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Kstovsky District
Kstovsky District (russian: Ксто́вский райо́н) is an administrative district (raion), one of the forty in Nizhny Novgorod Oblast, Russia.Order #3-od Municipally, it is incorporated as Kstovsky Municipal District.Resolution #670 It is located in the center of the oblast. The area of the district is . Its administrative center is the town of Kstovo. Population: 112,823 ( 2010 Census); The population of Kstovo accounts for 59.1% of the district's total population. Geography Kstovsky District is located along the southern shore of the Volga River. The westernmost part of the district is adjacent to the city of Nizhny Novgorod. It is gradually becoming more suburban, its housing developments and shopping centers closely linked to the life of the city. The east of the district is more rural, with potato, root crops, and grain fields and cattle pastures alternating with forests and dacha areas. History The district was established in 1929 and given its present name in 19 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Dacha
A dacha ( rus, дача, p=ˈdatɕə, a=ru-dacha.ogg) is a seasonal or year-round second home, often located in the exurbs of post-Soviet countries, including Russia. A cottage (, ') or shack serving as a family's main or only home, or an outbuilding, is not considered a dacha, although some dachas recently have been converted to year-round residences and vice versa. The noun "dacha", coming from verb "davat" (''to give''), originally referred to land allotted by the tsar to his nobles; and indeed the dacha in Soviet times is similar to the allotment in some Western countries – a piece of land allotted, normally free, to citizens by the local government for gardening or growing vegetables for personal consumption. With time the name for the land was applied to the building on it. In some cases, owners occupy their dachas for part of the year and rent them to urban residents as summer retreats. People living in dachas are colloquially called ''dachniki'' (); the term usually ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Tatiana Shadrina
Tatiana Shadrina (born 20 April 1974 in Kstovo) is a Russian chess player, and a woman grandmaster. She played in the Women's World Chess Championship 2010, she made it to the second round where she was beaten by Harika Dronavalli. She has played in the Women's European Individual Chess Championship The European Individual Chess Championship is a chess tournament organised by the European Chess Union. It was established in 2000 and has since then taken place on a yearly basis. Apart from determining the European champions (open and women's), ... in 2009 and 2013. External links * * Living people 1974 births Chess Woman Grandmasters Russian female chess players Russian chess players People from Nizhny Novgorod Oblast 21st-century Russian women {{Russia-chess-bio-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Artur Ryabokobylenko
Artur Andreyevich Ryabokobylenko (russian: Артур Андреевич Рябокобыленко; born 5 April 1991) is a Russian professional football player who plays for FC Zorkiy Krasnogorsk. Club career He made his Russian Premier League debut for FC Amkar Perm on 14 April 2012 in a game against FC Krylia Sovetov Samara PFC Krylia Sovetov Samara (russian: Профессиональный футбольный клуб «Крылья Советов» Самара) is a football club from Russia based in Samara. It returned to the Russian Premier League for the 20 .... External links * * References 1991 births Sportspeople from Nizhny Novgorod Oblast Russian people of Ukrainian descent Living people Russian men's footballers Men's association football midfielders FC Amkar Perm players FC Sokol Saratov players PFC Spartak Nalchik players FC Baltika Kaliningrad players FC Tyumen players FC Tosno players FC Fakel Voronezh players FC Zvezda Perm players ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Auchan
Auchan () is a French multinational retail group headquartered in Croix, France. It was founded in 1961 by Gérard Mulliez and is owned by the Mulliez family, who has 95% stake in the company. With 354,851 employees, of which 261,000 have 5% stake in the company, it is the 35th largest employer in the world. The name comes from the first Auchan shop in Roubaix in the district of Hauts-Champs, the pronunciation of which is identical to that of "Auchan". The holding company, Auchan Holding, includes Auchan Retail International, Ceetrus, which operates shopping centers and Oney, which offers financial services. It operates as Alcampo in Spain ("al campo" is the literal Spanish translation of the French "au champ"), Auchan in Portugal, Aшан (''Ashan'') in Russia and Ukraine, and through a joint-venture as RT-Mart in China (Auchan brand is also used) and Taiwan. As of 2022, Auchan is one of the world's largest retailers with a direct presence in France, Spain, Portugal, Luxembo ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
IKEA
IKEA (; ) is a Dutch multinational conglomerate based in the Netherlands that designs and sells , kitchen appliances, decoration, home accessories, and various other goods and home services. Started in 1943 by Ingvar Kamprad, IKEA has been the world's largest furniture retailer since 2008. The brand used by the group is derived from an acronym that consists of the founder's initials, and those of Elmtaryd, the family farm where he was born, and the nearby village Agunnaryd (his hometown in Småland, southern Sweden). The group is primarily known for its modernist designs for various types of appliances and furniture, and its interior design work is often associated with simplicity. In addition, the firm is known for its attention to cost control, operational details, and continuous product development that has allowed IKEA to lower its prices by an average of two to three percent. , there are 422 IKEA stores operating in 50 countries and in fiscal year 2018, €38.8 billion ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Chernobyl Disaster
The Chernobyl disaster was a nuclear accident that occurred on 26 April 1986 at the No. 4 reactor in the Chernobyl Nuclear Power Plant, near the city of Pripyat in the north of the Ukrainian SSR in the Soviet Union. It is one of only two nuclear energy accidents rated at seven—the maximum severity—on the International Nuclear Event Scale, the other being the 2011 Fukushima nuclear disaster in Japan. The initial emergency response, together with later decontamination of the environment, involved more than 500,000 personnel and cost an estimated 18 billion roubles—roughly US$68 billion in 2019, adjusted for inflation. The accident occurred during a safety test meant to measure the ability of the steam turbine to power the emergency feedwater pumps of an RBMK-type nuclear reactor in the event of a simultaneous loss of external power and major coolant leak. During a planned decrease of reactor power in preparation for the test, the operators accidentally dropp ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Fedyakovo, Nizhny Novgorod Oblast
Fedyakovo (russian: Федяко́во) is a rural locality (a '' selo'') in Kstovsky District of Nizhny Novgorod Oblast, Russia, located just a few kilometers outside of the Nizhny Novgorod's city line, with the apartment blocks on the south-eastern edge of the city being easily visible from the village. The village church is that of Transfiguration of the Lord (). Location The village is located near the intersection of the Russian highway M-7 (Nizhny Novgorod–Kazan) and an important local road connecting Bolshaya Yelnya (a junction on the old Nizhny Novgorod–Kazan highway, with an easy connection with the important Verkhnie Pechery development in Nizhny Novgorod's north-eastern Nizhegorodsky District) with Shcherbinki (a similarly important development in the city's south-eastern Prioksky District). A railway runs by the village as well. This location, making the area of the village a convenient site for any facility intended to serve all of Nizhny Novgorod's Uppe ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Gorky Nuclear District Heating Plant
Gorky may refer to: ;People *Maxim Gorky (1868–1936), Russian author and political activist, founder of socialist realism *Arshile Gorky (1904–1948), Armenian-American abstract expressionist painter ;Inhabited localities *Gorky, name of Nizhny Novgorod, Soviet Union from 1932 to 1990 ;Other uses *Gorky Reservoir, on the Volga in Nizhny Novgorod Oblast, Russia *2768 Gorky, asteroid *Gorky, original band of Luc De Vos and predecessor of his subsequent band Gorki **'' Gorky'', their first album See also *Gorki (other) *Górki (other), various locations in Poland *Gorky Park (other) *Gorky Film Studio, Moscow *Gorky's Zygotic Mynci, Welsh indie band, 1991–2006 **''Gorky 5'', their fifth album *Gorky 17 ''Gorky 17'' (released as ''Odium'' in North America) is a turn-based tactics tactical role-playing video game developed by Polish studio Metropolis Software and published by Monolith Productions for Microsoft Windows in 1999. The game was later ...< ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
President Of Russia
The president of the Russian Federation ( rus, Президент Российской Федерации, Prezident Rossiyskoy Federatsii) is the head of state of the Russian Federation. The president leads the executive branch of the federal government of Russia and is the commander-in-chief of the Russian Armed Forces. It is the highest office in Russia. The modern incarnation of the office emerged from the president of the Russian Soviet Federative Socialist Republic (RSFSR). In 1991, Boris Yeltsin was elected president of the RSFSR, becoming the first non Communist Party member to be elected into Soviet politics. He played a crucial role in the dissolution of the Soviet Union which saw the transformation of the RSFSR into the Russian Federation. Following a series of scandals and doubts about his leadership, violence erupted across Moscow in the 1993 Russian constitutional crisis. As a result, a new constitution was implemented and the 1993 Russian Constitution remains ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
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