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	Aleksandr Vasilievsky
		Aleksandr Mikhailovich Vasilievsky (also spelled Vasilevsky, Vasilyevsky, Vasilievskii etc, Russian: Александр Михайлович Василевский) (September 30 1895 - December 5 1977), Marshal of the Soviet Union, was the Soviet commander in the operations against Japan in 1945, and later Defence Minister.
		Vasilievsky was born into a prosperous peasant family near Kostroma, east of Moscow.
		In 1948 Vasilievsky returned to Moscow to become Deputy Minister for Defence, and in March 1949 he was appointed Minister for Defence.
	www.sciencedaily.com /encyclopedia/aleksandr_vasilievsky (590 words)

	Aleksandr Vasilevsky -- Facts, Info, and Encyclopedia article (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-08-24)
		Stalin seems to have shared this view, since Vasilievsky was made a (additional info and facts about Marshal of the Soviet Union) Marshal of the Soviet Union in February 1943.
		In 1943 and 1944 Vasilievsky continued to play leading organisational roles in the Soviet war effort, particularly in relation to the (additional info and facts about Battle of Kursk) Battle of Kursk in July 1943.
		In 1948 Vasilievsky returned to (A city of central European Russia; formerly capital of both the Soviet Union and Soviet Russia; since 1991 the capital of the Russian Federation) Moscow to become Deputy Minister for Defence, and in March 1949 he was appointed Minister for Defence.
	www.absoluteastronomy.com /encyclopedia/a/al/aleksandr_vasilevsky.htm (695 words)

	Aleksandr Vasilievsky - TheBestLinks.com - Central Committee, Communist Party of the Soviet Union, December 5, Japan, ... (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-08-24)
		Aleksandr Vasilievsky, Central Committee, Communist Party of the Soviet Union...
		In 1931 Vasilievsky graduated to command of the Privolzhsk military region.
		In October 1937 he was appointed a member of the General Staff, and in November 1941, after the German invasion of the Soviet Union, he succeeded Boris Shaposhnikov as Chief of the General Staff.
	www.thebestlinks.com /Aleksandr_Vasilievsky.html (588 words)

	Saint Petersburg - Encyclopedia.WorldSearch (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-08-24)
		Smaller churches include the Konyushennaya (1816–1823), also by Stasov, the "Easter Cake" church (1785–1787), noted for its droll appearance, St Catherine church on the Vasilievsky Island (1768–1771), and numerous non-Orthodox churches on the Nevsky Prospect.
		A boardwalk was built along a portion of the fortress wall, giving visitors a clear view of the city across the river to the south.
		On the other bank of the Neva, the spit of the Vasilievsky island is graced by the former Bourse building (1805–1810), reminiscent of a classic Greek temple, with two great Rostral Columns, decorated with ships' prows, standing in front of it.
	encyclopedia.worldsearch.com /leningrad.htm (3775 words)

	Reference.com/Encyclopedia/Aleksandr Vasilevsky
		In 1931 Vasilievsky graduated to command of the (Volga Region) Military District (Приволжский военный округ).
		In late 1942 he was was the General Staff representative and overall supervisor of the Stalingrad Front, and the main planner of the operations there, which led to Germany's greatest defeat on the Eastern Front.
		The historian David Glantz identifies Vasilievsky as the real architect of victory at the Battle of Stalingrad, arguing that Georgy Zhukov's role has been overstated.
	www.reference.com /browse/wiki/Aleksandr_Vasilevsky (557 words)

	Encyclopedia: Saint Petersburg, Russia
		Menshikov in Exile Aleksandr Danilovich Menshikov (Александр Данилович Меншиков) (1673 – 1729) was a Russian statesman, whose official titles included Generalissimo, Prince of the Holy Roman Empire and Duke of Izhora.
		Missing image Church of the Savior on Blood The Church as seen from Nevsky Prospect The Church of the Savior on Blood is one of the main Russian Orthodox cathedrals of St....
		Alexander II (1818-1881) Alexander (Aleksandr) II (Russian: Александр II Николаевич) (April 17, 1818– March 13, 1881) was the Emperor (tsar) of Russia from March 2, 1855 until his assassination.
	www.nationmaster.com /encyclopedia/Saint-Petersburg,-Russia (9899 words)

	Marshal of the Soviet Union
		The military rank of Marshal of the Soviet Union was established by a decree of the Soviet Cabinet, the Council of People's Commissars (Sovnarkom), on September 22, 1935.
		On November 20 the rank was conferred on five people: People's Commissar of Defence and veteran Bolshevik Kliment Voroshilov, Chief of the General Staff of the Red Army Aleksandr Yegorov, and three senior commanders, Vasily Blyukher, Semyon Budyonny and Mikhail Tukhachevsky.
		Those who made their reputations in World War II and assumed high commands in the latter part of the war.
	www.sciencedaily.com /encyclopedia/marshal_of_the_soviet_union (704 words)

	Ivan Bagramian -- Facts, Info, and Encyclopedia article (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-08-24)
		For his achievements in this battle he was given the title of (additional info and facts about Hero of the Soviet Union) Hero of the Soviet Union.
		In early 1945 Bagramian's army, under the overall command of Marshal (additional info and facts about Aleksandr Vasilievsky) Aleksandr Vasilievsky, took part in the advance into (additional info and facts about East Prussia) East Prussia.
		Bagramian commanded the forces which captured (additional info and facts about Königsberg) Königsberg (now (additional info and facts about Kaliningrad) Kaliningrad) in April and at the end of the war he took the surrender of the German forces penned up in Latvia.
	www.absoluteastronomy.com /encyclopedia/i/iv/ivan_bagramian.htm (485 words)

	Soviet High Command - World War 2
		Vasilievsky took an active role in the planning and co-ordination of most strategic operations during the war.
		Beria was also responsible for propaganda, partisan activities and Soviet prisoner of war camps.
		Soviet Chief of General Staff before Vasilievsky took over when Shaposhnikov became ill in November 1941.
	www.secondworldwar.co.uk /soviets.html (245 words)

	Kommersant - Russia's Daily Online
		The investigation revealed that ZeKo's other owner (the company name was derived from the first two letters of the owners' surnames), Vladimir Kozlov, had ordered the killing after Zelenov accused him of theft and tried to remove him from the founding group.
		A year later, the mayor of Moscow prohibited all mass events near the Kremlin, allegedly after a personal appeal from Patriarch Aleksy II, who was deeply offended by the concert.
		This company is headed by composer and businessman Igor Krutoi and is involved in nearly all sectors of show business, including managing artists and organizing concerts and radio broadcasts.
	www.kommersant.com /tree.asp?rubric=3&node=41&doc_id=310116 (3532 words)

	Official site of the 750-th anniversary of Kaliningrad (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-08-24)
		The music will be accompanied by the videotransmission on a large screen.
		Brass bands of the countries of the Baltic region will take part in the parade: Switzerland, Denmark, Norway, Lithuania, Poland, Latvia, Estonia, Germany, and the Netherlands.
		In the framework of exposition there will be the presentation of new scientific achievements.
	www.kaliningrad750.ru /eng/anniversary.phtml?p=actions (1710 words)

	[No title] (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-08-24)
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		Then Vasilievsky Island was chosen for this distinction, and a grid of parallel Lines intersected at right angles by three prospects was laid out by the French architect Le Blond.
		But the rapidly growing city soon jumped the river to the mainland, i.e., the left bank of the Neva, which had originally been intended for naval shipyards (the Admiralty) and military installations.
	lamar.colostate.edu /~aksmith/HY440/bronze.rtf (6373 words)

	UNF: The Byzantine Saint: A Bibliography [Halsall] (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-08-24)
		Kazhdan, Aleksandr* P. "Byzantine Hagiography and Sex in the Fifth to Twelfth Centuries." DOP 44 (1990): 131-44.
		Kazhdan, Aleksandr P. "The List of Saints of the 1st-10th Centuries in a Chronological Order." Unpublished typescript, Dumbarton Oaks Library.
		Kazhdan, Aleksandr P., Alice-Mary Talbot, Anthony Cutler, Timothy E. Gregory, eds.
	www.unf.edu /classes/saints/byzantinesaint-bibliography.htm (10074 words)

	Blog-adarya
		I was surprised to find a Lenin statue still standing, and even more surprised to see his name and a quotation of one of his works written in Ukranian.
		Less surprising were the homages to the poet and artist Taras Shevchenko, who is to Ukraine what Aleksandr Pushkin is to Russia.
		There it was pretty much the same situation, except even bigger and crazier—these weren’t just residents of Vasilievsky Island, but of the whole city.
	www.livejournal.com /users/ostraya_palka (21306 words)

	Jane-Blog
		Met Mariana at 11 and we went walking to the geology museum, which was closed.
		After the Aleksandr Blok museum, we went walking along the Mojka and looked at lots of crumbling palaces and mansions and luxury apartment buildings that used to be very grand indeed.
		Some were just sad because they would be beautiful if restored, some were enjoyable in a creepy, Gothic way, and some were not all that pleasant to look like before.
	www.bluestocking.org /blogger/2003_11_01_archives.html (14657 words)

	Soviet biplane fighter aces - Dimitrii Yermakov (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-08-24)
		It seems that Yermakov also fired on Fischer’s aircraft but officially the victory was credited to Berelidze.
		That day MiG-15s of the 224 and 913 IAPs scrambled to face a group of attacking F-86s, which approached to attack Dapu airbase in Manchuria, and four kills were credited without Soviet losses; Semen A. Fedorets, Aleksandr K. Popov (both 913 IAP), Yermakov and Starshy Leytenant Vasilievsky (both 224 IAP).
		It is possible the one of the F-86s was flown by Robert Coury from the 12th FBS, who was reportedly shot down by AA fire “barely” north of the 38th Parallel and taken POW.
	www.bahnhof.se /~surfcity/soviet_yermakov.htm (707 words)

	Peter_II_of_Russia (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-08-24)
		The majority of the nation and three-quarters of the nobility were on his side, while his maternal uncle, the emperor Charles VI, through the imperial ambassador at St Petersburg, persistently urged his claims.
		The matter was arranged between Aleksandr Danilovich Menshikov and Count Andrei Osterman; and on the 18th of May 1727 Peter II, according to the terms of the forged last will of Catherine I, was proclaimed sovereign autocrat.
		Peter II and his aunt Elizaveta Petrovna go hunting (1900)
	www.buyitfast.org /q/Peter_II_of_Russia (394 words)

	Personalities of Saint-Petersburg - Common list - from Q to T
		Director of the Institute of Russian Literature (Pushkin House).
		Artistic Coordinator, Director of the State Satire Theatre on the Vasilievsky Island.
		Journalist, Presenter of the Petersburg Television and Radio Company.
	www.ceo.spb.ru /eng/list-q-t.shtml (800 words)

	Brian Quail's Essay
		The Transbaikal Front and the 1st and 2nd Eastern Fronts, together with the Amur Flotilla had a combined strength of more than 1,500,000 men, 5,300 tanks and self-propelled guns, 5,200 planes and 26,000 guns and mortars.
		Marshal Aleksandr Vasilievsky inflicted a crushing defeat on Japan’s 1,200,000 Kwangtung army, which had occupied North-Eastern China and Korea, and routed them within a matter of days.
		South Sakhalin and the Kurile Islands were seized.
	dspace.dial.pipex.com /town/pipexdsl/d/adhb32/educ/bqessay.html (3629 words)

	INFO-RUSS archive, 1 Jul. 1995-current
		Until now, Barsukov has been in charge of Kremlin security and is a close friend of the head of the presidential security service, Aleksandr Korzhakov.
		Russian farmers are expecting the country's worst grain harvest in 20 years following a severe drought that has plagued farmlands in southern Russia, according to Agriculture Minister Aleksandr Zaveryukha, ITAR-TASS reported on 24 July.
		The minister said the harvest is likely to be 75-78 million metric tons, or about 4%-8% less than last year's harvest of 81.3 million metric tons.
	psi.ece.jhu.edu /~kaplan/IRUSS/ARCHIVE/2.95.html (18139 words)

	Johnson's Russia List #5187 - April 4, 2001
		Zemin will pay to Russia at the beginning of July, Russian Deputy Foreign
		Minister Aleksandr Losyukov told journalists on Wednesday [4 April].
		frequent visitor at a building on Vasilievsky Island.
	www.cdi.org /russia/Johnson/5187.html (7188 words)

	Directory of Russian Defense Enterprises
		OTHER RELEVANT INFORMATION: Prometey has a branch facility locatedat a shipyard in Severodvinsk, as well as a building in suburb of Gatchina in Leningrad.
		Prometeyalso has underground facilities: a main one beneath Aleksandr Nevskiy Monastery Museum andanother in the area between Sinopskaya Naberezhnaya and Ulitsa Krasnovo Tekstil'shchika,possibly contiguous with Nevskiy complex.
		ADDRESS: 199161, St. Petersburg, Russia Vasilievsky Island, 11 Liniya,66
	www.fas.org /nuke/guide/russia/industry/docs/9607spd2.html (5836 words)

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