This is a list of the UTC time offsets, showing the difference in hours and minutes from Coordinated Universal Time (UTC), from the westernmost (−12:00) to the easternmost (+14:00). It includes countries and regions that observe them during standard time or year-round.. The main purpose of this page is to list the current standard time offsets of different countries, territories …

The Tambov Rebellion of 1920–1921 was one of the largest and best-organized peasant rebellions challenging the Bolshevik government during the Russian Civil War. The uprising took place in the territories of the modern Tambov Oblast and part of the Voronezh Oblast, less than 480 kilometres (300 mi) southeast of Moscow.. In Soviet historiography, the rebellion was …

German migrations eastward. Over the centuries, from the Middle Ages onwards, German settlers steadily moved eastward, often into mostly Slavic areas and areas near to or controlled by Russia.Flegel points out that German farmers, traders and entrepreneurs moved into East and West Prussia, the Baltic region (Lithuania, Latvia and Estonia), the Danzig and Vistula River …

The 2008 Russo-Georgian War was a war between Georgia, on one side, and Russia and the Russian-backed self-proclaimed republics of South Ossetia and Abkhazia, on the other.The war took place in August following a period of worsening relations between Russia and Georgia, both formerly constituent republics of the Soviet Union.The fighting took place in the strategically …

Background. In May and June 1787, Catherine II of Russia made a triumphal procession through New Russia and the annexed Crimea in company with her ally, Holy Roman Emperor Joseph II. These events, the rumors about Catherine's Greek Plan, and the friction caused by the mutual complaints of infringements of the Treaty of Küçük Kaynarca, which had ended the previous …

Ivanovo Oblast (Russian: Ива́новская о́бласть, Ivanovskaya oblast) is a federal subject of Russia (an oblast).It had a population of 927,828 as of the 2021 Russian Census.. Its three largest cities are Ivanovo (the administrative center), Kineshma, and Shuya.The principal center of tourism is Plyos.The Volga River flows through the northern part of the oblast.

Having settled Aldeigja (Ladoga) in the 750s, Norse colonists played an important role in the early ethnogenesis of the Rus' people and in the formation of the Rus' Khaganate.The Varangians (Varyags, in Old East Slavic) are first mentioned by the Primary Chronicle as having exacted tribute from the Slavic and Finnic tribes in 859.It was the time of rapid expansion of the Vikings …

Dmitry Medvedev was born on 14 September 1965 in Leningrad, in the Soviet Union.His father, Anatoly Afanasyevich Medvedev (November 1926 – 2004), was a chemical engineer teaching at the Leningrad State Institute of Technology. Dmitry's mother, Yulia Veniaminovna Medvedeva (née Shaposhnikova, born 21 November 1939), studied languages at Voronezh University and …

The Crimean Tatars are subdivided into three sub-ethnic groups: the Tats (not to be confused with the Iranic Tat people, living in the Caucasus region) who used to inhabit the mountainous Crimea before 1944 predominantly are Cumans, Greeks, Goths and other people, as Tats in Crimea also were called Hellenic Urum people (Greeks settled in Crimea) who were deported …

Richard Milhous Nixon (January 9, 1913 – April 22, 1994) was the 37th president of the United States, serving from 1969 to 1974.A member of the Republican Party, he previously served as a representative and senator from California and was the 36th vice president from 1953 to 1961 under President Dwight D. Eisenhower.His five years in the White House saw reduction of U.S. …

La république est située dans la partie nord-ouest de la fédération de Russie, en position intermédiaire entre les bassins de la mer Blanche et de la mer Baltique.La côte de la mer Blanche s'étend sur 630 km.. La plus grande partie du territoire de la république (148 000 km 2 ou 85 %) est constituée de réserves forestières d'État. ...

Caucasus Germans (German: Kaukasiendeutsche) are part of the German minority in Russia and the Soviet Union.They migrated to the Caucasus largely in the first half of the 19th century and settled in the North Caucasus, Georgia, Azerbaijan, Armenia and the region of Kars (present-day northeastern Turkey).In 1941, the majority of them were subject to deportation to Central …

Lake Baikal (/ b aɪ ˈ k ɑː l,-ˈ k æ l /, Russian: Oзеро Байкал, romanized: Ozero Baykal [ˈozʲɪrə bɐjˈkaɫ]) is a rift lake in Russia. It is also the world's deepest lake, with a maximum depth of 1,642 metres (5,387 feet; 898 fathoms), and the world's oldest lake, at 25–30 million years. At 31,722 km 2 (12,248 sq mi)—slightly larger than Belgium—Lake Baikal is the ...

The Cimmerians (Akkadian: , romanized: mat Gimirrāya; Hebrew: גֹּמֶר‎, romanized: Gōmer; Ancient Greek: Κιμμέριοι, romanized: Kimmerioi; Latin: Cimmerii) were an ancient Eastern Iranian equestrian nomadic people originating in the Caspian steppe, part of whom subsequently migrated into West Asia.Although the Cimmerians were culturally Scythian, they formed an …