Raised an Orthodox Christian, Kandinsky drew upon the Jewish and Christian stories of Noah's Ark, Jonah and the whale, Christ's resurrection, the four horsemen of the Apocalypse in the book of Revelation, Russian folktales and the common mythological experiences of death and rebirth.

The Ark together with its ornamental gates were taken from the Nikolaijewsky Synagogue in Kherson, Russia, which had been used by Russian Jewish conscripts, forced to spend twenty-five years in the Tsarist army.

The Marquis de Custine may also be known to contemporary audiences as the European visitor in the 2002 film Russian Ark, whose conversations with the time-traveling narrator reflect Russia's continued struggle for identity with regards to Europe.

Aleksandr Sokurov's Russian Ark ( 2002 ) consists of a single 90-minute take, shot on a digital format.

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For example, The Mist has a length of 117 minutes and consists of 1292 shots, so the ASL is 5. 4 seconds, while Russian Ark is a single 96-minute long take, so an ASL of 96 minutes or about 5, 760 seconds, a factor of 1, 000 difference.

A film that was actually a single take is the recent Russian Ark.

A handful of theatrically released feature films, such as Timecode, Russian Ark, PVC-1 and La casa muda are filmed in one single take ; others are composed entirely from a series of long takes, while many more may be well known for one or two specific long takes within otherwise more conventionally edited films.

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Additionally, the late William Hootkins ( Major Eaton from Raiders of the Lost Ark ) played Russian ballet producer Sergei Diaghilev in " Barcelona, May 1917 ".

The Ark was attacked and bombed by 4000 Russian troops in December 1911.

It is employed in HDCAM and XDCAM video cameras, including the HDW-F900 CineAlta camera which was used by George Lucas for creating Star Wars, Episode 2, and by Alexander Sokurov for creating Russian Ark fully in the digital domain.

Ark ( Russian: Ковчег, Kovcheg ) is a fictional planet described in Space Mowgli ( Малыш ) by Arkady and Boris Strugatsky.

Russian Ark was recorded in uncompressed high definition video using a Sony HDW-F900.

Two lesser-known movies, Vidocq ( 2001 ) and Russian Ark ( 2002 ), had also previously been shot with the same camera, the latter notably consisting of a single long take ( no cuts ).

Four masked men come to the hospital attempting to kidnap Paul Drevin, the son of Russian billionaire Nikolei Drevin, who is financing a revolutionary space hotel named " Ark Angel ".

The Russian Ark, 2003 by Alexander Sokurov, was filmed in a single 96-minute shot in the Russian Hermitage Museum is a dream-like narration that tells about Classic Russian culture sailing in the Ark.

His most significant works include a feature film, Russian Ark ( 2002 ), filmed in a single unedited shot, and Faust ( 2011 ), which was honoured with the Golden Lion, the highest prize for the best film at the Venice Film Festival.

In August 2002, the Armenian government sold an 80 percent stake in the Armenian Electricity Network ( AEN ) to Midland Resources, a British offshore-registered firm which is said to have close Russian connections.

In September 2002, the Armenian government handed over Armenia ’ s largest cement factory to the Russian ITERA gas exporter in payment for its $ 10 million debt for past gas deliveries.

* 2002 – A Russian Mil Mi-26 helicopter carrying troops is hit by a Chechen missile outside of Grozny, killing 118 soldiers.

According to the 2002 Russian Federation census, no responders gave the ethnonym Ainu in boxes 7 or 9. 2 in the K-1 form of the census, though some still might exist.

The first post-Soviet Russian Census was carried out in 2002, followed by the 2010 Census.

* Jones, D. and M. Trofimov ( 1923 ), " The Pronunciation of Russian ", Cambridge: CUP ; rpt in facsimile in Jones ( 2002 ).

Eventually in 2002, Grenada re-established diplomatic relations with the newly formed Russian Federation.

MV Esperanza, a former fire-fighter owned by the Russian Navy, was relaunched by Greenpeace in 2002

* 1916 – Alexander Prokhorov, Russian physicist, Nobel Prize laureate ( d. 2002 )

As of the 2002 All-Russian Population Census, the majority of the 358, 801 population is Russian ( 290, 108 ), largest minorities are Ukrainian ( 20, 870 ) and Koryak ( 7, 328 ).

* 1909 – Nikolay Guryanov, Russian mystic and priest ( d. 2002 )

* 2002 – Moscow Theatre Siege: Approximately 50 Chechen terrorists and 150 hostages die when Russian Spetsnaz storm a theater building in Moscow, which had been occupied by the terrorists during a musical performance three days before.

* In a 2002 episode of The West Wing, Rob Lowe ( Sam Seaborn ) and Ian McShane ( portraying a Russian negotiator ) have a conversation about how the word ' frumpy ' " onomatopoetically sounds right ".

In November 2002, Russian mathematician Grigori Perelman posted the first of a series of eprints on arXiv outlining a solution of the Poincaré conjecture.

* Nik Russian, the perpetrator of a con committed in 2002

** Evgeny Svetlanov, Russian conductor and composer ( d. 2002 )

** Aleksandr Mikhailovich Prokhorov, Russian physicist, Nobel laureate ( d. 2002 )

* September 18 – Nikolai Rukavishnikov, Russian cosmonaut ( d. 2002 )

In 2002, a satyrical short-story The First Russian ( პირველი რუსი ) penned by the young Georgian writer Lasha Bughadze and focused on a frustrated wedding night of Tamar and Yuri outraged many conservatives and triggered a nationwide controversy, including heated discussions in the media, the Parliament of Georgia and the Patriarchate of the Georgian Orthodox Church.

* START II, signed 1993, ratified 1996 ( United States ) and 2000 ( Russia ), terminated following Russian withdrawal 2002

* 2002: Arion, a poem by Alexander Pushkin, translated from the Russian, with a note by Olga Carlisle, Arion Press

* FC SKA-Energiya Khabarovsk is the city's best football team, playing in the Russian First Division which is the second tier of Russian football since 2002 season.

After the collapse of the Soviet Union, use of Jaŋalif was revived, but the Cyrillic script was again enforced in 2002, when the Russian Federation passed a controversial law enforcing the use of Cyrillic for all official languages.

In Russia, the Evenks are recognized as one of the Indigenous peoples of the Russian North, with a population of 35, 527 ( 2002 Census ).