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Garry Kimovich Kasparov (Russian: Га́рри Ки́мович Каспа́ров; born Garik Kimovich Weinstein, 13 April 1963) is a Russian (formerly Soviet) chess Grandmaster, former World Chess Champion, writer, and political activist, considered by many to be the greatest chess player of all time. From 1986 until his retirement in 2005, Kasparov was ranked world No. 1 for 225 out of 228 months. His peak rating of 2851, achieved in 1999, was the highest recorded until being passed by Magnus Carlsen in 2013. Kasparov also holds records for consecutive professional tournament victories (15) and Chess Oscars (11).
Count Lev Nikolayevich Tolstoy (Russian: Лев Никола́евич Толсто́й; 9 September [O.S. 28 August] 1828 – 20 November [O.S. 7 November] 1910), usually referred to in English as Leo Tolstoy, was a Russian novelist today regarded as one of the greatest of all time.
Yuri Alekseyevich Gagarin (Russian: Ю́рий Алексе́евич Гага́рин; 9 March 1934 – 27 March 1968) was a Russian Soviet pilot and cosmonaut. He was the first human to journey into outer space, when his Vostok spacecraft completed an orbit of the Earth on 12 April 1961.
Maria Yuryevna Sharapova (Russian: Мари́я Ю́рьевна Шара́пова; born 19 April 1987) is a Russian professional tennis player, who as of October 6, 2014 is ranked world No. 2 by the Women's Tennis Association (WTA). A United States resident since 1994, Sharapova has competed on the WTA tour since 2001. She has been ranked world No. 1
in singles by the WTA on five separate occasions, for a total of 21
weeks. She became the world No. 1 for the first time on August 22, 2005
at the age of 18, and last held the ranking for the fifth time for four
weeks from June 11, 2012 to July 8, 2012. She is the reigning champion in singles at the French Open.
The Krasnoyarsk Railway (Красноярская железная дорога) is a subsidiary of the Russian Railways headquartered in Krasnoyarsk and serving the south of Siberia. Its mainline is a link in the Trans-Siberian Railway crossing the Krasnoyarsk Krai and Khakassia. It is wedged between the West Siberian Railway (to the west) and East Siberian Railway (to the east). Its length is estimated at 3157,9 km (as of 2009).
The original Siberian Railway was opened in 1899, after the completion of the first bridge across the Yenisey. It was extended to Achinsk in 1936 and to Novokuznetsk in 1949. Further expansion occurred in the 1960s in connection with the Sayano–Shushenskaya Dam project. The century-old Krasnoyarsk Railway Station was renovated in 2004.
A matryoshka doll (Russian: матрёшка), also known as Russian nesting doll or Russian doll, refers to a set of wooden dolls
of decreasing size placed one inside the other. The name is believed to
be a derivative of "Matriosha" or "Matriona," which were female names
that enjoyed immense popularity among Russian peasants. The name
connotes the matriarch of a big Russian family.
The first Russian nested doll set was made in 1890 by Vasily Zvyozdochkin from a design by Sergey Malyutin, who was a folk crafts painter at Abramtsevo. Traditionally the outer layer is a woman, dressed in a sarafan, a long and shapeless traditional Russian peasant jumper dress.
The figures inside may be of either gender; the smallest, innermost
doll is typically a baby turned from a single piece of wood.
Mount Elbrus (Russian: Эльбру́с) is a dormant volcano located in the western Caucasus mountains, in Kabardino-Balkaria and Karachay–Cherkessia of Russia, near the border with Georgia. Mt. Elbrus's peak is the highest in the Caucasus Mountains and in Europe, and it is the tenth most prominent in the world.
Elbrus has two summits, both of which are dormant volcanic domes. Mt. Elbrus (west summit) stands at 5,642 metres (18,510 ft); the east summit is slightly lower at 5,621 metres (18,442 ft).
Siberia (Russian: Сиби́рь) is an extensive geographical region, and by the broadest definition is also known as North Asia. Siberia has been historically part of Russia since the seventeenth century.
The territory of Siberia extends eastwards from the Ural Mountains to the watershed between the Pacific and Arctic drainage basins. Siberia stretches southwards from the Arctic Ocean to the hills of north-central Kazakhstan and to the national borders of Mongolia and China. With an area of 13.1 million square kilometres, Siberia accounts for
77% of Russia's land area, but it is home to just 40 million people –
27% of the country's population. This is equivalent to an average
population density of about 3 inhabitants per square kilometre
(approximately equal to that of Australia), making Siberia one of the
most sparsely populated regions on Earth.
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