Portal talk:Russia/DYK

Liberation from serfdom for recruited serfs and their unborn children fact
"Did you know that by Peter the Great's reform of the Russian military, the recruits, mostly called from the enserfed peasanrty for 25 years (virtually for life), were liberated from serf status? Even more little known fact is that, the recruit's children born after his recruitment were also liberated!"
 * This little known fact about the military reform I found in Britannica needs to be mentioned in several articles such as History of Russia, Russian serfdom, etc. -Irpen 06:12, Jun 8, 2005 (UTC)
 * Good find. I usually get my information from the DYK Template on Wikipedia, then post it here. Zscout370 (Sound Off) 14:56, 8 Jun 2005 (UTC)
 * I just created a new Garrison school article with this info. Maybe, after the proofread, we can submit the fact with the ref to this article to WP:DYK? What do you think? -Irpen 06:24, Jun 9, 2005 (UTC)
 * Sure. Zscout370 (Sound Off) 14:03, 9 Jun 2005 (UTC)
 * Submitted to DYK at Template_talk:Did_you_know. We'll see whether it will get through. Cheers, -Irpen 17:53, Jun 9, 2005 (UTC)

Older version of DYK list



 * ...that Emperor Nicholas II of Russia was billed 3,250 rubles for the Rosebud egg, the first Fabergé egg he presented to his empress consort Alexandra Fyodorovna?
 * ...that the phrase of Soviet sniper Roza Shanina "I will return after the battle" would be paraphrased in a book title?
 * ...that Vostochny is the largest eastern port of Russia. The port has year round navigation and has a deep water port, suitable for handling large tonnage ships?
 * ...that after Peter the Great's reform of the Russian military, serf recruits, and their children born after the recruitment, were liberated, with the boys being sent to specially created Garrison schools?
 * ... that the predecessor to the Imperial Russian Navy first sailed during the Second Azov campaign of 1696 under Peter the Great?




 * ... that the Soviet Red Army's T-10 heavy tank was originally named IS-10 for Iosif Stalin (Joseph Stalin), but renamed in the climate of de-Stalinization, after Stalin's death in 1953?
 * ... the fictional spy Stirlitz was brought up in Gorokhovets "near the Volga River" according to the Soviet TV series Seventeen Instants of Spring? Plans have been discussed to erect a monument to him in downtown Gorokhovets?
 * ... that Nikolai Bugaev, father of Andrei Bely was the founder the Moscow Mathematical Society? Through Bugaev's star student, Dmitri Egorov, many famous Russian mathematicians, such as Andrei Kolmogorov and Nikolai Luzin, directly "descend" from Bugaev-- and thus from the Prince of Mathematicians, Carl Friedrich Gauss?
 * ... that Josef Gusikov invented a xylophone made from wood and straw and became a European sensation playing it in the 1830s?
 * ...that Kirill Eskov named a genus from the Linyphiidae spider family discovered by him in 1988 after Marsh Kikimora, a female spirit in Slavic mythology.

Putting above stuff here until I get a chance to reformat with an automated/randomized version. Cirt (talk) 08:49, 21 March 2008 (UTC)

Archived hooks from prior manual version

 * Portal:Russia/Did You Know Articles (Check against WP:Recent additions). Cirt (talk) 05:44, 3 August 2008 (UTC)

To add to list

 * April 23, 2006: Microdistrict
 * January 9, 2007: Tsiolkovsky State Museum of the History of Cosmonautics
 * January 10, 2007: Kira Kirillovna of Russia
 * April 12, 2007: All Saints' Church, Daresbury
 * April 25, 2007: Encyclopedia of Domestic Animation
 * April 28, 2007: The Bronze Horseman
 * June 2, 2007: ASNOVA

These were previously listed at WP:RUSSIA, will check against WP:Recent additions and the main list and add into rotation here. Cirt (talk) 22:03, 15 August 2008 (UTC)
 * Note

Some others
Here are some other hooks, will have to check against WP:Recent additions to see if these historically actually appeared at T:DYK, and then add them into rotation. Cirt (talk) 08:18, 2 October 2008 (UTC)