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Oleg Ermakov
Oleg Yermakov is a Russians, Russian writer. He was born in Smolensk in 1961, and worked in a forest reserve near Lake Baikal before doing his military service during the Soviet–Afghan War, war in Afghanistan. His experiences formed the basis of an acclaimed collection of short stories, titled ''Afghan Stories'' (1991). He followed up with a novel, ''The Mark of the Beast'' (1994) which was nominated for the Russian Booker Prize. His war writing has been compared to that of Tolstoy and the literature of the Vietnam War. Ermakov's work is heavily engaged with the question of place as evidenced by books such as ''Rainbow and Heather'', a 2018 Big Book Award finalist, set in Smolensk, and ''The Tungus’s Song'', a 2017 Yasnaya Polyana Award finalist, set in Siberia. Other places important in his work are the Altai Mountains, Altai, Baikal, and Barguzin (river), Barguzin areas as well as Afghanistan. The 2012 collection of stories, ''The Arithmetic of War'', returns to this theme i ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Barguzin (river)
The Barguzin (russian: Баргузи́н; bua, Баргажан, Bargajan) is a river in Buryatia, Russia, long, flowing into the Barguzin Bay of Lake Baikal, the largest and deepest bay of Baikal. Barguzin is the third (by the flow amount) inflow of Baikal, after the rivers Selenga and Upper Angara. Its watershed area is . It is navigable for upwards from its estuary. Its main tributaries are the Gagra, Argada and Ina from the left, and the Ulyun from the right. In 1648, Ivan Galkin founded an ''ostrog'' on the Barguzin. Valley In its middle part, the river flows along the Barguzin Valley or Depression (russian: Баргузинская котловина), which is long and up to wide and runs between the Barguzin Range (to the northwest) and Ikat Range (to the southeast). It also forms the western limit of the Southern Muya Range. In the valley, the river branches, loops, leaves old riverbeds, and creates a swampy water network with more than 1,000 lakes. In ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Russian Male Writers
Russian(s) refers to anything related to Russia, including: *Russians (, ''russkiye''), an ethnic group of the East Slavic peoples, primarily living in Russia and neighboring countries * Rossiyane (), Russian language term for all citizens and people of Russia, regardless of ethnicity *Russophone, Russian-speaking person (, ''russkogovoryashchy'', ''russkoyazychny'') * Russian language, the most widely spoken of the Slavic languages * Russian alphabet * Russian cuisine * Russian culture * Russian studies Russian may also refer to: * Russian dressing *''The Russians'', a book by Hedrick Smith * Russian (comics), fictional Marvel Comics supervillain from ''The Punisher'' series * Russian (solitaire), a card game * "Russians" (song), from the album ''The Dream of the Blue Turtles'' by Sting *"Russian", from the album '' Tubular Bells 2003'' by Mike Oldfield *"Russian", from the album '' '' by Caravan Palace * Nik Russian, the perpetrator of a con committed in 2002 *The South African ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
List Of Heroes Of The Russian Federation
This is a list of people who have been awarded the title Hero of the Russian Federation. The title was established in 1992, and was awarded more than 970 times since then, including more than 440 times posthumously. Due to the list's size, it is divided into subsections. Alphabetical *List of Heroes of the Russian Federation (A) *List of Heroes of the Russian Federation (B) *List of Heroes of the Russian Federation (C) *List of Heroes of the Russian Federation (D) *List of Heroes of the Russian Federation (E) *List of Heroes of the Russian Federation (F) *List of Heroes of the Russian Federation (G) *List of Heroes of the Russian Federation (I) *List of Heroes of the Russian Federation (K) *List of Heroes of the Russian Federation (L) *List of Heroes of the Russian Federation (M) *List of Heroes of the Russian Federation (N) *List of Heroes of the Russian Federation (O) *List of Heroes of the Russian Federation (P) *List of Heroes of the Russian Federation (R) *List of Heroes of ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Marc Romano
Marc or MARC may refer to: People * Marc (given name), people with the first name * Marc (surname), people with the family name Acronyms * MARC standards, a data format used for library cataloging, * MARC Train, a regional commuter rail system of the State of Maryland, serving Maryland, Washington, D.C., and eastern West Virginia * MARC (archive), a computer-related mailing list archive * M/A/R/C Research, a marketing research and consulting firm * Massachusetts Animal Rights Coalition, a non-profit, volunteer organization * Matador Automatic Radar Control, a guidance system for the Martin MGM-1 Matador cruise missile * Mid-America Regional Council, the Council of Governments and the Metropolitan Planning Organization for the bistate Kansas City region * Midwest Association for Race Cars, a former American stock car racing organization * Revolutionary Agrarian Movement of the Bolivian Peasantry (''Movimiento Agrario Revolucionario del Campesinado Boliviano''), a defunct ri ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Big Book Award
Big Book (russian: Большая Книга, Bolshaya Kniga) is a Russian literary award for best prose in Russian. The award is financed by the founders of the Center for the Support of Domestic Literature, Russian major businessmen and business structures. Acceptable candidates for the award are works of all prose genres, including memoirs, biographies and other documentary prose, written in or translated to Russian. The cash reward is as follows: * First place — 3 million rubles. * Second place — 1.5 million rubles. * Third place — 1 million rubles. Founders The founder of the Big Book National Literary Award is the Center for the Support of Domestic Literature, founded by: * Alfa-Bank JSC * Renova Group * Roman Abramovich, Russian-Israeli businessman, investor and politician * Alexander Mamut, Russian lawyer, banker and investor * LitRes e-book and audiobook service * Chitai-Gorod bookstore chain * GUM department store * Medved magazine * Video International ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Igor Afanasyev
Igor Mixailovich Afanasyev is a Russian writer and veteran of the Afghan war. He was born in Pskov in 1962. He served in the Afghan war from 1983 to 1985, as a sapper in the eastern province of Ghazni Ghazni ( prs, غزنی, ps, غزني), historically known as Ghaznain () or Ghazna (), also transliterated as Ghuznee, and anciently known as Alexandria in Opiana ( gr, Αλεξάνδρεια Ωπιανή), is a city in southeastern Afghanistan .... Afanasyev initially posted about his experiences of the war on the internet; this led to several books that have been acclaimed in his native Russia. Among these are: * Сапёр, который ошибся * Солянка по-афгански His work has been praised by Oleg Ermakov, another Afghan veteran-turned-writer. References {{DEFAULTSORT:Afanasyev, Igor Russian male writers 21st-century Russian male writers People from Pskov Living people 1962 births ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Igor Frolov (writer)
Igor Igorevich Frolov (russian: И́горь И́горевич Фроло́в; born 23 January 1990) is a Russian road cyclist, who currently ride for Vietnamese amateur team TP Ho Chi Minh New Group. Major results ;2008 : 9th Overall Tour de la Région de Lodz ;2010 : 1st Stage 5 Carpathia Couriers Paths ;2011 : 7th Memorial Oleg Dyachenko ;2014 : 1st Overall Friendship People North-Caucasus Stage Race ::1st Stage 4 (ITT) : 5th Overall Grand Prix of Sochi ;2015 : 1st Stage 1 ( TTT) Grand Prix of Adygeya : 1st Stage 4 (ITT) Friendship People North-Caucasus Stage Race : 3rd Hill-climb, National Road Championships : 3rd Overall Grand Prix of Sochi ::1st Stage 1 ( TTT) ;2016 : 1st Hill-climb, National Road Championships ;2017 : 1st Overall Friendship People North-Caucasus Stage Race : 1st Stage 2 Ufa Stage Race ;2018 : 3rd Road race, National Road Championships ;2019 : 1st Overall Grand Prix of Sochi ::1st Stage 1 : 2nd Road race, National Road Championships ;2020 : 2nd Road race, ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Afgantsy
''Afghantsi'' is a 1988 documentary film directed by Peter Kosminsky for Yorkshire Television. It is based on numerous interviews with Soviet soldiers and officers filmed in Kabul towards the end of the Soviet–Afghan War. Kosminsky visited several units of the 103rd Guards Airborne Division, including an outpost on a mountain side overlooking Tajbeg Palace, the headquarters of the 40th Army The 40th Army (, ''40-ya obshchevoyskovaya armiya'', "40th Combined Arms Army") of the Soviet Ground Forces was an army-level command that participated in World War II from 1941 to 1945 and was reformed specifically for the Soviet–Afghan W .... The soldiers in the film speak about the hardships of service in Afghanistan, combat experience and the loss of close friends. Another part of the film is devoted to interviews with veterans of the war that have already returned home, and parents of those who died. References External links * 1988 films British documentary films ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Baikal
Lake Baikal (, russian: Oзеро Байкал, Ozero Baykal ); mn, Байгал нуур, Baigal nuur) is a rift lake in Russia. It is situated in southern Siberia, between the federal subjects of Irkutsk Oblast to the northwest and the Republic of Buryatia to the southeast. With of water, Lake Baikal is the world's largest freshwater lake by volume, containing 22–23% of the world's fresh surface water, more than all of the North American Great Lakes combined. It is also the world's deepest lake, with a maximum depth of , and the world's oldest lake, at 25–30 million years. At —slightly larger than Belgium—Lake Baikal is the world's seventh-largest lake by surface area. It is among the world's clearest lakes. Lake Baikal is home to thousands of species of plants and animals, many of them endemic to the region. It is also home to Buryat tribes, who raise goats, camels, cattle, sheep, and horses on the eastern side of the lake, where the mean temperature va ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Russians
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Altai Mountains
The Altai Mountains (), also spelled Altay Mountains, are a mountain range in Central and East Asia, where Russia, China, Mongolia and Kazakhstan converge, and where the rivers Irtysh and Ob have their headwaters. The massif merges with the Sayan Mountains in the northeast, and gradually becomes lower in the southeast, where it merges into the high plateau of the Gobi Desert. It spans from about 45° to 52° N and from about 84° to 99° E. The region is inhabited by a sparse but ethnically diverse population, including Russians, Kazakhs, Altais, Mongols and Volga Germans, though predominantly represented by indigenous ethnic minorities of semi-nomadic stock. The local economy is based on bovine, sheep, horse husbandry, hunting, agriculture, forestry, and mining. The Altaic language family takes its name from this mountain range. Etymology and modern names ''Altai'' is derived from underlying form *''altañ'' "gold, golden" (compare Old Turkic 𐰞𐱃𐰆𐰣 ''altun'' ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
