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Zlatopil
Zlatopil ( uk, Златопіль; also as the Russian transliteration Zlatopol) was a small city in Ukraine, located about 67 km northwest of Kropyvnytskyi. History The name of this village before 1787 was Hulajpol. During the partitions of Poland many residents of the town resettled near the Sea of Azov establishing another town of Huliaipole.Sklyarenko, Ye. Huliaipole (ГУЛЯЙПОЛЕ)''. Encyclopedia of History of Ukraine. 2004 In ХІХ century Zlatopol was the center of Zlatopol volost, Chigirinsky Uyezd, Kiev Governorate. In 1923–1959 Zlatopil was an administrative center of Zlatopil Raion. Since 1959 it is part of Novomyrhorod city. Before the Holocaust, Zlatopil was a prosperous Jewish shtetl. There was also a gymnasium (school) for rich people in Zlatopil. Some Jews of Zlatopil served in the Russian army during World War I and suffered under the pogroms of 1918–1920. Those who remained in Zlatopil were killed in August 1941. After World War II the Jews who ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Anna Bilińska
Anna Bilińska (pronounced: also known as Anna Bilińska-Bohdanowicz; 8 December 1854 – 18 April 1893) was a Polish painter, known for her portraits. A representative of realism, she spent most of her life in Paris, and is considered the "first internationally known Polish woman artist." Life Early years She was born 1854 in Zlatopol (formerly a frontier town of the Russian Empire, today a part of Novomyrhorod, Ukraine) as ''Anna Bilińska'', and spent her childhood there with her father, a Polish physician. Of her background, she joked that she "ha a Cossack's temperament, but a Polish heart" ( pl, ma temperament kozaczy, ale serce polskie). The family then moved to Central Russia, where Anna’s first art teachers were Ignacy Jasiński and Michał Elwiro Andriolli, both deported by the Tsarist government to Vyatka for their part in the January Uprising of 1863–1864. In 1875, Bilińska's mother moved the family to Warsaw, enrolling her of-age children in the conserv ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Kropyvnytskyi
Kropyvnytskyi ( uk, Кропивницький, Kropyvnytskyi ) is a city in central Ukraine on the Inhul river with a population of . It is an administrative center of the Kirovohrad Oblast. Over its history, Kropyvnytskyi has changed its name several times. The settlement was known as Yelysavethrad ( uk, Єлисаветград, links=no ) after Empress Elizabeth of Russia () from 1752 to 1924 as well as simply Elysavet. In 1924 it became Zinovievsk ( uk, Зінов'євськ, links=no, ) in honour of the Bolshevik revolutionary and Politburo member Grigory Zinoviev (1883-1936), who was born there. Following the assassination of the First Secretary of the Leningrad City Committee of the All-Union Communist Party (Bolsheviks) Sergei Kirov (in office 1926–1934), the town was renamed Kirovo ( uk, Кірово, links=no ) in Kirov's honour on 7 December, 1934—a name-change similar to those of numerous other localities throughout the USSR (including present-day Kirov in Kir ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Novomyrhorod
Novomyrhorod ( uk, Новомиргород; ro, Novomîrhorod; russian: Новоми́ргород) is a city in Novoukrainka Raion, Kirovohrad Oblast (region) of central Ukraine, in the southern part of the Middle Dnieper area. It hosts the administration of Novomyrhorod urban hromada, one of the hromadas of Ukraine. The population of Novomyrhorod is approximately . Novomyrhorod is situated on the banks of the Velyka Vys River. Name and history The name literally means "New Myrhorod" or "new peace town". Between 1752 and 1764, Novomyrhorod was the capital of New Serbia, a military frontier established by the Russian Empire that had an ethnic Serbian majority. Since 1802 it was a town in Kherson Governorate of Russian Empire. Since 1923 Novomyrhorod was the district center of Yelysavethradsky District, Ukrainian SSR. City since 1960.Новомиргород // Большой энциклопедический словарь (в 2-х тт.). / редколл., гл. р ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Zlat Panorama
In Mandaeism, ʿZlat ( myz, ࡏࡆࡋࡀࡕ, lit=she wove/she span), also Ezlat, Īzlat, or ʿZlat Rabtia ('ʿZlat the Great'), is the wife or female consort of Shishlam, a figure representing the prototypical priest or prototypical Mandaean. Hence, Zlat symbolizes the prototypical Mandaean priestly wife as the archetype of the pure bride. She is described in the Mandaean priestly text ''The 1012 Questions'' as the "Wellspring of Light." Zlat is also mentioned in ''Qolasta'' prayers 17, 105, 106, 171, and 173 (the ''Šumhata''). See also *Simat Hayyi In Mandaeism, Simat Hayyi or Simat Hiia ( myz, ࡎࡉࡌࡀࡕ ࡄࡉࡉࡀ, lit=Treasure of Life), the personification of life, is an uthra (angel or guardian) from the World of Light who is the wife of Yawar Ziwa. The name ''Simat Hayyi'' ("Li ... References Mythological archetypes Personifications in Mandaeism Women and religion {{Mandaeism-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Red Army
The Workers' and Peasants' Red Army (Russian: Рабо́че-крестья́нская Кра́сная армия),) often shortened to the Red Army, was the army and air force of the Russian Soviet Federative Socialist Republic and, after 1922, the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics. The army was established in January 1918. The Bolsheviks raised an army to oppose the military confederations (especially the various groups collectively known as the White Army) of their adversaries during the Russian Civil War. Starting in February 1946, the Red Army, along with the Soviet Navy, embodied the main component of the Soviet Armed Forces; taking the official name of "Soviet Army", until its dissolution in 1991. The Red Army provided the largest land force in the Allied victory in the European theatre of World War II, and its invasion of Manchuria assisted the unconditional surrender of Imperial Japan. During operations on the Eastern Front, it accounted for 75–80% of casual ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
History Of Kirovohrad Oblast
Kirovohrad Oblast ( uk, Кіровоградська область, translit=Kirovohradska oblast; also referred to as Kirovohradschyna — uk, Кіровоградщина) is an oblast (province) of Ukraine. The administrative center of the oblast is the city of Kropyvnytskyi. Its population is . It is Ukraine's second least populated oblast, behind Chernivtsi. In 2019, the Constitutional Court of Ukraine approved the change of the oblast's name to Kropyvnytskyi Oblast (), or Kropyvnychchyna (). Geography The area of the province is . The city of Dobrovelychkivka is the geographical center of Ukraine. History The oblast was created as part of the Ukrainian Soviet Socialist Republic on January 10, 1939 out of the northern raions of Mykolaiv Oblast. In 1954 the oblast lost some raions to the newly created Cherkasy Oblast, but later that year received its western raions from the Odessa Oblast. Between 1939 and 2016, the oblast administrative center, Kropyvnytskyi, was calle ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Anarcho-syndicalism
Anarcho-syndicalism is a political philosophy and anarchist school of thought that views revolutionary industrial unionism or syndicalism as a method for workers in capitalist society to gain control of an economy and thus control influence in broader society. The end goal of syndicalism is to abolish the wage system, regarding it as wage slavery. Anarcho-syndicalist theory generally focuses on the labour movement. Reflecting the anarchist philosophy from which it draws its primary inspiration, anarcho-syndicalism is centred on the idea that Power (philosophy), power corrupts and that any hierarchy that cannot be ethically justified must be dismantled. The basic principles of anarcho-syndicalism are solidarity, direct action (action undertaken without the intervention of third parties such as politicians, bureaucrats and arbitrators) and direct democracy, or workers' self-management. Anarcho-syndicalists believe their economic theories constitute a strategy for facilitating prole ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Milly Witkop
Milly Witkop(-Rocker) (March 3, 1877November 23, 1955) was a Ukrainian-born Jewish anarcho-syndicalist, feminist writer and activist. She was the common-law wife of the prominent anarcho-syndicalist leader Rudolf Rocker. The couple's son, Fermin Rocker, was an artist. Early life and period in London Witkop was born Vitkopski in the Ukrainian shtetl of Zlatopol to a Jewish Ukrainian-Russian family as the oldest of four sisters. The youngest of the four, Rose, also became a well-known anarchist. In 1894, Witkop left the Ukraine for London. In the decades following the 1881 assassination of Czar Alexander II, many Jews left Russia as a result of anti-Jewish pogroms throughout the Empire. Most went to the United Kingdom or the United States.Wolf 2007. In London, she worked in a tailoring sweatshop and saved enough money to finance her parents' and sisters' passage to England. The hard conditions she worked under led her to question her faith. Her involvement in a bakers' strike led ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Alexander Myshlayevsky
Alexander Zakharevich Myshlayevsky (1856–1920) was a Russian general during World War I. He was the deputy commander of the Caucasian Army and its field commander during the Battle of Sarikamish The Battle of Sarikamish (''Sarighamishi chakatamart''), russian: Сражение при Сарыкамыше; tr, Sarıkamış Harekatı, lit=''Operation Sarıkamış'' was an engagement between the Russian and Ottoman empires during World W .... He was originally a military historian graduated from Imperial General Staff Academy. Myshlayevsky was dismissed from service in March 1915.W.E.D. Allen and Paul Muratoff, Caucasian Battlefields, A History of the Wars on the Turco-Caucasian Border, 1828-1921, The Battery Press, Nashville, TN, 269, n2. References Imperial Russian Army generals Russian military personnel of World War I Russian military writers Russian military historians 1856 births 1920 deaths People from Novomyrhorod People from Kherson Governorate 2 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Lazar Brodsky
Lazar Izrayilevich Brodsky (russian: Ла́зарь Изра́илевич Бро́дский, uk, Ла́зар Ізраїльович Бро́дський, he, אליעזר ברודסקי; – ) was a Russian Imperial businessman of Jewish origin, sugar magnate, philanthropist and patron. Lazar Brodsky was born in Zlatopol, a shtetl in Kiev Governorate of the Russian Empire (modern-day Ukraine), in the family of Jewish entrepreneur Israel Brodsky. Together with his brother Lev (Leon) he inherited his father's very successful sugar production business. He headed Alexandria Society of Sugar Mills, which controlled more than one-fourth of the total sugar production in the Russian Empire. He was a member of the board of the St. Petersburg International Commercial Bank, director of the board of the Kyiv water facilities association, managing director and member of the board of the Society of the steam-powered flour mills, founder and the chairman of the board of the Second Steamshi ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Zola (name)
Zola is both a surname and a given name. Notable people with the name include: Surname * Arlette Zola, Swiss singer * Arnim Zola, Marvel comics supervillain * Calvin Zola (born 1984), Congo DR footballer * Émile Zola (1840–1902), French novelist * Gianfranco Zola (born 1966), Italian football player and manager * Giuseppe Zola (1672 – 1743) Italian painter * Irving Zola (1935–1994), American activist and writer Given name * Zola Budd (born 1966), South African athlete *Zola Cooper (1904–1954), American cancer researcher * Zola Davis (born 1975), American football player * Zola Jesus (born 1989), stage name of Nika Roza Danilova, American singer * Zola Levitt (1938–2006), American religious leader * Zola Matumona (born 1981), Congo DR footballer * Zola Taylor Zoletta Lynn Taylor (March 17, 1938 – April 30, 2007) was an American singer. She was the original female member of The Platters from 1954 to 1962, when the group produced most of their popular singles. Litig ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Pokrass
Pokrass (russian: Покрасс) is a common Ashkenazi Jewish surname. * Pokrass brothers, composing team **Dmitry Pokrass (1899–1978), Soviet composer **Samuel Pokrass Samuel Yakovlevich Pokrass (Самуил Яковлевич Покрасс) (1894 in Kiev – June 15, 1939 in New York City) was a Soviet composer of Ukrainian and Jewish origin. In 1920, during the Russian Civil War, he and the poet P. Grig ... (1897–1939), Soviet-American composer * Sian Barbara Allen (b. 1946), American actress (born Barbara Susan Pokrass) {{surname ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
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