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08.10.2004 - Sergei Pavlovich Korolev (1907-1966)
Sergei Pavlovich Korolev was born in a small town near Kiev, Ukraine on January 12, 1907. His father, Pavel Korolev, separated from his family when Sergei was only three years old. His mother Maria Nikolayevna with little Sergei, moved to Nezhin, where he stayed with her parents. Right from these early ...
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08.10.2004 - Igor Ivanovich Sikorsky (1889-1972)
Igor Ivanovich Sikorsky pioneered early Russian aviation while barely out of his teens and had the longest continuous aeronautical career in history-more than 60 years. Among his early achievements was the world’s first four-engined airplane in 1913, the precursor to the most successful bomber of World War I. ...
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08.10.2004 - Boris Nikolaevich Yeltsin
Boris Yeltsin was born in 1931. He became the President of the Russian Federation in 1991. As for his education, he finished Uralsky Politechnical University. And from 1955 till 1968 he was engaged in construction organizations of Sverdlovsk. Then in 1961 he joined the Communist Party and in 1976 became the ...
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08.10.2004 - Ivan Koloff
"The Russian Bear" Ivan Koloff is one of the greatest "heel" personas in the history of wrestling...and he was known throughout his 30-year long career as being one of the toughest, meanest, and best wrestlers ever. His endurance inside the ring was legendary...and his bone-crushing power was feared everywher ...
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08.10.2004 - Ivan the Terrible
Ivan IV was the first of two children of Basil III, who had been attempting for many years without success to have a son. Basil divorced his first wife, Solomonia Saburova (which he had picked, by royal custom, personally out of 1,500 virgins) due to her inability to bear him a child. Basil then quickly remar ...
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07.10.2004 - Empress Catherine II "the Great" (1729 - 1796)
She had been born Princess Sophia August Frederika on May 2, 1729 in the Baltic seaport town of Stettin, then a part of German Pomerania. Her father was an obscure German military princeling named Christian August, and her mother was Princess Joanna Elizabeth of Holstein-Gottorp. Her father was nominal ruler ...
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07.10.2004 - Anna Pavlova (1881 - 1931)
in full Anna Pavlovna Pavlova (b. Jan. 31 [Feb. 12, New Style], 1881, St. Petersburg, Russia--d. Jan. 23, 1931, The Hague, Neth.), Russian ballerina, the most celebrated dancer of her time. Pavlova studied at the Imperial School of Ballet at the Mariinsky Theatre from 1891, joined the Imperial Ballet in 189 ...
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07.10.2004 - Boris Berezovsky
Background Boris Berezovsky was born on January 23, 1946 in Moscow. His parents both belonged to so-called ‘intelligentsia’. In general it was an ordinary family. He started school when he was six. In 1962, after graduating from a secondary school, he entered the Moscow Forestry Engineering Institute. He en ...
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07.10.2004 - Dmitri Shostakovich (1906-1975)
(born St. Petersburg, 25 September 1906; died Moscow, 9 August 1975). He studied with his mother, a professional pianist, and then with Shteynberg at the Petrograd Conservatory (1919-25): his graduation piece was his Symphony no.1, which brought him early international attention. His creative development, ho ...
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07.10.2004 - Sergei Prokofiev (1891-1953)
(born Sontsovka, 23 April 1891; died Moscow, 5 March 1953). He showed precocious talent as a pianist and composer and had lessons from Glier from 1902. In 1904 he entered the St. Petersburg Conservatory, where Rimsky-Korsakov, Lyadov and Tcherepnin were among his teachers; Tcherepnin and Myaskovsky, who gave ...
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