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Faina Yepifanova
Faina may refer to: *Faina, Goiás, Brazil *Ukrainian ship MV ''Faina'' *Fainá, fainâ, or farinata, pancake of chickpea flour People with the given name * Faina Chiang Fang-liang, née Ipat'evna Vakhreva (1916–2004), First Lady of the Republic of China *Faina Jyrkilä (1917–2008), Finnish sociologist *Faina Kirschenbaum (born 1955), Israeli politician *Faina Melnik (1945–2016), Ukrainian-born Olympic champion discus thrower *Faina Petryakova (1931–2002), Ukrainian academic *Faina Ranevskaya Faina Georgiyevna Ranevskaya (, born Faina Girschevna Feldman, — 19 July 1984) was a Soviet actress. She is recognized as one of the greatest Soviet actresses in both tragedy and comedy. She was also famous for her aphorisms. She acted in play ... (1896–1984), Soviet actress People with the surname * Gianfranco Faina (died 1981), Italian historian {{Disambiguation, given name, surname ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Faina, Goiás
Faina is a municipality in central-west Goiás state, Brazil. The population in 2022 was 7,070, within a total area of . History In 1952, explorers Lino Nascimento de Souza and Evaristo Seabra Guimarães entered the region of Goiás in search of new land to settle. After being advised to follow the path by Bornerges Alencastro Veiga, they arrived in an area near to the Faina stream which was already inhabited by Maria Celestina Ferreira de Brito's family. After further investigations, they returned to the Capim Puba Farm to collect their relatives. On 15 July 1955, the explorers opened access roads to the area for nine families. They were joined the following year by another pioneer, Lindolfo Mendes da Cunha. Location Faina is located on the latitude of -15.43697 and longitude of -50.39151, 218km from Goiânia in the central-west area of the state. It is part of the Rio Vermelho Microregion. The main highways are GO-070 Goianira- Itaberaí to the crossroads at Cidade de ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
MV Faina
Merchant vessel, MV ''Faina'' () was a roll-on/roll-off cargo ship operated by a Ukraine, Ukrainian company that sailed under a Belize flag of convenience, owned by Panama City-based Waterlux AG, and managed by Tomex Team of Odesa, Ukraine. On 25 September 2008, the ship was captured by Piracy in Somalia, Somali pirates allegedly under the orders of piracy kingpin Mohamed Abdi Hassan, in the twenty-sixth such attack in 2008. The ''Faina''s crew (at the time of capture) consisted of 17 Ukrainians, three Russians and one Latvian. On 28 September, Viktor Nikolsky, Chief Mate, first mate on the ''Faina'', said that Vladimir Kolobkov, the ship's Russian Captain (nautical), captain, had died from a hypertension-related stroke. On 5 February 2009 it was announced that a ransom of US $3.2 million had been paid to the pirates, and the ship was released the next day. Hijacking On 25 September 2008, the ''Faina'' was hijacked by approximately 50 Piracy in Somalia, Somali pirates calli ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Fainá
''Farinata'' (), ''socca'' (), ''farinata di ceci'', ''torta di ceci'', ''fainé'', ''fainá,'' ''cecìna'' or ''cade'' is a type of thin, unleavened pancake or crêpe made from Gram flour, chickpea flour. ''Farinata'' is a typical preparation of the northwest Mediterranean coast; in Liguria it is named ''farinata'', in Nice ''socca'' and in Toulon ''cade.'' It is also a speciality of Oran, Algeria, where it was introduced under French Algeria, French rule and known as ''calentica'', and in the cities of Buenos Aires, Argentina, and Montevideo, Uruguay, where it is known as ''fainá'' and eaten with pizza. Names In standard Italian, the dish is called ''farinata'' ('made of flour'), while in Ligurian language, Ligurian, specifically in the Genoese dialect, it goes by the name of ''fainâ'' (); in Massa and in Carrara it is called ''calda calda'' (), in the rest of Tuscany ''cecina'' or ''torta di ceci'' () and in Sardinia ''fainé''. In Nice and the Alpes-Maritimes it is ca ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Chiang Fang-liang
Faina Chiang Fang-liang (; born Faina Ipatyevna Vakhreva; ; ; 15 May 1916 – 15 December 2004) was the First Lady of the Republic of China on Taiwan from 1978 to 1988 as the wife of President Chiang Ching-kuo. Early life On 15 May 1916, Faina was born near Orsha, then part of the Russian Empire (now in Belarus). Faina was orphaned at a young age and raised by her older sister Anna. Career At age 16, as a member of the Soviet Union's Communist Youth League, Faina worked at the Ural Heavy Machinery Plant in Sverdlovsk, Russian SFSR, where she met Chiang Ching-kuo, her supervisor. On 15 March 1935, aged 18, Faina married him. Move to Taiwan In December 1936, Joseph Stalin granted Chiang's return to China. After the couple was received by Chiang Kai-shek and his wife Soong Mei-ling in Hangzhou, they traveled to the Chiang home in Xikou, Zhejiang, where they held a second marriage ceremony. Fang-liang stayed behind to live with Chiang Ching-kuo's mother, Ma ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Faina Jyrkilä
Faina Jyrkilä (1917-2008) was the first female Finnish sociologist. She also was one of the first sociologists to study aging. Biography Faina Jyrkilä was born 1 September 1917 in Sortavala, Finland, graduating from high school in 1941 and completing a social work degree in 1945. Between 1952 and 1953, Jyrkilä attended school at Columbia University and Harvard. In 1960, she obtained the first Ph.D earned by a woman in sociology in Finland. She was the first Finnish female professor of sociology and began teaching at the University of Jyväskylä A university () is an institution of tertiary education and research which awards academic degrees in several academic disciplines. ''University'' is derived from the Latin phrase , which roughly means "community of teachers and scholars". U ... in 1964. Having studied in the US, she was one of the first Finnish scholars to publish in English. She was one of the first generation of scholars to study gerontology and served on th ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Faina Kirschenbaum
Faina Kirschenbaum (; born 27 November 1955) is an Israeli politician who served as a member of the Knesset for Yisrael Beiteinu between 2009 and 2015. In July 2021 she was sentenced to ten years in prison following a conviction for bribery. Life and career Born in Lviv in the Ukrainian SSR of the Soviet Union (today in Ukraine), Kirschenbaum emigrated to Israel on 31 December 1973. She trained as a nurse at the Beilinson School of Nursing, as well as gaining a BA in general studies from Thames Valley University, an MBA from the University of Derby, a certificate in director's training at Bar-Ilan University. In 1981 she moved to the Israeli settlement of Nili in the West Bank. She served as its council secretary, and was a member of Mateh Binyamin Regional Council. She has also served as deputy chairwoman of the Israeli branch of the World Jewish Congress, and as a member of the board of directors of the Museum of the Jewish Diaspora. The party's director general, prior to the ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Faina Melnik
Faina Grigorievna Veleva-Melnik (; ; ; 9 June 1945 – 16 December 2016) was a Soviet discus thrower, a 1972 Summer Olympics champion in the discus event. During her career she set 11 world records. Career Melnik was Jewish, and was born in Bakota, Khmelnytskyi, Ukraine. At the 1972 Summer Olympics, she broke the Olympic record three times, and set a world record at 66.62 metres. She had already broken the world record, at the 1971 European Athletics Championships, representing the then Soviet Union. In 1976 she had her best ever discus throw of 70.50 m, but finished only fourth at the 1976 Summer Olympics. At those Olympics she also competed in the shot put and finished tenth. She failed to reach the final in the discus event at the 1980 Games.Faina Melnik Sports-referenc ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Faina Petryakova
Faina Petryakova (September 23, 1931 — May 6, 2002) — was a distinguished professor of the Lviv Academy of Arts, a recognized figure in the field of ethnography in Ukraine and beyond, and a senior researcher of the Institute of Ethnography at the Lviv branch office of the National Academy of Sciences of Ukraine. Legacy Petryakova died in 2002, leaving behind a vast scientific legacy in the field of Ukrainian glass, porcelain, ceramics A ceramic is any of the various hard, brittle, heat-resistant, and corrosion-resistant materials made by shaping and then firing an inorganic, nonmetallic material, such as clay, at a high temperature. Common examples are earthenware, porce ... and Ukrainian Judaica. She has been commemorated by The Faina Petryakova Scientific Center for Judaica and Jewish Art. The center has a collection of Judaica objects and pieces of traditional Ukrainian glass artwork. References 20th-century Ukrainian women Ukrainian ethnographers Academi ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Faina Ranevskaya
Faina Georgiyevna Ranevskaya (, born Faina Girschevna Feldman, — 19 July 1984) was a Soviet actress. She is recognized as one of the greatest Soviet actresses in both tragedy and comedy. She was also famous for her aphorisms. She acted in plays by Anton Chekhov, Alexander Ostrovsky, Maxim Gorky, Ivan Krylov, Fyodor Dostoevsky, Leo Tolstoy, and others. Biography She was born as Faina Feldman (Фельдман) to a wealthy Jews, Jewish family in the city of Taganrog, Russian Empire. Her father, Girsch Haimovich Feldman, owned a dry-ink factory, several buildings, a shop and the steamboat "Saint Nicolas". He was the head of Taganrog synagogue and a founder of a Jewish asylum for the aged. Faina's mother, Milka Rafailovna (née Zagovaylova), was a great admirer of literature and art. That and her passion for Chekhov influenced Faina's love of art, poetry, music, and theater. There were three other children in the family - two brothers and an older sister named Bella. Faina Fe ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
