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  Beryozovo   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-08-09)
Beryozovo (Russian: Берёзово) is an urban-type settlement and the administrative center of Beryozovsky District of Khanty-Mansi Autonomous Okrug, Russia.
Beryozovo was founded as a fortified settlement in 1593, which grew into a town of Berezov or Beryozov (Берёзов) in Tobolsk guberniya, 1,100 km north of the city of Tobolsk, situated on three hills on the left bank of the Severnaya Sosva River, 42 km above its mouth in the Ob.
Gradually, the town declined; it is now an urban-type settlement of minor importance.
www.tocatch.info /en/Beryozovo.htm   (273 words)

  
  Beryozovo - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Beryozovo (Russian: Берёзово) is an urban-type settlement, an administrative center of Beryozovsky District in Khantia-Mansia, Russia.
Beryozovo was founded as a fortified settlement in 1593, which grew into a town of Berezov or Beryozov (Берёзов) in Tobolsk guberniya, 1,100 km north of the city of Tobolsk, situated on three hills on the left bank of the Severnaya Sosva River, 42 km above its mouth in the Ob, in 63 55 N. lat.
It has more than once suffered from conflagrations for example, in 1719 and 1808.
en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Beryozov   (292 words)

  
 Khanty people - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Anthropologically, the Khants are representatives of the Uralic race.
Over half of their racial characteristics are predominantly Mongoloid (particularly in the Beryozovo region).
They are short (the average height for men is 158 cm and for women 146 cm), and their broad-shouldered stocky trunk has a characteristic convexity.
en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Khanty_people   (616 words)

  
 Funeral Customs of the Northern Khants
The paper gives a survey of the funerals in the Oktyabrskoye, Beloyarsk and Beryozovo regions of the Khanty-Mansi autonomous district (okrug) and the Shuryshkary and Priuralsk regions of the Yamalo-Nenets autonomous district.
In the Oktyabrskoye, Beloyarsk, Beryozovo and most part of the Shuryshkary regions the Khants bury their dead in a grave dug in the ground.
The Azovy graveyard is similar to the ones situated near the Khants' villages in the Oktyabrskoye, Beryozovo and Beloyarsk regions and in most part of the Shuryshkary region.
folklore.ee /folklore/vol7/khants.htm   (2159 words)

  
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Three days later the family was sent off into remote exile, to that notorious and wild settlement of Beryozovo in Siberia (where Prince Menshikov, Peter the Greats henchman, had been sent previously).
This continued for quite a long time, but in 1738, a quarrel between two of the local officials in connection with Princess Catherine Dolgorukova caused one of them to send a complaint to the central authorities.
Soon a commission was sent to Beryozovo, Prince Ivan and the other Dolgorukovs were taken away, and the investigation began.
english.mn.ru /english/printver.php?2004-2-31   (905 words)

  
 Eesti Rahva Muuseum
Beryozovo: it's evening time, the airport is probably closed, the hotel is...
When Beryozovo town was built, they tried to cut it down, but the trees were as hard as iron and the axe broke.
As a farewell, I shouted to Nikolai: "When you go to Beryozovo during your next holidays, don't wait until the militiaman will lock you up, just run to the west.
www.erm.ee /?node=159   (7453 words)

  
 The Red Book of the Peoples of the Russian Empire
Anthropologically, the Khants are representatives of the Uralic race.
Over half of their racial characteristics are predominantly Mongoloid (particularly in the Beryozovo region).
They are short (the average height for men is 158 cm and for women 146 cm), and their broad-shouldered stocky trunk has a characteristic convexity.
www.eki.ee /books/redbook/khants.shtml   (2288 words)

  
 art*P I X   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-08-09)
The meaning of the large zigzag shape is unknown.
5 - A sign on a tree trunk near the trap for catching capercaillies by the Kazym River near Hullor village, Beryozovo region.
At the centre: a sign indicating the traps, whereas the notches around it indicate that both to the left and right of the tree there are two lines of traps.
www.folklore.ee /folklore/vol3/pics/artpix.htm   (251 words)

  
 Beloyarsky district
Discovery of oil and gas reserves provoked the foundation of new towns on the territory of the Autonomous Okrug.
In 1959 big gas field was discovered in the settlement of Beryozovo.
Gas pipelines went through the whole country, it became necessary to construct compressor stations.
www.hmao.wsnet.ru /english/powerE/common/cbelo/index.htm   (642 words)

  
 expedition
In addition to that, old photos having local cultural importance were retaken (pictures of choirs, courses of domestic economy, village schools and sailing vessels built at Kõpu peninsula) and material was gathered about the first village photographers.
In 1983 the national costumes, jewelry, dwellings and economic buildings, ornaments and fishing equipment of Voguls living in the villages of the Beryozovo region of Ostyak-Vogul autonomic district in West Siberia were researched.
Special attention was paid on old religions of Voguls and rituals and objects connected with that, like soul dolls, buildings on the graves and cult places.
old.artun.ee /sugri/exped.html   (2875 words)

  
 Pravda.RU:Fuel Supplies To Kamchatka Resumed   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-08-09)
Fuel supplies to the Kamchatka region will be continued, the press service of the Kamchatskenergo reported today.
According to preliminary information, a Beryozovo tanker with a tonnage equal to 15,000 tons is supposed to be loaded in Nakhodka today.
Fuel supplies were resumed as the energy company had paid for 25,000 tons of fl oil received in April.
newsfromrussia.com /region/2001/04/28/4391_.html   (220 words)

  
 Vladivostok News :: Kamchatka avoids blackouts   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-08-09)
On Thursday, it also paid first 30 million rubles of the debt it owed Rosneft, promising more payments next month.
The payment ended a standoff in which 15,000 tons of oil owned by Rosneft sat in the port of Petropavlovsk-Kamchatsky for 10 days inside the Beryozovo tanker.
Despite the fact that the shipment had been paid for, the company refused to have the oil offloaded until it receives guarantees of recovering the debt for the previous deliveries.
vlad.tribnet.com /2001/ISS261/News/News07.HTM   (315 words)

  
 ArtRoots.com - For the Love of Fine Art
While Streltsi showed the tragedy of the masses, made up of the fates of individual people, in *Menshikov in Beryozovo* (1883, TG) Surikov concentrated his attention on one strong character whose personal drama echoed the tragedy of Russia.
However, how localised the episode may have been which suggested to Surikov the subject of his future picture, the image he went on to create assumed historical importance...
The first study for *Boyarynya Morozova* appeared in 1881; Surikov began work on the picture itself three years later, having meanwhile painted *Menshikov in Beryozovo* and made a trip abroad.
artroots.com /ra/bio/surikov/vasilysurikovbio.htm   (2525 words)

  
 USHB - Beryozovo, RU - Airport - Great Circle Mapper
USHB - Beryozovo, RU - Airport - Great Circle Mapper
This information may not be accurate or current and is not valid for navigation or flight planning.
Please see credits for attribution and copyright information.
gc.kls2.com /airport/USHB   (55 words)

  
 The Mansi
In some sources, Alach, Prince of Koda figures as an important ally of the Siberian Khan Kuchum and is said to have been awarded one of the Yermak mail-coats taken from the enemy (Bahrushin 1955, 1:114).
The close connections between the Ob-Ugrians and the Turkic Tartars are also demonstrated by the fact that even in the 1660s, the idea of restoring the Kuchum Khanate was still popular with the Khanty of Beryozovo (Ibid).
In the 16th and 17th centuries, the Mansi got their living mainly from hunting.
haldjas.folklore.ee /~aado/rahvad/mansingl.htm   (3307 words)

  
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They are not super-rich, just middle class Russians, who see themselves ploughing their profits into their own land and helping to keep the village alive.
         At the door, they are met by Tamara Vasilievna, Kostya’s mother, who has spent the whole summer at Beryozovo, working in the garden.
A few old people will remain in Beryozovo when the lake freezes over and the snow drifts up to the roofs but Tamara Vasilievna is packing up to return to St. Petersburg until next April.
www.freewebs.com /helen_womack/travel/ThePerfectMirrorofSeliger.htm   (839 words)

  
 SibTourGuide.com - Tour of Krasnoyarsk p.2
With a back yard and bathhouse it shows siberian typical house in old days.
He is known for such paintings as "The Morning of the Execution of the Streltsy", "Boyarinya Morozova", "Menshikov in Beryozovo", "The Taking of the Snow Town", "Stepan Razin", "Yermak Conquers Siberia" and "Suvorov Crossing the Alps".
More than 7,000 exhibit items including Russian and modern painting, graphics, sculptures, and decorative art are held in the exhibition halls on a regular basis.
www.sibtourguide.com /observing1.html   (670 words)

  
 Eesti Rahva Muuseum
In the taiga, where there are enclosed pasture lands, semi-nomadic reindeer herding has lost its purpose.
In the near future, the Regional Department of the North is planning to buy 100 reindeer for the Beryozovo region and to form a reindeer herding brigade comprising six persons (a co-operative society, under the status of a state enterprise).
These people will, in turn, herd animals in their own family lands.
www.erm.ee /?node=194   (3158 words)

  
 Oil of Russia : www.oilru.com : “Oil of Russia” magazine
LUKOIL believes that Western Siberia has a great future, and so the Company continues to build up its potential in this region so rich in mineral resources.
Over half a century ago, the first gas blowout, which struck near the village of Beryozovo, ushered in a new epoch in Russian history: Western Siberia was to become the country's main oil- and gas-producing region.
The oil and gas fields of Uray, Samotlor, Megion, Yamburg and Urengoy were declared to be the world's "discoveries of the century." In the 1970s and 1980s, the natural riches of Western Siberia enabled the USSR to make a real breakthrough in the oil and gas industry.
www.oilru.com /or/25/424   (2289 words)

  
 FPA* Pics Foto Fotos: 12/28 - 01/03
Pesca attraverso il ghiaccio a Beryozovo in Siberia
PESCE FRESCO Alcuni russi si riparano dal freddo con un piccolo fuoco e un telo di plastica mentre pescano attraverso il ghiaccio nel villaggio di Beryozovo in Siberia (Andrey Rudakov/Ap photo)
Robot model at the high tech show in Beijing
smart.tin.it /schietti/1/4/news-photos-images/2003_12_28_archives.html   (421 words)

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