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	Kursk - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Kursk (Russian: Курск; pronunciation: koorsk) is a city in Central Russia, an administrative center of Kursk Oblast.
		Kursk joined the centralized Russian state in 1508 becoming the southern border province of the state.
		A village of Prokhorovka near Kursk was the center of the Battle of Kursk during the World War II.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Kursk (207 words)

	Kommersant - Russia's Daily Online
		At the end of the 15th century Kursk was part of the Grand Duchy of Lithuania; then in 1508, it became part of the Muscovite state bordering on the Rech Pospolita [a union of the Polish and Lithuanian principalities] and the steppe frontier region.
		Kursk Region is situated in the basins of two large rivers: 78% of the region lies in the Dnieper basin and the remaining 22%, in the Don basin.
		Kursk has a rich historical past, and the 1000 years of its existence are reflected in a large number of historical and architectural monuments, most of them built between the 17th and 19th centuries.
	www.kommersant.com /tree.asp?rubric=5&node=393&doc_id=-50 (2975 words)

	Kursk Oblast - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Kursk Oblast (Курская область) is a regional subdivision of Russia.
		Its administrative center is the city of Kursk.
		Kursk Oblast is located in the Moscow Time Zone (MSK/MSD).
	www.wikipedia.org /wiki/Kursk_Province (131 words)

	КУРСКАЯ БИТВА [THE VOICE OF RUSSIA]
		Kursk is one of the oldest cities in Russia.
		In the middle of the 18th century the Kursk Fortress lost its military significance and with it the status of a fortress.
		Even though Kursk was not a front city its residents participated in both the military operations and did other patriotic services to their Motherland supplying the Russian army with weapons, food, clothes, boots and medicines.
	www.vor.ru /55/Kursk/kursk_001_eng.html (1057 words)

	Female headdresses / Traditional culture of the Russians of Siberia
		A soroka of Dankov district of Kursk province.
		A soroka of Nizhnedevitsk district of Voronezh province.
		A kokoshnik of Dmitrov district of Moscow province and a kokoshnik of Arzamas district of Nizhniy Novgorod prov.
	www.ic.omskreg.ru /~folklore/mk/golovn/index_.shtml (2634 words)

	Kursk, Kharkov, Poltava And Belgorod Holy Martyrs (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-05)
		Archimandrite Rodion, superior of the Spasov skete, Zmievsky uyezd, Kharkov province, together with the dean, Hieromonk Anastasius, the confessor, steward and treasurer of the community, were shot by a detachment led by Dybenko in 1917.
		In Poltava province, Red Army soldiers occupied the Lyubyansky Saviour-Transfiguration monastery, settled in it and began to loot and commit sacrilege.
		Protopriest Constantine Nichkevich was the superior of the church of the village of Myasoyedovo, Kursk diocese and a dean.
	www.orthodox.net /russiannm/kursk-kharkov-poltava-and-belgorod-holy-martyrs.html (4003 words)

	Kursk Root Icon of The Sign
		In the year 1383, the province of Kursk was subjected to a new invasion of Tartars.
		The city of Kursk was revived in the year 1597 at the command of Theodore Ivanovich of Moscow.
		While the icon was absent from the city of Kursk, the grace-bearing aid of the Mother of God did not forsake that city, for when in the year 1612 the Poles laid siege to Kursk, certain of the citizens beheld the Mother of God and two radiant monks above the city.
	www.holycross-hermitage.com /pages/Orthodox_Life/kursk_icon.htm (2096 words)

	Frazer, Sir James George. 1922. The Golden Bough
		Sometimes it is the women who, without stripping off their clothes, bathe in crowds on the day of St. John the Baptist, while they dip in the water a figure made of branches, grass, and herbs, which is supposed to represent the saint.
		In Kursk, a province of Southern Russia, when rain is much wanted, the women seize a passing stranger and throw him into the river, or souse him from head to foot.
		In Minahassa, a province of North Celebes, the priest bathes as a rain-charm.
	www.bartleby.com /196/pages/page70.html (574 words)

	Russian Bride Guide. Russian Cities, Kursk.
		Kursk is the oldest Russian city first pertaining to Kievan Russia, and then to Moscovy.
		Kursk, the centre of Kurskaya oblast, is situated on the Middle Russian height, on the banks of the river Seim and its tributary Tuskar 536 kms southwards from Moscow.
		The province existed up to the Soviet period and instead of it 2 oblasts were established, Belgorodskaya and Kurskaya ones.
	www.russianbrideguide.com /about_russia/cities/Kursk.shtml (468 words)

	HSS
		In other words, if the morphology of an instrument to a certain extent defines the way of playing it, then all pan-flute musics should be based on the two basic ways of interaction of the player's body with the instrument: the breathing patterns and the movement along the pipes.
		Kursk and Bryansk pan-flute traditions were reported first in 1930s by Russian folklorists Kliment Kvitka (on Kursk) and Lev Kulakovskii (on Bryansk).
		The movements employed in pan-flute playing seem to be rooted in everyday life and work of the peasants, in their walk and speech habits, and especially in certain kinds of work, like threshing, weaving, and mowing.
	www.music.ed.ac.uk /colloquia/conferences/esem/vel.html (4034 words)

	Project 949 / Oscar - Russian / Soviet Nuclear Forces
		Seismic records from the explosion onboard the Russian sub Kursk by Terry Wallace, University of Arizona - The explosion on the Kursk was approximately.25 to.75 tons.
		RUSSIA / PARLIAMENT / KURSK, Voice of America, 15 September 2000 -- The Russian official in charge of the investigation into the sinking of the nuclear submarine Kursk faced a barrage of criticism Friday as he addressed Russia's lower house of parliament, the Duma.
		Aboard Kursk, 'Submariner's Worst Nightmare'; by Steven Mufson and Kathy Sawyer, Washington Post August 15, 2000 - "Obviously something seriously is wrong, because this is a big, robust sub that was designed to be hard to sink," said John Pike of the Federation of American Scientists.
	www.fas.org /nuke/guide/russia/theater/949.htm (6452 words)

	(Vos’moe Prodolzhenie Svoda Voennykh Postanovlenii, pg. 103.)
		Table of provinces whose residents are assigned to reserve and replacement units, and of provinces for disbanding these units, recalling them back into active service, and annual training exercises.
		Provinces in which men on leave belong to the reserve and replacement units.
		(Natives of Ryazan Province are assigned to the reserve battalions of the 2nd Corps, and natives of Tula and Kaluga provinces to the reserve battalions of the 4th Infantry Corps.)
	home.comcast.net /~markconrad/1438-8.html (3436 words)

	Kursk, Kharkov, Poltava And Belgorod Holy Confessors
		Isaiah (Kushnarev), there was a meeting of the followers of Elder Stefan in the village of Dronovka, Kursk province.
		Metropolitan Sergius did not appoint a separate bishop for the "Stefanites", but he submitted their communities in Kursk province to Bishop Paulinus of Rysk, and in Kharkov province - to Bishop Constantine, writing to the latter that he should change his attitude towards the followers of Elder Stefan.
		By this time the southern part of Kursk province was divided between these two okrugs.
	www.orthodox.net /russiannm/kursk-kharkov-poltava-and-belgorod-holy-confessors.html (2897 words)

	Kursk. Girls, Women, Brides dating and marriage agency from city Kursk, Russia . Gifts and Flowers Delivery
		Kursk is the capital of Kursk region, Western European Russia, at the confluence of the Tuskor and Seim rivers.
		In the years of 1708-1727 it was a part of the Kiev province and in 1727-1779 of the Belgorod province.
		Ancient Kursk land is a part of the glorious history of the Russians.
	www.city-of-brides.com /from/Kursk.shtml (376 words)

	PDS Russia Religion News November 2000
		Under guard in a Kursk hospital, Sergei Maksachev claims that he was beaten and tortured by persons who demanded that he give evidence against his boss and who called him "Zhid-face." But this whole story is more like the new regime's taking money from the old or simply an ordinary fight.
		The Kursk incident would not have the least bit of the resonance that it received had it not been for the single "but." The recent statement by Governor Mikhailov about Rutskoy having a Jewish mother has already gotten the resonance of a wild antisemitic outburst.
		Kursk province was the first region where during the fall election campaign of 2000 the leader was changed.
	www.stetson.edu /~psteeves/relnews/0011c.html (7879 words)

	Richard E. Wright Research Reports: Weaving in Bessarabia
		The materials mostly used for carpet goods are the wool of local sheep, the 'tsushek' breed in the north and central part of Bessarabia, and the 'tsygai' breed in the south, and hemp.
		Carpet weaving is widespread throughout the province, where the Moldavians use carpets both to furnish their homes and as part of their local customs.
		Her comment as to the distinctiveness of Bessarabian carpets needs perspective; to the untrained eye this distinctiveness is by no means obvious, and there are Kursk and Tiumen rugs which are superficially similar.
	www.richardewright.com /9105_bessarabia.html (2017 words)

	Serebella Contents Kursk Province---Kurtidae (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-05)
		It uses material from the Wiktionary page "Province".
		Maritime + provinces, so called because of its coastal location.
		The region of Canada comprising the provinces of New Brunswick, Nova Scotia and Prince Edward Island (and sometimes, mistakenly, Newfoundland and Labrador).
	www.serebella.com /encyclopedia/contains-239939-239942-Kursk_Province-Kurtidae.html (79 words)

	The Wonderworking
		At the end of October 1919, when the White Russian Army was evacuating the city of Kursk, twelve monks of the monastery transferred the icon to the city of Belgorod, from which it was again transferred, first to Taganrog and Ekaterinodar, and then to Novorossiisk.
		Subsequently, the icon was transferred to the New World where it had its permanent residence first in the New Kursk Hermitage in Mahopac, N.Y., and then in the Synod's Cathedral Church of the Mother of God of the Sign in New York City, the residence of the First Hierarch of the Russian Orthodox Church Abroad.
		I was a member of the parish council and was entrusted with the duty of meeting the icon, Vladyka and the clergy upon their arrival in the city of Mulldorf (they were traveling by automobile), and accompanying them to the guest house, previously prepared.
	www.stbasilthegreat.org /kurskicon.htm (6447 words)

	Kommersant - Russia's Daily Online
		It borders on Kursk and Voronezh regions and Ukraine.
		The enormous mineral reserves of the Kursk magnetic anomaly are located here, and the region is famous for its rich fl soils and farmland.
		Topographically, it is a hilly plain with a maximum elevation of 276 in the north and extensively cut by ravines and gullies.
	www.kommersant.com /tree.asp?rubric=5&node=380&doc_id=-37 (3092 words)

	NCSJ- Home (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-05)
		Nor was it at all coincidental that the most vociferous opponents of any denouncement of the governor of the province of Kursk, Alexander Mikhailov, included members of the Communist Party faction in the Duma.
		The events in Kursk, however, are raising fears that Putin's reforms have failed or that the war on anti-Semitism is not sufficiently important in his eyes to warrant his "wasting" valuable political assets.
		The Kursk affair, which has unfolded over the past two months, began when, in a legal stratagem orchestrated by Moscow, the name of outgoing governor Alexander Rutskoy was erased at the last minute from the list of candidates for the post.
	www.ncsj.org /AuxPages/121300Haaretz.shtml (944 words)

	Talk:Nikita Khrushchev - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		The second paragraph gives his place of birth, and gives it as being in the Kursk province of Russia.
		As for Kursk being in Russia, it is in Russia today, but at these times it might as well be in Ukraine.
		There had been plenty of resettlement in the Soviet Union, and I believe the Kursk Guberniya is close to Ukraine anyway, so it's not safe to assume anything of the sort.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Talk:Nikita_Khrushchev (1382 words)

	EOL2/Velitchkina (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-05)
		These basic motor movements will be discussed in the present paper using examples of panpipe playing from the villages of the south part of Kursk province (especially, the village of Plekhovo of the Sudzha district), one of the places where the Russian panpipe tradition is preserved.
		Pan-flute music in Russia is found only in small groups of villages in two non-contiguous localities, one on the border between present-day Briansk and Kaluga provinces, the other in South Kursk province, roughly 200 to 350 miles south-west of Moscow.
		In the villages in the south of Kursk province whose panpipe performance practice is analyzed here, the name of the instrument is kugikly.
	research.umbc.edu /efhm/2/velitch/velich1.html (1979 words)

	Pravda.RU Rescue works on French chemical fertilizer factory go on
		The Kursk's missiles will be discharged in Roslyakovo (near Murmansk) in the ship-building factory's floating drydock, said Igor Spassky, chief designer of the Rubin design bureau while speaking at the opening of the International Kursk salvage operation press-centre.
		The first compartment of the Kursk nuclear submarine will not be raised from the bottom of the Barents Sea in full, general designer of the Rubin Central Design Office Igor Spassky stated on Friday.
		A new stage of the operation to raise the Kursk nuclear submarine has started in the Barents Sea - the deep divers are clearing space inside the pressure hull of the submarine under the technological openings for placing into them so-called directing baskets in which grips will be installed further on.
	english.pravda.ru /accidents/2001/09/22/15910.html (1666 words)

	Kursk State Technical University (8) (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-05)
		The purpose: study of socio-economic policy, principles, and structure of Denikin authorities administration with the example of Chernozem-region provinces..
		R&D: Socio-cultural organizations in Kursk province in 60ies of XIX c.
		Origin and activity of various citizens cultural associations in Kursk province are considered..
	db.icsti.su /rsofrf/eng/H000/SP000004393H270H000000.HTM (283 words)

	Kursk State Technical University (4) (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-05)
		until 1917 (with the example of Kursk province) is studied..
		R&D: Regional representatives in the Russian parliament (State Council and State Duma) of 1906-1917 (with the example of Kursk province)..
		The socio-economic history of provincial town is studied, in which rather young Kursk towns transformation into economical centers is reconstructed..
	db.icsti.su /rsofrf/eng/H000/SP000004393H280H000000.HTM (144 words)

	Khruschev (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-05)
		Nikita Khrushchev (1894-1971) was born in the village of Kalinovka, in Kursk Gaberniya.
		He grew up in a peasant family, where his father, Sergei, was obliged to spend more of his time, away from home, working in a coal mine in order to provide for his large family.
		Nikita Khrushchev, born April 17, 1894 in the village of Kalinovka in Kursk province, was an infamous political Russian leader.
	www.bu.edu /econ/faculty/kyn/newweb/economic_systems/NatIdentity/FSU/Russia/Khruschev/Khruschev.htm (2279 words)

	Kursk Definition / Kursk Research (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-05)
		Kursk (Russian Russian (русский язык) is the most widely spoken of the Slavic languages....
		[click for more]: Курск; pronounced as KOORSK), a city in Central Russia, an administrative center of Kursk OblastKursk Oblast (Курская область) is a regional subdivision of Russia.
		Kursk is the sixth nuclear submarine to sink since the 1960s.
	www.elresearch.com /Kursk (88 words)

	Kursk, Battle of -- Britannica Concise Encyclopedia - The online encyclopedia you can trust!
		The Battle of Kursk was the largest tank battle in history, involving some 6,000 tanks, two million troops, and 4,000 aircraft.
		The salient was a bulge in the Soviet lines that stretched 150 miles (240 km) from north to south and protruded 100 miles (160 km) westward into the German lines.
		Panel discussion of the sinking of the Kursk submarine and the ramifications for the Russian military.
	www.britannica.com /ebc/article?eu=394822 (1021 words)

	Russian Documents from Steinberg, Voices of Revolution, 1917
		Resolution from "citizen-tillers of the soil," Kursk Province, 29 June 1917.
		Resolution of workers and employees of the Bogomdarovannyi mine, Yenisei Province, to the Commission on Elections to the Constituent Assembly, 10 December 1917.
		Resolution to the Constituent Assembly from peasants, Kursk Province, 13 January 1918.
	www.yale.edu /annals/Steinberg/Steinberg_title_page.htm (2730 words)

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