Grakhovsky District
Grakhovsky District (russian: Гра́ховский райо́н; udm, Грах ёрос, ''Grah joros'') is an administrativeConstitution of the Udmurt Republic and municipalLaw #85-RZ district (raion), one of the twenty-five in the Udmurt Republic, Russia. It is located in the southwest of the republic. The area of the district is . Its administrative center is the rural locality (a '' selo'') of Grakhovo.Law #46-RZ Population: 10,879 ( 2002 Census); The population of Grakhovo accounts for 34.7% of the district's total population. Geographic information The district is bordered by Kiznersky District of Udmurtia in the West, Mozhginsky District of Udmurtia in the North, Alnashsky District in the East and the Republic of Tatarstan in the South. An eastern part of the district is located in the Mozhga Hills and a western part of the district is located in the Umyak River's valley. On territory of the district there are rivers: Umyak, Bolshoy Syryan, Yaga, Adamka, Kuzebayka, ...
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Udmurt Republic
Udmurtia (russian: Удму́ртия, r=Udmúrtiya, p=ʊˈdmurtʲɪjə; udm, Удмуртия, ''Udmurtija''), or the Udmurt Republic (russian: Удмуртская Республика, udm, Удмурт Республика, Удмурт Элькун, ''Udmurt Respublika'', ''Udmurt Eľkun''), is a federal subject of Russia (a republic) in Eastern Europe, within the Volga Federal District. Its capital is the city of Izhevsk. Name The name ''Udmurt'' comes from ('meadow people'), where the first part represents the Permic root or ('meadow, glade, turf, greenery'). This is supported by a document dated 1557, in which the Udmurts are referred to as ('meadow people'), alongside the traditional Russian name . The second part means 'person' (cf. Komi , Mari ). It is probably an early borrowing from a Scythian language: or ('person, man'; cf. Urdu ), which is thought to have been borrowed from the Indo-Aryan term ('man, mortal, one who is bound to die'. cf. Old Indic ...
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Mozhga Hills
Mozhga (russian: Можга́; udm, Можга, ''Možga'') is a town in the Udmurt Republic, Russia, located at the confluence of the Syuga and Syugailka Rivers, southwest of Izhevsk, the capital of the republic. Population: History It was founded in 1835 as a settlement around Syuginsky glass works. The works was built by the merchant Fyodor Chernov from Yelabuga and became known for the production of technical glass, jugs, and animal figurines. In 1916, Syuginskaya railway station was built near the factory settlement. After the October Revolution of 1917, it was renamed Sovetsky (), and later Krasny (). It was granted town status and given its present name in 1926. Administrative and municipal status Within the framework of administrative divisions, Mozhga serves as the administrative center of Mozhginsky District, even though it is not a part of it.Law #46-RZ As an administrative division, it is incorporated separately as the town of republic significance of Mozhg ...
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Toyma
The Toyma (russian: Тойма; tt-Cyrl, Туйма, ''Tuyma'') is a river in Udmurtia and Tatarstan, Russian Federation, a right-bank tributary of the Kama. It is long, of which are in Tatarstan, and its drainage basin covers .«Река ТОЙМА»
Russian State Water Registry It begins in Udmurtia and falls to the Kama near , Tatarstan. Major tributaries are the Vozzhayka, Yurashka, Karinka rivers. The maximal mineralization 400-600 mg/L. The maximal water discharge was in 1979. Drainage is regulated. Average sediment accumulation at the mouth per year is . Since 1978 it is protected as a ''natural monument of Tatarstan''.

Adamka
Adamka is a village in the administrative district of Gmina Zadzim, within Poddębice County, Łódź Voivodeship, in central Poland. It lies approximately southwest of Zadzim, southwest of Poddębice, and west of the regional capital Łódź Łódź, also rendered in English as Lodz, is a city in central Poland and a former industrial centre. It is the capital of Łódź Voivodeship, and is located approximately south-west of Warsaw. The city's coat of arms is an example of canti .... References Villages in Poddębice County {{Poddębice-geo-stub ...
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Yaga (river)
Yaga may refer to: * Yajna, a Vedic fire ritual * Yaga Gathering, a music festival in Lithuania * Baba Yaga, a supernatural, witch-like being in Slavic mythology * Baba Yaga (''Dungeons & Dragons''), a creature in the fantasy roleplaying game ''Dungeons & Dragons''; patterned on the character from Slavic myth * Geraldine Yaga Grimm, a character in the animated show ''Mysticons'' *A race of cruel, black-skinned, winged humanoids from Robert E. Howard's 1939 planetary romance novel, ''Almuric''. See also * Daksha yajna Dakṣayajña is an important event in Hindu mythology that is narrated in various Hindu scriptures. It refers to a yajna (ritual-sacrifice) organised by Daksha, where his daughter, Sati, immolates herself. The wrath of the god Shiva, Sati's hus ..., a mythological event in which the god Daksha arranges for his daughter Sati to immolate herself * Yaga Station (other) {{disambiguation ...
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Bolshoy Syryan
Bolshoi (, meaning ''big'', ''large'', ''great'', ''grand'', etc.) may refer to: *Bolshoi Theatre, a ballet and opera theatre in Moscow, Russia **Bolshoi Ballet, a ballet company at the Bolshoi Theatre * Bolshoi Theatre, Saint Petersburg, a ballet and opera theatre in St. Petersburg, Russia * The Bolshoi, an English post-punk band * 26793 Bolshoi, a main-belt asteroid * Bolshoi Cosmological Simulation, a NASA simulation of the universe *Bolshoi, a bell in Danilov Monastery, Moscow * Command Bolshoi, Japanese professional wrestler See also * Alisher Navoi State Academic Bolshoi Theatre, Uzbekistan *Bolshoi Drama Theatre Tovstonogov Bolshoi Drama Theater (russian: Большой драматический театр имени Г. А. Товстоногова; literally ''Tovstonogov Great Drama Theater''), formerly known as Gorky Bolshoi Drama Theater (russian: ...