The name " Alaska " ( Аляска ) was already introduced in the Russian colonial period, when it was used only for the peninsula and is derived from the Aleut alaxsxaq, meaning " the mainland " or, more literally, " the object towards which the action of the sea is directed ".

An example is Vasilyevsky Island in the Russian city of St. Petersburg, which had its western shore extended westward by some 0. 5 km due to the construction of a new sea terminal.

* 1853 – Crimean War: Battle of Sinop – The Imperial Russian Navy under Pavel Nakhimov destroys the Ottoman fleet under Osman Pasha at Sinop, a sea port in northern Turkey.

The sea depth at the North Pole has been measured at by the Russian Mir submersible in 2007 and at 4, 087 m ( 13, 410 ft ) by USS Nautilus in 1958.

A member of the Russian team that descended to the North Pole seabed in August 2007 reported seeing no sea creatures living there.

However, it was later reported that a sea anemone had been scooped up from the seabed mud by the Russian team and that video footage from the dive showed unidentified shrimps and amphipods.

In 1803 – 06 the first Russian circumnavigation was made, later followed by other notable Russian sea exploration voyages.

The only information about him is contained in the 12th-century Russian Primary Chronicle, which states that Chuds, Slavs, Merias, Veses and Krivichs "… drove the Varangians back beyond the sea, refused to pay them tribute, and set out to govern themselves ".

The key concept of the space elevator appeared in 1895 when Russian scientist Konstantin Tsiolkovsky was inspired by the Eiffel Tower in Paris to consider a tower that reached all the way into space, built from the ground up to the altitude of geostationary orbit ( 35, 790 kilometers ( 22, 238 mi ) above sea level ).

Advanced systems were later developed and built for special military purposes, such as to find H-Bombs lost at sea or to find a lost Russian submarine, at the Westinghouse facility in Annapolis up through the 1990s.

It was made by the Russian maritime explorer and navigator Ivan Fedorov from sea near present day Cape Prince of Wales on the eastern boundary of the Bering Strait opposite Russian Cape Dezhnev.

Among other things the Swedish government has to decide whether or not to lend its support to the construction of a Russian gas pipeline in the Baltic sea near the Swedish island of Gotland.

The plan was to relieve Port Arthur by sea, link up with the First Pacific Squadron, overwhelm the Imperial Japanese Navy, and then delay the Japanese advance into Manchuria until Russian reinforcements could arrive via the Trans-Siberian railroad and overwhelm the Japanese land forces in Manchuria.

( The Russian fleet often bought low-quality coal at sea from merchant vessels on most of their long voyage due to the lack of friendly fuelling ports ).

The sea is named after Okhotsk, the first Russian settlement in the Far East.

With the exception of Hokkaidō, one of the Japanese home islands, the sea is surrounded on all sides by territory administered by the Russian Federation.

In the Japanese language, the sea has no traditional Japanese name despite its close location to the Japanese territories and is called Ohōtsuku-kai ( オホーツク海 ), which is a transcription of the Russian name.

The Russian name " Chukchi " is derived from the Chukchi word Chauchu (" rich in reindeer "), which was used by the ' Reindeer Chukchi ' to distinguish themselves from the ' Maritime Chukchi ,' called Anqallyt (" the sea people ").

The Russian " Rurik " sets anchor near Saint Paul Island ( Alaska ) | Saint Paul Island in the Bering sea in order to load food and equipment for the expedition to the Chukchi sea in the north.

In contemporary literature, the Steller's sea cow appears in a book of poetry, Species Evanescens, by Russian poet Andrei Bronnikov.

The German word for them is Meerschweinchen, literally " sea piglet ", which has been translated into Polish as świnka morska, into Hungarian as tengerimalac and into Russian as морская свинка.

The Russian Cossack captain Nikolay Leontiev with team of volunteers of participated in the battle as an advisor to Menelik.

* The movie and the book The Hunt for Red October involves the fear of a Russian submarine nuclear delivery system that is so ideal for a first strike that its captain and others plan to defect with the submarine rather than allow it to continue under Russian control.

According to various sources, three men all sighted Antarctica within days or months of each other: Fabian von Bellingshausen, a captain in the Russian Imperial Navy ; Edward Bransfield, a captain in the British navy ; and Nathaniel Palmer, an American sealer out of Stonington, Connecticut.

Having obtained a promotion on his retirement to the level of first captain, Bering kept this rank when he decided to rejoin the Russian navy later the same year.

He was selected by Peter to captain the first Kamchatka expedition, an expedition set to sail north from Russian outposts on the Kamchatka peninsula, probably with the greatest emphasis on mapping the new areas visited ( and particularly establishing Asia and America shared a land border ).

The captain and hero, Ibrahim Afellay, was sold to giants FC Barcelona in the winter transfer window, and Hungarian winger Balázs Dzsudzsák moved to the newly rich Russian club Anzhi Makhachkala in the summer of 2011.

A Russian submarine draws too close to the New England coast when its captain wants to take a good look at America and runs aground on a sandbar near an island off Cape Ann, Gloucester.

With the rising tide, the submarine frees itself, and the Russian captain ( Theodore Bikel ) sets out in search of his missing men.

Another star in the film, Theodore Bikel, was able to speak Russian so well that he won the role of the sub captain.

# The captain of French battleship Breslau ( 84 ), Capt De la Bretonnière, seeing that De Rigny did not need further support, decided on his own initiative to break away from the French formation and move into the centre of the bay, at the junction of the British and Russian lines, to reinforce British battleship Albion ( 74 ) and Russian battleship Azov ( 80 ).

In Ivan ’ s will “ the golden captain ” was mentioned for the first time ; this cap is identified with the well-known Monomakh ’ s crown, the main crown's of Russian sovereigns.

In 1657, and again in 1706, the town and castle were captured by the Swedes during their invasions of Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth ; on January 13, 1660 the invading Muscovite Russian army under Ivan Andreyevich Khovansky took the Brest castle in a surprise early morning attack, the town having been captured earlier, and massacred the 1700 defenders and their families ( according to captain Rosestein, Austrian observer ); on July 23, 1792 a battle was fought between the regiments of Duchy of Lithuania ( part of Polish Army ) defending the town and the invading Russian Imperial Army ; on September 19, 1794 the area between Brest and Terespol was the scene of a victorious battle won by the invading Russian Imperial army under Suvorov over the Kościuszko Uprising army division under general Karol Sierakowski known in Russian sources as ( Battle of Brest ).

Under border changes promulgated at the Potsdam Conference in 1945, northern East Prussia, including Gumbinnen, became part of the Russian Federation, and the town ’ s name was changed to Gusev, in honor of a Red Army captain, Sergei Ivanovich Gusev, who was killed in action near Gumbinnen in January 1945.

The corresponding rank in the Estonian Navy, Finnish Navy and Portuguese Navy is captain lieutenant, in the Danish Navy, Norwegian Navy and Swedish Navy it is " Naval Captain ", in the Russian Navy it is " captain of the third rank " ( Капитан 3-го ранга ), and in the Polish Navy it is komandor podporucznik.

In 1812, he entered the Prussian civil service in Berlin, but he soon left to enter the Russian service as captain.

The islands were named the Gilbert Islands in 1820 by a Russian admiral, Johann von Krusenstern, and French captain Louis Duperrey, after a British captain, Thomas Gilbert, who crossed the archipelago in 1788.

In the obituary of Michael Andreevich Romanoff, the highest-ranking member of the Russian imperial family at the time of his death in 2008, it was noted that his family spent most of WWII at Craigowan Lodge.

It should be noted that in the diptychs of the Russian Orthodox Church and some of its daughter churches ( e. g., the Orthodox Church in America ), the ranking of four of the patriarchal churches is different.

( See Kuleshov Experiment ) He took an old film clip of a head shot of a noted Russian actor and intercut the shot with a shot of a bowl of soup, then with a child playing with a teddy bear, then with a shot an elderly woman in a casket.

Johnson also noted: " There's two elements in the music — an American funk line and a Russian line.

Yakov had a son Yevgeny, who is recently noted for defending his grandfather's legacy in Russian courts.

She noted that they produced an extraordinary wealth of information on German war plans but next to nothing on the repeated question of British penetration of Russian intelligence in either London or Moscow.

" Robert Conquest disputed such a conclusion and noted that " Russia had already been fourth to fifth among industrial economies before World War I " and that Russian industrial advances could have been achieved without collectivisation, famine or terror.

In 1877, the Russian chemist Serge Kern reported discovering the missing element in platinum ore. Kern named what he thought was the new element davyum ( after the noted English chemist Sir Humphry Davy ), but it was eventually determined to be a mixture of iridium, rhodium and iron.

Some scholars have noted the similarities between the words for wine in Kartvelian ( e. g. Georgian ღვინო ), Indo-European languages ( e. g. Russian вино ), and Semitic (* wayn ), pointing to the possibility of a common origin of the word denoting " wine " in these language families.

For example, in English it might be noted that nouns are words that can co-occur with definite articles ( as stated at the start of this article ), but this would not apply in Russian, which has no definite articles.

He rejoined the Russian Orthodox Church and afterwards remained a committed Christian. Robert Craft noted that Stravinsky prayed daily, before and after composing, and also prayed when facing difficulty.

By 1802 Russian colonists noted that " Boston " ( U. S .- based ) skippers were trading African slaves for otter pelts with the Tlingit people in Southeast Alaska.

Commander Vladimir Semenoff, a Russian staff officer aboard the flagship Suvorov, noted that " It seemed impossible even to count the number of projectiles striking us.

In 1898, Dr. Charles David Spivak, a noted Russian immigrant, physician and genealogist, established the Jewish Consumptives Relief Society to treat tuberculosis victims on a campus in today's 6400 block of the road.

She is widely regarded as one of the finest classical ballet dancers in history and was most noted as a principal artist of the Imperial Russian Ballet and the Ballets Russes of Sergei Diaghilev.

Boris Godunov was the most noted member of an ancient, now extinct, Russian family of Tatar origin, which came from the Horde to Kostroma in the early 14th century.

James Van Stone, an anthropologist who traveled to Saint Petersburg and read diaries of the Russian explorers from 1867, noted that explorers traveled to Aleknagik lake ( in a spelling that is Russian but sounds out to Aleknagik ).

Graton is noted as lying at the approximate furthest southern and eastern extent of Russian Colonialism.

Shlyakhter is a Russian physicist who noted that the existence of the natural nuclear fission reactor at Oklo in Gabon gave evidence that the physical fine-structure constant α has changed less than 10 < sup >− 17 </ sup > per year over the last two billion years.

In 1872 he announced to the Russian Chemical Society the discovery of a new by-product in aldehyde reactions with alcohol-like properties, and he noted similarities with compounds already discussed in publications by Wurtz from the same year.

Other Russian researchers noted a resemblance to sketches by Leonardo da Vinci, although he could not have been known in Ivan's Moscow.

" Indeed, Russian historian Oleg Sokolov noted that Wellington had committed a serious strategic error by following the French into northern Portugal, and that this decision could have had grievous consequences for the Anglo-Portuguese.

Analysts have noted in the score a significant grounding in Russian folk music, a relationship which Stravinsky tended to deny.