Kumyks are a Turkic people, indigenous to Dagestan, Chechnya and North Ossetia. They are the largest Turkic people in the North Caucasus.
Permyak language is one of two Permic varieties in the Uralic language family that form a pluricentric language, the other being Komi-Zyryan.
Mikhail Aleksandrovich Chekhov, known as Michael Chekhov, was a Russian-American actor, director, author, and theatre practitioner. He was a nephew of the playwright Anton Chekhov and a student of Konstantin Stanislavski. Stanislavski referred to him as his most brilliant student.
Alexander Leonidovich Dvorkin is a Russian anti-cult activist. From 1999 to 2012 he was professor and head of the department of the study of new religious movements (cults) at Saint Tikhon's Orthodox University. He is currently professor of department of missiology at that university.
Oleg Nikolayevich Trubachyov was a Soviet and Russian linguist. A researcher of the etymology of Slavic languages and Slavic onomastics, specialist in historical linguistics and lexicographer. He was a Doctor of Sciences in Philological Sciences, an academician of the Russian Academy of Sciences and served as the editor-in-chief of the Etimologiya yearbook. His works are on the etymology of Slavic languages and on East Slavic onomastics.
The Pamirid race, also Pamir-Fergana race, is the most Eastern subrace of the Europid race, a racial category is now considered to be obsolete. It was said to be common in Central Asia, represented mostly by the Tajiks, Uyghurs and the Pamir people and Uzbeks. Characterized by brachycephalic skull, dark hair, white skin, narrow protruding nose and fairly strong development of the tertiary hair cover.
The 1922 confiscation of church property in Russia was held by the Bolshevik government of the Russian Soviet Federative Socialist Republic allegedly to combat the Russian famine of 1921–1922. During 1922, precious metals and gems were removed by state authorities from churches of all denominations. Subject to confiscation or articles intended exclusively for liturgical purposes, which is set in a very vulnerable position of the clergy, and caused the resistance of the congregation. The clergy organized resistance to the removal and vandalization of church property, which was met with brutal repression by the Bolsheviks.
Dinar was a 10th-century Georgian princess of the Bagrationi dynasty of Tao-Klarjeti and Queen regnant of Hereti. She is venerated as a saint. The Georgian Orthodox Church commemorates her on June 30.
Polymethylsiloxane polyhydrate (PMSPH), or methylsilicic acid hydrogel, is an enterosorbent used for binding and removing various toxic substances, infectious agents and metabolites from the gastrointestinal tract. It is available in the form of a homogeneous pasty mass of white or almost white colour, odorless and tasteless.
Tatiana Valerianovna Dorofeeva was a Russian linguist, orientalist and translator.
Atheistic Dictionary is a one-volume reference work devoted to various aspects of religion and atheism. It contains more than 2500 terms.
Kazimir Vasilyevich Levitsky was an Imperial Russian general and division commander. He took part in the war against the Ottoman Empire.
Alexei Arbuzov (1792–1861) was an Imperial Russian general of the infantry and division commander. He fought in wars against the First French Empire and the Ottoman Empire. He took part in suppressing the uprising in Poland. He was the maternal grandfather of Nikolai Velyaminov and Natalia Nordman.
Praskovia Naumovna Arian, née Belenkaia, was a Russian writer, translator, feminist and educator. She founded the annual First Women's Calendar covering women's issues in Russia and later the First Women’s Technical Institute. She wrote articles under the pseudonym "Ar.". In the 1930s she taught courses for workers at the Kirov Plant in Leningrad.
Semyon Alekseyevich Kamenev was an educator, professor, writer, Soviet propagandist of atheism and a scientific worker in the study of problems of religion and atheism.
Anatoly Vasilyevich Belov was a Soviet religion scholar and atheist propagandist. He was a First Deputy Chairman of the Council for Religious Affairs under the Council of Ministers of the USSR, an expert on Adventism and one of the authors of the Atheistic Dictionary and Atheist Handbook.
Verkhny Zub is a peak in Kemerovo Oblast, Russia. It is the highest point of the federal subject.
Kyzlasov Peak is a peak in Khakassia, Russia. It is the highest point of the federal subject.
Kazan Law Institute is a Higher education institution in Kazan, founded in 1931 to train lawyers. Reorganized in 1952 by joining the Kazan Federal University.
In firearms, the mainspring is a spring in the firing mechanism which stores the energy required to ignite the primer of the cartridge. The mainspring may be called a striker spring on striker-fired firearms, or hammer spring on hammer-fired firearms. After the trigger mechanism has been released, the tensioned mainspring will drive the firing pin or hit the firing pin so that it is driven.
