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  Nikolai Kibalchich - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Nikolai Ivanovich Kibalchich (1850 April 3, 1881) was a pioneer of rocketry, a revolutionary and a terrorist.
Kibalchich sketched a hollow metal cylinder with a hole at the bottom.
Kibalchich's report was placed into the archives, where it remained until 1917.
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 Kibalchich
Kibalchich graduated from a secondary school on Sept. 19, 1871 and enrolled in the St. Petersburg Institute of Transportation Engineers.
In the wake of the attack, Kibalchich was arrested on March 17, 1881, along with Andrei Zhelyabov, Sofia Perovskaya, Timofei Mikhailov and Nikolai Rysakov.
Kibalchich was hanged on April 3, 1881, along with other conspirators of the March 1, 1881 assassination.
www.russianspaceweb.com /kibalchich.html   (192 words)

  
 Kibalchich, Nikolai Ivanovitch (1854-1881)
Kibalchich had attempted several times to kill Czar Alexander II who, ironically, had tried to introduce reforms in Russia during his reign.
Along with his accomplices, Kibalchich finally succeeded in assassinating the Czar on Mar. 13, 1881, and was himself put to death on Apr. 3, at the age of 27.
In it, he describes a means of propelling a platform by igniting gunpowder cartridges in a rocket chamber.
www.daviddarling.info /encyclopedia/K/Kibalchich.html   (266 words)

  
 The New Mexico Museum of Space History - Inductee - Nikolai I. Kibalchich   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-17)
Nikolai Kibalchich was a Soviet revolutionary and scientist who authored the world's first design of a manned rocket.
Kibalchich was born in the Ukraine region of Russia in 1853.
On march 17, 1881, Kibalchich was arrested for the assassination of tsar Alexander II.
www.spacefame.org /kibalchich.html   (217 words)

  
 Nikolai Kibalchich -- Facts, Info, and Encyclopedia article   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-17)
Kibalchich was an (A chemical substance that undergoes a rapid chemical change (with the production of gas) on being heated or struck) explosives expert with an (The discipline dealing with the art or science of applying scientific knowledge to practical problems) engineering degree from St. Peterburg who worked on early forms of rocketry.
He was arrested for possessing a piece of anti-tsarist propaganda and was sentenced to exile in (A vast Asian region of Russia; famous for long cold winters) Siberia.
The experience greatly enraged Kibalchich and upon his release he joined the radical (The overthrow of a government by those who are governed) revolutionary movement (Click link for more info and facts about Narodnaya Volya) Narodnaya Volya and put his explosives expertise to use for them.
www.absoluteastronomy.com /encyclopedia/n/ni/nikolai_kibalchich.htm   (308 words)

  
 Nikolai Khabibulin - Encyclopedia Glossary Meaning Explanation Nikolai Khabibulin   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-17)
Nikolai Khabibulin (born January 13, 1973 in Sverdlovsk, USSR, now Russia), nicknamed "the Bulin Wall", is a goaltender for the Tampa Bay Lightning.
Although the Coyotes made the playoffs each of these years, some claimed that this heavy workload led Khabibulin to be fatigued for the playoffs, contributing to the team's failure to make it to the second round of the playoffs.
After the 1998-1999, season, Nikolai became embroiled in a bitter contract dispute with the Coyotes, and ended up holding out for an entire season.
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 Moon Deep Background: Book Highlights
Eighty-odd years earlier, a 27-year-year-old nihilist named Nikolai Kibalchich was condemned to death for his part in assassinating Alexander II in 1881.
Of those inspired by Kibalchich, none would become as important as Konstantin Tsiolkovsky, a high school teacher of mathematics and physics who'd been deafened by scarlet fever as a young boy, then orphaned.
Kibalchich and Tsiolkovsky were the forebearers of this chapter's protagonist.
www.pbs.org /redfiles/moon/deep/moon_deep_book.htm   (796 words)

  
 Origins of Russian rocketry
However, the most famous proposal of this sort was made by Nikolai Kibalchich, an explosives technician from the radical antigovernment organization "Narodnaya Volya".
Kibalchich envisioned a rocket engine attached to a platform via a gymbal-like suspension, which would allow steering the craft by adjusting the direction of thrust of the engine.
Nikolai Kibalchich dreamed about rocket-propelled rocketship during his final days behind the walls of the Petropavlovskaya Fortress in St. Petersburg.
www.russianspaceweb.com /rockets_pre20th_cent.html   (1994 words)

  
 Russi celebri: Tutte le informazioni su Russi celebri su Encyclopedia.it   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-17)
Nikolay Andreyevich Andreyev (1873 - 1932), scultore, artista grafico e disegnatore di scena
Nikolai Gogol (1809 - 1852), autore, Anime Morte
Nikolai Grigoryevich Rubinstein (1835 - 1881), pianista, compositore e direttore d'orchestra
www.encyclopedia.it /r/ru/russi_celebri.html   (799 words)

  
 List of Russians   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-17)
Nikolai Leskov (1831 - 1895), storyteller, novelist, and journalist
Nikolai Grigoryevich Rubinstein (1835 - 1881), pianist, conductor and composer
Nikolai Ivanovich Lobachevsky - (1792 - 1856), mathematician
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 History of Rocketry: 18th and 19th Centuries
In 1881, Russian Nikolai Kibalchich is believed to have designed the first rocket propelled aircraft, and perhaps the first gimbaled engine.
Kibalchich had been imprisoned for designing the explosive device used to assassinate Czar Alexander II as he drove through St. Petersburg.
In his papers, which did not surface until 1918, Kibalchich suggested that the chamber could be tilted to propel the platform and steer it in any direction.
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 List of Russians - Simple English Wikipedia
Nikolay Andreyev (1873-1932), sculptor, graphic artist and stage designer
Nikolay Semyonov (1896 -1986), physicist and chemist, Nobel Prize for Chemistry
Nikolai Bukharin (1888-1938), Bolshevik party leader, Soviet statesman
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 Articles - Victor Serge   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-17)
The son of Russian Polish parents, was born in Belgium in 1890.
His father, an officer in the Imperial Guard, was a member of the Land and Liberty group and was related to Nikolai Kibalchich of the People's Will.
After the arrest of Kibalchich as a result of the assassination of Alexander II in 1881, Serge's father fled the country.
www.izeez.com /articles/Victor_Serge   (1013 words)

  
 Nikolai Kibalchich - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-17)
Nikolai Ivanovich Kibalchich (1850 – April 3, 1881) was a pioneer of rocketry, a revolutionary and a terrorist.
In 1918, Nikolai Rynin reviewed Kibalchich's ideas in magazine.
Nikolai I. Kibalchich (http://www.russianspaceweb.com/kibalchich.html) on the Russian space web
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 Yudenich Nikolai Nikolayevich: Free Encyclopedia Articles at Questia.com Online Library
Nikolai Karlovich von Meck, of the Peoples Commissariat...absence of a new batch to take their place.
The great Russian philosopher, Nikolai Berdyaev, views Bolshevism as a divine...happened to be in Vienna at the time -- Nikolai Ivanovich Bukharin, who later became...
Nikolai Bukharin, 1888-1938 Paul Popper...those responsible for the assassination, Nikolai Kibalchich, 1 a chemist and distant...grown-ups ____________________ 1 Nikolai Ivanovich Kibalchich 1854-81 was, as...
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 Nikolai Kibalchich
Nikolai Kibalchich, the son of a parish priest, was born in Chernigov in 1850.
In 1875 Kibalchich was arrested for lending a prohibited book to a peasant.
Ignatei Grinevitski was killed during the assassination, whereas Nikolai Sablin committed suicide before he could be arrested.
www.spartacus.schoolnet.co.uk /RUSkibalchich.htm   (169 words)

  
 List of Russians : List of famous Russians   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-17)
Nikolai Gogol (1809 - 1852), author, Dead Souls
Nikolai Ivanovich Bukharin, (1888 - 1938), Bolshevik Leader
Nikolay Nikolayevich Semyonov[?], physicist and chemist, Nobel Prize for Chemistry
www.factbase.info /li/list-of-famous-russians.html   (706 words)

  
 NIKOLAI   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-17)
Search the NIKOLAI Family Message Boards at Ancestry.com (if available).
Search the NIKOLAI Family Resource Center at RootsWeb.com (if available).
Find graves of people named NIKOLAI at Find-a-Grave.com (or add one that you know).
www.worldhistory.com /surname/US/N/NIKOLAI.htm   (73 words)

  
 Andrei Zhelyabov
Along with his lover, Sophia Perovskaya, he organized the assassination of the Tsar on 1st March, 1881.
Others involved in the plot included Gesia Gelfman, Nikolai Sablin, Ignatei Grinevitski, Nikolai Kibalchich, Nikolai Rysakov and Timofei Mikhailov.
, Sophia Perovskaya, Nikolai Kibalchich, Nikolai Rysakov and Timofei Mikhailov were hanged on 3rd April, 1881.
www.spartacus.schoolnet.co.uk /RUSzhelyabov.htm   (182 words)

  
 List of Russians   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-17)
For a long time Russia has been a multinational country, and many people of different nationalities contributed to its culture, to its glory, and to its sorrow.
Sometimes their formal nationality was written down at random or for political or other reasons.
Nikolay Gennadiyevich Basov (1922 - 2001), laser inventor, Nobel Prize for Physics 1964, together with Alexandr Prokhorov
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 List of Russians
They may have emigratedd or immigratedd, and thus may appear in other "Lists of...", but nevertheless their names are linked to the words "Russia", "Russian", whether with pride, with shame, or with pain.
Aleksandra Ekster (1882-1949), painter, one of the founders of Art Deco
Nikolai Przhevalsky (1839 - 1888), explorer of central and eastern Asia
www.sciencedaily.com /encyclopedia/list_of_russians   (1213 words)

  
 Sample Chapter for Marks, S.G.: How Russia Shaped the Modern World: From Art to Anti-Semitism, Ballet to Bolshevism.
Technical experts in its ranks, such as Nikolai Kibalchich--son of a priest, former engineering student, and early theoretician of jet propulsion--quickly adopted the recent discoveries of Alfred Nobel for their own ends.
The hunt for the "crowned game" finally succeeded on March 1, 1881, when Nikolai Rysakov and Ignat Hryniewicki lobbed handheld bombs at the emperor as the royal carriage passed over the Catherine Quay in the heart of St. Petersburg.
They brought back to India a manual on bombs, given them by Nikolai Safransky of the SR Party, which was reproduced around the country.
www.pupress.princeton.edu /chapters/s7346.html   (9833 words)

  
 Sample text for Library of Congress control number 2002016908
Partly stimulated by Bakunin and Nechaev, terrorism was given its specific modern forms as a portion of the next generation of Russian radicals became converts to revolutionary conspiracy.
He was arrested in 1862 for his connection to radical organizations and spent seven years at hard labor and thirteen additional years in exile in Siberia, all of which lent him the aura of a martyr.
After that Stepniak escaped abroad and settled in London, where he publicized the cause of Russian dissent by cofounding an organization to promote sympathy for the Russian "freedom fighters." He wrote a novel about the revolutionaries, Career of a Nihilist (1889), contributed to the English press, and earned celebrity as a socialist socialite.
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 Russian Visit - Moscow
The instigators of this plot, Andrei Zhelyabov, Sophia Perovskaya,
Nikolai Kibalchich, Timofei Mikhailov and Nikolai Rysakov were executed on April 3, 1881.
The person who threw the bomb, Ignnatei Grinevitski, died almost immediately from his own wounds.
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 kiev.ca - Sophia Perovskaya   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-17)
involved in the plot included Sophia Perovskaya, Gesia Gelfman, Nikolai Sablin, Ignatei...
Timofei Mikhailov, Sophia Perovskaya, Andrei Zhelyabov, Nikolai Rysakov and Timofei Mikhailo...
Stylus - Russia In the Age of Alexander II, Tolstoy and Dostoyevsky
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 Terrorism: A Marxist Perspective
One of these groups which formed in 1869-71 was the circle around Nikolai Chaykovsky (the Chaykovists).
Its Executive Committee comprised most of its active forces; among its outstanding figures were Andrei Zhelyabov, Sofia Perovskaya, Nikolai Kibalchich and Vera Figner.
Perovskaya, Zhelyabov, Kibalchich and two other terrorists were executed; others were jailed in terrible conditions (Vera Figner spent 20 years in solitary confinement in the island fortress-prison of Shlüsselburg).
www.dsp.org.au /dsp/Terrorism/Terrorism.htm   (10195 words)

  
 Milestones of space exploration in the 20th century
The work would not be published until 1972.
April: The Byloye ("The Past") magazine publishes the description of a manned rocket ship orginally proposed by Nikolai Kibalchich in 1881.
Nikolai Rynin starts the publication of a nine-volume encyclopedia entitled "Interplanetary Communications." It covers fiction literature on space, technology and astronomical topics.
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 Telling Socialism's Story
His once classic "Memoirs of a Revolutionary" has fallen far below the memory horizon.
Born in Belgium in 1891, Serge was the scion of a family of eminent Russian exiles (his uncle Nikolai Kibalchich, for instance, was a famous nineteenth-century conspirator against the tsar).
His first ideological commitment was to the proletarian anarchism that flourished in western Europe in those days, and so he became involved with a notorious group of "social bandits," the Bonnot Gang, who were mainly involved in bank robberies and shootouts with the police.
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 Humbul full record view for -- Istoriia rossiiskoi/sovetskoi kosmonavtiki
This web site, created by Aleksandr Krasnikov, deals with the history of the Soviet / Russian space exploration.
The first page contains photos of Russian and Soviet scientists and space ships designers, from Nikolai Kibalchich (executed at the age of 28 for his participance in the assassination of Alexander II) to Sergei Korolev.
By clicking on a photograph users can access information on the particular person, which focuses on the biography and the person's contributions in space exploration.
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Instead, Tesla changes the creature’s “galvanic” life energy, reducing the creature’s strength but also making the monster calmer and better able to reason problems out rather than flying into rages.
Nikolai Tesla refuses the Nobel Prize because it is offered jointly to him and his bitter and imitative rival Thomas Edison;
Nikolai Kibalchich's design for a manned rocket ship was published in Byloye ("The Past") magazine;
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