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100 unusual facts about Moscow


1899 Russian student strike

By 1914 there were ten universities, half in Russia proper (Moscow, St Petersburg, Saratov, Kazan and Tomsk) and the other half in minority regions (Warsaw, Odessa, Kiev, Kharkov and Iurev).

1987 European Women's Artistic Gymnastics Championships

The 16th European Women's Artistic Gymnastics Championships were held in Moscow.

1996–97 Vysshaya Liga season

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

Agabey Sultanov

In 1961, he moved to Moscow where, in 1967, he defended his PhD candidacy dissertation and by 1973 obtained a doctorate degree from the Moscow Serbsky Institute for Social and Forensic Psychiatry.

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.

Ariel López Padilla

His dedication and perseverance through several years led him to take courses and workshops about dance, participating in countries like Mexico (practically the whole Mexican republic), Cuba, France, Germany, United States and the extinct URSS, where he had the privilege auditioned for the Bolshoi Ballet in the capital, Moscow.

Arkady Severny

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

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.

Boris Meissner

During his time at the Soviet desk, he was a member of the German delegation accompanying Konrad Adenauer on his visit to Moscow in September 1955 and the Four Power Conferences on Germany in Berlin (1954) and Geneva (1955; 1959).

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.

Central Moscow Hippodrome

Central Moscow Hippodrome, founded in 1834 is the largest horse racing track as well as horse breeding research facility in Moscow and Russia.

Charlotte Perriand

1930 Travels to Moscow for a Congrès International d'Architecture Moderne (CIAM) conference and designs fixtures for the Pavilion Suisse at the Cité Universitaire in Paris.

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.

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.

Cuba–Soviet Union relations

Moscow kept in regular contact with Havana, sharing varying close relations until the collapse of the bloc in 1991.

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.

Dina Asher-Smith

Dina Asher Smith (born 4 December 1995) is a British sprinter who represents Blackheath and Bromley A.C. She is the 2013 European Junior Champion at 200 m and won a bronze medal at the 2013 World Championships in Moscow as a member of the British 4 x 100m relay team.

Draft Universe

For example, Moscow has 17 customs officers for only 700 functionals.

Düm Tek Tek

-- she's ethnically Turk, passports are irrelevant. see the link "Turks in Belgium" --> singer Hadise that was performed as the Turkish entry for the Eurovision Song Contest 2009 in Moscow, Russia.

Education in Azerbaijan

During the Soviet period, the Azerbaijani education system was based on the standard model imposed by Moscow, which featured state control of all education institutions and heavy doses of Marxist-Leninist ideology at all levels.

Ephraim Kholmyansky

Ephraim (Alexander) Kholmyansky (born 1950, in Moscow) is an Israeli refusenik, activist in the Jewish revival movement in Russia, and teacher of Hebrew.

Ernst Helmut Brandt

From December 1969 to October 1970 he was a visiting scientist at the Lomonosov University in Moscow, and since then, spoke Russian fluently and had many friends from the former Soviet Union.

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.

Federation of Scouts of Russia

A Second International Jamboree that took place north of Moscow in 1997 with approximately 4,000 participants was organized by FSR in conjunction with the Organization of Russian Young Pathfinders (ORYuR).

Gennady Shpigun

He was kidnapped from the airport in Grozny on March 5, 1999, when armed masked men boarded his plane as it was about to leave for 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.

Georgy Alexandrovich Avenarius

In 1936 Sergei Eisenstein invited him to Moscow, to organize new courses of Foreign film history at VGIK all-Soviet institute.

History of Adjara

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

Hughes Rudd

Rudd reported from around the world, including tours as a correspondent in Bonn, Berlin, and 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.

Ivan Gagarin

Ivan Sergeyevich Gagarin (born in Moscow, 1 August 1814; died in Paris, 19 July 1882) was a Russian Jesuit, known also as Jean-Xavier after his conversion to Catholicism.

Jean Baptiste, baron Franceschi

He commanded a Neapolitan brigade in the Russian War of 1812, and after the retreat from Moscow took refuge, with the remnant of his command, in Danzig, where in the course of the siege of 1813 he died.

Jesús Dátolo

Dátolo made his international debut for Argentina in a friendly match against Russia in Moscow on 12 August 2009; he scored his first goal after just 20 seconds on the pitch.

John Klier

In 1991, he was one of the first foreign scholars to undertake in-depth research on the Jews in Soviet archives, and mined resources in the coming years in Kiev, Moscow, St Petersburg and Minsk.

Julius Strauss

In 2002, he was posted to Moscow as the Telegraphs bureau chief, from where he covered Putin's Russia and various Chechen crises.

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.

KK Partizan in Europe

The biggest defeat happened on November 15, 2013 in Moscow when CSKA won by 42 points, 88:46.

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.

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.

Lithuanian Metrica

The remaining Lithuanian Metrica books in St. Petersburg were inventoried and taken to Moscow.

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.

Marchak

In 2010 The House of Marchak initiated an inauguration ceremony of their new headquarters office in Hotel Ukraina of Moscow where everyone can see the unique beauty of Marchak chefs-d'oeuvre.

Marina Denikina

She last saw her homeland in October 2005, when the remains of General Denikin were repatriated and buried at the cemetery of Moscow’s Donskoy monastery.

Marina Golub

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

Mary Bamber

The same year, she became a founder member of the local Communist Party and in 1920 she attended the Second Congress of the Third International in Moscow.

Medovukha

Nonetheless, modern examples include bottled Medovukha sold at the "Russian Bistro" fast food outlets across Moscow, and tap Medovukha of different brands offered by a network of honey shops in St. Petersburg.

Melomane

Melomane was invited to play in Moscow and St. Petersburg, Russia, in September 2006 by the US Embassy in Russia to support the Russian release of their third album Glaciers, on the Russian record label Soyuz Music.

Michael A. Baker

He was responsible for the coordination and implementation of mission operation activities in the Moscow region for the joint U.S./Russian Shuttle/Mir program.

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 United Methodist Church

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

Moscow-Riga Railroad Bridge

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

Moscow, Cheryomushki

With its mock medieval melody, the parallel fifths in the bass line and the use of a horn solo, the orchestral introduction recalls a retrospective style, reminiscent of Yaroslavna’s arioso from Borodin’s opera Prince Igor or the first bars of the “bardic” slow movement from Borodin’s 2nd Symphony.

Moscow, Ohio

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

Moscow, Scotland

The name is thought to be a corruption of 'Moss-hall' or 'Moss-haw' but its spelling was formalised in 1812 to mark Napoleon's retreat from Moscow.

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 Economic School

New Economic School, NES (in Russia known as the “Russian Economic School” — Российская экономическая школа, РЭШ) is a graduate school of economics in Moscow, Russia.

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).

Nikolaos Skoufas

For this purpose he went to Moscow but his ideas did not meet with the approval of many people of the local Greek community.

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.

Nusantara

The Nusantara Society in Moscow conducts studies on the Nusantara region's history, culture, languages and politics.

Oleg Ivanovich Mamayev

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

Oral Ak Zhol Airport

As the 747 was deemed too heavy for take-off smaller size aircraft were sent from Moscow and Bucharest to ferry the passengers to London.

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.

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.

Rémi Joseph Isidore Exelmans

In the retreat from Moscow, his steadfast courage was conspicuously manifested on several occasions.

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.

Russian cruiser Moskva

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

Saint Petersburg Toy Museum

It is the second museum of toys in Russia after the oldest Artistic-educational museum of that kind in Sergiev Posad near Moscow, which treats pedagogic problems mainly.

Samuil Vainshtein

He also shared 4th at Moscow 1920 ("Chess Olympiad", B tournament), and tied for 8-10th at Moscow 1927 (Peter Romanovsky won).

Schloss Ebenrain

Hübner was a Moscow textile merchant who had settled in the border province of Alsace but decided to leave after the Franco-Prussian War, when the province went to Germany.

Severo-Zapadny

North-Western Administrative Okrug (Severo-Zapadny administrativny okrug), an administrative okrug of Moscow, Russia

Sextonik

Then at the concerts in Douai (Gayant Expo), St. Petersburg and Moscow, a remix of "Sextonik" by DJ Tomer G was played.

Shchastya Bay

Theis area became briefly the center of attention of the press in 1936 when Soviet pilot Valery Pavlovich Chkalov flew on an Antonov ANT-25 plane from Moscow through Franz Joseph Land, Severnaya Zemlya, Petropavlovsk-Kamchatsky and Khabarovsk.

Skull crucible

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

Stefano Benedetto Pallavicino

He also wrote the text for the comic opera Calandro by Giovanni Alberto Ristori, which was first staged in 1726 at the castle of Pilnitz near Dresden, and then in Moscow in 1731 when it was the first opera ever performed in Russia.

Steinberg v. Columbia Pictures Industries, Inc.

In the background is a blue stripe representing the Atlantic Ocean, three landmarks denoting cities in Europe, and a set of Russian-looking buildings labeled "Moscow".

Substitution cipher

In a mechanical implementation, rather like the ROCKEX equipment, the one-time pad was used for messages sent on the Moscow-Washington hot line established after the Cuban missile crisis.

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.

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.

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").

Walter Fried

In 1907, Fried, having already served as head of the violin department of the Milwaukee College of Music for six years, traveled to Moscow for a year of study with Mikhail Press.

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).

Yuzhny Okrug

Southern Administrative Okrug (Yuzhny administrativny okrug), an administrative okrug of Moscow, Russia

Zhabinka

In 1882 a railway station was built here on the railway line that connected Warsaw, Brest and Moscow.

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.

Akademichesky

Akademichesky District, a district of South-Western Administrative Okrug of Moscow, Russia

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.

Anna of Ryazan

In her policy Anna tried to expand her domain, she visited often Moscow and due her diplomatic efforts the Pronsk principality was added to Ryazan.

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.

Cycling at the Friendship Games

The individual road race was held at the Schleizer Dreieck race track in Schleiz, East Germany on 23 August 1984, the team road race was held in Forst, East Germany on 26 August 1984, while track cycling events were held at the Velodrome of the Trade Unions Olympic Sports Centre in Moscow, Soviet Union between 18 and 22 August 1984.

Daniel Alfred Wachs

As a pianist, he has performed in such venues as Weill Recital Hall at Carnegie Hall, Alice Tully Hall, Tchaikovsky Hall in Moscow, the Salle Paderewski in Lausanne, and at such festivals as Aspen, Tanglewood and Verbier.

Dmitry Ivanovich

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

Friendship Flight '89

The Soviet Foundation for Social Inventions agreed to meet with Tony's father, Gary Aliengena, in Moscow to discuss the proposal.

Fyodor Kulakov

In 1964 Kulakov was brought to Moscow to become the Head of the Agricultural Department of the Central Committee (CC).

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.

Ilya Yashin

Ilya Yashin (born 29 June 1983 in Moscow) is a Russian activist and liberal politician, one of key leaders of political party «RPR-PARNAS», co-founder and one of leaders of political movement Solidarnost.

International Mathematical Olympiad selection process

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

Kiyevsky suburban direction of Moscow Railway

The stations the direction serves are located in Moscow, as well as in Odintsovsky and Naro-Fominsky Districts of Moscow Oblast, and Borovsky and Maloyaroslavetsky Districts and the city of Kaluga of Kaluga Oblast.

Kryukovo

Staroye Kryukovo District, a district in Zelenograd Administrative Okrug of Moscow, Russia

Lazare Kaplan International

It established a joint manufacturing partnership with Alrosa (the Russian government-owned mining company), with cutting facilities in Moscow and Barnaul.

Leisurama house

The precursor to the final design was shown at the 1959 American National Exhibition in Moscow, which provoked the noted Kitchen Debate between Vice President Richard M. Nixon and Soviet premier Nikita Khrushchev.

Mağjan Jumabayev

Living later in Moscow he translated the works of Lermontov, Koltsov, Balmont, Merezhkovsky, Ivanov, Mamin-Sibiriak, Maksim Gorky, Alexander Blok, Goethe, Heine and other poets into Qazaq language.

Marine Corps Brig, Quantico

Over the years, there were some prominent inmates at the Brig, including John Hinckley, Jr., a would-be presidential assassin, Clayton J. Lonetree, the Marine Security Guard who provided classified information to the KGB while stationed at the U.S. Embassy, Moscow from 1984 to 1986, and Rayful Edmond, largely credited with introducing crack cocaine into the Washington, D.C., area.

Martinsville Seven

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

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.

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 Trials

All the defendants were sentenced to death and were subsequently shot in the cellars of Lubyanka prison in Moscow

Neglinnaya River

There were four bridges across the Neglinnaya River: Voskresensky Bridge (its fragments unearthed during a 1994 excavation), three-span Kuznetsky Bridge, Troitsky Bridge and Petrovsky Bridge (the remains of the latter discovered during the reconstruction of the Maly Theatre).

NII-88

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

Novospassky

Novospassky Bridge, a bridge over the Moskva River in Moscow, Russia

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.

Pereswetoff-Morath

Varyingly traced to the Blessed Alexander Peresvět of Radonež (died 1380) and to a certain Vasilej Peresvět Ivanov in early-15th-century Dmitrov (NW of Moscow), the family, in the person of Murat Aleksěevič Peresvětov (died 1640) from Rostov Velikij, entered Swedish service in 1613-14 during the Ingrian War.

Pimen

Pimen, Metropolitan of Moscow, aka Pimen the Greek, Metropolitan of Moscow from 1382-1384

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.

Riad Ahmadov

In that year he attended the Higher School of the Soviet Committee for State Security (also known as KGB) in Minsk and completed his training at the Yuri Vladimirovich Andropov KGB Academy in Moscow.

Skolkovo Institute of Science and Technology

The Skolkovo Institute of Science and Technology is a private research university located near Skolkovo, Moscow Oblast, in the close vicinity of the capital city of Moscow, Russia.

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.

Tan Kheng Hua

Drama: Aquafire Productions: Cages directed by Graham Streeter (lead, Pusan Film Festival 2006, Prague Film Festival 2006, Bangladesh Film Festival 2007, distributed by Golden Village in Singapore and Hallmark for Asia Pacific Region), Final Cut (lead, Singapore Int'l Film Festival 1993, Asia Pacific Film & Video Festival in LA 1993, broadcast over HBO and Arts Central Singapore); Zhao Wei Films: Mee Pok Man, 12 Stories (screened at film festivals in Singapore, Moscow, England and Venice, 1994)

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.

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.

Tsaritsyno

Tsaritsyno District, a district in Southern Administrative Okrug of Moscow, Russia

Tumblepop

Moscow, which is a circus-like stage, enemies being clowns, invisible conjurers, fire spitters; the boss is a giant clown held by balloons who juggles with bombs.

Vadim Evseev

By the start of the 2007 Russian Premier League he was in newly-relegated to the First Division Torpedo Moscow, but failed to accommodate and was subsequently sold to Saturn Moscow Oblast in the summer of 2007.

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.

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 of Staritsa

The only son of Andrey of Staritsa and Princess Euphrosyne Khovanskaya, Vladimir spent his childhood under strict surveillance in Moscow.

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