The Russian Doll structure is observed more commonly.

* Recent celebrity deaths: Alexander Lebed – Russian General who ran for the presidency against Boris Yeltsin ; Ruth Handler – inventor of the Barbie Doll

The exposition also was the showcasing of another Russian entry, the widely famous Matryoshka doll ( Russian Nesting Doll ).

Gippius ’ two early 1910s novels, Devil ’ s Doll and Roman Tzarevich, aiming to " lay bare the very roots of Russian reactionary ideas ", weren ’ t successful: critics found them artistically helpless and totally tendentious.

Ten years later, Alexander Friedmann, a Russian cosmologist and mathematician, derived the Friedmann equations from Albert Einstein's equations of general relativity, showing that the Universe might be expanding in contrast to the static Universe model advocated by Einstein at that time.

During his trip in Russia, Chiang met Leon Trotsky and other Soviet leaders, but quickly came to the conclusion that the Russian model of government was not suitable for China.

The power struggle between the Finnish estates and the Russian administration had given them a concrete role model and space for the labor movement.

* 1982 – Katerena DePasquale, Russian / Ukrainian model

* 1987 – Vlada Roslyakova, Russian model

* 1985 – Natasha Poly, Russian model

Education was modified into the Soviet model, with lessons focusing on teaching Russian, Leninism-Marxism and learning of other countries belonging to the Soviet bloc.

* 1986 – Katja Shchekina, Russian model

* 1967 – Irina Pantaeva, Russian model and actress

Fioravanti was given the 12th-century Vladimir Cathedral as a model, and produced a design combining traditional Russian style with a Renaissance sense of spaciousness, proportion and symmetry.

** German Revolution: Sailors in the German fleet at Kiel mutiny and throughout northern Germany soldiers and workers begin to establish revolutionary councils on the Russian soviet model.

** Irina Kulikova, Russian fashion model

** Valentina Zelyaeva, Russian model

" His labyrinthine city provided a literary model used later by English novelist Charles Dickens and Russian author Fyodor Dostoevsky.

The Archers was also the model for the Russian radio soap opera Dom 7, Podyezd 4 (" House 7, Entrance 4 "), on which the former UK Prime Minister, Tony Blair, once made a cameo appearance.

* Irina Shayk, Russian model ( was born to ethnic Tatar father and Russian mother ).

In Imperial Russia, the Paris Commune model form of government was realised in the soviets ( councils of workers and soldiers ) established in the Russian Revolution of 1905, whose revolutionary task was deposing the capitalist ( monarchical ) state to establish socialism — the dictatorship of the proletariat — the stage preceding communism.

Russian president Vladimir Putin is a proud owner of a 1972 Zaporozhets model.

All pre-2007 UK model Urals were fitted with a Russian designed alternator.

While Charles won several decisive battles in the Commonwealth and ultimately secured the coronation of his ally Stanisław Leszczyński and the surrender of Saxony, the Russian Tsar Peter the Great embarked on a military reform plan that improved the Russian army, using the effectively organized Swedes and other European standards for role model.

The Sprinter ( also called ZX-Sprinter ) is a microcomputer made by Russian Peters Plus, Ltd .; it is the last model of ZX Spectrum being produced in a factory.

It also was the model for the Russian Academy, founded in 1783, which afterwards merged into the Russian Academy of Sciences.

Russian scientist Peter Kropotkin first proposed the idea of fresh water under Antarctic ice sheets at the end of the 19th century.

He was a strong supporter of the anti-Polish policies of the Russian Empire, and expressed hope that there would be no Poland under any shape or name In 1816 he removed to St Petersburg, where he spent the happiest days of his life, enjoying the favour of Alexander I and submitting to him the sheets of his great work, which the emperor read over with him in the gardens of the palace of Tsarskoye Selo.

Kreplach, similar to Russian " pelmeni " are ravioli-like dumplings are made from flour and eggs mixed into a dough, rolled into sheets, cut into squares and then filled with finely chopped, seasoned meat or cheese.

The Russian government granted concessions to foreign companies such as the Hudson's Bay Company and the US Northeast Siberia Company, which was granted gold, iron, and graphite mining rights in the entire Chukotka between 1902 and 1912.

Then people wonder why Russian pupils are more advanced than American students.

In your editorial of Sept. 30 `` The Smoldering Congo '' you make the following comment: `` Far too many states are following the Russian example in refusing to pay their assessments.

) In most sports, as in most walks of life, the angels are on the side of those who begin young, and the Russian competitor of 16 has at least thirteen years of training behind him.

There is a difference in the experimental arrangement, in that the U.S. microphones are attached directly to the vehicle skin while the Russian instruments are isolated from the skin.

Oh-the-pain-of-it, that convention of Russian ballet whereby the girls convey the idea that they are all the daughters of impoverished Grand Dukes driven to the stage out of filial piety, is totally absent from the Kirov.

There are other good representations of peasants and people of the court by actors who are finely costumed and magnificently photographed in this last of the Russian films to reach this country in the program of joint cultural exchange.

The idea that the Turkic, Mongolic, and Tungusic languages are closely related to each other was allegedly first published in 1730 by Philip Johan von Strahlenberg, a Swedish officer who traveled in the eastern Russian Empire while a prisoner of war after the Great Northern War.

* 2008 – Two skeletal remains found near Ekaterinburg, Russia are confirmed by Russian scientists to be the remains of Alexei Nikolaevich, Tsarevich of Russia and one of his sisters.

The five enterprises which passed to 100 percent Russian state ownership are:

* 1377 – Russian troops are defeated in the Battle on Pyana River because of drunkenness.

Since the Ainu are not recognized in the official list of the peoples living in Russia, they are counted as people without nationality or as ethnic Russian or Kamchadal.

In the 1820s, the Russian-American Company, which administered a large portion of the North Pacific during a Russian led expansion of the fur trade, resettled many families to the Commander Islands ( currently, within the Aleutsky District of the Kamchatka Krai in Russia ) and to the Pribilof Islands ( currently in Alaska ), where there are currently established majority Aleut communities.

While English and Russian are the dominant languages used by Aleuts living in the US and Russia respectively, the Aleut language is still spoken by several hundred people.

The MBTs are of Russian type T-72, T-62, and T-55, and AFVs are of Russian type MT-LB, BMP-2, BMP-1, and the BMD-1, and Russian type trucks are the GAZ-66 and the KAMAZ-6560.