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Volskaya (rural Locality)
Volsky (masculine), Volskaya (feminine), or Volskoye (neuter) may refer to: ;People *Arkady Volsky (1932–2006), Russian politician *Lavon Volski (b. 1965), Belarusian musician and poet *Paula Volsky, American fantasy writer *Tamara Volskaya, Russian musician *Vasily Volsky (1897–1946), Soviet general ;Places * Volsky District, a district of Saratov Oblast, Russia * Volskaya (rural locality), a rural locality (a village) in Arkhangelsk Oblast Arkhangelsk Oblast (russian: Арха́нгельская о́бласть, ''Arkhangelskaya oblast'') is a federal subjects of Russia, federal subject of Russia (an oblast). It includes the Arctic Ocean, Arctic archipelagos of Franz Josef Land ..., Russia * Volskoye, a rural locality (a village) in Tver Oblast, Russia See also * * Volsk, a town in Saratov Oblast, Russia * Volesky, a surname * Wolski, Polish last name {{Disambiguation, surname, geo Russian-language surnames ru:Вольский ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Arkady Volsky
Arkady Volsky (15 May 1932 – 9 September 2006) was a Soviet politician and businessman. He served as a senior aide to three Soviet General Secretaries, including Mikhail Gorbachev, and was one of three Deputy Prime Ministers in the last government of the Soviet Union between August and December 1991. He was founder and the first head of the Russian Union of Industrialists and Entrepreneurs (RSPP). Early life and education Volsky was born in Dobrush (now Belarus), on 15 May 1932. He was raised in an orphanage. He studied metallurgy at Moscow Institute of Steel and Alloys and graduated with an engineering degree in 1955. Career After graduation, Volsky started his career as an assistant foreman at Likhachyov car plant in Moscow. In 1969, he became the Communist Party's top representative at the factory. Then he began to work at the machine-building or the engineering industry department of the party. During this period he gained influence over the Soviet directorial corps. ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Lavon Volski
Leanid Arturavič Zejdel-Volski ( be, Леанід Арту́равіч Зэйдэль-Во́льскі; born on 14 September 1965 in Minsk), better known as Lavon Volski ( be, Ляво́н Во́льскі, ), is a Belarusian musician, writer, painter, and founder of the Belarusian rock groups Mroja, N.R.M., Zet, and Krambambula. Biography Lavon Volski is a Belarusian rock musician, an author of music and lyrics, poet, artist, group leader of N.R.M. and Krambambula, the owner of numerous musical awards, both personal and as a member of various collectives. Career He was a vocalist and a keyboard player of the Belarusian Rock-band Mroja. He wrote lyrics for ULIS, album Pa-nad dachami (1995) and was guitar player and the vocalist of Novaje Nieba. Now he is the rhythm guitar player and the vocalist of N.R.M., Zet and Krambambula. In 2008 he has also started a solo career and released a first album called "Bielaja jablynia hromu" in March 2010. For the Belarusian speaking radi ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Paula Volsky
Paula Volsky is an American fantasy author. Biography Paula Volsky was born in Fanwood, New Jersey. She majored in English literature at liberal arts college, Vassar, in New York State, where she became friendly with Esther Friesner and Jane Bishop. Together, they wrote at least one film script for student production, ''Lavinia: a Girl of the Street'', which demonstrated Volsky's trademark tongue-in-cheek style. At the University of Birmingham, England, she received an M.A. in Shakespearian studies. Before writing fantasy, she sold real estate and also worked for the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development. After releasing novels regularly for nearly twenty years, Volsky published no new work for nearly a decade, even though ''Locus'' had reported her sale of a "new fantasy trilogy" to Bantam Books in mid-2000. After a long delay, the publisher announced that the final volume had been completed, and that it would issue the books beginning in late 2011. Terri Windling ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Tamara Volskaya
Tamara Volskaya is a performing musician whose principal instrument is the domra. She graduated Kyiv Conservatory of Music, is a Merited Artist of Russia, a Laureate of USSR music competitions, and a professor at the Mussorgsky Ural State Conservatory of Yekaterinburg, Russia. She also performs on the mandolin. She is a recognized authority in the mandolin world, a regular guest artist and instructor of the Classical Mandolin Society of America and BDAA (Balalaika and Domra Association of America and Canada). She regularly appears as a domra and mandolin soloist with orchestras across the US, the former USSR, and Canada, and has performed in Europe, Australia, Israel, and Japan. Tamara has performed at such prestigious venues as Weill Recital Hall of Carnegie Music Hall, Avery Fisher Hall, Library of Congress, with Seattle Chamber Orchestra, New American Orchestra of NYC, Metropolitan Opera, etc. Tamara teaches as well as performs. She organized and headed the Folk Instrument Facu ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Vasily Volsky
Vasily Timofeyevich Volsky (russian: Василий Тимофе́евич Во́льский) (Tula Oblast, Tula Province, Russian Empire, Russia, 10 March 1897 – Moscow, Soviet Union, 22 February 1946) was a General of Soviet Union, Soviet tank forces. From 1939–1941, Volsky headed the Soviet Union's Academy of Mechanisation and Motorisation. He then rose to command the 4th Mechanized Corps (Soviet Union), 4th Mechanised Corps, which he led at the Battle of Stalingrad in late 1942. Initially Volsky had concerns over the planned Operation Uranus, going as far as to write Joseph Stalin a personal letter "as a good communist" warning him that the attack would fail.Beevor, p.250 After a meeting with Stalin, Volsky retracted his letter and the Corps assisted in the encirclement and destruction of the Romanian army commanded by Gebele. During 1943, Volsky commanded the 3rd Guards Tank Corps; in 1944, promoted to Colonel General, he was appointed the commander of 5th Guards Ta ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Volsky District
Volsky District (russian: Во́льский райо́н) is an administrativeCharter of Saratov Oblast and municipalLaw #78-ZSO district (raion), one of the thirty-eight in Saratov Oblast, Russia. It is located in the north of the oblast. The area of the district is . Its administrative center is the town of Volsk (which is not administratively a part of the district). Population: 27,457 ( 2010 Census); Administrative and municipal status Within the framework of administrative divisions, Volsky District is one of the thirty-eight in the oblast. The town of Volsk serves as its administrative center, despite being incorporated separately as a town under oblast jurisdiction—an administrative unit with the status equal to that of the districts (and which, in addition to Khvalynsk, also includes one urban-type settlement Urban-type settlementrussian: посёлок городско́го ти́па, translit=posyolok gorodskogo tipa, abbreviated: russian: п.г.т., translit= ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Volskaya (rural Locality)
Volsky (masculine), Volskaya (feminine), or Volskoye (neuter) may refer to: ;People *Arkady Volsky (1932–2006), Russian politician *Lavon Volski (b. 1965), Belarusian musician and poet *Paula Volsky, American fantasy writer *Tamara Volskaya, Russian musician *Vasily Volsky (1897–1946), Soviet general ;Places * Volsky District, a district of Saratov Oblast, Russia * Volskaya (rural locality), a rural locality (a village) in Arkhangelsk Oblast Arkhangelsk Oblast (russian: Арха́нгельская о́бласть, ''Arkhangelskaya oblast'') is a federal subjects of Russia, federal subject of Russia (an oblast). It includes the Arctic Ocean, Arctic archipelagos of Franz Josef Land ..., Russia * Volskoye, a rural locality (a village) in Tver Oblast, Russia See also * * Volsk, a town in Saratov Oblast, Russia * Volesky, a surname * Wolski, Polish last name {{Disambiguation, surname, geo Russian-language surnames ru:Вольский ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Arkhangelsk Oblast
Arkhangelsk Oblast (russian: Арха́нгельская о́бласть, ''Arkhangelskaya oblast'') is a federal subjects of Russia, federal subject of Russia (an oblast). It includes the Arctic Ocean, Arctic archipelagos of Franz Josef Land and Novaya Zemlya, as well as the Solovetsky Islands in the White Sea. Arkhangelsk Oblast also has administrative jurisdiction over the Nenets Autonomous Okrug (NAO). Including the NAO, Arkhangelsk Oblast has an area of 587,400 km2. Its population (including the NAO) was 1,227,626 as of the Russian Census (2010), 2010 Census. The classification of inhabited localities in Russia, city of Arkhangelsk, with a population of 301,199 as of the 2021 Census, is the administrative center of the oblast.Charter, Article 5 The second largest city is the nearby Severodvinsk, home to Sevmash, a major shipyard for the Russian Navy. Among the oldest populated places of the oblast are Kholmogory, Arkhangelsk Oblast, Kholmogory, Kargopol, and S ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Tver Oblast
Tver Oblast (russian: Тверска́я о́бласть, ''Tverskaya oblast'', ), from 1935 to 1990 known as Kalinin Oblast (), is a federal subject of Russia (an oblast). Its administrative center is the city of Tver. It was named after Mikhail Kalinin, the Soviet revolutionary. Population: 1,353,392 ( 2010 Census). Tver Oblast is a region of lakes, such as Seliger and Brosno. Much of the remaining area is occupied by the Valdai Hills, where the Volga, the Western Dvina, and the Dnieper have their source. Tver Oblast is one of the tourist regions of Russia with a modern tourist infrastructure. There are also many historic towns: Torzhok, Toropets, Zubtsov, Kashin, Vyshny Volochyok, and Kalyazin. The oldest of these is Rzhev, primarily known for the Battles of Rzhev in World War II. Staritsa was the seat of the last appanage principality in Russia. Ostashkov is a major tourist center. Geography Tver Oblast is located in the west of the middle part of the East European Plai ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Volsk
Volsk (russian: Вольск) is a town in Saratov Oblast, Russia, located on the right bank of the Volga River, opposite the mouth of the Bolshoy Irgiz (a tributary of the Volga), northeast from Saratov, the administrative center of the oblast. As of the 2010 Census, its population was 66,508. History It was founded in 1699 as the '' sloboda'' of Malykovka () and was granted town status and renamed Volgsk () in 1780. In the 19th century, the name gradually changed to a more pronounceable "Volsk". After the October Revolution of 1917, Volsk became a major center of cement production. Administrative and municipal status Within the framework of administrative divisions, Volsk serves as the administrative center of Volsky District, even though it is not a part of it. As an administrative division, it is, together with the work settlement of Kleny and three rural localities, incorporated separately as the town of oblast significance of Volsk—an administrative unit with t ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Volesky
Volesky ( or ) is a surname of Belarusian and Ukrainian origin. People with this surname include: * Ron J. Volesky (born 1955), American lawyer and politician *Gary J. Volesky (born 1961), U.S. Army commander *Christian Volesky Christian Volesky (born September 15, 1992) is an American professional soccer player who plays as a forward who plays for the HFX Wanderers of the Canadian Premier League. College and amateur Volesky played four years of college soccer, spend ... (born 1992), American professional soccer player See also * Volsky (other) * Wolski {{surname Belarusian-language surnames Ukrainian-language surnames ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
