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72 unusual facts about russia


2013 FINA Men's Water Polo World League

The Super Final will be held from 11-16 June 2013 in Chelyabinsk, Russia.

Alexander Kasyanov

Aleksandr Aleksandrovich Kasyanov (Александр Александрович Касьянов; 17 August 1891 - Gorki 13 February 1982) was a Soviet Russian composer, conductor, pianist and professor.

Artyomovsk

Artyomovsk Urban Settlement, a municipal formation which the district town of Artyomovsk in Kuraginsky District of Krasnoyarsk Krai is incorporated as

Ayon

Ayon, Russia, a rural locality (a selo) in Chaunsky District of Chukotka Autonomous Okrug, Russia

Bely

Bely, Russia (Belaya, Beloye), name of several inhabited localities in Russia

Berezovsky v Michaels

Berezovsky v Michaels is an English libel decision in which the House of Lords allowed Boris Berezovsky and Nikolai Glushkov to sue Forbes for libel in UK courts, despite the allegedly libelous material relating to their activities in Russia.

Beyond Gay: The Politics of Pride

Over the course of a year, film follows Vancouver Pride Society president Ken Coolen to various international Pride events, including Poland, Hungary, Russia, Sri Lanka and others where there is great opposition to pride parades.

Borsky District

Borsky District is the name of several administrative and municipal districts in Russia.

Catharine, Kansas

A group of Volga German immigrants founded and settled Catharine in April 1876, naming it after Katharinestadt, the town they came from in Russia.

Chelski

Chelsea F.C., called Chelski in the British media, a reference to Russian owner Roman Abramovich.

Chernigovsky Skit

The Chernigovsky skete in Sergiev Posad, Russia is a monastery standing unique in central Russia for hand-dug monk cells and prayer caves.

Clanton Park, Toronto

The neighbourhood is one of the largest Jewish areas of the city, but also contains a large number of residents of Italian, Filipino, and Russian origin.

Coal-water slurry fuel

CWS produced by milling the sludge and/or regular coal near the coal mine near Belovo (Siberia, Russia) was transported through the pipeline to Novosibirsk (Siberia, Russia), a distance of 262 km.

Communist Party of the Russian Federation

On 7 April 2011, the CPRF candidate Ilya Potapov won the mayoral election in the town of Berdsk with a landslide victory over the United Russia candidate.

Conquest of the Khanate of Sibir

In 1594 Tara was built on the middle Irtysh to guard the caravan route.

Decossackization

The inhabitants of Ermolovskaya, Romanovskaya, Samachinskaya and Mikhailovskaya to be driven out of their homes, and the houses and land redistributed among the poor peasants, particularly among the Chechens, who have always shown great respect for Soviet power.

Douglas G. Hurley

More recently he served as the NASA director of operations at the Gagarin Cosmonaut Training Center in Star City, Russia.

Dzerzhinsky District

Dzerzhinsky District, Russia, name of several districts and city districts in Russia

Foton-M

It is produced by TsSKB-Progress in Samara.

Freidun Aghalyan

In 1903-1921 he constructed railroad bridges, gymnasium, the Treasury palace and Workers' House in Baku, and the Armenian church of Armavir, Russia.

Frunzensky District

Frunzensky District, Russia, name of several districts and city districts in Russia

Gepard-class frigate

The first unit of the class, Yastreb (Hawk), was laid down at the Zelenodol'sk Zavod shipyard at Tatarstan in 1991.

Icebreaker

Pilot was used between 1864-1890 for navigation in the Gulf of Finland between Kronstadt and Oranienbaum thus extending the summer navigation season by several weeks.

Invasions of Afghanistan

Afghanistan is a mountainous country in South Asia surrounded by several more powerful countries including Iran, Pakistan, China, and other "-stan" countries near Russia.

Kalininsky District

Kalininsky District, Russia, name of several districts and city districts in Russia

Kemsky

Kemskoye Urban Settlement, a municipal formation which the town of Kem and three rural localities in Kemsky District of the Republic of Karelia, Russia are incorporated as

Kharkhul

The string of victories emboldened Khara Khula to take control of the salt mines near the Russian outpost at Tara in 1610 and demand a fee in exchange for the salt from the neighboring Cossacks and Siberian nomads.

Konchalovsky

Konchalovsky is a Russian surname.

Korovin pistol

Sergey Korovin designed the first 7.65 mm calibre military pistol around 1922, while working at the famous Tula arms factory TOZ.

Krasno

Krasno, Russia, a village (selo) in Nizhny Novgorod Oblast, Russia

Krasnoarmeysky District

Krasnoarmeysky District, Russia, name of several districts and city districts in Russia

Kuchum

In 1594 the fort at Tara was built in part to control Kuchum who was in the area.

Lagansky

Laganskoye Urban Settlement, a municipal formation which the Town of Lagan in Lagansky District of the Republic of Kalmykia, Russia is incorporated as

Lavrenty Zagoskin

Even though Nikolayevka was not near the ocean, Zagoskin would eventually train for the Russian Navy and served as a naval officer in the Baltic and Caspian seas.

Leningrad–Novgorod Offensive

The retreat would be carried out in stages, using intermediate defensive positions, the most important of which was the Rollbahn Line formed on the October Railway running through Tosno, Lyuban and Chudovo.

Monument to Chocolate

The Monument to Chocolate or Chocolate Fairy is a monument in the City of Pokrov, Vladimir Region, Russia.

Mordehai Dubin

He lived under arrest and exile in Siberia, first in Samara, and later in Tula, where he died in 1956 in a labor camp and is buried.

Nicholas Engalitcheff

Prince Nicholas Engalitcheff (ru: Николай Енгалычев, 1874–1935) was member of Russian nobility and later the Imperial Russian Vice Consul to Chicago during the early 1900s.

Novosyolovsky

Novosyolovskoye, a village under the administrative jurisdiction of the urban-type settlement of Ponazyrevo, Kostroma Oblast

O. F. Snelling

In 1965, Snelling went to Russia to meet Lonsdale again and negotiated the writing and publication of his memoirs, Spy (1965).

Oranienbaum

Lomonosov (aka Oranienbaum-Lomonosov), the former name of the adjacent town

Ordzhonikidzevsky District

Ordzhonikidzevsky District, Russia, name of several districts and city districts in Russia

Party of the Dictatorship of the Proletariat

The Party of the Dictatorship of the Proletariat (Partiya Diktaturi Proletariata) is a communist political party in Russia.

Ralph Winston Fox

In the summer following graduation, Fox returned to Soviet Russia, this time as a worker with the Friends Relief Mission in Samara.

Razdolny

Razdolny, Russia (Razdolnaya, Razdolnoye), name of several rural localities in Russia

Ready for Labour and Defence of the USSR

The main principles of the programme were tested on a large scale in Severodonetsk and Salavat.

Resurs-P No.1

The Resurs-P spacecraft was built by the Russian space company TsSKB Progress in Samara, Russia.

Rudnichny

Rudnichny, Russia (Rudnichnaya, Rudnichnoye), name of several inhabited localities in Russia

Russia-Qing Convention

The treaty granted Russia the lease of Port Arthur (Lushun) and permitted its railway to extend to the port (later South Manchurian Railway) from one of the points of the Chinese Eastern Railway (CER).

Sagra

Sagra, Russia, a rural locality (a settlement) in Sverdlovsk Oblast, Russia

Sampur

Sampur, Russia, a rural locality (a selo) in Tambov Oblast, Russia

Second Battle of Kharkov

On 17 May, supported by Fliegerkorps VI, the initiative was successfully taken by the Germans, as Kleist's 3rd Panzer Corps and 44th Army Corps began a counterattack on the Barvenkovo bridgehead from the area of Aleksandrovka in the south.

Sergej Ognew

Sergej Ivanovich Ognew (1886–1951) was a Russian zoologist and naturalist, remembered for his work on mammalogy.

Sfatul Țării

The Congress of the German Colonists in Bessarabia took place on March 7, 1919 in Tarutino.

Shamkhal

Shamkhal, Russia, an urban-type settlement in the Republic of Dagestan, Russia

Sokolov

Sokolov, Russia (or Sokolova), several rural localities in Russia

The Saratov Approach

The movie is about the 1998 kidnapping of the two Mormon missionaries, Andrew Lee Propst and Travis Robert Tuttle in Saratov, Russia.

Tokarevka

Tokarevka, Russia (Tokaryovka), name of several inhabited localities in Russia

Ulchsky District

A number of interesting Yuan and Ming Dynasty archaeological monuments have been found on the Tyr Cliff near the village of Tyr in this district.

Unezhma

Unezhma, Maloshuyka, Onezhsky District, Arkhangelsk Oblast, a village under the administrative jurisdiction of Maloshuyka Urban-Type Settlement with Jurisdictional Territory

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.

Vargashi

Vargashi (rural locality), a selo in Vargashinsky Selsoviet of Vargashinsky District

Vasilko Konstantinovich

Vasilko Konstantinovich (7 December 1209, Rostov – 4 March 1238, Sherensky forest) was the first Prince of Rostov, Russia.

Vilovo

Vilovo, Russia, a rural locality (a village) in Tver Oblast, Russia

Vladimir Tikhonov

As a leading member of the Communist Party Tikhonov rose to the position of Chairman of the Central Committee, as well as becoming the governor of Ivanovo.

Volodarsky District

Volodarsky District, Russia, name of several districts and city districts in Russia

Volovsky District

Volovsky District is the name of several administrative and municipal districts in Russia.

Yongning Temple Stele

He sailed down the Sungari River and into the Amur River, reaching a place the Chinese called Telin 特林 (modern Tyr) where he stayed for almost a year.

Yubileyny

Yubileyny, Russia (Yubileynaya, Yubileynoye), name of several inhabited localities in Russia

Yuri Sipko

Sipko was born on 28 February 1952 in the town of Tara in the Omsk Oblast.

ZiU-5

The group of city electric transport enthusiasts from many cities in Russia, with guests from Estonia and United States, hired the Nizhny Novgorod Museum ZiU-5 for their meeting in 2004 (see photo above).

Zvyozdny gorodok

Star City, Russia, a military research and space training facility in that urban-type settlement


Alexander Bourganov

His recent works include a monument to Alexander Pushkin located at George Washington University in Washington DC (2000); a statue of John Quincy Adams, the first U.S. Ambassador to Russia and later President of the United States, located in front of the U.S. Embassy in Moscow (2008); and a statue of poet Walt Whitman located on the campus of Moscow State University (2009).

Andrei Nikolishin

His father, Vasyl Nikolishin, was a victim of Joseph Stalin's Great Purge, and was exiled from Ukraine to a Gulag forced labor coal mine in Vorkuta, the largest center of the camps in European Russia, for a period of 25 years.

Andrei Shleifer

During the early 1990s, Andrei Shleifer was an advisor to Anatoly Chubais, the then vice-premier of Russia, handling the portfolio of Rosimushchestvo (the Committee for the Management of State Property), and was one of the engineers of Russian privatization.

Beloyarsky

Beloyarsky Urban Settlement, a municipal formation in Beloyarsky Municipal District which the town of okrug significance of Beloyarsky in Khanty-Mansi Autonomous Okrug, Russia is incorporated as

CEES

Common European Economic Space or Common Economic Space (CES), one of four projected spheres of cooperation between the European Union and Russia

Coastal Monastery of St. Sergius

Some of the noblest and richest families of Imperial Russia, including the Galitzines, the Stroganovs and the Yusupovs, patronised the monastery and had their burial vaults on the grounds.

Daria Dmitrieva

The head coach of Russia, President of the Russian Federation of Rhythmic Gymnastics, Irina Viner said the question of participation in the Olympics remained open and would be resolved only after the June Grand Prix in Austria and the World Cup in Belarus in July.

Elvir Rahimić

Before the start of a unified league of FSBIH and Croat League, Rahimić moved to Slovenia for Interblock Ljubljana, then Austrian side SK Vorwärts Steyr before he moved to Russia.

Emma Harbor

a bay in Chukotka, Russia, now Komsomolskaya Bay, a branch of Provideniya Bay, see Providence Bay, Siberia,

Ernesto Cortázar II

Ernesto traveled to more than 25 countries and performed his original compositions for political figures such as President of Argentina Carlos Menem, Nikita Khrushchev leader of the USSR and entertained at various prestigious venues including The Kremlin (Russia) and The Mexican Presidential House.

Guandong

Kwantung Leased Territory, a small section of the above region controlled by Russia and, then, Japan from 1898 to 1945

International Radio of Serbia

In November, 1941, during the occupation of Belgrade in the Second World War, a Free Yugoslavia radio station started its work and it broadcast its program until 1945, from the city of Ufa on the Ural River (Russia).

Intervision Song Contest

In 2009 Russian Prime Minister Vladimir Putin proposed restart of competition but this time between Russia, China and Central Asian countries which are mostly members of Shanghai Cooperation Organisation.

Jan Breydel

Kuzma Minin, the Russian leader of a popular militia that drove the Poles out of Russia at the end of the Time of Troubles in 1612, also happened to be a butcher.

Javad Khan

And the other thing that when we get under the rule of the Russian king, the Iranian king were to Khorasan and we could not reach him, and due to that fact the king of Russia is also great, we accepted his obedience, but now, thanks to god, the Iranian king is near and his servant general has come to us and also his army, and more of them will come to help us.

Kryukovo

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

La Belle Alliance

Blücher, the Prussian commander, suggested that the battle should be remembered as la Belle Alliance, to commemorate the European Seventh Coalition of Britain, Russia, Prussia, the Netherlands, Sweden, Austria, Spain, Portugal, Sardinia, and a number of German States which had all joined the coalition to defeat the French Emperor.

Margarita Starkevičiūtė

Margarita Starkevičiūtė (born March 15, 1956 in Yeniseysk, Russia) is a Lithuanian politician and Member of the European Parliament (2004-2009) for the Liberal and Centre Union; part of the Alliance of Liberals and Democrats for Europe.

Martti Välikangas

After qualifying Välikangas worked in Yuzovka in Russia (present-day Donetsk in the Ukraine), but had to leave in a hurry with the onset of the Bolshevik Revolution.

Meany Hall for the Performing Arts

Meany himself wanted the building to be named Seward Hall, after William H. Seward, the man who bought Alaska from Russia.

Mieczysław Weinberg

Besides the admiration which Shostakovich frequently expressed for Weinberg's works, they were taken up by some of Russia's foremost performers and conductors, including Emil Gilels, Leonid Kogan, Kirill Kondrashin, Mstislav Rostropovich, Kurt Sanderling, and Thomas Sanderling.

Naum Senyavin

Currently it is an urban-type settlement in Kirovsky District of Leningrad Oblast, Russia.

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.

Norway in 1814

He learned that Prussia and Austria were waning in their support of Sweden's claims to Norway, that Tsar Alexander I of Russia (a distant cousin of Christian Frederik's) favored a Swedish-Norwegian union but not with Bernadotte as the king, and that the United Kingdom was looking for a solution to the problem that would keep Norway out of Russia's influence.

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.

Novoderevensky

Novoderevenskaya, a rural locality (a village) in Okunevsky Rural Okrug of Omutinsky District of Tyumen Oblast, Russia

Novospassky

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

Olga Uvarov

The American Red Cross located the children for him, but such was the cost of getting people out of Russia at that time that he could afford only to pay the costs for one child.

Pascal Mendy

Lithuanian-Russian businessman Vladimir Romanov finances both clubs and a number of Kaunas players have already moved to Hearts in this manner.

Periclase

In addition to its type locality, it is reported from Predazzo, Tyrol, Austria; Carlingford, County Louth, Ireland; Broadford, Skye and the island of Muck, Scotland; León, Spain; the Bellerberg volcano, Eifel district, Germany; Nordmark and Långban, Varmland, Sweden; and Kopeysk, southern Ural Mountains, Russia.

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).

Pontic Greek

Pontic is still spoken by large numbers of people in Ukraine: mainly Mariupol, but also other places in Ukraine such as Odessa and Donetsk, Russia (around Stavropol) and Georgia.

Pro Moves Soccer

Fictional players player for each team (nations range from Argentina to Jamaica and Russia).

Project 119

This marked the first time since the 1936 Summer Olympics that neither the United States, nor the Soviet Union/Russia, had won the most gold medals at a Summer Olympics.

Rise of nationalism in Europe

The Polish attempts to win independence from Russia had previously proved to be unsuccessful, with Poland being the only country in Europe whose autonomy was gradually limited rather than expanded throughout the 19th century, as a punishment for the failed uprisings; in 1831 Poland lost its status as a formally independent state and was merged into Russia as a real union country and in 1867 she became nothing more than just another Russian province.

Samarsky

Samara Oblast (Samarskaya oblast), a federal subject of Russia

Serafima Meletieva

Some documents of a personal nature, and books are available in the archives of the Abbess' Christian Russia in Seriate, Italy.

Shuvalov

Igor Shuvalov (born 1967) - First Deputy Prime Minister of Russia

Skafferhullet

The border crossing site was located on the old road between Elvenes in Sør-Varanger Municipality, Finnmark county, Norway and Borisoglebsky in Murmansk Oblast, Russia.

Sophia Alekseyevna of Russia

She was fictionally portrayed in Chinese novelist Jin Yong's novel The Deer and the Cauldron in which the young protagonist Wei Xiaobao went to Russia and helped her lead the coup against her half-brother Peter I.

Spotted wolffish

The bottom-dwelling spotted wolffish is found across the North Atlantic from north of Russia to the Scotian Shelf, off Nova Scotia.

Stratos Boats

Stratos began building boats in 1984, and sells throughout a network of dealers throughout the United States, Australia, France, Japan, Mexico, Portugal, Romania, Russia, South Africa, Spain, Italy and Venezuela.

Tersk

Tersk Stud, a horse breeding farm in Russia owned and operated by the Russian government

Third Partition of Poland

These Polish nationalists participated in uprisings against Austria, Prussia, and Russia in former Polish lands, and many would serve France as part of Napoleon’s armies.

Tolib Shakhidi

The musical pieces of the composer have been performed by such orchestras as Philadelphia & Boston Symphony Orchestra, State Symphonic Orchestra of USSR, Orchestra of Valery Gergiev, Bolshoy Symphonic Orchestra of Russia n.a. Tchaikovsky, Orchestra of Cinematography conducted by Sergei Skripka, Saint Petersburg State Philharmonic Orchestra n.a Dmitri Shostakovich.

Treaty of Küçük Kaynarca

Article XII-The Sublime Porte promises to use its power and influence to assist the Court of Russia when the court has the intention of making any commercial treaty with the regencies of Africa (Tripoli, Tunis, Algiers, etc.).

Twins of Evil Tour

Marilyn Manson continued on their Hey Cruel World... tour at the conclusion of the Twins of Evil tour, playing in Yekaterinburg, Russia, on December 15, 2012 and December 16, 2012.

Vasilisa Davankova

At their second event, in Zagreb, Croatia, they took the bronze and qualified for the JGP Final in Sochi, Russia, where they won the silver medal behind Lina Fedorova / Maxim Miroshkin.

Wasta

Roughly equivalent words in other languages include Sociolismo in Cuba; Blat in Russia; Guanxi in Chinese and Vetternwirtschaft in German, protektzia in Israeli slang; in Brazilian-Portuguese it is called "Pistolão", or in the slang "peixada".

Yanina Batyrchina

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