Alfons Jan Nagórski (1888–1976), also known as Ivan Iosifovich Nagurski, was a Polish engineer and pioneer of aviation, the first person to fly an airplane in the Arctic and the first aviator to perform a loop with a flying boat.
Georgy Lvovich Brusilov was a Russian naval officer of the Imperial Russian Navy and an Arctic explorer. His father, Lev Brusilov, was also a naval officer.
Tomares is a genus of lycaenid butterflies. They are presently the only genus in the tribe Tomarini. As not all Theclinae have been assigned to tribes, this is preliminary however. The species are found in the Palearctic.
The genus Callophrys consists of butterflies in the family Lycaenidae. It is apparently not monophyletic, but which of the taxa currently considered junior synonyms of Callophrys are valid genera remains to be determined.
Plebejus is a genus of butterflies in the family Lycaenidae. Its species are found in the Palearctic and Nearctic realms.
Alexander Eduardovich Konrad was a Russian sailor. Along with Valerian Albanov, he was one of two survivors, and the only surviving sailor, of the Brusilov expedition in which 22 people lost their lives.
Alpherakya is a genus of butterflies in the family Lycaenidae.
Apangea is a genus of butterflies in the family Lycaenidae. The genus is monotypic containing the single species Apangea pang endemic to Tibet and West China. This species is sometimes placed in Lycaena.
Athamanthia is an Eastern Palearctic genus of butterfly in the family Lycaenidae. Athamanthia is differentiated from Lycaena by characters of the male genitalia.
Pamiria is a genus of butterflies in the family Lycaenidae.
Patricius is a genus of butterflies in the family Lycaenidae.
Tongeia is a Palearctic genus of butterflies in the family Lycaenidae found in temperate East Asia. Most species are endemic to China and many species are recently described from China. The best known species is the more widely distributed Tongeia fischeri.
Turanana is a genus of butterflies in the family Lycaenidae. It is found in the east Palearctic from Greece to Central Asia.
Errors of Youth is a Soviet drama film directed in 1978 by Boris Frumin. It was screened in the Un Certain Regard section at the 1989 Cannes Film Festival. The "critical realism" is reported to have delayed the release; Frumin left the Soviet Union in 1979 and was in 1988 invited back to complete it.
Spialia struvei is a butterfly in the family Hesperiidae. It is found from Iran to Dzungaria in north-west China. The habitat consists of dry areas on hills and low mountains at altitudes between 200 and 1,000 meters in the steppe-desert zone.
Tongeia fischeri, or Fischer's blue, is a butterfly of the family Lycaenidae. It was described by Eduard Friedrich Eversmann in 1843. It is found in south-eastern Europe, the southern Ural, northern and eastern Kazakhstan, south-western and southern Siberia, the Russian Far East, Mongolia, China, Korea and Japan.
Agriades pheretiades, the Tien Shan blue, is a Palearctic butterfly of the family Lycaenidae.
Hyponephele is a genus of butterflies of the subfamily Satyrinae in the family Nymphalidae. Most range from Europe into central Asia with a few in northern Africa. They are commonly called meadowbrowns.
Athamanthia phoenicura is a butterfly of the family Lycaenidae. It was described by Julius Lederer in 1870 and is found in Armenia, Turkmenistan, Turkey, Iran, Afghanistan, Pakistan.
Rimisia miris is a species of butterfly in the family Lycaenidae. It is the sole representative of the monotypic genus Rimisia.
