Vladimir DzhunkovskyW
Vladimir Dzhunkovsky

Vladimir Fyodorovich Djunkovsky was a Russian statesman. He held the posts of the Governor of Moscow Gubernia and the Governor-General of Moscow.

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Eighth Sister

The Eighth Sister is the unbuilt project for the Zaryadye skyscraper in Moscow. It would have been eighth sister to the group of seven postwar Stalinist skyscrapers in Moscow, Russia. The architect was Dmitry Chechulin.

Golos TrudaW
Golos Truda

Golos Truda was a Russian-language anarchist newspaper. Founded by working-class Russian expatriates in New York City in 1911, Golos Truda shifted to Petrograd during the Russian Revolution in 1917, when its editors took advantage of the general amnesty and right of return for political dissidents. There, the paper integrated itself into the anarchist labour movement, pronounced the necessity of a social revolution of and by the workers, and situated itself in opposition to the myriad of other left-wing movements.

Kauchuk Factory ClubW
Kauchuk Factory Club

Kauchuk Factory Club is a 1927-1929 russian avant-garde public building designed by Konstantin Melnikov, located in Khamovniki District of Moscow, Russia on the edge of Devichye Pole park and medical campus at 64, Plyshikha Street.

KremvaxW
Kremvax

Kremvax was originally a fictitious Usenet site at the Kremlin, named like the then large number of Usenet VAXen with names of the form foovax. Kremvax was announced on April 1, 1984 in a posting ostensibly originated there by Soviet leader Konstantin Chernenko. The posting was actually forged by Piet Beertema of CWI as an April Fool's prank—"because the notion that Usenet might ever penetrate the Iron Curtain seemed so totally absurd at the time".

MossovetW
Mossovet

Mossovet (Моссовет), an abbreviation of Moscow Soviet of People's Deputies, was the informal name of aparallel, shadow city administration of Moscow, Russia run by left-wing parties in 1917 city administration of Moscow in Soviet period (1918–1991). It was used in the same sense as City Hall is used in English vernacular.

Reichskommissariat MoskowienW
Reichskommissariat Moskowien

Reichskommissariat Moskowien, also spelled as Moskau, literally "Reich Commissariat of Muscovy ", was the civilian occupation regime that Nazi Germany intended to create in central and northern European Russia during World War II, one of several similar Reichskommissariat. It was also known initially as the Reichskommissariat Russland. Siegfried Kasche was the projected Reichskomissar, but due to the German failure to occupy the territories intended to form the Reichskommissariat, it remained on paper only.

Statue of Yuriy Dolgorukiy, MoscowW
Statue of Yuriy Dolgorukiy, Moscow

The Statue of Yuriy Dolgorukiy is an equestrian statue which commemorates the founding of Moscow in 1147 by Yuriy Dolgorukiy. Dolgorukiy was the Grand Prince of the Kievan Rus' (Kiev) and a member of the Rurik dynasty. On 6 June 1954, the statue was erected in Tverskaya Square, located in front of the building of the Moscow Mayor. The sculptors were Sergei Mikhailovich Orlov, A. P. Antropov, and Nicholay Lvovich Shtamm. The architectural design was by Viktor Semenovich Andreyev. The statue replaced the monument of the first Soviet Constitution that was broken down in 1941.