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100 unusual facts about Moscow


1996–97 Vysshaya Liga season

CSKA Moscow won the Western Conference, and Metchel Chelyabinsk won the Eastern Conference.

Agabey Sultanov

In 1961, he moved to Moscow where, in 1967, he defended his PhD candidacy dissertation and by 1973 obtained a doctorate degree from the Moscow Serbsky Institute for Social and Forensic Psychiatry.

Alexis Guignard, comte de Saint-Priest

Alexis Guignard, comte de Saint-Priest (27 April 1805 Saint Petersburg - 29 September 1851 Moscow) was a French diplomat, historian, and Peer of France.

Anatoly Voronin

On the morning of October 16, 2006, he was found knifed to death in his flat in Central Moscow.

Andrei Kobyla

At first it was claimed that he came to Moscow from Prussia in 1341, where his father had been a famous rebel.

Andreyevsky Bridge

Pushkinsky bridge connects First Frunzenskaya street in Khamovniki (left bank) with the southern edge of Gorky Park and Titovsky Proezd leading to Leninsky Avenue (right bank).

Arkady Severny

Severny was born Arcady Dmitrievich Zvezdin in the town of Ivanovo near Moscow in Jewish family.

Arthur Kronfeld

1941 Degenerated at power, Moscow and Krasnojarsk; with the titel: The bloody gang of the degenerated also Swerdlowsk 1942.

Backbase

Backbase is a software company, founded in the Netherlands in 2003, which has offices in Amsterdam, the Netherlands, New York, United States, Moscow, Russia and Singapore.

Balwant Gargi

His plays were translated into 12 languages, and have been performed around the world, including Moscow, London, New Delhi and around the USA.

Battle of Lake Khasan

The conflict started on July 15, when the Japanese attaché in Moscow demanded the removal of Soviet border troops from the Bezymyannaya (сопка Безымянная, Chinese name: Shachaofeng) and Zaozyornaya (сопка Заозёрная, Chinese name: Changkufeng) Hills to the west of Lake Khasan in the south of Primorye, not far from Vladivostok, claiming this territory by the Soviet–Korea border.

Carl Winberg

In the 1930s, Winberg was active in the Communist opposition led by Karl Kilbom, independent from Moscow and opposing Stalinism.

Carlotta Gall

She started her newspaper career with The Moscow Times, in Moscow, in 1994, and covered the first war in Chechnya intensively for the paper, among other stories all over the former Soviet Union.

Colby Armstrong

His only goal of the tournament was the game-winning goal in the gold medal game against Finland in Moscow, which Canada won 4–2.

Cretan Gendarmerie

From Time of Moscow: "Unfortunately not all countries have the brave men of Crete in order to create such a Gendarmerie."

Dallas Chamber Symphony International Piano Competition

The event’s 2013 jury panel included Andrey Ponochevny, Bronze Medal Winner of the 2002 International Tchaikovsky Piano Competition in Moscow; Dr. Young-Hyun Cho, Assistant Professor of Piano for The University of Texas at Arlington and international master instructor; and Dr. Pamela Mia Paul, Regents Professor of Piano at the University of North Texas and critically acclaimed Steinway artist.

Destroy All Monsters

Godzilla attacks New York City, Rodan invades Moscow, Mothra lays waste to Beijing, Gorosaurus (wrongly identified as Baragon) destroys Paris, and Manda attacks London, which is set in to motion to take attention away from Japan, so the aliens can establish an underground stronghold near Mt. Fuji in Japan.

Dewey–Stassen debate

He then connected the Communist Party of the United States directly to Moscow, and used this to defend his support of the Nixon-Mundt Bill, introduced to the Senate by Senators Karl Earl Mundt of South Dakota and Richard Nixon of California, which he believed would effectively outlaw the Communist Party.

Edmund Neupert

In 1881 he traveled to Moscow, and in 1882 he moved to Christiania (today Oslo), where he taught at a piano school for children.

Ephraim Kholmyansky

Ephraim (Alexander) Kholmyansky (born 1950, in Moscow) is an Israeli refusenik, activist in the Jewish revival movement in Russia, and teacher of Hebrew.

Eva Evdokimova

The first American to do so, Evdokimova won the Varna International Ballet Competition in 1970, having been snubbed earlier that year in a Moscow competition.

Federation of Scouts of Russia

A Second International Jamboree that took place north of Moscow in 1997 with approximately 4,000 participants was organized by FSR in conjunction with the Organization of Russian Young Pathfinders (ORYuR).

Francis Adam Goodman

It is probable that he perished in the snows on their retreat from Moscow.

Funny Little World

Alexander Rybak performed an acoustic version of the song for the first time at a press conference at the Eurovision Song Contest 2009 in Moscow, Russia.

Gennady Shpigun

He was kidnapped from the airport in Grozny on March 5, 1999, when armed masked men boarded his plane as it was about to leave for Moscow.

Glacio

In 2012, superstar Madonna asked her manager to fly over some of Glacio’s ice cream delicacies to Moscow, after tasting them on her tour in Belgium.

Harold Gatty

Post and Gatty crossed the Atlantic in a record time of 16 hours and 17 minutes and continued to Berlin, Moscow, and Khabarovsk, then crossed the Bering Sea, landing on the beach near Solomon, Alaska, then to Edmonton, Alberta, arriving finally back at Roosevelt Field after 8 days, 15 hours, and 51 minutes.

Hawking radiation

Hawking's work followed his visit to Moscow in 1973 where the Soviet scientists Yakov Zeldovich and Alexei Starobinsky showed him that according to the quantum mechanical uncertainty principle, rotating black holes should create and emit particles.

High Kick!

She asked for a divorce from Min-yong, wishing to study abroad in Moscow, but came back to Korea in short time.

Internal Military Service

Teodor Kufel born in 1920, later in 1954 the graduate of KGB school in Moscow.

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There are speculations that gen. Edmund Buła had ordered to copy lists of WSW Informants and agents and sent it to Moscow, to KGB's Third Main Directorate, and some of them to GRU.

International Mathematical Olympiad selection process

In Moscow they are separated with process of selection, but in less populated regions pupils take part in both.

Jean Baptiste, baron Franceschi

He commanded a Neapolitan brigade in the Russian War of 1812, and after the retreat from Moscow took refuge, with the remnant of his command, in Danzig, where in the course of the siege of 1813 he died.

Jesús Dátolo

Dátolo made his international debut for Argentina in a friendly match against Russia in Moscow on 12 August 2009; he scored his first goal after just 20 seconds on the pitch.

Jewish Life Television

Its spotlight on Israel and Jewish life is facilitated by broadcast studios in Los Angeles, New York City and Toronto as well as bureaus in Jerusalem, Tel Aviv, Washington, D.C., Miami, London and Moscow.

John Klier

In 1991, he was one of the first foreign scholars to undertake in-depth research on the Jews in Soviet archives, and mined resources in the coming years in Kiev, Moscow, St Petersburg and Minsk.

Julius Strauss

In 2002, he was posted to Moscow as the Telegraphs bureau chief, from where he covered Putin's Russia and various Chechen crises.

Kolchak army offensive

The purpose of northern advancing was to connect with North Russia Front and to strike on Petrograd; the purpose of southern advancing was to crush the front of Reds on the middle Volga river and to strike on Moscow.

Kostrzyn–Słubice Special Economic Zone

The Zone is situated near main roads including the international E30 (A2), E65 (A3) and E28 motorways and near to the Paris – Berlin – Warsaw – Moscow international railway line.

La Maraude

The tactic was particularly flawed whenever an army was forced to retreat over land which it had already scavenged as in the retreat from Moscow.

Leisurama house

The precursor to the final design was shown at the 1959 American National Exhibition in Moscow, which provoked the noted Kitchen Debate between Vice President Richard M. Nixon and Soviet premier Nikita Khrushchev.

Liberation Army of Dagestan

The caller identified himself as a member of the Army of the Liberation of Dagestan and claimed that it was responsible for the explosion at Manezhnaya Square in Moscow on 31 August 1999.

Lithuanian Metrica

The remaining Lithuanian Metrica books in St. Petersburg were inventoried and taken to Moscow.

Marchak

In 2010 The House of Marchak initiated an inauguration ceremony of their new headquarters office in Hotel Ukraina of Moscow where everyone can see the unique beauty of Marchak chefs-d'oeuvre.

Marius Kahan

Featuring prominent players from London’s session scene, it attracted critical acclaim and enjoyed extensive airplay on 102.2 Jazz FM and Solar Radio in the UK, as well as being playlisted as far afield as Moscow and Budapest.

Mary Bamber

The same year, she became a founder member of the local Communist Party and in 1920 she attended the Second Congress of the Third International in Moscow.

Medovukha

Nonetheless, modern examples include bottled Medovukha sold at the "Russian Bistro" fast food outlets across Moscow, and tap Medovukha of different brands offered by a network of honey shops in St. Petersburg.

Michael A. Baker

He was responsible for the coordination and implementation of mission operation activities in the Moscow region for the joint U.S./Russian Shuttle/Mir program.

Mikhail Katkov

During the twenty-four years of editorship he exercised considerable influence on public opinion and even on the Government, by representing with great ability the moderately Conservative spirit of Moscow in opposition to the occasionally ultra-Liberal and always cosmopolitan spirit of St Petersburg.

Mil Mi-60

The Mil Mi-60MAI is a three-seat light helicopter first seen as a mockup at Moscow Salon in 2001.

Moscow 2042

The ideology has changed somewhat, into a hodgepodge of Marxism-Leninism and Russian Orthodoxy (Genialissimo himself is also Patriarch).

Moscow Ballet

The Bolshoi Ballet, based in Moscow in Russia has often been referred to generically as "The Moscow Ballet"

Moscow United Methodist Church

Moscow United Methodist Church is located in Moscow, Pennsylvania, on Church Street near Main Street.

Moscow-Riga Railroad Bridge

Moscow-Riga Railroad Bridge is a concrete arch bridge that spans Moscow Canal between Tushino

Moscow, Cheryomushki

With its mock medieval melody, the parallel fifths in the bass line and the use of a horn solo, the orchestral introduction recalls a retrospective style, reminiscent of Yaroslavna’s arioso from Borodin’s opera Prince Igor or the first bars of the “bardic” slow movement from Borodin’s 2nd Symphony.

Moscow, Scotland

The name is thought to be a corruption of 'Moss-hall' or 'Moss-haw' but its spelling was formalised in 1812 to mark Napoleon's retreat from Moscow.

Moscow, Tennessee

Compton Newby Crook, who was born in Rossville, Tennessee and who wrote science fiction under the pseudonym Stephen Tall, grew up in Moscow.

Museum of Western and Oriental Art

During the Soviet times, the museum ranked the third in the USSR by the value and size of its collection after The Hermitage in Saint Petersburg and the Pushkin Museum of Fine Arts in Moscow.

Naryshkin Baroque

It is in contrast to the more radical approach of Petrine baroque, exemplified by Cathedral of Ss. Peter and Paul in St. Petersburg and the Menshikov tower in Moscow.

New Life Radio-Moscow

New Life Radio (NLR) began as Russia's first Christian FM radio station, transmitting on 102.5 MHz in the city of Magadan, Russia (1996).

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Sensing the need to make Christian programming available in every community throughout the former Soviet Union, the station's management entered into a partnership with the Evangelical Covenant Church denomination (based in Chicago, Illinois) and HCJB World Radio (noted for developing the world's first Christian shortwave radio station in the early 1930s from Quito, Ecuador).

New Russians

A wide range of elite restaurants and nightclubs catering to the New Russian social circle have sprung up in Moscow.

Nicolae Militaru

A graduate of the M. V. Frunze Military Academy in Moscow, he commanded the Romanian Land Forces' 2nd Army from 1969 to 1978.

Nikolas Metaxas

Nikolas Metaxas participated as the songwriter and composer of the Cypriot entry at the Eurovision Song Contest 2009 in Moscow, Russia as his sister Christina Metaxa won the national final on 7 February 2009.

Oral Ak Zhol Airport

On August 28, 2009 an Itek Air Boeing-737-200 en route from Bishkek to Moscow performed an emergency landing due to oil leak on the port engine.

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As the 747 was deemed too heavy for take-off smaller size aircraft were sent from Moscow and Bucharest to ferry the passengers to London.

OSA Group

Like the ASNOVA group, OSA grew out of the avant-garde wing of the VKhUTEMAS school in Moscow.

Petrine Baroque

The Petrine Baroque structures outside St Petersburg are scarce; they include the Menshikov Tower in Moscow and the Kadriorg Palace in Tallinn.

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Unlike contemporaneous Naryshkin Baroque, favoured in Moscow, the Petrine Baroque represented a drastic rupture with Byzantine traditions that had dominated Russian architecture for almost a millennium.

Phil Smyth

Phil Smyth, an Adelaide junior, was already seen as one of Australia's best point guard's when the National Basketball League first started in 1979, yet it took him until 1982 to actually play in the league, despite having represented Australia at the 1978 FIBA World Championship in the Philippines and at the 1980 Summer Olympics in Moscow.

Piquadro

In 2004, the company began an internationalization campaign including investments and the opening of new stores abroad in Moscow and Barcelona.

Prairie Bluff Chalk Formation

Evidence has been found within the formation at Braggs, Moscow, and Millers Ferry in Alabama indicating an instantaneous to brief erosional event, most likely a tsunami, at the Cretaceous–Paleogene boundary (K–T boundary).

Programme Two

It broadcast centralized entertainment produced in Moscow and the various Soviet republics via the republican television stations.

Rémi Joseph Isidore Exelmans

In the retreat from Moscow, his steadfast courage was conspicuously manifested on several occasions.

Revolutionary committee

In other cases they were created underground from local populations under the guidance of Bolsheviks, which subsequently organized an insurgency and then invited the Red Army for help, as it was, e.g., in the case of the Azerbaijani Revkom, which seized power in Baku when English troops were evacuated and then asked Moscow for help.

Ruslan Akhtakhanov

Akhtakhanov was a professor and vice-rector at the Modern Humanitarian Academy in Moscow and a poet.

Russian cruiser Moskva

The ship is currently held under the patronage of the city of Moscow.

Saint Petersburg Toy Museum

It is the second museum of toys in Russia after the oldest Artistic-educational museum of that kind in Sergiev Posad near Moscow, which treats pedagogic problems mainly.

Samuil Vainshtein

He also shared 4th at Moscow 1920 ("Chess Olympiad", B tournament), and tied for 8-10th at Moscow 1927 (Peter Romanovsky won).

Sergo Kldiashvili

He attended the Kutaisi gymnasium which produced many of Georgia’s 20th-century intellectuals, and then studied law in Moscow.

Severo-Zapadny

North-Western Administrative Okrug (Severo-Zapadny administrativny okrug), an administrative okrug of Moscow, Russia

Shandrix

"The Sensational Jimi Shandrix Experience" are a Scottish ceilidh band who have toured in Bangkok, Bogotá, Melbourne and Moscow.

Sperenberg Airfield

However, after the issuing of arrest warrants for the former Head of State of East Germany Erich Honecker in 1991, he spent his last night on German soil at Sperenberg before being flown to Moscow the next day.

Stanislav Markelov

Investigations by the radio station Echo of Moscow indicate that most people distrusted the authorities, thought they could not adequately investigate the murder, and that the crimes would not be solved.

Steinberg v. Columbia Pictures Industries, Inc.

In the background is a blue stripe representing the Atlantic Ocean, three landmarks denoting cities in Europe, and a set of Russian-looking buildings labeled "Moscow".

Swami Swahananda

In the late 1980s, he lectured and gave spiritual guidance in Moscow.

The Big Red Adventure

He planned to steal the Crown of Monomakh from a museum in Moscow, but at the decisive moment things go wrong.

The German Ideology

However, the work was later retrieved and published for the first time in 1932 by David Riazanov through the Marx-Engels Institute in Moscow.

Tingaliin

"Tingaliin" was the last of the series of Tingeling songs performed at the intermissions of the Melodifestivalen 2009 in preparation to Eurovision Song Contest 2009 scheduled to be organized in Moscow.

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The sketch was set in Moscow, where the characters Pål Potter, (performed by the actor Rikard Ulvshammar) and music director Rolf Pihlman, wearing a fur hat (performed by Henrik Dorsin) contact the Russian "Schlager mafia" and the Russian opera singer Olga Pratilova to get her to perform Tingeling, resulting in a stage appearance with a remix partly in Russian, called "Tingaliin (Russian Bass-Lovers Remix)".

Ves Peterburg

Suvorin also published city directories for Moscow under the title "Vsia Moskva" (All Moscow) for the years 1875 to 1936 and for the whole country under the titles "Vsia Rossiia" (All Russia) continued under than name "Ves SSSR" (All USSR) from 1924 to 1931.

Victor Zâmbrea

In 1963, he graduated from the University of Popular Art in Moscow.

Victoria Karasyova

Victoria Igorevna Karasyova was born on June 23, 1979 in Moscow, Russian SFSR, USSR to Igor Karasyov and his wife.

Vladimir Mikhailovich Yashvil

Being prohibited from visiting both St. Petersburg and Moscow, Yashvil spent next several years in a compulsory retirement at his estate.

Volksdeutsche

These settlers (many of whom intended to stay only temporarily) were generally confined to the German Quarter in Moscow (which also included Dutch, British and other western or northern European settlers whom the Russians came to indiscriminately refer to as "Germans").

Wellington Secondary School

The jazz bands, which range from grade 9 to 12, have also been to a number of festivals, including the Envision Jazz Festival in Surrey, British Columbia, the Lionel Hampton Jazz Festival in Moscow, Idaho, and MusicFest Canada in Vancouver (1998), Richmond (2005 and 2007), Montreal (2004), Ottawa (2001, 2006, 2008 and 2010), Toronto (1999, 2000, 2003 and 2009), and Calgary (2002).

William P. Hobby

Born in Moscow, Texas, Hobby became a circulation clerk for the Post in 1895 and was promoted to business writer in August 1901.

Yaroslav Korolev

Korolev played for CSKA Moscow in the Russian Super League before joining the Clippers.

Yuri Barseghov

Yuri Barseghov (Юрий Барсегов, Յուրի Բարսեղով, March 7, 1925, Tiflis - August 6, 2008, Moscow) was an internetional law expert, J.D., professor, member of the United Nations' International Law Commission, the special assistant of the UN Deputy Secretary-General at the UN Secretariat (since 1971), director of the Armenian Institute of International Law and Political Science and a Foreign Member of the Armenian Academy of Sciences.

Yuzhny Okrug

Southern Administrative Okrug (Yuzhny administrativny okrug), an administrative okrug of Moscow, Russia


Alexander Bourganov

His recent works include a monument to Alexander Pushkin located at George Washington University in Washington DC (2000); a statue of John Quincy Adams, the first U.S. Ambassador to Russia and later President of the United States, located in front of the U.S. Embassy in Moscow (2008); and a statue of poet Walt Whitman located on the campus of Moscow State University (2009).

Alexander Pichushkin

He is believed to have killed at least 49 people, and possibly as many as 60, in southwest Moscow's Bitsa Park, where a number of the victims' bodies were found.

Alexander Vasilyevich Alexandrov

Alexander Vasilyevich Alexandrov, known as Sacha, was born on 13 April in Plakhino, a village south-east of Moscow.

Barcelona Institute of Architecture

Members of the Advisory Council include David Adjaye, Stan Allen, Manuel Castells, Yung Ho Chang, Riken Yamamoto, Irina Korobina (head of the Center of Contemporary Architecture, Moscow), Edward Soja, and Ramon Prat (director of architectural publishing house Actar), among others.

Battle of Sarikamish

These prisoners were kept under confinement for the next three years in the small town of Varnavino east of Moscow on the Vetluga River.

Benedikt Sarnov

In 1990s he became Secretary of the Moscow Writers' Union, a part of Union of Russian Writers.

Bolshoi

Bolshoi Theatre, a major ballet and opera theatre in Moscow, Russia

Brinckman baronets

The latter was a Colonel in the Grenadier Guards, Aide-de-Camp to the Governor of Victoria and to the Governor-General of Canada and Chief of Staff to the British Military Mission in Moscow during the Second World War.

Byron Randall

Randall’s activism also led him and Packard to the Soviet Union, in 1964, where they had a show of 48 prints in Moscow’s Pushkin Museum, which was featured on Soviet television.

Ceuta Heliport

Destinations include more than one hundred cities in Europe (mainly in the United Kingdom, Central Europe and the Nordic countries) but also the main cities of Eastern Europe: Moscow, Saint Petersburg, Budapest, Sofia, Warsaw, Riga and Bucharest), North Africa, the Middle East (Riyadh, Jeddah and Kuwait) and North America (New York, Toronto and Montreal).

Daniil Kholmsky

The result of this event was the deposition of Ivan III's adversary and his replacement by the Moscow-friendly Möxämmädämin.

Dmitry Ivanovich

Dmitry Donskoy (1350–1389), Dmitri Ivanovich Donskoy, Grand Prince of Moscow between 1359 and 1389

Friendship Flight '89

The Soviet Foundation for Social Inventions agreed to meet with Tony's father, Gary Aliengena, in Moscow to discuss the proposal.

House of Soviets

Palace of the Soviets, a project to construct an administrative center and a congress hall in Moscow, Russia, near the Kremlin

Ivan Gagarin

Ivan Sergeyevich Gagarin (born in Moscow, 1 August 1814; died in Paris, 19 July 1882) was a Russian Jesuit, known also as Jean-Xavier after his conversion to Catholicism.

Jan Kryjevski

In 1977, Kryjevski spent time working in a group of young artists at the dacha for creative talents "Senezh" near Moscow, where the artistic concept of Transrealism was first created and developed.

Jonas Žemaitis

Jonas Žemaitis (also known under his codename Vytautas; March 15, 1909 in Palanga – November 26, 1954 in Moscow) was one of the leaders of armed resistance against the Soviet occupation in Lithuania and acknowledged as the Head of State of contemporary occupied Lithuania.

Kryukovo

Staroye Kryukovo District, a district in Zelenograd Administrative Okrug of Moscow, Russia

Kuzminki

Vlakhernskoye-Kuzminki, a former Stroganov and Golitsyn estate in Moscow

Lazare Kaplan International

It established a joint manufacturing partnership with Alrosa (the Russian government-owned mining company), with cutting facilities in Moscow and Barnaul.

Lyudmila Sorokina

She worked in secondary educational institutions of Chelyabinsk, Vologda and Murmansk regions and in Moscow.

Martinsville Seven

One telegram from Moscow was signed by "workers in science, literature, the arts" by composers Dmitri Shostakovich and Sergei Prokofiev.

Matrona

Matryona Nikonova, known as Matrona of Moscow, a saint of the Russian Orthodox Church

Mikhail Turovsky

Mikhail Turovsky's work is represented in permanent collections of the National Art Museum of Ukraine in Kiev, the State Tretyakov Gallery in Moscow, the Yad Vashem Memorial Art Museum in Jerusalem, the Herbert Johnson Museum of Art at Cornell University in New York, and the Notre Dame University Art Museum in Indiana, as well as many public and private collections.

Moscow Kremlin

The nearest stations to the Moscow Kremlin are: Biblioteka Imeni Lenina (Sokolnicheskaya Line), Arbatskaya (Arbatsko-Pokrovskaya Line), Alexandrovsky Sad (Filyovskaya Line) and Borovitskaya (Serpukhovsko-Timiryazevskaya Line).

Moscow, Ohio

The name may have been given to the town by French immigrants who were veterans of Napoleon's siege of Moscow.

Neglinnaya River

There were four bridges across the Neglinnaya River: Voskresensky Bridge (its fragments unearthed during a 1994 excavation), three-span Kuznetsky Bridge, Troitsky Bridge and Petrovsky Bridge (the remains of the latter discovered during the reconstruction of the Maly Theatre).

NII-88

The bureau was established on May 13, 1946 and was located at Podlipki, northeast of Moscow.

Nikolai Petrovitch Troubetzkoy

Prince Nikolai Petrovitch Troubetzkoy (1828-1900) was a Privy Counsellor and Chamberlain of the Russian Imperial Court, relative of the Decembrist Prince S. P. Troubetzkoy, served as the President of the Moscow branch of the Russian Musical Society, and for many years was a close aide of the composer Nikolai Rubinstein.

Norbert Kuchinke

From 1973, Kuchinke was the first correspondent of Der Spiegel (Hamburg, West Germany) and Stern in Moscow, Soviet Union.

Novo-Ryazanskaya Street Garage

Novoryazanskaya Street Garage, also spelled Novo-Ryazanskaya Street Garage, and known as "Horseshoe garage", was designed by Konstantin Melnikov and Vladimir Shukhov (structural engineering) in 1926 and completed in 1929 at 27, Novoryazanskaya Street in Krasnoselsky District, Moscow, Russia, near Kazansky Rail Terminal.

One Day in Europe

The Champions League match between Galatasaray and Deportivo La Coruña which takes place in Moscow on that particular day only worsens the problem.

Patrick McKeown

In 1997, shortly after graduating from Trinity College in Dublin with a Master Degree in Economics, Political Science and Social Studies, came across a publication in The Irish Independent, which was describing experimental breathing technique discovered in Russia by a Moscow physiologist Konstantin Buteyko.

Peter Petreius

Peersson-Petreius was confident that Tsarevich Dimitri was indeed killed in Uglich in 1591; like Isaac Massa, he condemned Boris Godunov for arranging the murder, yet Persson's story contains an unrealistic scene of an arson in Uglich and Moscow, set up simultaneously to cover up the crime.

Pimen

Pimen, Metropolitan of Moscow, aka Pimen the Greek, Metropolitan of Moscow from 1382-1384

Povorino

A junction of railroads and motorways, the town is situated between Tambov and Volgograd on European route E119 from Moscow to Astara, Azerbaijan.

Semion Mogilevich

Political figures he has close alliances with include Yury Luzhkov, the former Mayor of Moscow, Dmytro Firtash and Leonid Derkach, former head of the Security Service of Ukraine.

Skolkovo Institute of Science and Technology

The Skolkovo Institute of Science and Technology is a private research university located near Skolkovo, Moscow Oblast, in the close vicinity of the capital city of Moscow, Russia.

St. Basil's Church

Saint Basil's Cathedral, a Russian Orthodox cathedral erected on the Red Square in Moscow

The Janus Man

As he attempts to discover the identity of "The Janus Man who faces both East and West", he tracks sources of information in Moscow, Lübeck, Copenhagen and Oslo to hunt down the killer of Ferguson.

Vasily Zhitarev

Vasily Georgievich Zhitarev (Russian: Василий Георгиевич Житарев born January 1, 1891 (OS) / January 13, 1891 (NS) in Moscow – died April 13, 1961) was a Russian amateur football player who competed in the 1912 Summer Olympics.

Viktoria Mullova

Mullova was born in Zhukovsky, near Moscow, in Soviet Russia.

Vladimer Papava

He received his Candidate of Science degree in Economics (PhD) from Central Economic Mathematical Institute of the Academy of Sciences of the USSR, Moscow, in 1982, and his Doctor of Science degree in Economics from Tbilisi State University in 1989 and Leningrad State University in 1990.

Vladimir Rebikov

Rebikov taught and played in concerts in various parts of the Russian Empire: Moscow, Odessa, Kishinev, Yalta, as well as in Berlin, Vienna, Prague, Leipzig, Florence and Paris, where met Claude Debussy, Oscar Nedbal, Zdenek Needly, and others.

XIM, Inc.

It is headquartered in San Francisco and has 5 offshore development centers in Moscow, Obninsk, Ulyanovsk, Minsk and Gomel.