* 1977 – Alexander M. Volkov, Russian novelist and mathematician ( b. 1891 )

On October 2, 1991 he launched with Russian cosmonaut Alexander Volkov as flight commander, and the Austrian research cosmonaut Franz Viehböck in Soyuz TM-13 from the Baikonur Cosmodrome spaceport, and spent over eight days in space.

In Russia, a translation by Alexander Melentyevich Volkov produced five books, The Wizard of the Emerald City series, which became progressively distanced from the Baum version, as Ellie and her dog Totoshka travel throughout the Magic Land.

Alexander Volkov introduced fantasy fiction to Soviet children with his loose translation of Frank L. Baum's The Wonderful Wizard of Oz, published as The Wizard of the Emerald City, and then wrote a series of five sequels, unrelated to Baum.

* On 17 September 1985, Soyuz T-14 docked with the station carrying Vladimir Vasyutin, Alexander Volkov and Georgi Grechko.

Ivankov's reign, too, ended in June 1995 when a $ 3. 5 million extortion attempt from two Russian businessmen, Alexander Volkov and Vladimir Voloshin, ended in an FBI arrest that resulted in a ten-year maximum security prison sentence.

In Alexander Volkov's Russian adaptation of The Wonderful Wizard of Oz, Volkov avoided this problem by the translation of " The Tin Woodman " as the " Iron Woodchopper ".

In the Magic Land stories of Alexander Melentyevich Volkov, the prehistory is quite different.

Alexander Melentyevich Volkov was a Russian author best known for his translation of The Wizard of Oz into Russian, and for writing his own original sequels, which were based only loosely on Baum's.

Nakamura qualified for the 2004 world chess championship, contested in Tripoli, Libya, and reached the fourth round, defeating grandmasters Sergey Volkov, Aleksej Aleksandrov, and Alexander Lastin before falling to England's Michael Adams, the tournament's third-seeded participant and eventual runner-up.

: For other people named Aleksandr Volkov, see Alexander Volkov.

Its launch in November 1988 represented the start of the fourth long duration expedition, Mir EO-4, as it carried two more Soviet cosmonauts, Sergei Krikalyov and Alexander Volkov, to the station.

Alexander Volkov, Sergei Krikalev, and Valeri Polyakov remained aboard Mir.

The Peredvizhniki ( from left to right ): Grigoriy Myasoyedov, Konstantin Savitsky, Vasily Polenov,: ru: Аммосов, Сергей Николаевич | Sergey Ammosov,: ru: Киселёв, Александр Александрович | Alexander Kiselev,: ru: Волков, Ефим Ефимович | Yefim Volkov, Nikolai Nevrev, Vasily Surikov, Vladimir Makovsky, Alexander Litovchenko, Ivan Shishkin,: ru: Лемох, Кирилл Викентьевич | Carl Lemoch, Ivan Kramskoi, Nikolai Yaroshenko, Ilya Repin,: ru: Брюллов, Павел Александрович | Pavel Bryullov, Ivanov ( manager of Peredvizhniki cooperative ),: ru: Маковский, Николай Егорович | Nikolay Makovsky, Alexander Beggrov

Polozkov | Vladimir V. Puchkov | Oleg N. Razumovsky | Mark Reizen | Vadim L. Ruslanov | Victor Sanin | Ivan Ivanovich Savchuk | Alexei Tikhonovich Sergeev | Boris G. Shapenko | Boris Shemyakov | Vladimir Shkaptsov | Vasily Ivanovich Shtefutsa | Alexander Sergeievich Sibirtsev | B. Slastnoi | Anatoly Solovyanenko | A. Syrovatko-Zolotarev | Barseg Tumanyan | Alexei Usmanov | Georgi Pavlovich Vinogradov | Igor F. Volkov | Leonid V. Wheat | Boris G. Zhayvoronok.

He won singles rubbers in the Davis Cup final against both Yevgeny Kafelnikov and Alexander Volkov, as Sweden beat Russia 4 – 1.

* Aleksandr Belostennyi, Valdemaras Chomičius, Valery Goborov, Rimas Kurtinaitis, Šarūnas Marčiulionis, Igors Miglinieks, Viktor Pankrashkin, Arvydas Sabonis, Tiit Sokk, Sergey Tarakanov, Valery Tikhonenko, and Alexander Volkov — Basketball, Men's Team Competition

* Alexander Volkov

*# First round — Defeated Alexander Volkov ( Soviet Union ) 7-5 6-4 6-3

:* First Round – Defeated Andrei Olhovskiy and Alexander Volkov ( Soviet Union ) 6-3 6-3 6-1

Alexander Volkov may refer to:

* Alexander Volkov ( fighter ) ( born 1988 ), Russian mixed martial artist

He was born in Logierait, Perthshire, Scotland to Alexander Mackenzie Sr. and Mary Stewart Fleming.

Alexander was born as son of the King Casimir IV Jagiellon of Poland and Elisabeth Habsburg of Hungary, daughter of the King Albert of Hungary.

Alexander Alexandrovich Romanov was born on 10 March 1845 in Saint Petersburg, Russia, the second son of Emperor Alexander II of Russia and his wife Maria Alexandrovna ( Marie of Hesse ).

The marriage took place on 15 May 1239, and produced one son, the future Alexander III, born in 1241.

Alexander was born at Roxburgh, the only son of Alexander II by his second wife Marie de Coucy.

Alexander was born at Arca Caesarea on 1 October, 208, with the name Marcus Julius Gessius Bassianus Alexianus.

* Alexander, Crown Prince of Yugoslavia, ( born 1945 ), the head of the Yugoslav Royal Family

Alexander Grothendieck (; ; born 28 March 1928 ) is a mathematician and the central figure behind the creation of the modern theory of algebraic geometry.

Alexander Grothendieck was born in Berlin to anarchist parents: a Ukrainian father from an ultimately Hassidic family, Alexander " Sascha " Shapiro aka Tanaroff, and a mother from a German Protestant family, Johanna " Hanka " Grothendieck ; both of his parents had broken away from their early backgrounds in their teens.

Alexander Kerensky was born in Simbirsk ( now Ulyanovsk ) on the Volga River into the family of a secondary school principal.

Alexander was born at Hales ( today Halesowen, West Midlands ), Shropshire, England between 1180 and 1186.

He was born in Rome — in either 1475 or 1476 — the son of Cardinal Rodrigo de Lanzol y Borgia, soon to become Pope Alexander VI, and his mistress Vannozza dei Cattanei, about whom information is sparse.

Christopher Wolfgang Alexander ( born October 4, 1936 in Vienna, Austria ) is a registered architect noted for his theories about design, and for more than 200 building projects in California, Japan, Mexico and around the world.

James Clerk Maxwell, the founder of the modern theory of electromagnetism, was born here and educated at the Edinburgh Academy and University of Edinburgh, as was the engineer and telephone pioneer Alexander Graham Bell.

Herbert Alexander Simon was born in Milwaukee, Wisconsin on June 15, 1916.

Alexander was born in London, England, to parents of noble heritage, and was educated at English public schools before moving on to Sandhurst for training as an army officer.

Alexander was born in London, the third son of the Earl and Countess of Caledon, the latter being a daughter of the Earl of Norbury.

After the completion of his courses, Alexander, on 14 October 1931, married Lady Margaret Bingham, the daughter of the Earl of Lucan and with whom Alexander had two sons — Shane, born 1935, and Brian, born 1939 — and a daughter, as well as adopting another daughter during his time as Canada's governor general.

* 1755 – Alexander Hamilton, Nevis born American Founding Father, economist, and political philosopher ; 1st United States Secretary of the Treasury ( d. 1804 )