* 2008 – Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn, Russian writer ( b. 1918 )

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In 1973 and 1974 the Soviet media campaign targeted both Andrei Sakharov and Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn.

In his book, The Gulag Archipelago, Soviet writer Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn described cases of cannibalism in 20th-century USSR.

* 1918 – Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn, Russian writer and Soviet dissident, Nobel Prize laureate ( d. 2008 )

* 1974 – Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn, winner of the Nobel Prize in literature in 1970, is exiled from the Soviet Union.

During the Nobel ceremony in December 1974, Hayek met the Russian dissident Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn.

Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn, winner of the 1970 Nobel Prize in Literature, introduced the term to the Western world with the 1973 publication of his novel The Gulag Archipelago.

A wide range of death tolls has been suggested, from as many as 60 million suggested by Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn to as few as 700, 000 by Soviet news sources.

Anti-Stalinist figures such as Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn were allowed the freedom to criticize Stalin.

* Cancer Ward ( 1967 ) by Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn

A typical example is the Soviet Union where the dissidents, such as Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn and Andrei Sakharov were under strong pressure from the government.

Some analysts like Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn in The Mortal Danger: Misconceptions about Soviet Russia and the Threat to America consider the use of the term " Stalinism " is an excuse to hide the inevitable effects of communism as a whole on human liberties.

* December 11 – Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn, Russian writer, Nobel Prize laureate ( d. 2008 )

** Soviet author Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn is awarded the Nobel Prize for Literature.

Russian literature is known for such notable writers as Aleksandr Pushkin, Leo Tolstoy, Fyodor Dostoyevsky, Anton Chekhov, Vladimir Mayakovsky, Boris Pasternak, Anna Akhmatova, Joseph Brodsky, Maxim Gorky, Vladimir Nabokov, Mikhail Sholokhov, Mikhail Bulgakov, Andrei Platonov, Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn, and Varlam Shalamov.

In his controversial historical work Two Hundred Years Together, Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn claimed that Isay Berg, the head of the administrative and economic department of the NKVD of Moscow Oblast, invented the gas van in the Soviet Union in 1937.

; Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn: for an outstanding contribution into the development of Russian literature, Russian language and Russian history.

The Gulag Archipelago () is a book by Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn about the Soviet forced labour camp system.

* Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn: " Saving the Nation Is the Utmost Priority for the State " Moscow News ( 2006-05-02 )

Category: Novels by Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn

Some writers dared to oppose Soviet ideology, like short story writer Varlam Shalamov and Nobel Prize winning novelist Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn, who wrote about life in the gulag camps, or Vasily Grossman, with his description of World War II events countering the Soviet official historiography.

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Five students were hanged ; amongst them was Aleksandr Ulyanov, older brother of Vladimir Lenin.

In the period from February 1888 and until 1891, a detailed analysis of photoeffect was performed by Aleksandr Stoletov with results published in 6 works ; four of them in Comptes Rendus, one review in Physikalische Revue ( translated from Russian ), and the last work in Journal de Physique.

Nikolai Krylenko was the Supreme Commander in Chief, with Aleksandr Myasnikyan as deputy.

This was one part of Aleksandr Shelepin's ' grand strategy ' of using national liberation movements as a spearhead of the Soviet Union's foreign policy in the Third World, and in 1960 the KGB organized funding and training for twelve individuals that Fonseca handpicked.

Russian fantasy director Aleksandr Ptushko's mythological epics Sadko, Ilya Muromets, and Sampo were internationally acclaimed as was Ballad of a Soldier, a 1959 Soviet film directed by Grigori Chukhrai

The Russian-language libretto was written by the composer, and is based on the " dramatic chronicle " Boris Godunov by Aleksandr Pushkin, and, in the Revised Version of 1872, on Nikolay Karamzin's History of the Russian State.

So long as Aleksandr Danilovich Menshikov remained in power, Elizabeth was treated with liberality and distinction by the government of her adolescent half-nephew Peter II.

In 1920, Aleksandr Kolchak, the once-feared commander of the largest contingent of anti-Bolshevik forces, was executed in Irkutsk, which effectively destroyed the anti-Bolshevik resistance.

The Aleksandr Kolchak monument, designed by Vyacheslav Klykov, was unveiled in 2004.

TRIGON, for example, was the code name for Aleksandr Ogorodnik, a member of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs in what was then the Soviet Union, whom the CIA developed as a spy ; HERO was the code name for Col. Oleg Penkovsky, who supplied data on the nuclear readiness of the Soviet Union during the Cuban Missile Crisis of 1962.

* A controversial herbal remedy for cancer containing aconite was used by the character Kostoglotov in Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn's novel Cancer Ward.

Aleksandr Mikhailovich Lyapunov (, ; – November 3, 1918 ) was a Russian mathematician, mechanician and physicist.

After the death of his father in 1868, Aleksandr Lyapunov was educated by his uncle R. M. Sechenov, brother of the physiologist Ivan Mikhailovich Sechenov.

In 1887, he graduated from the Kharkov University, where he was a student of Aleksandr Lyapunov.

Most modern historians believe that this famine was caused by the sudden disruption of production brought on by collective farming policies and mass seizure of property ( the proceeds of which were used, according to Aleksandr Bushkov, to accelerate industrial development ).

Lidiya, an amateur singer, married and had a son named Yuri Borisovich Amoretti ; in the period before the October Revolution Aleksandr was a member of the Russian Senate.

For example Zhukov's " driver " was a semi-professional racing car driver Aleksandr Nikolaevich Buchin who met Zhukov by accident literally on the first day of the war when Zhukov's previous elderly driver failed to get the vehicle he was in out of the rut.

The matter was arranged between Aleksandr Danilovich Menshikov and Count Andrei Osterman ; and on 18 May 1727 Peter II, according to the terms of the forged last will of Catherine I, was proclaimed emperor.

Alexander Nevsky (, Aleksandr Yaroslavich Nevskiy ; ; 30 May 1220 – 14 November 1263, proclaimed Saint of the Russian Orthodox Church by Metropolite Macarius in 1547 ) was the Prince of Novgorod and Grand Prince of Vladimir during some of the most trying times in the city's history.

During the Crimean War of 1853 – 1856, one of seven surviving defenders of a stone tower on the Malakov Kurgan, which were found by French troops among the dead, was seriously wounded Vasily Kolchak – the father of the future Supreme ruler ( head of all the counter-revolutionary anti-communist White forces during the Russian Civil War ) of Russia Aleksandr Vasiliyevich Kolchak.