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Mikhail Men
Mikhail Alexandrovich Men (russian: Михаил Александрович Мень; born 12 November 1960, Semkhoz settlement of Zagorsky district (now Sergiyevo-Posadsky District), Moscow Oblast) is a Russian statesman and public figure, entrepreneur, musician, composer, producer. Deputy Chairman of thCulture Committeeof the State Duma of the Russian Federation (1995—2000). Deputy Governor of the Moscow Oblast (1999—2002), Deputy Mayor of Moscow (2002—2005), Head of Administration (Governor) of the Ivanovo Oblast (2005-2013), Minister of Construction Industry, Housing and Utilities Sector (November 1, 2013 — May 18, 2018), Auditor of the Accounts Chamber of the Russian Federation (June 20, 2018 — June 2, 2021), Full State Councilor of the Russian Federation, 1st class, Candidate of Philosophical Sciences. Biography He was born in the family of a priest and theologian Father Alexander Men (1935—1990). Mother — Natalia Fyodorovna Grigorenko (1933—2021). Duri ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Accounts Chamber Of Russia
Accounts Chamber of the Russian Federation (russian: Счётная палата Российской Федерации) is the parliamentary body of financial control in the Russian Federation. History The prototype of the Accounts Chamber of the Russian Federation was the Chamber-collegium established by Peter I in 1718 for the management of state taxes and some sectors of the state economy. Prior to that time, the treasury of Russian tsars was a mess. The founder of the Court of Auditors Petr Lukich Aksenov. In 1719, he introduced to the Russian government the written balance of income and expenditure of money in the state treasury, and gave the Emperor a weekly report of capital flows. Moreover, Petr Aksenov defined the form of accounting for the Chambers-collegium and teach it local clerk and officials from all Russia. In 1725, the Senate determined Peter Aksenov kamerirom, and in 1731 Secretary. From 1811 to 1918 in Russian Empore exists office of State Comptroller. Then ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Vladimir Putin
Vladimir Vladimirovich Putin; (born 7 October 1952) is a Russian politician and former intelligence officer who holds the office of president of Russia. Putin has served continuously as president or prime minister since 1999: as prime minister from 1999 to 2000 and from 2008 to 2012, and as president from 2000 to 2008 and since 2012. Putin worked as a KGB foreign intelligence officer for 16 years, rising to the rank of lieutenant colonel before resigning in 1991 to begin a political career in Saint Petersburg. He moved to Moscow in 1996 to join the administration of president Boris Yeltsin. He briefly served as director of the Federal Security Service (FSB) and secretary of the Security Council of Russia, before being appointed as prime minister in August 1999. After the resignation of Yeltsin, Putin became Acting President of Russia and, less than four months later, was elected outright to his first term as president. He was reelected in 2004. As he was constitutio ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Sovetskaya Gavan
Sovetskaya Gavan (russian: Сове́тская Га́вань, lit. ''Soviet harbor'') is a town in Khabarovsk Krai, Russia, and a port on the Strait of Tartary which connects the Sea of Okhotsk in the north with the Sea of Japan in the south. Population: It was previously known as ''Imperatorskaya Gavan'' (until 1922). Name The name of the town is often informally abbreviated to "Sovgavan" (). History On May 23, 1853, Lt. Nikolay Konstantinovich Boshnyak of the Russian-American Company ship ''Nikolay'' discovered the bay on which Sovetskaya Gavan is located and named it Khadzhi Bay. On August 4, 1853, Captain Gennady Nevelskoy founded a military post named after Admiral Grand Duke Konstantin, and renamed the bay to ''Imperatorskaya Gavan'' ('Emperor's Harbor' or 'Port Imperial'). The bay was also known to the English as Barracouta Harbour. Nikolay Boshnyak was appointed the commander of the post, which became the first Russian settlement in the area, and th ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Primorsky Krai
Primorsky Krai (russian: Приморский край, r=Primorsky kray, p=prʲɪˈmorskʲɪj kraj), informally known as Primorye (, ), is a federal subject (a krai) of Russia, located in the Far East region of the country and is a part of the Far Eastern Federal District. The city of Vladivostok is the administrative center of the krai, and the second largest city in the Russian Far East, after Khabarovsk. The krai has the largest economy among the federal subjects in the Russian Far East, and a population of 1,956,497 as of the 2010 Census. The krai shares Russia's only border with North Korea, along the Tumen River in Khasansky District in the southwestern corner of the krai. Peter the Great Gulf, the largest gulf in the Sea of Japan, is located along the south coast. Historically part of Manchuria, Primorsky Krai was ceded to the Russian Empire by Qing China in 1860 as part of a region known as Outer Manchuria, forming most of the territory of Primorskaya O ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Vladivostok
Vladivostok ( rus, Владивосто́к, a=Владивосток.ogg, p=vɫədʲɪvɐˈstok) is the largest city and the administrative center of Primorsky Krai, Russia. The city is located around the Golden Horn Bay on the Sea of Japan, covering an area of , with a population of 600,871 residents as of 2021. Vladivostok is the second-largest city in the Far Eastern Federal District, as well as the Russian Far East, after Khabarovsk. Shortly after the signing of the Treaty of Aigun, the city was founded on July 2, 1860 as a Russian military outpost on formerly Chinese land. In 1872, the main Russian naval base on the Pacific Ocean was transferred to the city, stimulating the growth of modern Vladivostok. After the outbreak of the Russian Revolution in 1917, Vladivostok was occupied in 1918 by White Russian and Allied forces, the last of whom from Japan were not withdrawn until 1922; by that time the antirevolutionary White Army forces in Vladivostok promptly collapsed, an ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Pacific Fleet (Russia)
, image = Great emblem of the Pacific Fleet.svg , image_size = 150px , caption = Russian Pacific Fleet Great emblem , dates = 1731–present , country = , allegiance = (1703–1917) (1922–1991) (1991–present) , branch = Russian Navy , type = , role = At sea nuclear deterrence; Naval warfare; Amphibious military operations;Combat patrols in the Pacific/Arctic;Naval presence/diplomacy missions in the Pacific and elsewhere , size = c. 46 Surface Warships (major surface units, light corvettes, mine warfare, amphibious) plus support ships/auxiliaries c. 23-24 Submarines (of which about 2/3 active as of 2022) , command_structure = Russian Armed Forces , garrison = Fokino (HQ) Petropavlovsk-Kamchatsky Vilyuc ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
VIA (music)
VIA (Russian: ''ВИА'') is an abbreviation for Vocal- usicInstrumental-Ensemble (russian: Вокально-инструментальный ансамбль, ''Vokalno-instrumentalny ansambl''). It is the general name used for pop and rock bands that were formally recognized by the Soviet government from the 1960s to the 1980s. In Soviet times, the term ''VIA'' generally meant ''band'', but it is now used in Russia to refer specifically to pop, rock, and folk groups active during the Soviet period. In the PRL and some other neighbouring satellite states of the USSR the term big-beat was used instead. History The term VIA appeared in the Soviet Union in the 1960s and represented a model under which the Soviet government was willing to permit domestic rock and pop music acts to develop. To break through to the state-owned Soviet media, a band needed to become an officially recognized VIA. Each VIA had an artistic director (художественный руководите� ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Viktor Dragunsky
Viktor Yuzefovich Dragunsky (russian: Виктор Юзефович Драгунский; 1 December 1913 - 6 May 1972) was a Soviet writer. He was born into a Jewish family who emigrated to the United States from Gomel, Belarus Belarus,, , ; alternatively and formerly known as Byelorussia (from Russian ). officially the Republic of Belarus,; rus, Республика Беларусь, Respublika Belarus. is a landlocked country in Eastern Europe. It is bordered by .... The family returned to Gomel in 1914. He best known for The Adventures of Dennis, a series of children's stories. References External links * {{DEFAULTSORT:Dragunsky, Viktor 1913 births 1972 deaths Soviet children's writers American emigrants to the Russian Empire American people of Belarusian-Jewish descent ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Ministry Of Construction Industry, Housing And Utilities Sector
The Ministry of Construction, Housing and Utilities (Minstroy) (russian: Министерство строительства и жилищно-коммунального хозяйства Российской Федерации (Минстрой России)) is a government ministry in the Cabinet of Russia. The ministry is based on the federal construction agency Rosstroi, absorbs the functions of all the agencies overseeing the country's construction and utilities sectors according to the presidential spokesman Dmitry Peskov. Background In his announcement on the decision to create the ministry in Novo Ogaryovo residence, President of Russia Vladimir Putin offered the post to the governor of Ivanovo Oblast, Mikhail Men and said that "construction is to a certain degree the economy driver. And with regard to housing, needless to say - we are already sick and tired of problems in this sphere”. Minister * Mikhail Men (1 November 2013 — 18 May 2018) * Vladimir Yakush ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Ivanovo Oblast
Ivanovo Oblast (russian: Ива́новская о́бласть, ''Ivanovskaya oblast'') is a federal subject of Russia (an oblast). It had a population of 927,828 as of the 2021 Russian Census. Its three largest cities are Ivanovo (the administrative center), Kineshma, and Shuya. The principal center of tourism is Plyos. The Volga River flows through the northern part of the oblast. History Early in its history, the Ivanovo region was a melting pot between different populations like Russians, Europeans, Asians, and others. Various ancient Uralian and ancient Slavic tribes inhabited the area. Ivanovo Industrial Oblast () was established on October 1, 1929.''Ivanovo Oblast. Administrative-Territorial Structure'', p. 22 On March 11, 1936, a part of it became the modern Ivanovo Oblast while the remainder was split off to create Yaroslavl Oblast.''Ivanovo Oblast. Administrative-Territorial Structure'', p. 26 On 21 May 1998 Ivanovo Oblast alongside A ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Moscow
Moscow ( , US chiefly ; rus, links=no, Москва, r=Moskva, p=mɐskˈva, a=Москва.ogg) is the capital and largest city of Russia. The city stands on the Moskva River in Central Russia, with a population estimated at 13.0 million residents within the city limits, over 17 million residents in the urban area, and over 21.5 million residents in the metropolitan area. The city covers an area of , while the urban area covers , and the metropolitan area covers over . Moscow is among the world's largest cities; being the most populous city entirely in Europe, the largest urban and metropolitan area in Europe, and the largest city by land area on the European continent. First documented in 1147, Moscow grew to become a prosperous and powerful city that served as the capital of the Grand Duchy that bears its name. When the Grand Duchy of Moscow evolved into the Tsardom of Russia, Moscow remained the political and economic center for most of the Tsardom's history. Whe ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
State Duma
The State Duma (russian: Госуда́рственная ду́ма, r=Gosudárstvennaja dúma), commonly abbreviated in Russian as Gosduma ( rus, Госду́ма), is the lower house of the Federal Assembly of Russia, while the upper house is the Federation Council. The Duma headquarters are located in central Moscow, a few steps from Manege Square. Its members are referred to as deputies. The State Duma replaced the Supreme Soviet as a result of the new constitution introduced by Boris Yeltsin in the aftermath of the Russian constitutional crisis of 1993, and approved in a nationwide referendum. In the 2007 and 2011 Russian legislative elections a full party-list proportional representation with 7% electoral threshold system was used, but this was subsequently repealed. The legislature's term length was initially 2 years in the 1993–1995 elections period, and 4 years in 1999–2007 elections period; since the 2011 elections the term length is 5 years. History Ear ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
