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• Arkady Ostashev
  ...deration]] was an [[engineer]], Soviet, Russian [[scientist]], participant in the launch of the first artificial [[Earth]] [[Sputnik 1|satellite]] and th Born on September 30, 1925 in the village of Maly Vasilyev. Mother – [http://www.nasledie-rus.ru/podshi
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• Anatoli Boukreev
  | caption = In Seattle, June 1996 ...укре́ев}}; January 16, 1958 – December 25, 1997) was a [[Russians in Kazakhstan|Russian Kazakhstani]] mountaineer who made ascents of 10 of the
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• Nowruz
  ...publisher= komunitetibektashi.org | url=http://www.komunitetibektashi.org/in.php?fq=brenda&gj=gj1&kid=1 ...arsi]]s)<ref name="www.iranicaonline.org">{{cite web|title=Nowruz observed in Indian subcontinent|url=http://www.iranicaonline.org/articles/nowruz-ii/|pu
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• Talgat Nigmatulin
  ...ost famous movie was ''[[Pirates of the 20th Century]]''. He also appeared in the following films: * 1979 — ''[[Pirates of the 20th Century]]'' (Пираты 20-ого века) a
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• Boris Alexandrov
  ...e [[1976 Winter Olympics]], playing as a [[Winger (ice hockey)|left wing]] in three matches and scoring two goals, and won a [[gold medal]] with the [[So ...ational ice hockey team|Team Kazakhstan]]. On 31 July 2002 Alexandrov died in a head-on collision with another car en route from [[Chelyabinsk]] to [[Mos
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• Viktor Chernomyrdin
  ...s. He was a key figure in Russian politics in the 1990s, and a participant in the Russian transition from a [[Planned economy|planned]] to a [[Market eco ...main Chernomyrdin's proverb by Konstantin Dushenko, an aphorism collector (in Russian)]{{dead link|date=November 2010}}</ref>
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• 2007 Astana season
  ...ferred to new ownership, headquartered in a new nation, it is considered a new team from 2007 onward. The team's manager for the 2007 season was former [[ ...oleni]] all either tested positive for doping or were otherwise implicated in scandals and fired from the team. [[José Antonio Redondo]] was also fired
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• 2008 Astana season
  ...]] team, they were automatically invited and obliged to attend every event in the [[2008 UCI ProTour|UCI ProTour]]. ...] and [[Levi Leipheimer]], who had finished first and third, respectively, in the [[2007 Tour de France]] for Discovery. Numerous riders also left the te
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• 2009 Astana season
  | image_caption = The Astana [[Volvo]] team car in 2009. ...ged to attend every [[UCI ProTour]] event, and were invited to every event in the inaugural [[UCI World Ranking|UCI World Calendar]] as well.
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• 2012–13 Barys Astana season
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• Kyle Calder
  | birth_date = {{birth date and age|1979|1|5}} ...er professional [[ice hockey]] [[Forward (ice hockey)|forward]] who played in the [[National Hockey League]] (NHL) for the [[Chicago Blackhawks]], [[Phil
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• Robert S. Wistrich
  ...obert_wistrich/ Robert Wistrich], Netherlands Institute for Advanced Study in the Humanities and Social Sciences website, accessed August 21, 2006.</ref> ...ion agreement between [[Joseph Stalin|Stalin]] and the [[Polish government-in-exile]].
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• Kenges Rakishev
  ...rojects in Turkey and China, has grown from its initial investment of $10K in 2000 to more than $500M today. He is the controlling shareholder of the lar ...rategy to apply his expertise and access to capital to seize opportunities in the [[Commonwealth of Independent States]] (CIS) countries by leveraging ad
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• Virgin Lands Campaign
  ...ng virgin land. USSR block. 1979.jpg|300px|thumbnail|USSR postage stamp of 1979, celebrating the 25th anniversary of the Virgin Lands Campaign]] ...53 plan to dramatically boost the Soviet Union’s agricultural production in order to alleviate the food shortages plaguing the Soviet populace.
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• Tengiz Field
  | discovery = 1979 '''Tengiz field''' (Tengiz is Turkic for "sea") is an [[oil field]] located in northwestern [[Kazakhstan]]'s low-lying wetlands along the northeast shores
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• Thief in law
  ...14865004.html?pagewanted=all&_r=0 | title=Vory v Zakone has hallowed place in Russian criminal lore. | work=[[International Herald Tribune]] | date=29 Ju ...organized group of top criminals arose, the ''vory v zakone'', or "thieves in law."<ref name="Schwirtz"/>
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• Koryo-saram
  ...ine]]. These communities can be traced back to the Koreans who were living in the [[Russian Far East]] during the late 19th century. ...r II]].<ref name=Byong>{{cite news|last=Ban|first=Byung-yool|title=Koreans in Russia: Historical Perspective|url=http://times.hankooki.com/lpage/nation/2
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• Volga Germans
  ...ans from the Volga region at a refugee camp in [[Schneidemühl]], Germany, in 1920]] ...cs, [[Moravian Church|Moravians]], and [[Russian Mennonite|Mennonites]]). In the 19th and early 20th centuries, many Volga Germans emigrated to [[Kansas
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• Kazakhs
  ...e value was preserved at 0.104% level it would be no less than 1.4 million in 2008</ref> ...the CIA estimate of the share of Kazakhs (3%), the total Kazakh population in Uzbekistan would be 0.8 million</ref>
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• History of Xinjiang
  [[File:China-Xinjiang.png|thumb|200px|Xinjiang's location in the [[People's Republic of China]]]] ...ntier") when the region was reconquered by the Manchu-led [[Qing dynasty]] in 1759. Xinjiang is now a part of the [[People's Republic of China]], having
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• Adel Noori
  | birth_date = {{Birth date|1979|11|12}} ...years he was wrongly imprisoned in the [[Guantanamo Bay detention camp]]s, in [[Cuba]].<ref name=DoDList2>
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• Hotan
  {{redirect|Ilchi|the villages in Iran|Ilkhchi (disambiguation)|other uses|Khotan (disambiguation)}} |official_name = <!-- Official name in English if different from 'name' -->
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• Yuliy Kim
  | movement = [[dissident movement in the Soviet Union]] ...d Judophobia Since Childhood] // [[Booknik]], 23 December 2012 (interview, in Russian)</ref>
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• Nellie Kim
  {{MedalGold | [[1979 World Artistic Gymnastics Championships|1979 Fort Worth]] | All-around }} {{MedalSilver | [[1979 World Artistic Gymnastics Championships|1979 Fort Worth]] | Team }}
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• Timeline of Almaty
  ...itation |publisher = Encyclopædia Britannica Co. |publication-place = New York |title = Encyclopædia Britannica |publication-date = 1910 |oclc = 14782424 * 1918 - Soviets in power; city becomes part of the [[Turkestan Autonomous Soviet Socialist Rep
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• Kassym-Jomart Tokayev
  == Career in Soviet Union == ...iplomatic Academy of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of the USSR in Moscow in a training course for senior diplomats.
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• Valery Oisteanu
  ...= |date=October 24, 2006 |work= |publisher= Washington, DC: Foreign Policy In Focus |accessdate=December 26, 2010}}</ref> Oisteanu is the author of more ...try of the [[Polytechnic University of Bucharest|Politechnical Institute]] in [[Bucharest]].
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• Victor Sydorenko
  ...he is the member and the vice-president of [[Ukrainian Academy of Arts]]. In 2001 Sydorenko has founded and has headed Modern Art Research Institute of ...e. At the age of 8 he took an interest in the painting, at the age of 10 - in the photography.
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• Adolf Tolkachev
  ...U.S. considered the most advanced airborne radar. He was executed as a spy in 1986. ..., Tolkachev attempted to approach cars with U.S. diplomatic license plates in Moscow five times,<ref name="wapo20080419">{{cite news| url=http://www.wash
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• Silk Road
  | designation1_free1value = [[List of World Heritage Sites in Asia|Asia-Pacific]] |piccap="Silk Road" in Traditional (top) and Simplified (bottom) Chinese characters
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• Leonid Brezhnev
  |caption=Brezhnev in [[East Berlin]] in 1967 ...beginning of [[Era of Stagnation|an era of economic and social stagnation in the Soviet Union]].
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• Mute swan
  .... It is recognisable by its pronounced knob atop the beak, which is larger in males. ...κύκνος|ref}}.</ref><ref>{{cite book |last=Simpson |first=D. P. |date=1979 |title=Cassell's Latin Dictionary |edition=5th |publisher=Cassell |location
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• Russian tortoise
  ...ic name]], ''horsfieldii'', and the common name "Horsfield's tortoise" are in honor of the [[Americans|American]] [[Natural history|naturalist]] [[Thomas ...cteristics, the [[monotypic]] [[genus]] ''Agrionemys'' was proposed for it in 1966. Today, ''Agrionemys horsfieldii'' is currently being accepted.<ref>Kh
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• Mongol conquest of Khwarezmia
  ...est of the Islamic states. The Mongol expansion would ultimately culminate in the conquest of virtually all of [[Asia]] (as well as [[Mongol invasion of ...ess than a year later, when a Mongol caravan and its envoys were massacred in the Khwarezmian city of [[Otrar]].
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• Wusun
  ...mi-[[Eurasian nomads|nomadic]] [[Eurasian Steppe|steppe]] people mentioned in [[China|Chinese]] records from the 2nd century BC to the 5th century AD. ...re last mentioned by the Chinese as having settled the [[Pamir Mountains]] in the 5th century AD. They possibly became subsumed into the later [[Hephthal
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• Saka
  [[Image:Scythia-Parthia 100 BC.png|thumb|300px|Scythia and Parthia in about 170 BC (before the [[Yuezhi]] invaded Bactria).]] ...in]] and [[Taklamakan desert]] region of [[Northwest China]], they settled in [[Kingdom of Khotan|Khotan]] and [[Kashgar]] which were at various times [[
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• Sasanian Empire
  ...|year=1997|publisher=[[Eisenbrauns]]|isbn=978-1-57506-020-0|page=284|quote=In the Middle Persian period (Parthian and Sasanian Empires), Aramaic was the ...an language|Parthian]] (administration, until the late 3rd-century) spoken in the north and east, and by the [[seven Parthian clans]]){{sfn|Daryaee|2008|
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