Russian links
Russia in general
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Reference
- Rubricon (RU) - Russian and Soviet encyclopaedias online
- Adresok (RU) - city codes, cities, maps, transportation, dictionaries, etc. timetables
- rasp.yandex.ru - Расписание вокзалов и аэропортов Москвы
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Online libraries (free)
- Библиотека Мошкова - Самая известная в Рунете www-библиотека, открыта в 1994. Авторы и читатели ежедневно пополняют ее. Художественная литература, фантастика и политика, техдокументация и юмор, история и поэзия, КСП и русский рок, туризм и парашютизм, философия и эзотерика, и т.д.
- Библиотека Альдебаран - Здесь собрана бесплатная художественная, учебная и техническая литература и книги различных жанров: детективы, фантастика, русская и зарубежная литература, стихи и поэзия, любовные романы, детская литература, женская эротическая литература, фэнтези и т.д.
- Библиотека Белоусенко - Здесь вы можете познакомиться с русской и зарубежной прозой, а также стихами, статьями, очерками, биографиями, интервью. Наша цель — вернуть читателю забытые имена, или познакомить с малоизвестными авторами, которые в силу сложившихся обстоятельств вынуждены были покинуть СССР и были преданы забвению. А также литературу широко известных авторов, произведений которых пока в интернете нет.
- Библиотека «Артефакт» - В коллекции хранится 8207 текстов 359 авторов на 22 языках (на 2006 г). Кроме того, в разделе "языки" имеется много материалов для изучения разных языков (учебники, грамматики, словари и др.).
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Moscow
Prominent Russians (A few names...)
- Bukovsky, Vladimir - notable former Soviet dissident, author and a human rights activist. In 1976, while imprisoned, Bukovsky was exchanged for former Chilean Communist leader Luis Corvalan. In his autobiographical novel "And the Wind Returns", Bukovsky describes how he was brought to Switzerland handcuffed.
- Igrunov, Vyacheslav - leader or the Union of people for Education and Science (SLON party), director of the International Institute for Humanities and Political Studies. A big section of the site is an Anthology of Samizdat (RU)
- Lebedev, Artemy - A web designer. The most interesting part of his site is his travels (RU)
- Litvinenko, Alexander - A former FSB officer, then dissident and writer, he was poisoned with polonium in London by his former collegues. Another site about him: Сайт памяти Александра Литвиненко (RU)
- Patrushev, Pyotr - The only escapee to survive a swim from the Soviet Union to Turkey across the Black Sea border. An interview with him by BBC in Russian (an audio file)
- Perelman, Grigori (1966 -) is a mathematician who has made landmark contributions to Riemannian geometry and geometric topology. In particular, it appears that he has proved Thurston's geometrization conjecture. If so, this solves in the affirmative the famous Poincare conjecture, posed in 1904 and regarded as one of the most important and difficult open problems in mathematics.
- Sablin, Valery (1939 - 76) was a Soviet Navy officer and a member of the Communist Party. In November 1975 he led a mutiny on the Soviet warship the Storozhevoy ("Vigilant") in the hope of starting a political revolution in the Soviet Union. His mutiny failed and he was shot for treason nine months later.
Info in Russian: Валерий Саблин - 8 ноября 1975 года, капитан 3 ранга Саблин, замполит большого противолодочного корабля Балтийского флота "Сторожевой", поднял на корабле политический мятеж. Он увлек за собой часть команды, арестовал командира и направил БПК из Риги в Ленинград, чтобы оттуда обратиться к народу с призывом к демократизации страны...
- Sakharov, Andrei (1921 - 89) was an eminent Soviet nuclear physicist, dissident and human rights activist. Sakharov was an advocate of civil liberties and reforms in the Soviet Union.
- Solzhenitsyn, Aleksandr (1918 - ). Famous novelist, dramatist and historian. Through his writings, he made the world aware of the Gulag, and, for these efforts, Solzhenitsyn was both awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1970 and exiled from the Soviet Union in 1974. He returned to Russia in 1994.
- Shenderovich, Victor - Satirist. Read also his mini-biography (RU)
- Starovoitova, Galina (1946 - 98) was a Russian politician and ethnographer known for her work to protect ethnic minorities and promote democratic reforms in Russia. She was assassinated in 1998.
- Trepashkin, Mikhail (1957 -). A Moscow attorney and former FSB officer, who tried to invistigate the involvement of FSB in the Russian apartment bombings. He was convicted by a closed military court to four years for "disclosing official secrets".
- Zinoviev, Alexandre
- a well-known Russian logician, sociologist, writer and satirist. Zinovyev was renowned for his novel The Yawning Heights. He was the author of the satire Homo Sovieticus.
See List of Russians in the Wikipedia.
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