Platon Oyunsky
Platon Oyunsky (, ; — 31 October 1939), born Platon Alekseevich Sleptsov, () was a Yakut Soviet writer, philologist and public figure, and one of the founders of Yakut literature. Oyunsky, together with Maksim Ammosov and Isidor Barakhov, played a major role in the formation of the Yakut Autonomous Soviet Socialist Republic. He was executed during the Great Purge. Early life Oyunsky was born in 3 Zhekhsogon nasleg of Boturuss (now Tatta) ulus. The etymology of the family name "Sleptsov" comes from the word meaning "a shaman." This became the source of Oyunsky's pen name. Career Oyunsky became a member of the Russian Communist Party in March 1918. From 1921 to 1922 he served as Chairman of the Yakut Revolutionary Committee, and from 1923 to 1926 as the Chairman of the Central Executive Committee of the Yakut ASSR. Sleptsov was a Soviet Yakut statesman, writer, translator and champion of Yakuts language. In addition, he was seen as one of the founders of modern Yakut lit ... [...More Info...]       [...Related Items...]     OR:     [Wikipedia]   [Google]   [Baidu]   |
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Yakut ASSR
The Yakut Autonomous Soviet Socialist Republic (; ), also known as Soviet Sakha, Soviet Yakutia or the Yakut ASSR (, ''Yakutskaya ASSR''), was an autonomous republic of the Russian SFSR within the Soviet Union. History The Yakut ASSR was formed as part of the RSFSR on April 27, 1922, during the Yakut revolt. It comprised the territory of the Yakutsk Oblast, excluding the Nizhnyaya Tunguska district, which became part of the Kirensky district of the Irkutsk Governorate; the Republic also included the Khatango-Anabar district of the Yeniseysk Governorate, the Olekminsko-Suntarskaya volost of the Kirensky district of the Irkutsk Governorate and all the islands of the Arctic Ocean located between the meridians of 84° and 140½° east longitude.«'' Якутская автономная советская социалистическая республика''» — статья в Малой советской энциклопедии; 2 издание; 1937—1947 гг. It was tra ... [...More Info...]       [...Related Items...]     OR:     [Wikipedia]   [Google]   [Baidu]   |
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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]   |
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Soviet People Who Died In Prison Custody
The Union of Soviet Socialist Republics. (USSR), commonly known as the Soviet Union, was a transcontinental country that spanned much of Eurasia from 1922 until it dissolved in 1991. During its existence, it was the largest country by area, extending across eleven time zones and sharing borders with twelve countries, and the third-most populous country. An overall successor to the Russian Empire, it was nominally organized as a federal union of national republics, the largest and most populous of which was the Russian SFSR. In practice, its government and economy were highly centralized. As a one-party state governed by the Communist Party of the Soviet Union (CPSU), it was a flagship communist state. Its capital and largest city was Moscow. The Soviet Union's roots lay in the October Revolution of 1917. The new government, led by Vladimir Lenin, established the Russian SFSR, the world's first constitutionally communist state. The revolution was not accepted by all wi ... [...More Info...]       [...Related Items...]     OR:     [Wikipedia]   [Google]   [Baidu]   |
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Soviet Rehabilitations
The Union of Soviet Socialist Republics. (USSR), commonly known as the Soviet Union, was a transcontinental country that spanned much of Eurasia from 1922 until it dissolved in 1991. During its existence, it was the largest country by area, extending across eleven time zones and sharing borders with twelve countries, and the third-most populous country. An overall successor to the Russian Empire, it was nominally organized as a federal union of national republics, the largest and most populous of which was the Russian SFSR. In practice, its government and economy were highly centralized. As a one-party state governed by the Communist Party of the Soviet Union (CPSU), it was a flagship communist state. Its capital and largest city was Moscow. The Soviet Union's roots lay in the October Revolution of 1917. The new government, led by Vladimir Lenin, established the Russian SFSR, the world's first constitutionally communist state. The revolution was not accepted by all ... [...More Info...]       [...Related Items...]     OR:     [Wikipedia]   [Google]   [Baidu]   |
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Soviet Writers
This is a list of authors who have written works of prose and poetry in the Russian language. For separate lists by literary field: * List of Russian-language novelists * List of Russian-language playwrights * List of Russian-language poets A * Bavasan Abiduev (1909–1940), poet and one of the founders of Buryat children's literature * Alexander Ablesimov (1742–1783), opera librettist, poet, dramatist, satirist and journalist * Fyodor Abramov (1920–1983), novelist and short story writer, ''Two Winters and Three Summers'' * Grigory Adamov (1886–1945) science fiction writer, ''The Mystery of the Two Oceans'' *Georgy Adamovich (1892–1972), poet, critic, memoirist, translator *Anastasia Afanasieva (born 1982), physician, poet, writer & translator *Alexander Afanasyev (1826–1871), folklorist who recorded and published over 600 Russian folktales and fairytales, ''Russian Fairy Tales'' * Alexander Afanasyev-Chuzhbinsky (1816–1875), poet, writer, ethnographer and transla ... [...More Info...]       [...Related Items...]     OR:     [Wikipedia]   [Google]   [Baidu]   |
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Yakut People
The Yakuts or Sakha (, ; , ) are a Turkic ethnic group native to North Siberia, primarily the Republic of Sakha in the Russian Federation. They also inhabit some districts of the Krasnoyarsk Krai. They speak Yakut, which belongs to the Siberian branch of the Turkic languages. Etymology According to Alexey Kulakovsky, the Russian word was taken from the Evenki , while Marjorie Mandelstam Balzer claims the Russian word is actually a corruption from the Tungusic form. According to ethnographer Dávid Somfai, the Russian ''yakut'' derives from the Buryat ''yaqud'', which is the plural form of the Buryat name for the Yakuts, ''yaqa''. The Yakuts call themselves , or (Yakut: , ) in some old chronicles. All of these are derived from a word related to Turkish '' yaka'' (geographical edge, collar) referring to the Yakuts' remote position in Siberia. Origin Early scholarship An early work on the Yakut ethnogenesis was drafted by the Russian Collegiate Assessors I. Evers an ... [...More Info...]       [...Related Items...]     OR:     [Wikipedia]   [Google]   [Baidu]   |
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Tomsk
Tomsk (, ) is a types of inhabited localities in Russia, city and the administrative center of Tomsk Oblast in Russia, on the Tom (river), Tom River. Population: Founded in 1604, Tomsk is one of the oldest cities in Siberia. It has six universities, with over 100,000 students, including Tomsk State University, the oldest university in Siberia. Etymology The city is named after the Tom River, whose name may derive either from the Ket language, Ket word ''toom'' ("river") or from the Russian language, Russian word ''tyomny'' ("dark"). History Tomsk originated with a decree by Tsar Boris Godunov in 1604 after , the Siberian Tatars, Tatar duke of , asked for the Tsar's protection against Yenisei Kirghiz, Kyrgyz. The Tsar sent 200 Cossacks under the command of and Gavriil Ivanovich Pisemsky to construct a fortress on the bank of the Tom River, overlooking what would become the city of Tomsk. Toian ceded the land for the fortress to the Tsar. [...More Info...]       [...Related Items...]     OR:     [Wikipedia]   [Google]   [Baidu]   |
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Tomsk State University
The National Research Tomsk State University, TSU () is a public research university located in Tomsk, Russia. The university, which opened in 1888, was the first university in the Asian part of Russia and, in practice, the first Russian university East of the Volga. TSU comprises 22 faculties and institutes with 152 departments, serving approximately 18,000 students. As of 2022, the university ranked #272 in the QS World University Rankings, #601 in the World University Rankings by Times Higher Education, and #901 in the Academic Ranking of World Universities. History Imperial University On May 16 (28 N.S.), 1878, Emperor Alexander II signed a decree on the establishment of the first higher education institution between the Russian Urals and the Pacific Ocean. The move was supported by major industrialist and businessmen, who contributed with private funds, as well as by local city councils in Siberia, but was opposed by conservative voices within the State Council, n ... [...More Info...]       [...Related Items...]     OR:     [Wikipedia]   [Google]   [Baidu]   |
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Rinchingiin Elbegdorj
Rinchinei Elbegdorzho (; ; 16 May 1888 – 10 June 1938) was a Buryat nationalist revolutionary who played leading roles in the Outer Mongolian Revolution of 1921 and the early political development of the Mongolian People's Republic.Alan J. K. Sanders Historical dictionary of Mongolia. Rowman & Littlefield, 2003, He was an important member of the Mongolian People's Revolutionary Party representing the Buryats and served as Chairman of the Revolutionary War Council of the Mongolian People's Army. Early life and career Elbegdorj was born on 16 May 1888 into a herding family in Barguzinsky District, Transbaikal. He became a communist around 1910 while studying law at Saint Petersburg State University. He then moved to Troitskosavsk where he wrote for a local newspaper and traveled throughout Mongolia, becoming involved in clandestine Mongolian revolutionary activities. Elbegdorj befriended a young Khorloogiin Choibalsan in Irkutsk between 1914 and 1918 and became a strong early ... [...More Info...]       [...Related Items...]     OR:     [Wikipedia]   [Google]   [Baidu]   |
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Sardana Oyunskaya
Sardana Platonovna Oyunskaya () (September 6, 1934 – July 13, 2007) was a Yakut folklorist, literary critic, and philologist. Oyunskaya was born in Moscow, the daughter of Platon Oyunsky. A graduate of Yakutsk State University, she began working at the Institute of Language, Literature and History in 1962. She authored a monograph on Yakut folk riddles, and co-authored publications on Yakut fairy tales and folk songs; she published numerous other works on Yakut folklore, language Language is a structured system of communication that consists of grammar and vocabulary. It is the primary means by which humans convey meaning, both in spoken and signed language, signed forms, and may also be conveyed through writing syste ..., and literature as well. Later in life she began to publish memoirs about her father and his associates; a book of her recollections of him was published in 1999, and republished in 2003. References {{authority control 1934 births 2007 deaths Yaku ... [...More Info...]       [...Related Items...]     OR:     [Wikipedia]   [Google]   [Baidu]   |
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Yakutsk
Yakutsk ( ) is the capital and largest city of Sakha, Russia, located about south of the Arctic Circle. Fueled by the mining industry, Yakutsk has become one of Russia's most rapidly growing regional cities, with a population of 355,443 at the 2021 census. Yakutsk has an average annual temperature of , winter high temperatures consistently well below , and a record low of has been recorded.Погода в Якутске. Температура воздуха и осадки. Июль 2001 г. (in Russian) As a result, Yakutsk is the coldest ''major city'' in the world (although a number of smaller towns in that region are slightly colder). Yakutsk is also the largest city located in [...More Info...]       [...Related Items...]     OR:     [Wikipedia]   [Google]   [Baidu]   |
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Platon Oyunsky Yakutsk International Airport
Platon Oyunsky Yakutsk International Airport (, ; , ''Mezhdunarodnyj aeroport Yakutsk imeni Platona Ojunskogo'') is an airport in Yakutsk, Russia. It has one runway (an older runway serves as a parking area for disused aircraft) and has a capacity of 700 passengers per hour. The airport is the hub for five regional airlines, including Yakutia Airlines and Polar Airlines. Construction of the airport started in 1931, and it was used as a stopover on the ALSIB Alaska-Siberia air route for American planes flying to Europe during World War II. The present international terminal was built in 1996. The airport serves as a diversion airport on Polar route 4. , the airport has been used by Boeing to test cold weather starting of its aircraft. The airport is named after Platon Oyunsky, a Yakut writer killed during the Great Purge. Airlines and destinations Passenger Cargo Accidents and incidents Before 1992, Aeroflot had a monopoly on Soviet domestic flights, and had a lot of a ... [...More Info...]       [...Related Items...]     OR:     [Wikipedia]   [Google]   [Baidu]   |