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1 December 2005
2 January 2006
3 February 2006
4 March 2006
5 April 2006
6 Archive 105
7 January 2007

[edit] December 2005

...that Jacob Bruce, a Russian nobleman of Scottish descent and one of the most educated people in Russia at the time, was famous among the 18th century Muscovites as an alchemist and mage? Author: User:Maxim Razin 23:29, 21 November 2005 (UTC) - Introvert ^talk 22:31, 30 December 2005 (UTC)

Andrei Kobyla and Fyodor Koshka made their way to the Wikipedia:Main page as part of WP:DYK section. --Ghirlandajo 16:51, 14 December 2005 (UTC)

Alexander Vasiliev made his way to the Wikipedia:Main page as part of WP:DYK section. --Ghirlandajo 07:36, 16 December 2005 (UTC)

Nature reserves in Russia made its way to the Wikipedia:Main page as part of WP:DYK section. Please wikify the article at last. --Ghirlandajo 07:36, 16 December 2005 (UTC)

Petrine Baroque is featured today on the Main Page as part of WP:DYK section. --Ghirlandajo 07:36, 16 December 2005 (UTC)

Broadcasting in the Soviet Union is featured today on the Main Page as part of WP:DYK section. --Ghirlandajo 19:16, 19 December 2005 (UTC)

Bolshoi Kamennyi Bridge is featured today on the Main Page as part of WP:DYK section. --Ghirlandajo 19:16, 19 December 2005 (UTC)

Palace Bridge is featured today on the Main Page as part of WP:DYK section. --Ghirlandajo 18:07, 20 December 2005 (UTC)

vanity fair?

I do not think so abakharev 03:33, 21 December 2005 (UTC)
- Hey, is there a better way to get attention of Wikipedians to this obscure part of the world than writing articles that qualify for the front page listing? Thanks Ghirlandajo! Please, keep it up! --Irpen 03:55, 21 December 2005 (UTC)
  
  As my previous nominations of Gherardello da Firenze and Forced labor of Germans in the Soviet Union show, I put on WP:DYK every decent new article I happen to spot. At this very moment, the Main Page features my nomination of Holy Trinity Column in Olomouc, an article created by a Czech newbie, whom I sought to encourage to further editing by demonstrating that the only article he contributed so far is appreciated by the community.
  
  Actually, I propose every article in need of attention from native English speakers to be listed on DYK. As long as Nature reserves in Russia and Broadcasting in the Soviet Union were linked from the Main Page, there was a flood of passer-by editors who helped raise the standard of these articles dramatically. --Ghirlandajo 07:19, 21 December 2005 (UTC)

Serge Chermayeff and Doshpuluur are featured today on the Main Page as part of WP:DYK section. --Ghirlandajo 18:07, 20 December 2005 (UTC)

...that the In Soviet Georgia advertisements for Dannon yogurt helped to reverse negative growth in the company's United States division? - is featured today on the Main Page as part of WP:DYK section abakharev 20:35, 21 December 2005 (UTC)

As we are here, I propose to archive the actual question of WP:DYK, not only the name of the article abakharev 20:35, 21 December 2005 (UTC)

...that Nativity Church at Putinki was the last pyramidal church constructed in Muscovite Russia?
...that forced labor of Germans in the Soviet Union was considered as part of war reparations to cover the damages inflicted by Nazi Germany on the Soviet Union during the World War II? --Ghirla | talk 16:52, 22 December 2005 (UTC)
...that the Moika River in St Petersburg was originally spanned by four bridges only: the Blue, the Green, the Yellow, and the Red? abakharev 22:46, 29 December 2005 (UTC)

[edit] January 2006

..that Soviet biologist Ilya Ivanovich Ivanov was trying to breed a race of human-ape hybrids? abakharev 23:12, 2 January 2006 (UTC)
...that the fighter pilot Aleksandr Kazakov destroyed 32 German and Austro-Hungarian planes during WWI, while his formal tally of 17 is explained by the fact that only planes crashed in the Russian-held territory were officially counted? abakharev 21:09, 9 January 2006 (UTC)
...that the Russian singer Alla Bayanova, who celebrated the 80th anniversary of her stage performance back in 2003, recently collaborated with Marc Almond on several duets? abakharev 21:09, 9 January 2006 (UTC)

...that the Khreschatyk is the main street of Ukrainian capital Kiev on which Orange Revolution and other historical events mainly took place?
...that Count Orlov's Marble Palace, decorated with 32 shades of Russian marbles, currently houses the largest exhibition of Pop Art in Saint Petersburg? (Marble Palace)
...that four EU-Russia Common Spaces were articulated during the Moscow EU-Russia summit in May 2005?
...that Yaroslav of Halych's repudiation of his wife led to a popular uprising, in the course of which his favorite concubine was burnt alive?
...that many Russians celebrate the new year twice: once on the January 1 New Year of the Gregorian calendar and again on the Julian calendar Old New Year in mid-January? (author:User:Maxim Razin) - Introvert ^?^@ 21:59, 13 January 2006 (UTC)
...that Anatoly Durov was one of the founding fathers of the Soviet circus? by User:ISasha abakharev 03:35, 16 January 2006 (UTC)

...that sculptor Pavel Sokolov designed sphinxes for Egyptian Bridge, griffins for Bank Bridge, and lions for Bridge of Four Lions in Saint Petersburg? abakharev 22:23, 16 January 2006 (UTC)
...that Hussein Khan Nakhichevanski was the only muslim to be appointed General-Adjutant of the Emperor of Russia? abakharev 07:06, 17 January 2006 (UTC)
...that the Bulldozer Exhibition has got its name because the Soviet authorities actually used bulldozers to disperse the spectators and destroy the paintings of the participating Moscow nonconformist artists? abakharev 21:28, 17 January 2006 (UTC)

...that Peter the Great's eldest daughter, Anna Petrovna, died in childbirth aged 20, but all the living Romanovs descend from her?

...that Gostiny Dvor in Saint Petersburg, opened in 1785, was the largest shopping mall of the 18th-century Russia and remains one of the oldest continuously existing department stores in the world?
...that the Russian academician Aleksey Shakhmatov attempted to reconstruct the earliest Slavonic chronicle, supposedly compiled at the court of Yaroslav the Wise in the mid-11th century? abakharev 04:57, 22 January 2006 (UTC)
...that the British Parliament first guaranteed diplomatic immunity to foreign ambassadors in 1709, after Count Andrey Matveyev, a Russian resident in London, had been subjected by British bailiffs to verbal and physical abuse? (Andrey Matveyev)
...that the F-34 tank gun was put into service in the T-34 tank by a conspiracy of its makers, and it was only after enthusiastic tank crews had praised its merits in letters from the front that Stalin gave official permission to start its manufacture?
...that the Italian architect Giacomo Quarenghi was the most prolific practitioner of Palladian architecture in Saint Petersburg?
...that the Caucasian Shepherd Dog is generally a low activity dog, seemingly lethargic when not working, but extremely agile and convincing when it feels that its family is threatened?

...that the Military Gallery of the Winter Palace accommodates 332 portraits of Russian generals who took part in the Napoleonic Wars? 10:02, 27 January 2006 (UTC)
...that the Russian Field Marshal Ivan Gudovich lost his left eye fighting the Turks in Armenia in 1807?
...that Alexander Buturlin, who was in charge of the Russian army when it took Berlin in 1760, was better known for his tall stature and good looks than for military talents? (Image:Buturlin.gif)
...that the former Automobilwerk Eisenach in Thuringia, once part of BMW, was taken over by the Soviet Union in 1945, and resumed production under the BMW logo until 1951 when BMW regained control over its trademark and logo?
...that Mikhail Gerasimov used exhumed skulls to reconstruct faces of more than 200 people, including Friedrich Schiller, Ivan the Terrible, and Tamerlane? 05:51, 31 January 2006 (UTC)
...that Chuvash dragons of Turkic myth are said to assume human form and to visit men and women at night in order to have sexual intercourse with them?
...that the Russian victory at Molodi put a stop to the northward expansion of the Ottoman Empire into present-day Russia? 23:13, 31 January 2006 (UTC)

[edit] February 2006

...that Vladimir Shukhov, often compared to Edison and Eiffel for his innovative work on metallic structures, decided to abandon engineering at the age of 24 and enrolled at a medical school instead? 01:53, 2 February 2006 (UTC)
...that Mikhail Lomonosov's granddaughter was the wife of General Raevsky, one of the leading Russian commanders during the Napoleonic Wars?11:14, 2 February 2006 (UTC)
...that Sofia Petrovna, a book by Russian writer Lydia Chukovskaya written in 1939-1940, and published in the West in 1960s, was published in the Soviet Union only in 1988? 06:27, 3 February 2006 (UTC)
...that Lady Macbeth wore a crown of saucepan lids in the 1933 production of Shakespeare's play, staged by Theodore Komisarjevsky in Stratford-on-Avon and popularly dubbed "Aluminium Macbeth"? 06:34, 3 February 2006 (UTC)
...that the dachas of the Russian poets Boris Pasternak, Korney Chukovsky, and Bulat Okudzhava in the village of Peredelkino near Moscow are open to the public as memorial houses? 12:05, 6 February 2006 (UTC)
..that two glazed shopping arcades of the 1840s — the Passage in St Petersburg and the Galeries Royales Saint-Hubert in Brussels — accommodated luxury shops, coffee houses, museums and even theatres? 12:05, 6 February 2006 (UTC)
...that Nikolay Danilevsky was the first writer to present an account of history as a series of distinct civilisations? 01:04, 8 February 2006 (UTC)
...that the traditional Russian carnival of Maslenitsa lasts for a week and culminates in the burning of a straw effigy representing winter and all the left-over blintzes? 03:41, 9 February 2006 (UTC)
......that Soviet fighter pilot Mikhail Devyataev and nine other POWs took over a German He 111 H22 bomber and escaped from the concentration camp on Usedom island?
...that Vera Kholodnaya, the first Russian silent film star, was rumoured to have been poisoned by the French Ambassador with whom she reportedly had an affair and who believed that she was a spy for the Bolsheviks? 04:43, 13 February 2006 (UTC)
...that ĜDmitry Milyutin, the last Field Marshal of Imperial Russia, was responsible for introducing the general levy system into Eastern Europe? 05:12, 14 February 2006 (UTC)
...that the Iberian Gate and Chapel in Moscow were destroyed on behest of Stalin in order to make room for heavy armored vehicles driving through Red Square during military parades? 05:42, 15 February 2006 (UTC)
...that the Preobrazhenka Cemetery in Moscow originated in 1771 as an Old Believer monastery under the guise of a plague quarantine? 23:46, 16 February 2006 (UTC)
...that in Eastern Orthodox bell ringing, the bells are never pealed, but only tolled? 23:46, 16 February 2006 (UTC)
...that the Russian officer Leonid Gobyato is credited with having invented man-portable mine mortars? 11:33, 18 February 2006 (UTC)~
...that Vladimir Sukhomlinov, who was the Russian Minister of War at the outbreak of WWI, was relieved of duty amid accusations of espionage on behalf of Germany?
...that klezmer musician Josef Gusikov became world-famous playing his invention — a xylophone made out of wood and straw? 23:53, 23 February 2006 (UTC)
...that hyperboloid structures are doubly-curved surfaces that may be formed entirely from a lattice of straight angle-iron and flat iron bars? 00:27, 27 February 2006 (UTC)
...that Russia won the 1804-1813 Russo-Persian War, because of its superior technology, despite Persia upscaling its efforts at the end of the war, and declaring it a Holy War? 12:42, 28 February 2006 (UTC)

[edit] March 2006

...that the Russian administrator Pavel Kiselyov was responsible for the creation of an important transport artery in Bucharest - a boulevard which now bears his name? 1 March 2006
...that the first Navy Minister of Imperial Russia, Nikolay Mordvinov, started his career serving on English ships in America? 2 March 2006
...that the Soviet general Valentin Varennikov, one of the members of the State Emergency Committee which organized the Soviet coup attempt of 1991, was eventually acqutted by the Russian court and took a seat in the State Duma? 2 March 2006
...that Catherine the Great wrote several comedies and an opera libretto for the productions of the Hermitage Theatre in Saint Petersburg? 22:39, 6 March 2006 (UTC)
...that NKVD official Yakov Blumkin organised and personally took part in an expedition to find the Shambhala, a mystical kingdom hidden in the Himalayas? 22:39, 6 March 2006 (UTC)
...that Anna of Kashin, a Russian medieval princess, was twice canonized as a holy protectress of women who suffer the loss of relatives? 03:41, 7 March 2006 (UTC)
...that Marie Palace (1839-44) was the last Neoclassical imperial palace to be constructed in Saint Petersburg, Russia? 00:09, 22 March 2006 (UTC)

[edit] April 2006

...that Arcady Boytler was born in Russia but produced some of the most successful films of the Golden age of the cinema of Mexico? 2 April 2006
... that the Red Army conducted the successful Toropets-Kholm Operation in January 1942, threatening to encircle German Army Group Centre? 11 April 2006
...that the Battle of the Lower Dnieper is considered to be one of the largest battles in the world history, involving almost 4,000,000 men on both sides and stretching on a front 1,400 kilometers wide? 25 April 2006
...that on Christmas Eve 1942, in the Tatsinskaya Raid, the Red Army's 24th Tank Corps captured the German airfield that was conducting the Stalingrad relief airlift? 28 April 2006

[edit] Archive 105

From Wikipedia:Recent additions 105:

...that St. Michael's Castle (pictured) was built like a medieval fortress for the personal protection of the Russian Emperor Paul I, who ironically was assassinated in his bedroom shortly after moving in to his new castle?
...that the phenomenon of Renting-A-Russian sometimes refers to getting a male Russian ice dancer to country hop to pair with a female figure skater from another country?
...that the Blue Bridge (pictured), the widest in St. Petersburg, Russia, derives its name from a 19th-century tradition of color-coding the bridges across the Moika River?
...that, according to Patriarch Photius of Constantinople, the land of the Rus was Christianized (Pictured Sergei Ivanov's painting) by 867?
...that the Russian Association of Scouts was founded by Colonel Oleg Pantyukhov (pictured)?
...that the obedience to orders and dogged resistance of the Russian infantry at the Battle of Golymin in 1806 greatly impressed Napoleon and his army?
...that the Polish town of Dzierżoniów was the venue of a meeting between Poland, Prussia, Holland and Austria during the Great Turkish War?
...that Boris Grekov was a Soviet historian who set out to debunk Mikhail Grushevsky's theory that Kievan Rus was a predecessor state of Ukraine rather than of Russia and Belarus?
...that Russian Indologist Gerasim Lebedev was the founder of the first European-style drama theatre in India and also the first printing house in Europe equipped with Indic scripts of Bengali and Devanagari?
...that Yakut linguist Semyon Novgorodov adopted the International Phonetic Alphabet for the modern written Yakut language?
...that Igor Britanov captained the Soviet submarine K-219 when it sank northeast of Bermuda during the Cold War?
...that forces of the Russian and Austrian Empires attempted to defeat an isolated French division in the Battle of Dürenstein on 11 November 1805, three weeks after the Battle of Ulm and three weeks before the Battle of Austerlitz?
...that Ostap Veresai, a 19th century blind Ukrainian kobzar, performed at the Winter Palace in St. Petersburg, Russia?
...that Russian Jewish painter Marc Chagall created the windows of the St Stephan church ( pictured) in Mainz as a sign of Jewish-German reconciliation?
...that, although Kievan Rus was heavily defeated in the Rus'-Byzantine War (1043), hostilities ended with the marriage of Vsevolod I of Kiev to Constantine IX's daughter?
...that in 1937 a Soviet station became the first scientific research settlement to operate on the drift ice of the Arctic Ocean?
...that Bantcho Bantchevsky committed suicide during a nationally-broadcast performance from the Metropolitan Opera?
...that despite the destruction of his fleet by Greek fire, Igor I of Kiev managed to end the Rus'-Byzantine War (941) by signing a favourable trade treaty?
...that despite holding the graves of Rudolf Nureyev, Andrei Tarkovsky and Ivan Bunin, Sainte-Geneviève-des-Bois Russian Cemetery is not officially recognized as a landmark?
...that the 43,000 Sakhalin Koreans were abandoned by Japan after World War II and kept stateless by the Soviet Union for 30 years?
...that Sergei Yushenkov and Yuri Shchekochikhin, key members of the Kovalev Commission charged with investigating the Russian apartment bombings both died in apparent assassinations?
...that Russian actor Yevgeny Samoylov (pictured), known for his work with Vsevolod Meyerhold and Alexander Dovzhenko in the 1930s, celebrated his 90th birthday in 2002 acting on the stage of the Maly Theatre?
...that the Samara flag, presented as a gift from Russia to the Bulgarian volunteers in the Russo-Turkish War of 1877-78, is the only flag awarded a Bulgarian Medal for Bravery?
... that the relics of Moscow's founder, Yuri Dolgoruki, were buried beneath the baptistery of the Church of the Saviour at Berestove (pictured)?

[edit] January 2007

...that the cornerstone for the first museum of space exploration, the Konstantin E. Tsiolkovsky State Museum of the History of Cosmonautics in Kaluga, Russia, was laid by Yuri Gagarin? (appeared on main page 9 January 2007). Errabee 14:31, 9 January 2007 (UTC)
...that the Soviet pilot Sergey Gritsevets (pictured), twice awarded the honorary title of Hero of Soviet Union, is credited with downing 42 enemy planes? (appeared on main page 19 January 2007). Rune X2 09:28, 20 January 2007 (UTC)

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