Nikolay Popov (December 14, 1931 – February 4, 2008)
was a Russian engineer; he was chief designer of the T-80 tank, which was first built by the Soviet Union during the 1970s.
Popov was born at Ust-Labinsk. He died at the age of 76 on February 4, 2008, after a long illness.
Nikolay Nikolayevich Serebryakov (; 14 December 1928, Leningrad - 9 August 2005, Moscow) was a Soviet and Russian director of animated films and a People's Artist of Russia
Nikolay Gennadiyevich Basov ( 14 December 1922 – 1 July 2001) was a Soviet physicist and educator. For his fundamental work in the field of quantum electronics that led to the development of laser and maser, Basov shared the 1964 Nobel Prize in Physics with Alexander Prokhorov and Charles Hard Townes.
The southern pole of inaccessibility is far more remote and difficult to reach than the geographic South Pole. On 14 December 1958, the 3rd Soviet Antarctic Expedition for International Geophysical Year research work, led by Yevgeny Tolstikov, established the temporary Pole of Inaccessibility Station (Polyus Nedostupnosti) at 82°06′S 54°58′E. A second Russian team returned there in 1967. Today, a building still remains at this location, marked by a bust of Vladimir Lenin that faces towards Moscow, and protected as a historical site. Inside the building, there is a golden visitors' book for those who make it to the site to sign.
ReplyDeleteNikolay Gennadiyevich Basov entered politics in 1951 and a member of parliament of the Supreme Soviet in 1974.[2] Following U.S. President Ronald Reagan's speech on SDI in 1983, Basov signed a letter along with other Soviet scientists condemning the initiative, which was published in the New York Times.[4] In 1985 he declared the Soviet Union was capable of matching SDI proposals made by the U.S.
ReplyDeletePrincess Zinaida Aleksandrovna Volkonskaya (Зинаида Александровна Волконская; 14 December 1792 – 24 January 1862), was a Russian writer, poet, singer, composer, salonist and lady in waiting. She was an important figure within the Russian culture life in the 19th-century. She was also an amateur opera singer who performed in Paris and London.
ReplyDeleteThe Winter War (Finnish: talvisota, Swedish: vinterkriget, Russian: Зимняя война, tr. Zimnyaya voyna) was a military conflict between the Soviet Union and Finland. The conflict began with a Soviet offensive on 30 November 1939—two months after the start of World War II and the Soviet invasion of Poland—ending on 13 March 1940 with the Moscow Peace Treaty. The League of Nations deemed the attack illegal and expelled the Soviet Union from the League on 14 December 1939.
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