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Syzran
Syzran ( rus, Сызрань, p=ˈsɨzrənʲ) is the third largest city in Samara Oblast, Russia, located on the right bank of Saratov Reservoir of the Volga River. Population: History Founded in 1683 as a fortress, Syzran grew into an important trading center and was granted town status in 1796. One tower from the 17th-century fortress still stands. It is also the site of Syzran Bridge, once the longest bridge in Europe. Administrative and municipal status Within the framework of administrative divisions, Syzran serves as the administrative center of Syzransky District, even though it is not a part of it. As an administrative division, it is, together with three rural localities, incorporated separately as the city of oblast significance of Syzran—an administrative unit with the status equal to that of the districts.Charter of Samara Oblast'' As a municipal division, the city of oblast significance of Syzran is incorporated as Syzran Urban Okrug.Law #189-GD Economy The c ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Syzransky District
Syzransky District (russian: Сы́зранский райо́н) is an administrativeCharter of Samara Oblast, Article 52 and municipalLaw #189-GD district (raion), one of the twenty-seven in Samara Oblast, Russia. It is located in the west of the oblast. The area of the district is . Its administrative center is the city of Syzran (which is not administratively a part of the district). As of the 2010 Census, the total population of the district was 25,947. Administrative and municipal status Within the framework of administrative divisions, Syzransky District is one of the twenty-seven in the oblast. The city of Syzran serves as its administrative center An administrative center is a seat of regional administration or local government, or a county town, or the place where the central administration of a commune A commune is an alternative term for an intentional community. Commune or comună or ..., despite being incorporated separately as a city of oblast sig ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Syzran Kremlin
The Syzran Kremlin (russian: Сызранский Кремль) is located in Syzran, Samara Oblast, Russia, on the Kremlin hill at the confluence of the Volga, Syzranka, and Krymza rivers. The Syzran Kremlin is the only kremlin in Samara Oblast; only Spasskaya Tower survives. The Kremlin also houses the Church of the Nativity (1717). In 1683 construction began on the fortress of Tsar Tsar ( or ), also spelled ''czar'', ''tzar'', or ''csar'', is a title used by East and South Slavic monarchs. The term is derived from the Latin word ''caesar'', which was intended to mean "emperor" in the European medieval sense of the ter ... Peter the Great I, construction under the supervision od Governor G. Kozlowski. Spasskya Tower was first portal, but then its redesigned and built inside the church in the name of the Savior. Participated in the fighting just once. Currently, Spasskaya Tower is a museum. {{Russia-struct-stub Kremlins Cultural heritage monuments of federal sig ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Syzran Bridge
The Syzran Bridge across the Volga River near Syzran, was designed by Nikolai Belelubsky and Konstantin Mikhailovsky. It was the first rail bridge across the Volga in its lower reaches. Opened by Konstantin Posyet in 1880 as a part of the Samara-Zlatoust Railway. The bridge's diagonal system had 13 spans, each long. It continued to be the longest in Europe over a sustained period of time with a total length of . Initially, the bridge was called Alexandrovsky commemorating the 25th anniversary of the reign of the emperor Alexander II of Russia. After the October revolution, the bridge was renamed in Syzransky. In 1918, during the Russian Civil War, two spans of the bridge were detonated by the retreating troops of Komuch The Committee of Members of the Constituent Assembly was an anti-Bolshevik government that operated in Samara, Russia, during the Russian Civil War of 1917–1922. It formed on June 8, 1918, after the Czechoslovak Legion had occupied the city. ... supp ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Arkady Ostrovsky
Arkady (Avraam) Il'ich Ostrovsky (also spelled Ostrovskij, Ostrovskyj russian: Аркадий (Авраам) Ильич Островский) (February 25 Old_Style_and_New_Style_dates">O.S._February_12.html" ;"title="Old_Style_and_New_Style_dates.html" ;"title="/nowiki>Old Style and New Style dates">O.S. February 12">Old_Style_and_New_Style_dates.html" ;"title="/nowiki>Old Style and New Style dates">O.S. February 12/small>, 1914 – September 18, 1967) was a Soviet Russian composer of light music, the author of the song ''May There Always Be Sunshine'' and other Soviet songs of the 1960s, including the lullaby of ''Spokoynoy nochi, malyshi!, Good Night, Little Ones'', the children's TV program aired for nearly 60 years, most famous rendition sung by Oleg Anofriyev. Life Ostrovsky was born to a Jewish family in Syzran. From 1927 on, he lived in Leningrad. He worked in Leonid Utyosov's Jazz Orchestra from 1940 to 1947 and composed his first works. He died in Sochi in 1967. ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Glukoza
Natalya Ilinichna Ionova (russian: link=no, Наталья Ильинична Ионова; born 7 June 1986), better known by her stage name Glukoza ( rus, Глюкоза, p=ɡlʲʊˈkozə, ''glucose''), is a Russian singer. Biography Ionova was born in Syzran, Kuybyshevskaya Oblast, Russian SFSR, Soviet Union. As a child, her hobbies included ballet and chess. She also did some acting and was in the films ''Triumph'' and ''War of the Princesses'', as well as a few episodes of '' Yeralash''. Currently she has a passion for aviation, her two Dobermans, and her yellow Mini Cooper, which she enjoys driving. She describes her favorite musical artists as Madonna, Moby, Mumiy Troll and Agatha Kristi. Music career In December 2005 she recorded and released an English version of her popular song "Schweine" that never took off with the public. In late June 2006 Glukoza married Alexander Chistyakov, manager of the power supply systems of Russia. After her pregnancy leave, she ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Mikhail Korniyenko
Mikhail Borisovich Kornienko (Михаил Борисович Корниенко; born 15 April 1960) is a Russian cosmonaut. Kornienko served as a flight engineer on the International Space Station during Expedition 23/ 24 and was selected along with Scott Kelly for a year-long mission aboard the ISS. Kornienko began the year long mission in March 2015, blasting off on Soyuz TMA-16M Personal life Kornienko was born in Syzran, Kuybyshev Oblast, Russian SFSR. He is married to Irina Kornienko, a doctor. They have a grown daughter. His father Boris G. Kornienko, a military pilot, perished in an Mi-6 helicopter crash in October 1965. His mother, Faina M. Kornienko, born in 1931 is retired. Education Kornienko graduated from secondary school No. 15, Chelyabinsk, Russia, in 1977. From 1981 to 1987 he studied at the Moscow Aviation Institute named after S. Ordzhonikidze. Military career and experience Upon graduation from school in 1977, he worked at a radio equipment plant in Chel ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Administrative Divisions Of Samara Oblast ...
Administrative and municipal divisions References {{Administrative divisions of the Russian federal subjects Samara Oblast Samara Oblast Samara Oblast ( rus, Сама́рская о́бласть, r=Samarskaya oblast, p=sɐˈmarskəjə ˈobləsʲtʲ) is a federal subjects of Russia, federal subject of Russia (an oblast). Its administrative center is the types of inhabited localitie ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Ekaterina Vetkova
Ekaterina Vladimirovna Vetkova (russian: Екатерина Владимировна Веткова; born 1 August 1986) is a Russian female handballer who plays as a pivot for Corona Brașov. International achievements *EHF Champions League: **''Winner'': 2008, 2016 * EHF Champions Trophy: **''Winner'': 2008 *World Championship A world championship is generally an international competition open to elite competitors from around the world, representing their nations, and winning such an event will be considered the highest or near highest achievement in the sport, game, ...: **''Gold Medallist'': 2009 * European Championship: **''Bronze Medalist'': 2009 References External links * {{DEFAULTSORT:Vetkova, Ekaterina 1986 births Living people People from Syzran Russian female handball players Olympic handball players of Russia Russian expatriates in France Russian expatriate sportspeople in Romania SCM Râmnicu Vâlcea (handball) players Sportspeople from Sama ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Victor Ivanovich Nikitin
Victor Ivanovich Nikitin,(Russian: Виктор Иванович Никитин), was a Soviet tenor soloist of the Alexandrov Ensemble, born in Syzran 12 February 1911 and died in Moscow 6 January 1994.Information from Liudmila Gurkova, daughter of Victor Nikitin. He is notable for being the first Mr Kalinka, and for being called "Ambassador Kalinka" by Erich Mückenberger after singing at the 1948 Berlin peace concert. He was buried at Pyatnitskoye cemetery in Moscow. Early career He was a machine engineer in 1938, and joined the Alexandrov Ensemble in the same year.Another version says that he joined the Ensemble in 1935. This may mean that he joined the choir in 1935, then became a soloist of the ensemble in 1938. He had possibly started recording by 1936. He was already known as "Mr Kalinka" before World War II.Information from Leonid Kharitonov, soloist of the Alexandrov Ensemble. World War II and 1948 Berlin peace concert Apparently when he sang to entertain the Soviet ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Pingdingshan
Pingdingshan (), also known as Eagle City ( zh, s=鹰城, p=Yīngchéng, t=鷹城), is a prefecture-level city in central Henan province, China. It had 4,904,701 inhabitants at the 2010 census whom 1,756,333 lived in the built-up (or metro) area including Ye county being conurbated. History In Chinese, Pingdingshan means “mountain with a flat top”. The city is named after a nearby plateau, the top of which is very flat. The reason for the nickname of the city "Eagle City" can be traced back to two thousand years ago during the "Spring and Autumn Annals". There was a small country royal named Ying who lived in Pingdingshan area. In ancient times, the word "Ying" had the same pronunciation as Eagle in Chinese, therefore people also called Pingdingshan "Eagle City". Pingdingshan was established as a prefecture-level city in 1957. Geography Pingdingshan borders the provincial capital of Zhengzhou to the north, Xuchang and Luohe to the east, Zhumadian to the southeast, Nanya ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Andrei Sinyavsky
Andrei Donatovich Sinyavsky (russian: Андре́й Дона́тович Синя́вский; 8 October 1925 – 25 February 1997) was a Russian writer and Soviet dissident known as a defendant in the Sinyavsky–Daniel trial in 1965. Sinyavsky was a literary critic for ''Novy Mir'' and wrote works critical of Soviet society under the pseudonym Abram Tertz () published in the Western world, West to avoid censorship in the Soviet Union. Sinyavsky and Yuli Daniel were convicted of Anti-Soviet agitation in a show trial, becoming the first Soviet writers convicted solely for their works and for fiction, and served six years at a Gulag camp. Sinyavsky emigrated to France in 1973 where he became a professor of Russian literature and published numerous autobiographical and retrospective works. Early life and education Andrei Donatovich Sinyavsky was born on 8 October 1925 in Moscow, Soviet Union, the son of Donat Evgenievich Sinyavsky, a Russian people, Russian nobleman from Syzran wh ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Saratov Reservoir
Saratov Reservoir (russian: Саратовское водохрани́лище) is an artificial lake in the lower part of the Volga River in Russia formed by the dam of the Saratov Hydroelectric Station situated in the city of Balakovo. Filling of the reservoir started in 1967. The uppermost point of the reservoir is situated in Tolyatti, it stretches through Samara Oblast and Saratov Oblast. The city of Samara and the Samara Bend are situated on the reservoir. The namesake city of Saratov Saratov (, ; rus, Сара́тов, a=Ru-Saratov.ogg, p=sɐˈratəf) is the largest city and administrative center of Saratov Oblast, Russia, and a major port on the Volga River upstream (north) of Volgograd. Saratov had a population of 901,36 ... is situated downstream from the dam. Reservoirs in Russia Reservoirs in Samara Oblast Reservoirs in Saratov Oblast Reservoirs built in the Soviet Union RSaratov References {{reflist ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
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