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Ulyanovsk

The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition
Ulyanovsk , city (1989 pop. 625,000), capital of Ulyanovsk region, W central European Russia, a port on the Volga and Svigaya rivers. It is a major rail and water transport center and trades in grain, wool, and potash. Industries include food processing, vodka distilling, and the manufacture of motor vehicles, machine tools, and metal and milling equipment. Ulyanovsk was founded in 1648 on the site of a Tatar village as a strongpoint to defend Russia's southern frontier. It also developed as a trade center. It was taken by the Cossack leader Stenka Razin in 1670, was the scene of fighting during... Read more
Simbirsk
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Vladimir Ilyich Lenin
The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition ... and the major force behind the Revolution of Oct., 1917. Early Life Born Vladimir Ilyich Ulyanov, at Simbirsk (later called Ulyanovsk in his honor), he was the son of a school and civil service official and was drawn early to the revolutionary cause, especially ... Read more

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ULYANOVSK - LOCAL JOURNALIST LOSES BATTLE TO OVERTURN HARSH PUNISHMENT.
Info-Prod Research (Middle East); 10/20/2002; 133 words ; The Lenin Raion Court in Ulyanovsk on 8 October upheld a lower- court ruling sentencing Yuliya Shelamydova ... corrective labor and large fine for an article she published about Ulyanovsk Oblast Governor Vladimir Shamanov's entourage, VolgaInform reported ... Read more
ULYANOVSK OPPOSITION SAYS THEY ARE AFRAID TO CHALLENGE GOVERNOR IN ELECTIONS
Info-Prod Research (Middle East); 8/18/2004; 202 words ; ... of a range of political parties and public organizations in Ulyanovsk Oblast have sent an appeal to President Putin asking him to ... internal injuries that make it difficult for him to walk. Ulyanovsk has experienced continuous energy-supply problems during Shamanov ... Read more
ULYANOVSK - REGIONAL OFFICIAL REPORTS BRIBE ATTEMPT.
Info-Prod Research (Middle East); 10/7/2002; 132 words ; Ulyanovsk Oblast Deputy Governor Sergei Ilinskii on 23 September discovered 150,000 rubles ($4,800) in cash in a desk drawer in his office, regions.ru reported, citing the Privolzhe news agency. Ilinskii told reporters that the money might have been a bribe connected with an application to open a new municipal ... Read more
FEDERAL OFFICIALS RAISE ALARM ABOUT LAX SECURITY IN ULYANOVSK...
Info-Prod Research (Middle East); 3/6/2003; 109 words ; At a conference of law-enforcement officials in Ulyanovsk, presidentialenvoy to the Volga Federal District Sergei Kirienko said thatstrategic facilities in the oblast are vulnerable to ... Read more
ULYANOVSK AUTOMOBILE PLANT PRODUCTION UP
Info-Prod Research (Middle East); 12/9/2003; 71 words ; The car output of the Moscow-based Ulyanovsk Automobile Plant, or UAZ, amounted to 69,384 vehicles in January toNovember, up from 63,309 cars in the same period last year ... Read more
In an effort to reverse Russia's falling birth rate, which has sharply declined since the collapse of the Soviet Union, Sergei Morozov, governor of the province of Ulyanovsk in central Russia, is offering prizes to couples who have a baby on 12 June next year--Russia's national day.(RUSSIA)(Brief article)
Geographical; 11/1/2007; 66 words ; ... birth rate, which has sharply declined since the collapse of the Soviet Union, Sergei Morozov, governor of the province of Ulyanovsk in central Russia, is offering prizes to couples who have a baby on 12 June next year--Russia's national day. He also declared ... Read more
Moscow's golden domes hide poverty, crumbling infrastructure
Sunday Gazette-Mail; 5/19/2002; Sarah Karush; 738 words ; ULYANOVSK, Russia - When President Bush visits Russia's two biggest cities this week, he will see ... can show people, and this is a different Russia," said Valentina Semyonova, a teacher in Ulyanovsk, a city of 700,000 about 430 miles east of Moscow. Ulyanovsk is in many ways typical of the Russian ... Read more
TRAVEL: WE KEEP THE RED FLAG
The Independent - London; 2/25/1996; Jeremy Nicholl; 2239 words ; ... that I realised just what people in Ulyanovsk do for a little excitement. I happened ... to be one of these reports that says Ulyanovsk is just like it was under Brezhnev ... of the 100th Birthday of VI Lenin. The Ulyanovsk authorities have managed to resist the ... Union where the street names on city ... Read more
Lenin's Hometown Wants World to Say 'Yo', THE MOSCOW TIMES
The Moscow Times (Russia); 10/29/2001; Kevin O'Flynn; 755 words ; ... Times (Russia) 10-29-2001 The town of Ulyanovsk may have monuments and museums to its ... on the Volga town, which was renamed Ulyanovsk on the 100th anniversary of his birth ... on a completely higher semantic level, Ulyanovsk residents say. The letter has since its ... Read more
Out of Russia: An outpost defends its faith in Lenin's dwindling legacy
The Independent - London; 2/11/1994; ANDREW HIGGINS; 733 words ; ULYANOVSK - Petty humiliations abound. A rock group called Bravo ... director of the centre, or Lenin Memorial, as everyone in Ulyanovsk still knows it. "Radicals still want to close us down ... revolution and his brother, Alexander, to terrorism? Ulyanovsk's shrines formed the centre of a ideological ... Read more

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