lower volga
31Stone Age — the period in the history of humankind, preceding the Bronze Age and the Iron Age, and marked by the use of stone implements and weapons: subdivided into the Paleolithic, Mesolithic, and Neolithic periods. [1860 65] * * * First known period of… …
32List of Gulag camps — This enormous, but far from complete list enumerates sites of Soviet forced labor camps ( corrective labor camps ). Most of them served mining, construction, and timber works. Even this incomplete list can give a fair idea of the scale of forced… …
33Astrakhan Khanate — Infobox Former Country native name = Xacitaxan sup1; Xanlığı Хаҗитархан² Ханлыгы conventional long name = Khanate of Astrakhan sup3; common name = Astrakhan continent = Europe region = Eastern Europe year start = 1466 year end = 1556 date start …
34Volgograd — /vol geuh grad , vohl /; Russ. /veuhl gu grddaht /, n. a city in the SW Russian Federation in Europe, on the Volga River: battles in World War II, September 1942 February 1943. 999,000. Formerly, Stalingrad, Tsaritsyn. * * * formerly (until 1925) …
35Domestication of the horse — A bred back Heck Horse, closely resembling the Tarpan (photographed 2004), believed to be phenotypically close to the wild horse at the time of its original domestication. There are a number of hypotheses on many of the key issues regarding the… …
36Vladimir Ovchinnikov (painter) — Vladimir Ivanovich Ovchinnikov Born July 14, 1911 Saratov, Russian Empire Died …
37Mongol invasion of Rus' — Mongol conquest of Eastern Europe The route of the first Mongol expedition in Russia 1223 Date 1223, 1 …
38History of Russia — The history of Russia begins with that of the East Slavs. The first East Slavic state, Kievan Rus , adopted Christianity from the Byzantine Empire in 988, [cite web|title=Kievan Rus and Mongol Periods|url=http://www.shsu.edu/ his… …
39European mink — Conservation status Endangered ( …
40Agriculture in Imperial Russia — The agriculture of Imperial Russia throughout the 19th 20th centuries represented a major world force yet it lagged behind other developed countries. Russia was amongst the largest exporters of agricultural produce, especially wheat, while the… …
