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Voronezh
Book article from: The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition
Voronezh , city (1989 pop. 887,000), capital of Voronezh region, central European Russia, on the Voronezh River. A river port and a major industrial center in a black-earth agricultural region, it has industries producing machinery...
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Pavel Alekseevich Cherenkov
Encyclopedia entry from: Encyclopedia of World Biography
...July 28, 1904, into a poor peasant family living in the village of Novaya Chigla, Voronezh Province. At the age of 20 he entered the State University of Voronezh, graduating 4 years later. In 1930 he was accepted as a postgraduate student at...
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Mandelshtam, Osip Emilievich
Encyclopedia entry from: Encyclopedia of Russian History
...a poem critical of Stalin, Mandelshtam was arrested in Moscow and sent to Voronezh for a three-year exile. During this period he wrote Voronezhskie tetradi ( Voronezh Notebooks ), preserved by his wife. In May 1938, Mandelshtam was arrested...
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Konev, Marshal Ivan
Book article from: The Oxford Companion to World War II
...which was the reserve in the Kursk battle but, together with Voronezh front and under Zhukov, became part of the main force in the...Soviet summer, winter, and spring offensives. In October, Voronezh became First and Steppe became Second Ukrainian front ; and...
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Kursk, Battle of
Encyclopedia entry from: Encyclopedia of Russian History
...penetrated ten to twenty miles through the defenses of the Voronezh Front's 6th and 7th Guards and 69th Armies, as well as the...three weeks after halting German forces at Prokhorovka, the Voronezh and Steppe Fronts commenced Operation Rumyantsev, a massive...
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Rybkin, Ivan Petrovich
Encyclopedia entry from: Encyclopedia of Russian History
...Russia. Ivan Rybkin was born on October 20, 1946, in the Voronezh countryside. He graduated from the Volgograd Agricultural...to the Duma by single-mandate district in his homeland, Voronezh Oblast. Before the second round of presidential elections...
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Don
Book article from: The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition
Don , river, SW European Russia. It rises SE of Tula and flows c.1,200 mi (1,930 km), first SE past Voronezh, then SW into the Sea of Azov. At its eastern bend the Don is linked by a canal (c.65 mi/105 m long), with the Volga River...
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Peter I (Russia) (1672–1725; Ruled 1682–1725)
Encyclopedia entry from: Europe, 1450 to 1789: Encyclopedia of the Early Modern World
...structures in motion, convincing him of the urgency of building a navy. After opening a shipyard on the lower Volga River, in Voronezh, he departed on his vaunted Great Embassy, an extended journey through Europe, traveling nominally incognito as a captain...
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Gaspirali, Ismail Bey
Encyclopedia entry from: Encyclopedia of Russian History
...teacher ( hoca ), but then continued in the Russian-administered Simferopol gymnasium and Russian military academies in Voronezh and Moscow. In 1872 he embarked on a foreign tour that took him through Austria and Germany to France, where he remained...
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Postal System
Encyclopedia entry from: Encyclopedia of Russian History
POSTAL SYSTEM The first regular postal routes in Russia (Moscow-Voronezh and later Moscow – St. Petersburg) were established at the start of the eighteenth century. In 1741 the service was...
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