The Russian equivalent of SPAAG is ZSU, for zenitnaya samokhodnaya ustanovka, (" anti-aircraft self-propelled mount ").

The Russian equivalent of SPAAG is ZSU, for zenitnaya samokhodnaya ustanovka, (" anti-aircraft self-propelled mount ").

Although myths and speculation about a Terra Australis (" Southern Land ") date back to antiquity, the first confirmed sighting of the continent of Antarctica is commonly accepted to have occurred in 1820 by the Russian expedition of Fabian Gottlieb von Bellingshausen and Mikhail Lazarev on Vostok and Mirny.

* Baltic Sea is used in English ; in the Baltic languages Latvian ( Baltijas jūra ) and Lithuanian ( Baltijos jūra ); in Latin ( Mare Balticum ) and the Romance languages French ( Mer Baltique ), Italian ( Mar Baltico ), Portuguese ( Mar Báltico ), Romanian ( Marea Baltică ) and Spanish ( Mar Báltico ); in Greek ( Βαλτική Θάλασσα ); in Albanian ( Deti Balltik ); in the Slavic languages Polish ( Morze Bałtyckie or Bałtyk ), Czech ( Baltské moře or Balt ), Croatian ( Baltičko more ), Slovenian ( Baltsko morje ), Bulgarian ( Baltijsko More ( Балтийско море ), Kashubian ( Bôłt ), Macedonian ( Балтичко Море / Baltičko More ), Ukrainian ( Балтійське море (" Baltijs ' ke More "), Belarusian ( Балтыйскае мора (" Baltyjskaje Mora "), Russian ( Балтийское море (" Baltiyskoye Morye ") and Serbian ( Балтичко море / Baltičko more ); in the Hungarian language ( Balti-tenger ); and also in Basque ( Itsaso Baltikoa )

A tumultuous year at the Bauhaus, 1922 also saw the move of Dutch painter Theo van Doesburg to Weimar to promote De Stijl (" The Style "), and a visit to the Bauhaus by Russian Constructivist artist and architect El Lissitzky.

The latter became known as recallists (" otzovists " in Russian ).

Eye Care (" see if I care "), Russian chauffeur Pikov Andropov (" pick up and drop off "), Leo Tolstoy biographer Warren Peace (" War and Peace "), and law firm Dewey, Cheetham and Howe (" Do we cheat ' em?

The error messages on those calculators appear as a Russian word " YEGGOG " (" ЕГГОГ ") which, unsurprisingly, is translated to " Error ".

This was because his great-grandmother, Queen Victoria, suggested the nickname of " Nicky ", however it got mixed up with the many Nickys of the Russian Imperial Family (" Nicky " was particularly used to refer to Nicholas II, the last Tsar ) so they changed it to Dickie.

Under the pen name Pero (" feather " or " pen " in Russian ), Trotsky soon became one of the paper's leading authors.

In October 1908 he started a bi-weekly Russian language social democratic paper aimed at Russian workers called Pravda (" Truth "), which he co-edited with Joffe, Matvey Skobelev and Victor Kopp and which was smuggled into Russia.

Mor may derive from an Indo-European root connoting terror or monstrousness, cognate with the Old English maere ( which survives in the modern English word " nightmare ") and the Scandinavian mara and the Old Russian " mara " (" nightmare "); while rígan translates as ' queen '.

In Russian, " Миша " (" Mischa " or " Misha ") is a shortened form of " Михаил " ( Mikhail ).

Marxism – Leninism descends from the Bolshevik (" Majority ") faction of the Russian Social Democratic Labour Party ( RSDLP ) that was founded in the RSDLP's Second Congress in 1903.

In the Bulgarian Orthodox Church, Russian Orthodox Church and Serbian Orthodox Church, it is not unusual for a village priest to be called a " pope " (" поп " pop ).

In 1972 Aleksandr Baryshnikov set his first USSR record using a new putting style, the spin (" круговой мах " in Russian ), invented by his coach Viktor Alexeyev.

Tolstoy, or Tolstoi () is a prominent family of Russian nobility, descending from Andrey Kharitonovich Tolstoy (" the Fat ") who served under Vasily II of Moscow.

The inhabitants of Warsaw still commonly use nicknames to refer to the palace, notably Pekin ( Beijing in Polish, because of its abbreviated name PKiN ( Pałac Kultury i Nauki ), Pajac (" clown ", a word that sounds close to Pałac ), Stalin's syringe, the Elephant in Lacy Underwear, or even the Russian Wedding Cake.

A shocked Mandarin ( bureaucrat ) | mandarin in Manchu people | Manchu robe in the back, with Queen Victoria ( British Empire ), Wilhelm II of Germany | Wilhelm II ( German Empire ), Nicholas II of Russia | Nicholas II ( Russian Empire | Imperial Russia ), Marianne ( French Third Republic ), and a samurai ( Empire of Japan ) stabbing into a king cake with Chine (" China " in French ) written on it.

The Russian higher education framework was basically incompatible with the Process: the generic " lowest " degree in all universities since Soviet era is the Specialist which can be obtained after completing 5 – 6 years of studies.

* Systems Universalisation Specialist, a unit of the Russian army

In September 1947, although he was only a high school graduate from a small rural school, he entered the Army's Foreign Area Specialist Training Program ( FASTP ) and was enrolled in graduate school at Columbia University, specializing in the Russian language and related background and area subjects.

It is truly odd and ironic that the most handsome and impressive film yet made from Miguel De Cervantes' `` Don Quixote '' is the brilliant Russian spectacle, done in wide screen and color, which opened yesterday at the Fifty-fifth Street and Sixty-eighth Street Playhouses.

His assessment was based on a large sample of glossolalia recorded in public and private Christian meetings in Italy, The Netherlands, Jamaica, Canada and the USA over the course of five years ; his wide range included the Puerto Ricans of the Bronx, the Snake Handlers of the Appalachians, and Russian Molokan in Los Angeles.

At the same time while Pan-Slavism worked against Austro-Hungary with South Slavs, Poles enjoyed a wide autonomy within the state and assumed a loyalist position as they were able to develop their national culture and preserve Polish language, something under threat in both German and Russian Empires.

Since then research and development has continued and currently Russian forces field a wide array of third-generation FAE warheads.

Government agents cast a wide net, bringing in some American citizens, passers-by who admitted being Russian, some not members of the Russian Workers.

Polevoy's view appeared to gain wide support among the Russian geographer community ; petitioned by the Amur Branch of the Russian Geographical Society, the Russian Government renamed the village of Odzhal to Achan in 1977, to celebrate its connection with Khabarov's raid.

In the early years of the Soviet Union, Russian and Soviet artists embraced a wide variety of art forms under the auspices of Proletkult.

Between May and November 1829, he, together with his chosen associates, Gustav Rose and C. G. Ehrenberg, traversed the wide expanse of the Russian empire from the Neva to the Yenesei, accomplishing in twenty-five weeks a distance of.

For example, Russian geographer Georgi Plekhanov argued that the reason his nation was still in the feudal era, rather than having progressed to capitalism and becoming ripe for the revolution into communism, was that the wide plains of Russia allowed class conflicts to be easily diffused.

A wide variety of gangs, such as the T gang, The Order of Assassins, Adam the Leper's gang, Penny Mobs, Indian Thugs, Catford Massif, Chinese Triads, Snakehead, Japanese Yakuza, Irish mob, Pancho Villa's Villistas, Dead Rabbits, American Old West outlaw gangs, Bowery Boys, Chasers, Italian mafia, Jewish mafia, and Russian Mafia crime families have existed for centuries.

1854 the first edition of the Atlas antiquus, which has obtained very wide recognition, being issued in English, French, Russian, Dutch and Italian.

Russian Blues should not be confused with British Blues ( which are not a distinct breed but rather a British Shorthair with a blue coat ; the British Shorthair breed itself comes in a wide variety of colors and patterns ), nor the Chartreux or Korat which are two other naturally occurring breeds of blue cats, although they have similar traits.

Tensions between the opposing empires that extended across a wide range of religious, cultural and political conflicts, led to the outbreak of hostilities in the 19th century and eventually yielded the Second Treaty of Erzurum between the two parties, in 1847, after protracted negotiations, which included British and Russian delegates.

The American cardiologist Bernard Lown and the Russian cardiologist Yevgeniy Chazov were motivated in conscience through studying the catastrophic public health consequences of nuclear war in establishing International Physicians for the Prevention of Nuclear War ( IPPNW ) which was awarded the Nobel Peace Prize in 1985 and continues to work to " heal an ailing planet ". World wide expressions of conscience contributed to the decision of the French government to halt atmospheric nuclear tests at Mururoa in the Pacific in 1974 after 41 such explosions ( although below-ground nuclear tests continued there into the 1990s ).

In Ostrobothnia, the Russian troops engaged in the creation of a wide strip of no-man's land between the occupied Finland and Sweden proper.

In music, French influence began to weaken, and instead, a wide variety of influences, such as British popular music ( in particular The Beatles ), Greek music, and modern Russian culture, have affected Israeli culture.

While working in the FBI New York office, Pitts had access to " a wide range of sensitive and highly classified operations " that included " recruitment operations involving Russian intelligence officers, double agent operations, operations targeting Russian intelligence officers, true identities of human assets, operations against Russian illegals, defector sources, surveillance schedules of known meet sites, internal policies, documents, and procedures concerning surveillance of Russian intelligence officers, and the identification, targeting, and reporting on known and suspected KGB intelligence officers in the New York area.

Mikhail Ivanovich Glinka () (), was the first Russian composer to gain wide recognition within his own country, and is often regarded as the father of Russian classical music.

Integrated NATO Air Defense System or INADS was the NATO response to the Russian development of long range bombers in the 1950s.

In the Russian Army, such vehicles were introduced for fighting in urban areas, where the risk from short range infantry anti-tank weapons such as the RPG-7 is highest, after Russian tank and motor infantry units suffered heavy losses fighting insurgents in Grozny during the First Chechen War in 1995.

Examples of firearms in this range are the American 5. 56 mm M16 and the Russian 5. 45 × 39mm AK-74.

Julian Semyonov was an influential spy novelist, writing in the Eastern Bloc, whose range of novels and novel series featured a White Russian spy in the USSR ; Max Otto von Stierlitz, a Soviet mole in the Nazi High Command, and Felix Dzerzhinsky, founder of the Cheka.

As attested by Sigismund von Herberstein, in the 16th century Russians called the range by a variety of names derived from the Russian words for rock ( stone ) and belt.

The modern Russian name for the Urals ( Урал, Ural ), first appearing in the 16th – 17th century when the Russian expansion into Siberia was in its heroic phase, was initially applied to its southern parts and gained currency as the name of the entire range during the 18th century.

So, after all our journeys of the last 30 or 40 years, the disappearance of the intermediate range ballistic missile revived the old question of the supposed conventional imbalance between the Russian alliance and the North Atlantic Alliance ".

One 1955 MKUltra document gives an indication of the size and range of the effort ; this document refers to the study of an assortment of mind-altering substances described as follows: The CIA wanted to know if they could make Russian spies defect against their will and whether the Russians could do the same to their own operatives.

Japanese fire was also more accurate because they were using the latest issued ( 1903 ) Barr & Stroud FA3 coincidence rangefinder, which had a range of, while the Russian battleships were equipped with Liuzhol rangefinders from the 1880s, which only had a range of about.

Koryaks ( or Koriak ) are an indigenous people of Kamchatka Krai in the Russian Far East, who inhabit the coastlands of the Bering Sea to the south of the Anadyr basin and the country to the immediate north of the Kamchatka Peninsula, the southernmost limit of their range being Tigilsk.

Such ideas range from the psychological-cognitive, such as Osborn-Parnes Creative Problem Solving Process, Synectics, Science-based creative thinking, Purdue Creative Thinking Program, and Edward de Bono's lateral thinking ; to the highly structured, such as TRIZ ( the Theory of Inventive Problem-Solving ) and its variant Algorithm of Inventive Problem Solving ( developed by the Russian scientist Genrich Altshuller ), and Computer-Aided Morphological analysis.

This use was made redundant with the availability of Russian airspace due to the breakup of the Soviet Union and the advent of longer-range aircraft introduced in the late 1980s and early 1990s such as the Airbus A340, the Airbus A380, the Boeing 747-400 and the Boeing 777 series aircraft, which had the range to fly between Europe and Southeast Asia nonstop.

The infantry division of Dupont advanced rapidly from Posthenen, the cavalry divisions drove back the Russian squadrons into the now congested masses of infantry on the river bank, and finally the artillery general Sénarmont advanced a mass of guns to case-shot range.

The terrible effect of the close range artillery saw the Russian defence collapsing within minutes, as canister decimated the ranks.

On 4 February 1854 the modern history of the city began with the strengthening of the Russian piedmont Fort Verniy nearby the Zailiysky Alatau mountain range between Bolshaya and Malaya Almatinka rivers.

The Russian government has been discussing a range of re-population programs to avoid the forecast drop to 4. 5 million people by 2015, hoping to attract in particular the remaining Russian population of the near abroad.

The range of the Hermitage's exhibits was further expanded when private art collections from several palaces of the Russian Tsars and numerous private mansions were being nationalized and then redistributed among major Soviet state museums.

The NATO reporting names for Soviet / Russian ground-attack aircraft usually classified them as " F " ( fighters ) instead of " B " ( bombers ) — possibly because ( since Sukhoi Su-7 Fitter ) they were similar in size, range, and weapons to Soviet fighters, or were simply derivatives of such.

In Russia this range is called " Vostochno-Manchzhurskie gory " (" East Manchurian mountain range ") and considered as a part of more long Manchu-Korean mountain range (" Manchzuro-Koreiskie gory "), which separates China from Korea and Russian Primorsky Krai.