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Arkady Renko

The action in Gorky Park takes place in the Soviet Union and in the US, Polar Star on board a Soviet fishing vessel in the Bering Sea, and Red Square in West Germany and the Glasnost-era Soviet Russia.

Polarstar Ridge

The ridge was named by the Advisory Committee on Antarctic Names (US-ACAN) after the Polar Star, the low-wing monoplane from which Lincoln Ellsworth, with pilot Herbert Hollick-Kenyon, discovered and photographed this ridge and the Staccato Peaks on November 23, 1935.

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Microtuban

The generic name is derived from Greek μικρός, mikros, "little", and Arab التنين, tuban, "dragon" or basilisk, also referring to Thuban, the ancient Polar Star in the constellation Draco.

Petrashevsky Circle

Some members escaped execution, among them V. A. Èngel, later an active participant in Herzen's Polar Star, a famous theorist of Slavophilism Nikolai Danilevsky, Mikhail Saltykov-Shchedrin and poet Apollon Maykov who often visited Petrashevsky's Friday meetings.