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TIKHON LUKHSKY |
| ? - 1503 |
| Wonder-worker, ascetic, founder of Svyato-Nikolo-Tikhonov monastery. |
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VASILY IVANOVICH SHUYSKY |
| 1552 - 1612 |
| Russian tsar 1606-1610. Had estate in Shuya town. secret opposition head, joined in conspiracy against Pseudo-Dmitry, suppressed Bolotnikov's peasant uprising. Died in
Polish captivity. |
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DMITRY MIKHAYLOVICH POZHARSKY |
| 1578 - 1642 |
| Prince, boyar, Russian military leader, national hero. Member of the first Zemstvo's volunteer corps in 1611. One of the leaders and commanders of the Second Zemstvo's volunteer corps
and of the Provisional Zemstvo's government. |
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FEDOR BOBOREKIN |
| ? - 1609 |
| Voevode of Kineshma town, national hero. Under his command it was defeated the detachment of
the Suzdal voevode Pleshcheyev who went over to Poles. Fell in unequal battle against
Lisovsky's Polish gentlemen defending his native Volga town. |
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AVVAKUM PETROVICH |
| 1620(1621) - 1682 |
| Head and ideologist of Russian dissidence, archpriest, writer. Leader of Yuryevets-Povolzhskaya patriarchy region. Book "Hagiography" author. 15 years spent in earthen prison. By tsar edict
was burnt. |
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Peter (Pyotr) Andreyevich Tolstoy |
| 1645 - 1729 |
| Count, Russian statesman, ambassador in Osman Empire. Secured tsarevitch Aleksey's return to
Russia. Secret office head, commerce-board president, Supreme secret council member. |
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MIKHAIL ILLARIONOVICH VORONTSOV |
| 1714 - 1767 |
| Statesman, diplomat. Member of palace revolution and Anna Leopoldovna's arrest. Vice-chancellor,
chancellor. |
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EKATERINA ROMANOVNA DASHKOVA |
| 1744 - 1810 |
| Princess. Member of palace revolution which led Ekaterina II to throne. Met with Volter, D.Didro,
A.Smith. Director of Petersburg Academy of Sciences and president of Russian Academy. |
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GENNADY IVANOVICH NEVELSKY |
| 1813 - 1876 |
| Far East explorer, admiral. Provided Sakhalin is an island. Grounded post Nikolayevsk.
(now Nikolayevsk-on-Amur). |
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FEDOR ALEKSANDROVICH BREDIKHIN |
| 1831 - 1904 |
| Astronom. academician of the Petersburg Academy of Sciences. His works cover almost all
astronomy divisions. |
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ALEKSANDR PORFILYEVICH BORODIN |
| 1833 - 1887 |
| Composer and scientist-chemist. Member of "Moguchaya Kuchka" ("Mighty Group"). One of
founders of Russian classic symphony. |
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NIKOLAY NIKOLAYEVICH BENARDOS |
| 1842 - 1905 |
| Inventor. One of the creators of electro-arc welding. |
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IVAN VLADIMIROVICH TSVETAYEV |
| 1847 - 1913 |
| Scientist. specialist in the field of ancient history. epigraphy and culture. Founder and the
first director of Fine Arts museum in Moscow. Member of Petersburg Academy of Sciences. |
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DMITRY GENNADYEVICH BURYLIN |
| 1852 - 1924 |
| Ivanovo-Voznesensk manufacturer . Maecenas and collector. Founder of Ivanovo-Voznesensk local
history and lore museum. |
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ALEKSANDR IVANOVICH KONOVALOV |
| 1875 - 1948 |
| Prominent manufacturer, leader of progressists' party and of "Progressive Block" in the 4th
State Duma. Ministry of trade and industry in the Provisional bourgeois government. |
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NIKOLAY DMITRIYEVICH KONDRATYEV |
| 1892 - 1938 |
| Scientist with world name in field of economic cycles, world market conjuncture, agrarian
economy and cooperation study. |
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YAKOV PETROVICH GARELIN |
| 1820 - 1890 |
| Undertaker, historian. Maecenas. Did much for development of Ivanovo-Voznesensk public education,
health and culture. Was the first annalist of the native town. |
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MIKHAIL VASILYEVICH FRUNZE |
| 1885 - 1925 |
| Outstanding revolutionary. Twice was sentenced to death. The first president of Ivanovo-
Voznesensk province executive committee. During the Civil war was commander of army and fronts. Chairman of Revolutionary military council, people's commissar for military and sea
deeds and at the same time - a staff head. |
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AVENIR YEVSTIGNEYEVICH NOZDRIN |
| 1862 - 1938 |
| Chairman in the First in Russia Ivanovo-Voznesensky all-town Soviet of worker' deputies.
Contributor of province newspaper "Rabochy Krai". Poet and prose writer. |
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ANDRTEY SERGEYEVICH BUBNOV |
| 1884 - 1940 |
| Revolutionary. head of political department of the Red Army. chief editor of the newspaper
"Red Star" , people's commissar of RSFSR public education. secretary of Central Committee of
RKP (b.). |
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DMITRY ANDREYEVICH FURMANOV |
| 1891 - 1926 |
| Soviet writer. Kommissar of Chapayev division. Author of books: "Chapayev", "Revolt", "Red
landing force". |
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ELENA IVANOVNA SHUMILOVA |
| 1914 - 1994 |
| Soloist of the State Academic Bolshoy Theatre, Stalin Prize Laureate. Teacher. Her name
is hewed on marble board in small hall of Moscow conservatory. |
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IVAN VASILYEVICH GOLIKOV |
| 1886 - 1937 |
| RSFSR honoured art worker. Creator of dynamically refined style of Palekh lacquer miniature. |
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ANDREY IVANOVICH BUCHSENMEISTER |
| 1845 - 1931 |
| Inventor-self-taught person. grounder of the first in Russia production of electro-coal manufac-tured articles for the most different fields of electrical engineering. Honoured member of Electricians International Society in Paris, member of amateurs society for natural sciences,
anthropology and ethnography at Moscow University. |
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ALEKSANDR MIKHAYLOVICH VASILEVSKY |
| 1895 - 1977 |
| Marshal of Soviet Union, twice Hero of Soviet Union. Chief of General Staff.
Commander of 3d Byelorussian front. Deputy Commander-in-Chief of the Soviet troups in
Far East during the war with Japan. Minister of USSR armed forces. |
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MSTISLAV VSEVOLODOVICH KELDYSH |
| 1911 - 1978 |
| Mathematician. mechanician. academician of the USSR Academy of sciences, president of the
USSR Academy of sciences, trice Hero of Socialist labour. |
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VLADIMIR GRIGORYEVICH KLYUEV |
| 1924 - 1998 |
| First secretary of Ivanovo regional committee of Communist Party who did much for deve-
lopment of industry, agriculture and social sphere of the textile region. Minister of Light
Industry. |
