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The Briner family mansion in Vladivostok, Russia, where Yul Brynner was born and lived from 1920 to 1927. Yul Brynner was born Yuliy Borisovich Briner on July 11, 1920, [5] [6] [7] in the city of Vladivostok. [8] He had Swiss-German, Russian, and Buryat (Mongol) ancestry.
During the 1880s Vladivostok's cultural life improved, and a music school at the Siberian Fleet Depot was opened. In 1883 the city's first newspaper (Vladivostok) began, and the following year the Society of the Amursky Territory Study (headed by Fyodor F. Busse) was founded. In 1887 a public library opened, and a professional theater performed ...
Vladivostok (1955) Vladivostok and surrounding region (DMA, 1988) The city is located in the southern extremity of Muravyov-Amursky Peninsula , which is about 30 kilometers (19 mi) long and 12 kilometers (7.5 mi) wide.
The writer's 1997 treatise, "The Foundations of Geopolitics: The Geopolitical Future of Russia," at times reads like an overview of recent Russian history as expressed by Putin today.
Nicholas II (Nikolai Alexandrovich Romanov; [ d ] 18 May [ O.S. 6 May] 1868 – 17 July 1918) or Nikolai II was the last reigning Emperor of Russia, King of Congress Poland, and Grand Duke of Finland from 1 November 1894 until his abdication on 15 March 1917. He married Alix of Hesse (becoming known as Alexandra Feodorovna) in 1894 and had ...
Diana Dmitrievna Ankudinova (Russian: Диана Дмитриевна Анкудинова, born May 31, 2003) [1] is a Russian singer. Much of her initial fame resulted from her winning two consecutive seasons of You Are Super!, a talent competition show on the Russian NTV network for children who have spent some significant part of their childhood without parental care. [2]
5. Sir Leonard Valentinovich Blavatnik[ a ] (born June 14, 1957) is a Soviet/Ukrainian-born British-American businessman and philanthropist. As of January 2024, Forbes estimated his net worth at $31.3 billion. [ 2 ][ 3 ] In 2017, Blavatnik received a knighthood for services to philanthropy. [ 4 ]
Demographics of Russia. Pop. As of the 2021 census, the population of Russia was 147.2 million. [ 12 ] It is the most populous country in Europe, and the ninth-most populous country in the world, with a population density of 8.5 inhabitants per square kilometre (22 inhabitants/sq mi). [ 13 ] As of 2020, the overall life expectancy in Russia at ...