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Elena (given Name)
Elena is a popular female given name of Greek origin. The name means "shining light". Nicknames of the name Elena are Lena, Lennie, Ella, Ellie, Nellie, or Nena (less common). Other common variants are Alena (German, Czech, Russian, Belarusian, Serbian, Croatian); Alenka (Slovenian); Alyona (Russian); Elene (Georgian); Helen (English); Hélène (French); Helena (Latin, Polish); Eliana (Portuguese); Eline (Dutch, Norwegian, Sranan Tongo); Ileana (Romanian, Italian, Spanish); Ilona (Hungarian, Finnish, Latvian); Ilana (Greek); Olena (Ukrainian); Leena (Finnish); and Elena/Yelena/Jelena (Russian, Serbian, Croatian). Notable people Given name A–K * Elena Abelson (1904–1993), better known as Tamara Talbot Rice, Russian-English art historian * Elena Altieri, Italian actress * Elena Amat Calderón (1910–2006), Spanish university professor and archivist * Elena Anaya, Spanish actress * Elena Arzhakova (born 1989), Russian runner who specializes in the middle distan ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Greece
Greece, officially the Hellenic Republic, is a country in Southeast Europe. Located on the southern tip of the Balkan peninsula, it shares land borders with Albania to the northwest, North Macedonia and Bulgaria to the north, and Turkey to the east. The Aegean Sea lies to the east of the Geography of Greece, mainland, the Ionian Sea to the west, and the Sea of Crete and the Mediterranean Sea to the south. Greece has the longest coastline on the Mediterranean Basin, spanning List of islands of Greece, thousands of islands and nine Geographic regions of Greece, traditional geographic regions. It has a population of over 10 million. Athens is the nation's capital and List of cities and towns in Greece, largest city, followed by Thessaloniki and Patras. Greece is considered the cradle of Western culture, Western civilisation and the birthplace of Athenian democracy, democracy, Western philosophy, Western literature, historiography, political science, major History of science in cl ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Yelena (name)
Yelena or Jelena is a feminine given name. It is the Russian form of Helen, written Елена in Russian. Notable people called Yelena *Yelena Afanasyeva (athlete) (born 1967), former Russian athlete who competed in the 800 metres *Yelena Vladimirovna Afanasyeva (born 1975), member of the State Duma of Russia * Yelena Akhaminova, former volleyball player for the Soviet Union *Yelena Andreevna, play by the Russian playwright Anton Chekhov *Yelena Andreyuk, former volleyball player for the USSR *Yelena Antonova (rower) (born 1952), rower from the Soviet Union * Yelena Arshintseva (born 1971), retired female race walker from Russia * Yelena Azarova (born 1973), Russian Synchro-swimmer *Yelena Baranova (born 1972), Russian professional basketball player *Yelena Baturina (born 1963), Russian oligarch, Russia's richest woman * Yelena Bekman-Shcherbina (1882–1951), Russian pianist, composer and teacher * Yelena Belevskaya (born 1963), retired athlete who represented the USSR unti ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Botanist
Botany, also called plant science, is the branch of natural science and biology studying plants, especially Plant anatomy, their anatomy, Plant taxonomy, taxonomy, and Plant ecology, ecology. A botanist or plant scientist is a scientist who specialises in this field. "Plant" and "botany" may be defined more narrowly to include only land plants and their study, which is also known as phytology. Phytologists or botanists (in the strict sense) study approximately 410,000 species of Embryophyte, land plants, including some 391,000 species of vascular plants (of which approximately 369,000 are flowering plants) and approximately 20,000 bryophytes. Botany originated as history of herbalism#Prehistory, prehistoric herbalism to identify and later cultivate plants that were edible, poisonous, and medicinal, making it one of the first endeavours of human investigation. Medieval physic gardens, often attached to Monastery, monasteries, contained plants possibly having medicinal benefit. ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Soviet Union
The Union of Soviet Socialist Republics. (USSR), commonly known as the Soviet Union, was a List of former transcontinental countries#Since 1700, transcontinental country that spanned much of Eurasia from 1922 until Dissolution of the Soviet Union, it dissolved in 1991. During its existence, it was the list of countries and dependencies by area, largest country by area, extending across Time in Russia, eleven time zones and sharing Geography of the Soviet Union#Borders and neighbors, borders with twelve countries, and the List of countries and dependencies by population, third-most populous country. An overall successor to the Russian Empire, it was nominally organized as a federal union of Republics of the Soviet Union, national republics, the largest and most populous of which was the Russian SFSR. In practice, Government of the Soviet Union, its government and Economy of the Soviet Union, economy were Soviet-type economic planning, highly centralized. As a one-party state go ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Elena Barulina
Elena Ivanovna Barulina (; 1895 – 9 July 1957) was a Russian and Soviet botanist and geneticist who conducted pioneering research on lentils and their wild relatives. In 1930, she published the first map of their international distribution, in a 317-page monograph that became the standard reference for researchers. Early life Barulina was born in 1895 in Saratov, a major port on the Volga River. Her father was a manager in the port. After graduating from gymnasium in 1913 (with a silver medal) she entered the Faculty of Agronomy at the University of Saratov. Career One of her professors, the Russian botanist and geographer Nikolai Vavilov, recommended her for graduate work and later invited her to accompany him to St. Petersburg where he would become Director of the Bureau of Applied Botany (now the Vavilov Institute of Plant Industry). Once there, she became assistant head of the institute's experimental seed station. In 1926, she married Vavilov. Barulina became the c ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Kyiv
Kyiv, also Kiev, is the capital and most populous List of cities in Ukraine, city of Ukraine. Located in the north-central part of the country, it straddles both sides of the Dnieper, Dnieper River. As of 1 January 2022, its population was 2,952,301, making Kyiv the List of European cities by population within city limits, seventh-most populous city in Europe. Kyiv is an important industrial, scientific, educational, and cultural center. It is home to many High tech, high-tech industries, higher education institutions, and historical landmarks. The city has an extensive system of Transport in Kyiv, public transport and infrastructure, including the Kyiv Metro. The city's name is said to derive from the name of Kyi, one of its four legendary founders. During History of Kyiv, its history, Kyiv, one of the oldest cities in Eastern Europe, passed through several stages of prominence and obscurity. The city probably existed as a commercial center as early as the 5th century. A Slav ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Elena Baltacha
Elena Sergeevna Baltacha (; 14 August 1983 – 4 May 2014) was a Ukrainian-born British professional tennis player. Being a four-time winner of the AEGON Awards, she was also a long-term British No. 1, a position she held intermittently from 2002 to 2012. However, as a result of her absence from competition due to knee surgery, she dropped down the world rankings and at the time of her retirement on 18 November 2013, she was ranked as the world No. 221 and British No. 6. Her career-high ranking of world No. 49 was achieved in September 2010. Over the course of her career, she won 11 ITF singles titles (five $25k, two $50k, two $75k, and two $100k) and four ITF doubles titles (all $25k). She was also a runner-up in three ITF events in singles and four in doubles. In 2010, Baltacha had victories over top 10-players, including two victories over Li Na (the second of which came via retirement) and one against Francesca Schiavone, who at the time was the reigning French Open ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Elena Asimakopoulou
Star Hellas () is a national beauty pageant in Greece. The Star Hellas, Miss Hellas, Miss Young title is a trademark for Vassilis Prevelakis and Associates E.E. George Prevelakis, the founder of the company, was the driving force behind the Hellenic Beauty Pageant since the late 1960s. From then onwards, he was closely associated with the pageant till his death in 2006. In the early 1980s the then owner of the pageant, the Apogevmatini newspaper, decided to pull out of the pageant and transferred the rights to George Prevelakis. George Prevelakis later founded a company (Vassilis Prevelakis and Associates E.E.), together with his son, Vassilis, and transferred the rights to the pageant to the new company. Vassilis Prevelakis and Associates E.E. has been the legal owner of the pageant and is the national director of the well known international pageants such as Miss World, Miss Universe. In 2018 the I AM ONE Agency Network as the organiser of the Star Hellas and Miss Hellas 2018 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Elena Arzhakova
Elena Vladimirovna Arzhakova (; born 8 September 1989) is a Russian runner who specializes in the middle distance events. The 2011 European Indoor champion at 1500m, Arzhakova was suspended from athletics in 2013 following a failed doping control, after an abnormality was found in her biological passport An athlete biological passport is an individual electronic record for professional athletes, in which profiles of biological markers of doping and results of doping tests are collated over a period of time. Doping violations can be detected by .... Her results from July 2011 were expunged, as a result of which she was stripped of her further European outdoor and European under-23 titles. Her suspension ended on 29 January 2015. Achievements References * 1989 births Living people Russian female middle-distance runners Russian female steeplechase runners Russian sportspeople in doping cases Doping cases in athletics Athletes (track and field) at the 2012 Summ ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Elena Anaya
Elena Anaya Gutiérrez (born 17 July 1975) is a Spanish actress. She garnered public recognition in Spain for her performance in ''Sex and Lucia'' (2001), which also earned her a nomination to the Goya Award for Best Supporting Actress. She starred in ''The Skin I Live In'' (2011), for which she won the Goya Award for Best Actress. She is also known for her roles as one of Count Dracula, Dracula's Brides of Dracula, brides in ''Van Helsing (film), Van Helsing'' (2004), the Spanish tourist in ''Room in Rome'' (2010) and Doctor Poison in ''Wonder Woman (2017 film), Wonder Woman'' (2017). Early life Anaya was born in Palencia, Spain. She is the youngest of three children. Her mother, Elena (Nena), is a housewife who later owned a boarding house in Palencia. Her father, Juan José Anaya Gómez (1934–2011), was an industrial engineer. Career Anaya moved to Cádiz to train as an actress, after which she landed roles in ''África (film), África'' and ''Familia (1996 film), Familia ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Elena Amat Calderón
Elena Amat Calderón de Wienken (Valencia, 13 January 1910 – Madrid, 4 August 2006) was a Spanish university professor and archivist. She was the first female professor at the Faculty of Geography and History of the Central University of Madrid, now called the Complutense University, where she also worked as a librarian. In addition, she was director of the library of the Ateneo de Madrid between 1941 and 1953, a position she left to become director of the Popular Libraries of Madrid. Throughout her life, she received significant recognition for her work as a librarian and archivist. Biography Amat was born in Valencia on 13 January 1910, daughter of writer Francisco de Paula Amat y Villalba, a notable professor of Universal History at the Central University of Madrid and Elena Calderón Martín. Amat completed her teaching studies at the Cardinal Cisneros Institute in Madrid, and graduated in Philosophy and Letters in 1926. In 1927 she obtained a doctorate in History with a t ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Elena Altieri
Elena Altieri (born Elena Capucci; 27 July 1916 – 1 May 1997) was an Italian film and stage actress. She appeared in 27 films between 1937 and 1955. She was born in Stresa, the daughter of an Italian father and an English mother. She was mainly cast, both on stage and in films, in roles of haughty and aristocratic women. Partial filmography * '' Queen of the Scala'' (1937) * ''Luciano Serra, Pilot'' (1938) - (uncredited) * '' We Were Seven Sisters'' (1939) - Tina * '' At Your Orders, Madame'' (1939) - Ginette * ''Piccolo hotel'' (1939) * '' In the Country Fell a Star'' (1939) - La cognata di Margaret * ''L'amore si fa così'' (1939) - Una indossatrice * ''Vento di milioni'' (1940) * '' Big Shoes'' (1940) - Marta * '' Idyll in Budapest'' (1941) * ''Il pozzo dei miracoli'' (1941) - Anna * ''Vertigine'' (1942) - Marcella * '' Black Gold'' (1942) - La collega di Marta * ''Guardia del corpo'' (1942) * ''Colpi di timone'' (1942) - Jole Precordi, sua moglie * '' Fourth Page'' (1942) ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
