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Valērijs
Valērijs or Valerijs is a given name. Notable people with the name include: *Valērijs Agešins (born 1972), Latvian politician and lawyer * Valērijs Belokoņs (born 1960), Latvian businessman and President of English football club Blackpool *Valērijs Buhvalovs (born 1957), Latvian politician and pedagogue * Valērijs Ivanovs (born 1970), Latvian footballer * Valērijs Kargins (born 1961), Latvian economist and banker * Valērijs Šabala (born 1994), Latvian footballer * Valerijs Semjonovs (born 1958), Latvian footballer *Valērijs Žolnerovičs Valērijs Žolnerovičs (born April 19, 1985 in Ventspils) is a Latvian Olympic athlete. He is the current holder of the Latvian record both in marathon and half marathon. Trained by Dainis Lodiņš, Žolnerovičs finished the 3000m steeplechas ... (born 1985), Latvian Olympic athlete See also * Valerij (given name) * Valer (other) {{DEFAULTSORT:Valerijs Latvian masculine given names Masculine given names ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Valērijs Šabala
Valērijs Šabala (born 12 October 1994) is a Latvian professional footballer who plays as a forward for II liga club Chojniczanka Chojnice. Club career Early career As a youth player Šabala was a member of Daugava Rīga academy. With the club winning the 2008 Latvian First League and being promoted to the Latvian Higher League for the 2009 season, Šabala was one of the youngsters to be included in the first team squad by the manager Vladimirs Beļajevs. Šabala made his debut on 15 October 2009, having just turned 15, when he came on as a substitute in the 46th minute in an 8–0 loss against the defending champions FK Ventspils. Three days later he appeared in the match against FC Tranzit, coming on as a substitute in the 88th minute. Daugava Rīga were relegated to the Latvian First League and Šabala joined the Latvian Higher League newcomers JFK Olimps in January 2010. Šabala scored his first Latvian Higher League goal on 23 April 2010 in a match against Skonto Riga ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Valērijs Agešins
Valērijs Agešins (born June 23, 1972, in Liepāja) is a Latvian politician and lawyer. He is a member of Harmony and a deputy of the Saeima, elected to represent the Kurzeme electoral district. He began his current term in parliament on November 4, 2014. From 1994 to 1998 he studied at the Immanuel Kant Baltic Federal University in Kaliningrad, graduating in history. He obtained a master's degree in pedagogy, and in 2002, he graduated from the Baltic Russian Institute as a lawyer. He is not however, a qualified attorney. From 1997 to 1998 he worked in a teacher training summer camp and from 1995 to 1999 as a law and political science lecturer at the Institute of Social Technologies. From 1998 to 2002 he was a history teacher at Liepāja High School where he was a member of the secondary school teachers' union committee. In 2002 he became a member of the Liepāja City Public Reconciliation Commission, becoming vice-president. Later in 2002 he was elected to the Saeima, and was ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Valērijs Belokoņs
Valērijs Belokoņs or Valeri Belokon (; born 14 February 1960) is a Latvian businessman. He is a majority shareholder and chairman of the supervisory board of ; a former co-owner of Blackpool F.C. From 12 January 2010 to 4 June 2013, he served as a Trustee of The Prince's Foundation for Building Community. For his continuous support of Latvian literature he is well known as Patron of literature. Education Born in Riga, when Latvia was a part of the Soviet Union, Belokoņs studied at the University of Massachusetts Amherst (USA) and the University of Latvia, Faculty of Philology. Business career Belokoņs is the chairperson of the supervisory board of Baltic International Bank, and his corporation Belokoņs Holdings has interests in finance, media, the Food industry and social projects in Latvia as well as football in England. In the 1980s, prior to becoming involved in business, Belokoņs worked as a correspondent in ''Soviet Youth'' newspaper in Latvia. Main business inte ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Valērijs Buhvalovs
Valery Alekseevich Bukhvalov (, ; born 9 July 1957 in Rēzekne) is a Latvian Russian politician and pedagogue, member of 9th Saeima from ForHRUL. Biography 1988 — graduated from Daugavpils Institute of Pedagogy. 1988—1996 — teacher of biology in Jelgava secondary school Nr. 3, deputy headmaster. 1993 — received Candidat degree from Herzen's Leningrad State Institute of Pedagogy. From 1995 — teacher of biology in the secondary school "Eureka", deputy headmaster. 1998—2006 — assistant of MP Yakov Pliner. 1998—2004 — teacher of biology in the pedagogical centre "Experiment". 2005—2006 — Jelgava Jelgava () is a state city in central Latvia. It is located about southwest of Riga. It is the largest town in the Semigallia region of Latvia. Jelgava was the capital of the united Duchy of Courland and Semigallia (1578–1795) and was the ad ... city councillor. 2006 — elected member of Saeima. Books and brochures 1992 — ''Аналитиче ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Valērijs Ivanovs
Valērijs Ivanovs (; born 23 February 1970 in Riga) is a former football midfielder from Latvia. He played 69 international matches and scored 1 goal for the Latvia national team between 1992 and 2001. His clubs include FC Skonto (1995–1997), Helsingborgs IF, Uralan Elista, Shinnik Yaroslavl and Volgar GazProm Astrakhan. Honours ;RAF Jelgava *Latvian Higher League runner-up: 1992, 1993 *Latvian Football Cup winner: 1993 ;Skonto *Latvian Higher League champion: 1995, 1996, 1997 *Latvian Football Cup winner: 1995, 1997 *Latvian Football Cup runner-up: 1996 ;Helsingborgs *Svenska Cupen runner-up: 1993–94 ;Latvia * Baltic Cup winner: 1993, 1995 1995 was designated as: * United Nations Year for Tolerance * World Year of Peoples' Commemoration of the Victims of the Second World War This was the first year that the Internet was entirely privatized, with the United States government ... External links * 1970 births Living people Soviet men's footballers FS ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Valērijs Kargins
Valērijs Kargins or Valery Mikhailovich Kargin (; born 27 March 1961, in Riga) is a Latvian economist and banker was the president of Parex Banka, from 1998 to 2008. In October 2000, he and Viktor Krasovitsky had accumulated over 200 million lats together. He created the first travel agency and the first currency exchange corporation in the Soviet Union. Biography Kargins was born in Riga on 27 March 1961. His parents were Mikhail Kargin () b. 1926 in Novosibirsk Oblast) and Dina Grozdeva () b. 15 October 1931 in Tatarsky District, Novosibirsk Oblast), who was raised by a Soviet serviceman. After his parents were married in 1951 at Novosibirsk where his father was a senior lieutenant in the Soviet Army, they moved to Riga Riga ( ) is the capital, Primate city, primate, and List of cities and towns in Latvia, largest city of Latvia. Home to 591,882 inhabitants (as of 2025), the city accounts for a third of Latvia's total population. The population of Riga Planni .... ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Valērijs Žolnerovičs
Valērijs Žolnerovičs (born April 19, 1985 in Ventspils) is a Latvian Olympic athlete. He is the current holder of the Latvian record both in marathon and half marathon. Trained by Dainis Lodiņš, Žolnerovičs finished the 3000m steeplechase at the 2008 Summer Olympics in Beijing with a time of 8:37.65 (32nd overall). In 2010 he won the half marathon distance of Riga Marathon, finishing after 1:05:40 and beating the event record, set by Pavel Loskutov in 2008, by 12 seconds. At the 2011 Lisbon Half Marathon Žolnerovičs broke the Latvian record in half marathon, finishing after 1:04:43. At the 2013 Frankfurt Marathon The Frankfurt Marathon (official name as of 2016: Mainova Frankfurt Marathon, until 2015: BMW Frankfurt Marathon, until 2010: Commerzbank Frankfurt Marathon) is a marathon which has taken place every year in Frankfurt am Main since its inception i ... Žolnerovičs broke the Latvian record in marathon for the second time, finishing after 2:14:33. Achievemen ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Valerij
Valerij is a given name. Notable people with the name include: * Valerij Popov, Russian chess player. He was awarded the title Grandmaster by FIDE in 1999. Popov won the championship * Valerij Zhuravliov Valerij Ivanovich Zhuravliov (, ; December 11, 1938 – July 18, 2021) was a Soviet/Latvian chess master who has won the Latvian Chess Championship three times. He held the FIDE title of International Master (IM). Chess career Valerij Zhuravliov ..., Soviet/Latvian chess master * Valerij Verhušin, Macedonian wrestler See also * Valērijs (given name) * Valer (other) {{given name ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Valerius (name)
Valerius or Valeria was a patrician family at Rome. Valerius may also refer to: Given name * Valerius Maximus, a 1st-century Latin writer: author of a collection of historical anecdotes * Valerius of Saragossa, bishop of Zaragoza in 290-315 * Valerius of Trèves, a 4th-century bishop of Trier * Valerius (consul 432), a politician of the Eastern Roman Empire * Valerius (archbishop of Uppsala), Swedish Archbishop 1207–1219 Surname * Adriaen Valerius, Dutch poet and composer * Bertha Valerius, Swedish photographer Other * ''Valerius'' (novel), an 1821 novel by John Gibson Lockhart See also * Valentine (name) * Valera (other) Valera is a city in Venezuela. Valera may also refer to: Places * Valera District, Peru * Valera, Texas, United States, an unincorporated community * Valera Municipality, Venezuela * Valera (crater), a tiny crater on the Moon People with th ... * Vålerenga (other) * * {{given name, type=both ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Roman Naming Conventions
Over the course of some fourteen centuries, the Ancient Rome, Romans and other peoples of Italy employed a system of nomenclature that differed from that used by other cultures of Europe and the Mediterranean Sea, consisting of a combination of given name, personal and surname, family names. Although conventionally referred to as the , the combination of praenomen, Nomen (Roman name), nomen, and cognomen that have come to be regarded as the basic elements of the Roman name in fact represent a continuous process of development, from at least the seventh century BC to the end of the seventh century AD. The names that developed as part of this system became a defining characteristic of Roman civilization, and although the system itself vanished during the Early Middle Ages, the names themselves exerted a profound influence on the development of European naming practices, and many continue to survive in modern languages. Overview The distinguishing feature of Roman nomenclature was t ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Male
Male (Planet symbols, symbol: ♂) is the sex of an organism that produces the gamete (sex cell) known as sperm, which fuses with the larger female gamete, or Egg cell, ovum, in the process of fertilisation. A male organism cannot sexual reproduction, reproduce sexually without access to at least one ovum from a female, but some organisms can reproduce both sexually and Asexual reproduction, asexually. Most male mammals, including male humans, have a Y chromosome, which codes for the production of larger amounts of testosterone to develop male reproductive organs. In humans, the word ''male'' can also be used to refer to gender, in the social sense of gender role or gender identity. Overview The existence of separate sexes has evolved independently at different times and in different lineage (evolution), lineages, an example of convergent evolution. The repeated pattern is sexual reproduction in isogamy, isogamous species with two or more mating types with gametes of identic ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Italy
Italy, officially the Italian Republic, is a country in Southern Europe, Southern and Western Europe, Western Europe. It consists of Italian Peninsula, a peninsula that extends into the Mediterranean Sea, with the Alps on its northern land border, as well as List of islands of Italy, nearly 800 islands, notably Sicily and Sardinia. Italy shares land borders with France to the west; Switzerland and Austria to the north; Slovenia to the east; and the two enclaves of Vatican City and San Marino. It is the List of European countries by area, tenth-largest country in Europe by area, covering , and the third-most populous member state of the European Union, with nearly 59 million inhabitants. Italy's capital and List of cities in Italy, largest city is Rome; other major cities include Milan, Naples, Turin, Palermo, Bologna, Florence, Genoa, and Venice. The history of Italy goes back to numerous List of ancient peoples of Italy, Italic peoples—notably including the ancient Romans, ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
