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Lake Ladoga
Lake Ladoga , Finnish Laatokka, Rus. Ladozhskoye Ozero, c.7,000 sq mi (18,100 sq km), NW European Russia, in Karelia, NE of St. Petersburg. The largest lake in Europe, it is c.130 mi (210 km) long and c.80 mi (130 km) wide and has a maximum depth of 738 ft (225 m). Located on the heavily glaciat... Read more
Novgorod
Novgorod , city (1989 pop. 229,000), capital of Novgorod region, NW European Russia, on the Volkhov River near the point where it leaves Lake Ilmen. Novgorod's industries produce chemicals, fertilizer, and wood and food products. It has a major tourism industry. The magnificent architectural mo... Read more

Encyclopedia entries related to "Ilmen"

Ilmen
Book article from: The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition Ilmen , shallow lake, varying in size from c.300 to c.800 sq mi (780-2,070 sq km), NW European Russia. It empties through the Volkhov River into Lake Ladoga. Novgorod and Staraya Russa are nearby.
Novgorod
Book article from: The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition ...pop. 229,000), capital of Novgorod region, NW European Russia, on the Volkhov River near the point where it leaves Lake Ilmen. Novgorod's industries produce chemicals, fertilizer, and wood and food products. It has a major tourism industry. The...
Lake Ladoga
Book article from: The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition ...from Lake Onega; the Vuoska, which forms the outlet of the Saimaa lake system of Finland; and the Volkhov, coming from Lake Ilmen. The main outlet is the Neva, which flows W into the Gulf of Finland at St. Petersburg. The fortress at Petrokrepost commands...
Staraya Russa
Book article from: The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition Staraya Russa [Rus.,=Old Russia], city (1989 pop. 41,500), W European Russia, near Lake Ilmen. It is a health resort with salt springs and mud baths. It is one of the oldest Russian settlements, appearing first in records...
Msta
Book article from: The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition Msta , river, c.280 mi (450 km) long, rising N of Vyshne Volochek, NW European Russia, and flowing generally NW into Lake Ilmen near Novgorod. Navigable in its lower course, it is included in the Vyshnevolotsk canal system.
Blue Division
Book article from: The Oxford Companion to World War II ...x2009;km. (30 mi.) front, from Lubkovo on the west bank of the River Volkhov southwards to Kurisko on Lake Ilmen. The following August it was assigned to the German 54th Corps of the Eighteenth Army and was put in the line close to Leningrad...
Valday Hills
Book article from: The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition ...340 m). The region forms the watershed of the upper Volga, the Western Dvina, and the Dnieper rivers and also of the rivers that flow into Lake Ilmen. Numerous glacial lakes are found there. Among them, Lake Seliger is the largest.
Novgorod the Great
Encyclopedia entry from: Encyclopedia of Russian History ...evidence indicates that the city was founded in the mid-tenth century. Located on the Volkhov River near its origins at Lake Ilmen, the city quickly emerged as a leading commercial center. Shortly after Prince Vladimir adopted Christianity for Kievan Rus...
Route to Greeks
Encyclopedia entry from: Encyclopedia of Russian History ...terminating in Constantinople. An alternative route in the north passed from Smolensk portages to the Lovat, which led to Lake Ilmen and, via the Volkhov and Novgorod, on to Lake Ladoga and thence, by way of the Neva, to the Gulf of Finland and the eastern...

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Karpinsky, Alexandr Petrovich
Dictionary entry from: Complete Dictionary of Scientific Biography ...Urals with carbonatite inclusions. The alkali rocks of the Ilmen Mountains next drew his attention. He described these rocks...Karpinsky described in detail the nepheline syenites of the Ilmen Mountains. He considered that for these rocks — consisting...
ilmenite
Book article from: A Dictionary of Earth Sciences ...chalcopyrite , and because it is resistant to weathering it occurs extensively in alluvial deposits with magnetite , monazite , and rutile . It is used as a source of iron and titanium. The name is derived from that of the Ilmen Mountains, Russia.
Novgorod
Book article from: The Oxford Dictionary of Phrase and Fable Novgorod a city in NW Russia, on the Volkhov River at the northern tip of Lake Ilmen, which is Russia's oldest city; it was settled by the Varangian chief Rurik in 862 and ruled by Alexander Nevsky between 1238...

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Fluoro-magnesio-arfvedsonite: Monoclinic. (Abstracts of new mineral descriptions).
Magazine article from: The Mineralogical Record; 11/1/2001; ; 700+ words ; ...O).sub.2] Locality: The west slope of the Ilmen mountain ridge, Ilmen Nature Reserve, South Urals, near Miass, Chelyabinsk...albite-microcline fenites in the contact zone of the Ilmen alkaline massif. Associated minerals are: microcline...
TRANSEUROPA.(españoles; viajes por Rusia; bibliografía)(TT: Trans-Europeans.)(TA: Spaniards; travels through Russia; bibliography)
Magazine article from: Tribuna de Actualidad; 1/18/1999; ; 700+ words ; ...Divisin Azul; ahora est recorriendo las heladas aguas del lago Ilmen, las orillas del Vljov, y hasta descubriendo la simblica real...patria es un combate cada da." Y as les dej en el fro lago Ilmen y volvi para despatriotizarse un poco en un lugar llamado Espaa...
Research from N.S. Gordienko and co-researchers in the area of ecology published.
Newspaper article from: Ecology, Environment & Conservation; 5/1/2009; 578 words ; ...climatic factors. Russian Journal of Ecology, 2009;40(2):86-92). For more information, contact N.S. Gordienko, Ilmen State Nat Reserve, Miass 456317, Chelyabinsk Obl, Russia. Publisher contact information for the Russian Journal of Ecology...
FOCUS ON PHILATELY; Ukraine-Estonia issue wins top prize
Newspaper article from: Ukrainian Weekly, The; 10/3/2004; ; 700+ words ; ...Stockholm, passing through the Baltic Sea and the Gulf of Finland, then through rivers passing into or out of Lakes Ladoga and Ilmen to the great Dnipro River, which runs to the Black Sea and then ultimately to Byzantium. The upper (80 sotyky) stamp represents...
A long, cold wait in a one-woman bus queue An Englishwoman abroad
Newspaper article from: The Sunday Telegraph London; 1/25/2004; ; 700+ words ; The bus stop is beside the frozen lake of Ilmen in the Novgorod region of Russia. Snow is falling at an angle, blinding me when I look along the empty, frozen road for the...
From our Archives
Newspaper article from: Jerusalem Post; 3/19/2008; ; 503 words ; ...Post reported that the Red Army had again snatched the initiative on all fronts, from Kursk to the Donetz basin, and at Lake Ilmen. The prolonged calm, caused mainly by extremely bad weather, was broken in Tunisia, where Americans had captured the town...
Operators' idle pipe could be a source of cash for drilling. (column)
Newspaper article from: The Oil Daily; 6/26/1985; ; 700+ words ; ...that financially strapped domestic pipe mills will re-establish the intransit stockpiles which once eased the pocketbooks of ilmen and supply houses alike. Operators indicate, however, that the size of their current pipe holdings "is a sore point with...
HORROR PÅ HOSPITALET
Magazine article from: Film og Kino : Norsk Filmblad; 10/1/2007; ; 700+ words ; ...Melodi Grand Prix har de finske monsterrockerne Lordi n gtt til filmen. Film & Kino besokte innspillingen av skrekkf ilmen Dark Floors i en nedlagt fabrikk i Oulu, Finland. - DET ER NOE deilig skremmende ved et sykehus, sier den finske regissren...
U.S., Finnish Inventors Develop Genetically Modified Cell from Genera Candida
News Wire article from: US Fed News Service, Including US State News; 12/7/2006; 466 words ; ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 7 -- Merja Penttila, Laura Ruohonen, Marja Ilmen and Kari Koivuranta, all from Helsinki, Finland, Vineet Rajgarhia of Hopkins, Minn., and Pirkko Suominen of Maple Grove...
U.S., Finnish Inventors Develop Organic Products Synthesis Method
News Wire article from: US Fed News Service, Including US State News; 9/20/2006; 402 words ; ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 20 -- Merja Penttila, Laura Ruohonen, Marja Ilmen and Kari Koivuranta, all from Helsinki, Finland and Vineet Rajgarhia of Hopkins, Minn., have developed biocatalysts that are...