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The Ukrainian Soviet Socialist Republic, also known as the Soviet Ukraine, was one of the constituent republics of the Soviet Union from the Union's inception in 1922 to its breakup in 1991. The republic was governed by the Communist Party of Ukraine as a unitary one-party socialist soviet republic.
Russian News Agency TASS, abbr. TASS is a major news agency in Russia, founded in 1904. TASS is the largest Russian news agency and one of the largest news agencies worldwide, along with Reuters, the Associated Press (AP) and Agence France-Presse (AFP).
Great Russia, sometimes Great Rus', is an obsolete name formerly applied to the territories of "Russia proper", the land that formed the core of Muscovy and later Russia. This was the land to which the ethnic Russians were native and where the ethnogenesis of (Great) Russians took place. The name is said to have come from the Greek Μεγάλη Ῥωσ(σ)ία, Megálē Rhōs(s)ía used by Byzantines for the northern part of the lands of Rus'.
The federal city of Moscow, Russia is divided into twelve administrative okrugs, which are in turn subdivided into districts (raions). The city does not have a downtown area; the urban core is scattered across the city. Prominent business areas include Tverskoy, Arbat, and Presnensky Districts. Central Administrative Okrug as a whole has a large concentration of businesses. The city hall and major administration buildings are located in Tverskoy District. Western Administrative Okrug is home to Moscow State University, Sparrow Hills and Mosfilm Studios, while North-Eastern hosts Ostankino Tower and VDNKh Exhibition Park. The total population of the Federal City of Moscow was 11,503,501 inhabitants at the Russian Census (2010).
Vokzalna is a station on Kiev Metro's Sviatoshynsko-Brovarska Line. The station was opened along with the Metro on 6 November 1960 It, and is named after Kiev's Central rail station (Vokzal)
The Tsytsin Main Moscow Botanical Garden of Academy of Sciences was founded in April 1945, and claims itself to be the largest botanical garden in Europe. It covers a territory of approximately 3.61 km², bordering the VDNKH Exhibition Center, and contains a live exhibition of more than twenty thousand different species of plants coming from various parts of the world. The garden also has a scientific research laboratory and contains a rosarium with twenty thousand rose bushes, a dendrarium (arboretum), an oak forest with the average age of the trees exceeding 100 years, a Japanese garden and a greenhouse of more than 5000 square meters.
The Russian Volleyball Super League is the top league of Russian volleyball. It was founded in 1992, and it is considered to be the continuer of the Soviet top league, founded in 1933.
Bohdan Sylvestrovych Stupka was a popular Ukrainian actor and the minister of culture of Ukraine. He was born in Kulykiv, General Government to Ukrainian parents. In 2001 he was a member of the jury at the 23rd Moscow International Film Festival. At the 26th Moscow International Film Festival he won the award for Best Actor for his role in Our Own.
Oleg Yuriyevich Buryan is a Russian artist, since 1980’s he lived in Moscow. In 2012 Oleg Buryan moved to St-Petersburg, where he joined St-Petersburg Union of Artists.
Vystavochny Tsentr is a Moscow Monorail station in the Ostankinsky District, North-Eastern Administrative Okrug, Moscow, Russia. The station is near the main entrance of VDNKh, which was named the All-Russia Exhibition Center in 1992–2014, hence the station name.
Moscow-850 is a Ferris wheel in the amusement park "Moscow-850" on the territory of VDNKh, built for the 850th anniversary of Moscow and dismantled in 2016.
Metro 2033 is a post-apocalyptic fiction novel by Russian author Dmitry Glukhovsky. It is set in the Moscow Metro, where the last survivors hide after a global nuclear holocaust. It was published in 2005 in Russia and on 28 March 2010 in the United States.
Crocus City Mall is a shopping mall located in Krasnogorsk, a western suburb of Moscow.
Shmavon G. Mangasarov – Armenian artist who lived for many years in Azerbaijan and one of the founders and members of the Azerbaijan society of revolutionary art workers.
The Moscow Pavilion was designed as an exhibition pavilion for the Soviet Union at the international exhibition Expo 67 in Montreal, Quebec, Canada. The project was designed by a team of architects led by Mikhail Posokhin. Since the 1990s, the pavilion it has been commonly called the Moscow Pavilion.
Lavinia Bazhbeuk-Melikyan was a Soviet- Armenian artist who was a full member of the Russian Academy of Arts, and a People's Artist of the Armenian SSR.
Vladimir Gel'freykh was a Russian and Soviet architect, teacher, professor.
Dmitry Ilyin is a Russian fine art and documentary street photographer.
