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7 unusual facts about Russian


Afognak

The United States Census of 1890 noted a series of settlements along the beachline near the Alutiiq village of Ag’waneq (also called Afognak), including Rutkovsky village, inhabited by a group of retired employees of the Russian-American Company.

Alaska Commercial Company

After the 1867 purchase of Alaska by the United States, the firm of Hutchison, Kohl & Company, including Hayward Hutchison, William Kohl, and Louis Sloss, bought the Russian-American Company.

Alexander Andreyevich Baranov

From 1799 to 1818, through Nikolai Rezanov's intervention, he became chief manager for the influential Russian-American Company.

Anglo-Russian

A fictional account of Anglo-Russians is found in Penelope Fitzgerald's The Beginning of Spring (London, 1988).

La circassienne

Set in Russia during the Russian-Circassian War, the opera was also known under the titles Morte d'amour (Death of Love), La révolte au Sérail (The Revolt in the Seraglio), Alexis, and Faublas.

Russian-Circassian War

Those who use the term Russian–Circassian War take its starting date as 1763, when the Russians began establishing forts, including at Mozdok, to be used as springboards for conquest.

Russian-Tajik Slavonic University

Georgy Koshlakov, head of the Department of Economics and Management


1874 in Canada

Anabaptists (Russian Mennonites) start to arrive in Manitoba from various Russian colonies.

Aleksandr Zakharov

Aleksandr Viktorovich Zakharov (b. 1969), Soviet Russian football (soccer) player

Aleksei German

Aleksei Yuryevich German (born 1938–2013), Russian film director and screenwriter

Aleksey Tillo

For creating this map Tillo was elected a corresponding member of the Russian (1892) and Parisian Academies of Sciences.

Alexander N. Rossolimo

His maternal grandfather, Anatole Pavlovich Boudakovitch, was a Russian-Polish count and colonel in the Imperial Russian Army, who died in battle near Warsaw during World War I.

Alexander Zaytsev

Aleksandr Leonidovich Zaitsev (born 1945), Russian scientist in radar astronomy and SETI

Amur Bridge Project

The bridge would link Nizhneleninskoye (in Russian: Нижнеленинское) in the Jewish Autonomous Oblast with Tongjiang (in Chinese: 同江) in Heilongjiang Province.

Anna Lapushchenkova

Her run of summer successes having improved her ranking sufficiently to afford her direct entry to a WTA Tour main draw for the first time, despite the fact that she had never succeeded in qualifying for one in five attempts, the young Russian came up against an inspired Nathalie Viérin in the first round of the Tier IV event at Portorož, Slovenia, and could only take one game from her in suffering a fairly comprehensive drubbing at her hands.

Assyrians in Georgia

The Assyrians and Yezidi were prepared to move against the Ottomans, whenever the support from Erekle II arrived, but Russian General Totleben changed his mind and turned his detachment back to Kartli.

Aurora Pavlovna Demidova

Princess and Countess Aurora Pavlovna Demidova (2/3 November 1873, Kiev – 28 June (OS: 16 June) 1904, Turin) was a Russian noblewoman of the Demidov family.

Baxt

The station was named Velikoalexeyevskaya after the Russian prince Alexey, the apparent heir to the throne.

Choba B CCCP

The Russian album includes liner notes in Russian, from text that was originally in English by Roy Carr of the NME.

Detachment R

Detachment R (also known as the U.S. Army Russian Area School) was a special U.S. Army School initially located in a former Wehrmacht garrison in Oberammergau and later moved to Regensburg, Germany, where it remained from 1950 to 1954, when it was moved back to Oberammergau.

Durov

Pavel Durov (b. 1984), a Russian entrepreneur & VK.com creator

Dvorkin

Alexander Leonidovich Dvorkin, a sectologist, linked to Russian Orthodox Church

Ekostrovsky

Ekostrovskoye Rural Community (1861–1866), a rural community of Kemsky Uyezd of Arkhangelsk Governorate, Russian Empire

Henry John Pearson

The 1903 expedition, accompanied by Mr. J. P. Musters, explored the interior of Russian Lapland, visiting the area of the Kola Peninsula near Pulozero and southwards.

John Eleuthère du Pont

The petition claims that during that period, du Pont asserted alternately that he was Jesus Christ, the Dalai Lama and a Russian Czar.

Journey Beyond Three Seas

The film tells the story of Afanasy Nikitin (Oleg Strizhenov), a 15th-century, Russian trader who travelled to India (1466-1472), and falls in love with an Indian girl Champa (Nargis Dutt).

Karel Štefl

In the 2005–2006 season, Štefl competed with Russian skater Olga Prokuronova and won the 2006 Czech senior national title.

Kommersant

To make the point that the publication had outlasted the Soviet regime, "Kommersant" is spelled in Russian with a terminal hard sign (ъ) – a letter that is silent at the end of a word in modern Russian, and was thus abolished by the post-revolution Russian spelling reform.

Lyudmila Narusova

Lyudmila Narusova is the widow of Anatoly Sobchak (1937—2000), who was a prominent Russian politician, mentor and teacher of both Vladimir Putin and Dmitry Medvedev, and the mother of Kseniya Sobchak (born 1981), who is a celebrity widely known in Russia as a presenter on the reality show Dom-2 and other TV-shows.

Manya Shochat

In World War I, the Turks deported the Shochats and others who were Russian nationals to Bursa, in Turkey.

Marxism and the National Question

"Marxism and the National Question" (Russian:Марксизм и национальный вопрос) is an article written by Joseph Stalin at the end of 1912–1913 in Vienna, at the insistence of Lenin.

Mikhail Zasulich

His refusal to go on the offensive and continual retreats made him unpopular with his troops, at the Battle of Liaoyang, his refusal to obey Lieutenant General Nikolai Zarubaev’s orders to hold his position endangered the entire Russian position.

Milan Crnković

He published about one-hundred research and literary papers, several translations from French (Honoré de Balzac, Stendhal, François Souchal) English (Daniel Dafoe, Albert Manfred, James Michener, Shel Silverstein, Isaac Singer, and James Thurber) and Russian (Kornej Cukovski).

My Best Friend, General Vasili, Son of Joseph Stalin

Biopic film, based on a true story of friendship between Vasili Stalin, the son of the Soviet leader Joseph Stalin, and the famous Russian sports star Vsevolod Bobrov.

Nemirovich-Danchenko

Vasily Nemirovich-Danchenko (1845-1936), Russian novelist and journalist, Vladimir Nemirovich-Danchenko's brother.

Neoephemera antiqua

N. antiqua was first studied by Nina D. Sinitchenkova of the Paleontological Institute of the Russian Academy of Sciences, with her 1999 type description being published in the Russian text Palaeontological Journal.

Nikolay Nikolsky

Nikolay Vasilyevich Nikolsky (May 19, 1878 – November 2, 1961) - Russian historian, ethnographer, folklorist, lexicographer of Chuvash ethnicity.

North Ossetia–Alania

The Ossetian population of North Ossetia is predominantly Christian with a Muslim minority, speaking Ossetian and Russian.

Pachliopta kotzebuea

The species was named for Otto von Kotzebue, commander of the Russian expeditionary ship Rurik.

Pacific Environment

That same year, Pacific Environment worked with the Udege people in the Russian Far East to protect the three-million-acre (1.2-million-hectare) upper Bikin Watershed against logging by the Hyundai Corporation.

Panteley

Panteleimon Golosov - a Russian Constructivist architect and brother of Ilya Golosov.

Pechengsky

Pechengskoye Rural Community (1861–1866), a rural community of Kemsky Uyezd of Arkhangelsk Governorate, Russian Empire

PPRU

PPRU-1 is a Soviet/Russian mobile air target reconnaissance and command center

Robert Falk

During the Khrushchev Thaw Falk became popular among young painters and many considered him to be the main bridge between the traditions of the Russian and French Moderne of the beginning of 20th century and Russian avant-garde and the Russian avant-garde of the 1960s.

Rozhkov

Pavel Rozhkov (b. 1986), a Russian professional football player

Sputnik 2

If neither had taken place, Russian Mission Control had planned to euthanize Laika with poisoned food, as she would have burned up in the atmosphere during re-entry.

Tatiana Navka

Navka has also partnered with Russian celebrities to compete in Channel One Russia ice shows: Stars On Ice, which she won with actor Marat Basharov, and Ice Age, in which she was runner-up with actor Ville Haapasalo.

Teribersky

Teriberskaya Volost (1912–1927), an administrative division of Alexandrovsky Uyezd of Arkhangelsk Governorate, Russian Empire, and later of Murmansk Governorate of the Russian SFSR

The Ways of Freedom

The Ways of Freedom is an early album by the Russian jazz musician Sergey Kuryokhin.

Thomas Hartmann

Thomas de Hartmann (1885–1956), Russian composer and associate of George Ivanovitch Gurdjieff

United States Navy Strike Fighter Tactics Instructor program

Lipetsk today has many of the old, current, and new Russian Air Force hardware, including the Sukhoi Su-34 and Yakovlev Yak-130.

Vilkitsky

Boris Vilkitsky (1885-1961), a Russian Arctic explorer, son of above

Vozhd

In Russian it often referring to the Soviet leaders such as Joseph Stalin or Lenin.

Winnipeg General Strike

The Canadian prime minister attended the conference at Versailles and was concerned solely for his government, due to the Russian revolution that began more than a year before the settlement and concern that it would potentially spread to North America.

Yanina Batyrchina

At 9 years of age, Batyrchina moved to Russia with Irina Viner who became the Russian National Team Head coach.

Yordenis Ugás

" Later Ugás beat Russian Khabib Allakhverdiyev and in the final he outfought Romal Amanov from Azerbaidjan. Cubanet.org writes "Yordenis Ugas, a sharp, technically accomplished fighter but with a suspect jaw, won the lightweight gold for Cuba after an explosive toe-to-toe clash with Romal Amanov of Azerbaijan.

Yuri Dolgorukov

Sophronius "Yuri" Dolgorukov (1602–1682), general and governor, won a series of victories in the Russian-Polish war of 1654-67, including the Battle of Werki, led the army to crush the rebellion C. Razin


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