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Kirpa
Kirpa is a name which is used as a surname and a given name. People with the name include: Given name * Kirpa Ram (1916–1945), Indian military officer * Kirpa Ram Punia, also known as K. R. Punia (born 1936), Indian politician * Kirpa Ram Vij (1935–2022), Singaporean military officer and business executive Surname * Heorhiy Kirpa (1946–2004), Ukrainian statesman and politician * Ivan Kirpa Ivan Kirpa (born March 6, 1978 in Roslavl, Russia) is a Russian welterweight boxer from Saint Petersburg, Russia. He won his first 19 fights, before losing to Bradley Pryce Bradley Pryce (born 15 March 1981) is a Welsh former professional bo ... (born 1978), Russian boxer {{given name, type=both Surnames of Ukrainian origin Indian masculine given names ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Heorhiy Kirpa
Heorhiy Mykolayovych Kirpa ( uk, Георгій Миколайович Кірпа) (20 July 1946 in Klubivka, Khmelnytskyi Oblast – 27 December 2004 in Bortnychi, Kyiv) was a Ukrainian railway manager, statesman and politician, best known as the head of the Ukrzaliznytsia national railway company and Minister of Transportation and Telecommunications under President Leonid Kuchma. Political career In May 2002, Kirpa was appointed Minister of Transport by the then President Leonid Kuchma and on April 23 was awarded an honourable title Hero of Ukraine. In a publicly debated move in 2003, the President placed paramilitary railroad armed forces under the direction of Kirpa. Kirpa was a staunch supporter of Prime Minister Viktor Yanukovych, and the BBC described him as "one of the most influential figures" in Yanukovych's government. Death Heorhiy Kirpa was found shot dead at his holiday home in Bortnychi (the outskirt of Kyiv), on 27 December 2004. The official police rep ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Kirpa Ram
Naik Kirpa Ram (1916 – 12 September 1945) was a posthumous recipient of the George Cross, the highest British (and Commonwealth) medal for gallantry not in the face of the enemy. Born in 1916, Kirpa volunteered to join the Indian Army in 1935. During the Second World War he was a member of 8th Battalion, 13th Frontier Force Rifles. He served in the Burma Campaign and his unit then returned to India. On 12 September 1945, during a field firing exercise at a rest camp at Thondebhavi, Bangalore a rifle grenade misfired and fell only eight yards from Kirpa's section. The 28-year-old soldier rushed forward, shouting at his men to take cover and attempted to throw it to a safe distance. It exploded in his hand, wounding him fatally, but his self-sacrifice meant that only two men of the section were slightly wounded. The posthumous award of the George Cross was announced on 15 March 1946, the citation read: In 2002 Kirpa's GC was among the contents of a trunk stolen from hi ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Kirpa Ram Vij
Kirpa Ram Vij (1935 – 29 October 2022) was an Indian-born Singaporean civil servant, business executive, and brigadier-general. Vij was born in Hazara District in British India (now Pakistan) in 1935 and moved to Singapore after 1947. He graduated from the Raffles Institution in 1956. He later joined the Singapore Volunteer Corps as lieutenant in 1960. Before becoming the Director of General Staff, Vij has served in the civil service and was the Director of the Singapore Command and Staff College. He became a brigadier-general and was head of the SAF between 1970 and 1974. After leaving the SAF, Vij became the Deputy Secretary in the Ministry of National Development between 1974 and 1975, then the Singapore Ambassador to Egypt between 1975 and 1979 and, Head of Training at the Civil Service Institute until 1981. Leaving the civil service, he became the general manager in Neptune Orient Lines Neptune Orient Lines Limited (NOL) was a Singaporean container shipping compan ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Ivan Kirpa
Ivan Kirpa (born March 6, 1978 in Roslavl, Russia) is a Russian welterweight boxer from Saint Petersburg, Russia. He won his first 19 fights, before losing to Bradley Pryce Bradley Pryce (born 15 March 1981) is a Welsh former professional boxer. He held the British Boxing Board of Control, British welterweight title twice, the Commonwealth Boxing Council, Commonwealth middleweight title, and has challenged for the ... on points on May 8, 2003. Kirpa then won his next four fights against Tigran Saribekyan, Alexei Korobka, Sergey Zimnevich and then Jose Leonardo Corona, 32 months after his last bout. External links * 1978 births Living people Sportspeople from Smolensk Russian male boxers Welterweight boxers {{Russia-boxing-bio-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Surnames Of Ukrainian Origin
By the 18th century almost all Ukrainians had family names. Most Ukrainian surnames (and surnames in Slavic languages in general) are formed by adding Possessive suffix, possessive and other Suffix, suffixes to given names, place names, professions and other words. Surnames were developed for official documents or business record keeping to differentiate the parties who might have the same first name. By the 15th century, surnames were used by the upper class, nobles and large land owners. In cities and towns, surnames became necessary in the 15th and 16th centuries. In 1632, Orthodox Metropolitan Peter Mogila, Petro Mohyla ordered priests to include a surname in all records of birth, marriage and death. After the partitions of Poland (1772–1795), Western Ukraine came under the Austrian Empire, where peasants needed surnames for taxation purposes and military service and churches were required to keep records of all births, deaths and marriages. The surnames with the suffix - ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
