Vietcong
Vietcong Communist guerrilla organization operating in South Vietnam (1960–75). Opposition to the Saigon-based regime of Ngo Dinh Diem had already produced widespread guerrilla activity in South Vietnam when communist interests founded the National Front for the Liberation of South Vietnam (known to its opponents as the Vietcong) in 1960. As US military support for the Saigon government broadened into the full-scale
VIETNAM WAR so Vietcong forces were supplied with arms and supported by North Vietnamese forces brought to the south via the Ho Chi Minh Trail, which passed through neighbouring Laos and Cambodia. They maintained intensive guerrilla operations, and occasionally fought large set-piece battles. They finally undermined both US support for the war and the morale of the South Vietnamese army and opened the way for communist triumph and the reunification of Vietnam in 1975.
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Yakutsk: permafrost capital of the world: did you forget to turn off the water? In Yakutsk, a city just below the Arctic Circle, a little drip from a pipe creates an enormous ice sculpture.
Magazine article from: Faces: People, Places, and Cultures; 5/1/2006; ; 700+ words
; Located in East Siberia, Russia, Yakutsk is the capital of the Russian republic...It is a major port on the Lena River. Yakutsk is at the same latitude as Anchorage...across the river in 1643. It was called Yakutsk. It became a capital and trade center...
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Yakutsk: Journey to the coldest city on earth ; Think our winter's been a bit grim? Try visiting Yakutsk - the Russian city where 'a bit nippy' means minus 50C, and a quick dash to the corner shop could end in frostbite. Shaun Walker enjoys a mini-break in deepest Siberia winter temperatures
Newspaper article from: Belfast Telegraph; 1/21/2008; 700+ words
; ...know this because I've just arrived in Yakutsk, a place where friendly locals warn you against wearing spectacles outdoors. Yakutsk is a remote city in Eastern Siberia...by the cold. A couple of weeks ago, Yakutsk hit the headlines after a series of burst...
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Yakutsk in Path of Raging Flood Waters, THE MOSCOW TIMES
Newspaper article from: The Moscow Times (Russia); 5/21/2001; ; 589 words
; ...Helicopters flew up the Lena River from Yakutsk every half-hour Sunday to check on a...the eastern Siberian city by morning. Yakutsk, where 200,000 people live, is the...up, waves of water and ice headed for Yakutsk about 1,200 kilometers downstream...
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Russia: Floodwater threatens to devastate city on stilts Yakutsk, a city of 200,000 people, is a marvel of Soviet engineering. But it may be destroyed in floods caused by melting Siberian ice
Newspaper article from: The Independent - London; 5/21/2001; ; 700+ words
; ...destroy a marvel of Soviet engineering - Yakutsk, a city of 200,000 people constructed...Lensk, 840km (525 miles) south-east of Yakutsk. The powerful flood crest was expected to reach Yakutsk early this morning (late Sunday BST...
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LG to invest in South Yakutsk Development Program.
Newspaper article from: Russia & CIS Business and Financial Newswire; 8/20/2007; 556 words
; LG to invest in South Yakutsk Development Program YAKUTSK. Aug 20 (Interfax) - Korea's LG International, a large industrial conglomerate, plans to invest in the South Yakutsk Complex Development Project, which focuses on the development...
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LG to invest in South Yakutsk Development Program (Part 2).
Newspaper article from: Russia & CIS Business and Financial Newswire; 8/20/2007; 674 words
; LG to invest in South Yakutsk Development Program (Part 2) YAKUTSK. Aug 20 (Interfax) - Korea's LG International...industrial conglomerate, plans to invest in the South Yakutsk Complex Development Project, which focuses on the development...
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RUSSIA-PLANE-YAKUTSK-ACCIDENT.
Newspaper article from: Ukraine News; 8/24/2006; 628 words
; RUSSIA-PLANE-YAKUTSK-ACCIDENT Passenger jet veers off runway at Yakutsk airport, no one hurt Yakutsk, August 24 (Interfax) - A Domodedovo Airlines Ilyushin Il-96 passenger jet ran 15 meters off the runway of Yakutsk airport at takeoff...
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FLOOD CALMS IN LENSK, HEADS FOR YAKUTSK
News Wire article from: United Press International; 5/18/2001; 563 words
; ...2001 Flood calms in Lensk, heads for Yakutsk MOSCOW, May 18, 2001 (United Press...Friday only to move to the regional capital Yakutsk threatening further destruction, the...that the Yakutia region's capital, Yakutsk, could be swamped by the raging floodwater...
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Esteemed Passengers! Searching for equanimity in the skies above Siberia.(Yakutsk, Sakha, Russia)(Brief Article)
Magazine article from: The Atlantic; 2/1/2001; ; 700+ words
; Yakutsk, the capital of the Russian Republic of...more often fervently desired, out of-Yakutsk is by air. Only a few airlines, however...when, at the end of a summertime visit to Yakutsk, I bought a ticket for the six-hour...
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Korean company plans to build waste recycling plant in Yakutsk.
Newspaper article from: Russia & CIS Business and Financial Newswire; 3/14/2008; 700+ words
; ...Korean company plans to build waste recycling plant in Yakutsk YAKUTSK. March 14 (Interfax-Far East) - South Korean company...build a sorting yard and waste recycling facility in Yakutsk, Interfax was told by the city administration on Friday...
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Yakutsk
Book article from: The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition
Yakutsk , city (1989 pop. 187,000), capital of the...and has tanneries, sawmills, and brickworks. Yakutsk was founded in 1632. It has a university (founded 1956) and the Yakutsk branch of the Russian Academy of Sciences.
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Sakha Republic
Book article from: The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition
...108,000 sq km), NE Siberian Russia. Yakutsk is the capital. The Sakha Republic is...have great hydroelectric potential. The Yakutsk-Skovorodino highway is the chief overland...rail line from the Trans-Siberian RR to Yakutsk. Air transport and winter sledging are...
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Khabarov, Yerofei Pavlovich
Encyclopedia entry from: Encyclopedia of Russian History
...Vasily Poyarkov, the administrator of Yakutsk and an early explorer of the Amur River...able to find. In March, Khabarov left Yakutsk with 150 men, following the Olekma River...garrison on the Amur. In his reports to Yakutsk and Moscow, Khabarov advocated conquest...
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Middendorf, Aleksandr Fedorovich
Dictionary entry from: Complete Dictionary of Scientific Biography
...many Siberian locations, especially in Yakutsk. Middendorf twice crossed the Taymyr Peninsula and in Yakutsk revealed the mysterious phenomenon of...determined the depth of the frozen layer under Yakutsk to be 204 meters (10 meters less than...
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Dezhnev, Semen Ivanovich
Encyclopedia entry from: Encyclopedia of Russian History
...made into Siberia during the seventeenth century. Based in Yakutsk, Dezhnev helped to explore and survey the Alazeya and Kolyma...Anadyr overland. Dezhnev was relieved in 1659 and returned to Yakutsk in 1662. In 1672, shortly before his death, he returned...
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