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- Catherine I of Russia (2658 bytes)
3: ...til her death. With Peter, she was also co-ruler from [[1724]] until his death in the next year.
5: ...rfa Skavronska and was the daughter of Samuil Skavronski, a [[Lithuania]]n peasant. She was married a...
9: *Grand Duchess Anna Petrovna ([[1708]]-[[1728]])
10: *[[Empress]] [[Elizabeth of Russia|Yelizaveta Petrovna]] ([[1709]]-[[1762]]
11: *Grand Duchess Nataliya Petrovna ([[1713]]-[[1715]]) - Catherine II of Russia (9308 bytes)
2: ...at''', reigned as [[tsar|empress]] of [[Russia]] from [[June 28]], [[1762]], to her death on [[Novembe...
5: ...nths later, on [[July 17]], [[1762]], Peter died from illness, but is rumored to have been killed by C...
9: ...-Bonesana|Beccaria]] and [[Charles de Secondat, Baron de Montesquieu|Montesquieu]], Catherine drew up ...
11: ...e status hereditary; and gave the nobles full control over their serfs and lands. In addition, Catheri...
13: Catherine proceeded to "Westernize" Russia. However, unlike [[P... - Alexandra Kollontai (3203 bytes)
1: ... effectively exiled by [[Stalin]], who sent her abroad as a diplomat, and she was thus one of the very...
7: ...ment" in [[1919]]. This organization worked to improve the conditions of women's lives in the [[Soviet...
13: ...Joseph Stalin]] gained power, he sent Kollontai abroad as a [[diplomat]]. In [[1923]], she was appoint...
15: ...the Stalin regime, though as a diplomat serving abroad, she had little or no influence in government p... - Anna Akhmatova (2156 bytes)
1: ...1085;а Горенко'', [[June 23]], [[1889]] (June 11, Old St...
3: ...stantial verse pieces including "Poem Without a Hero". Her work addresses themes including time and me...
13: ..., Russia|St Petersburg]]), where Akhmatova lived from the mid [[1920s]] until [[1952]]. - Svetlana Savitskaya (713 bytes)
1: ...sia]], was a [[Soviet Union|Soviet]] female [[astronaut|cosmonaut]] who flew the [[Soyuz T-7]] in [[1... - Valentina Tereshkova (2387 bytes)
3: ...937]]), is a retired [[Soviet Union|Soviet]] [[astronaut|cosmonaut]] and was the first woman to fly in...
5: ... also trained in [[parachuting]] at the local [[Aeroclub]]. In [[1962]] she was selected to join the f...
7: ...None of the other four in Tereshkova's cosmonaut group ever flew.
9: ...e Communist Party]]. In [[1997]] she was retired from the [[VVS|air force]] and the cosmonaut corps by... - Sofia Kovalevskaya (3306 bytes)
1: ...ity]], the third woman in [[Europe]] to become a professor.
5: ...tersburg Academy of Sciences]]) via [[Fyodor Fyodorovich Schubert]] (another Academician) and had more...
7: ...eorem]]) and essentially completed the study of [[rotating solid]]s, applying the then-new theory of [...
9: ...ed on the older sister Anna and he very probably proposed to her.
11: ...calculus in the army, and when they ran short of proper wallpaper for one house, used his old notes in... - Sofia Gubaidulina (8325 bytes)
7: ...founded Astreja, a folk-instrument improvisation group with fellow composers Victor Suslin and Vyaches...
9: ...osed a homage to [[T. S. Eliot]], using the text from the poet's spiritual masterpiece ''[[Four Quarte...
11: ...rt project to write a piece for the Passion 2000 project in commemoration of [[Johann Sebastian Bach]]...
15: ...n than the recomposition of spiritual integrity through the composition of music."
21: *''Vivente - Non Vivente'' for electronics (1970) - Balalaika (5108 bytes)
1: ...алала́йка</font>) is a stringed instrument of [[Rus...
18: ...ith a plectrum, but it is considered rather [[heterodox]] to do so.
24: ...Russia by the [[Mongol]]s from [[Central Asia]], from whence several kinds of fretted long-necked [[ch...
26: ...se with the modern saz, which allows for the [[microtonal]] playing distinctive to Turkish and Central...
28: ...ent for centuries, particularly with the ''[[skomorokh]]s'', sort of free-lance musical [[jester]]s wh... - Kazakhstan (26806 bytes)
1: ... of the Ural River is located in eastern-most [[Europe]]. It has borders with [[Russia]], the [[People...
3: ...w.stat.kz/en/info/stat-bul/stbr&e0303.pdf], down from 16,464,464 in [[1989]] [http://www.stat.kz/ru/dy...
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9: ...#1077;спублика Казахс...
11: | style=background:#efefef; align=center colspan=2 | - Kyrgyzstan (23226 bytes)
1: ...he country's young [[democracy]] showed relative promise under the leadership of former President [[As...
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37: established_dates = From the [[Soviet Union]]<br> [[31 August]] [[1991]]<...
52: ... the [[8th century|8th]] centuries. They spread across what is now the [[Tuva]] region of the [[Russia...
54: ... in [[1876]]. The Russian takeover instigated numerous revolts against [[tsar]]ist authority, and many... - Tajikistan (10867 bytes)
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37: | From [[Soviet Union]]<br/> [[September 9]], [[19...
51: ...c of Tajikistan''' (Тоҷикистон), formerly kn... - Ukraine (22193 bytes)
1: ...nd]], [[Slovakia]] and [[Hungary]] to the west, [[Romania]] and [[Moldova]] to the southwest and the [...
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6: |+<big><big>'''Україна<br>Ukrayina''...
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34: | '''[[Gross domestic product|GDP]]''' (2004) <br /> - Total (PPP) <b... - Cotton (7876 bytes)
2: ...ant]], a [[shrub]] native to the tropical and subtropical regions of both the [[Old World]] and the [[...
3: ...ng-in-a-field.jpg|thumb|none|550px|Cotton plants growing in field]]
4: ...se is arranged in a way that gives cotton unique properties of strength, durability, and absorbency. E...
9: ... [[feather]]s and [[fur]]) which dated back to approximately 7,000 years ago. There is clear archaeolo...
11: ...rote about Indian cotton: "There are trees which grow wild there, the fruit of which is a [[wool]] exc... - Space exploration (14877 bytes)
3: ==From fiction to fact==
4: ...als and other technological and scientific breakthroughs, the idea of outer-earth missions was no long...
6: ...et, the original [[Apollo program|Apollo]] and [[Project Mercury|Mercury]] space capsule trainers, and...
8: ...le]], a [[1972]] image taken during the [[Apollo program]]
11: From a spaceflight perspective, the definition of spa... - Astronaut (7339 bytes)
1: ...onaut.jpg|right|300px|thumb|U.S. Space Shuttle astronaut [[Bruce McCandless II]] using a manned maneuv...
3: ...ings]]. Astronauts from at least [[Timeline of astronauts by nationality|32 countries]] have gone into...
7: ...4;т ''(kosmonavt)'', which in turn derives from the Greek words ''kosmos,'' meaning "universe" a...
9: ...bly becoming the first American cosmonaut in the process.
11: ... ''nautes'', "sailor"). While Europe has not yet produced manned spaceships, it has sent men and women... - Politics (7193 bytes)
2: ...nment]]s, politics is also observed in all human group interactions including [[corporate]], [[academi...
6: One theorist, [[Harold Lasswell]], has defined politics as "who gets w...
9: ...]] and would give up absolute rights for certain protections.
14: ... transformation of human society that took place around [[6th millennium BCE|6000 BCE]] as an urban re...
16: The word "Politics" is derived from the Greek word for city-state, "Polis". Corpora... - World War II (58065 bytes)
1: ...:nagasakibomb.jpg|thumb|295px|[[Mushroom cloud]] from the [[nuclear explosion]] over [[Nagasaki]] risi...
2: ...937]], in Asia and [[1 September]] [[1939]], in Europe and lasted until 1945, involving the majority o...
6: ... of Germany on [[8 May]] [[1945]] ([[Victory in Europe Day|V-E]] and [[Victory Day|Victory]] Days), bu...
8: ...a case of [[total war]], it involved the "[[home front]]" and [[Strategic bombing|bombing of civilians...
10: ...Europe largely aligned as [[NATO]], and Eastern Europe largely as the [[Warsaw pact]], alliances which... - Meerkat (4260 bytes)
15: ...he '''meerkat''' (from ''[[Dutch]]'' ''monkey'', from ''[[Afrikaans]]'' ''lake cat''), or '''suricate'...
19: ...ut. They are brown with short, parallel stripes across their backs. They are known for standing uprigh...
22: ... certain types of [[venom]], including the very strong venom of the scorpions of the [[Kalahari Desert...
24: ...others search for food. Sentry duty is usually approximately an hour long. The meerkat standing guard ...
26: ...ght in just seconds. Digging is done to create burrows, to get food and also to create dust clouds to ... - Russia (28007 bytes)
2: ...that stretches over a vast expanse of eastern [[Europe]] and northern [[Asia]]. With an area of 17,075...
6: ...age. This influence is notable, but is still far from that of the former Soviet Union.
13: ...no-Ugric]] tribes, such as the [[Merya]], the [[Muromian]]s and the [[Meshchera]].
15: ... prosperous, due to diversified trade with both Europe and Asia.
17: ...ed the [[Russians |Russian people]] in the north from the [[Belarusians]] and [[Ukrainians]] in the we...
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