Kyrgyzstan competed at the 2000 Summer Olympics in Sydney, Australia. Kyrgyzstan won their first Olympic medal at these games. 48 competitors, 35 men and 13 women, took part in 59 events in 9 sports.
Mendeleyevsk is a town and the administrative center of Mendeleyevsky District in the Republic of Tatarstan, Russia, located on the right bank of Nizhnekamskoye Reservoir, 238 kilometers (148 mi) from the republic's capital of Kazan. As of the 2010 Census, its population was 22,075.
Kapiton Alekseyevich Zelentsov was a Russian painter, lithographer and illustrator.
Savva Ivanovich Mamontov was a famous Russian industrialist, merchant, entrepreneur and patron of the arts.
The following details notable events from the year 1826 in Norway. Norway is a Nordic unitary constitutional monarchy whose territory comprises the western portion of the Scandinavian Peninsula, Jan Mayen, the Arctic archipelago of Svalbard and the subantarctic Bouvet Island. Key domestic issues include maintaining the country's extensive social safety net with an aging population, and preserving economic competitiveness. See also: Norway
Vishnyakov and Vishnyakova is a common Russian surname meaning cherry.
Golden Mountains is a 1931 Soviet silent drama film directed by Sergei Yutkevich. A re-edited sound version of the film as released in 1936.
Konstantin Igoryevich Gluhov is a Latvian heavyweight kickboxer and mixed martial artist of Russian descent. He is a former WPKA World Muaythai champion, currently competing in K-1. He made his K-1 debut in 2006 at K-1 Fighting Network Riga 2006 against Denis Sobolyev.
Alexey Tsereteli was a Georgian prince and he was a Russian opera entrepreneur.
Brave People, initially announced on release abroad by Mosfilm as The Horsemen, is a 1950 Soviet film, directed by Konstantin Yudin. The film starred Sergei Gurzo and Alexei Gribov, and was Yudin's first thriller film, as he had previously worked predominantly on comedies.
Aleksandr Tkachev is a Russian-born Kyrgyz former swimmer, who specialized in breaststroke events. He collected a total of three medals, one gold and two silver, at the Universiade, and later represented his adopted nation Kyrgyzstan at the 2000 Summer Olympics.
Tseng Cheng-hua is a Taiwanese former swimmer, who specialized in butterfly events. He is a single-time Olympian (2000), and a top 8 finalist in both 100 and 200 m butterfly at the 2002 Asian Games in Busan, South Korea.
Alexei Pavlov is a Kyrgyz former swimmer, who specialized in sprint freestyle events. Pavlov competed for Kyrgyzstan in the men's 4×100 m freestyle relay at the 2000 Summer Olympics. Teaming with Russian imports Sergey Ashihmin, Dmitri Kuzmin, and Konstantin Ushkov, silver medalist in Atlanta four years earlier, in heat two, Pavlov anchored the race with a poor split of 52.73, but the newly bred Kyrgyz team rounded out the eight-team field to last place and twentieth overall in a final time of 3:25.03.
Chemical Plant Karpov is a Russian chemical plant in Mendeleyevsk, Tartarstan. JSC Chemical Plant Karpov is a joint stock company which runs the oldest chemical plant in Russia. The company was named after Lev Karpov.
Mumu is a short story by Ivan Turgenev, a Russian novelist and story writer, written in 1854.
The 10th Army Corps was an Army corps in the Imperial Russian Army.
