Wikipedia:WikiProject Russia/New article announcements/August 2005

August 16-31, 2005
barbatus 15:10, August 27, 2005 (UTC) Should we merge the categories, make one  a subcategory  of  the other  or keep  both? abakharev 03:57, 20 August 2005 (UTC)
 * Nerl River. KNewman 21:48, August 31, 2005 (UTC)
 * Steppe-tundra by anon. What should we do with it - merge? redirect? --Ghirlandajo 14:04, 1 September 2005 (UTC)
 * Nikolay Bogolyubov by User:XausBits --Ghirlandajo--
 * Pokrov and the Intercession Church on the Nerl by Arseni --Ghirlandajo 13:16, 31 August 2005 (UTC)
 * Epifany Slavinetsky by Ghirlandajo 07:22, 31 August 2005 (UTC)
 * Anatoliy Antonovich Yatskov bio of Case Officer. nobs 03:34, 31 August 2005 (UTC)
 * KOLCHINSKY and KOLCHINSKY. KOLCHYNSKYY, KOLCHYNSKY. KOLCHINSKI. by User:Kolchinsky the second currently under VfD. Should the first one go the same way? abakharev 01:17, 31 August 2005 (UTC)
 * The Russian Knight stab by anon, needs wikifying (or maybe merging to somewhere) abakharev 01:06, 31 August 2005 (UTC)
 * I put it under VfD instead. mikka (t) 00:46, 1 September 2005 (UTC)
 * FAPSI stub by me, had a storm that caused internet/phone/cable TV outage yesterday (how these guys make storms is beyond me) I will finish the article this evening. abakharev 23:45, 30 August 2005 (UTC)
 * International Lenin School (23:21, 5 August 2005 86.135.61.65). mikka (t) 19:21, 30 August 2005 (UTC)
 * Eldar Ryazanov by myself. --Explendido Rocha 17:10, 30 August 2005 (UTC)
 * Sestra River, could someone look up the Finnish name for the Sestra River in the Leningrad Oblast? I simply transliterated it from Russian. KNewman 17:13, August 30, 2005 (UTC)
 * It's Rajajoki in Finnish. Here is one of the links. --barbatus 17:32, August 30, 2005 (UTC)
 * Coat of Arms of the Soviet Union by myself. Reviews thanked. --Explendido Rocha 16:12, 30 August 2005 (UTC)
 * Paisius of Neamt and Demetrius of Rostov.--Ghirlandajo 12:38, 30 August 2005 (UTC)
 * Pierre Troubetzkoy stub by User:Bloomfield abakharev 04:34, 30 August 2005 (UTC)
 * Sokol space suit good article by User:Catsmeat maybe made it a feature article?
 * Communist University of the Toilers of the East by User:Palmiro abakharev 04:23, 30 August 2005 (UTC)
 * Dymshits-Kuznetsov hijacking affair quality article and Eduard Kuznetsov stub by User:Humus sapiens abakharev 04:12, 30 August 2005 (UTC)
 * Marshrutka August 10 by 216.239.84.212. mikka (t) 02:22, 30 August 2005 (UTC)
 * Why is the picture one of a cargo van?&mdash;Ëzhiki (erinaceus amurensis) 03:09, August 30, 2005 (UTC)
 * It is fitted with seats, and it is a luxury(compared to PAZ, used by hungry students) taxi, but the head of this truck is the same used for cargo transit.–Gnomz007(?) 03:39, August 30, 2005 (UTC)(Runglish?)
 * Perhaps it would make sense to clarify this in the caption? Otherwise the impression is that Russians use cargo vans as taxis (to hide from bears roaming the streets? :)).  I understand, of course, that this is probably the only available image that's somewhat relevant to the topic of the article.&mdash;Ëzhiki (erinaceus amurensis) 12:27, August 30, 2005 (UTC)
 * When I saw this picture, I laughed hard, for I used to be an everyday "marshrutka" user. People would surely assume that Russians don't like windows and prefer "air-conditioned" cargo vans. KNewman 12:34, August 30, 2005 (UTC)
 * Well, PAZ is with windows, add it, and remove Gazelle until it gets the model with windows, would be fair to PAZ –Gnomz007(?) 19:32, August 30, 2005 (UTC)
 * See talk for further discussion.&mdash;Ëzhiki (erinaceus amurensis) 12:22, August 31, 2005 (UTC)
 * Pitiful entries on Georgi Daneliya, Alexander Fadeyev, and Leonid Leonov hastily unstubbed or expanded. --Ghirlandajo 19:10, 29 August 2005 (UTC)
 * KI section added to Chronology of Soviet secret police agencies.  nobs 16:24, 29 August 2005 (UTC)
 * Kushva, Alexander Grin (some time ago but not announced here) by me. Trapolator 15:13, 29 August 2005 (UTC)
 * Started Ukrainization. Please expand. --Ghirlandajo 14:58, 29 August 2005 (UTC)
 * Donkey's Tail stub by me abakharev 09:29, 29 August 2005 (UTC)
 * Leonid Mironovich Leonidov stub by User:Trapolator abakharev 07:00, 29 August 2005 (UTC)
 * Boris Bykov by User:Nobs01 abakharev 04:29, 29 August 2005 (UTC)
 * Cossack saber by User:Henrin13 abakharev 04:26, 29 August 2005 (UTC)
 * Alexander Borisovich Kourakin by User:Vitiekee abakharev 03:12, 29 August 2005 (UTC)
 * Optina Monastery by me. Not sure about the name. --Ghirlandajo 20:41, 28 August 2005 (UTC)
 * Started Alexander Sokurov but know very little on the subject. Still a sub-stub. --Ghirlandajo 20:09, 28 August 2005 (UTC)
 * Field of Mars (Saint Petersburg) by me. Stub for the present. Brandmeister 19:51, 28 August 2005 (UTC)
 * Category:Russian Federation films by anon. Hopefully will be deleted as we have Category:Russian films and Category:Russian language films already. --Ghirlandajo 13:07, 28 August 2005 (UTC)
 * Sergei Gurenko by User:monkbell abakharev 10:26, 28 August 2005 (UTC)
 * Kazan governorate by User:Untifler abakharev 07:48, 28 August 2005 (UTC)
 * Shouldn't it be Kazan guberniya? --Ghirlandajo 08:10, 28 August 2005 (UTC)
 * I think it would be better, or at least have a redirect from Kazan gubernia. Unless the author has something against it. abakharev 09:08, 28 August 2005 (UTC)
 * My guess is that the author used the terminology adopted in the History of the administrative division of Russia series of articles. That's just a wild guess, although I myself prefer to use "governorate" over "guberniya".  Unlike the "oblast"–"province" and "krai"–"territory" cases, the translation of "guberniya" as "governorate" is fairly straightforward, so I do not see a need to annoy readers who do not know Russian with yet another word they would not understand and would have to look up separately.  Great article, by the way!&mdash;Ëzhiki (erinaceus amurensis) 20:01, August 28, 2005 (UTC)
 * Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn completely rewritten by an anon, because the previous version has egregorious mistakes and libels. Looks like a cut and paste job, but google can not find the source. Would not be surprised if the author is a professional Solzhenitsyn-ist or even somebody from AS circle. Currently it looks like an iconography, a couple of critical to Solzenitsyn sentences would help the balance. abakharev 07:12, 28 August 2005 (UTC)
 * Robert Falk also unstubbed Jack of Diamonds (artists) abakharev 00:05, 28 August 2005 (UTC)
 * Motorins, boy this was a tough one. KNewman 20:19, August 27, 2005 (UTC)
 * Zilant. Non-stub, but needs better translation. --Untifler 12:54, 27 August 2005 (UTC)
 * Mikhail Yangel and Severnye Vrata by anon. abakharev 09:35, 27 August 2005 (UTC)
 * I downloaded an MP3 sample of a song by this Severnye Vrata band... This is a typical example of подвальная самодеятельность. The article is an advertisement and probably written by a member or a friend of the band. I'd vote for its deletion. KNewman 15:10, August 27, 2005 (UTC)
 * List of Russian painters stub by an anon. Do we really need it? Category:Russian painters works pretty good for me abakharev 09:33, 27 August 2005 (UTC)
 * Absolutely unnecessary overlapping with the List of painters and the List of Russians, where I have no time to add new entries. Another example of wiki listmania. --Ghirlandajo 12:01, 27 August 2005 (UTC)
 * List of Russian flags by User:Astrotrain needs fact checking and extension. E.g. why the tricolor is said to be in use from 1966 is beyond my understanding abakharev 09:23, 27 August 2005 (UTC)
 * Probably a typo for 1666 or 1699. I added a military jack to the list. --Ghirlandajo 12:01, 27 August 2005 (UTC)
 * Nadezhda Ulanovsky by User:Nobs01 abakharev 09:17, 27 August 2005 (UTC)
 * Yulia Barsukova by User:CheeseLover abakharev 09:14, 27 August 2005 (UTC)
 * Ipatiev House by anon. Need wikification abakharev 09:12, 27 August 2005 (UTC)
 * Anton Antipov by User:Crimson621 abakharev
 * C'mon, guys, this is too much. What if I had a 6-pack and was once on TV or in a magazine, would you write an article on me? Я терпел Ксению Собчак :)... KNewman 13:02, August 27, 2005 (UTC)
 * Um ... do they have articles on porn-stars here, too? Just curious ... YES!!! Isn't that somethin'? --
 * Submitted for delete. Even if the person is notable, content of the article is pure promotion. Size of biceps has nothing to do with an encyclopedia entry. Picture is irrelevant as well. DEng 23:31, 28 August 2005 (UTC)
 * Andrey Chokhov, this guy deserves an article. Needs proofreading and proper categorization a.s.a.p. KNewman 04:32, August 27, 2005 (UTC)
 * Alexander Povetkin DEng 01:33, 27 August 2005 (UTC)
 * Dmitriyev-Lgovsky, a stub. Expanded Sestroretsk a bit. KNewman 21:55, August 26, 2005 (UTC)
 * Vitalij Mikhajlovich Abalakov DEng 20:46, 26 August 2005 (UTC)
 * Should be moved to the correct spelling. --Ghirlandajo 20:49, 26 August 2005 (UTC)
 * Done. Please replace Unicode entities in Russian spelling with proper accent marks (I run into significant problems on my computers when I try entering them myself).—Ëzhiki (erinaceus amurensis) 01:23, August 27, 2005 (UTC)
 * Sloboda. mikka (t) 19:10, 26 August 2005 (UTC)
 * Ivan Bersen-Beklemishev. KNewman 18:23, August 26, 2005 (UTC)
 * Created Nikodim Kondakov. --barbatus 18:18, August 26, 2005 (UTC)
 * Thanks. I understand your preoccupation with Odessa natives, but may I ask you to adapt Buslaev article from the EB 1911? As for Byzantists, we needs the articles on Uspensky and Vasiliev now. --Ghirlandajo 19:59, 26 August 2005 (UTC)
 * Hey, I've just started! I'm a novice ;) ... And Kondakov is not a native of Odessa, just lived there. As for other historians, gimme some time. Поспешность нужна при ловле блох. Thanks again, --barbatus 21:28, August 26, 2005 (UTC)
 * Created Patriarshy Ponds. No stub, but can be expanded. Brandmeister 16:32, 26 August 2005 (UTC)
 * Anatolii Lamanov by User:Proto abakharev 12:45, 26 August 2005 (UTC)
 * Anna Chakvetadze by User:NWill; Andrei Markov (hockey player) and The Great Russian Race by anon. The last one need to be wikified and fact checked (does such a Vladivostok to Saint Persburg race exist?) abakharev
 * The rece does exist 5000 Google hits abakharev
 * Georgy Tovstonogov and Lev Dodin by me abakharev 10:44, 26 August 2005 (UTC)
 * Created a number of articles on the greatest of modern Russian actors: Oleg Yankovsky, Mikhail Ulyanov, Aleksey Batalov, Alice Friendlich, Oleg Tabakov, Alla Demidova, Innokenty Smoktunovsky, Yuri Solomin, Mikhail Zharov, and unstubbed Yevgeny Leonov --Ghirlandajo
 * Chernaya River by anon - Mixed Chernaya River in Ukraine and Chernaya River in Saint Petersburg. Need to sort it out abakharev 03:56, 26 August 2005 (UTC)
 * Sorted it out abakharev 04:30, 26 August 2005 (UTC)
 * Nikolai Smolenski by anon Need to be wikified abakharev 03:56, 26 August 2005 (UTC)
 * Actually it needs to be deleted for copyvio –Gnomz007(?) 04:02, August 26, 2005 (UTC)
 * Done abakharev 04:38, 26 August 2005 (UTC)
 * Nikita Alexeev by [User:Croat Canuck]] abakharev 03:09, 26 August 2005 (UTC)
 * Slavianstvo restarted by anon. --Ghirlandajo 19:27, 25 August 2005 (UTC)
 * Should we VfD it? Or R/M to Slavic Paganism? --Irpen 19:32, August 25, 2005 (UTC)
 * Koleda/Kolyada expanded by Ghirlandajo and myself. --Irpen 18:15, August 25, 2005 (UTC)
 * Just started Korochun and Kostroma (tradition) --Ghirlandajo 17:13, 25 August 2005 (UTC)
 * Tsimlyansk Reservoir started by User:Darwinek. --Ghirlandajo
 * Just started Starets. Needs expanding. -- IvanP 14:43, 25 August 2005 (UTC)
 * Thanks a lot. I replaced this article on the Portal's to-do list with "yurodivyi". --Ghirlandajo 15:02, 25 August 2005 (UTC)
 * Actiually we already have Yurodivy, and I am making a redirect there. mikka (t) 17:27, 25 August 2005 (UTC)
 * Just spotted Bujan, Zmey, and Ivan Kupala. Need to be unstubbed. --Ghirlandajo 14:28, 25 August 2005 (UTC)
 * Illustrated and categorized the first two, still pitiful though. --Ghirlandajo 15:12, 25 August 2005 (UTC)
 * Again. Ghirla, today you seem to forget wikipedia's translit conventions. Yurodivy. Now Buyan. mikka (t) 17:37, 25 August 2005 (UTC)
 * Actually, Bujan article on the island existed since June 6, while Buyan was started by me today. --Ghirlandajo 17:57, 25 August 2005 (UTC)
 * New version of Ivan Bilibin, new Category:Russian folklore --Ghirlandajo 13:48, 25 August 2005 (UTC)
 * Nicolay Valuev by User:DEng abakharev 11:31, 25 August 2005 (UTC)
 * Sergei Ivanovich Mosin and Alexander Ilyin by anon in desperate need of wikifying abakharev 11:10, 25 August 2005 (UTC)
 * I have cleaned Ilyin abakharev 11:31, 25 August 2005 (UTC)
 * Thanks. I would vote for the article's deletion, nevertheless. --Ghirlandajo 19:52, 25 August 2005 (UTC)
 * Konstantin Somov and Ostromir Gospel started by Ghirlandajo 09:02, 25 August 2005 (UTC)
 * Ataman. mikka (t) 06:33, 25 August 2005 (UTC)
 * The Bitch Wars, January 2005, User:Arminius.
 * Maria Kisseleva and Evgenia Linetskaya by anon abakharev 05:44, 25 August 2005 (UTC)
 * Cherubina de Gabriak is on the WP:DYK of the main page abakharev 00:25, 25 August 2005 (UTC)
 * An amazing idea Polish-Lithuanian-Muscovite Commonwealth that was apparently considered. Created by user:Piotrus. Hopefully won't be a magnet for wars. While at it, also check Polish-Lithuanian-Ruthenian Commonwealth and eewnb. --Irpen 22:43, August 24, 2005 (UTC)
 * No wars, but Polish POV should be eliminated. --Ghirlandajo 09:02, 25 August 2005 (UTC)
 * Started stubbish article on Konstantin Batyushkov. --Ghirlandajo 22:20, 24 August 2005 (UTC)
 * Administrative divisions of Krasnodar Krai bu User:Ezhiki abakharev 18:49, 24 August 2005 (UTC)
 * Nicholas de Stael by User:Paul Barlow abakharev 18:46, 24 August 2005 (UTC)
 * People's Artist of the USSR by User:Explendido Rocha abakharev 18:40, 24 August 2005 (UTC)
 * I unstubbed it. --Ghirlandajo 20:49, 24 August 2005 (UTC)
 * Alexander Kuprin, Mikhail Artsybashev, Mikhail Kuzmin - three embarrassing literary figures from the Silver Age. Please improve. --Ghirlandajo 16:47, 24 August 2005 (UTC)
 * What do you mean by "embarrassing"? KNewman 17:57, August 24, 2005 (UTC)
 * These are "brothel novelists", per Dmitry Mirsky. --Ghirlandajo 20:49, 24 August 2005 (UTC)
 * Vatamman. Should be merged into Ataman, with more etymology. mikka (t) 14:54, 24 August 2005 (UTC)
 * Vladimir Arsenyev by User:Dersus. Needs to be edited properly. --Ghirlandajo 14:23, 24 August 2005 (UTC)
 * Kudeyar started. --Ghirlandajo 10:37, 24 August 2005 (UTC)
 * tiny new stub Kondraty Fyodorovich Ryleyev –Gnomz007(?) 02:29, August 24, 2005 (UTC)
 * Galina Kulakova by User:Sam Vimes --Ghirlandajo
 * Started stubs on Mikhail Kheraskov, Alexander Sumarokov, Macarius Bulgakov, Nikolay Turgenev, Vasily Radlov, Mikhail Chernyayev, Dmitry Merezhkovsky, Nikolay Dukhonin, Nikolay Chkheidze, Nikolay Akimov, Anatoly Kuznetsov, and Igor Moiseyev - all prompted by EB 2004 missing articles. --Ghirlandajo 22:55, 23 August 2005 (UTC)
 * Retouched/created articles on three elderly gentlemen - Igor Moiseyev, Boris Efimov, and Georgiy Zhzhonov (a tricky name!) --Ghirlandajo 22:55, 23 August 2005 (UTC)
 * M. Ageyev by anon. Probably should be reworked and moved to The Novel with Cocain. --Ghirlandajo 10:23, 23 August 2005 (UTC)
 * Created Cocain Romance from M. Ageyev and Envy (novel) from Yury Olesha --Ghirlandajo 20:49, 24 August 2005 (UTC)
 * Just spotted Yuri Nikulin, Kristina Orbakaite, and List of people who have beaten Garry Kasparov in chess --Ghirlandajo 12:27, 23 August 2005 (UTC)
 * Faina Ranevskaya by ISasha --Ghirlandajo
 * The Sleeping Beauty (ballet) by User:Arthur Oon --Ghirlandajo
 * Yakov Protazanov by Ghirlandajo 08:24, 23 August 2005 (UTC)
 * Samuil Marshak Serge?i? Makovsky pitiful stubs–Gnomz007(?) 03:53, 23 August 2005 (UTC)
 * Leningrad Zoo by User:Newsreporter stub abakharev 00:23, 23 August 2005 (UTC)
 * Fyodor Vasilyevich Gladkov by User:Xlation needs Bio abakharev 00:08, 23 August 2005 (UTC)
 * Kuleshov Effect by User:Potemkin100 need Categories abakharev 00:08, 23 August 2005 (UTC)
 * Should be merged with Kuleshov experiment. --Ghirlandajo
 * Languages of Russia, List of languages of Russia and List of official languages in Russia by User:Punkmorten abakharev 23:59, 22 August 2005 (UTC)
 * Koliyivschyna, Trudoviks and Russia tower stubs by somebody abakharev 23:46, 22 August 2005 (UTC)
 * Cherubina de Gabriak by me abakharev 15:41, 22 August 2005 (UTC)
 * I have proposed my Cherubina de Gabriak article into WP:DYK, see Template talk:Did you know abakharev 03:10, 23 August 2005 (UTC)
 * Yury Grigorovich. --Ghirlandajo 14:47, 22 August 2005 (UTC)
 * Category:Natives of Saint Petersburg should be listed for deletion. --Ghirlandajo 13:26, 22 August 2005 (UTC)
 * Gvardeisk and Znamensk, created stubs. KNewman 11:10, August 22, 2005 (UTC)
 * Expanded a bit. --Ghirlandajo 13:26, 22 August 2005 (UTC)
 * Category:Russian and Soviet theatre directors and revision of its entries by Ghirlandajo 07:34, 22 August 2005 (UTC)
 * Russian Desman (aka Vykhukhol), Valenki, Berdan rifle and Papakha by User:Cyberodin abakharev 01:01, 22 August 2005 (UTC)
 * Ella Karachkova and "Rus"(SpetzNaz unit) by somebody abakharev both need categorization, the later probably in need of renaming 00:50, 22 August 2005 (UTC)
 * Stubs on Olga Chekhova, Ivan Mozzhukhin, Vera Kholodnaya, Nikolay Okhlopkov by Ghirlandajo 22:28, 21 August 2005 (UTC)
 * A slew of stubs on the greatest of Russian stage actors: Fyodor Volkov, Ivan Dmitrievsky, Avdotia Istomina, Vasily Karatygin, Pavel Mochalov, Mikhail Shchepkin, Prov Sadovsky, Maria Yermolova, Alexander Yuzhin, Olga Knipper, Alla Tarasova, Igor Ilyinsky, Faina Ranevskaya - many are part of the missing articles project. --Ghirlandajo 21:37, 21 August 2005 (UTC)
 * Brother-2 and Brother(Russian) by User:TheAssassin abakharev 14:07, 21 August 2005 (UTC)
 * Grigori Kozintsev by User:Explendido Rocha. --Ghirlandajo
 * Smolenskaya (Filyovskaya) and Aleksandrovsky Sad by Camerafriend abakharev 13:58, 21 August 2005 (UTC)
 * Stepan Krasheninnikov by User:Chamdarae abakharev 13:58, 21 August 2005 (UTC)
 * Easy USSR need wikifiyng by somebody abakharev 13:58, 21 August 2005 (UTC)
 * Adapted Nikolai Rezanov from EB 1911. This EB is fun. What about the passage about his being "entertained night and day by the gay Californians in San Francisco" ;)--Ghirlandajo 11:43, 21 August 2005 (UTC)
 * Nikolai Gumilev by me. Almost straight translation from Russian Wikipedia. Currently dry and boring, would appreciate copyedits and additional info abakharev 11:32, 21 August 2005 (UTC)
 * OK, I retouched it and added more data. --Ghirlandajo 15:18, 21 August 2005 (UTC)
 * Thanks a lot! We need to put some data on Gumilev/Voloshin/Dmitrieva/De Gabriac affair. I would probably create De Gabriac article (this evening) and refer to it from both Gumilev and Voloshin. abakharev 23:40, 21 August 2005 (UTC)
 * Someone started Category:Siberian towns. Its only entry is a town in the Urals, which sorely needs attention. --Ghirlandajo 11:43, 21 August 2005 (UTC)
 * Urban myths related to Catherine II of Russia (new name and expanded content). --Irpen 06:09, August 21, 2005 (UTC)
 * New version of Boris Pasternak. --Ghirlandajo 11:43, 21 August 2005 (UTC)
 * Nikolai Ivanovich von Koksharov, random pick from 1911. Needs proofreading. Why was he "von"? Were his works written in German? Some names in the articles are badly scanned, couldn't find who those guys were. KNewman 22:41, August 20, 2005 (UTC)
 * Yes, they also have Konstantin Petrovich Von Kaufman and Nicolai Petrovich de Rezanov... Moved the article to Nikolay Koksharov. --Ghirlandajo
 * Sol-Iletsk and Kolpino, just random picks from 1911 Encyclopedia. Please, join the project at WikiProject Missing encyclopedic articles, if you're running out of articles on Russia :). KNewman 18:20, August 20, 2005 (UTC)
 * Palekh miniature, looks like I'm on a roll with the Russian folk handicrafts :). Pictures and proofreading are appreciated. KNewman 15:40, August 20, 2005 (UTC)
 * Nagant M1895 and Nagan should be merged. KNewman 12:53, August 20, 2005 (UTC)
 * Yakov Dzhugashvili by User:Zscout370 I am surprized it was created so lately abakharev 09:53, 20 August 2005 (UTC)
 * Petrovka settlement and Kriove Ozero (Maybe Krivoe Ozero?)  by User:Dbachmann abakharev 09:49, 20 August 2005 (UTC)
 * Igor Ansoff by somebody, wikified and extende by me abakharev 09:49, 20 August 2005 (UTC)
 * Budenovka, Brigada and Gurov by somebody abakharev 06:36, 20 August 2005 (UTC)
 * Sergey Fyodorovich Leontiev (vice-president of Transnistria) by User:Sarcelles abakharev 05:53, 20 August 2005 (UTC)
 * Abakan Avia by User:ardfern abakharev 05:50, 20 August 2005 (UTC)
 * The White Guard (Bulgakov's novel) and Kosovorotka by somebody abakharev 05:48, 20 August 2005 (UTC)
 * Russian famine of 1921 by User:Pmanderson abakharev 05:29, 20 August 2005 (UTC)
 * Josef Klasinkova by somebody abakharev 05:29, 20 August 2005 (UTC)
 * Never heard of such a hacker turned a leading anti-virus programmer (Kaspersky?). Can somebody check? abakharev 05:40, 20 August 2005 (UTC)
 * VfDed as per above. Delete or moved if misspelled or confused with someone else. --Irpen 06:00, August 20, 2005 (UTC)
 * History of Vladivostok - large and looking like high quality article by User:Ezhiki a couple of images would help abakharev 05:24, 20 August 2005 (UTC)
 * Category:Russian-Americans by annon  the category strongly  intersects  with Category:Russian people in the United States bymikka  but different:
 * Category:Russian-Americans is for Americans of  Russian  ethinic background, it does  not  include Jews, Ukrainians, etc.
 * 1)  It  also exludes people who did not  received American passport.
 * 2)  On  the  other  hand it  includes people  with very little  connection to  Russian culture  (like  Saul Bellow) but  has  Russian ancestors.
 * All-Russia Exhibition Centre, a seed in place of [VDNKh]]. mikka (t) 00:08, 20 August 2005 (UTC)
 * Zhostovo painting, pictures needed. KNewman 21:56, August 19, 2005 (UTC)
 * Poklonnaya Hill by me. Hopefully somebody will start VDNKh as well. --Ghirlandajo 13:54, 19 August 2005 (UTC)
 * It's been on my mind for quite some time, actually. KNewman 15:05, August 19, 2005 (UTC)
 * Gavriiliada by anon. --Ghirlandajo 12:09, 19 August 2005 (UTC)
 * Sub-stubs on Yekaterina Geltzer and Vera Komissarzhevskaya, new version of Anna Akhmatova. --Ghirlandajo 09:27, 19 August 2005 (UTC)
 * Someone recently created Natalia Goncharov, which should be merged with Natalia Gontcharova --Ghirlandajo
 * Done. Slightly extended. abakharev 08:54, 19 August 2005 (UTC)
 * Thanks. --Ghirlandajo 09:27, 19 August 2005 (UTC)
 * The Twelve Chairs (movie) (American movie by Ilf&Petrov's novel)by User:Qaz abakharev 05:48, 19 August 2005 (UTC)
 * Okraina (film) by User:Cigor abakharev 05:07, 19 August 2005 (UTC)
 * Narva culture by FourthAve abakharev 05:07, 19 August 2005 (UTC)
 * Ivan Barkov and Elena Bovina by somebody abakharev 04:24, 19 August 2005 (UTC)
 * Egorievsk, a stub. KNewman 20:17, August 18, 2005 (UTC)
 * Mikhail Ivanovich Dragomirov, has to be properly wikified and proofread. KNewman 17:16, August 18, 2005 (UTC)
 * Nil Sorsky, needs more cats, possibly chapters, and proofreading. KNewman 12:59, August 18, 2005 (UTC)
 * Mikhail Larionov and Alexandre Golovine by User:Xenia should we use the French spelling for Golovine? abakharev 07:27, 18 August 2005 (UTC)
 * Nadia Morris Osipovich by User:Nobs01 abakharev 07:22, 18 August 2005 (UTC)
 * Gosudarstvennyj Universalnyj Magazin redirect to State Universal Store currently under Redirects for deletion abakharev 07:18, 18 August 2005 (UTC)
 * GAZ-3937 by User:Liftarn abakharev 07:12, 18 August 2005 (UTC) -needs categories. Am I right that there is no category like Russian cars? abakharev 07:12, 18 August 2005 (UTC)
 * Osinniki,Oktyabrsky and Orekhovo-Zuyevo by User:Agentsoo abakharev 06:53, 18 August 2005 (UTC)
 * Menzelinsk by KNewman (should it be reported by him?) abakharev 06:44, 18 August 2005 (UTC)
 * I thought it was too small to report. KNewman 11:06, August 18, 2005 (UTC)
 * Dnestrovskaya Pravda by User:Sarcelles abakharev 06:37, 18 August 2005 (UTC)
 * Olga Volchkova,Volgograd State Pedagogical University and Luzhniki Palace of Sports by somebody abakharev 06:37, 18 August 2005 (UTC)
 * Eastern European Wikipedians' notice board has just been created. Please participate, edit anything there and add it to your watchlists if you think the idea is workable. --Irpen 22:55, August 17, 2005 (UTC)
 * Korney Chukovsky, long overdue and in need of more info, by Ghirlandajo 14:49, 17 August 2005 (UTC)
 * Andrey Kurbsky by Ghirlandajo 12:22, 17 August 2005 (UTC)
 * Wilhelm Barthold by Ghirlandajo 11:51, 17 August 2005 (UTC)
 * Konstantin Leontiev by Ghirlandajo 10:05, 17 August 2005 (UTC)
 * Category:Natives of Northwestern Federal District and Category:Natives of Southern Federal District.  I voted for their deletion. Please add your opinions. --Ghirlandajo 07:11, 17 August 2005 (UTC)
 * Alexander Gomelsky by user:Bender235 abakharev 04:49, 17 August 2005 (UTC)
 * Alexander Selivanov by user:Scimitar abakharev 04:45, 17 August 2005 (UTC)
 * Sergei Winogradsky by anon. --Ghirlandajo 09:17, 17 August 2005 (UTC)
 * Tatiana Konstantinova, Princess Bagration-Muhranski by User:Morhange abakharev 04:39, 17 August 2005 (UTC)
 * Why KonstantinOVA?? Should we move it? --Ghirlandajo 07:24, 17 August 2005 (UTC)
 * Konstantinova is the feminine ending for that particular patronym (sp?) It means 'daughter of' similarly to how you have Nicholas II's daughters, Nikolaevna, while their brother is Nikolaevitch, or 'son of.' Morhange 02:57, 11 September 2005 (UTC)
 * Then she should be KonstantinovNa abakharev 04:12, 11 September 2005 (UTC)
 * CHOBA B CCCP by User:Rt66lt abakharev 04:35, 17 August 2005 (UTC)
 * Just spotted a new portal Wikiportal/Eastern Christianity created by user:Akarige. --Irpen 02:15, August 17, 2005 (UTC)
 * Dymkovo toys, finally did this one (!); needs additions, pictures, proofreading, and proper categorization. KNewman 00:34, August 17, 2005 (UTC)
 * Yury Krizhanich - another bio inspired by the list of EB 2004 articles. --Ghirlandajo 23:05, 16 August 2005 (UTC)
 * Fyodor Shcherbatskoy - surprized at myself for having started this article :) --Ghirlandajo 22:24, 16 August 2005 (UTC)
 * Dmitry Ivanovsky, formerly just one sentence. --Ghirlandajo
 * Vasily Vereshchagin adapted by me from EB 1911. Probably the only article on a Russian painter in that encyclopedia! --Ghirlandajo 21:05, 16 August 2005 (UTC)
 * new: Category:Russian people in the United States. Please populate. mikka (t) 20:42, 16 August 2005 (UTC)
 * new: Category:Crime in Russia. Some articles, e.g., "Bratva" require attention. mikka (t) 20:42, 16 August 2005 (UTC)
 * Just discovered Aleskander Men (sic!) and Pitirim Sorokin. --Ghirlandajo
 * The former article should be merged with Alexander Men. --Ghirlandajo
 * Kamyshin and Temryuk, wrote small articles. KNewman 13:55, August 16, 2005 (UTC)
 * Last night I had some spare time and started more articles on mainstream historians and social philosophers: Aleksey Khomyakov, Timofey Granovsky, Sergey Solovyov, Dmitry Ilovaisky, Vasily Klyuchevsky, Sergey Platonov, and Boris Rybakov. Tonight I'll add more, and then I plan to have a break.--Ghirlandajo 13:09, 16 August 2005 (UTC)
 * Vorontsov family by Ghirlandajo 08:47, 16 August 2005 (UTC)
 * Vladimir Chertkov and Slavianophile by anons. The former needs to be wikified, the latter - deleted. --Ghirlandajo 10:26, 16 August 2005 (UTC)
 * GKO by somebody now under Vfd (I voted against) abakharev 05:30, 16 August 2005 (UTC).
 * Expanded a little bit to save VfD. Please help! --Irpen 08:04, August 16, 2005 (UTC)
 * Alexei Mikhnov by User:Scimitar abakharev 05:30, 16 August 2005 (UTC)
 * George Gorchoff by User:Nobs01 abakharev 05:11, 16 August 2005 (UTC)
 * Tatiana Semenova by User:Katefan0 abakharev 05:02, 16 August 2005 (UTC)
 * Semyon Romanovich Vorontsov, from 1911 encyclopedia. KNewman 02:57, August 16, 2005 (UTC)

August 1-15, 2005 (beginning)

 * Mikhail Shcherbatov and Nikolay Novikov by Ghirlandajo 22:58, 15 August 2005 (UTC)
 * Just spotted Petr Chaadaev, which needs to be unstubbed and merged with Pyotr Chaadaev. --Ghirlandajo 22:45, 15 August 2005 (UTC). --Merged but still needs work. --Irpen
 * Solovetsky Monastery Uprising by KNewman 18:57, August 15, 2005 (UTC)
 * Middle Dnieper culture by User:FourthAve abakharev 08:42, 15 August 2005 (UTC)
 * Cherkassk by me abakharev 14:09, 15 August 2005 (UTC)
 * Princess Maria Yurievna of Greece by User:Arrigo
 * Sergey Makarov by User:Punkmorten abakharev 08:58, 15 August 2005 (UTC)
 * Kievskaya (Filyovskaya) by camerafiend abakharev 08:45, 15 August 2005 (UTC)
 * -nik mikka (t) 22:06, 14 August 2005 (UTC)
 * Ivan Andreyevich Tolstoy and Maria Miloslavskaya by me abakharev 11:55, 14 August 2005 (UTC)
 * Roman the Great by the newcomer Bogatyr --Ghirlandajo
 * History of Kiev spun off from Kiev. Lots of duplication for now. Please help develop both to FA. See talk:Kiev. No one is going to say, this is unrelated to RU board, right? :) --Irpen 07:35, August 14, 2005 (UTC)
 * Just finished Boris Chicherin, Konstantin Kavelin, Pavel Milyukov. --Ghirlandajo 21:42, 13 August 2005 (UTC)
 * Afanasevo culture, Samara culture, Khvalynsk culture, Novotitorovka culture, Abashevo culture, Poltavka culture, Potapovka culture &c created by FourthAve. On that user's talk page, there is a remarkable discussion concerning the Minusa River. --Ghirlandajo 20:49, 13 August 2005 (UTC)
 * znamennoe singing - Rather a stub. Arseni 19:38, 13 August 2005 (UTC)
 * lestovka - substub –Gnomz007(?) 17:17, 13 August 2005 (UTC) (image copyright claim by whoever is phony)
 * Category:Russian ballet --Ghirlandajo 15:03, 13 August 2005 (UTC)
 * Isaak Markovich Khalatnikov by User:Hillman abakharev 12:29, 13 August 2005 (UTC)
 * Login Petrovich Geiden created by an IP number. BTW, were there such a Russian admiral or it is a joke? abakharev 11:27, 13 August 2005 (UTC)
 * Yes, there was such an Admiral in Nicholas I, sorry abakharev 11:32, 13 August 2005 (UTC)
 * Nikolai Bugaev created by User:Hillman abakharev 11:24, 13 August 2005 (UTC)
 * I have put a question from Nikolai Bugaev into Do you know section of the portal abakharev 12:29, 13 August 2005 (UTC)
 * Grand Duke Yurij Mikhailovich of Russia and Volga-Volga created by somebody --abakharev 11:20, 13 August 2005 (UTC)
 * Edigu and Dmitry Shemyaka started today. -Ghirlandajo 10:34, 13 August 2005 (UTC)
 * Michael Rostovtzeff, Igor Diakonov, Boris Turayev, Boris B. Piotrovsky, Mikhail Artamonov, Pyotr Kuzmich Kozlov, Alexander Vostokov - sometimes mere place-holders. --Ghirlandajo 10:34, 13 August 2005 (UTC)
 * Anatoly Sobchak - started by me. Maybe this article appeared later than for Ksenia Sobchak, but defienetly longer. So there is a kind of fairness after all abakharev 08:43, 13 August 2005 (UTC)
 * Vasily Perov rough translation from Russian wiki, difficult bits left in comments –Gnomz007(?) 05:12, 13 August 2005 (UTC)
 * Alexandra Yurievna - 217.140.193.123 20:16, 12 August 2005 (UTC) particular needs: transliteration of Russian name forms
 * I do not understand that, the title is the proper transliteration–Gnomz007(?) 05:26, 13 August 2005 (UTC)
 * I wish to know the haunting difference between Yurij and Georgij, if there is any true difference.
 * Yury and Yegor are vernacular derivations from the Christian name George, pronounced in Russian as Georgiy. --Ghirlandajo


 * Russian National Library - started by me today. --Ghirlandajo 17:22, 12 August 2005 (UTC)
 * Simonov - created disambig. Brandmeister 15:33, 12 August 2005 (UTC) (please take a look at talk:Simonov). Irpen
 * Guslitsa, Vokhna, Belokrinitskaya Hierarchy, Rogozhskoye cemetery, Rogozhskoe Soglasie - contributed by Arseni. Need categorization. --Ghirlandajo
 * Just spotted Russian Orthodox Oldritualist Church - should probably be moved to Russian Orthodox Old-Rite Church. --Ghirlandajo 08:49, 12 August 2005 (UTC)
 * NTV Russia created quite some time ago by Ilgiz and currently received only minor or techincal edits from few other users –Gnomz007(?) 05:14, 12 August 2005 (UTC)
 * Beglopopovtsy, I've been kinda into the Old Believers thing for the past few days :). KNewman 17:10, August 11, 2005 (UTC). And while you are at it, please check Talk:raskol and help decide the name! -Irpen
 * Vladimir the Bold - new, Volokolamsk and Borovsk - reworked. --Ghirlandajo 11:44, 11 August 2005 (UTC)
 * I have started Saint Petersburg State Institute of Technology, they have the most unhelpful webpage I ever saw in my life, this was my alma mater so I would like to do it better, but affraid to write from memory as I can mix the things. I would appreciate help abakharev 07:29, 11 August 2005 (UTC)
 * I have put Ghirlandajo's finding about Gorokhovets been the birthplace of Stirlitz onto Template:Russia portal/Did you know abakharev 07:29, 11 August 2005 (UTC)
 * Joseph Volokolamsk Monastery, Radonezh, and Fedoseevtsy, need more info and pictures. KNewman 14:35, August 10, 2005 (UTC)
 * Expanded Alexander Nikolayevich Lodygin, also created stub Alexander Yakovlev (UN procurement) to prevent oil-for-food and similar staff to link to Alexander Nikolaevich Yakovlev (former Alexander Yakovlev). If anybody know the patronimic of Alexander Yakovlev (UN procurement) - it would be useful abakharev 12:21, 10 August 2005 (UTC)
 * Gorokhovets, created a stub. KNewman 16:59, August 9, 2005 (UTC)
 * Severia rewritten in haste, so corrections are welcome. The current name seems to have been invented by anon who created this stub. I'm not even sure if it exists in English outside Wiki. Also, the duplication of data with Bryansk and Trubchevsk should better be avoided. --Ghirlandajo 15:39, 9 August 2005 (UTC)
 * Yelets, Demyansk Pocket, Anna Netrebko, Lera Auerbach and Ksenia Sobchak started by various users. Isn't it weird that Kseniya found her way to the Wiki in advance of her illustrious father? --Ghirlandajo 09:13, 9 August 2005 (UTC)
 * Isn't it weird that Ksenia found her way to Wikipedia at all? I'd vote for this article's deletion. KNewman 12:30, August 9, 2005 (UTC)
 * Why, is she much worse than Elena Berkova? If three unrelated users in three different continents know a person (especially not-computer related person), the person should be in wiki. abakharev 13:55, 9 August 2005 (UTC)
 * We should probably move this discussion elsewhere :), it'll be my last comment here, I promise. You see, why can't you find an article on тётя Галя from Спокойной ночи, малыши in the Great Soviet Encyclopedia? She was on TV, too, and could be easily considered by some a cultural icon for the whole generation of the Soviet people. We have to know when to stop with articles on certain people or things. KNewman 14:26, August 9, 2005 (UTC)
 * Hmmm... Should T.A.T.u. also be deleted? --Ghirlandajo 15:18, 9 August 2005 (UTC)
 * In the past couple of months a have started a few Russian-related articles, maybe somebody would look into them and contribute/edit: Pavel Filonov, Feofan Grek, Zinaida Serebryakova, Alexei Kondratyevich Savrasov, Viktor Vasnetsov, Léon Bakst, Boris Kustodiev, Alkonost, Sirin,Sergei Vasiljevich Lebedev, Ivan Knunyants, Nikolay Nikolayevich Semyonov --abakharev 06:11, 9 August 2005 (UTC)
 * If you scroll down the page, you will see that most of these articles had been already announced ;) --Ghirlandajo
 * Chernoles culture This is a viable candidate for the proto-Slavic homeland (or a little bit before, perhaps). There is probably something in the Russian literature that is unavailable in the West. --FourthAve 22:08, 8 August 2005 (UTC)
 * Posted a first draft of the Khutyn Monastery. Additions and corrections are more than welcome. --Ghirlandajo 20:13, 8 August 2005 (UTC)
 * Stroganov School, just created it. If you see an unknown IP in this article's history, that's me (I forgot to sign in :)). KNewman 17:20, August 8, 2005 (UTC)
 * Simon Ushakov abakharev 14:43, 8 August 2005 (UTC)
 * Grigory Kotoshikhin, saw this red-link entry on Ghirlandajo's To-Do list :). KNewman 03:21, August 8, 2005 (UTC)
 * Mologa, much more can be said about the history of this town, including the damage and consequences of the artificial flooding. Pictures of what used to be Mologa are a must. KNewman 20:33, August 7, 2005 (UTC)
 * Culture of Russia. You would not believe it, but it is a new article. mikka (t) 18:51, 7 August 2005 (UTC)
 * Andrei Ryabushkin created abakharev 11:15, 7 August 2005 (UTC)
 * Polochans, more info needed. KNewman 22:51, August 6, 2005 (UTC)
 * Khvalynsk. mikka (t) 21:06, 6 August 2005 (UTC)
 * Olga Preobrajenska, Paul Gerdt, Elizaveta Gerdt, Agrippina Vaganova started by me today. --Ghirlandajo 20:10, 6 August 2005 (UTC)
 * Discovered a fresh bunch of articles on the Moscow Metro: see Sokol'nicheskaya Line, Krasnye Vorota, etc. Need categorization. --Ghirlandajo
 * Fedor Rokotov and Dmitry Levitzky contributed by Alex Bakharev. --Ghirlandajo
 * Berezov adapted from EB 1911 by J heisenberg. Needs urgent update, as I don't think there is such a town now. --Ghirlandajo
 * The world of Russian ballet is not covered in Wiki at all, so I started Mathilde Kschessinska, Galina Ulanova, Maya Plisetskaya and rewrote Mariinsky Theatre. --Ghirlandajo 19:22, 5 August 2005 (UTC)
 * Elena Berkova created by Behemoth. --Ghirlandajo :))
 * Aloisio the New and Antonievo-Siysky Monastery --Ghirlandajo 14:41, 4 August 2005 (UTC)
 * Alexander Garden, formerly a dab page. --Ghirlandajo 12:01, 4 August 2005 (UTC)
 * Hypatian codex stub (for linking) cut out of Primary Chronicle and added 1 sentence. mikka (t) 05:08, 4 August 2005 (UTC)
 * Khutor, needs more info and proper categorization. KNewman 23:30, August 3, 2005 (UTC)
 * Kozelsk and Preobrazhensky regiment, more info and pix would be appreciated. KNewman 16:47, August 3, 2005 (UTC)
 * Yamburg and Olonets written/rewritten. --Ghirlandajo 08:09, 3 August 2005 (UTC)
 * Prikaz, podyachy. I created them simply because there are quite a few articles from EB1911 linked to these words; and these require eyeballing as well; so click at "what links there". mikka (t) 06:49, 3 August 2005 (UTC)
 * Emelian Ukraintsev. KNewman 23:14, August 2, 2005 (UTC)
 * Aguls and Rutuls. A lot of other peoples of Russia need attention, as well. KNewman 22:14, August 1, 2005 (UTC)
 * Maloyaroslavets. Pictures and more info are apppreciated, as always. KNewman 13:56, August 1, 2005 (UTC)
 * Stub on Nikolai Fëdorovich Fëdorov (by Crosstimer) --Ghirlandajo
 * "What's with the spelling???" issue moved to Talk:Nikolai Fëdorovich Fëdorov. -Irpen 23:43, August 1, 2005 (UTC)