WebLos límites de los continentes de la Tierra son generalmente una cuestión de convención geográfica para marcar las fronteras entre aquellos continentes que están unidos entre sí por tierra formando parte de una misma entidad o supercontinente. Estos límites han sido definidos sobre la base de distintos criterios geográficos, culturales y políticos y se usan …

WebVolgograd, formerly called Tsaritsyn (1589–1925) and Stalingrad (1925–1961) is an industrial city of great importance, and the administrative center of Volgograd Oblast, Russia.It is 80 km long, north to south, on the western bank of the Volga River and has a population of over 1.011 million people. The city was made famous for its heroic …

WebKamyshin (Russian: Камы́шин) is a city in Volgograd Oblast, Russia, located on the right bank of the Volgograd Reservoir of the Volga River, in the estuary of the Kamyshinka River.Its population was 119,565 at the (2010 Census). Past populations for Kamyshin include 127,891 at the (2002 Census) and 122,463 as of the (1989 Census).

WebAmong the first residents of the colony were poet Boris Pasternak, writers Korney Chukovsky, Isaac Babel, Alexander Serafimovich, Leonid Leonov, Ilya Ehrenburg, Boris Pilnyak, Vsevolod Ivanov, Lev Kassil, Konstantin Fedin, Ilya Ilf, Yevgeny Petrov, Soviet politician Lev Kamenev.

WebVolgograd (Russian: Волгогра́д, IPA: [vəɫɡɐˈɡrat] ()), formerly Tsaritsyn (Цари́цын, Tsarítsyn; [tsɐˈrʲitsɨn]) (1589–1925), and Stalingrad (Сталингра́д, Stalingrád; [stəlʲɪnˈɡrat] ()) (1925–1961), is the largest city and the administrative centre of Volgograd Oblast, Russia.The city lies on the western bank of the Volga, covering an area of 859 ...

WebModern architecture, or modernist architecture, was an architectural movement or architectural style based upon new and innovative technologies of construction, particularly the use of glass, steel, and reinforced concrete; the idea that form should follow function (functionalism); an embrace of minimalism; and a rejection of ornament. It emerged in the …

WebThe Iron Flood (1924) by Alexander Serafimovich; Red Cavalry (1926) by Isaac Babel; The Rout (1927) by Alexander Fadeyev; Conquered City (1932) by Victor Serge; Futility (1922) by William Gerhardie; How the Steel Was Tempered (1934) by Nikolai Ostrovsky; Optimistic Tragedy (1934) by Vsevolod Vishnevsky; And Quiet Flows the Don (1928–1940) by ...

WebList of shipwrecks: 3 July 1942 Ship Country Description Alexander Macomb United States World War II: Convoy BX 27: The Liberty ship (7,191 GRT, 1942), on her maiden voyage, was torpedoed and sunk in the Atlantic Ocean 175 nautical miles (324 km) east of Cape Cod, Massachusetts) by U-215 ( Kriegsmarine) with the loss of ten of her 56Survivors …

WebBiography. Alexey Nikolayevich Plescheev was born in Kostroma on 4 December, an heir to a noble family with ancient history and fine literary tradition. Among the future poet's ancestors were St. Alexis of Moscow and the 18th century writer Sergey Ivanovich Plescheev.. Alexey's father Nikolai Sergeevich Plescheev was a state official, employed …

WebEurope is a large peninsula conventionally considered a continent in its own right because of its great physical size and the weight of its history and traditions. Europe is also considered a subcontinent of Eurasia and it is located entirely in the Northern Hemisphere and mostly in the Eastern Hemisphere.Comprising the westernmost peninsulas of …