction in September 2011 through the U.S. General Services Administration.

Museum of Western and Oriental Art

During the Soviet times, the museum ranked the third in the USSR by the value and size of its collection after The Hermitage in Saint Petersburg and the Pushkin Museum of Fine Arts in Moscow.

Naryshkin Baroque

Naryshkin Baroque, also called Moscow Baroque, or Muscovite Baroque, is the name given to a particular style of Baroque architecture and decoration which was fashionable in Moscow from the turn of the 17th into the early 18th centuries.

National Bank of Romania

In 1916, in the wake of the Central Powers' invasion, the valuables of the National Bank of Romania, together with many other valuables (the Romanian Treasure) were sent to Moscow for safekeeping, but were never returned (except for the Pietroasele treasure - now on display at the National Museum of Romanian History, the numismatic collection of the National Bank, some paintings and archives).

New Life Radio-Moscow

Sensing the need to make Christian programming available in every community throughout the former Soviet Union, the station's management entered into a partnership with the Evangelical Covenant Church denomination (based in Chicago, Illinois) and HCJB World Radio (noted for developing the world's first Christian shortwave radio station in the early 1930s from Quito, Ecuador).

New Russians

A wide range of elite restaurants and nightclubs catering to the New Russian social circle have sprung up in Moscow.

Nikolai Ostrovsky

In Moscow during the Communist period the Ostrovsky Museum and the Ostrovsky Humanitarian centre were built.

Nikolas Metaxas

Nikolas Metaxas participated as the songwriter and composer of the Cypriot entry at the Eurovision Song Contest 2009 in Moscow, Russia as his sister Christina Metaxa won the national final on 7 February 2009.

Norman Lowther Edson

In 1935 Edson attended the 15th International Congress of Physiology at Moscow.

Oleg Ivanovich Mamayev

Oleg Ivanovich Mamayev was born 7 November 1925 in Moscow, Russia.

Olympiacos B.C. season 2007-08

Meanwhile, in Europe the team qualified for the third phase (quarter-finals) of the Euroleague, where it was eliminated by CSKA Moscow.

Oral Ak Zhol Airport

On August 28, 2009 an Itek Air Boeing-737-200 en route from Bishkek to Moscow performed an emergency landing due to oil leak on the port engine.

OSA Group

Like the ASNOVA group, OSA grew out of the avant-garde wing of the VKhUTEMAS school in Moscow.

Passport system in the Soviet Union

The document declared that all citizens at least sixteen years old residing in cites, towns, and urban workers' settlements, as well as residing within one hundred kilometres of Moscow and Leningrad, within fifty kilometres of Kharkov, Kiev, Minsk, Rostov-on-Don and Vladivostok and within the hundred-kilometre zone along the Western border of the USSR were required to have a passport with propiska.

Pedro Joaquín Chamorro Cardenal

Speaking about her husband to the participants of the 1998 IPI World Congress in Moscow, Violeta said: “During his whole life, Pedro Joaquín Chamorro was a tireless fighter for democracy in Nicaragua and against the dictatorship of Somoza. This cost him incarceration, torture, exile and finally death. He was warned many times that plans existed to assassinate him, yet no threat detained him from fulfilling his mission to impart the truth and preach democracy.”

Petrine Baroque

The Petrine Baroque structures outside St Petersburg are scarce; they include the Menshikov Tower in Moscow and the Kadriorg Palace in Tallinn.

Unlike contemporaneous Naryshkin Baroque, favoured in Moscow, the Petrine Baroque represented a drastic rupture with Byzantine traditions that had dominated Russian architecture for almost a millennium.

Prairie Bluff Chalk Formation

Evidence has been found within the formation at Braggs, Moscow, and Millers Ferry in Alabama indicating an instantaneous to brief erosional event, most likely a tsunami, at the Cretaceous–Paleogene boundary (K–T boundary).

Programme Two

It broadcast centralized entertainment produced in Moscow and the various Soviet republics via the republican television stations.

Ruslan Akhtakhanov

Akhtakhanov was a professor and vice-rector at the Modern Humanitarian Academy in Moscow and a poet.

Russian cruiser Moskva

The ship is currently held under the patronage of the city of Moscow.

Semih Erden

His first international experience came in the 2005 U20 European Championships held in Moscow.

Sergo Kldiashvili

He attended the Kutaisi gymnasium which produced many of Georgia’s 20th-century intellectuals, and then studied law in Moscow.

Simon Zavarian

Growing up, he attended college in Moscow, later settling in Tiflis, where he met Kristapor Mikaelian and Stepan Zorian.

Skull crucible

The Skull Crucible process was developed at the Lebedev Physical Institute in Moscow to manufacture cubic zirconia.

Spycraft: The Great Game

After returning to Moscow, Thorn hunts down Harmonica and just as he is about to kill the president, Thorn comes to the rescue and finishes Harmonica.

Stanislav Markelov

Investigations by the radio station Echo of Moscow indicate that most people distrusted the authorities, thought they could not adequately investigate the murder, and that the crimes would not be solved.

The Big Red Adventure

He planned to steal the Crown of Monomakh from a museum in Moscow, but at the decisive moment things go wrong.

The German Ideology

However, the work was later retrieved and published for the first time in 1932 by David Riazanov through the Marx-Engels Institute in Moscow.

Theodor Döhler

Following this, Döhler gave up public performance and settled for a while in Moscow.

Tingaliin

"Tingaliin" was the last of the series of Tingeling songs performed at the intermissions of the Melodifestivalen 2009 in preparation to Eurovision Song Contest 2009 scheduled to be organized in Moscow.

Trapped in the USSR

Convinced too that the plot Igor was facing was a threat to his own country and the world as a whole, they undertook feverish trips across the USSR, from Leningrad, to Moscow, to Tashkent, Bratsk, and finally, Odessa.

Troitsk

Troitsk, Moscow, formerly a town in Moscow Oblast, Russia, which was included into the city of Moscow on July 1, 2012

Vertical wind tunnel

A vertical wind tunnel performance in Moscow's Red Square was shown in 2009 during the presentation of logotype of Sochi 2014 Winter Olympics.

Victor Zâmbrea

In 1963, he graduated from the University of Popular Art in Moscow.

Victoria Karasyova

Victoria Igorevna Karasyova was born on June 23, 1979 in Moscow, Russian SFSR, USSR to Igor Karasyov and his wife.

Vladimir Mikhailovich Yashvil

Being prohibited from visiting both St. Petersburg and Moscow, Yashvil spent next several years in a compulsory retirement at his estate.

VMR-1

In February 1990, VMR-1 became the first Marine aviation unit to fly to the former Soviet Union when the squadron transported the United States Marine Corps Band to Moscow.

Volksdeutsche

These settlers (many of whom intended to stay only temporarily) were generally confined to the German Quarter in Moscow (which also included Dutch, British and other western or northern European settlers whom the Russians came to indiscriminately refer to as "Germans").

Western Australia Police Pipe Band

It was represented at the Sydney Edinburgh Tattoo in 2010 and the Kremlin Zoria in Moscow's Red Square.

William P. Hobby

Born in Moscow, Texas, Hobby became a circulation clerk for the Post in 1895 and was promoted to business writer in August 1901.

Woe from Wit

Woe from Wit (Russian: Горе от ума, also translated as "The Woes of Wit", "Wit Works Woe", and so forth) is Alexander Griboyedov's comedy in verse, satirizing the society of post-Napoleonic Moscow, or, as a high official in the play styled it, "a pasquinade on Moscow."

Yaroslav Korolev

Korolev played for CSKA Moscow in the Russian Super League before joining the Clippers.

Yevgeny Baratynsky

Through the interest of friends he obtained leave from the tsar to retire from the army, and settled in 1827 in Muranovo near Moscow (now a literary museum).

Youth unemployment

In 2005, the area around Moscow had an unemployment rate of just 1 percent while the Dagestan region had a rate over 22 percent.

Yuri Barseghov

Yuri Barseghov (Юрий Барсегов, Յուրի Բարսեղով, March 7, 1925, Tiflis - August 6, 2008, Moscow) was an internetional law expert, J.D., professor, member of the United Nations' International Law Commission, the special assistant of the UN Deputy Secretary-General at the UN Secretariat (since 1971), director of the Armenian Institute of International Law and Political Science and a Foreign Member of the Armenian Academy of Sciences.

Zosimades

At 1875, Nikolaos, Theodosios and Michael started their trading activities in Livorno, Italy, while Ioannis, Anastasios and Zois ran their trade business in Nizna Slatina (Ukraine) and then in Moscow.


4 Days in May

As it turned out in a private conversation, he wrote about the "brotherhood of the weapon" on the island of Rügen in the Baltic Sea from mega-geopolitical considerations: the need to tolerate the Germans, to create the axis Berlin-Moscow-Pekin.

Alexander Kaminsky

Since 1867, Kaminsky was also a house architect for Moscow Merchant Society, an ambitious real estate consortium that redeveloped territories of Kitai-Gorod, Neglinnaya Street.

Alexander Pichushkin

He is believed to have killed at least 49 people, and possibly as many as 60, in southwest Moscow's Bitsa Park, where a number of the victims' bodies were found.

Alexander Vasilyevich Alexandrov

Alexander Vasilyevich Alexandrov, known as Sacha, was born on 13 April in Plakhino, a village south-east of Moscow.

Alfons Jēgers

In 1940 when Latvian sports life was reorganized according to Soviet standards Jēgers played for Dinamo Riga with which he went on a tourney to Moscow, Kiev and Tbilisi.

Barcelona Institute of Architecture

Members of the Advisory Council include David Adjaye, Stan Allen, Manuel Castells, Yung Ho Chang, Riken Yamamoto, Irina Korobina (head of the Center of Contemporary Architecture, Moscow), Edward Soja, and Ramon Prat (director of architectural publishing house Actar), among others.

Battle of Sarikamish

These prisoners were kept under confinement for the next three years in the small town of Varnavino east of Moscow on the Vetluga River.

Charlotte Eagar

Whilst working for a variety of British newspapers and magazines, including The Sunday Times Magazine, The Observer, the Sunday Telegraph, the Spectator, The Mail on Sunday and Tatler, she has written stories from such diverse places as Sarajevo, Moscow, Baghdad, Kabul and Rome.

Chingis Izmailov

He first studied art and architecture in Moscow, then, in 1971, joined the department of Psychology of the Lomonosov Moscow State University, and in 1976 the same department's graduate school.

Dewey Commission

Trotskyist historian Pierre Broué noted that Trotsky had misinformed the Commission, claiming to have had no contacts with oppositionists inside the USSR to form a bloc (one of the charges of the Moscow Trials) despite being reminded during the Commission by his secretary, Jean van Heijenoort, of the opposite being the case.

Dinmukhamet Akhimov

In 1970 he entered in the All-Union State Film Institute of Order of the Red Banner of Labour (Moscow) to the course of the People's Artist of USSR Boris Babochkin and in 1974 he successfully graduated from this Institute.

Dmitry Ivanovich

Dmitry Donskoy (1350–1389), Dmitri Ivanovich Donskoy, Grand Prince of Moscow between 1359 and 1389

Expedition Trophy

The race follows the route Murmansk - St. Petersburg - Moscow - Yekaterinburg - Novosibirsk - Krasnoyarsk - Irkutsk - Khabarovsk - Vladivostok, with teams being eliminated at the end of each stage, and the total journey taking 13 days.

Hans-Christian Ströbele

On 31 October 2013, Ströbele met with Edward Snowden in Moscow to discuss the possibility of the NSA whistleblower testifiying before a German parliamentary committee set to investigate the claims of American intelligence services spying on German government officials, including Chancellor Angela Merkel.

House of Soviets

Palace of the Soviets, a project to construct an administrative center and a congress hall in Moscow, Russia, near the Kremlin

International Mathematical Olympiad selection process

In Moscow they are separated with process of selection, but in less populated regions pupils take part in both.

Jan Kryjevski

In 1977, Kryjevski spent time working in a group of young artists at the dacha for creative talents "Senezh" near Moscow, where the artistic concept of Transrealism was first created and developed.

Lyudmila Sorokina

She worked in secondary educational institutions of Chelyabinsk, Vologda and Murmansk regions and in Moscow.

Martinsville Seven

One telegram from Moscow was signed by "workers in science, literature, the arts" by composers Dmitri Shostakovich and Sergei Prokofiev.

Matrona

Matryona Nikonova, known as Matrona of Moscow, a saint of the Russian Orthodox Church

Metro: Last Light

The game is set in a post-apocalyptic Moscow, part of the universe of the novel Metro 2033 and its sequels, written by Russian author Dmitry Glukhovsky, but does not follow any direct storylines from the books.

Mikhail Turovsky

Mikhail Turovsky's work is represented in permanent collections of the National Art Museum of Ukraine in Kiev, the State Tretyakov Gallery in Moscow, the Yad Vashem Memorial Art Museum in Jerusalem, the Herbert Johnson Museum of Art at Cornell University in New York, and the Notre Dame University Art Museum in Indiana, as well as many public and private collections.

Moscow Flyer

Ridden by the Irish 18 year old Kate Harrington, 'Moscow' won comfortably and was giving a rousing reception in the winners' enclosure post race.

Moscow Kremlin

The nearest stations to the Moscow Kremlin are: Biblioteka Imeni Lenina (Sokolnicheskaya Line), Arbatskaya (Arbatsko-Pokrovskaya Line), Alexandrovsky Sad (Filyovskaya Line) and Borovitskaya (Serpukhovsko-Timiryazevskaya Line).

Moscow-Riga Railroad Bridge

Moscow-Riga Railroad Bridge is a concrete arch bridge that spans Moscow Canal between Tushino

Moscow, Ohio

The name may have been given to the town by French immigrants who were veterans of Napoleon's siege of Moscow.

Mosfilmovskaya Street

Being outside the Garden Ring (Садовое Кольцо), which encircles central Moscow, the street runs south-west across a residential area between the Moskva River and its tributary Setun River (Сетунь).

NII-88

The bureau was established on May 13, 1946 and was located at Podlipki, northeast of Moscow.

Novo-Ryazanskaya Street Garage

Novoryazanskaya Street Garage, also spelled Novo-Ryazanskaya Street Garage, and known as "Horseshoe garage", was designed by Konstantin Melnikov and Vladimir Shukhov (structural engineering) in 1926 and completed in 1929 at 27, Novoryazanskaya Street in Krasnoselsky District, Moscow, Russia, near Kazansky Rail Terminal.

Novosokolnichesky District

Novosokolniki was founded in 1901 as a station of the railway which connected Moscow and Riga.

One Day in Europe

The Champions League match between Galatasaray and Deportivo La Coruña which takes place in Moscow on that particular day only worsens the problem.

Orgesa Zaimi

In 2009, she was the back vocalist to singer Kejsi Tola, who represented Albania on Eurovision Song Contest in Moscow, Russia, and won Best Rock Video on "Netet e Klipit Shqiptar" festival.

Peter DiMaggio

He was the lead engineer for the construction of the U.S. Embassies in Moscow, Berlin and Baghdad as well as Valeo’s technical center in Michigan and the Claremont Tower in New Jersey.

Peter Petreius

Peersson-Petreius was confident that Tsarevich Dimitri was indeed killed in Uglich in 1591; like Isaac Massa, he condemned Boris Godunov for arranging the murder, yet Persson's story contains an unrealistic scene of an arson in Uglich and Moscow, set up simultaneously to cover up the crime.

Povorino

A junction of railroads and motorways, the town is situated between Tambov and Volgograd on European route E119 from Moscow to Astara, Azerbaijan.

Qualimetry

That this initiative was timely and justifiable was borne out by a series of international scholarly conferences fully or partly devoted to issues of qualimetry, e.g., in Moscow, Oslo, Varna, Yerevan, Madrid or Tallinn.

Revolutionary committee

In other cases they were created underground from local populations under the guidance of Bolsheviks, which subsequently organized an insurgency and then invited the Red Army for help, as it was, e.g., in the case of the Azerbaijani Revkom, which seized power in Baku when English troops were evacuated and then asked Moscow for help.

Stefan Kanchev

After leaving the National Academy of Arts shortly before graduation, Kanchev took part in exhibitions and biennales in Bulgaria and abroad over the next 22 years, including Belgrade, Budapest, Berlin, Moscow, Warsaw, Brno, Ljubljana and New York City.

The Janus Man

As he attempts to discover the identity of "The Janus Man who faces both East and West", he tracks sources of information in Moscow, Lübeck, Copenhagen and Oslo to hunt down the killer of Ferguson.

Valley of the Giants

The Valley of the Giants (1919 film), Famous Players film recently acquired in 2010 from Gosfilmofond, Moscow; directed by James Cruze

Victor Zâmbrea

His works are found in private and public collections in Paris, Bucharest, Moscow, Kiev, Tel Aviv, Jerusalem, Buenos Aires, Montreal, Riga, Vilnius, Timişoara, Braşov, Odessa, Nikolaev, Tumen, Novokuznetsk, Esentuki, Sighetu Marmaţiei.

Vitaly Minakov

Minakov defeated UFC and Bellator veteran Eddie Sanchez on June 7, 2012 at Fight Nights - Battle of Moscow 7.

Vladimer Papava

He received his Candidate of Science degree in Economics (PhD) from Central Economic Mathematical Institute of the Academy of Sciences of the USSR, Moscow, in 1982, and his Doctor of Science degree in Economics from Tbilisi State University in 1989 and Leningrad State University in 1990.

Vladimir Rebikov

Rebikov taught and played in concerts in various parts of the Russian Empire: Moscow, Odessa, Kishinev, Yalta, as well as in Berlin, Vienna, Prague, Leipzig, Florence and Paris, where met Claude Debussy, Oscar Nedbal, Zdenek Needly, and others.

Vyacheslav Polozov

1986 Aleko by Sergei Rachmaninoff, Moscow Philharmonic Orchestra, under Dmitri Kitayenko, MELODIA