Skopin may refer to:
Eastern Slavic naming customs are the traditional way of identifying a person's family name, given name, and patronymic name in East Slavic cultures in Russia and some countries formerly part of the Russian Empire and the Soviet Union.
Saaz may refer to:
Prince Mikhail Vasiliyevich Skopin-Shuisky was a Russian statesman and military figure during the Time of Troubles. He was the last representative of a cadet branch of the Shuysky family.
The De la Gardie campaign was a joint military campaign by the Tsardom of Russia and Sweden during the Polish–Muscovite War from April 1609 to June 1610.
Ivan Isayevich Bolotnikov headed a popular uprising in Russia in 1606–1607 known as the Bolotnikov Rebellion. The uprising formed part of the Time of Troubles in Russia.
Grigory Lukyanovich Skuratov-Belskiy, better known as Malyuta Skuratov was one of the most odious leaders of the Oprichnina during the reign of Ivan the Terrible.
The siege of the Troitsky monastery was an abortive attempt of the Polish–Lithuanian irregular army that acted in support of False Dmitry II to capture the Trinity Lavra of St. Sergius, north-east of Moscow. The siege lasted for 16 months, from 23 September 1608 until 12 January 1610.
Skopin is a town in Ryazan Oblast, Russia, located on the Vyorda River 109 kilometers (68 mi) southwest of Ryazan. Population: 30,376 (2010 Russian census); 25,092 (2002 Census); 28,912 (1989 Soviet census).
Alexander Ivanovich Skopin (1927–2003) was a Russian mathematician known for his contributions to abstract algebra.
Kovalyov, often written as Kovalev, or its feminine variant Kovalyova, Kovaleva (Ковалёва), is a common Russian surname, an equivalent of the English surname Smithson. Due to the ambiguous status of the Cyrillic letter yo, the surname may be written with the Cyrillic letter ye instead, though literate Russian speakers always pronounce it yo.
Viktor Vasilyevich Mokhov is a Russian criminal who in 2000 kidnapped two girls, then 14 and 17 years old, kept them in a basement and raped them for almost four years.
Skopinsky District is an administrative and municipal district (raion), one of the twenty-five in Ryazan Oblast, Russia. It is located in the southwest of the oblast. The area of the district is 1,720 square kilometers (660 sq mi). Its administrative center is the town of Skopin. Population: 27,080 ; 31,142 (2002 Census); 40,965 (1989 Soviet census).
Shuysky was a Rurikid family of former boyars. Notable people from that family include:
Skopinsky (masculine), Skopinskaya (feminine), or Skopinskoye (neuter) may refer to:
Ryazan Governorate was an administrative-territorial unit (guberniya) of the Russian Empire and the Russian SFSR, which existed from 1796 to 1929. Its capital was in Ryazan.
Russian lace is a bobbin tape lace. The tape is made with bobbins at the same time as the rest of the lace, curving back on itself, and joined using a crochet hook. It was made in Russia, but similar laces made elsewhere are also called Russian lace.
Dmitry Konstantinovich Faddeev was a Soviet mathematician.
The Battle of Tver took place in two stages on July 21–23, 1609 during the Russo-Polish War between a Russian–Swedish combined army and the Polish–Lithuanian army.
The Battle of Toropets was a battle on May 25, 1609 between the Russian–Swedish detachment and the detachment of Polish hussars and Cossacks of Pan Kernozitsky, which ended in the defeat of the latter.
Skopin is a Russian masculine surname, its feminine counterpart is Skopina. It may refer to the following notable people: