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Togliatti , city, Russia

(Encyclopedia)Togliatti, city, Russia: see Tolyatti. ...

Vyatka, city, Russia

(Encyclopedia)Vyatka, city, Russia: see Kirov.

Chertoff, Michael

(Encyclopedia)Chertoff, Michael, 1953–, U.S. government official, b. Elizabeth, N.J., grad. Harvard (B.A., 1975, J.D., 1978). A lawyer, Chertoff was an assistant federal prosecutor in New York (1983–87) and New...

Viborg, alternate spelling of Vyborg, Russia

(Encyclopedia)Viborg: see Vyborg, Russia.

Daley, Richard Michael

(Encyclopedia)Daley, Richard Michael: see under Daley, Richard Joseph. ...

Daley, William Michael

(Encyclopedia)Daley, William Michael: see under Daley, Richard Joseph. ...

Pozharski, Dmitri Mikhailovich, Prince

(Encyclopedia)Pozharski, Dmitri Mikhailovich, Prince dəmēˈtrē mēkhīˈləvĭch, pəzhärˈskē [key], 1578–1642, Russian hero. During the “Time of Troubles” (1598–1613), when various pretenders vied fo...

Samara, river, Russia

(Encyclopedia)Samara səmäˈrə [key], river, c.360 mi (580 km) long, rising in the foothills of the S Urals, European Russia. It flows generally northwest, and joins the Volga River at Samara. ...

Vyatka, river, Russia

(Encyclopedia)Vyatka vyätˈkə [key], river, c.850 mi (1,370 km) long, rising in the foothills of the central Urals, E European Russia, and flowing first N, then NW past the city of Kirov, and finally SE into the ...

Young, Michael Warren

(Encyclopedia)Young, Michael Warren, 1949–, American geneticist, b. Miami, Fla., Ph.D. Univ. of Texas, Austin, 1975. Young has been on the faculty at Rockefeller Univ. since 1978, and he was also an investigator ...