Kouroussa
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Kouroussa, Guinea Situated at the upper limit of the navigable part of the Niger River, the name means ‘The End for Canoes’ from the Mande
kuru ‘canoe’ and
sa ‘mourning’.
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Leviev Group to invest $48 Mln in construction of spa-hotel in Kislovodsk.
Newspaper article from: Russia & CIS Business and Financial Newswire; 10/30/2006; 536 words
; ...Mln in construction of spa-hotel in Kislovodsk STAVROPOL. Oct 30 (Interfax) - The...Group, plans to build a spa hotel in Kislovodsk in Caucasian Mineralny Vody in the Stavropol...plot with the Turkmeniya spa resort in Kislovodsk for $5.5 million. A spa resort...
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 "The Moscow Times (Russia)")
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Developers Sample Spa Waters in Kislovodsk, THE MOSCOW TIMES
Newspaper article from: The Moscow Times (Russia); 10/26/2004; ; 668 words
; ...construction of a four-star spa resort in Kislovodsk, part of the famed Caucasian mineral...that one of the reasons Tirel picked Kislovodsk is that, unlike other famed spa destinations...who is a Soviet emigre, stayed in Kislovodsk as a child and liked it so much he has...
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 "Globes (Tel Aviv, Israel)")
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Africa-Israel to build spa in Kislovodsk, Russia: Africa Israel Hotels will build a 350-room, 40,000-sq.m. complex. It already owns the Plaza Hotel in the northern Caucasus town.
Newspaper article from: Globes (Tel Aviv, Israel); 9/10/2006; 434 words
; ...build a 40,000-sq.m. spa on a 12.5-acre site in Kislovodsk, in the north Caucasus region of Russia. The spa will have...in the town. Africa Israel Hotels CEO Ariel Kappon said Kislovodsk was developing rapidly, which was reflected in real estate...
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Russia & FSU News Bulletin (Daily News Briefs: SEP 03, 2003).
Newspaper article from: Russia & FSU General News; 9/3/2003; 700+ words
; ...a bomb explosion on a train outside Kislovodsk. After the meeting, Chernogorov set...injured in a suburban train bombing near Kislovodsk in the Stavropol territory on Wednesday...in the blast, 23 have been taken to Kislovodsk hospitals where 15 of them have been...
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 "The Record (Bergen County, NJ)")
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PATERSON MAYOR'S LATEST ITINERARY: TURKEY, RUSSIA
Newspaper article from: The Record (Bergen County, NJ); 5/13/1999; ; 700+ words
; ...Officials in the Russian resort town of Kislovodsk, one of the group's three stops...rest of the expenses. Leaders from Kislovodsk, a sister city to Paterson, invited...anniversary celebration May 22. The mayor of Kislovodsk, just north of the Republic of Georgia...
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Russia Train Explosions Kill Four People
News Wire article from: AP Online; 9/3/2003; ; 556 words
; ...the track of the railway line linking Kislovodsk to Mineralnye Vody in the Caucasus region...Podkumok, a small town on the outskirts of Kislovodsk, 870 miles south of Moscow. Nine of...and six others in serious condition, Kislovodsk health care department chief Viktor...
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 "Baltimore Sun (Baltimore, MD)")
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Run's roots begin in foothills: Ukrainians, Russians benefit from training.
Newspaper article from: Baltimore Sun (Baltimore, MD); 10/12/2006; 700+ words
; ...title he won last year by training in Kislovodsk, a popular destination in the Caucasus...Baltimore primed on the work she has done in Kislovodsk, a town of 160,000 noted for its...Denisova. Where does she train? In Kislovodsk, where the Russian owns a home that...
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Belarus News (Daily News Briefs: DEC 06, 2003).
Newspaper article from: Belarus News; 12/6/2003; 700+ words
; ...Putin and families of those killed in a Kislovodsk - Mineralnye Vody train bombing on behalf...travelling from Mineralniye Vody to Kislovodsk, killed 31 people on the spot, and...hospital, 10 in Pyatigorsk, 44 in Kislovodsk and 8 in Essentuki stanitsa hospital...
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Baker to See Bessmertnykh in U.S.S.R.; In Damascus, Secretary Discusses Middle East Talks During 9 1/2-Hour Meeting With Assad
Newspaper article from: The Washington Post; 4/24/1991; ; 700+ words
; ...Wednesday in the Soviet Caucasus resort of Kislovodsk to discuss Baker's progress toward...hold before Baker leaves Wednesday for Kislovodsk. U.S. officials refused to make...announcement that he will fly instead to Kislovodsk, a city known for its health center...
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Research on astrophysics detailed by A.G. Tlatov and co-authors.
Newspaper article from: Physics Week; 10/20/2009; 511 words
; ...observatory format, observation data of Kislovodsk solar station and also daily Wolf number...Tlatov, RAS, Cent. Astron Observ, Kislovodsk Solar Station, St. Petersburg, Kislovodsk, Russia. The publisher of the journal...
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Kislovodsk
Book article from: The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition
Kislovodsk [Rus.,=sour water], city (1989 pop. 114,000), S European Russia, in the N Caucasus Mts. It is a famous health resort with mineral springs, sanatoriums, and a physico-therapeutical institute. Kislovodsk was founded in 1803.
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Simonov, Yury (Ivanovich)
Book article from: The Concise Oxford Dictionary of Music
...Simonov, Yury (Ivanovich) ( b Saratov, 1941). Russ. conductor. Won 5th int. cond. competition, Rome, 1969. Cond. Kislovodsk Phil. Soc. 1967–9, ass. cond. Leningrad PO 1968–9, Bolshoy Opera, Moscow, 1969 (dé...
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Stavropol Territory
Book article from: The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition
...Pyatigorsk region has numerous mineral spas and is a major resort area. The chief towns are Stavropol, the capital; Pyatigorsk; Kislovodsk; and Cherkessk. The Karachay-Cherkess Republic is in the territory. The population is for the most part Russian and Ukrainian...
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Aleksandr Isayevich Solzhenitsyn
Book article from: The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition
...1918-2008, Russian writer widely regarded as one of the greatest and most influential authors of the 20th cent., b. Kislovodsk. Solzhenitsyn grew up in Rostov-na-Donu, where he studied physics and mathematics at Rostov State Univ. During World...
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Caucasus
Book article from: The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition
...livestock are raised. Along the Black Sea coast between Anapa and Sochi there are many resorts and summer homes. Pyatigorsk and Kislovodsk are notable among the health and mineral resorts in North Caucasia. History The Caucasus figured greatly in the legends of...
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