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  1. Hanging Gardens of Babylon (4963 bytes)
    5: ...cavation of the palace at [[Babylon]] has been accrued, but does not completely substantiate what look...
    15: ...tions. The land she came from, though, was green, rugged and mountainous, and she found the flat, sun-...
    19: ...d. The pillars, [[vaults]], and terraces are constructed of baked brick and asphalt."
    43: ...1085;а Вавилон]]
    57: ...080; в Вавілоні]]
  2. Rio de Janeiro (14538 bytes)
    21: ...pe. Since there was no physical space nor urban structure to accommodate hundreds of noblemen who arri...
    54: ...arra da Tijuca, JacarepaguᬠCampo Grande, Santa Cruz and Bangu. Barra da Tijuca remains an area of ac...
    58: ...hich is currently experiencing a wave of new construction. High rise apartments and sprawling shopping...
    63: ...equent. The favelas are troubled by widespread [[drug]] related crime and [[gang]] warfare and other p...
    111: ...1077; Жанейро]]
  3. November 4 (10686 bytes)
    8: * [[1612]] - [[Moscow]] China Town taken by [[Russia]]n troops under command of [[Dmitri Mikhailov...
    28: ...viet Union|Soviet]] troops invade [[Hungary]] to crush the [[Hungarian Revolution, 1956|Hungarian revo...
    49: ...74]] - [[Aleksandr Vasilevich Kolchak]], [[Russia|Russian]] military commander (d. [[1920]])
    89: *[[1968]] - [[Michel Kikoine]], Belarusian painter (b. [[1892]])
    113: [[bg:4 ноември]]
  4. Anna of Russia (5221 bytes)
    1: ...M. Anna Ivanovna, Empress and Autocrat of all the Russias, Duchess of Courland]]
    3: ...[Courland]] from 1711 to 1730 and as Empress of [[Russia]] from 1730 to 1740.
    7: ...w western [[Latvia]]) from 1711 to 1730, with the Russian resident, [[Bestuzhev-Ryumin|Peter Bestuzhev...
    10: ...and soon she established herself as an autocratic ruler, using her popularity with the imperial guards...
    17: ...her maids, dressed as clowns, in a specially constructed house of ice, where the bride caught a cold a...
  5. Elizabeth of Russia (14144 bytes)
    1: ...izaveta Petrovna, Empress and Autocrat of all the Russias (1709-62)]]
    3: ...sburg]]. Generally, she was one of the best loved Russian monarchs, because she didn't allow Germans i...
    7: ...ghter of [[Peter the Great]] and [[Catherine I of Russia|Martha Skavronskaya]], was born at [[Kolomens...
    13: ...I]], who was rumoured to be her lover. The [[Dolgorukov]]s, who supplanted Menshikov and hated the mem...
    15: ...nus his tongue, by order of the empress [[Anna of Russia|Anne]], consoled herself with a handsome youn...
  6. Alexandra Kollontai (3203 bytes)
    1: ...h''', Домонто́вич) ([[March 31]] ([[Mar...
    5: At the time of the split in the [[Russian Social Democratic Labour Party]] into the [[...
    7: ...Kollontai joined the Bolsheviks and returned to [[Russia]], after a period of exile for her earlier po...
  7. Anna Akhmatova (2156 bytes)
    1: ...na Andreevna Gorenko, one of the most significant Russian [[Acmeist poetry|Acmeist poets]].
    9: ...khmatova maintained a long friendship with fellow Russian poetess [[Marina Tsvetaeva]], with several p...
    13: ... as the [[Sheremetev Palace]] in [[St Petersburg, Russia|St Petersburg]]), where Akhmatova lived from ...
  8. Marina Tsvetaeva (21885 bytes)
    3: ...[[1892]] – [[August 31]], [[1941]]) was a [[Russia]]n [[poet]] and [[writer]].
    5: ...ctory schools of [[Acmeist poetry|Acmeism]] and [[Russian Symbolist poetry|symbolism]].
    8: ...hly literate woman. She was also volatile and a (frustrated) concert pianist, with some [[Poland|Polis...
    12: ... the impressionable Marina. The children began to run wild. This state of affairs was allowed to conti...
    14: ...ing within Russian poetry: the flowering of the [[Russian Symbolist movement]], and this movement was ...
  9. Valentina Tereshkova (2387 bytes)
    3: ...1072; Терешко́ва}}; born [[March 6]], [[1937]...
    7: ...as '''Chayka''' ([[English]]: [[Seagull]]; {{lang-ru|Ча́йка}} ). Ev...
  10. Sofia Kovalevskaya (3306 bytes)
    1: ...[[1850]]–[[February 10]], [[1891]]) was a [[Russia]]n [[mathematician]] and a student of [[Karl...
    3: ...rname to [[Matthias Corvinus of Hungary|Korvin]]-Krukovsky.
    9: Kovalevskaya had a crush on [[Fyodor Dostoevsky]] and practiced his favo...
    11: ...es instead. Sofia spent many hours of childhood scrutinising the strange scribbles. Something of it se...
    13: She adored her uncle [[Pyotr Vasilievich Krukovsky]], a self-taught eccentric with especial fo...
  11. Sofia Gubaidulina (8325 bytes)
    1: ...ullina''') (born [[October 24]], [[1931]]) is a [[Russia]]n-[[Tatar]] [[composer]] of deeply religious...
    5: During her studies in [[Soviet]] Russia, her music was labeled "irresponsible" for it...
    7: ...mid-1970s Gubaidulina founded Astreja, a folk-instrument improvisation group with fellow composers Vic...
    25: *''Rumore e silenzio'' for percussion and harpsichord (...
    44: *''Alleluja'' for mixed chorus, boy soprano, organ and large orchestra (1990)
  12. Larisa Latynina (2531 bytes)
    3: ...1089;а Семёновна Лат&#1099...
    13: ...ecame a gymnastics trainer. She is a citizen of [[Russia]], and lives (as of [[2004]]) in her estate n...
  13. Kazakhstan (26806 bytes)
    1: ...in eastern-most [[Europe]]. It has borders with [[Russia]], the [[People's Republic of China]], and th...
    3: ...n from 16,464,464 in [[1989]] [http://www.stat.kz/ru/dynamic/svedenia_rk/population/nas.htm].<!--
    26: | [[Kazakh language|Kazakh]], [[Russian language|Russian]]
    70: ...[[13th century]], the territory of Kazakhstan was ruled by a series of [[nomad]]ic nations. Following ...
    72: ...ntrolled territories by [[Imperial Russia|tsarist Russia]].
  14. Serbia and Montenegro (13848 bytes)
    1: ...72; &#1080; &#1062;&#1088;&#1085;&#1072; &#1043;&#1086;&#1088;&#1072;, ''Srbija i Crna Gora'', often abb...
    5: ...72; &#1080; &#1062;&#1088;&#1085;&#1072; &#1043;&#1086;&#1088;&#1072;<br/>Dr&#382;avna zajednica<br/>Srb...
    65: ... promised the end of the name Yugoslavia. On [[February 4]], [[2003]], the [[Parliament of Serbia and ...
    68: ''Main article: [[Internal structure of Serbia and Montenegro]]''
    114: ...in June 2001 raised $1.3 billion for economic restructuring. An agreement rescheduling the country's $...
  15. Kyrgyzstan (23226 bytes)
    13: ... = [[Kyrgyz language|Kyrgyz]], [[Russian language|Russian]] |
    52: ...d across what is now the [[Tuva]] region of the [[Russia]]n Federation, remaining in that area until t...
    54: ...916]] rebellion in Central Asia, triggered by the Russian imposition of the military draft on the Kyrg...
    56: ...a-Kirghiz was used until the mid-[[1920s]] by the Russians to distinguish them from the Kazakhs, who w...
    64: ...) In February [[1991]], the name of the capital, Frunze, was changed back to its pre-revolutionary nam...
  16. Tajikistan (10867 bytes)
    16: | ''[[Surudi milli]]''
    51: ...#1086;&#1207;&#1080;&#1082;&#1080;&#1089;&#1090;&#1086;&#1085;), formerly known as the ''Tajik Soviet So...
    56: ...istan since 4,000 BC. The land has been under the rule of various empires throughout history, mostly t...
    58: In the [[19th century]], the [[Russian Empire]] began to expand, and spread into [[...
    62: ...hmonov was re-elected by almost unanimous vote. [[Russia]]n troops continue to be stationed in souther...
  17. Space exploration (14877 bytes)
    15: ...The first [[organisms]] launched into space were fruit flies and corn seeds aboard a U.S.-launched V2 ...
    49: ===Russian Aviation and Space Agency===
    50: ...1086;'') is the government agency responsible for Russia's space science program and general aerospace...
    53: ... programs. Launches are conducted in Kazakhstan, Russia, and on the [[Sea Launch]] platform.
    56: ...t millions of dollars of taxpayers' money to construct.
  18. Astronaut (7339 bytes)
    1: ...right|300px|thumb|U.S. Space Shuttle astronaut [[Bruce McCandless II]] using a manned maneuvering unit...
    7: ...he [[Russia]]n word &#1082;&#1086;&#1089;&#1084;&#1086;&#1085;&#1072;&#1074;&#1090; ''(kosmonavt)'', whi...
    9: ...me the first American to ride to space on-board a Russian launch vehicle, arguably becoming the first ...
    22: ...ew members, on publicly funded flights (generally Russian resupply flights to the ISS). The first spac...
    28: ...ternational [[Soyuz programme|Soyuz]] missions of Russia. In [[1998]] the [[European Space Agency]] fo...
  19. Politics (7193 bytes)
    18: ...dest form of government was tribal organization. Rule by elders was supplanted by monarchy, and a sys...
    31: ...e body that has the authority to make and enforce rules or laws.
    40: ...[Napoleon]], and [[Mao Zedong|Mao]] (however, Mao ruled long enough that his successors could invoke t...
    51: *[[Political corruption]]
    52: *[[Political spectrum]]
  20. World War II (58065 bytes)
    6: ...Days), but continued in Asia until [[Japanese Instrument of Surrender|Japan surrendered]] on [[15 Augu...
    10: ...nfluence]], the former undergoing economic reconstruction under the [[Marshall Plan]] and the latter b...
    42: ...nvasion, Operation Yellow, the Wehrmacht's Panzergruppe von Kleist bypassed the [[Maginot Line]] and s...
    46: ...lantic (1940)|Battle of the Atlantic]]. In a long-running campaign, German [[U-Boat]]s attempted to de...
    56: ...own on the outskirts of Moscow as a result of the Russian winter.

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