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	Britain.tv Wikipedia - Volokolamsk
		Volokolamsk (Russian: Ð’Ð¾Ð»Ð¾ÐºÐ¾Ð»Ð°ÌÐ¼ÑÐº) is the administrative center of Volokolamsky District of Moscow Oblast, Russia.
		Volokolamsk is located 129 km northwest of Moscow on the Gorodenka River, not far from its confluence with the Lama River.
		It was in 1462, when Volokolamsk was given by Ivan III to his younger brother, that the town became the seat of a full-scale appanage principality.
	www.britain.tv /wikipedia.php?title=Volokolamsk (455 words)

	Guardian \| Metropolitan Pitirim
		All the time, his titular see was at Volokolamsk, a small town west of Moscow with a once-great monastery, which Stalin had destroyed before the Nazis devastated the region during the war.
		The focus of Metropolitan Pitirim's activity was not in Volokolamsk but in Moscow itself, for the church publishing house was based at the city's Novodevichi monastery (the actual printing was done on state presses).
		After 1989, when the devastated monastery of Volokolamsk, founded by St Joseph in the 15th century, was returned to the church, Pitirim oversaw the major rebuilding programme that restored its departed glory.
	www.guardian.co.uk /print/0,3858,4799487-103684,00.html (611 words)

	[No title] (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
		In the year 1588 the Volokolamsk Icon was dedicated atop the gate in the church at the south gates of the Josepho-Volotsky monastery in honour of the Meeting of the Vladimir Icon of the MostHoly Mother of God (Comm.
		At the end of the XVII Century, when a church of the same name was built in Moscow at Staraya Basmanna, the atop the gate church of Joseph of Volotsk was re-dedicated in the name of the holy Apostles Peter and Paul.
		The Volokolamsk Icon was transferred to its proper place on the iconostas of the new cathedral Uspensky church of the Josepho-Volotsky monastery.
	cs-people.bu.edu /butta1/martyrs/orthodox.cn/divenbog/MARCH/03-MARCH.DOC (2329 words)

	Patron Saints Index: Saint Joseph of Volokolamsk
		Founded the monastery at Volokolamsk in 1479, and served as its abbot.
		Met Saint Nilus of Sora at a Council at Moscow in 1503 to discuss the church reforms each had put forth; Joseph's ideas won out, and helped changed the direction of the Church.
		Know this, brethren: do not creep out of the church before the dismissal prayer, for he who exits from the divine chant or converses or whispers has been seduced by demons, as the Divine Scriptures bear witness.
	www.catholic-forum.com /saints/saintjb3.htm (146 words)

	Saint Luke Orthodox Church - Saints - Saints by Day - January - 1st
		In Volokolamsk at the time the prince was the pious brother of GreatPrince Ivan III, Boris Vasil'evich.
		The Uspensk Volokolamsk monastery became from the very beginning a bulwark of Orthodoxy in the struggle with the heresy.
		Sainted Job, a student of the Volokolamsk tonsured Saint German of Kazan, was a great admirer of the Monk Joseph and was author of the service to him, which was entered into the Menaion.
	www.stlukeorthodox.com /html/saints/october/18th.cfm (4395 words)

	Union of Councils for Soviet Jews: Russian Government Newspaper Renews Attack on Jehovah's Witnesses
		At that time, not far from the village of Kuzminskoe the body of a forty-year-old man was found in the woods, tied by his hands to a pine tree.
		People recall the incident in the Teriaevo settlement where they are upset by the acts of a group of sectarians led by the married couple Svetlana and Alexander L. They drew into sectarianism not only their own family, including four children, but also dozens of friends and acquaintances.
		In order that we may not be accused of lacking proof we cite the conclusion of the religious studies group of the Institute of the Development of Personality of the Russian Academy of Education.
	www.fsumonitor.com /stories/020601Russ3.shtml (1254 words)

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		The threat of exit on Moscow from the south was increase.
		To the north of Volokolamsk down to Volga reservuare defended 3rd Cavalry Corps of the general Dovator, arrived in operative submission of 16th army on October 13, when has came in Volokolamsk area from encirclement.
		Germans have pressed 30th and 5th Soviet Armies, bypassing Volokolamsk from the north and the south, have hung above flanks of 16th Army and October 27, was grasped city.
	www.serpukhov.su /dima/war/eng/emova.htm (970 words)

	PIPES: CONTROVERSY OVER LANDHOLDINS
		Volokolamsk operated on communal principles, which permitted the monks no private property: all the possessions of the abbey were institutionally owned.
		Volokolamsk had property and yet it was not corrupt.
		Joseph's innovations showed that it was possible to combine ownership of land with the ascetic habits demanded by the church, that wealth did not necessarily lead to the abdication of moral responsibilities, as the Transvolga Elders were charging.
	www.stetson.edu /~psteeves/classes/pipeslandholding.html (2267 words)

	Staritsa (Starica), Tver region, Russia
		Volokolamsk is frequently mentioned in connection with the German offensive in the fall of 1941.
		Neglect reins in and around Stepurino, and connoisseurs of decay are advised are invited for a slow and thoughtful drive through this "zone".
		Istra and New Jerusalem, Klin, Tver, Volokolamsk, Yaropolets, Staritsa, Stepurino, Bortenyevo, Rzhev, Torzhok, Vyshny Volochek, Kashin, Valday, Ostashkov, Staraya Russa, Novgorod...
	www.staritsa.info /volokolamsk.htm (418 words)

	OCA - Lives of all saints commemorated on this day
		Saint Joseph of Volokolamsk, in the world John Sanin, was born on November 14, 1440 (1439 according to another source) in the village of Yazvisch-Pokrov, not far from the city of Volokolamsk.
		Local celebration of St Joseph was established at the Volokolamsk monastery in December of 1578, on the hundred year anniversary of the founding of the monastery.
		St Job, a disciple of the Volokolamsk saint, tonsured St Germanus of Kazan, and was a great admirer of St Joseph and was author of the Service to him, which was included in the MENAION.
	www.oca.org /FSLivesAllSaints.asp?SID=4&M=10&D=18 (4951 words)

	Dionisius - Biocrawler (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
		The figures on his icons are famously elongated, hands and feets are dimunitive, and the faces serene and peaceful.
		Among his many rich and notable patrons, Joseph of Volokolamsk alone commissioned him to paint more than 80 icons, primarily for the Joseph-Volokolamsk and Pavel-Obnorsk cloisters.
		The most comprehensive and the best preserved work of Dionisy is the monumental fresco painting of the Virgin Nativity Cathedral of the Ferapontov Monastery (1495-96).
	www.biocrawler.com /encyclopedia/Dionisy (310 words)

	Joseph-Volokolamsk Monastery - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Joseph Volokolamsk Monastery (Иосифо-Волоколамский монастырь, Волоцкий Успенский Иосифов монастырь in Russian) is a male monastery, located 17 km northeast of Volokolamsk, Moscow Oblast.
		In the 1560s, Joseph Volokolamsk Monastery was the second largest landowner in Russia, with more than 30,000 desyatinas of arable lands in its possession.
		During the Time of Troubles, Joseph Volokolamsk Monastery was actively engaged in helping the government of Basil IV in his struggle against Ivan Bolotnikov's rebels.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Joseph-Volokolamsk_Monastery (517 words)

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		In area of Volokolamsk use right-flank formations of 16th Army of Rokosovsky, a tank division and cavalry which is in area of Klin.
		Because preparation of counterattacks passed in the limited terms, time for the organization of interaction between units inside group did not suffice, artillery and aviation preparation was not carried out.
		The German impact to the northwest of Moscow was supported by offensive to the south of Volokolamsk highway begun November 19 and not stopping for one day.
	www.serpukhov.su /dima/war/eng/eklin.htm (1558 words)

	Volokolamsk Highway by Aleksandr Bek - from SovLit.com
		Volokolamsk Highway by Aleksandr Bek - from SovLit.com
		He informs Baurjan that his battalion is to join the rest of the Soviet troops which are withdrawing the 20 miles back to Volokolamsk, the key point that blocks the highway to Moscow.
		After mentioning the approximate number of enemy casualties during the whole period of the battles around Volokolamsk (about 15,000 killed and wounded), Panfilov says that although this figure was not big in itself, it was a very telling blow to the German army that was pushing toward the Volokolamsk Highway.
	www.sovlit.com /volokolamsk (4790 words)

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		The seven year old boy John was given over for education to the pious and enlightened starets [elder] of the Volokolamsk Kresto-Vozdvizhensk [Exaltation of the Cross] monastery, Arsenii.
		But, having returned to Borovsk monastery at the wish of the prince, the Monk Joseph encountered anew the former staunch resistance of the brethren to change from their customary ustav-rule as hermits.
		Another student of Saints German and Varsonophii was likewise the companion and successor to Patriarch Job -- the Patriarch PriestMartyr Ermogen (+1612, commemorated 17 February), a spiritual leader of the Russian people in the struggle for liberation under the Polish incursion.
	www.missionstclare.com /english/people/oct18o.html (4354 words)

	Sky Link-Moscow will equip Moscow suburban schools with "emergency buttons"
		Vyacheslav Karabanov, the head of Volokolamsk region, provided the following comment on the goal of this campaign: "The regional authorities' intent to upgrade the security system of schools situated near Moscow was the major motive of turning to Sky Link.
		At the solemn ceremony Valery Guzeev, Sky Link-Moscow Deputy General Director, awarded the representatives of Volokolamsk authorities with the certificate for installed equipment and said: "We are very pleased to carry out this campaign on the first day of the school year, which is so exciting for the students and their parents.
		We are confident that the technological capability of our network and equipment will help provide the security of the students and teachers, and, in addition, will serve as their first point of contact with the advanced technologies".
	www.sistel.ru /index.php?s=92&n=500 (450 words)

	OCA - Lives of all saints commemorated on this day
		But after two and a half years Archimandrite Herman left the Staritsa monastery, leaving its direction to the hieromonk Job (June 19), who afterwards was to become the first Patriarch of Moscow, and was an ascetic and sufferer for the Russian Land.
		The Council censured the heretic Bashkin and resolved to send him for correction to St Herman at the Volokolamsk monastery, since St Herman was known for his holy life and zeal for the faith in Christ.
		St Gurias, the former igumen of Volokolamsk monastery, was chosen as archbishop.
	www.oca.org /FSLivesAllSaints.asp?SID=4&M=11&D=6 (1454 words)

	Staritsa (Starica), Tver region, Russia
		....Istra, New Jerusalem, Klin, Tver, Volokolamsk, Staritsa, Stepurino, Rzhev, Torzhok,
		Volokolamsk is now one hour behind and Staritsa is one hour ahead.
		Note the sophisticated architecture of the church and imagine what life was like when every village had a public building of that scale.
	www.staritsa.info /stepurino.htm (275 words)

	Joseph Volotsky - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Joseph Volotsky came from a family of a rich votchinnik and owner of the Yazvishche village in Volokolamsk Principality.
		Initially, Joseph Volotsky was connected with the appanage princes of Volokolamsk (brothers of Ivan III) and defended the right of local ecclesiastical and secular feudals to oppose the authority of the grand prince.
		Later in his life, he severed his relations with the opposition and took the side of the grand prince, sealing this alliance by transferring Joseph-Volokolamsk Monastery under the patronage of Vasili III in 1507.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Josephinians (657 words)

	Lenin: 14. ASSIGNMENTS TO SECRETARY
		Request a report from the Supreme Economic Council on the electrification of Yaropolets Volost (or Yaropolets District), Volokolamsk Uyezd, Moscow Gubernia.
		A general meeting of the Electrotechnical Co-operative Society on November 18 was attended by representatives from 14 villages of Volokolamsk Uyezd, Yaropolets Volost.
		[2] The report on the electrification of Yaropolets Volost, Volokolamsk Uyezd, Moscow Gubernia, was received by Lenin on November 29, 1920.
	www.marxists.org /archive/lenin/works/1920/nov/20b.htm (257 words)

	CPJ News Alert 2005
		New York, April 25, 2005—Police in the Russian city of Volokolamsk detained Irina Petrushova, editor of the Kazakh opposition weekly Respublika Delovoye Obozreniye, for two days at the request of Kazakh authorities, she told the Committee to Protect Journalists shortly after her release today.
		Petrushova, a 2002 winner of CPJ's International Press Freedom Award, said Kazakh authorities had sought to extradite her on alleged tax violations, but the prosecutor- general's office in Moscow determined she was being held improperly.
		But when Petrushova arrived at the passport office on Saturday, she said, four police officers took her to the Interior Ministry's temporary detention unit, where she was searched and held for the next two days.
	www.cpj.org /news/2005/Russia25apr05na.html (574 words)

	OBITUARY: Metropolitan Pitirim - Gateway To Russia - News From Russia (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
		DISTINGUISHED WITH one of the longest beards in the Russian Orthodox Church, Metropolitan Pitirim of Volokolamsk and Yuryev was one of the three senior bishops of the Moscow Patriarchate during the later Soviet period, heading all its publishing activity for three decades.
		During this time, as an enlisted KGB agent with the code name "Abbot", he was widely known as a reliable conformist who faithfully followed the Soviet authorities' political aims.
		In May 1963, he was consecrated Bishop of Volokolamsk, vicar of the Moscow Diocese.
	www.gateway2russia.com /st/art_168971.php (812 words)

	Metropolitan Pitirim of Volokolamsk and Yuriev Passed Away in the Lord
		Metropolitan Pitirim of Volokolamsk and Yuriev passed away in the Lord on November 4, 2003, at the age of 78.
		In 1971 he was elevated to the rank of archbishop and in 1986 he was made Metropolitan of Volokolamsk and Yuriev.
		Metropolitan Pitirim of Volokolamsk and Yuriev died in Moscow after a prolonged and serious disease.
	www.orthodoxresearchinstitute.org /resources/obituaries/obit_pitirim_nechaev_metr_volokolamsk.htm (774 words)

	GameSpot:Video Games PC Xbox 360 PS3 Wii PSP DS PS2 PlayStation 2 GameCube GBA PlayStation 3
		As winter sets in, the Germans launch their final attack on Moscow, driving up the Volokolamsk Highway.
		In the mission And Not to Die, you must delay the 4th Panzer Division as it hurries toward the village northeast of your opening position.
		However, in Push 'Em Back, Way Back, you must continue to press the attack against the 4th Panzer Division, which is entrenched in several surrounding villages.
	www.gamespot.com /features/panzer_sg/chp4_3.3_2.html (333 words)

	The Cry of the New Martyrs — Galina Zelenskaya (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
		Keston reports that in November, 1986, Orthodox Christian Galina Zelenskaya was removed from her post as deputy director of research at the New Jerusalem museum not far from Moscow, where she had worked for 20 years.
		The order of dismissal gives the reason as "an unauthorized showing of slides on the history of the Joseph of Volokolamsk monastery and the unauthorized invitation of museum staff from Kiev to the conference." A local official, however, openly admitted that the real reason for her dismissal was her religious convictions.
		He claimed that she had organized religious services at the tomb of Patriarch Nikon in tge Resurrection Cathedral of the former New Jerusalem monastery, and was the instigator of petitions protesting the "barbaric" methods used by the museum staff in.
	www.roca.org /OA/70/70h.htm (185 words)

	Beast Blitz: Mitterman at Volokolamsk - Message Board - ezboard.com
		With great relief, General Mitterman left the swamps and rivers of Novogorod and almost welcomed the snowy fields of Volokolamsk...
		It was useful in the siege of Volokolamsk.
		I had to take battlefield replacements, only restored it to 8, so the Pz IVC stayed around Volokolamsk supporting the siege by the aux units, the BruckenPioniere and the 15cm NbWf41 Artillery.
	p090.ezboard.com /fjpspanzersfrm27.showMessage?topicID=67.topic (1422 words)

	Staritsa (Starica), Tver region, Russia
		Easy access to Dmitrov, the Convent of Joseph of Volokolamsk, the City of Volokolamsk itself, Istra, and New Jerusalem.
		Same applies to other cities between Moscow and Staritsa: Istra, Volokolamsk, Rzhev, [Zubtsov], and of course Tver.
		Turn right at the "Volokolamsk" sign, drive a block or two, and turn right again.
	www.staritsa.info /klin.htm (360 words)

	Is it possible to explain the mechanochemical reaction with the help of cooperative excitations of the high-energy ...
		Is it possible to explain the mechanochemical reaction with the help of cooperative excitations of the high-energy quanta on the interacting faces of the microcrystallites?
		Entuziastov str., 19-11, 143620, Volokolamsk, Moscow Region, Russia.
		As the result of the probabilistic consideration of the idea of the cooperative excitation of the high-energy quanta in the mechanochemical reaction it is shown, that such a mechanism is possible, despite with a low probability.
	mywebpage.netscape.com /TipikinDmitriy/Exciton.htm (1627 words)

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