** Herman of Alaska ( Russian Orthodox Church and related congregations )

** Basil Fool for Christ ( Russian Orthodox Church )

** Russian battleship Imperator Aleksander III Russian warship

** Danube Cossack Host, an Imperial Russian Cossack Host formed from descendants of the Zaporozhian Cossacks

** Vladimirskaya ( Russian Orthodox )

** Romanov sainthood ( Russian Orthodox Church )

** Russian aircraft carrier Admiral Kuznetsov, the only completed ship of this class

** List of Russian rulers: early Grand Dukes and Tsars

** Alexander Nevsky ( Repose, Russian Orthodox Church )

** Russian original was written in 1970, distributed by samizdat, and eventually printed as Восленский М. С., Номенклатура.

** In many languages ( e. g., Czech, English, French, Interlingua, and Russian ), the sets of relative and interrogative pronouns are nearly identical.

** Many languages, such as Bulgarian, Swedish, Norwegian, Frisian, Italian, Spanish, Russian, Polish, Ukrainian, Dutch and most Occitan variants, use trilled rhotics.

** Table of contents, bibliography of On the Origin of Species – links to text and images of all six British editions of The Origin of Species, the 6th edition with additions and corrections ( final text ), the first American edition, and translations into Danish, Dutch, French, German, Polish, Russian and Spanish.

** 101. mendelevium, Md, named after the Russian chemist Dmitri Mendeleev, credited for being the primary creator of the periodic table of the chemical elements ( 1955 ).

** Romanized Russian: Dogovor o druzhbe, sotrudnichestve i vzaimnoy pomoshchi

** Makharbek Khadartsev, Russian free-style wrestler

** Dmitri Dmitrievich Maksutov, Russian astronomer and inventor ( b. 1896 )

** The First Chechen War ( 1994 – 1996 ) – the conflict was fought between the Russian Federation and the Chechen Republic of Ichkeria.

** The Second Chechen War ( 1999 – ongoing ) – the war was launched by the Russian Federation starting 26 August 1999, in response to the Invasion of Dagestan and the Russian apartment bombings which were blamed on the Chechens.

** Lina Krasnoroutskaya, Russian tennis player and commentator

** Nikolai Pokotylo, Russian singer

** Vera Zvonareva, Russian tennis player

** Lena Katina, Russian singer

** Wyższa Szkoła Zarządzania / The Polish Open University

** Polish rulers

** List of Polish presidents

** Polish marka, Polish currency from 1917 to 1924

** Radio ESKA ,-which plays international hits, along with Polish music.

** Radio Maryja-a radio station that is centered around religious observances, such as mass, and prayer, in Polish.

** Mariusz Pudzianowski, Polish strongman

** Arkadiusz Radomski, Polish footballer

** Kamil Kosowski, Polish footballer

** Adam Małysz, Polish ski jumper

** Rudolph Maté, Polish cinematographer ( b. 1898 )

** A new Polish government is declared in Western Galicia ( Central Europe ).

** Ewa Farna, Polish singer

** Aleksandra Ziolkowska-Boehm, Polish born writer

** Jarosław Kaczyński, Polish Prime Minister ( 2006 – 2007 )

** Ewa Kasprzyk, Polish actress

** Joanna Pacula, Polish actress

** Andrzej Wajda, Polish film director

** Waclaw Sierpinski, Polish mathematician ( b. 1882 )

** Andrzej Sapkowski, Polish writer

** WWII: Polish troops on the Westerplatte are forced, due to lack of food and ammunition, to surrender.

** Reinhard Heydrich, chief of the Security Police, sent a directive, the Schnellbrief, explaining that Jews living in towns and villages in the Polish occupation zones were to be transferred to ghettos, and Jewish councils – Judenräte – would be established to carry out the German authorities ’ orders.