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Skif (laser)
Skif or SKIF may refer to: * Skif (ATGM), a Ukrainian anti-tank guided missile system * SKIF Nizhny Novgorod, a professional ice hockey team in Nizhny Novgorod, Russia * Skif Paragliding, a Ukrainian paraglider manufacturer * Sotsyalistishe Kinder Farband (S.K.I.F.), a Jewish Socialist political party and the youth organization of the Jewish Labour Bund * Skif, an alternative name for the Soviet spacecraft Polyus (spacecraft) * ''Skif PLUS'' (Skif Dnipropetrovsk Oblast Organization of Scouts), a Scouting and Guiding in Ukraine#Ukrainian Scout organizations, Ukrainian scouting organization in Dnipropetrovsk Oblast * ''Skifterat'', a nickname of the professional football club KF Gjilani based in Gjilan, Kosovo * Sergey Kuryokhin International Festival (SKIF), a music festival in the Kuryokhin Center of Saint Petersburg, Russia See also * Skiff (other) {{Disambiguation ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Skif (ATGM)
The Skif or Stuhna-P (Ukrainian: Стугна-П) is a Ukrainian anti-tank guided missile (ATGM) system developed in the early 2010s by the Luch Design Bureau. The initial guidance device ПН-С of the Skif was developed and manufactured by Belarusian design bureau Peleng based in Minsk before crisis of 2014 while the Stuhna-P uses a domestic Ukrainian ПН-І guidance device. By the 2018, both Skif and Stuhna-P variants were using unified ПН-І (PN-I) guidance device. Skif is the Ukrainian word for ''Scythian'' and Stuhna is the name of a local river. The Skif is designed to destroy modern armored targets with combined carried or monolithic armor, including explosive reactive armor (ERA). Skifs can attack both stationary and moving targets. They can attack from both long range (up to in the daytime) and close range (). They can attack point targets such as weapon emplacements, lightly armored objects, and hovering helicopters. The Skif has two targeting modes: manually stee ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
SKIF Nizhny Novgorod
HC SKIF Nizhny Novgorod () are a Russian ice hockey team in the Zhenskaya Hockey League (ZhHL). They play in Nizhny Novgorod at the CEC Nagorny, which is also home to Torpedo Nizhny Novgorod of the KHL. SKIF have won the Russian Championship in women's ice hockey twelve times, three more wins than any other team, and won the IIHF European Women's Champions Cup in 2009 and 2015. The team was founded in Moscow in 1995 as Luzhniki Moscow. They were subsequently known as CSK VVS Moscow (1996–1998), Viking Moscow (1998–2000), and SKIF Moscow (2000–2006). In 2006 the team moved from Moscow to Nizhny Novgorod and were renamed SKIF Nizhny Novgorod. Team honors Russian Championship * Russian Champion ''(12)'': 1996, 1997, 1998, 1999, 2001, 2002, 2003, 2004, 2005, 2008, 2010, 2014 * Runners-up ''(6)'': 2000, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2011, 2022 IIHF European Women Champions Cup * European Champion ''(2)'': 2009, 2015 * Runners-up ''(1)'': 2004 * Third Place ''(1)'': 2 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Skif Paragliding
Skif Paragliding is a Ukraine, Ukrainian aircraft manufacturer founded by Sergei Rozhko in 1993 and based in Feodosia. The company specializes in the design and manufacture of paragliders in the form of ready-to-fly aircraft, and also runs a paragliding flight training school.Bertrand, Noel; Rene Coulon; et al: ''World Directory of Leisure Aviation 2003-04'', page 30. Pagefast Ltd, Lancaster UK, 2003. Rozhko is also the designer of the company's paraglider line. The company flight training operation takes place on Klementyeva Mountain. By 2003, the company was offering a line of paragliders, including the beginner to intermediate Skif Skif-A, Skif-A, the competition Skif Raptor, Raptor and the two-place Skif BigSkif Bi, BigSkif Bi for flight training. Aircraft Summary of aircraft built by Skif Paragliding: *Skif BigSkif Bi *Skif Phaeton *Skif Raptor *Skif Sarmat *Skif Skif-A References External links * {{Skif aircraft Aircraft manufacturers of Ukraine Paragliders Manu ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Sotsyalistishe Kinder Farband
The ''Sotsyalistishe Kinder Farband or SKIF'' ('Socialist Children's Union', S.K.I.F.) was founded in Eastern Europe as the youth organisation of the Jewish Labour Bund, a Jewish Socialist political party. S.K.I.F has three core ideological principles: ''Chavershaft'' ("camaraderie", equality and empathy), '' Doikayt'' ("Being here", Jews should live, build their culture and struggle for their rights wherever they dwell, rather than seeking refuge in a Jewish homeland), and ''Yiddishkeit'' (Jewish identity through Jewish and Yiddish culture). The plural form of a SKIF member is ''Skifistn'' and the leaders who run SKIF are the ''Helfers'', aged 18–20. The S.K.I.F. in Poland is now defunct. Melbourne S.K.I.F established itself in 1950. Melbourne SKIF, is one of the last remaining SKIF branches, subsequently it is usually regarded as the SKIF organization itself. However, the SKIF in France didn't disband, but in 1963 changed its name to Club laïque de l’Enfance juive, CLEJ. ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Polyus (spacecraft)
The Polyus spacecraft (russian: Полюс, ''pole''), also known as Polus, Skif-DM, GRAU index 17F19DM, was a prototype Soviet orbital weapons platform designed to destroy Strategic Defense Initiative satellites with a megawatt carbon-dioxide laser. It had a Functional Cargo Block derived from a TKS spacecraft to control its orbit and it could launch test targets to demonstrate the fire control system. History The Polyus spacecraft was launched 15 May 1987 from Baikonur Cosmodrome Site 250 as part of the first flight of the Energia system, but failed to reach orbit. According to Yuri Kornilov, Chief Designer of the Salyut Design Bureau, shortly before Polyus' launch, Mikhail Gorbachev visited the Baikonur Cosmodrome and expressly forbade the in-orbit testing of its capabilities. Kornilov claims that Gorbachev was worried that it would be possible for Western governments to view this activity as an attempt to create a weapon in space and that such an attempt would contr ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Scouting And Guiding In Ukraine
Scouting in Ukraine received World Organization of the Scout Movement (WOSM) recognition in July 2008. The Eurasian Region headquarters is located on Ukrainian territory. 2008 WOSM recognition The World Scout Bureau received an application for membership of the World Organization from the National Organization of Scouts of Ukraine (NOSUIn accordance with the requirements of the Constitution of WOSM, the World Scout Committee considered this application at its meeting on 29 February-2 March 2008, and recommended that it be accepted. Under the terms of Article VI.2 of the WOSM Constitution, “if within three months the recommendation is unopposed or opposed by less than five percent of the Member Organizations”, NOSU was declared a Member, as the National Scout Organization of Ukraine, of the World Organization of the Scout Movement as from 1 July 2008. Ukrainian Scout organizations * National Organization of Scouts of Ukraine, member of the World Organization of the Scout Mov ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
KF Gjilani
Soccer Club Gjilani ( sq, Klubi Futbollistik Gjilani), commonly known as Gjilani, is a professional football club based in Gjilan, Kosovo. The club play in the Football Superleague of Kosovo, which is the top tier of football in the country. History SC Gjilani is the club which was formed in 1995 by Afrim Kqiku, in very unfavourable times. Despite difficulties with the organization they had managed to maintain the club competing, and, after 5 years since its foundation, they won the Kosovar Cup and got promotion to the top-level Kosovar league, the Football Superleague of Kosovo, where they have been playing ever since. Supporters ''Skifterat'' are the clubs ultras group which formed in 1999 after Kosovo war. They are also known as the Red and White boys and they live for this club and this supporter group. They are also one of the best supporter groups in Kosovo. They were named after a KLA brigade called ''the Falcons''. Incidents At Skifterat there are groups of hooligans w ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Kuryokhin Center
The Kuryokhin Center, or more extended the Sergey Kuryokhin Center for Modern Art, is a non-profit cultural centre in Saint Petersburg, Russia. The centre was founded in 2004 and named after the Russian avant garde composer Sergey Kuryokhin Sergey Anatolyevich Kuryokhin (russian: Серге́й Анато́льевич Курёхин, also transliterated as Sergei Kuriokhin, Sergei Kurekhin, Sergueï Kouriokhine, Sergey Kuriokhin, etc.; nicknamed "The Captain"; 16 June 1954 – 9 Ju .... The main space of the centre has a capacity of 2000 people. The venue is located in an old cinema building. About Kuryokhin Center The Kuryokhin Center organises visual art exhibitions, art events and festivals. The Modern Art Center is an old cinema space. It hosts experimental music, film and art festivals ( SKIF, Electro-mechanika Festival, Videoforma festival and Ethno-mechanica Festival) and a few other random events several times per year. SKIF and Electro-Mechanica The (SKIF) is an ann ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
