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1913 In Russia
Events from the year 1913 in Russia Incumbents * Monarch – Nicholas II * Chairman of the Council of Ministers – Vladimir Nikolayevich Kokovtsov Events * * * * * * * 300th anniversary of the Romanov dynasty * Brusilov Expedition * Baymak * Benliahmet Railway Station * Bilozerske * Cuvânt Moldovenesc (magazine) * DLT (department store) * Glasul Basarabiei * Hotel Polonia Palace * Insignia of Saint Olga * Ismailiyya building * Kharkiv Choral Synagogue * Kiev Conservatory * Kronstadt Naval Cathedral * Mykolayiv Regional Museum of Local History * Qazaq * Regional Museum of local lore of Mykolaiv * Saint Petersburg Mosque * Sarıkamış railway station * Selim railway station * Shakhmaty v SSSR * Sochi railway station * Soğanlı Railway Station * Spaso House * Tallinn Power Plant * Di Tsayt (Saint Petersburg) * Vilnis * Vinnytsia Tramway Births * Deaths * * April 24 – Vsevolod Abramovich, aviator (b. 1890) * May 6 – Elena Guro, painter and write ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Russia
Russia (, , ), or the Russian Federation, is a List of transcontinental countries, transcontinental country spanning Eastern Europe and North Asia, Northern Asia. It is the List of countries and dependencies by area, largest country in the world, with its internationally recognised territory covering , and encompassing one-eighth of Earth's inhabitable landmass. Russia extends across Time in Russia, eleven time zones and shares Borders of Russia, land boundaries with fourteen countries, more than List of countries and territories by land borders, any other country but China. It is the List of countries and dependencies by population, world's ninth-most populous country and List of European countries by population, Europe's most populous country, with a population of 146 million people. The country's capital and List of cities and towns in Russia by population, largest city is Moscow, the List of European cities by population within city limits, largest city entirely within E ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Kiev Conservatory
Pyotr Tchaikovsky National Music Academy of Ukraine ( uk, Національна музична академія України імені Петра Чайковського) or Kyiv Conservatory is a Ukrainian state institution of higher music education. Its courses include postgraduate education. Located in Kyiv, Ukraine. History The Kyiv Conservatory was founded on 3 November 1913 at the Kyiv campus of the Music College of the Russian Musical Society. The organization of the conservatory was spearheaded by Sergei Rachmaninoff and Alexander Glazunov. The first directors were V. Pukhalsky (1913) and Reinhold Glière (1914–1920). In 1925, the junior classes were separated from the conservatory to form a Music College, while the senior classes were merged into the formerly private Music and Drama Institute of Mykola Lysenko (today the Kyiv National I. K. Karpenko-Kary Theatre, Cinema and Television University). Viktor Kosenko taught at both institutions. The conservatory was re ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Di Tsayt (Saint Petersburg)
''Di Tsayt'' ( yi, די צײט, 'The Time') was a Yiddish language weekly newspaper published from Saint Petersburg, Russia. It was an organ of the General Jewish Labour Bund. Whilst the editorial team of ''Di Tsayt'' was based in the Austrian capital of Vienna, officially Saint Petersburg was the site of publishing for the journal.Brenner, Michael. In Search of Jewish Community: Jewish Identities in Germany and Austria, 1918-1933'. Bloomington .a. Indiana University Press, 1998. p. 117 Prominent editors included Esther Frumkin, Raphael Abramovitch, Vladimir Medem, Henryk Ehrlich, Moisei Rafes and D. Zaslavsky. The founding of ''Di Tsayt'' ended a four and half year absence of a legal Bundist press, a void created by the banning of ''Folkstsaytung'' in 1907. Saint Petersburg had been selected by the Bund Central Committee over Warsaw for the publishing of ''Di Tsayt'', as the Saint Petersburg press censors were perceived as less strict than their Warsaw colleagues. The launchin ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Tallinn Power Plant
The Tallinn Power Plant ( et, Tallinna elektrijaam) is a former power plant located in Tallinn, Estonia. Construction of the power plant was initiated by Volta company and it was decided by the Tallinn City Council in 1912 after the work of special committee established in 1909. The plant was located next to the Tallinn Gas Factory at the location of the former Stuart fortress. The plant was designed by Volta and the architect was Hans Schmidt. Originally it used three Laval-type steam turbines and three electric generators—all produced by Volta. Two coal-fired boilers were manufactured by AS Franz Krull. The power plant was opened on 24 March 1913, and originally it was fired by coal. In 1919–1920 the plant was expanded and transferred to peat and wood. In 1924 the power plant was switched to oil shale. It was the first power plant in the world to employ oil shale as its primary fuel. In 1939, the plant achieved capacity of 22 MW. In 1929, a ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Spaso House
Spaso House is a listed Neoclassical Revival building at No. 10 Spasopeskovskaya Square in Moscow. It was originally built in 1913 as the mansion of the textile industrialist Nikolay Vtorov. Since 1933, it has been the residence of the U.S. Ambassador to the Soviet Union, and since 1991, to the Russian Federation. The building belonged to the USSR and later Russia and, under the 1985 lease contract, the U.S. was supposed to pay 72,500 Soviet roubles per year, which by 2001 was the equivalent of about $3, which the U.S. had failed to pay in 1993. In 2004, the two sides concluded a new 49-year lease that was said to be based on a joint assessment of the property's value; the rent rate was not disclosed. History Early history Spaso House takes its name from Spasopeskovskaya Square, in the Arbat District. "Spasopeskovskaya" meant "Saviour on the Sands", referring to the sandy soil of the neighborhood, which was first settled in the seventeenth century. Most of the original ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Soğanlı Railway Station
Soğanlı may refer to the following places in Turkey: * Soğanlı, Ardanuç * Soğanlı, Burdur Soğanlı is a village in the Burdur District of Burdur Province Burdur Province ( tr, ) is a province of Turkey, located in the southwest and bordering Muğla and Antalya to the south, Denizli to the west, Afyon to the north, and Isparta to ... * Soğanlı, Kovancılar * Soğanlı, Sason * Soğanlı, Sur * Soğanlı railway station * Soğanlı Valley {{geodis ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Sochi Railway Station
Sochi railway station (russian: Сочи) ( ka, სოჭა) is the largest of the four railway stations in Sochi, and one of the largest railway stations in Krasnodar Krai. It is part of North Caucasus Railway and located in the Tsentralny City District of Sochi. It was renovated for the 2014 Winter Olympics, alongside Sochi's three other railway stations: Dagomys, Matsesta and Khosta. History The place for the construction of the railway terminal was defined in 1913, at the fairgrounds (now the Railway Station Square) in front of the city cemetery (now Zavokzalny memorial complex).Отрадная новость'', Сочинский листок №92, 21 марта 1913 г. The present, much larger building of the railway station was designed by Alexey Dushkin. Its construction was started on 13 September 1950 and completed on 10 September 1952, and the luggage section was added in 1956. In the 1950s Sochi played an important role in the Soviet Unions, being a major trans ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Shakhmaty V SSSR
''Shakhmaty v SSSR'' (russian: Шахматы в СССР; ''Chess in the USSR'') was a Soviet chess magazine published between 1931 and 1991. It was edited by Viacheslav Ragozin for several years. Yuri Averbakh was also an editor. From 1921 or 1925 through 1930 it was titled ''Shakhmatny Listok'' (''Chess Papers'') and edited by Alexander Ilyin-Genevsky Alexander Fyodorovich Ilyin (russian: Алекса́ндр Фёдорович Ильи́н-Жене́вский; November 28, 1894 – September 3, 1941), known with the party name Zhenevsky, "the Genevan" because he joined the Bolshevik group of .... The circulation was 55,000.Edward Brace, ''An Illustrated Dictionary of Chess'', 1977, The magazine was published by the USSR Chess Federation. Notes External links WorldCat 1913 establishments in the Russian Empire 1991 disestablishments in the Soviet Union Chess in the Soviet Union Chess periodicals Magazines established in 1913 Magazines disestablished in 1991 Mag ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Selim Railway Station
Selim station ( tr, Selim garı) is a railway station in the town of Selim, Turkey. The station is served by the Eastern Express, operated by the Turkish State Railways from İstanbul ) , postal_code_type = Postal code , postal_code = 34000 to 34990 , area_code = +90 212 (European side) +90 216 (Asian side) , registration_plate = 34 , blank_name_sec2 = GeoTLD , blank_in ... to Kars. - Eastern Express timetable, August 20, 2010 References Railway stations in Kars Province Railway stations opened in 1913[...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Sarıkamış Railway Station
Sarıkamış station is a railway station in the town of Sarıkamış, Turkey. The station is serviced by the Eastern Express, operated by the Turkish State Railways, running between Istanbul and Kars. - Eastern Express timetable, August 20, 2010 The station was built in 1913 with tracks by the Russian Empire. The tracks were converted into standard gauge
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Saint Petersburg Mosque
The Saint Petersburg Mosque (russian: Санкт-Петербу́ргская мече́ть), when opened in 1913, was the largest mosque in Europe outside Turkey, its minarets 49 meters in height and the dome is 39 meters high. The mosque is situated in downtown St Petersburg. It can accommodate up to five thousand worshippers. The founding stone was laid in 1910 to commemorate the 25th anniversary of the reign of Abdul Ahat Khan in Bukhara. By that time, the Muslim community of the Russian then-capital exceeded 8,000 people. The projected structure was capable of accommodating most of them. The architect Nikolai Vasilyev patterned the mosque after Gur-e-Amir, the tomb of Tamerlane in Samarkand. Its construction was completed by 1921. Worshippers are separated by gender during a worship service; females worship on the upper floor, while the males worship on the ground floor. The Mosque was closed to worshippers from 1940 to 1956. History In 1882, Selim-Giray Tevkelev who in ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Regional Museum Of Local Lore Of Mykolaiv
Mykolayiv Regional Museum of Local History ''“Staroflotski Barracks”'' is one of the oldest museums in Ukraine. It was established on 15 (28) December 1913. Museum history The museum's history begins in 1803 in Mykolaiv. One of the founders of the museum was Admiral de Traverse. For more than 40 years the museum had collected valuable works of the craftsmen from the whole region. Eyewitnesses who visited museum in the early 19th century proved that museum, accept the ancient archaeological sites, has contained minerals, shells, stuffed animals, ethnographic exhibits. Also there were maps, plans of cities, buildings and ship models. The collection was traditional for that time – here the natural artifacts were located near the ancient. In 30 years of 19th century the objects from the museum were transmitted to Odessa, Kherson and Kerch, and only a small part of the exhibits remained in Mykolaiv Region. In February 1912, the descendants of Emmanuel Frantsov who die ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
