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  Sarov - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Sarov (Russian: Саро́в) is a town in Nizhny Novgorod Oblast, Russia.
The history of Sarov started in the 12th–13th centuries, when a large Mordovian settlement was found on its spot.
The town is surrounded by fences patrolled by the military.
en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Sarov   (754 words)

  
 Nuclear Cities Initiative   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
Sarov is located about 410 kilometers southeast of Moscow in the Nizhniy Novgorod oblast and about 90 miles south of the city of Nizhniy Novgorod itself.
Sarov is undergoing many of the same economic strains evident everywhere else in Russia.
Its citizens now endure debilitating underemployment or outright loss of jobs, deterioration of public facilities, and the psychological burden of having fallen from an elevated status as the place where the talents and prestige of the elite of Soviet science were fully recognized and used.
www.nnsa.doe.gov /na-20/nci/cities_sarov_bkgd.shtml   (338 words)

  
 Patron Saints Index: Saint Seraphim of Sarov
Studious as a boy, he was able to apply himself there as the monks of Sarov spent much of the day studying Scripture and the early Church writings.
In 1804 he was severely beaten by thieves, and left for dead; he dragged himself to the monastery, spent five months in recovery, and spent the rest of his life stooped and requiring a cane to walk.
From thy youth up thou hast loved Christ, O blessed Saint, and aflame with the desire to work for Him alone thou hast contended in unceasing prayer and laboured in the wilderness: and gaining by compunction of heart the love of Christ, thou hast appeared as the chosen of the Mother of God.
www.catholic-forum.com /saints/saints89.htm   (393 words)

  
 Sarov
In 1931, the asylum was closed and the monastery became a GULAG for political prisoners.
Presently, the research institute in Sarov carries on a broad range of programs in physics, such as pulsed power, laser physics, radiation effects, fiber optics, technology of new structural materials, computer simulations, inertial confinement fusion, and radiation safety and weapons production and testing.
Recently, the Russian Orthodox Church has begun annual pilgrimages to the miraculous healing springs of Sarov, but the devout who participate are only the locals since it still remains a closed city.
www.sandia.gov /ASC/russia/sarov.html   (720 words)

  
 Russia
The Sarov development program, administered by VNIIEF-Konversiya, was recognized as one of the best among regional and municipal innovation programs in a national contest organized by the Council of Federation of the Federal Assembly of the Russian Federation, State University of Management, and the Open Society Institute.
In an interview with Sarov's Gorodskoy kurer, Municipal Duma Chairman Anatoliy Amelichev reported that Sarov officials had observed a lack of visible large-scale achievements in the development of NCI, and he noted that the only NCI project to be financed and implemented was the open computing center.
She added that Sarov and Russia will be responsible for these expenses, and she estimated that NCI financial contributions make up one to ten percent of the total amount of money Russia needs to fund the restructuring of its nuclear weapons complex.
www.nti.org /db/nisprofs/russia/weafacl/warheadd/sarov.htm   (12159 words)

  
 UK-Russia Closed Nuclear Cities Partnership | Closed Cities Profiles
Sarov is a city, where the first Soviet Design Centre for Design and Manufacture of Nuclear Weapon, currently names Russian Scientific-Research Institute of Experimental Physics (VNIIEF) is located.
Sarov is located in the very South of Nizhniy Novgorod Oblast, in the borderline with Mordovia, about 150 kilometers to the south from Nizhniy Novgorod and only 360 kilometers from Moscow.
Sarov's population is about 85,000 people, with 21,500 specialists being employed by the military sector (18,000 at VNIIEF and 3,500 at Avangard), which makes 52% of the working population.
cncp.ru /eng/cities/sarov   (1765 words)

  
 Online VSUM - Sarov Virus
When the first Sarov infected program is executed, this virus will install itself memory resident at the top of system memory but below the 640K DOS boundary, not moving interrupt 12's return.
Programs infected with the Sarov virus will have a file length increase of 1,000 bytes, though this file length increase will be hidden when the virus is memory resident.
Sarov is an encrypted virus and no text strings are visible within the viral code in infected programs.
wiw.org /~meta/vsum/view.php?vir=1180   (508 words)

  
 Jobs at Intel - Russia, Sarov
Sarov has been making valuable research and development contributions since 1992 when the office operated on the contract system.
Located in Nizhniy Novgorod region, Sarov is a small, but extremely pleasant city with a population of approximately 85,000.
Sarov has a unique atmosphere and history that combines two, seemingly incompatible, fields—religion and nuclear science.
www.intel.com /jobs/Russia/sites/Sarov.htm   (449 words)

  
 Seraphim of Sarov: Important Person in Russian History - Pravda.Ru   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
At that, the key figures in the history of a country are not necessarily the authors of remarkable doings: it is enough for them to live and add sense to the course of life with their living.
As for Orthodox Russia, Reverend Seraphim of Sarov is this kind of a man. There are just few people who can stand side by side with him, and he seems to be the only man whose importance in the religious history of the Russian people was that great.
It was Reverend Seraphim of Sarov who reminded the people the main truth of Christianity lost by many people because of the outward understanding of the religion as a code of rules and moral instructions.
english.pravda.ru /society/showbiz/19-08-2003/3549-seraphim-0   (713 words)

  
 Monastic Martyrs And Confessors Of Sarov And Diveyevo   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
Monastic Martyrs And Confessors Of Sarov And Diveyevo
She walked in all weathers, winter and summer, in heat and frost, during the spring thaw and in autumn, in bast shoes that were often torn, without foot-cloths.
Blessed "Pasha of Sarov", as she was known, was listened to even by the Tsar.
www.orthodox.net /russiannm/sarov-and-diveyevo-monastic-martyrs-and-confessors.html   (6767 words)

  
 Nikolai Lugansky in Sarov, March 2001
The people of Sarov were visited for the fifth time by the remarkable pianist and laureate of international competitions, Nikolai Lugansky.
In addition to that, the people of Sarov were introduced for the first time to his divine interpretation of the music of Medtner; in the third part of the recital, he played three works from the cycle "Forgotten Melodies".
But last year in Sarov Nikolai admitted that in early childhood he tried his hand at writing music, until he understood that everything ingenious had already been written and all that remains is to interpret and to convey to the listener what is concealed in the score.
www.homestead.com /Lugansky/files/Communion.htm   (880 words)

  
 Monastic Martyrs And Confessors Of Sarov And Diveyevo 2 of 3   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
Monastic Martyrs And Confessors Of Sarov And Diveyevo 2 of 3
On the Sunday of the Pharisee and Publican, 1926, the communists came to destroy Sarov.
Hieromonk Isaac, a clairvoyant elder of Sarov, was arrested after the closure of the monastery and died in exile.
www.orthodox.net /russiannm/sarov-and-diveyevo-monastic-martyrs-and-confessors-02-of-03.html   (2945 words)

  
 Los Alamos:CCS:CCS-4: News Archive
He destroyed many of the monasteries in Sarov … He wanted to remove the bell tower, but the bell tower also housed the water supply, so it was allowed to stand.
For the celebration (of the 100th anniversary of the canonizing of St. Seraphim on July 31, 2003), Sarov is hurriedly refurbishing the St. Seraphim Monastery.
Urbatsch toured the Sarov Nuclear Weapons Museum and was interested to note that their version of Fat Man was on display.
www.ccs.lanl.gov /ccs4/news_archive.shtml   (1640 words)

  
 Life of Saints For Children - Saint Seraphim of Sarov
thou didst settle in the Monastery of Sarov.
The Life of St. Seraphim of Sarov, Russia is being presented for parents to read and share with their children.
In Sarov on July 19/August 1, 1903, he was canonized a saint and in the year of 1903 and in the year 2003 will be the One Hundred Anniversary of his holy canonization.
www.serfes.org /lives/stseraphin.htm   (1640 words)

  
 The Story of St. Seraphim of Sarov   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
Seraphim of Sarov was born in Kursk, Russia in 1759.
He joined the monastery at Sarov, Russia at 19 years old, thanks to the counsel of a holy female recluse at the Kiev Caves.
After a long, arduous time of testing at the monastery of Sarov, St. Seraphim was tonsured a monk and a deacon when he was 27 years old.
www.onearthasinheaven.com /seraphim.html   (1128 words)

  
 SarovLabs - engineering services, engineering consulting company
Sarov Laboratories is an engineering services and scientific solutions company.Our company offers a unique combination of advanced scientific expertise in solving all kinds of assigned tasks.
Among our clients are well-known companies such as Freescale, ANSYS, CD-adapco, as well as a number of government entities, such as The United States Department of Energy, LANL, ANL, LLNL.
SarovLabs project implementation is performed in the city of Sarov – (former Arzamas-16)
www.sarovlabs.com   (180 words)

  
 The Austin Chronicle Features: Crying in the Chapel: The Most Holy Theotokos Icon of New Sarov Sheds Tears of Myrrh at ...
The monastery of New Sarov was founded near Boerne in 1967, by two monks, Fathers Benedict and Vasili, who still reside in there today.
The present location of the Eastern Orthodox community was built in the spring of 1980, in a remote section of Blanco County, two miles off the main road, past several cattle guards.
The church at New Sarov, for example, has no pews, as most of the congregation stands during the mass, which runs about two hours; shoes are removed before entering the church.
www.austinchronicle.com /issues/dispatch/2001-06-22/xtra_feature.html   (1447 words)

  
 Citizen Kurchatov - Arzamas-16
He chose the small town of Sarov, 300 miles east of Moscow.
The town was known for its famous monastery, home of Saint Sarov.
When the research work was moved to Sarov, the town disappeared from the maps and was renamed Arzamas-16.
www.pbs.org /opb/citizenk/arzamas16/arzamas.html   (167 words)

  
 A Comparison: Francis of Assisi and St. Seraphim of Sarov
This is confirmed by the substantive circumstances of the unusually complex vision which was presented to Francis after he felt himself completely transformed into Jesus which is clearly a very severe state of plani, having its roots, as St Nilos says, in vainglory.
The exaggeratedness of Francis' exaltation, which was noted in the description of his vision, is revealed very boldly when compared with the majestic vision of Christ which St Seraphim of Sarov experienced while serving as a deacon on Great Thursday of Passion Week.
Presenting a few incidents from Francis' life, and then, contrasting these with incidents from the life of St Seraphim of Sarov, it will be possible to draw a final conclusion regarding the mysticism of these two ascetics.
www.orthodoxinfo.com /praxis/francis_sarov.aspx   (5687 words)

  
 Saint Seraphim of Sarov   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
aint Seraphim of Sarov was one of the greatest Russian ascetics and wonderworkers, with profound spiritual discernment.
He was accepted as a novice to the Sarov monastery.
Then Saint Seraphim began to go to a "far wilderness," which was a desolate place in a forest 5 miles away from the Sarov monastery.
www.fatheralexander.org /booklets/english/saints/seraphim_sarov.htm   (1332 words)

  
 Arzamas-16
Arzamas-16, currently Sarov, was established on April 13, 1946 as a home to the Design Bureau No. 11 (KB-11), currently the Russian Federal Nuclear Center — the All-Russian Scientific and Research Institute of Experimental Physics (VNIIEF, also known as Arzamas-16), Russia first nuclear weapons design center.
In December, 1993, the Los Alamos County Council agreed to invite Sarov to be a Sister City.
Arzamas-16 is located on the lands of the former Sarov Monastery, 75 km south-west of Arzamas in the Nizhegorod region, approximately 400 km from Moscow.
www.globalsecurity.org /wmd/world/russia/arzamas_nuc.htm   (1841 words)

  
 Music for the composer   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
This is Nikolai's fourth time in Sarov and he has not disappointed on any of his visits to the city.
The people of Sarov thanked the famous performer with their applause and flowers.
It would be desirable to remember him this way: the young pianist with a smile of contentment, poised before a magnificent grand piano, on whose sloping fl case shiver gentle pink carnations and bright red roses.
www.homestead.com /lugansky/files/Sarov_00.htm   (540 words)

  
 Sarov. Girls, Women, Brides dating and marriage agency from city Sarov, Russia . Gifts and Flowers Delivery
Sarov is a town in the south of the Nizhny Novgorod region, 200 km from Nizhny Novgorod and about 500 km southeast of Moscow.
The history of Sarov is connected with the pride of the Sarov and Diveyevo monasteries.
Life in Sarov received a new impulse in the post-Soviet era.
www.city-of-brides.com /from/Sarov.shtml   (362 words)

  
 Saint Seraphim of Sarov
The fourth Tsar was none other than (St) Nicholas II who became as white as a sheet upon reading the letter of the prophetic seer of Sarov who predicted his tragic end but also that the communist dictatorship and terror would one day fall.
It is St Seraphim’s icon of Tender-feeling and that of himself that were to become the most popular throughout the Russian communist empire, as if to maintain the people’s faith in the eventual downfall of that regime through faith in the Elder’s predictions.
St Seraphim of Sarov told his spiritual children never to despair but to come to him and tell him about their troubles.
www.unicorne.org /Orthodoxy/hiver2004/stseraphim2.htm   (1052 words)

  
 TEMPLE OF SERAPHIM OF SAROV   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
Born Prokhor Moshnin in Kursk, he entered the monastery of Sarov at the age of 19 and took the name Seraphim on becoming a monk.
Toward the end of his life he settled in the convent of Diveyevo, near Sarov, welcoming pilgrims and giving spiritual direction.
Some of his teachings and visions were recorded by a man he cured of illness, Nicholas Motovilov, in Conversations with Motovilov.
sangha.net /messengers/seraphim.htm   (136 words)

  
 Engineering Services and Engineering Consulting Company - Offises
The headquarter of the company is situated in Sarov, sales office is situated in North America (Toronto, Canada), besides, there is a number of offices for business meetings in Moscow and TechnoPark.
Scientific and engineering staff of the company’s is located in Sarov headquarter.
The total area of the office is 2000 square meters; it is equipped with modern access system, computer net, quick internet, and equipment for conducting tele- and video conferences.
www.sarovlabs.com /offices   (187 words)

  
 Shrine of the Blessed Virgin Mary
The Weeping Icon of Our Lady of New Sarov was "written" (painted) in 1983 by a Monk at an Orthodox Monastery in California.
It had been commissioned by the Monks at Blanco and was at the Monastery for two years before it began to weep on May 7, 1985.
The original of the Vladimir Icon was, according to tradition, written by Saint Luke the Evangelist.
www.geocities.com /mabeherec/shrine.html   (1144 words)

  
 St. Seraphim of Sarov   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
Like St Therese of Lisieux, he is an example of achieving sainthood without "doing lots of things".
Sarov, near Moscow, is where he became a monk at the age of 20, just in time to succumb to three years of debilitating illness.
He was ordained priest in 1793, and was noted for his practice of celebrating the Eucharist daily (which is not normal Eastern custom).
www.hullp.demon.co.uk /SacredHeart/saint/StSearaphinSarov.htm   (255 words)

  
 Los Alamos National Laboratory (LANL): Outside the gates of Sarov
A billboard sign outside the entrance to Sarov illustrates the Los Alamos/Sarov Sister City Initiative, which works in conjunction with the State Department's Open World Program.
The program was started in 1999 by the Library of Congress and authorized by Congress to increase understanding between the United States and Russia and to support Russia's efforts to strengthen its democratic reforms.
Sarov previously was known as Arzamas-16, a secret nuclear weapons research city in the former Soviet Union.
www.lanl.gov /news/index.php?fuseaction=home.story&story_id=7726   (113 words)

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