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10.03.2008 - Yuri Alexeivich Gagarin
The Russian cosmonaut Yuri Alexeivich Gagarin (1934-1968) was the first man to orbit the earth in an artificial satellite and thus ushered in the age of manned spaceflight.
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08.02.2008 - Catherine II or Catherine the Great
A German princess, the daughter of Christian Augustus, prince of Anhalt-Zerbst, she emerged from the obscurity of her relatively modest background in 1744 when Czarina Elizabeth of Russia chose her as the wife of the future Czar Peter III.
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08.03.2007 - Natalia Vodianova: the Cinderella of the Volga
Natalia Vodianova, one of the world’s top ten models, currently lives in New York City. She is married to Justin Trevor Berkeley Portman, half-brother of the 10th Viscount Portman, a lord born and bred, and a millionaire to boot.
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29.12.2006 - Legendary Soviet agent Boris Gudz dies at 104
Russia's oldest Soviet-era security agent, Boris Gudz, who helped eliminate the legendaryMI-6 super agent, Sydney Reilly, in the large-scale Operation Trest in 1921-26, has died at the age of 104, the KGB's successor said Friday.
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16.12.2006 - 100 years of Brezhnev, Leonid Ilyich
The Soviet Union and Soviet culture will always be associated with Brezhnev's name. This was his time - vegetarian and violent, absurd and rational, unspeakably dull and incredibly interesting all at the same time.
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06.10.2006 - Yefremov: the weapons designer who outwitted the Pentagon
The late Veniamin Yefremov, general designer of the Almaz-Antei Air Defense Concern, developed a number of unique weapons systems that the United States, the United Kingdom and France still lack.
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29.08.2006 - Vladimir Tretchikoff
Vladimir Tretchikoff (born 13 December 1913 in Petropavlovsk, Kazakhstan; died 26 August 2006 in Cape Town, South Africa) was one of the most commercially successful artists of all time.
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23.08.2006 - Grigory Perelman - Jewish genius of Russian math
Grigory Perelman is not just a worthy son of his father, whose manuals on physics have become a springboard for the talented. He is a reputable son of Russian mathematics, which has invariably enjoyed respect in the world community.
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03.08.2006 - Mordashov Alexey A.
Mr. Mordashov was born in 1965. He graduated from St. Petersburg Engineering and Economics institute with honors in 1988. In 2001, he received an MBA degree from Nortumbria University (New Castle, England).
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28.05.2006 - Dmitry Anatolyevich Medvedev
Dmitry Anatolyevich Medvedev was appointed First Deputy Prime Minister on November 14, 2005. Previously, he served as Head of the Presidential Administration since the October 30, 2003 resignation of Alexander Voloshin. He was named Deputy Head of the Government Apparatus by Prime Minister Vladimir Putin in November 1999.
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