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New Terminal Building Will Roberts Airport

    Luray Caverns Virginia

      Academician Vitaly Lazarevich Ginzburg

      Vitaly Lazarevich Ginzburg Academician of the Russian Academy of Sciences Nobel Prize laureate. One of the founders of the Faculty of Radiophysics of NNGU Honorary Doctor of NNGU

      Vitaly Lazarevich Ginzburg Academician of the Russian Academy of Sciences Nobel Prize laureate. One of the founders of the Faculty of Radiophysics of NNGU Honorary Doctor of NNGU

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      World-famous Russian photographer Andrei Karelin

      In this house in 1897-1906 years lived and worked world-famous photographer, artist, teacher, public figure Andrei Osipovich Karelin

      In this house in 1897-1906 years lived and worked world-famous photographer, artist, teacher, public figure Andrei Osipovich Karelin

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      • russian muse...

      Scott, Erica, Olivia, & Nathan Andersen

        Diana, Princess of Wales Memorial Fountain

        Submitted by @Ritterton.

        Submitted by @Ritterton.

          Jack Metcalf Terminal

            Sandstone Ranch

              Sandstone Ranch Under the Sea

                First Bicycle Lanes In Davis

                  Operation Children 1972

                  In our school in 1972, a search began for participants in Operation Children, organized by the partisans of the Smolensk region in the summer of 1942

                  In our school in 1972, a search began for participants in Operation Children, organized by the partisans of the Smolensk region in the summer of 1942

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                  Historic Bollard

                    Church of St John the Evangelist was here

                    On this place stood a church in the name of the Holy Apostle and Evangelist John the Theologian at the city orphanage named after Countess O.V. Kutaisova. It was built in 1903 according to the...

                    On this place stood a church in the name of the Holy Apostle and Evangelist John the Theologian at the city orphanage named after Countess O.V. Kutaisova. It was built in 1903 according to...

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                    • gorky
                    • church

                    1984 Birthplace of Eastman and Laird's Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles

                      Chuprova Olimpiada Ivanovna

                      The hero of socialist labor, primary school teacher Olimpiada Ivanovna Chuprova, worked in this school

                      The hero of socialist labor, primary school teacher Olimpiada Ivanovna Chuprova, worked in this school

                        Composer Nesterov Arkady Alexandrovich

                        In this house from 1965 to 1999 lived and worked composer Nesterov Arkady Alexandrovich Professor, People's Artist of Russia, honorary citizen of Nizhny Novgorod. 

                        In this house from 1965 to 1999 lived and worked composer Nesterov Arkady Alexandrovich Professor, People's Artist of Russia, honorary citizen of Nizhny Novgorod. 

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                        Vladimir Lenin's father

                        Ilya Nikolayevich ULYANOV worked here in the building of the Nizhny Novgorod provincial gymnasium from 1863 to 1869 as a head teacher. Anna (1864) and Alexander (1866) Ulyanovs were born in the...

                        Ilya Nikolayevich ULYANOV worked here in the building of the Nizhny Novgorod provincial gymnasium from 1863 to 1869 as a head teacher. Anna (1864) and Alexander (1866) Ulyanovs were born in the...

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                        • minin university
                        • ulyanov-lenin

                        Petrov Sergei Vitalievich

                        Guard Lieutenant Sergei Vitalievich Petrov studied at this school. He died in the line of military duty on October 18, 1989, while carrying out a special assignment from the command. For courage...

                        Guard Lieutenant Sergei Vitalievich Petrov studied at this school. He died in the line of military duty on October 18, 1989, while carrying out a special assignment from the command. For...

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                        Valsin House (CA. 1876)

                        Here Valsin Broussard, founder of what is now the City of Broussard, established his family home ca. 1876. This two-story, gallery-fronted, Anglo-American and French-style home housed the...

                        Here Valsin Broussard, founder of what is now the City of Broussard, established his family home ca. 1876. This two-story, gallery-fronted, Anglo- American and French-style home housed...

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                        • settler
                        • broussard

                        Conductor Israel Borisovich Gusman

                        In this house from 1970 to 2003 lived an outstanding conductor and musical figure People's Artist of Russia Honorary Citizen of Nizhny Novgorod region Gusman Israel Borisovich

                        In this house from 1970 to 2003 lived an outstanding conductor and musical figure People's Artist of Russia Honorary Citizen of Nizhny Novgorod region Gusman Israel Borisovich

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