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  SIMBIRSK - LoveToKnow Article on SIMBIRSK
The shallow Sviyaga rises in the Samarskaya Luka Hills and flows parallel to, the Volga, at a distance of 2 to 20 m.
At the city of Simbirsk the average temperature is 387, but the thermometer sometimes reaches 115 F., and frosts of 47 F. are not uncommon; the average rain and snowfall is only 176 in.
The Zhegulev Mountains in the S. still continuing to be a place of refuge for the criminal and the persecuted, the town of Simbirsk was founded in 1648, with a string of small forts extending to the Sura.
www.1911encyclopedia.org /S/SI/SIMBIRSK.htm   (1013 words)

  
 ninemsn Encarta - Search Results - Simbirsk
Simbirsk, formerly Ulyanovsk, city, capital of Ulyanovsk Oblast, central European Russia.
Simbirsk is a port on the Volga and a railway junction....
Kerensky was born on May 4, 1881, in Simbirsk, and educated at the University of St Petersburg.
au.encarta.msn.com /Simbirsk.html   (88 words)

  
 Ulyanovsk - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Ulyanovsk (Улья́новск, formerly Simbirsk (Симби́рск)) is a city on the Volga River in Russia, 893 km (555 mi) east from Moscow.
A frontier fort of "Simbirsk" or "Sinbirsk" was originally built in 1648-1652 on top of the hill on the Western bank of Volga, designed to protect the eastern edge of growing Russian Empire from nomadic tatars and to establish a foothold in the area.
All traces of the original wooden fort are gone, as are all churches of old Simbirsk; only a few 19th century buildings remain in the city, most notably, the houses where Lenin lived in 1870-1887.
en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Simbirsk   (459 words)

  
 Ulyanovsk - Encyclopedia, History, Geography and Biography   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
Ulyanovsk (Улья́новск, formerly Simbirsk (Симби́рск)) is a city on the Volga River in Russia.
The city, founded in 1796, was known as Simbirsk prior to 1924 when it was renamed in honor of Vladimir Ulyanov, better known as Lenin.
Simbirsk defied all of Stenka Razin's efforts to capture it.
www.arikah.net /encyclopedia/Simbirsk   (132 words)

  
 Ilya Nikolaevich Ulyanov - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Ilya Nikolayevich Ulyanov (Ульянов, Илья Николаевич in Russian) (31 July 1831 (OS 19 July), Astrakhan — 24 January 1886 (OS 12 January), Simbirsk) was a Russian public figure in the field of public education and a teacher.
In 1869, Ulyanov was appointed inspector of public schools in the Simbirsk guberniya (in 1874-1886 - their director).
In 1871, Ulyanov opened the first Chuvash school in Simbirsk, which would later be transformed into Chuvash teacher's seminary.
en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Ilya_Nikolaevich_Ulyanov   (289 words)

  
 Imperialtravel.net - Plases: Simbirsk (Uliyanovsk)
The city of Simbirsk was founded in 1648 by the command of Tzar Alexey Mikhailovich and under the leadership of Commander Bogdan Matveyevich Khitrovo.
The period of Simbirsk's settlement was also a time of growth and expansion for the Russian feudal state and of active development for the Volga river region.
The city first was given the name "Sinbirsk", but later changed to "Simbirsk." There is debate as to the origin and meaning of the name, but the greatest consensus is that it signifies "Seven Winds" referring to the strong and frequent gusts coming off of the Volga.
www.imperialtravel.net /simbirsk.shtml   (215 words)

  
 Туристическе агентство "Волга-Тур" | Welcome to Russia | ведущий ...
The magnificence of Simbirsk will be revealed before you in an interlacing of ancient and modern architecture.
The fascinating story about a history of Simbirsk - Ulyanovsk (architectural monuments, the past and the present of streets, squares and parks of the city).
Travel in sacred places of Simbirsk: the all Saints'church, Lutheran cathedral, the small Voscresenskaya church i a cemetery, the cathedral "Neopalimaya Kupina", the Voscresenskaya (Saint-German) church, the church in the name of descending of Saint Spirit on apostles and the Kirilo-Mefodievskaya church at a former Spiritual school, mosques.
www.volgatour.ru /index.php?section=7   (1590 words)

  
 Kommersant - Russia's Daily Online   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
Simbirsk was founded in 1648 as a base station on the Simbirsk-Karsun frontier defense line.
Sinbirsk (later changed to Simbirsk) was one of the cities built at the tsar's command.
The writer and historian Nikolai Karamzin was born in Simbirsk Province.
www.kommersant.com /tree.asp?rubric=5&node=420&doc_id=-76   (2268 words)

  
 Vladimir Lenin. Childhood.
In this photo taken in 1879, are the parents, three sons (Alexander, Vladimir and Dmitry) and three daughters (Anna, Maria and Olga).
Vladimir llyich Ulyanov (Lenin) was born April 10 (22), 1870 in the city of Simbirsk (now called Ulyanovsk), located on the great Russian river, the Volga.
In this exhibit hall a fragment of Vladimir's room from the Ulyanov's house in Simbirsk, where they lived from 1878 to 1887 (today this house on 58 Lenin Street is a memorial museum), is displayed.
www.stel.ru /museum/Lenin_childhood.htm   (496 words)

  
 MSN Encarta - Lenin
Lenin was born Vladimir Ilich Ulyanov in the city of Simbirsk (now Ul’yanovsk) in central European Russia.
Ilya Ulyanov was the director of public education for the province of Simbirsk during Lenin’s childhood, and his service to the state earned him the title of hereditary nobleman.
While Lenin was finishing school in Simbirsk in 1887, his older brother, Aleksandr, was arrested and executed in Saint Petersburg (then the capital of Russia) for his involvement in a conspiracy to assassinate Russian emperor Alexander III.
encarta.msn.com /encyclopedia_761562790/Lenin_Vladimir_Ilich.html   (2415 words)

  
 KAZAN - LoveToKnow Article on KAZAN   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
Marls, limestones and sandstones, of Permian or Triassic age, are the principal rocks; the Jurassic formation appears in a small part of the Tetyfishi district in the south; and Tertiary rocks stretch along the left bank of the Volga.
The Kazafi Tatars, from having lived so long amongst Russians and Finnish tribes, have lost a good many of the characteristic features of their Tatar (Mongol) ancestry, and bear now the stamp of a distinct ethnographic type.
They are found also in the neighboring governments of Vyatka, Ufa, Orenburg, Samara, Saratov, Simbirsk, Tambov and Nizhniy-Novgorod.
www.1911encyclopedia.org /K/KA/KAZAN.htm   (964 words)

  
 Online Knowledge Explorer®/GME® Article Update   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
Simbirsk, a city in eastern European Russia, is the capital of Ulyanovsk oblast (province) and has a population of about 670,700 (1999 est.).
A shipping hub, Simbirsk is a port on the Volga River, situated about 130 m (427 ft) above the river, and an important railroad junction on the line between Ufa and Moscow.
Originally the site of a Tatar village, Simbirsk was founded by Russians in 1648 as a frontier stronghold, and it soon became a trading hub for the region.
tc.grolier.com /oke/ona/ona_2001.asp?GMEYEAR=1999&FFC=F&OEMTag=VQ&DOCID=0267109-0   (199 words)

  
 Pravda.RU:Archaeological project in Ulyanovsk
According to historians, there were two unsuccessful attacks on the Simbirsk fortress: by rebels Stepan Razin and Fyodor Sheludyaka in 1670 and 1671.
By the middle of the 18th century the ramshackle fortress was destroyed as discard.
Nowadays, the regional administration, the Lenin Square and monument are situated in the place of the Simbirsk kremlin.
english.pravda.ru /region/2002/06/05/29741_.html   (178 words)

  
 The State Historical and Memorial Complex "Lenin's Hometown"   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
The Museum of Public Education in Simbirsk Province in the 1870s-1880s
The Historical and Ethnographic Complex"The Simbirsk Crafts and Trade in the late 19th and early 20th centuries"
We have restored a fragment of the Simbirsk Fortress (the tower with a picket fence) and a part of Moscovskaya Street with a cobbled pavement.
www.zapovednik.mv.ru /eng/index_eng.shtml   (196 words)

  
 Esphyr Slobodkina   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
Unlike my father, who was born in Minsk, in the heart of one of the Russian westernmost provinces, with a heavy Jewish population, my mother was born in the town of Simbirsk, the provincial capital of a region situated around the upper middle of the Volga River.
Mother was still quite unwell, so the two older children were packed off to Simbirsk for a stay with Aunt Sonia and her five children in their dacha (country house) on the banks of the Volga.
The journey itself was perfectly delightful-over the clear white waters of the Belaya River, into the menacingly dark waters of the Kama, and into the cheerfully unreliable waters of the Volga.
www.slobodkina.com /Bio.htm   (4736 words)

  
 My Home Town   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
The town of Simbirsk was established in 1648 by voevode (commander of an army, governor of a province in ancient Russia) D.V.Kihtrovo as a fortress to protect the Southern borders of the Moscow State.
1924 - renaming Simbirsk to Ulyanovsk (Simbirsk was a birthplace of Ulyanov-Lenin)
The old Simbirsk was called "the landowner of the Volga region towns" One of the first libraries in the Volga region were opened here.
members.cox.net /sanachchumak/my_home_town1.htm   (649 words)

  
 Children's Literature-bibliographies   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
In the provincial town of Simbirsk on the Volga, wealth was not a matter of great concern, for no one there was wealthy.
In this unpretentious house in a stuffy provincial town, at this table surrounded by Simbirsk's cream of respectable officialdom, that one stood and drank to a tsar whose son would be the last tsar Russia was ever to know.
However, Principal Kerensky of the Simbirsk High School gave him a glowing recommendation, and upon the strength of this, and of his father's respected name, he was allowed to enter.
www.marxists.org /subject/art/literature/children/texts/baker/lenin/part1.html   (17937 words)

  
 SparkNotes: Vladimir Lenin: Lenin's Youth
The man who would come to be known as Lenin was born Vladimir Ilyich Ulyanov on April 22, 1870, in the Russian city of Simbirsk, which lay on the great River Volga.
Like many revolutionaries, Lenin was born into relative prosperity: his father, Ilya Nikolayevich Ulyanov, was a university-educated civil servant, working as a government inspector of schools in the service of the Tsar, while his mother Maria was the daughter of a wealthy German doctor.
He enrolled as a student at the university at Kazan, a large city upriver from Simbirsk, but he quickly became involved in subversive activity, and was expelled in December 1887 for taking part in student protests.
www.sparknotes.com /biography/lenin/section1.html   (766 words)

  
 Union of Councils for Soviet Jews: Instead of a Synagogue— the Home of the Former Town Governor of Simbirsk   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
Since 1994, the Jewish community has been negotiating with regional and city authorities about the return to Jewish ownership of at least one of the three preserved buildings of the city's synagogue.
At the beginning of May, the leadership of the region made a "compromise" decision and recommended that the mayor of the city offer to the Jewish community a different building in exchange for the historical site.
The city administration is prepared to offer to the community the home of the former Town Governor of Simbirsk.
www.fsumonitor.com /stories/061899Rtrans.shtml   (286 words)

  
 History   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
ULYANOVSK (former SIMBIRSK) was founded in 1648 as a fortress on a high bank of the river Volga and was a witness of peasants' wars under the leadership of STEPAN RAZIN (1670-71y.) and EMELIAN PUGACHEV (1773-74y.) For years it was a typical provincial town with poorly developed economy, industries and conservative views.
Simbirsk's a native town of two russian political leaders who's changed the history of the whole Russia in the XX-th century: - A.F.Kerenski and V.I.Lenin (see information about V.I.Lenin(Ulyanov) and A. Kerenski), also of historian N.Karamzin, writers I.Goncharov, D.Minaev, D.Davydov.
In 1924, after Lenin's death Simbirsk was named ULYANOVSK.
www.arrowweb.com /Techniform/history.htm   (155 words)

  
 Simbirsk - rFind.net   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
Svenska wikipedia har inte någon artikel om "Simbirsk" ännu.
Du kan också söka efter Simbirsk i andra artiklar på svenska wikipedia.
Född 22 april 1870 i Simbirsk, Ryssland som Vladimir Il'itj Uljanov.
www.rfind.net /info/Simbirsk   (104 words)

  
 Climate of Trust 2003 - Bay Area Council for Jewish Rescue and Renewal   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
They had heard of the Climate of Trust program through our work in Kazan and traveled 14 hours to Moscow to meet with the Climate of Trust team to ask if there was any way possible for a Climate of Trust program to be conducted in Ulyanovsk.
It is a riverside port located on the banks of the Volga and Sviaga rivers and is situated at the intersection of the Moscow, Kazan, Ufa, and Saratov railway lines.
An example of this rise in anti-Semitism is the formation of the Greek Orthodox newspaper in Ulyanovsk, "Pravaslavnei Simbirsk." The co-founders of the newspaper are involved in the administration of the Ulyanovskaya Oblast and the Simbiskaya Greek Orthodox Operate.
www.bacjrr.org /news/ulyanovsk.htm   (999 words)

  
 Encyclopedia: Simbirsk
1796, was known as Simbirsk prior to 1924 was a leap year starting on Tuesday (link will take you to calendar).
Events January January 7 - Great fire in London harbour January 8 - Heavy blizzards in England January 10 - British submarine L-34 sinks in the English Channel - 43 dead.
Simbirsk defied all of Stepan (Stenka) Timofeyevich Razin (Степан (Стенька) Тимофеевич Разин in Russian) (1630 - 6.6(16).1671) was a Cossack leader who led a major uprising against the...
www.nationmaster.com /encyclopedia/Simbirsk   (556 words)

  
 The Schoolmistress and Other Stories - STORY VII
Semyon, an old man of sixty, lean and toothless, but broad shouldered and still healthy-looking, was drunk; he would have gone in to sleep long before, but he had a bottle in his pocket and he was afraid that the fellows in the hut would ask him for vodka.
The Tatar was ill and weary, and wrapping himself up in his rags was describing how nice it was in the Simbirsk province, and what a beautiful and clever wife he had left behind at home.
Of course he was at home in the Simbirsk province, and he had only to call his wife by name for her to answer; and in the next room was his mother.
www.worldwideschool.org /library/books/lit/drama/TheSchoolmistressandOtherStories/chap13.html   (3189 words)

  
 The Life and Work of V.I. Lenin: 1870-1890   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
Vladimir Ilyich Ulyanov (Lenin), born in Simbirsk (now Ulyanovak).
Lenin's elder brother, Alexander Ilyich Ulyanov, is arrested for participating in an attempt on the life of Alexander III.
Lenin graduates Simbirsk Gymnasium, winning a Gold Medal.
www.marxists.org /archive/lenin/works/lifework/worklife/1890.htm   (315 words)

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