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	Caspian Sea - Gurupedia
		The Caspian is one of the world's smallest seas; in fact, according to scientists it has characteristics common to both seas and lakes.
		The main problem is the status of the Caspian Sea and the establishment of the water boundaries between the five riparian countries.
		The sea is connected to the Sea of Azov by the Manych Canal.
	www.gurupedia.com /c/ca/caspian_sea.htm (223 words)

	English Russia » History
		During the Cold War, ekranoplans were sighted for years on the Caspian Sea as huge, fast-moving objects.
		The name Caspian Sea Monster was given by U.S. intelligence operatives who had discovered the huge vehicle, which looked like an airplane with the outer halves of the wings removed.
		The KM, as the Caspian Sea Monster was known in the top secret Soviet military development program, was over 100 m long (330 ft), weighed 540 tonnes fully loaded, and could travel over 400 km/h (250 mi/h), mere meters above the surface of the water.
	englishrussia.com /?cat=12 (800 words)

	Kids.Net.Au - Encyclopedia > Caspian Sea
		The Caspian Sea is a landlocked sea in Asia.
		The main problem is the status of the Caspian Sea and the establishment of the water boundaries between the five riparian countries.
		The sea is connected to the Sea of Azov by the Manych Canal[?].
	www.kids.net.au /encyclopedia-wiki/ca/Caspian_Sea (237 words)

	sea monster
		Monsters of this type are classically depicted as either some sort of dragon, serpent, or giant squid, slimy or scaly, often spouting jets of water.
		The decorative drawings of heraldic dolphins and sea monsters that were frequently used throughout history to illustrate maps died away with modern cartography.
		It is likely that many other reports of sea monsters are misinterpreted sightings of shark and whale carcasses, floating kelp, logs or other flotsam such as abandoned rafts, canoes and fishing nets.
	www.wapipedia.org /wikipedia/mobiletopic.aspx?cur_title=sea_monsters (427 words)

	Science Fair Projects - Caspian Sea
		The Caspian Sea or Mazandaran Sea is a landlocked sea between Asia and Europe (European Russia).
		The Caspian Sea is bordered by Russia (Dagestan, Kalmykia, Astrakhan Oblast), Republic of Azerbaijan, Iran (Guilan, Mazandaran and Golestan provinces), Turkmenistan, and Kazakhstan, with the central Asian steppes to the north and east.
		A key problem is the status of the Caspian Sea and the establishment of the water boundaries between the five littoral countries.
	www.all-science-fair-projects.com /science_fair_projects_encyclopedia/Caspian (795 words)

	Caspian Sea Monster: Definition and Links by Encyclopedian.com
		The Caspian Sea Monster has been sighted for years on the Caspian Sea as a huge, fast-moving object.
		After the end of the Cold War, the "monster" turned out to be a secret airplane of the Russian military, designed to fly only a few meters above water, thus saving energy and staying below enemy radar.
		The name Caspian Sea Monster was given by confused U.S. intelligence operatives, who were puzzled by the huge vehicle, which looked like an airplane with the outer halves of the wings removed.
	www.encyclopedian.com /ca/Caspian-Sea-Monster.html (411 words)

	Sea monster - The Black Vault Encyclopedia Project (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-28)
		Sea monsters are often miscategorized as mythical, but are actually legendary gigantic sea-dwelling creatures (but see also lake monsters).
		The decorative drawings of heraldic dolphins and sea monsters that were frequently used throughout history to illustrate maps died away with modern cartography (see for example the Carta marina).
		Cases of boneless, amorphic globsters are sometimes believed to be gigantic octopi, but it has now been determined that sperm whales dying at sea decompose in such a way that the blubber detaches from the body, forming featureless whitish masses that sometimes exhibit a hairy texture due to exposed strands of collagen fibers.
	www.blackvault.com /wiki/index.php?title=Sea_monster&redirect=no&printable=yes (709 words)

	Sea monster - Definition, explanation
		Sea monsters are mythical and legendary gigantic sea-dwelling creatures (but see also lake monsters).
		Sea monster accounts are found in virtually all cultures that have contact with the sea.
		It is likely that many other reports of sea monsters are misinterpreted sightings of shark and whale carcasses (see below), floating kelp, logs or other flotsam such as abandoned rafts, canoes and fishing nets.
	www.calsky.com /lexikon/en/txt/s/se/sea_monster.php (543 words)

	Caspian Sea at AllExperts
		The Caspian Sea is a landlocked endorheic sea of Eurasia between Asia and Europe.
		The Caspian Sea is bordered by Russia (Dagestan, Kalmykia, Astrakhan Oblast), Azerbaijan, Iran (Guilan, Mazandaran and Golestan provinces), Turkmenistan (Balkan Province), and Kazakhstan, with the central Asian steppes to the north and east.
		The sea is connected to the Sea of Azov by the Manych Canal and the Volga-Don Canal.
	en.allexperts.com /e/c/ca/caspian_sea.htm (1862 words)

	insurance Sea_monster - insurance-notes.com (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-28)
		Sea monsters are sea-dwelling, mythical or legendary creatures, often believed to be of immense size.
		Marine monsters can take many forms, including sea dragons, sea serpents, or multi-armed beasts; they can be slimy or scaly, often spouting jets of water.
		Likewise, DNA testing confirmed that an alleged sea monster washed up on Fortune Bay, Newfoundland in August, 2001, was a sperm whale.
	www.insurance-notes.com /Sea_monster (443 words)

	Bambooweb: Sea monster
		drawings of heraldic dolphins and sea monsters that were frequently used throughout history to illustrate maps died away with modern cartography.
		Loch Ness Monster, many similar sightings have been reported, of interest to chambers of commerce, local journalists and cryptozoologists.
		The Hague saw the publication of his The Great Sea Serpent which suggested that many sea serpent reports were best accounted for as a previously unknown giant, long-necked pinniped.
	www.bambooweb.com /articles/s/e/Sea_monster.html (404 words)

	Caspian Sea (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-28)
		The Caspian Sea is bordered by Russia (Dagestan, Kalmykia, Astrakhan Oblast), Republic of Azerbaijan, Iran/Persia (Guilan, Mazandaran and Golestan provinces), Turkmenistan, and Kazakhstan, with the central Asian steppes to the north and east.
		The Caspian Seal (Phoca caspica, Pusa caspica in some sources) is endemic to the Caspian Sea, one of very few seal species living in inland waters (see also Baikal Seal).
		King Caspian X of Narnia is the fictional king of C.
	www.abcworld.net /Caspian_Sea.html (819 words)

	The monster of the Caspian Sea - Page 2 - Military Photos
		Last Orljonok (with propeller) was discarded about 1992, last Kaspian sea monster was flying in the middle of the 80th, Lun (missile launcher) was only prototype (one was launcher and second rescue version) tested on the end of the 80th...Orljonok was shown several times on shows in Russia after 1989.
		The caspian sea monster tolerated a max wave heigh of 9ft.
		My dad claims to have seen the caspian sea monster, when it was parked on a beach after doing some test runs, and he and some friends walked up (not very close obviously) to it.
	www.militaryphotos.net /forums/showthread.php?t=84344&page=2 (779 words)

	YouTube - Caspian Sea Monster
		During the Cold War, ekranoplans were sighted for years on the Caspian Sea as huge, fast-moving objects.
		The name Caspian Sea Monster was given by US intelligence operatives who had spotted the huge vehicle, which looked like an airplane with the outer halves of the wings removed.
		The KM, as the Caspian Sea Monster was known in the top secret Soviet military development program, was over 100 m long (330 ft), weighed 540 tonnes fully loaded, and could travel over 400 km/h (250 mi/h), mere meters above the surface of the water.
	www.youtube.com /watch?v=IgtaeRZjWNc (699 words)

	Caspian Sea Monster
		The Americans scratched their heads, dubbed the thing the "Caspian Sea Monster," and puzzled over what the heck the Soviets were doing for the next twenty years.
		This is because an aircraft flying very low traps air between the wings and the ground and if the machine has wings with a very large surface area, it can lift incredible loads with very little effort.
		They tooled about the Caspian, trying various wing designs, jet engines, and the like, but a disastrous crash in 1980 and general slow programme progress caused the Kremlin to turn its attention to the more urgent task of losing the Cold War.
	www.davidszondy.com /future/Flight/GEV.htm (0 words)

	Caspian Sea Monster
		The Americans scratched their heads, dubbed the thing the "Caspian Sea Monster," and puzzled over what the heck the Soviets were doing for the next twenty years.
		This is because an aircraft flying very low traps air between the wings and the ground and if the machine has wings with a very large surface area, it can lift incredible loads with very little effort.
		They tooled about the Caspian, trying various wing designs, jet engines, and the like, but a disastrous crash in 1980 and general slow programme progress caused the Kremlin to turn its attention to the more urgent task of losing the Cold War.
	davidszondy.com /future/Flight/GEV.htm (422 words)

	Omnipelagos.com ~ article "Caspian Sea"
		It is called a sea because when the Romans discovered it, they tasted the water and found it to be salty.
		The Caspian Sea holds great numbers of sturgeon, which yield eggs that are processed into caviar.
		According to a treaty signed between the Persians (predecessor of today's Iran) and the Russian Empire the Caspian Sea is technically a lake and it is to be divided into two sectors (Persian and Russian), but the resources (then mainly fish) would be commonly shared.
	www.omnipelagos.com /entry?n=caspian_%53ea (1764 words)

	Laika the Space Dog: Soviet Sea Monsters!
		Scotland boasts Nessie and Morag, lurid tales of lake monsters raise their heads throughout Canada, the USA and Scandinavia, so it's surprising that Russia, with thousands of lakes, has so few mythical creatures to populate them.
		This 'monster gap' is all the more inexplicable given the Russian's love for wildly improbable stories and their predeliction for believing that everything from cheese to TV was invented in the motherland.
		Over the next 15 years it was endlessly tested on the Caspian Sea, much to the bemused amusement of the Americans who gave it its famous nickname.
	laika-the-space-dog.blogspot.com /2006/04/soviet-sea-monsters_114518622977196798.html (2105 words)

	Aviapedia » Ekranoplans: Caspian Sea Monster video from Smotr (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-28)
		Secretary of defense went to the Caspian Sea in 93 for demonstrations.
		Caspian monster was loaded up to 540 ton of weight dutring testing.
		Maximum fuel consumption is reached in take-off mode only (Caspian monster had 10 engines: 8 in front for take-off, 2 - in the back for cruising), during the flight just a little power used.
	www.aviapedia.com /transports/ekranoplans-caspian-sea-monster-video (1386 words)

	Km Caspian Sea Monster information (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-28)
		The KM, as the Caspian Sea Monster was known in the top secret Soviet military development program, was over 100 m long (330 ft), weighed 540 tonnes fully loaded, and could travel over 400 km/h (250...
		Km Caspian Sea Monster, on the other hand, are a totally different experience.
		No matter what kind of Km Caspian Sea Monster you are in the Km Caspian Sea Monster for you can enjoy tremendous amount of Km Caspian Sea Monster with very little time and effort compared to Km Caspian Sea Monster.To find out more about Km Caspian Sea Monster, click here.
	www.theseafoodlist.com /topics/sea/km-caspian-sea-monster.html (457 words)

	Ekranoplan - Education - Information - Educational Resources - Encyclopedia - Music
		After the end of the Cold War, the "monster" was revealed to be a secret airplane of the Russian military, designed to fly only a few meters above water, thus saving energy and staying below enemy radar.
		The important design principle is that the wing lift reduces the further above the surface (land or sea) the ekranoplan "flies" (see ground effect).
		These craft were originally developed by the Soviet Union as very high-speed (several hundred km/hour) military transports, and were mostly based on the shores of the Caspian Sea and Black Sea.
	www.music.us /education/E/Ekranoplan.htm (594 words)

	Russia's Ekranoplans: The Caspian Sea Monster and Other Wige Craft
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	www.bigoldbuilding.com /160626.html (331 words)

	Caspian Sea - Ask.com Web Search
		Caspian Business News WebSite - The business news site covering the economic life of Azerbaijan and other countries of the Caspian Sea region...
		Caviar Emptor: The Decline of the Caspian Sea Sturgeon
		The Caspian Sea is the largest lake on Earth by both area and volume,...
	www.ask.com /web?o=8001&pstart=&qsrc=6&l=dir&q=Caspian+Sea (283 words)

	Steve Quayle News Alerts
		For the last two years residents of coastal areas around the southern and southwestern Caspian Sea have been reporting of some amphibious creature resembling a human being.
		Iranians dubbed the creature Runan-shah or "the master of the sea and rivers." The name is partly based on stories about large shoals of fish accompanying the creature at sea.
		The Caspian Runan-shah is not the only species of underwater humans on record.
	www.stevequayle.com /News.alert/05_Unexplained/050503.Caspian.html (723 words)

	Sea monster (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-28)
		Picture taken from a [[Hetzel copy of Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Sea]] Sea monsters are mythical and legendary gigantic sea-dwelling creatures (but see also lake monsters).
		Marine monsters can take myriad forms: Sea dragons, serpents, or multi-armed beasts, slimy or scaly, often spouting jets of water.
		Hans Egede, a Danish/Norwegian missionary reported that on a voyage to Gothaab/Nuuk on the western coast of Greenland: :''[There] appeared a very terrible sea-animal, which raised itself so high above the water, that its head reached above our maintop.
	sea-monster.borgfind.com (551 words)

	Russian plane that flies on water documentary VideoSift
		Once the Caspian Sea Monster (KM) was filled with a record load of 544 tons, a record for not only for the Ekranoplan, but all flying based vehicles existing on the planet, even the famous Mira could not take such a load, yet the Caspian Sea monster did it in stormy weather!
		However from the point of view of the pilot and the air builder this was a negative effect, but it gained the attention of various inventors, especially those of speedboats, leading to famous developments of speedboats with under board wings which were also the design of Alexisy Evegniy.
		And Alexis started with the largest, a real Caspian monster, the KM was 92 meters long, with a height of 22 M and a wingspan 37 M. The underside was built like a boat, though the most of the exterior looked like that of a plane.
	www.videosift.com /story.php?id=22084 (1302 words)

	The sea monster (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-28)
		Godzilla Vs. The Sea Monster is a combination of so many things that I experienced an overload of enjoyment.
		Godzilla Vs. the Sea Monster is one of the less interesting episodes in the series.
		The Discovery Channel is producing a documentary on the sighting of a sea monster off the coast of the UK near Pembrokeshire in March.
	www.findoutit.com /q/the-sea-monster.html (1179 words)

	Prehistoric Sea Monster information (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-28)
		Prehistoric Sea Monster, on the other hand, are a totally different experience.
		No matter what kind of Prehistoric Sea Monster you are in the Prehistoric Sea Monster for you can enjoy tremendous amount of Prehistoric Sea Monster with very little time and effort compared to Prehistoric Sea Monster.To find out more about Prehistoric Sea Monster, click here.
		Sea Monster Strange Sea Animal Sovereign Of The..
	www.theseafoodlist.com /topics/sea/prehistoric-sea-monster.html (210 words)

	spacebar :: flight: the Caspian Sea Monster :: September :: 2006
		That’s the name given by U.S. intelligence to the Russian ekranoplan, a behemoth of a plane based in the Caspian Sea during the Cold War.
		It reportedly had the capacity to carry a staggering 1000 tons, and relied on the ground effect for flight.
		Thanks to Google Earth, the folks at The Register have spotted a Chinese Sea Monster.
	spacebar.blogsome.com /2006/09/28/flight-the-caspian-sea-monster (148 words)

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