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  Nikolskoye, Kamchatka Oblast - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Nikolskoye (Russian: Нико́льское) is a village (selo) in Kamchatka Oblast, Russia, located on Bering Island in the Komandorski Islands.
It is the administrative center of Aleutsky District of Kamchatka Oblast.
Nikolskoye was founded in 1826 by Aleut (Unangan) settlers from Atka Island in the Aleutian Islands.
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The Nikolskoye village (Bering Island, founded in 1826) and Preobrazhenskoye village (Mednyi Island) are the largest settlements on the Commander Islands.
More than twenty wooden houses were built by the Gutchinson Company in Nikolskoye village in the second half of the 18th century.
Attempts are made to preserve and recover traditional Aleut handicrafts (stone and bone carving, manufacture of original clothing, samples of canoes, and weavings of grass).
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 Russian Rural Villages Decline - JRL 7-14-03
Nikolskoye is 300 kilometers south of Moscow in once-thriving farm country.
The three villagers left in Nikolskoye say people started leaving when the nearby collective farm fell into disarray in the late 1980s and broke up soon after.
Not far from Nikolskoye, Aleksandr Sergeev is the director of a small farm that was once part of a bustling collective.
www.cdi.org /russia/johnson/7246-17.cfm   (684 words)

  
 Russian Rural Population Decline - Johnson's Russia List 5-10-03
Nikolskoye is only 180 miles south of Moscow, but it feels like another world, another century.
There are no telephones, no sounds of traffic; only one man and his chickens, which run freely in abandoned houses and barns.
Mr Afanasyev, 49, an educated man and a former electrician, left Moscow after his father died four years ago and returned to Nikolskoye to dedicate himself to the upkeep of the family home, a tiny brick bungalow.
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 Kamchatka tourism and visitors guide for the Kamchatka Peninsula
The village of Nikolskoye on Bering Island is home to about 700 year round residents, many of whom are descendents of Aleut people.
The Commander Islands are served by weekly flights by small planes from Petropavlovsk-Kamchatsky to Nikolskoye, departing and returning to the peninsula on Mondays.
It is also better if travelers’ visas list Nikolskoye as one of the destinations on their visa.
www.kamchatkatourism.com /protected-commander.htm   (491 words)

  
 Kamchatka: Bering Island
To this end, in the village of Nikolskoye, on Bering Island, the remaining Aleutians have established two dance and folklore collectives: Unangan and Chiyan.
Today in Nikolskoye, some 600 to 800 people live there, roughly 300 of which call themselves "Aleuts." Only about a dozen older Aleuts still speak the Aleutian language, with varying degrees of proficiency.
In 1990, the first meeting between Aleuts living in Alaska and those on Bering Island was held in Petropavlovsk, the capital of Kamchatka.
www.pbs.org /edens/kamchatka/bering_2.html   (893 words)

  
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"Politics is a treacherous thing," Grigory Kuzmich, an unemployed resident in the village of Nikolskoye, told this reporter.
It seems that the Nikolskoye villagers were hoist with their own petard, having hounded out the only private farmer.
Most people, much like Kuzmich of Nikolskoye, curse those who have caused trouble for them: the government, reformers, and their own agro-firm.
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 Information about the Komandorsky Islands Reserve.
From time to time the clouds separate and the sun appears and with it a scrap of blue sky, but not for long.
From Nikolskoye we made several trips to various parts of Bering Island which stretches from northwest to southeast and is 98 kilometers long and 15-20 kilometers wide.
Its maximum height is twenty meters, and its broad, flat top is overgrown with various grain-bearing plants and thickly populated with birds - puffins and fulmars.
www.travelkamchatka.com /komandorsky.htm   (1174 words)

  
 411 Unbounded Wildlife of the Commander Islands
Stay in Nikolskoye to be acquainted with the life style of Aleutians, indigenous people of Kamchatka.
Spend a day exploring the Bay, visit to the grave of the famous sailor and discoverer of Kamchatka - Vitus Bering and part of his team who were buried here.
The remains of their expedition are still found in the places where the crew had spent nine harsh months Return to Nikolskoye village.
www.kamchatkatracks.com /tours/t411.htm   (570 words)

  
 The St. Petersburg Times - News - Starovoitova Honored by New Monument
Petersburg residents in a somber mood at the Nikolskoye cemetery on Saturday.
State Duma deputy Galina Staro voi to va, who was gunned down two years ago by unknown assassins, was honored with a monument unveiled at her grave in Nikolskoye cemetery last Saturday.
The unveiling ceremony drew hundreds of supporters of the former Du ma deputy, who was one of Russia's most visible and outspoken female politicians.
www.sptimes.ru /index.php?action_id=2&story_id=12986   (587 words)

  
 Komandorski Islands - The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition - HighBeam Research   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-23)
Their inhabitants, Russians and Aleuts, are engaged in fishing, hunting, and whaling.
The largest village is Nikolskoye on Bering Island.
Our archive contains millions of documents from thousands of sources and goes back over 23 years.
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 Family Happiness (iii.iii)
His mother’s death was a great sorrow to my husband; he said that he found it painful to go on living at Nikolskoye.
Most of those three years we spent in town: I went only once to Nikolskoye for two months; and the third year we went abroad and spent the summer at Baden.
They had once been even higher at Nikolskoye, when my happiness was in myself and came from the feeling that I deserved to be happy, and from the anticipation of still greater happiness to come.
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In the central part of Nikolskoye Settlement there was a burial service organized, afterwards all interested to attend the burial procedure in the Commander’sBay were transported there by «Krechet» Company helicopters.
In 1825 17 Aleuts from Attu Island with their families were transported to Commanders, Bering Island, by «Finlandia» brig to harvest paltry according to the order of General Office of Russian Colonies in America situated in Novo-Arkhangelsk (Sitka).
In 1826 Nikolskoye Settlement has been founded as a result of one more transportation of Aleuts and Creoles from Attu and Atka Islands.
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 Zegrahm Expeditions - Reports From The Field:Realm of the Russian Bear
Perhaps it is the instinctive response of man, the land animal, welcoming a brief intrusion of earth in the vast, overwhelming expanse of sea
Once this was the first line of defense and intelligence on the border between two great but mutually suspicious superpowers; now it is almost the farthest point one can imagine from the center of Russian administration in Moscow.
Until a few years ago this was a closed ‘city,’ and even Russians could not visit Nikolskoye, as Bering Island had become a largely military post.
www.zeco.com /travel-reports/dayreports.asp?id=97&itid=1023   (1025 words)

  
 The State Hermitage Museum: Hermitage News
Though part of their paintings have been lost, a sizable collection put together by researchers will now be displayed at the museum.
Fresco fragments come from three places — the Churches of St. George in the fortress of Staraya Ladoga, Assumption of Theotokos in the Assumption Monastery and St. Nicholas in Nikolskoye.
Frescos from the Church of St. George were laid into foundation when the entire composition of ancient mural paintings was reconstructed.
www.hermitagemuseum.org /html_En/11/b2003/hm11_4_120.html   (347 words)

  
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The Nikolskoye village (Bering Island, founded in 1826) and Preobrazhenskoye village (Medniy Island) are the largest settlements on the Commander Islands.
More than twenty wooden houses were built by the Hutchinson Company (USA) in Nikolskoye village in the second half of the 18th century.
On the Bering Islands (Commander Bay) are the most famous memorial complex of the graves Vitus Bering and some other participants of his crew.
home.comcast.net /~mishkabear/island/booklet.htm   (3757 words)

  
 Alaska Wilderness, Ecotourism, & Cultural Trip Planning Information. Alaska Wilderness Recreation & Tourism Association ...
The territory of the Aleut and Alutiiq stretches from Prince William Sound to the end of the Aleutian Islands.
There are also over 300 Aleuts in Nikolskoye on Bering Island, Russia.
Linguists estimate that the Aleut language separated from the earlier Eskimo languages 4,000 years ago.
www.awrta.org /index.cfm?section=native&page=Information&viewpost=2&ContentId=422   (1038 words)

  
 Sitnews -Stories in the News - Ketchikan, Alaska - News, Features, Opinion Polls
Along with leaders from indigenous Chukchis, Intelmens, Koryaks and Aleuts, the delegation will meet representatives from the local government of Nikolskoye, the largest Aleut community in Russia.
Located in the Commander Islands at the far end of the Aleutian Archipelago, Nikolskoye is where Vitus Bering ended his ill-fated voyage to Alaska in 1741.
In the 1820s, the Russian-American Company brought Aleut hunters to the Commanders to hunt sea mammals.
www.sitnews.org /0302news/032902_kamchatka.html   (388 words)

  
 Family Happiness (iii.iv)
The house at Nikolskoye, so long unheated and uninhabited, came to life again; but much of the past was dead beyond recall.
as the house at Nikolskoye was under repair, we went to live at my old home at Pokrovskoye.
The old house was unchanged— the veranda, the folding table and the piano in the sunny drawing room, and my old bedroom with its white curtains and the dreams of my girlhood which I seemed to have left behind me there.
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 Nikolskoye, Russia (European)
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 St.Petersburg Photo Gallery. The Alexander Nevsky Lavra.
The Holy Trinity Cathedral completed one of the oldest city ensembles.
Most part of the territory is taken up by the Metropolitant Garden and the cemeteries: the Lazarevskoye (18th-century Necropolis), Tikhvinskoye (Necropolis of the Men of Art) and Nikolskoye (founded in 1861) cemeteries.
Many outstanding Russian men of culture, statesmen, military and public leaders were buried here.
www.visitrussia.com /guide/gallery-spb-lavra.htm   (433 words)

  
 The NOVY JERUSALIM History, Architecture and Art Museum in Istra
In late 1920s the Museum became rather famous and authoritative.
At the turn of the 1930s several estates as "Nikolskoye - Uryupino", "Dubrovitsy", "Tsaritsyno" were closed and their collections were passed to the Museum in Voskresensk.
At the same time the Museum received works of art from the closed churches and monasteries of Moscow Region.
www.museum.ru /MscReg/e2_hist.htm   (710 words)

  
 Московский Центр Карнеги - Публикации - Документы - All Dressed Up and No One ...
Petersburg's Parliamentary Race Is Heated, Prominent and Met With Apathy 
Chic and formidable in a fl astrakhan fur jacket, Irina Khakamada surveyed the sad-eyed crowd at Nikolskoye Cemetery.
They gathered there last month to mourn the city's best-known democratic politician, five years after she was gunned down -- as well as to mourn the decline of the democracy that Galina Starovoitova fought to build.
www.carnegie.ru /ru/print/69200-print.htm   (686 words)

  
 Alaska Division of Trade and Development: Russian Far East
The North Slope Borough even donated generators to the village of New Chaplino.
Unalaska/Dutch Harbor and Homer, Alaska, have sent aid to the Kamchatka city of Yelizovo and the village of Nikolskoye on Bering Island.
Unalaska paid for fuel sufficient to provide to needy families and public facilities on Nikolskoye for a year free of charge.
www.gov.state.ak.us /trade/2003/tad/russia/russia.htm   (5038 words)

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