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War and Peace (Russian: Война и мир, romanized: Voyna i mir) is a 1966–1967 Soviet epic war drama film co-written and directed by Sergei Bondarchuk, adapted from Leo Tolstoy's 1869 novel.
War and Peace (Russian: Война и мир, romanized: Voyna i mir; pre-reform Russian: Война и миръ; [vɐjˈna i ˈmʲir]) is a literary work by the Russian author Leo Tolstoy. Set during the Napoleonic Wars , the work comprises both a fictional narrative and chapters in which Tolstoy discusses history and philosophy.
War and Peace (Op. 91) (Russian: Война и мир, Voyna i mir) is a 1946 230-minute opera in 13 scenes, plus an overture and an epigraph, by Sergei Prokofiev. Based on the 1869 novel War and Peace by Leo Tolstoy, its Russian libretto was prepared by the composer and Mira Mendelson. The first seven scenes are devoted to peace, the latter ...
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Gennady Alekseyevich Myasnikov (Russian: Геннадий Алексеевич Мясников; 12 September 1919 – 16 January 1989) was a Soviet production designer and artist.
[5] Smolar covered Romanian pogroms in 1930, which resulted in the resignation of the notorious anti-Semitic Interior Minister Alexandru Vaida-Voevod. He was assigned to Berlin in 1932, just before the Nazis came to power. He was among the first to predict Hitler's ascension and to warn of the grave menace German Jews faced under the new regime.
Mir-10 is a wide angle lens made for SLR cameras produced in the Soviet Union. It exists in 3 versions - Mir-10 (the experimental version), Mir-10M (the version with M42 lens mount), and Mir-10A - lenses with -A suffix have interchangeable mounts. This lens has a focal length of 28mm and a maximum aperture of f/3.5.
The 5.6×39mm, also known in the U.S. as .220 Russian, is a cartridge developed in 1961 for deer hunting in the USSR. [3] It fires a 5.6mm projectile from necked down 7.62×39mm brass. While it originally re-used 7.62x39 cases, once it became popular enough commercial ammunition started being manufactured, both in the USSR and in Finland.