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32 unusual facts about Russian Language


A Kiss as Long as Eternity

A Kiss as Long as Eternity (Поцелуй длиною в вечность) is a Russian album by Vitas (Витас), released in 2004.

Akhvakh people

The Akhvakhs (also known as Akhwakh, Akhvakhtsy or G'akhevalal; ахвахцы in Russian) are one of the Andi–Dido peoples of Daghestan and have their own language.

Aleksandr Vinogradov

Aleksandr Vinogradov (Russian: Александр Виноградов, born November 10, 1951) is a Soviet-born Russian sprint canoer who competed from the early 1970s to the early 1980s.

Alevtina Aparina

Between 1965 and 1967 she was employed at middle school as Russian teacher.

Anatoly Maltsev

Anatoly Ivanovich Maltsev (Malcev) (Russian: Анато́лий Ива́нович Ма́льцев 27 November N.S./14 November O.S. 1909 - 7 June 1967) was born in Misheronsky, near Moscow, and died in Novosibirsk, USSR.

Andi people

The Andis (къӀваннал in Andi, андийцы in Russian) are one of the indigenous Dagestanian peoples of Russia.

AP Russian Language and Culture

AP Russian Language is equivalent to a second-year college-level Russian language course.

Archi people

The Archi (аршишттиб in Archi, арчинцы in Russian) are an ethnic group who live in eight villages in Southern Dagestan, Russia.

Bzhedug people

Bzhedug or Bazdug (Adyghe: Бжъэдыгъу, Russian: Бжедуги) are one of the twelve tribal divisions of the Adyghe.

Dzerzhinsk

Dzerzhinsk, transliterated from Russian, may be the name of one of the following places.

Education in Croatia

The most popular foreign languages are English, German and Italian, followed by Spanish, French and Russian.

Friedrich Neznansky

Friedrich Neznansky (Russian: Фридрих Евсеевич Незнанский; September 27, 1932 – February 14, 2013) was a popular Russian crime novelist.

Georgiy Ball

Georgiy Alexandrovich Ball (Russian: Гео́ргий Алекса́ндрович Балл, June 9, 1927 – January 1, 2011) was a Russian writer.

Giorgio Porreca

He had a university degree in Russian language and Russian literature and translated into Italian many Russian chess books.

Helen Muchnic

Helen Muchnic was an American scholar and writer, specializing in Russian language and literature.

History of Tatarstan

From the 1930s through the 1950s, Tatar-language press, cultural institutions, theatres, national schools and institutes gradually disappeared, as education was required to be conducted in the Russian language.

Ivan Timofeevich Kokorev

Ivan Timofeevich Kokorev (Russian Иван Тимофеевич Кокорев) (September 6, 1825 - June 14, 1853) was a Russian writer.

Knej

The name Knej is believed to be related to Russian kneja (кнея) 'woods in the middle of a field' and Polish knieja 'woods where it is forbidden to cut; hunting area', both derived from Slavic *kъnъ 'stump', thus referring to a local geographical feature.

Krasilnikova

Krasilnikova (Russian: Красильникова) is a Russian surname.

Larry Gene Heien

In 1967 he received the master degree in Slavic languages and in 1969 a double major PhD in Russian language and literature and higher education administration from Indiana University(doctoral thesis “A psycholinguistic study in the organization and presentation of grammatical principles”).

Larry Gene Heien (born January 18, 1937 in Mt. Olive, Illinois and died September 12, 1991 in Singapore) was American linguist, slavist, expert of Russian studies and Russian language teaching, also known for his interest in music.

Masha and the Bear

Masha and the Bear (Russian: Маша и Медведь) is a Russian TV series focusing of the adventures of Masha, a sweet, good-natured, playful, precocious, but slightly mischievous little girl, and Bear, a former circus performer.

Mongolian alphabets

It was meant to also reduce ambiguity, and to support the Russian language in addition to Mongolian.

Navsegda!

Navsegda! (Cyrillic: НАВСЕГДА! Translated: Forever!) is the debut album from Russian group Nichya.

Peaceful Valley, Washington

34.7% of the children and 24% of the general population speaks Russian as a first language.

Saifuddin Soz

He also translated M. Illin's book 1,00,000 Whys from Russian to Kashmiri, an effort for which he received the Soviet Land Nehru Award.

Selig Perlman

While in high school, he learned Russian and a number of other European languages, and his teachers introduced him to the work of Georgi Plekhanov.

SOUD

Its main computer was based in Moscow, the input language was Russian and the Russians had control over access to the system.

St. Thomas More College

The college at present offers classes in these departments of arts and science: Anthropology, Archeology, Catholic Studies, Classical, Medieval & Renaissance Studies, Economics, English, Languages & Linguistics, History, Philosophy, Political Science, Psychology, Religious Studies, Russian, Spanish, and Sociology.

Valeri Danilov

Valeri Danilov (also spelled: Valeriy; Russian:Валерий Дмитриевич Данилов) is a Russian military historian and a retired officer (Colonel).

Viktor Strazhev

Viktor Ivanovich Strazhev (27 October 1879, Usolye – 19 October 1950) was a Russian bibliographer, translator, poet and literary critic.

Vladimir Istomin

Vladimir Ivanovich Istomin (Владимир Иванович Истомин in Russian) (1809 – March 7(19), 1855) was a Russian rear admiral (1853) and hero of the Siege of Sevastopol.


1st Congress of the Russian Social Democratic Labour Party

The 1st Congress of the RSDLP (Russian: Российская социал-демократическая рабочая партия, РСДРП) was held between March 13–March 15 (March 1–March 3, O.S.) 1898 in Minsk, Russian Empire (now Belarus) in secrecy.

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.

Aufbau principle

The order in which these orbitals are filled is given by the n + ℓ rule (also known as the Madelung rule (after Erwin Madelung), or the Klechkowski rule (after Vsevolod Klechkovsky in some, mostly French and Russian-speaking, countries), or the diagonal rule.

Canadian Newcomer Magazine

Although the magazine’s philosophy has always been to offer information in the languages of the marketplace in Canada, their website also offers multilingual editions (available in .pdf format) in Arabic, Urdu, Persian, Tagalog, Portuguese, Spanish, Chinese, Punjabi, Russian and Korean.

Caran d'Ache

"Caran d'Ache" comes from the Russian word karandash (карандаш), meaning pencil (of Turkic origin; "karadash" meaning black stone — used for writing on a "karatash" meaning black slate).

Carl Andreas Koefoed

Carl Andreas Koefoed (in Danish, Андрей Андреевич Кофод or Карл Андреас Кофод in Russian) (16 October 1855, Skanderborg – 7 February 1948) was a specialist on agrarian problems and ethnographer.

Czesław Piątas

He is interested in military history and tennis; speaks fluently Polish, Russian and English.

Demographics of the United Arab Emirates

Other languages spoken in the UAE, due to immigration, include Urdu, Hindi, Persian, Pashto, Malayalam, Bengali, Punjabi, Tamil, Balochi, Russian, Somali language, Tagalog, Nepali and Mandarin Chinese.

Erdenechimeg Luvsannorov

Dr. Erdenechimeg has written 15 musicological and ethno-musicological books in Mongolian, several of which are also published in Chinese, Russian and English.

Genri Koptev-Gomolov

Genri Nikolaevich Koptev-Gomolov (Russian: Генри Николаевич Коптев-Gomolov; was born 4 June 1926 in the town of Balashikha in the Moscow Oblast.

Gyula Szepesy

He studied not only spoken languages such as German, Finnish, Swedish, Russian but classical languages Latin and Old Greek, too.

Igor Sysoev

Igor Sysoev (Russian: Игорь Сысоев) is the creator and developer of the nginx Web server and founder of NGINX, Inc..

Iraj Bashiri

Fluent in English, Persian/Tajik and several Turkic languages, Bashiri has been able to study and translate works otherwise inaccessible to the mostly Russian-speaking Central Asian studies community.

Ivan Agayants

Ivan Ivanovich Agayants (ru: Иван Иванович Агаянц) (28 August 1911 – 12 May 1968) was a leading Soviet NKVD/KGB intelligence officer of Armenian origin.

Iziaslav II of Kiev

Iziaslav II Mstislavich (Изяслав II Мстиславич in Russian; c. 1097 – 13 November 1154), Prince of Pereyaslav (1132), Prince of Turov (1132–1134), Prince of Rostov (1134– ), Prince of Vladimir and Volyn (1134–1142), Pereyaslavl (1143–1145), Velikiy Kniaz (Grand Prince) of Kiev (1146–1149 and 1151–1154), was the oldest son of Mstislav Vladimirovich, Kniaz' (Prince of Novgorod), and Christina Ingesdotter of Sweden.

Jonas Kubilius

During the Khrushchev Thaw in the middle 1950's there were attempts to make the university "Lithuanian" by encouraging the use of the Lithuanian language in place of Russian and to revive the Department of Lithuanian Literature.

Konstantin of Murom

Constantine of Murom (Russian: Святой Блаженный Князь Константин) (? - 1129) was a direct descendant of Vladimir I of Kiev and the son of Prince Svyatoslav of Chernigov.

Leningrad State University named after Pushkin

Pushkin Leningrad State University (Russian: Ленинградский государственный университет имени А.С. Пушкина) is a university in Russia, located in Saint Petersburg.

Lev Artsimovich

Lev Andreevich Artsimovich (Арцимович, Лев Андреевич in Russian; also transliterated Arzimowitsch) (February 25, 1909 (NS) – March 1, 1973) was a Soviet physicist, academician of the Soviet Academy of Sciences (1953), member of the Presidium of the Soviet Academy of Sciences (since 1957), and Hero of Socialist Labor (1969).

Luboš Blaha

"Back to Marx?" is currently translated into English and there are some plans to translate the book into Russian.

Mark Perakh

His website also has a section on Russian oral jokes (anekdoty) and short stories he has written in English and Russian.

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 Nikolayevich Zadornov

He supports the revisionist fringe theory that Russian language descends from the Vedas and Etruria, put forward by philologist Valery Chudinov.

Moog Droog

"Moog Droog" is an ironic anglicised spelling of the Welsh phrase mwg drwg ("bad smoke"), slang for marijuana, making a pun on the Moog synthesizer (and/or its inventor) and the slang word "droog" (based on the Russian for "friend") from A Clockwork Orange.

Murder on the Leviathan

Murder on the Leviathan (Russian: Левиафан ("Leviathan"); British edition titled Leviathan) is the third novel in the Erast Fandorin historical detective series by Boris Akunin, although it was the second book in the series to be translated into English.

Myrzakan Subanov

Myrzakan Usurkanovich Subanov (Kyrgyz and Russian: Мырзакан Усурканович Субанов; born 15 October 1944) is a Soviet and Kyrgyzstani military leader who served as post-Soviet Kyrgyzstan's chairman of the State Defense Committee in 1992-1993 and first Minister of Defense in 1993-1999.

North Ossetia–Alania

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

Pinus sibirica

The Russian name Сибирский кедр (tr. Sibirsky kedr) is often mis-translated in English as "Siberian cedar"; references to "cedar" in texts translated from Russian usually refer to this tree or related pines, not to cedars.

Pitirim Sorokin

Pitirim Alexandrovich Sorokin (Russian Питири́м Алекса́ндрович Соро́кин; January 21, 1889, Turja north of Syktyvkar, Yarensk uyezd, Vologda Governorate (now Knyazhpogostsky District, Komi), Russian Empire – February 11, 1968, Winchester, Massachusetts) was a Russian American sociologist born in modern-day Komi (Finno-Ugric region of Russia).

Polkan

Polkan or Palkan (Russian: Полка́н or Палкан, from the Italian Pulicane) is a half-human, half-horse (in some variants, half-dog) creature from Russian folktales which possesses enormous power and speed.

Radio Bulgaria

In 2004, Radio Bulgaria broadcasts to Europe, Asia, Africa, North and South America on short and medium wave in Bulgarian, English, French, German, Spanish, Russian, Serbian, Greek, Albanian and Turkish.

Riyad-us Saliheen Brigade of Martyrs

Riyad-us Saliheen (Russian: Риядус-Салихийн, also transliterated as Riyadus-Salikhin, Riyad us-Saliheyn or Riyad us-Salihiin) is the name of a small "martyr" (shahid) force of Islamic suicide attackers.

Rolando Alarcón

He then formed a duo together with Silvia Urbina for a short while, with whom he also recorded a couple of songs in Russian, but in 1965 he started his career as a soloist.

RPO-A Shmel

The RPO-A "Shmel" (Rus. "РПО-А Шмель") ("Bumblebee") is a man-portable rocket launcher although it is classified as a flamethrower (Rus. Реактивный Пехотный Огнемет) by the manufacturer, KBP, Tula.

Saint Petersburg International Film Festival

Saint Petersburg International Film Festival (Russian: Са́нкт-Петербу́ргский междунаро́дный кинофестива́ль, translit. Sánkt-Peterbúrgskiy mezhdunaródniy kinofestivál; abbreviated as SPIFF) will take place as part of the Saint Petersburg international film forum.

Top Model po-russki

Top Model po-russki (rus. Топ-модель по-русски — Russia's Next Top Model) is a Russian reality documentary, and the second Russian adaptation of Tyra Banks', America's Next Top Model after You are a Supermodel which aired from 2004 to 2007, and had four cycles.

Ukrainian Figure Skating Championships

The Russian language predominates in figure skating in Ukraine, although Ukrainian is the native language of about 67% of the general population.

Union for the Struggle for the Liberation of the Peoples of Russia

The Union for the Struggle for the Liberation of the Peoples of Russia (In Russian: Soyuz' Bor'bi za Osvobozhdeniye Narodov Rossii, Союз Борьбы за Освобождение Народов России, abbreviated as SBONR, СБОНР) was an organization of anti-communist Russians, regardless of ethnic origin, which emerged from the youth organization of the Committee for the Liberation of the Peoples of Russia.

Vadim Knizhnik

Vadim Genrikhovich Knizhnik (Russian: Вади́м Ге́нрихович Кни́жник; 20 February 1962, Kiev – 25 December 1987, Moscow) was a Soviet physicist of Jewish and Russian descent.

Vasiliy Kirdyapa

Vasiliy Dmitrievich Kirdyapa (Russian: Василий Дмитриевич Кирдяпа) (approximately 1350 – 1403) was the eldest son of Dmitri Konstantinovich of Suzdal and Nizhny Novgorod, a Prince of Suzdal (1364–1382) and Gorodets (1387–1403).

Vladimir IV Rurikovich

Vladimir IV Rurikovich (Владимир Рюрикович in Russian) (1187 – March 3, 1239), Prince of Pereyaslavl (1206–1213), Smolensk (1213–1219) and Grand Prince of Kiev (1223–1235).

Vladimir Pasyoukov

Vladimir Pavlovich Pasyukov (Pasjukov) (Russian:Владимир Павлович Пасюков ) (July, 29th, 1944 - June, 20th, 2011) was a Russian opera, folk and church singer who possessed a very powerful, extremely rare low-ranging basso profondo (Oktavist) voice, one of the lowest voices in the world.