Russian Regions Desperate As Winter Bites Early Like most russian cities, Petropavlovsk depends on central heating produced at huge Seventeen frozen apartment blocks had to be abandoned in the town of http://www.bydesign.com/fossilfuels/choice/html/desperate.html
Extractions: This November was the coldest in Moscow and other parts of European Russia since complete records were first kept in 1879, a spokesman for the federal weather centre said on Thursday. But worse than the bitter record temperatures are shortages of fuel in far-flung parts of the world's largest country. Few places have been worse hit than the Kamchatka peninsula in the Pacific. The peninsula's capital, Petropavlovsk, is no remote arctic outpost, but a major city of a quarter of a million people. Its electricity has been out for days. On Thursday, Alexander Ivanov, a Kamchatka regional legislator, said he was going on a hunger strike until fuel arrived. He told Itar-Tass news agency the government had failed to deliver the supplies Emergencies Minister Sergei Shoigu promised after visiting Petropavlovsk last month.
Russian Cities russian cities towns AND HISTORICAL PLACES MOSCOW ST. Pkov is also one ofthe most ancient russian cities which is known since 903 AD It became the http://www.geographicbureau.com/CERussia/cities_of_russia.htm
Extractions: Kremlin is a historical center of Moscow, one of the most beautiful architectural ensembles of the city. The clock on the Kremlin tower facing the Red square are symbolic to Russians as they start every New Year in the country. Kremlin Wall with its 20 towers encircles beautiful cathedrals Blagoveshchensky, Uspensky and Arkhangelsky, Granovitaya Chamber, Bell Tower "Ivan the Great", palaces, chambers, museums (including well-known Armory Chamber), enormous "Tsar-Cannon" and "Tsar-Bell".
Extractions: THE LAST DECADE In 1990, the leaders of the Baptist Union in Russia had a vision and commitment to start leadership training programs across all of Russia. One strategic location was the city of Krasnoyarsk in Central Siberia. Like many cities in the former Soviet Union, Krasnoyarsk (pop. 1,000,000) was previously closed to Westerners because of scientific and military activity. In Krasnoyarsk, a young national pastor/missionary responded to God's call and began an effective ministry at the Central Church. With the help of SEND and partner churches who sent teams and funds, the church family quickly constructed a large, beautiful building (pictured above). This facility was a prime place to launch a Bible Institute program. Sasha Puzanov Regional Pastor for Krasnoyarsk "Russians find it difficult coming to a church meeting in a public place. They need to come to a church building. For 1000 years people have in their minds from the Russian Orthodox church that the church is in the building. For people it is very difficult to think about going to a religious meeting in a club. People think a club is for dancing. When they come to a building with a cross, they understand that that is a church. If you purchased a building and remodeled it so you had a sign and a cross, etc., that would work."
Russia Broadband Overview With most buildings in russian cities comprising mulitple dwelling units (MDUs) towns of the Moscow region, using copper, fibreoptic and wireless CDMA. http://www.point-topic.com/content/operatorSource/profiles/Russia/Russia Broadba
Extractions: This is full live sample profile taken from the Operator Source service. For more free content see the Free Source section 5 January 2005 According to one Russian consulting company the number of broadband users in Russia is some 3,500,000 in 3Q04. This is based on a definition of a broadband user as someone who uses broadband at least once a week, over a connection of at least a theoretical speed of 200 Kbps. Currently most of the users are found in the business segment, but 2004 has seen considerable activity in the consumer/residential sector, with all incumbent telcos beginning to roll out xDSL services and upgrading inter-regional backbone connections with fibre and/or radio. 2004 should end, according to analyst estimates with some 125,000 xDSL residential activated lines (100,000 in Moscow). In Moscow, crucially, prices for residential broadband services have come down over the summer in 2004 to below $30 for cheaper DSL tariffs. MTU-Intel, Moscow's main DSL provider (operating over the MGTS fixed incumbent, and effective residential DSL monopolist) saw a fivefold increase in ADSL subscriptions from 4,000 to 20,000 in the first eight months of 2004. Although xDSL is now being fully promoted to consumers, the residential sector is dominated at present by the informal 'Home Networks' which use Ethernet LANs to link up buildings, housing developments and sometimes whole neighbourhoods to 'broadband' access (2 Mbps up to the buildings is considered the average by local observers). These operators account for some 75% residential users, or some 550,000 by end 2004, connected households throughout Russia, according to analysts. They are generally very low cost. These informal networks are expected to dominate for perhaps a further two years until DSL is more widespread. During this period the larger telcos are expected to try to buy up the small Home LAN companies and cooperatives. Such operators have during 2004 reduced prices by up to 2 or 3 times in some cases. Pricing is uniformly based on per volume charging models, with most packages offering a bundled download allowance, with a per MB additional charge.
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Extractions: President Putin St. Peterburg livecams White Nights 2005 SEARCH ... CITIES AND TOWNS [HOME:] About Site Partners Feedback [RUSSIA:] Directory News Visas St.Petersburg ... Valaam RUSSIAN CITIES AND TOWNS ST.PETERSBURG [more...] VALAAM MONASTERY In the northern part of the Ladoga Lake which was called Nyevo in the ancient times, there lie numerous islands, the largest of them being Valaam. The light waters of the rough lake wash an archipelago, intruding into the shores of the Valaam islands, they form most picturesque bays and straits, many of which serve as a shelter for vessels seeking refuge from the fury of waves. St.Petersburg Guide t o p o f p a g e SELECT SECTION: HOME KURSK SUBMARINE WEBSITES DIRECTORY MASS MEDIA VISA INFORMATION CLASSICAL MUSIC ST.PETERSBURG GUIDE MAPS MULTIMEDIA KIROV OPERA PETERHOF HERMITAGE RUSSIAN MUSEUM MUSEUMS HOTELS THEATRES Complete playbill of all St. Petersburg,Russia theatres, shows, concerts, etc. !
Extractions: By Jennifer Geagan ( Jennifer@wid.org ), World Institute on Disability Young disabled people in Russia and other Newly Independent States face daily discrimination and attitudinal and physical barriers to an adequate education, employment opportunities and other life activities. Significant barriers to accessing and participating in the mainstream educational system are: schools are inaccessible; parents of children in mainstream schools are often opposed to having their children study with disabled children; the majority of teachers and administrators in mainstream schools and universities have had little or no exposure to disability issues; and old negative social stereotypes and misconceptions about disabled people still prevail. Like many parts of the world, the vast majority of disabled children from these countries receive separate and unequal education, if any at all. With funds from the US Agency for International Development, the Office of Security and Cooperation in Europe and the Belgian Delegation, the US-based World Institute on Disability, the Russian NGO, Perspektiva, and their seven partner NGOs have completed the first year of activities of the three-year project to empower disabled youth. The project supports disabled youths, parents and other allies in challenging discrimination against persons with disabilities in their communities and to advocate for the elimination of the social and physical infrastructure barriers to an equal education faced by young disabled people.
CEIR Demonstration Site Links to text describing administrative units, cities, towns, Central Eurasia,russian Federation, russian Far East, Kamchatka Region) and/or by making http://depts.washington.edu/ceir/
Extractions: CEIR Portal Interactive Atlas Regional Image Database The Brumfield Collection ... Instruction and Outreach The Central Eurasian Information Resource consists of a uniquely cataloged collection of information resources, some developed at the University of Washington (examples are described below), others acquired contractually (such as the UW Libraries' subscriptions to online Russian and East European newspapers), and the remainder freely available on the Internet, but identified as particularly valuable by subject and area specialists, and selected for inclusion in the CEIR Online Resource Collection on the strength of their quality. The collection is expected to number between 500 and 1,000 cataloged resources by the completion of the current stage of the CEIR project in late 2002, and it will be added to continually thereafter. The CEIR Resource Collection is cataloged using a set of controlled metadata that differs from conventional library metadata, and it is searchable through a specially designed portal. The search criteria used in the CEIR portal are: Area of interest, input hierarchically: a particular region of Central Eurasia, then a country within that region (the Russian Federation is defined as a region, and its geographical/administrative regions are defined at the country level).
The Hanseatic League In The Eastern Baltic Novgorod was the largest russian town on the Gulf of Finland, TheVorstädte (suburbs, smaller towns neighboring big cities) in Lithuania became popular http://depts.washington.edu/baltic/papers/hansa.html
Extractions: SCAND 344, May 1998 Introduction Rise of Hansa Merchant Hansa League of Cities ... Bibliography The Hanseatic League (Hansa) was formed around the middle of the 12 th century by German and Scandinavian seafaring merchants. Since there were no navies to protect their cargoes, no international bodies to regulate tariffs and trade, and few ports had regulatory authorities to manage their use, the merchants banded together to establish tariff agreements, provide for common defense and to make sure ports were safely maintained. The original network linked Lübeck, Westfalia, Saxony and Gotland, but it quickly spread east with the conquest of Livonia in the early 13 th century. The league became so profitable and so powerful that it lasted over three centuries. At its peak, the Hanseatic League covered the entire North Sea and Baltic Sea Regions and it stretched hundreds of miles inland along rivers from the Rhine to the Daugava. Though Hansa relations were primarily economic in nature, the League became a formidable political and military power in the 14
Trans-Siberian Railway - Cities And Towns cities and towns from Moscow to Vladivostok. Nevertheless almost the wholeof economical life of russian Asian part from Kuzbass and eastward of it on http://www.transsib.ru/Eng/city.htm
Extractions: Handbook Photogallery History Museum ... Webboard Cities and Towns In the section - info about cities and settlements List of all cities In spite of large Transsib length (more than 9000 km) there are not so many cities at Transsib. If to say exactly - 87 or 1 city per 107 kilometres of railway. And one have to bear in mind that most of cities is situated westward of Baikal but only 19 cities are situated eastward of Baikal or 1 city per 201 kilometres. Nevertheless almost the whole of economical life of Russian Asian part from Kuzbass and eastward of it on the whole functions along Trans-Siberian railway in the belt about 100 km in both sides from it. Somewhere it widens but in some places it narrows almost to 10 - 20 km along the railway. This site section was called to help ones who want to obtain more complete information about cities situated at Trans-Siberian railway - about its arrangements, population, transport communications, architecture, history. All raion centres (not cities) and also large stations which are not raion centres are included into this list. There are given links to Internet resources which contain information about specific region or city (settlement). Usually they are historical, information or museum sites. If something was missed or you'll found something new for this mini-encyclopedia - write us Time zones in Russia + the map All populated areas are sorted alphabetically; the centres of territories, regions and republics of RF are marked by bold font. There are names of railway stations if they don't coincide with names of city (town, settlement of town type, village) in square brackets. Populated areas having sites or pages in Internet are marked by the sign
Murmansk Region Murmansk Region is divided into 5 districts and includes 16 cities (13 cities and 3 cities under district jurisdiction), 3 urban districts, 17 towns, http://www.regions.trj.ru/murmansk/
Maps Of Russian Cities - MavicaNET cities and towns Pskov Region, cities and towns Republic of cities andtowns Rostov Regio. City maps and schemes of public transport russian http://www.mavicanet.com/directory/eng/21086.html
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About Russia : All Russia 7 administrative areas (krays), 48 regions (oblasts), 2 cities of federalimportance (Moscow and Saint Petersburg), russian tours calendar http://aboutrussia.in-russia.com/
Extractions: Russia is the world's biggest country with an area exceeding 17 million sq. km (6.5 million sq. miles). It occupies the east of Europe and the north of Asia, neighboring 16 countries and having world's longest land border about 60,000 km (over 37,000 miles). A quarter of world's forests are concentrated in Russia, which is more than in any other country; their wide tracts stretch continuously from the western borders till the Pacific Ocean. Russia's coasts are bathed by the waters of 12 seas; the country has dozens of thousands of rivers and about 2 million lakes, among which are the Caspian Sea, the biggest lake in the world, and Baikal, world's deepest fresh-water lake. Russia has many different types of climate: it varies from the subtropical on the Black Sea coast to the harshly continental in Southern Siberia, as well as from the arctic in the Far North to the maritime one on the Baltic Sea and to the moderately monsoon in the southern part of the Far East. A swimming season may open on the Black Sea and a snowfall may deluge in the East Siberia on the same day. The most densely populated part of Russia's territory lies within the moderate climatic zone. Rather dry summer is hot and rather snowy winter is mild in Moscow and St Petersburg, as well as in the towns of the 'Golden Ring' and in the cities of the Volga Area: this climatic combination attracts tourists from all over the world.
Extractions: Transportation ... Search the Collection T he Russia of Nicholas II on the eve of World War I was a land of striking ethnic diversity. Comprising all of the republics of what later was to become the Soviet Union, as well as present-day Finland and much of Poland, Russia was home to more than 150 million peopleof which only about half were ethnic Russians. In his travels throughout the empire, Prokudin-Gorskii captured this diversity. His color photographs of peasants from rural Russia, the nomadic peoples of Central Asia, and the mountain peoples of the Caucasus predate the forced Russification and the rapid modernization of the Soviet period and document traditional costumes and ways of life. Young Russian peasant women offer berries to visitors to their izba , a traditional wooden house, in a rural area along the Sheksna River near the small town of Kirillov. Sergei Mikhailovich Prokudin-Gorskii.
Dafds Since Leningrad region consists of many small cities and towns, In additionLeningrad region is a location for russian oil refining, forestry, http://www.bisnis.doc.gov/bisnis/bisdoc/021028NWRSTelecom.htm
Extractions: Telecommunications in Northwest Russia: An Update Author: M. Chernobrovkina, US Commercial Service, American Consulate General- St. Petersburg, Russia Summary While the liberalization of the telecommunications market that began several years ago had less of an impact on Leningrad Region - the Ireland-sized region surrounding St. Petersburg comprising 17 districts, 9 cities and many smaller towns) - than on the city itself, U.S. exporters can nevertheless find opportunity supplying industrial enterprises in the region with WAN, LAN, fiber optic, office telephone exchanges, trunking equipment, and other types of equipment. The main supplier of telecommunication services in Leningrad Region, except for mobile phone communication, is Lensviaz, the existing regional ILEC and natural monopoly. In addition, many alternative carriers work in different segments of the regional market, with the majority of them originating in St. Petersburg. Competition exists only between providers in the market of Internet services and cellular communication in several major cities of the region. Cooperation with these carriers could be a good opportunity for U.S. exporters.
Novgorod Region Overview Novgorod Region is beneficially situated between major russian The regiondivided into 21 municipal districts, includes 10 cities, 22 towns and 3843 http://www.bisnis.doc.gov/bisnis/bisdoc/0207NovgorodRegOver.htm
Extractions: Overview of Novgorod Region By Igor Yegorov, BISNIS Representative in Northwest Russia July 2002 Summary. This report is based on information, received from government officials and private businesses by BISNIS representative during his outreach to Novgorod Region in July 2002. The report contains the following: Basic information about Novgorod Region Key Industry Sectors Foreign Trade and Investment in Novgorod Region Business Environment and Business Travel Conditions Contact Information End Summary. 1. Novgorod Region has a territory of 55,300 sq. km. The administrative capital of Novgorod Region is the city of Velikiy Novgorod (not to be confused with the city of Nizhny Novgorod on the Volga River). Novgorod Region is located in Northwest Russia, bordering the Leningrad, Vologda, Tver and Pskov regions. Distance from the city of Velikiy Novgorod to Moscow is 590 km (370 miles), while St. Petersburg is located 180 km (112 miles) to the northeast. 2. Novgorod Region is beneficially situated between major Russian industrial centers: Moscow and St. Petersburg. The busiest Russias highway, connecting Moscow and St. Petersburg, passes through the region. This highway then continues through St. Petersburg to the Finnish border and Helsinki. Such location has been an important factor for investors, giving an advantage of fast and cost-effective supply and delivery channels. Enterprises, located in the Novgorod Region, have an easy access to the largest Russian markets that are Moscow and St. Petersburg, as well as to Western Europe. The region has a rather developed communications infrastructure. Three cellular communication standards are available:
Russian Cities On The Web (North-West Of Russia) (in russian windows encoding) link 3 Various information about city andregion (in German) link 1 - Great oldest russian city - Velikie Luki. http://www.city.ru/nw.shtml
Subdivisions Of Perm Region (Russia) Although several cities, towns and even villages in the Perm Oblast adopted (or It is a flag of the small town Dobryanka (in Perm Region of Russia, http://www.crwflags.com/fotw/flags/ru-per-.html
Olenegorsk The region has 12 cities and 20 small towns. Ninetytwo percent (92.2%) of thetotal population lives in cities and towns. http://www.globalsecurity.org/wmd/world/russia/olenegorsk.htm
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