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- Catherine I of Russia (2658 bytes)
3: ...88;ина I Алексеевна) ([[A...
20: {{succession box|title=[[List of Russian rulers|Empress of Ru... - Catherine II of Russia (9308 bytes)
2: ...8;ина II Алексеевна'': ''Y...
5: ...s eccentricities and policies, including an obsession with neighboring and enemy country Prussia, alie...
9: ...is document the law, but she disbanded the commission before it took effect, possibly having turned mo...
11: ...ed them serfs. She also encouraged the [[colonization]] of [[Alaska]] and of conquered areas.
13: ...e relaxed the censorship law and encouraged education for the nobles and middle class. - Alexandra Kollontai (3203 bytes)
1: ... was a [[Ukraine|Ukrainian]] [[Communist]] revolutionary, first as a member of the [[Menshevik]]s, the...
5: ... [[1903]], Kollontai did not side with either faction. However, she came to dislike aspects of Bolshe...
7: ...tion, and working laws put in place by the Revolution. She was well recognized later for [[socialist f...
11: ...[[Lenin]] managed to dissolve the Workers' Opposition, after which Kollontai was more or less totally ...
13: ...er of the Soviet delegation to the [[League of Nations]]. She died in [[1952]]. - Anna Akhmatova (2156 bytes)
1: ...1085;а Горенко'', [[June 23]], [[1889]] (June 11, Old St...
17: ...jill/akhmatova/index.html Akhmatova website with biography, video]
18: ...rs.org/the_great_poets/fe/eu/aa Anna Akhmatova ] Bio and Poetry - Svetlana Savitskaya (713 bytes)
1: ...[1948]], in [[Moscow, Russia]], was a [[Soviet Union|Soviet]] female [[astronaut|cosmonaut]] who flew...
3: ...ivity|space walk]]. She was outside the space station for 3 hours 35 minutes. - Valentina Tereshkova (2387 bytes)
3: ...n [[March 6]], [[1937]]), is a retired [[Soviet Union|Soviet]] [[astronaut|cosmonaut]] and was the fir...
7: ...Seagull]]; {{lang-ru|Ча́йка}} ). Even though there were plans for fur...
9: ...minence she was chosen for several political positions: From [[1966]] to [[1974]] she was a member of ... - Sofia Kovalevskaya (3306 bytes)
1: ...#1086;валевская) ([[January 15]], [[1850]]–[...
5: ...Academician) and had more education and "appreciation of the finer things" than her husband.
7: ...s, applying the then-new theory of [[Abelian function]]s (and thus "justifying" the enormous effort th...
9: ...thoven)|''Pathetique'' Sonata]], to get his attention, but he was focused on the older sister Anna and...
22: ...: Sofia Kovalevskaia -- Scientist, Writer, Revolutionary</cite> (Rutgers University Press, 1983) - Sofia Gubaidulina (8325 bytes)
1: ...[[Russia]]n-[[Tatar]] [[composer]] of deeply religious music.
3: ...], in the [[Tatar Republic]]. She studied composition and piano at the [[Kazan]] Conservatory, graduat...
5: ...ostakovich]], who in evaluating her final examination encouraged her to continue down her "mistaken pa...
7: ...lina founded Astreja, a folk-instrument improvisation group with fellow composers Victor Suslin and Vy...
9: ...ium]]''. She later composed a homage to [[T. S. Eliot]], using the text from the poet's spiritual mast... - Balalaika (5108 bytes)
1: ...алала́йка</font>) is a stringed instrument of [[Rus...
26: Early representations of the balalaika show it with anywhere from two...
30: ...e when one is confronted with the fact that at various times in Russian history, the playing of the ba...
32: ...and tunings in use today. He arranged many traditional Russian folk songs and melodies for the orches...
41: ...an (music)|bayan]], and several types of [[percussion instrument]]s -- has a distinctive sound: strang... - Kazakhstan (26806 bytes)
1: ...o a former republic of the now extinct [[Soviet Union]].
3: ...[http://www.stat.kz/ru/dynamic/svedenia_rk/population/nas.htm].<!--
9: ...#1077;спублика Казахс...
21: ...="vertical-align: top;" colspan=2 | <small>''[[National motto]]: n/a''</small>
23: ...pan=2 style="background: #ffffff;" | [[image:LocationKazakhstan.png|290px]] - Kyrgyzstan (23226 bytes)
1: ...on [[April 4]], [[2005]], and the political situation in the country remains uncertain.
10: national_motto = ''none'' |
11: image_map = LocationKyrgyzstan.png |
12: ... = [[National Anthem of the Kyrgyz Republic|National Anthem of the <br> Kyrgyz Republic]] |
23: population_estimate = 5,146,281 | - Tajikistan (10867 bytes)
13: ...span=2 style="background: #ffffff;" |[[image:LocationTajikistan.png]]
15: | '''[[National anthem]]'''
33: ...p;– Total (2003)<br/> – [[Population density|Density]]
34: | [[List of countries by population|Ranked 95th]]<br/> 6,863,752<br/> 48/k...
36: | '''[[Collapse of the Soviet Union|Independence]]'''<br/> – Date - Ukraine (22193 bytes)
1: '''Ukraine''' ({{lang-ua|Україна}}, ''Ukraina'...
3: ...nt once more following the [[fall of the Soviet Union]] in [[1991]].
6: |+<big><big>'''Україна<br>Ukrayina''...
18: | align="center" colspan=2 | <small>''[[National motto]]: none''</small>
20: | colspan="2" | [[image:LocationUkraine.png]] - Cotton (7876 bytes)
2: ...shrub]] native to the tropical and subtropical regions of both the [[Old World]] and the [[New World]]...
13: ...er than that it was a [[plant]]; people in the region, familiar only with [[animal]] fibers ([[wool]] ...
15: ...C, cotton was cultivated throughout the warmer regions in [[Africa]], [[Eurasia]] and [[the Americas]]...
17: ...uction capacity was further improved by the invention of the [[cotton gin]] by [[Eli Whitney]] in [[17...
19: ...ading occupations of [[slave]]s. After [[emancipation]], the [[share cropping]] system evolved which i... - Space exploration (14877 bytes)
1: ... between the [[United States]] and the [[Soviet Union]].
3: ==From fiction to fact==
4: ...ntific breakthroughs, the idea of outer-earth missions was no longer a dream, but a viable practice.
6: ...dvar-Hazy Center|NASM annex]] at [[Dulles International Airport]] in Northern Virginia displays an un...
11: ...The United States sometimes uses a 50 mile definition. (See [[boundary to space]].) - Astronaut (7339 bytes)
3: ...auts from at least [[Timeline of astronauts by nationality|32 countries]] have gone into space.
5: ==International variations==
7: ...ut" is an anglicization of the [[Russia]]n word космонав...
11: ...women into space in cooperation with the Soviet Union, and, to a lesser extent, the United States of A...
15: ...b|400px|Astronauts on the International Space Station]] - Politics (7193 bytes)
2: ...including [[corporate]], [[academic]], and [[religious]].
4: ...behavior and examines the acquisition and application of power, i.e. the ability to impose one's will ...
9: ... would give up absolute rights for certain protections.
11:
14: ...ized crafts (including priests and lawyers), taxation, and writing. All of which require densely popu... - World War II (58065 bytes)
1: ...295px|[[Mushroom cloud]] from the [[nuclear explosion]] over [[Nagasaki]] rising 18 km (over 11 miles)...
4: ...ese War]]), or earlier yet the 1931 Japanese invasion of [[Manchuria]]. Still others argue that the [[...
8: ...y [[Technology during World War II|war-time inventions]].
10: ...mmunist [[People's Republic of China]] and the Nationalist [[Republic of China]].
18: ...0, and vowed to defend one another against aggression. This replaced the German-Japanese [[Anti-Comint... - Meerkat (4260 bytes)
2: ...age:Meerkat_Calgary_zoo.jpg|200px|Meerkat]] | caption = }}
12: {{Taxobox_section_binomial_parens | color = pink | binomial_name =...
21: ==Diet and foraging behaviour==
22: ...om]], including the very strong venom of the scorpions of the [[Kalahari Desert]].
30: ... evolved is not clear. They are a clear demonstration that meaning is not solely the domain of human [... - Russia (28007 bytes)
2: ...[Canada]]. It ranks eighth in the world in population, following [[China]], [[India]], the [[United St...
4: ...ssolution in December [[1991]]. In the [[Soviet Union]] Russia was called the [[Russian Soviet Federat...
6: ...but is still far from that of the former Soviet Union.
13: ...s]]. The Slavs constituted the bulk of the population from the [[8th century]] onwards and slowly assi...
15: ...o the Varangians and the Slavs who peopled the region. In the [[10th century|10th]] to [[11th century|...
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