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Menshikov may refer to *Menshikov (surname) *Menshikov Island in the Sea of Okhotsk *Menshikov Atoll, a former name of Kwajalein Atoll, part of the Marshall Islands *Menshikov Palace (Saint Petersburg) *Menshikov Tower Menshikov Tower (russian: Меншикова башня), also known as the Church of Archangel Gabriel, is a Baroque Russian Orthodox Church in Basmanny District of Moscow, within the Boulevard Ring. The church was initially built in 1707 to ord ...
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Menshikov (surname)
Menshikov (russian: Меньшиков) is a Russian masculine surname, its feminine counterpart is Menshikova. It may refer to: *Aleksandr Danilovich Menshikov (1673–1729), Russian statesman * Aleksandr Sergeyevich Menshikov (1787–1869), Finnish-Russian nobleman, military commander and statesman * Alexei Menshikov (born 1984), Russian pair skater * Maria Menshikova (1711–1729), daughter of Aleksandr Danilovich and a favourite of Peter I of Russia * Mikhail Menshikov (born 1948), Russian-British mathematician * Nina Menshikova (1928–2007), Soviet actress *Oleg Menshikov Oleg Evgenyevich Menshikov, PAR (russian: Оле́г Евге́ньевич Ме́ньшиков, link=no; born 8 November 1960) is a Russian actor, theatre director and occasional singer. He is the current artistic director of the Yermolova Thea ... (born 1960), Russian actor * Stanislav Menshikov (1927–2014), Russian economist and diplomat * Vitali Menshikov (born 1989), Russian ice hockey player Russ ...
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Menshikov Island
Menshikov Island (russian: Остров Меньшикова; Ostrov Men'shikova) is an island in the Sea of Okhotsk located east of the Shantar Islands. Geography Menshikov Island lies 71 km to the east of the eastern shore of Kusov Island, the easternmost island of the Shantar group. It is 7 km long and has a maximum width of 1.6 km. It was named after one of the ships of the 1849-1855 Amur Expedition, which had been named after Admiral A.S. Menshikov. Administratively this island belongs to the Khabarovsk Krai of the Russian Federation. History American whaleships sent whaleboats to the island to collect eggs from seabirds. They called it Bird Island.''Montezuma'', of New London New London may refer to: Places United States *New London, Alabama *New London, Connecticut *New London, Indiana *New London, Iowa *New London, Maryland *New London, Minnesota *New London, Missouri *New London, New Hampshire, a New England town ** ..., June 27, 1858, Nicholson Wh ...
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Kwajalein Atoll
Kwajalein Atoll (; Marshallese: ) is part of the Republic of the Marshall Islands (RMI). The southernmost and largest island in the atoll is named Kwajalein Island, which its majority English-speaking residents (about 1,000 mostly U.S. civilian personnel) often use the shortened name, Kwaj . The total land area of the atoll amounts to just over . It lies in the Ralik Chain, southwest of Honolulu, Hawaii. The US Navy has hosted a naval base on Kwajalein Island since World War II. It was the final resting place of the German cruiser '' Prinz Eugen'' after it survived the Operation Crossroads nuclear test in 1946. In the late 1950s, the US Army took over the base as part of their Nike Zeus anti-ballistic missile efforts, and since then the atoll has been widely used for missile tests of all sorts. Today it is part of the Ronald Reagan Ballistic Missile Defense Test Site, with various radars, tracking cameras, missile launchers, and many support systems spread across many islands. ...
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Menshikov Palace (Saint Petersburg)
The Menshikov Palace (russian: Меншиковский дворец) is a Petrine Baroque edifice in Saint Petersburg, situated on Universitetskaya Embankment of the Bolshaya Neva on Vasilyevsky Island.It is not to be confused with the Menshikov Palace in Oranienbaum, Russia, built by the same architects around the same time. ''Menshikov Palace'' can also refer to the Lefort Palace in Moscow. It was the first stone building in the city. Since 1981, it has served as a public museum, a branch of the Hermitage Museum. The palace was founded in 1710 as a residence of Saint Petersburg Governor General Alexander Menshikov and built by Italian architects Giovanni Maria Fontana, and, later, German architect Gottfried Johann Schädel. It was opened in 1711, but the construction continued until 1727 (assisted by Domenico Trezzini, Bartolomeo Rastrelli, Georg Johann Mattarnovy and Jean-Baptiste Le Blond), when Menshikov with his family was exiled to Siberia and his property was confis ...
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