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Vagin
Vagin or Vaguine (russian: Ва́гин) is a Russian masculine surname originating from the word ''vaga'' meaning ''lazy person'', its feminine counterpart is Vagina. The surname may refer to the following notable people: * Merkury Vagin (died 1712), Russian Arctic explorer * Vladimir Vagin (illustrator), Soviet and American illustrator * Vladimir Vagin (footballer) Vladimir Vladimirovich Vagin (russian: Владимир Владимирович Вагин; born 16 March 1982) is a former Russian professional football player. Club career He played two seasons in the Russian Football National League for FC F ... (born 1982), Russian football player References {{surname Russian-language surnames ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Merkury Vagin
Merkury Vagin (Russian: ''Меркурий Вагин'') (died 1712) was a Russian Arctic explorer. In 1712, together with Yakov Permyakov, Vagin explored the region of the eastern Laptev Sea coast. His exploration included Bolshoy Lyakhovsky Island, the southernmost of the New Siberian Archipelago. With a group of Cossacks they crossed the Yana Bay over the ice from the mouth of the Yana River The Yana ( rus, Я́на, p=ˈjanə; sah, Дьааҥы, ''Caañı'') is a river in Sakha in Russia, located between the Lena to the west and the Indigirka to the east. Course It is long, and its drainage basin covers . Including its longest ...; after reaching Bolshoy Lyakhovsky, they explored the then-unknown island, which had been reported by Permyakov two years earlier. Vagin and Permyakov were murdered on the return voyage by mutineering expedition members. The Cossacks took their dead bodies down to the ice and set them on fire. No one knows what the rebellious Cossacks did w ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Vladimir Vagin (illustrator)
Vladimir Vasilʹevich Vagin (born 30 March 1937) is a Russian illustrator of books. With the writer Frank Asch he created '' Here Comes the Cat!'' (Si︠u︡da idet kot!), a 32-page children's picture book published by Scholastic Books in 1989. It was awarded the Russian National Book Award and was considered the first Russian-American collaboration on a children's book. 25th Anniversary Edition of '' Here Comes the Cat!'' was reissued in July 2011 by McSweeney's McMullens (bilingual text) . Vagin moved to the United States in 1990 and currently lives in Vermont. He and Asch won the Picture Books Golden Duck Award The Golden Duck Awards for Excellence in Children's Science Fiction were given annually from 1992 to 2017. The awards were presented every year at either Worldcon or the North American Science Fiction Convention (NASFiC). In 2018 they were replace ... in 1996 for their collaboration '' Insects from Outer Space'' (Scholastic, 1995).speculative_fiction.html" ;"title="nb ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Vladimir Vagin (footballer)
Vladimir Vladimirovich Vagin (russian: Владимир Владимирович Вагин; born 16 March 1982) is a former Russian professional football player. Club career He played two seasons in the Russian Football National League for FC Fakel Voronezh and FC Dynamo Saint Petersburg FC Dynamo Saint Petersburg is a Russian football club from Saint Petersburg, in Northwest Russia. Founded in 1922, the club was one of the oldest in the city. It plays in the third-tier Russian Football National League 2. They were a regular i .... References External links * 1982 births Sportspeople from Pskov Living people Russian footballers Association football defenders FC Fakel Voronezh players FC Tyumen players FC Vityaz Podolsk players PFC Krylia Sovetov Samara players FC Dynamo Saint Petersburg players FC Novokuznetsk players FC Sever Murmansk players {{Russia-footy-defender-1980s-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |