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Olesya (given Name)
Olesya (Ukrainian and Russian: Олеся), may also be spelt Olessia or Olesia, is a feminine given name. Olesya is a Slavonic name that derives from a word "lyess" (Ukrainian "ліс", Russian "лес" - forest) and means "a girl from the forest", "a girl living in the forest". A different version of the origin of the name states that Olesya is a variant of the name Alexandra, and thus acquires the meaning of "protector". The names Alesya and Lesya can be considered variants of Olesya. Notable people with the name include: * Olesya Aliyeva (b. 1977), Russian alpine skier * Olesya Babushkina (b. 1989), Belarusian gymnast * Olesya Bakunova (b. 1980), Belarusian sprint canoer * Olesya Barel (b. 1960), Russian basketball player * Olesya Belugina (b. 1984), Russian gymnast * Olesya Chumakova (b. 1981), Russian middle-distance runner * Olesya Dudnik (b. 1974), Ukrainian gymnast and coach * Olesya Forsheva (b. 1979), Russian athlete * Olesya Hudyma (b. 1980), Ukrainian artist ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Ukrainian Language
Ukrainian ( uk, украї́нська мо́ва, translit=ukrainska mova, label=native name, ) is an East Slavic language of the Indo-European language family. It is the native language of about 40 million people and the official state language of Ukraine in Eastern Europe. Written Ukrainian uses the Ukrainian alphabet, a variant of the Cyrillic script. The standard Ukrainian language is regulated by the National Academy of Sciences of Ukraine (NANU; particularly by its Institute for the Ukrainian Language), the Ukrainian language-information fund, and Potebnia Institute of Linguistics. Comparisons are often drawn to Russian, a prominent Slavic language, but there is more mutual intelligibility with Belarusian,Alexander M. Schenker. 1993. "Proto-Slavonic," ''The Slavonic Languages''. (Routledge). pp. 60–121. p. 60: " hedistinction between dialect and language being blurred, there can be no unanimity on this issue in all instances..."C.F. Voegelin and F.M. Voegelin. 19 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Olesya Nurgalieva
Olesya Leonidovna Nurgalieva (born 9 January 1976 in Perm Krai; russian: Олеся Леонидовна Нургалиева) is a Russian ultramarathon runner. She won the Two Oceans Marathon 3 times and the Comrades Marathon twice, and together with her identical twin Elena Nurgalieva dominated the Comrades and Two Oceans, South Africa's main ultramarathons, from 2003 to 2014. Ultramarathon career Nurgalieva won the 42.2 km Honolulu Marathon in 2005, the 56 km Two Oceans Marathon in 2008, 2010 and 2011, and the Comrades Marathon The Comrades Marathon is an ultramarathon of approximately which is run annually in the KwaZulu-Natal province of South Africa between the cities of Durban and Pietermaritzburg. It is the world's largest and oldest ultramarathon race. The direc ... in 2007 and 2009. References External links * 1976 births Living people People from Perm Krai Russian female long-distance runners Russian female marathon runners Russian ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Olesya Zamula
Olesya Zamula (born February 17, 1984 in Riga, Latvian SSR) is an amateur Azerbaijani wrestler, who competed in the women's middleweight category. She won the bronze medal for her division at the 2011 European Wrestling Championships in Dortmund, Germany. She is also a member of Atasport Wrestling Club in Baku, and is coached and trained by Semjon Kapitannikov. Zamula represented her current nation Azerbaijan at the 2008 Summer Olympics in Beijing, where she competed for the women's 63 kg. She received a bye for the second preliminary match, before losing out by a technical fall to Japan's Kaori Icho. Because her opponent advanced further into the final match, Zamula was offered another shot for the bronze medal by entering the repechage bouts. She was pinned in the second period by American wrestler Randi Miller Randi is both a given name, and a nickname in the English language, popular in North America and Norway. It is primarily a feminine name, although there is recorded ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Olesya Zabara
Olesya Aleksandrovna Zabara (née Bufalova) (russian: Олеся Александровна Забара; born 6 October 1982) is a Russian triple jump The triple jump, sometimes referred to as the hop, step and jump or the hop, skip and jump, is a track and field event, similar to the long jump. As a group, the two events are referred to as the "horizontal jumps". The competitor runs down th ...er. She finished fifth at the 2006 European Athletics Championships and second (14.50 metres, indoor personal best) at the 2007 European Indoor Championships. She finished tenth at the 2007 World Championships. In 2008, she improved her personal indoor best to 14.54 metres in Tula. She finished seventh at the 2008 World Indoor Championships. External links * 1982 births Living people Russian female triple jumpers {{Russia-athletics-bio-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Olesya Truntaeva
Olesya Truntaeva is a retired Russian football defender last played for ShVSM Izmailovo in the Russian Championship. in soccerway.com She has won four leagues with Lada Togliatti and Zvezda Perm. She started her career in 1998 in second-tier FK Vologzhanka. She debuted in the premier league in 2000 after attaining promotion with Don-Tex Shakhty. In 2004, she signed for Lada Togliatti, where she spent two years. There she won her first national championship and made her debut in the |
Olesya Vladykina
Olesya Yuriyevna Vladykina (russian: Оле́ся Ю́рьевна Влады́кина, born 14 February 1988) is a Paralympic swimmer from Russia competing mainly in category SB8 events. Vladykina competed in the 2008 Summer Paralympics in Beijing. She won gold in the 100m Breaststroke, setting a new world record time. She also finished fourth in the 200m individual medley. Career Vladykina started swimming at Young People's Olympic Reserve Sports School 47 and practiced the sport professionally for 10 years until her entrance to Moscow State University of Railway Engineering The Russian University of Transport (RUT (MIIT); russian: «Российский университет транспорта», РУТ (МИИТ)), officially the Autonomous Educational Institution of Higher Education "Russian University of tran ..., :ru:Владыкина, Олеся Юрьевна when she concentrated on her studies, leaving active swimming for a year until her injury. She lost ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Olesya Velichko
Olesya Yuryevna Velichko (russian: Олеся Юрьевна Величко; born May 20, 1981 in Taraz, Kazakhstan) is a modern pentathlete from Russia. She is a multiple-time medalist at the World Championships, and a double champion at the 2001 Junior World Championships. Velichko competed at the 2004 Summer Olympics in Athens, Greece Athens ( ; el, Αθήνα, Athína ; grc, Ἀθῆναι, Athênai (pl.) ) is both the capital and largest city of Greece. With a population close to four million, it is also the seventh largest city in the European Union. Athens dominates ..., where she finished seventeenth in the women's event, with a score of 5,016 points. References External links * archived page from Pentathlon.org 1981 births Living people Russian female modern pentathletes Olympic modern pentathletes of Russia Modern pentathletes at the 2004 Summer Olympics World Modern Pentathlon Championships medalists 21st-century Russian women {{Russia-modern ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Olesya Syreva
Olesya Syreva (russian: Олеся Сырева; b. 25 November 1983 in Novosibirsk) is a Russian middle/long-distance runner who specializes in the 1500 and 3000 metres. On the February 3rd 2013 she was banned for two years by the IAAF following irregularities on her biological passport. All her results since March 3, 2011 were voided. International competitions Personal bests *800 metres - 2:03.69 min (2005) *1500 metres - 4:06.47 min (2006) *3000 metres - 8:55.09 min (2008) *5000 metres - 15:19.96 min (2008) *Half marathon - 1:09:52 min (2008) See also *List of doping cases in athletics A ''list'' is any set of items in a row. List or lists may also refer to: People * List (surname) Organizations * List College, an undergraduate division of the Jewish Theological Seminary of America * SC Germania List, German rugby union ... References External links * 1983 births Living people Sportspeople from Novosibirsk Russian female middle-distance runners Russia ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Olesya Stefanko
Olesia Stefanko ( uk, Олеся Стефанко; (born June 25, 1988) is a Ukrainian lawyer and beauty queen who was crowned Miss Ukraine Universe 2011 and represented her country in the 2011 Miss Universe pageant, where she was 1st runner up. Early life Born in Kolomyia in the Carpathian region of Ukraine, Stefanko was named Miss Odesa National Law Academy in 2008 as a student at the ''Institute of Prosecution and Investigation''. She graduated with degree in Law from National University Odesa Law Academy in 2012 and planning to start her career in Kyiv prosecutor's office. Pageantry Miss Ukraine Universe 2011 Stefanko, who stands tall, competed as one of 15 finalists in her country's national beauty pageant, Miss Ukraine Universe, held in Kyiv on 11 December 2010, where she became the eventual winner of the title, gaining the right to represent Ukraine in the 2011 Miss Universe pageant. Miss Universe 2011 The following September, Stefanko placed first runner-up at Miss Un ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Olesya Rulin
Olesya Yurivna Rulina (russian: Oлeся Юрьевна Pулина; born March 17, 1986) is a Russian-American actress. She is best known for co-starring in all three films of the ''High School Musical'' franchise as Kelsi Nielsen. She also starred in the films '' Private Valentine: Blonde & Dangerous'' (2008), ''Flying By'' (2009), ''Expecting Mary'' (2010) and ''Family Weekend'' (2013). Early life Olesya Rulin was born in Moscow, Russian SFSR, Soviet Union (now Russia). She spent her early childhood in Likhoslavl. When Rulin was eight, she emigrated to the United States to rejoin her father who had done so two years earlier. They first lived in Texas, then later in Utah. Rulin graduated from West Jordan High School in 2005. Rulin is also a trained ballet dancer. When she was 12, she entered a model-search contest at the urging of her mother and won representation by four different agencies. She can also play the piano. Prior to acting full-time, she worked for a year as a ce ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Carillonneur
A carillon ( , ) is a pitched percussion instrument that is played with a keyboard and consists of at least 23 cast-bronze bells. The bells are hung in fixed suspension and tuned in chromatic order so that they can be sounded harmoniously together. They are struck with clappers connected to a keyboard of wooden batons played with the hands and pedals played with the feet. Often housed in bell towers, carillons are usually owned by churches, universities, or municipalities. They can include an automatic system through which the time is announced and simple tunes are played throughout the day. Carillons come in many designs, weights, sizes, and sounds. They are among the world's heaviest instruments, and the heaviest carillon weighs over . Most weigh between . To be considered a carillon, a minimum of 23 bells are needed; otherwise, it is called a chime. Standard-sized instruments have about 50, and the world's largest has 77 bells. The appearance of a carillon depends o ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Theremin
The theremin (; originally known as the ætherphone/etherphone, thereminophone or termenvox/thereminvox) is an electronic musical instrument controlled without physical contact by the performer (who is known as a thereminist). It is named after its inventor, Leon Theremin, who patented the device in 1928. The instrument's controlling section usually consists of two metal antenna (radio), antennas which sense the relative position of the thereminist's hands and control oscillation, oscillators for frequency with one hand, and amplitude (Loudness, volume) with the other. The electric signals from the theremin are amplifier, amplified and sent to a loudspeaker. The sound of the instrument is often associated with wikt:eerie, eerie situations. The theremin has been used in movie soundtracks such as Miklós Rózsa's ''Spellbound (1945 film), Spellbound'' and ''The Lost Weekend (film), The Lost Weekend'', Bernard Herrmann's ''The Day the Earth Stood Still (soundtrack), The Day the E ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
