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Maiac
Maiac (; , Mayak) is an urban settlement (according to Transnistrian legislation), or city (according to the Moldovan legislation) in the Grigoriopol District, Transnistria, Moldova, northeast of Grigoriopol, on the Ukrainian border. History In the 16th century the village was named Janyk Hisar and Majak Geczit. Transmitter The Transnistrian Radio and Television Center (TRTC) is located in Maiac. It is a large broadcasting centre for short- and mediumwave, which was built up in the years between 1968 and 1975. It covers an area of , and housed at the end of 1980s 20 transmitters. In 1997 two masts – one and the other – of the facility used for medium wave broadcasting collapsed as a result of icing. In October 2007, the Russian unitary enterprise A unitary enterprise (russian: унитарное предприятие) is a government-owned corporation in Russia and some other post-Soviet states. Unitary enterprises are business entities that have no ownership rights t ...
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Moldova
Moldova ( , ; ), officially the Republic of Moldova ( ro, Republica Moldova), is a landlocked country in Eastern Europe. It is bordered by Romania to the west and Ukraine to the north, east, and south. The unrecognised state of Transnistria lies across the Dniester river on the country's eastern border with Ukraine. Moldova's capital and largest city is Chișinău. Most of Moldovan territory was a part of the Principality of Moldavia from the 14th century until 1812, when it was ceded to the Russian Empire by the Ottoman Empire (to which Moldavia was a vassal state) and became known as Bessarabia. In 1856, southern Bessarabia was returned to Moldavia, which three years later united with Wallachia to form Romania, but Russian rule was restored over the whole of the region in 1878. During the 1917 Russian Revolution, Bessarabia briefly became an autonomous state within the Russian Republic, known as the Moldavian Democratic Republic. In February 1918, the Moldavian ...
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Grigoriopol District
Grigoriopol District ( ro, Raionul Grigoriopol; russian: Григориопольский район; uk, Григоріопольський район) is an administrative district of Transnistria (''de facto'') in Moldova (''de jure''). It is located along the river Dniester, in the center of Transnsitria. Its seat is the city of Grigoriopol, located at , on the Dniester river. The district contains two cities/towns and 14 communes (a total of 31 localities, including small villages/hamlets): According to the 2004 Census in Transnistria, the population of the sub-district is 48,000, including 31,085 (64.76%) Moldovans, 7,332 (15.28%) Ukrainians, 8,333 (17.36%) Russians, 123 (0.26%) Gagauzians, 240 (0.50%) Bulgarians, 13 (0.03%) Roma, 26 (0.05%) Jews, 100 (0.21%) Poles, 187 (0.39%) Belarusians, 327 (0.68%) Germans, 62 (0.13%) Armenians Armenians ( hy, հայեր, ''hayer'' ) are an ethnic group native to the Armenian highlands of Western Asia. Armenians constit ...
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List Of Sovereign States
The following is a list providing an overview of sovereign states around the world with information on their status and recognition of their sovereignty. The 206 listed states can be divided into three categories based on membership within the United Nations System: 193 member states of the United Nations, UN member states, 2 United Nations General Assembly observers#Present non-member observers, UN General Assembly non-member observer states, and 11 other states. The ''sovereignty dispute'' column indicates states having undisputed sovereignty (188 states, of which there are 187 UN member states and 1 UN General Assembly non-member observer state), states having disputed sovereignty (16 states, of which there are 6 UN member states, 1 UN General Assembly non-member observer state, and 9 de facto states), and states having a political status of the Cook Islands and Niue, special political status (2 states, both in associated state, free association with New Zealand). Compi ...
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City
A city is a human settlement of notable size.Goodall, B. (1987) ''The Penguin Dictionary of Human Geography''. London: Penguin.Kuper, A. and Kuper, J., eds (1996) ''The Social Science Encyclopedia''. 2nd edition. London: Routledge. It can be defined as a permanent and densely settled place with administratively defined boundaries whose members work primarily on non-agricultural tasks. Cities generally have extensive systems for housing, transportation, sanitation, utilities, land use, production of goods, and communication. Their density facilitates interaction between people, government organisations and businesses, sometimes benefiting different parties in the process, such as improving efficiency of goods and service distribution. Historically, city-dwellers have been a small proportion of humanity overall, but following two centuries of unprecedented and rapid urbanization, more than half of the world population now lives in cities, which has had profound consequ ...
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Cities And Towns In Transnistria
A city is a human settlement of notable size.Goodall, B. (1987) ''The Penguin Dictionary of Human Geography''. London: Penguin.Kuper, A. and Kuper, J., eds (1996) ''The Social Science Encyclopedia''. 2nd edition. London: Routledge. It can be defined as a permanent and densely settled place with administratively defined boundaries whose members work primarily on non-agricultural tasks. Cities generally have extensive systems for housing, transportation, sanitation, utilities, land use, production of goods, and communication. Their density facilitates interaction between people, government organisations and businesses, sometimes benefiting different parties in the process, such as improving efficiency of goods and service distribution. Historically, city-dwellers have been a small proportion of humanity overall, but following two centuries of unprecedented and rapid urbanization, more than half of the world population now lives in cities, which has had profound consequences for g ...
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Unitary Enterprise
A unitary enterprise (russian: унитарное предприятие) is a government-owned corporation in Russia and some other post-Soviet states. Unitary enterprises are business entities that have no Title (property), ownership rights to the assets that they use in their operations. This form is possible only for state and municipal enterprises, which respectively operate state or municipal property. The owners of the property of a unitary enterprise have no responsibility for its operation and vice versa. Russia Federal Law No. 161-ФЗ "''On State and Municipal Unitary Enterprises''" (amended July 13, 2015), defines the legal status of unitary enterprises in Russia. The State Duma passed this law on October 11, 2002, and President of Russia, President Vladimir Putin, Putin signed it on November 14, 2002. The assets of unitary enterprises belong to the Government of Russia, federal government, to a Russian Federal subjects of Russia, federal subject, or to a municipalit ...
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Russia
Russia (, , ), or the Russian Federation, is a transcontinental country spanning Eastern Europe and Northern Asia. It is the largest country in the world, with its internationally recognised territory covering , and encompassing one-eighth of Earth's inhabitable landmass. Russia extends across eleven time zones and shares land boundaries with fourteen countries, more than any other country but China. It is the world's ninth-most populous country and Europe's most populous country, with a population of 146 million people. The country's capital and largest city is Moscow, the largest city entirely within Europe. Saint Petersburg is Russia's cultural centre and second-largest city. Other major urban areas include Novosibirsk, Yekaterinburg, Nizhny Novgorod, and Kazan. The East Slavs emerged as a recognisable group in Europe between the 3rd and 8th centuries CE. Kievan Rus' arose as a state in the 9th century, and in 988, it adopted Orthodox Christianity from the ...
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Kwartalnik Historyczny
''Kwartalnik Historyczny'' is a Polish history journal. It was established in 1887 in Lwów and is the oldest extant national journal for history. The founder of ''Kwartalnik Historyczny'' was Ksawery Liske.''Encyklopedia Krakowa'', Warszawa-Kraków: Polish Scientific Publishers PWN, 2000 Editors *Ksawery Liske (1887-1891) *Oswald Balzer (1891-1894) * Aleksander Semkowicz (1895-1898, 1899-1904, 1906–1914, 1920-1922) *Józef Korzeniowski (1898-1899) * Ludwik Finkel (1918-1919) * Franciszek Bujak (1930-1931) * Kazimierz Tyszkowski (1937-1940) * Roman Grodecki (1945-1947) *Kazimierz Lepszy (1945-1946) * Jan Konstanty Dąbrowski *Stanisław Arnold Stanisław Arnold (20 December 1895 in Dąbrowa Górnicza – 3 November 1973 in Warszawa) was a Polish historian, professor of the University of Warsaw, member of the Polish Academy of Sciences, chief of Marksistowskie Zrzeszenie Historyków (Marx ... (1950-1952) * Bogusław Leśnodorski (1953-1974) *Tadeusz Jędruszczak (from 1975) *Je ...
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Grigoriopol
Grigoriopol (, Moldovan Cyrillic: Григориопол, russian: Григорио́поль, Grigoriopol, uk, Григоріо́поль, Hryhoriopol) is a town in the Administrative-Territorial Units of the Left Bank of the Dniester, Moldova. It is the seat of the Grigoriopol District of Transnistria. The city is located on the left (eastern) bank of the river Dniester at , in central Transnistria. Grigoriopol is composed of the city itself, and a small village ''Crasnoe'' (Красное). The town itself had a population of 11,473 in 2004. In 1996 and in 2002, the town was the centre of a dispute regarding the attempts of local Moldavian inhabitants to use the Romanian language (written with Latin script characters) in the local Moldavian school, which is against the policy of the government of Transnistria. The Transnistrian press attacked the local authorities "that allowed the fifth column of Moldova in Transnistria to operate". The head of the Parent-Teacher Associat ...
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Transnistria
Transnistria, officially the Pridnestrovian Moldavian Republic (PMR), is an unrecognised breakaway state that is internationally recognised as a part of Moldova. Transnistria controls most of the narrow strip of land between the Dniester river and the Moldovan–Ukrainian border, as well as some land on the other side of the river's bank. Its capital and largest city is Tiraspol. Transnistria has been recognised only by three other unrecognised or partially recognised breakaway states: Abkhazia, Artsakh and South Ossetia. Transnistria is officially designated by the Republic of Moldova as the Administrative-Territorial Units of the Left Bank of the Dniester ( ro, Unitățile Administrativ-Teritoriale din stînga Nistrului) or as ("Left Bank of the Dniester"). The Council of Europe considers the territory to be under military occupation by Russia. The region's origins can be traced to the Moldavian Autonomous Soviet Socialist Republic, which was formed in 1924 withi ...
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Administrative Divisions Of Transnistria
The Pridnestrovian Moldavian Republic (PMR, also known as Transnistria) is subdivided into five '' raions'': * Camenca ( ro, Camenca, Moldovan Cyrillic: ) * Rîbnița ( ro, Rîbnița, Moldovan Cyrillic: ) * Dubăsari ( ro, Dubăsari, Moldovan Cyrillic: ) * Grigoriopol ( ro, Grigoriopol, Moldovan Cyrillic: ) * Slobozia ( ro, Slobozia, Moldovan Cyrillic: ) and one municipality: * Tiraspol ( ro, Tiraspol, Moldovan Cyrillic: ) Also, Bender ( ro, Tighina, Moldovan Cyrillic: {{lang, ro, Бендéры), situated on the western bank of the Dniester (in Bessarabia), geographically outside Transnistria, is not part of territorial unit Transnistria of Moldova as defined by the central authorities, but is controlled by the PMR authorities, which consider it part of PMR's administrative organization. During the 1992 War of Transnistria some villages in the central part of Transnistria which geographically are situated on the eastern bank of Dniester, rebelled against the ne ...
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Urban Settlement
An Urban settlement is a concentrated settlement that is part of an urban area. It is an area with high density of human-created structures. *Municipal urban settlement, a type of subdivision such as Cape town in Western Cape *Urban settlement, an official designation for a certain type of urban locality used in some of the republics of Africa such as Southern Africa. *Municipal urban settlement, a type of municipal formation in Russia *Urban settlement, a synonym for urban localities in Russia *Urban-type settlement Urban-type settlementrussian: посёлок городско́го ти́па, translit=posyolok gorodskogo tipa, abbreviated: russian: п.г.т., translit=p.g.t.; ua, селище міського типу, translit=selyshche mis'koho typu, ab ..., an official designation for a certain type of urban locality used in some of the former republics of the Soviet Union It consists of various towns:- Administrative town Defence town Cultural town Industrial town ...
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