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Viktor Krivulin
Viktor Borisovich Krivulin (russian: Виктор Борисович Кривулин; 9 July 1944 – 17 March 2001) was a Russian poet, novelist and essayist. Biography Krivulin graduated from the faculty of philology from Leningrad State University. He opted for independent cultural activity and worked mostly as a watchman, editor of short living leaflets of sanitary education while heading some important institutions of Russian uncensored literature of 1970s, such as «37» and «Severnaya Pochta» samizdat magazines among others. Later Krivulin was involved with other samizdat journals Obvodnyi Kanal and Chasy, the journal of the Leningrad alternative culture club «Klub-81». In 1978 Krivulin became the first winner of Andrei Bely independent literary prize and then for more than ten years he participated in running this award. After the collapse of the Soviet Union Krivulin served as co-chairman of the St Petersburg branch of the Democratic Russia party, where he ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Kadiivka
Kadiivka (), or Stakhanov (; ), is a city in the Luhansk Oblast (Oblast, region) of eastern Ukraine occupied by Russia. The city is incorporated as a city of regional significance (Ukraine), city of oblast significance. Its population is approximately . The city has been under the control of the self-declared Luhansk People's Republic since early 2014. Name Before 1937 the city was known as Kadiivka. From 1937 to 1940 the city was named Sergo or Serho ( uk, Серго) in honor of Sergo Ordzhonikidze, and then from 1940 to 1978 the city was again known as Kadiivka. On 15 February 1978 the city was named after the famous Soviet Union, Soviet miner Alexey Stakhanov, who started his career there. Since 2014 the city has been occupied by Russian-backed militia troops as a part of self-proclaimed Luhansk People's Republic (LPR). Although Ukraine does not control the territory of LPR, it is internationally recognized as a part of Ukraine by most member states of the United Nations exc ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Paris
Paris () is the capital and most populous city of France, with an estimated population of 2,165,423 residents in 2019 in an area of more than 105 km² (41 sq mi), making it the 30th most densely populated city in the world in 2020. Since the 17th century, Paris has been one of the world's major centres of finance, diplomacy, commerce, fashion, gastronomy, and science. For its leading role in the arts and sciences, as well as its very early system of street lighting, in the 19th century it became known as "the City of Light". Like London, prior to the Second World War, it was also sometimes called the capital of the world. The City of Paris is the centre of the Île-de-France region, or Paris Region, with an estimated population of 12,262,544 in 2019, or about 19% of the population of France, making the region France's primate city. The Paris Region had a GDP of €739 billion ($743 billion) in 2019, which is the highest in Europe. According to the Economist Intelli ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Russian Jews
The history of the Jews in Russia and areas historically connected with it goes back at least 1,500 years. Jews in Russia have historically constituted a large religious and ethnic diaspora; the Russian Empire at one time hosted the largest population of Jews in the world. Within these territories the primarily Ashkenazi Jewish communities of many different areas flourished and developed many of modern Judaism's most distinctive theological and cultural traditions, while also facing periods of anti-Semitic discriminatory policies and persecutions. Some have described a "renaissance" in the Jewish community inside Russia since the beginning of the 21st century.Renaissance of Jewish life in Russia November 23, 2001, By John ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Writers From Saint Petersburg
A writer is a person who uses written words in different writing styles and techniques to communicate ideas. Writers produce different forms of literary art and creative writing such as novels, short stories, books, poetry, travelogues, plays, screenplays, teleplays, songs, and essays as well as other reports and news articles that may be of interest to the general public. Writers' texts are published across a wide range of media. Skilled writers who are able to use language to express ideas well, often contribute significantly to the cultural content of a society. The term "writer" is also used elsewhere in the arts and music, such as songwriter or a screenwriter, but also a stand-alone "writer" typically refers to the creation of written language. Some writers work from an oral tradition. Writers can produce material across a number of genres, fictional or non-fictional. Other writers use multiple media such as graphics or illustration to enhance the communication of thei ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
2001 Deaths
This is a list of deaths of notable people, organised by year. New deaths articles are added to their respective month (e.g., Deaths in ) and then linked here. 2022 2021 2020 2019 2018 2017 2016 2015 2014 2013 2012 2011 2010 2009 2008 2007 2006 2005 2004 2003 2002 2001 2000 1999 1998 1997 1996 1995 1994 1993 1992 1991 1990 1989 1988 1987 See also * Lists of deaths by day The following pages, corresponding to the Gregorian calendar, list the historical events, births, deaths, and holidays and observances of the specified day of the year: Footnotes See also * Leap year * List of calendars * List of non-standard ... * Deaths by year {{DEFAULTSORT:deaths by year ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
1944 Births
Events Below, the events of World War II have the "WWII" prefix. January * January 2 – WWII: ** Free France, Free French General Jean de Lattre de Tassigny is appointed to command First Army (France), French Army B, part of the Sixth United States Army Group in North Africa. ** Landing at Saidor: 13,000 US and Australian troops land on Papua New Guinea, in an attempt to cut off a Japanese retreat. * January 8 – WWII: Philippine Commonwealth troops enter the province of Ilocos Sur in northern Luzon and attack Japanese forces. * January 11 ** President of the United States Franklin D. Roosevelt proposes a Second Bill of Rights for social and economic security, in his State of the Union address. ** The Nazi German administration expands Kraków-Płaszów concentration camp into the larger standalone ''Konzentrationslager Plaszow bei Krakau'' in occupied Poland. * January 12 – WWII: Winston Churchill and Charles de Gaulle begin a 2-day conference in Marrakech ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Anna Lisa Crone
Anna Lisa Crone (June 9, 1946Bird, Robert, and Moira Crone. “Anna Lisa Crone, 1946-2009.” '' The Slavic and East European Journal'', vol. 53, no. 4, 2009, pp. 639–641. JSTOR, www.jstor.org/stable/40651216. – June 19, 2009) was an American linguist and literary theorist. Life Bom in Brooklyn, New York, Lisa was raised in North Carolina and graduated from Goucher College in 1967. She received her Ph.D. from Harvard University in 1975, where her teachers were Roman Jakobson, , and . She entered the University of Chicago two years later (1977) and began working as Professor of Slavic Languages and Literatures. Her first monograph was published in 1978 and devoted to a study of the Russian philosopher Vasilii Rozanov. Robert Bird, Chairman of the Department of Slavic Languages and Literatures at the University of Chicago, called the book a new chapter in the study of Russian philosophical discourse. Her final years were dedicated to a monograph on the philosophies of ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Street Photographer
Street photography (also sometimes called candid photography) is photography conducted for art or enquiry that features unmediated chance encounters and random incidents within public places. Although there is a difference between street and candid photography, it is usually subtle with most street photography being candid in nature and some candid photography being classifiable as street photography. Street photography does not necessitate the presence of a street or even the urban environment. Though people usually feature directly, street photography might be absent of people and can be of an object or environment where the image projects a decidedly human character in facsimile or aesthetic.Colin Westerbeck. ''Bystander: A History of Street Photography''. 1st ed. Little, Brown and Company, 1994. The street photographer can be seen as an extension of the ''flâneur'', an observer of the streets (who was often a writer or artist). Framing and timing can be key aspects of the cr ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Masha Ivashintsova
Masha Ivashintsova (March 23, 1942 − July 13, 2000) was a Russian photographer from Saint Petersburg, Saint-Petersburg (then Leningrad, USSR) who was heavily engaged in the Leningrad poetic and photography Underground culture, underground movement of the 1960−80s. Masha photographed prolifically throughout most of her life, but she hoarded her photo-films in the attic and rarely developed them. Only when her daughter Asya found some 30,000 negatives in their attic in 2017 did Masha's works become public. In this regard, Masha Ivashintsova's work and story have been compared to those of Vivian Maier. Ivashintsova died in 2000 at the age of 58. Personal life Masha was born into an aristocratic family whose assets were seized following the Bolshevik Revolution. In Leningrad, Ivashintsova joined the city's literary and artistic underground. She worked odd jobs as a theater critic, a librarian, a cloakroom attendant, an elevator mechanic, and a security guard, amongst others. O ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Communal Apartment
Communal apartments (singular: russian: коммунальная квартира, ''kommunal'naya kvartira'', slang. ''kommunalka'') appeared in the Soviet Union following the October Revolution of 1917. The term ''communal apartments'' is a product of the Soviet epoch. The concept of communal apartments grew in Russia and the Soviet Union as a response to a housing crisis in urban areas; authorities presented them as the product of the "new collective vision of the future." Between two and seven families typically shared a communal apartment. Each family typically had only one room, which usually served as a living room, dining room, and bedroom for the entire family. All the residents of the building shared the use of the hallways, kitchen (commonly known as the "communal kitchen"), bathroom and (rarely) telephone.Adele Barker and Bruce Grant, ''The Russia Reader: History, Culture, Politics'' (Durham: Duke University Press, 2010), 615. The communal apartment became the predomina ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Seminars
A seminar is a form of academic instruction, either at an academic institution or offered by a commercial or professional organization. It has the function of bringing together small groups for recurring meetings, focusing each time on some particular subject, in which everyone present is requested to participate. This is often accomplished through an ongoing Socratic dialogue with a seminar leader or instructor, or through a more formal presentation of research. It is essentially a place where assigned readings are discussed, questions can be raised and debates can be conducted. Etymology The word ''seminar'' was borrowed from German (always capitalized, as a common noun, as ''Seminar''), and is ultimately derived from the Latin word ''seminarium'', meaning "seed plot" (an old-fashioned term for “seedbed”). Its root word is ''semen'' (Latin for "seed"). Overview The term ''seminar'' is also used to describe a research talk, often given by a visiting researcher and primarily ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
