Wikipedia:WikiProject Russia/New article announcements/March 2006

March 16-31, 2006

 * Teykovo and Vichuga, geostubs by me. KNewman 20:19, 31 March 2006 (UTC)
 * Administrative divisions of Ivanovo Oblast by me.&mdash;Ëzhiki (ërinacëus amurënsis) 16:26, 31 March 2006 (UTC)
 * Palekh, a geo-stub by me to replace the redirect to Palekh miniature.&mdash;Ëzhiki (ërinacëus amurënsis) 16:26, 31 March 2006 (UTC)
 * Khalat by User:Irishpunktom
 * List of people on stamps of the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics by User:Psychonaut - currently only Lenin, Stalin and Trotsky are there abakharev 12:38, 31 March 2006 (UTC)
 * Alexander Mosolov by User:Cenedi
 * Skobelev Park by User:TodorBozhinov. --Ghirla -трёп- 11:02, 31 March 2006 (UTC)
 * Ivan Papanin by me abakharev 08:25, 31 March 2006 (UTC)
 * Livny and Yelets expanded. --Ghirla -трёп- 07:52, 31 March 2006 (UTC)
 * Siberian State Medical University by User:Montco
 * Podkumok River by User:Ipaat
 * Vyacheslav Ganelin stub by User:Sheynhertz-Unbayg
 * Evgeny Rukhin by User:Melever abakharev 22:55, 30 March 2006 (UTC)
 * Administrative divisions of Chita Oblast by me.&mdash;Ëzhiki (ërinacëus amurënsis) 21:19, 30 March 2006 (UTC)
 * Seltso, Valuyki and Shebekino, geostubs by me. Helping out Ezhiki :). KNewman 18:58, 30 March 2006 (UTC)
 * Thanks. Every little bit helps.&mdash;Ëzhiki (ërinacëus amurënsis) 19:24, 30 March 2006 (UTC)
 * Arsenal (Kremlin) and Terem Palace completely rewritten. The former was first confused with the Senate, then with the Armoury. --Ghirla -трёп- 17:37, 30 March 2006 (UTC)
 * Template:Kremlin. The coverage of the Kremlin in WP is far from perfection, to say the least. --Ghirla -трёп- 16:36, 30 March 2006 (UTC)
 * Cathedral Square in Moscow renovated. Muscovites, please check for accuracy and expand. --Ghirla -трёп- 15:31, 30 March 2006 (UTC)
 * Church of the Twelve Apostles by me --Ghirla -трёп- 14:42, 30 March 2006 (UTC)
 * Klintsy, a geostub by me. KNewman 09:28, 30 March 2006 (UTC)
 * Russian-Albanian Relations by User:Fox Mccloud
 * Soviet-Albanian Relations is a more appropriate title. --Ghirla -трёп- 14:42, 30 March 2006 (UTC)
 * Sergei Volkov (skater) by User:Gaponov
 * Gates of Tashkent by User:Jabez
 * Igor Klebanov by User:Physicistjedi. I am not sure if he is notable abakharev 08:08, 30 March 2006 (UTC)
 * Farman Salmanov, prominent geologist, unstubbed by me. Grandmaster 07:56, 30 March 2006 (UTC)
 * Air Chief Marshal (Russia) by User:Markdanil
 * Victor Kolyvagin by User:Timothy Clemans
 * Vladimir Vasilyev (writer) by User:Ellol
 * Dmitry of Tver stub by User:Brandmeister
 * Yantarny by Olessi 03:23, 30 March 2006 (UTC)
 * Pionersky, Kaliningrad Oblast by Olessi 23:44, 29 March 2006 (UTC)
 * Strogino, saw it in red on the Requests Page. KNewman 19:32, 29 March 2006 (UTC)
 * Administrative divisions of Bryansk Oblast by me.&mdash;Ëzhiki (ërinacëus amurënsis) 17:57, 29 March 2006 (UTC)
 * Kudos to Alex Bakharev for creating Ruswelcome, used to welcome new users interested in Russian topics. I almost created a duplicate myself when I spotted this one, so I'm announcing it here in case other people missed it as well.&mdash;Ëzhiki (ërinacëus amurënsis) 15:53, 29 March 2006 (UTC)
 * Samuel Greig and Alexey Greig by myself. --Ghirla -трёп- 14:04, 29 March 2006 (UTC)
 * Johan Hampus Furuhjelm and Pavel Pereleshin by ISasha. --Ghirla -трёп- 14:09, 29 March 2006 (UTC)
 * Image:Eclipsenovosib.jpg Solar eclipse on 2006 March 29 in Novosibirsk Kmorozov 12:50, 29 March 2006 (UTC)
 * Peter Lacy by me. --Ghirla -трёп- 11:31, 29 March 2006 (UTC)
 * User:Eaefremov started Lapta (game) on my request. Please expand on this worthwhile subject. --Ghirla -трёп- 12:06, 29 March 2006 (UTC)
 * Arcady Boytler by User:Rockero. --Ghirla -трёп- 09:47, 29 March 2006 (UTC)
 * Ostrog Bible by me Kmorozov 08:08, 29 March 2006 (UTC)
 * Large article Yugorsk by User:Danyliv irina. In desperate need of copyediting abakharev 01:57, 29 March 2006 (UTC)
 * Kungur unstubbed and expanded by Maria Romanova and formatted by me. Tons of pictures with unknown copyright status!  Lots of proofreading and copyediting needed.&mdash;Ëzhiki (ërinacëus amurënsis) 17:28, 28 March 2006 (UTC)
 * Administrative divisions of Belgorod Oblast by me.&mdash;Ëzhiki (ërinacëus amurënsis) 17:09, 28 March 2006 (UTC)
 * I'm into stubs today - Gothic Chapel (Peterhof) and Chinese Village (Tsarskoe Selo) --Ghirla -трёп- 16:07, 28 March 2006 (UTC)
 * More tiny stubs: Marble Bridge, Creaking Pagoda, Dutch Admiralty. --Ghirla -трёп- 14:34, 28 March 2006 (UTC)
 * Kagul Obelisk and Chesme Column by me. --Ghirla -трёп- 13:34, 28 March 2006 (UTC)
 * Ostafievo International Airport started by Nixer earlier this year, never announced here. --Ghirla -трёп- 12:56, 28 March 2006 (UTC)
 * Eighth Sister (Moscow), Ministry of Heavy Industry of Russia, etc. by User:Christofor. Mostly copy & paste from Seven Sisters (Moscow). --Ghirla -трёп- 12:50, 28 March 2006 (UTC)
 * By the way, can anybody check whether the latter skyscraper still houses a ministry? I don't think there is such an institution now. --Ghirla -трёп- 12:55, 28 March 2006 (UTC)
 * Alexander Gelfond by me abakharev 12:47, 28 March 2006 (UTC)
 * Battle of Larga and Battle of Kagul - stubs. We still lack articles on Suvorov's victories against the Turks. Please fill in the gap. --Ghirla -трёп- 10:54, 28 March 2006 (UTC)
 * Slavonic translations of the Bible by me Kmorozov 05:54, 28 March 2006 (UTC)
 * Administrative divisions of Astrakhan Oblast by me.&mdash;Ëzhiki (ërinacëus amurënsis) 20:48, 27 March 2006 (UTC)
 * Lieven and Dorothea Lieven. --Ghirla -трёп- 18:29, 27 March 2006 (UTC)
 * Balthasar von Campenhausen and Andrei Korf by ISasha. --Ghirla -трёп- 17:09, 27 March 2006 (UTC)
 * Viktor Chukarin, a stub. --Ghirla -трёп- 15:45, 27 March 2006 (UTC)
 * Reply of the Zaporozhian Cossacks by Michael Z. --Ghirla -трёп- 15:45, 27 March 2006 (UTC)
 * Jacques-Joachim Trotti, marquis de La Chétardie and Jean Armand de Lestocq by me. --Ghirla -трёп- 14:53, 27 March 2006 (UTC)
 * Adelheid Amalie Gallitzin by me Kmorozov 11:45, 27 March 2006 (UTC)
 * Apollon Dashkov by ISasha. --Ghirla -трёп- 09:00, 27 March 2006 (UTC)
 * Russian financial crisis a good article created in January.
 * List of Russian administrative centers(*) and cities over 50,000 population at 2002 census by Backspace. Probably needs a rename. Conscious 18:10, 26 March 2006 (UTC)
 * Is there really a need for this one? KNewman 06:09, 27 March 2006 (UTC)
 * Why not? --Ghirla -трёп- 17:11, 27 March 2006 (UTC)
 * This one looks good especially as there's no List of cities in Russia by population. Conscious 19:34, 27 March 2006 (UTC)
 * I renamed it List of cities and towns in Russia by population and added a short intro. For future reference, please refer to Russian goroda as "cities and towns".  I know it's a pain in the rear end to remember and to write out, but it's the only way to refer to them accurately.&mdash;Ëzhiki (ërinacëus amurënsis) 19:54, 27 March 2006 (UTC)
 * Started Ivan Tsarevich. Brand 13:07, 26 March 2006 (UTC)
 * Tym River by me. KNewman 10:36, 26 March 2006 (UTC)
 * Moscow Conference (1943) by User:Philip Baird Shearer
 * Alex Menglet by User:Ben King
 * Alexei Kondratiev by User:Mensan
 * I wonder what would happen if I were a Wiccan... Would they write an article about me? AFD, if you ask me. KNewman 09:14, 26 March 2006 (UTC)
 * Bolshevik: 1903-1917 partially rewritten and expanded by User:Ahasuerus. Much more needs to be done to add references, correct numerous mistakes, omissions and non-encyclopedic statements, but it will have to wait until April unless somebody else wants to chime in. Ahasuerus 00:39, 26 March 2006 (UTC)
 * Repnin Sejm by User:Piotrus, needs to be purged of POV. --Ghirla -трёп- 00:50, 26 March 2006 (UTC)
 * Alexander_Brullov unstubbed by ISasha. --Ghirla -трёп- 00:50, 26 March 2006 (UTC)
 * Ivan Shokoloff by User:Arban. Almost certainly a hoax, see Articles for deletion/Ivan Shokoloff abakharev 00:15, 26 March 2006 (UTC)
 * Stub on treasure sword by me. Brand 17:39, 25 March 2006 (UTC)
 * Please move to Sword Kladenets. No need for whimsical translations. --Ghirla -трёп- 00:26, 26 March 2006 (UTC)
 * Trud Stadium (Tomsk), Spartak Stadium (Nalchik), Shinnik Stadium, Central Stadium (Kazan), Saturn Stadium, Zvezda Stadium by User:Patken4
 * Governor of Taganrog by User:ISasha
 * Burlak, Yuri's Day by User:Ipaat in need of copyediting abakharev 13:58, 25 March 2006 (UTC)
 * Sofia Muratova by me. Cmapm 22:24, 24 March 2006 (UTC)
 * I expanded and renovated Catherine Palace. --Ghirla -трёп- 16:20, 24 March 2006 (UTC)
 * Kudos!! abakharev 13:05, 25 March 2006 (UTC)
 * Must have been one heck of an expensive renovation :) Ahasuerus 17:48, 25 March 2006 (UTC)
 * Pik Korzhenevskoi by User:Spireguy
 * Krasnouralsk, Nevelsk, Kirovgrad, Lesosibirsk, Krasnoturinsk stubs by User:Darwinek
 * Russo-United States relations by User:Fox Mccloud
 * Kashinka River by User:Andres rus
 * Maria Lopukhina stub by User:Fdedio
 * Redirected to Anna Lopukhina by myself. --Ghirla -трёп- 17:57, 24 March 2006 (UTC)
 * Natalia Pushkina and Ivan Shestakov by User:ISasha
 * Why not Natalia Goncharova or Natalia Lanskaya? --Ghirla -трёп- 19:39, 24 March 2006 (UTC)
 * Valentina Zimina by User:Kedar63
 * Viktor Sidjak by User:Cat-o-nine-meows
 * Aleksandra Pakhmutova by User:Nick mallory
 * Russian connections in Australia - a long article by the same newbie. --Ghirla -трёп- 16:34, 24 March 2006 (UTC)
 * Mikhail Lavrov and Nadezhda Sigida by User:ISasha
 * Plato II by me Kmorozov 11:18, 24 March 2006 (UTC)
 * Moscow Circus on Tsvetnoy Boulevard for Alex Bakharev. --Ghirla -трёп- 09:28, 24 March 2006 (UTC)
 * Filaret, Metropolitan of Moscow by me Kmorozov 08:35, 24 March 2006 (UTC)
 * Filaret disambig by me Kmorozov 07:47, 24 March 2006 (UTC)
 * Russkaya Station, Leningradskaya Station, Novolazarevskaya Station by User:FrancisTyers. Should we create a Category:Expoloration of Antarctica by Russia and Soviet Union or even Category:Polar exploration by Russia and Soviet Union? abakharev 23:00, 23 March 2006 (UTC)
 * Surely we should. --Ghirla -трёп- 08:23, 24 March 2006 (UTC)
 * Yakov Zakharyevich Koshkin, Alexander Fyodorovich Koshkin substubs by User:Tabatha Pavlovna Romanov abakharev 22:47, 23 March 2006 (UTC)
 * Vlas Chubar, a bio-stub. Ahasuerus 17:45, 23 March 2006 (UTC)
 * Ural State University by Gritzko.&mdash;Ëzhiki (ërinacëus amurënsis) 12:58, 23 March 2006 (UTC)
 * Załuski Library by User:Mathiasrex --Ghirla -трёп- 08:08, 23 March 2006 (UTC)
 * Molitva russkikh by me. User:Zscout370 (Return Fire) 05:20, 23 March 2006 (UTC)
 * Move to The Prayer of Russians? Brand 13:02, 23 March 2006 (UTC)
 * Go right ahead. User:Zscout370 (Return Fire) 00:37, 24 March 2006 (UTC)


 * Roslavl by Darwinek. Brand 20:24, 22 March 2006 (UTC)
 * Muslim Magomayev, by me, upgraded from a stub to a full article. Grandmaster 19:38, 22 March 2006 (UTC)
 * Nikolai Bryukhanov, a biostub by me. KNewman 19:35, 22 March 2006 (UTC)
 * Unstubbed. Ahasuerus 23:02, 22 March 2006 (UTC)
 * Varteres Samourgachev by User:General Eisenhower
 * Soviet playground stub by me. Cmapm 17:21, 22 March 2006 (UTC)
 * Sorry, CTAPT, but this article is притянута за уши and высосана из пальца. I'd vote for its deletion. Unless I see an article on Bulgarian playgrounds or something like that :). And don't forget to take out the Soviet playground reference from the Playground article. KNewman 19:39, 22 March 2006 (UTC)
 * Please vote. Cmapm 20:00, 22 March 2006 (UTC)
 * Actually, this article could be a part of a bigger article about Soviet urbanization and city-building policies. A certain number of playgrounds was mandatory for each microdistrict, just as there was supposed to be a certain number of shops/schools/kindergartens, as well as a дом быта, and a palace of culture covering a certain area.  While the article just about a playground is viable, it is poorly titled (although I am having trouble coming up with a better title) and badly needs references (which as Cmapm indicated are hard to come by).&mdash;Ëzhiki (ërinacëus amurënsis) 20:09, 22 March 2006 (UTC)
 * I admit, that generally it may be not important at all for most of other people, although it's important for me. I am not "the truth in the last instance". Actually, I'd compare it to hypothetic article about Soviet automats of aerated waters. :) But you should refer to community to ask/vote, whether it's important or not, not to me. Cmapm 20:28, 22 March 2006 (UTC)


 * Expert magazine by User:Ak1976
 * Sigizmund Krzhizhanovsky substub by User:JoeBlogsDord
 * Not a sub-stub anymore. --Ghirla -трёп- 18:46, 22 March 2006 (UTC)
 * Sergei Korsakoff by User:Excelsior
 * Vera Mukhina by User:Afghanets
 * Siege of Taganrog (1855) by User:ISasha
 * Shouldn't this be moved to Siege of Taganrog (if the siege it was). Were there any other sieges of this town? --Ghirla -трёп- 16:07, 22 March 2006 (UTC)
 * It seems to be an another siege in 1736, but I'm not sure. Brandmeister 02:37, 23 March 2006 (UTC)


 * Juri Zaharievich and Roman Jurievich Zaharin-Koshkin by User:Tabatha Pavlovna Romanov. Should we move him to Juri Zaharievich Koshkin? abakharev 03:29, 22 March 2006 (UTC)
 * All the spellings are weird, as is the data. Probably taken from Genealogisches Handbuch des Adels. --Ghirla -трёп- 07:37, 22 March 2006 (UTC)
 * Can you fix it? abakharev 08:30, 22 March 2006 (UTC)
 * I don't really care about those dudes. --Ghirla -трёп- 09:17, 22 March 2006 (UTC)
 * How about AfDing them? In their present form, the articles are useless.&mdash;Ëzhiki (ërinacëus amurënsis) 13:40, 22 March 2006 (UTC)
 * I would support, although it's not very likely that the stubs will be deleted. --Ghirla -трёп- 16:07, 22 March 2006 (UTC)
 * Nikolai Vasilyevich Repnin by me.--Piotr Konieczny aka Prokonsul Piotrus Talk 23:07, 21 March 2006 (UTC)
 * It is a shameless fork of Repnin. I'll have to make it a redirect and return to original EB1911 version. --Ghirla -трёп- 07:37, 22 March 2006 (UTC)
 * I split the former Repnin article into Nicholas Repnin, Anikita Repnin, and Repnin. --Ghirla -трёп- 09:17, 22 March 2006 (UTC)
 * I'll assume Ghirla knows the more correct name for the article, I am restoring the referenced information he removed though.--Piotr Konieczny aka Prokonsul Piotrus Talk 13:47, 22 March 2006 (UTC)
 * Andrey Bolshoy by me. Needs cats and proofreading, feels like my English has gotten a little worse :). KNewman 19:24, 21 March 2006 (UTC)
 * Good grief! I nominated the article for WP:DYK. --Ghirla -трёп- 17:18, 22 March 2006 (UTC)
 * Stub on Dmitriy of Tver by me. Brand, 18:22, 21 March 2006 (UTC)
 * Vladimir Chernavin by me. Brand 12:51, 21 March 2006 (UTC)
 * Zakaznik by User:Nallan maybe merge it with Natural reserves in Russia? abakharev 07:23, 21 March 2006 (UTC)
 * Andrei Rublev film by User:Derbent 5000
 * Huh, we've had Andrei Rublev (film) for ages. Please merge. --Ghirla -трёп- 07:40, 21 March 2006 (UTC)
 * Done. The new version was mostly a cut and paste. User:Zscout370 (Return Fire) 07:52, 21 March 2006 (UTC)
 * Thanks. The user should be warned that cut and paste is not acceptable. --Ghirla -трёп- 08:26, 21 March 2006 (UTC)
 * Dmitri Zaikin by User:Esradekan
 * Engineers of the human soul by User:GwydionM
 * Feliks Gromov by me. Brandmeister 21:47, 20 March 2006 (UTC)
 * Or Felix? KNewman 13:11, 21 March 2006 (UTC)
 * No essential distinction, although Wiki has e.g. Felix Dzerzhinsky. I've made the redirect to Felix Gromov. Brand 20:15, 21 March 2006 (UTC)
 * Downtown Saint Petersburg and Arbat by User:Fisss. I can't see any rationale for such articles, when we have detailed description of the downtown in Saint Petersburg and a separate article for Arbat Street. The guy needs mentoring, as he daily starts arbitrary cats (e.g., Category:Moscow-City), indulges in cut & paste moves (see here), and uploads non-free copyrighted photographs as {PD-self}. Many of his edits are still frustrating: "Madame Malinovskaya, Pushkin's wife, the non-biological mother of his children", "Greboyedova canal", or "Pavel Noshchokin, one of Pushkin's closest friends". --Ghirla -трёп- 19:14, 20 March 2006 (UTC)
 * Template:Rail terminals in St. Petersburg for future articles, same as those in Moscow. --Kuban Cossack 18:08, 20 March 2006 (UTC)
 * I fail to see a motivation behind your move of Finland Train Station to Finlyandsky Rail Terminal. If you want to see how such things are ordered in Wikipedia, take a look at Category:Railway stations in London. There is no need to invent the bike, as we say in Russia. --Ghirla -трёп- 18:31, 20 March 2006 (UTC)
 * Slantsy, stub by me with a little pic--Smerus 15:55, 20 March 2006 (UTC)
 * Moscow School of Mathematics and Navigation by User:Smudgeuk.
 * Stub on Kolka-Karmadon rock ice slide. Brandmeister 12:15, 20 March 2006 (UTC)
 * RFS Vladimir Monomakh stub by Brandmeister
 * Stub on Vladimir Kuroyedov. Brandmeister 19:57, 19 March 2006 (UTC)
 * Shervashidze, an Abkhazian princely dynasty, by me. Kober 19:04, 19 March 2006 (UTC)
 * Why should we use a Georgian name for a family of Abkhazian sovereigns? --Ghirla -трёп- 18:53, 20 March 2006 (UTC)
 * Georgy Aleksandrov by User:Ahasuerus. Ahasuerus 02:23, 19 March 2006 (UTC)
 * To the Valiant Soldier of the Karelian Front by Mikkalai. --Ghirla -трёп- 13:08, 18 March 2006 (UTC)
 * Ali-Agha Shikhlinski, Russian army general in World War I, by me. Grandmaster 12:15, 18 March 2006 (UTC)
 * List of districts and neighborhoods of Moscow, by Fisss, old friend. Can someone please explain at last what exactly a "Moscow neighborhood" is?  I am horrible at Moscology (or whatever that's called).&mdash;Ëzhiki (ërinacëus amurënsis) 19:14, 17 March 2006 (UTC)
 * I don't understand it, either. The phrase seems to have been taken from Category:Moscow neighborhoods, which was started by KNewman to list suburban localities like Abramtsevo. This guy Fisss seems to be reforming. He started Zamoskvoreche (sic!), Presnya, and Moscow-City (sic!), but the pictures which he tags {PD-self} still look suspiciously like copyvios to me. I would list them among requests for investigation. --Ghirla -трёп- 19:36, 17 March 2006 (UTC)
 * Well, officially, Moscow has raiony and mikroraiony (the latter are usually numbered, like 7 mikroraion; some have names like Zyablikovo). There are raiony such as Orekhovo-Borisovo, Chertanovo, Medvedkovo, Nikulino etc. I'm just not sure if neighborhood is a correct name for them. KNewman 07:28, 20 March 2006 (UTC)
 * Those are called administrative units. One can colloquially call them neighborhoods, of course, but the problem with that term is that it's ambiguous.  If no one objects, I am going to clean up that category, recategorizing its entries, and delete it before it grows out of control.  If you wish to keep this category, please come up with the definition of what exactly it should cover.  I think, however, that this is one of those ideas that seemed good at the time :)&mdash;19:03, 20 March 2006 (UTC)
 * Sounds like a good idea. --Ghirla -трёп- 19:14, 20 March 2006 (UTC)
 * Alright, this cat is gone. Now, a cat with historical areas of Moscow (or whatever other name works better) is what we really need.&mdash;Ëzhiki (ërinacëus amurënsis) 17:33, 23 March 2006 (UTC)
 * Vasily Zhukovsky was nicely rewritten and expanded by an anon. --Ghirla -трёп- 18:28, 17 March 2006 (UTC)
 * Extensively rewrote, reorganised and un-stubbed Sergei Taneyev and created separate List of compositions by Sergei Taneyev --Smerus 18:13, 17 March 2006 (UTC)
 * Balchug by myself. --Ghirla -трёп- 17:59, 17 March 2006 (UTC)
 * Mariinsky Palace by me. --Ghirla -трёп- 16:09, 17 March 2006 (UTC)
 * Three Station Square by me. By the way, we still don't have article about Pavel Melnikov. --Ghirla -трёп- 15:16, 17 March 2006 (UTC)
 * Operation Polar Star and Operation Spark (1943) - stubs by User:Andreas1968. --Ghirla -трёп- 13:40, 17 March 2006 (UTC)
 * Khatyn by User:Ben-Velvel. --Ghirla -трёп- 11:38, 17 March 2006 (UTC)
 * Orlov (disambiguation) by me Kmorozov 07:03, 17 March 2006 (UTC)
 * Finally finished off the Tagansko-Krasnopresnenskaya Line with Kuzminki, Ryazanskiy Prospekt and Vykhino. Could use a post reconstruction photo of the latter.--Kuban Cossack 01:26, 17 March 2006 (UTC)
 * Natalia Yurchenko, stub by me. Cmapm 23:53, 16 March 2006 (UTC)
 * Fotki by User:Talla, unannounced since February 22. --Ghirla -трёп- 17:36, 16 March 2006 (UTC)
 * Stalin Note by User:Wikist. Do you think that the title is proper? --Ghirla -трёп- 16:51, 16 March 2006 (UTC)
 * Oh yes, that's what this famous document has been known as for many decades. Ahasuerus 21:20, 16 March 2006 (UTC)
 * Medal For the Victory Over Germany and Medal For the Victory Over Japan - first articles by User:Ilvar. --Ghirla -трёп- 14:32, 16 March 2006 (UTC)
 * More Metros: Baku Metro, Yerevan Metro and Proletarskaya,Volgogradskiy Prospekt, Tekstilshchiki by me. --Kuban Cossack 02:18, 16 March 2006 (UTC)
 * Russian Basketball Super League - stub by me --Nikai 00:15, 16 March 2006 (UTC)

March 1-15, 2006

 * Iar Elterrus - about modern Russian sci-fi writer by me -- Vald 23:53, 15 March 2006 (UTC)
 * Saint Stephen of Perm - Calgacus (ΚΑΛΓΑΚΟΣ) 20:24, 15 March 2006 (UTC)
 * Thanks. I can't believe that we lacked this article. --Ghirla -трёп- 15:51, 16 March 2006 (UTC)
 * Bolshoi Kamenny Theatre renovated. --Ghirla -трёп- 18:38, 15 March 2006 (UTC)
 * Also check Cesare Pugni by User:Mrlopez2681. --Ghirla -трёп- 15:58, 16 March 2006 (UTC)
 * Mirny Station, last month translated from de: by me. --Nikai 18:06, 15 March 2006 (UTC)
 * Thanks for this one. --Ghirla -трёп- 18:43, 15 March 2006 (UTC)
 * Krasny Bor, Leningrad Oblast, a stub by me to sort out confusion with Krasny Bor, Nizhny Novgorod Oblast. Thanks to Ghirla for pointing out the problem.&mdash;Ëzhiki (ërinacëus amurënsis) 18:02, 15 March 2006 (UTC)
 * User:Emigrant123 wrote Ribbon of Saint George, an article I requested some time ago. --Ghirla -трёп- 15:27, 15 March 2006 (UTC)
 * The article prompted me to regularize the categorization by introducing such categories as Category:Awards and decorations of Russia and Category:Russian military decorations. --Ghirla -трёп- 16:42, 15 March 2006 (UTC)
 * Take a look at the Main Page: it is already there! --Ghirla -трёп- 18:38, 15 March 2006 (UTC)
 * Alexander of Tver by me Kmorozov 10:45, 15 March 2006 (UTC)
 * User:Fdedio split Khodynka Tragedy into a separate article. --Ghirla -трёп- 10:42, 15 March 2006 (UTC)
 * Ukraine-Transnistria border customs dispute. mikka (t) 21:51, 14 March 2006 (UTC)
 * Circus Ciniselli by Stumps, started a month ago. --Ghirla -трёп- 18:01, 14 March 2006 (UTC)
 * Stub on Krasnoyarsk Bridge. --Ghirla -трёп- 15:58, 14 March 2006 (UTC)
 * Victory parade by Piotrus. We still lack Moscow Victory Parade of 1945. --Ghirla -трёп- 14:24, 14 March 2006 (UTC)
 * Not anymore. User:Zscout370 (Return Fire) Fair use policy 04:59, 15 March 2006 (UTC)
 * Nice start. If expanded, it may become DYKable. --Ghirla -трёп- 17:06, 15 March 2006 (UTC)
 * Ivane Andronikashvili by User:Kober. --Ghirla -трёп- 13:34, 14 March 2006 (UTC)
 * Armenian-Tatar massacres by User:Kober --Ghirla -трёп- 13:31, 14 March 2006 (UTC)
 * Military history of Ingria during World War II by £. I moved it to Military history of Leningrad Oblast during World War II. --Ghirla -трёп- 12:05, 14 March 2006 (UTC)
 * Grigori Nelyubov by User:Reflex Reaction. --Ghirla -трёп- 11:53, 14 March 2006 (UTC)
 * William Pokhlebkin. mikka (t) 09:38, 14 March 2006 (UTC)
 * Joseph Vladimirov by me. KNewman 20:21, 13 March 2006 (UTC)
 * I expanded Finland Train Station and plan to write about other such structures too. --Ghirla -трёп- 18:42, 13 March 2006 (UTC)
 * Leningradsky Rail Terminal in Moscow: a stub created -- Goudzovski 19:41, 13 March 2006 (UTC)
 * Expanded and illustrated. --Ghirla -трёп- 12:06, 14 March 2006 (UTC)
 * Category:Railway stations in Russia and Russian entries in the List of railway stations --Ghirla -трёп- 18:42, 13 March 2006 (UTC)
 * Yakov Shakhovsky by me Kmorozov 12:49, 13 March 2006 (UTC)
 * Battle of Krasny Bor by User:Penumbra-88. Seems to have been a minor engagement rather than a "battle" in a sense we speak of "Битва за Москву". The opening says that "the battle ended with a large portion of the Leningrad-Moscow Highway in Soviet hands for the first time since September, 1941, which was an important step towards resuming the offensive", and yet it is claimed as a German victory in the battlebox. Please look into the matter. --Ghirla -трёп- 12:23, 13 March 2006 (UTC)
 * Military history of Belarus during World War II and Military history of Latvia during World War II by £. --Ghirla -трёп- 12:21, 13 March 2006 (UTC)
 * Also of interest are other articles by the same user, such as Čorny Kot. --Ghirla -трёп- 12:25, 13 March 2006 (UTC)
 * Sovietization by Halibutt 22:19, 12 March 2006 (UTC)
 * Barguzin River and Irkut River by me. KNewman 20:30, 12 March 2006 (UTC)
 * What happens to Barguzin then?–Gnomz007(?) 22:21, 12 March 2006 (UTC)
 * Barguzin is actually a disambiguation page now. I was not sure whether it makes sense to split it into microscopic articles. mikka (t) 00:45, 13 March 2006 (UTC)
 * Aleksandr Gavrilovich Dralkin, Mikhail Mikhailovich Somov, Yevgeny Ivanovich Tolstikov by FrancisTyers. Conscious 17:16, 12 March 2006 (UTC)
 * Evgeniy Fedorovich Dragunov, a bio substub on a sniper rifle designer. SHould be moved to Evgeny Dragunov, I believe. KNewman 16:12, 12 March 2006 (UTC)
 * Protva River, Tyung River and Nyuya River by me. KNewman 13:44, 12 March 2006 (UTC)
 * Pavlovsky by me; another geo substub to prevent potential mess.&mdash;Ëzhiki (ërinacëus amurënsis) 00:04, 12 March 2006 (UTC)
 * Savelovsky Terminal: maybe could create Moscow railway terminals list?Goudzovski 20:40, 11 March 2006 (UTC)
 * Done Template:Moscow Rail Terminals--Kuban Cossack 00:44, 12 March 2006 (UTC)
 * De-stubbed by me, and moved to Savyolovskiy Rail Terminal.--Kuban Cossack 01:16, 12 March 2006 (UTC)
 * Shouldn't they all be with the -y at the end instead of the -iy? KNewman 14:50, 12 March 2006 (UTC)
 * Does it really matter? I prefer -iy. -y is used for -ый.--Kuban Cossack 16:09, 12 March 2006 (UTC)
 * Probably should be just -y... Cf. Dolgoprudny, Pavlovsky -- Goudzovski 15:34, 12 March 2006 (UTC)


 * More Russian sculptors: Mikhail Kozlovsky and Vasily Demut-Malinovsky. --Ghirla -трёп- 20:30, 11 March 2006 (UTC)
 * Berdsk by User:Ъыь. Written in Runglish, needs grammar check.
 * Andrey Soloviev by User:Afghanets
 * Semender, a geo-substub by me; created after someone placed a redirect to Samandar (city) there.&mdash;Ëzhiki (ërinacëus amurënsis) 19:52, 10 March 2006 (UTC)
 * Fedot Shubin by me. --Ghirla -трёп- 18:36, 10 March 2006 (UTC)
 * Alazeya River by me. KNewman 17:27, 10 March 2006 (UTC)
 * Valdai Lake by me. KNewman 17:12, 10 March 2006 (UTC)
 * Natalia Tuchkova, found this one in the Dead-end Pages section of Wikipedia. Should it be deleted or expanded somehow? Doesn't look encyclopedic in its present state. KNewman 16:34, 10 March 2006 (UTC)
 * I don't think it is the worst article we have. Take a look at Joel Shubin, for instance. --Ghirla -трёп- 18:36, 10 March 2006 (UTC)
 * Wow! Now that's a standard we could all live up to :)&mdash;Ëzhiki (ërinacëus amurënsis) 14:49, 11 March 2006 (UTC)
 * Joel is a curious name for a purported Soviet journalist, don't you think? --Ghirla -трёп- 20:30, 11 March 2006 (UTC)
 * There isn't a whole lot on him, but I expanded the article a bit. See the Discussion page for details. Ahasuerus 22:19, 11 March 2006 (UTC)
 * User:Fisss is busy at work on Kuznetskiy Most and Tverskaya. Please watch out for copyvios. --Ghirla -трёп- 16:04, 10 March 2006 (UTC)
 * BA-27 by Halibutt. --Ghirla -трёп- 14:23, 10 March 2006 (UTC)
 * Lyudmila Titova by User:Ben Jos
 * Aleksandr Dityatin substub by User:Crownchop
 * Sochi conflict by Kober, a big article unnoticed since December. Some concerns about the title and neutrality. --Ghirla -трёп- 10:47, 10 March 2006 (UTC)
 * Ivan Osterman, by me. KNewman 19:08, 9 March 2006 (UTC)
 * Ivan Martos. --Ghirla -трёп- 18:46, 9 March 2006 (UTC)
 * Dmitri Shepilov, biostub by me. KNewman 18:25, 9 March 2006 (UTC)
 * Unstubbed. Ahasuerus 19:48, 9 March 2006 (UTC)
 * OK, it's as good as I can make it for now. Anybody have a picture, by any chance? Ahasuerus 02:02, 10 March 2006 (UTC)
 * Thanks. I nominated it for WP:DYK. --Ghirla -трёп- 07:46, 10 March 2006 (UTC)
 * Nice work, folks :) I'll clean it up some more today and it should be in good shape. Ahasuerus 15:11, 10 March 2006 (UTC)
 * Mstislav Dobuzhinsky by me. --Ghirla -трёп- 16:19, 9 March 2006 (UTC)
 * Eudoxia Dmitriyevna by me. KNewman 14:39, 9 March 2006 (UTC)
 * Joseph Stalin Museum, Gori, by me --Smerus 14:21, 9 March 2006 (UTC)
 * Ascension Monastery by me. Pix would be nice. KNewman 14:10, 9 March 2006 (UTC)
 * Tikhon Streshnev by me Kmorozov 14:08, 9 March 2006 (UTC)
 * Elena Produnova substub by User:Nick81aku
 * Yuri Mikhaylov by User:Ben Jos
 * Should be moved to Yuri Mikhailov, I believe. KNewman 11:54, 9 March 2006 (UTC)
 * Nope.&mdash;Ëzhiki (ërinacëus amurënsis) 13:29, 9 March 2006 (UTC)
 * Svetlana Vysokova, Yekaterina Lobysheva, Galina Likhachova, Varvara Barysheva, Yekaterina Abramova, Dmitry Dorofeyev by User:Sreed1234
 * Ivan Mozzhukhin was recently unstubbed by User:Romanspanner, who put a premium on his career in France. --Ghirla -трёп- 08:07, 9 March 2006 (UTC)
 * Down House (film), I isolated a paragraph from The Idiot (novel)–Gnomz007(?) 02:31, 9 March 2006 (UTC)
 * Matvei Muranov by User:Ahasuerus. A few links need to be cleaned up and wikified. Ahasuerus 22:09, 8 March 2006 (UTC)
 * Andrei Bukin and Natalia Bestemianova by User:Skatefan
 * Mario Arturo Moreno Ivanova by User:Rockero.
 * This article has been nominated for deletion.--Rockero 06:59, 10 March 2006 (UTC)


 * Wadim Zudilin by User:WAREL
 * Someone started West Hotel in Pereslavl-Zalessky. Please delete spam. --Ghirla -трёп- 16:56, 7 March 2006 (UTC)
 * Hell of a hotel :), looks like a townhouse to me. Spam it is. KNewman 17:42, 7 March 2006 (UTC)
 * Anyone fancies starting Category:All hotels in Russia? :) Spam deleted.&mdash;Ëzhiki (ërinacëus amurënsis) 18:38, 7 March 2006 (UTC)
 * Kirill Pavlovich Florensky by User:Polylerus. --Ghirla -трёп- 16:55, 7 March 2006 (UTC)
 * Inspired by Alex, I recalled my own old debt and unstubbed Dmitry Pozharsky. --Ghirla -трёп- 16:51, 7 March 2006 (UTC)
 * I have unstubbed Mstislav Keldysh (old debt) abakharev 16:03, 7 March 2006 (UTC)
 * Akhtubinsk, a geostub by me. KNewman 13:24, 7 March 2006 (UTC)
 * Bityug River by me. KNewman 13:16, 7 March 2006 (UTC)
 * Baga Khan by User:Gurdjieff
 * Unified Sports Classification System of the USSR. Soviet sports ranks system. Cmapm 20:54, 6 March 2006 (UTC)
 * Andrey Voyeykov, not much can be said about this gentleman. Not sure if the category is right. KNewman 19:40, 6 March 2006 (UTC)
 * Eugene Lanceray. --Ghirla -трёп- 19:30, 6 March 2006 (UTC)
 * Apatity, a geostub by me. KNewman 17:05, 6 March 2006 (UTC)
 * Pyotr Bochkaryov by User:Punkmorten
 * Avraham Shmulevich by User:Mjsedgwick. This guy is very active in Russian-language internet but is he really notable either in Israel or in Russia? abakharev 12:33, 6 March 2006 (UTC)
 * Ivan Golubets by User:ISasha
 * The Queen of Spades (1916 film) by me Kmorozov 09:24, 6 March 2006 (UTC)
 * Alexei Abrikosov (physician) by User:AlexeiK. Maybe better to name him Alexei Ivanovich Abrikosov and his son Alexei Alexeyevich Abrikosov? abakharev 08:12, 6 March 2006 (UTC)
 * Done.&mdash;Ëzhiki (ërinacëus amurënsis) 15:18, 6 March 2006 (UTC)
 * Russo-Persian War, 1722-1723 by me. Fisenko 18:50, 5 March 2006 (UTC)
 * Birobidzhaner Shtern by User:Saluedo
 * I unstubbed Mariinsky Theatre, more work ahead. --Ghirla -трёп- 00:22, 5 March 2006 (UTC)
 * Novyi Svet by User:DDima et al. MvR 17:10, 4 March 2006 (UTC)
 * Lev Golitsyn stub by me. MvR 17:08, 4 March 2006 (UTC)
 * Fedoskino miniature by me. Hope to place images soon. Brandmeister 16:58, 4 March 2006 (UTC)
 * Yevgeniy Abalakov by me. Brandmeister 13:52, 4 March 2006 (UTC)
 * Yakov Blumkin by User:Emceesquared, needs better wiki,DYK-able abakharev 11:56, 4 March 2006 (UTC)
 * Vera Sessina by User:CheeseLover
 * List of old growth forests, not a single Russian forest and only Bialowieza Forest for the fSU abakharev 11:37, 4 March 2006 (UTC)
 * Russian Hamas talks, 2006 by User:PZFUN
 * User:Fisss started and illustrated Hotel Astoria, Angleterre Hotel, and Nevsky Palace. The latter is a copyvio, and so may be others. His previous contributions are also suspect. Admins, please investigate. --Ghirla -трёп- 10:35, 4 March 2006 (UTC)
 * I wonder, how been an admin helps someone to ivestigate copyvio? Is he removing the copyvio notice? I'll look anyway abakharev 10:40, 4 March 2006 (UTC)
 * I have removed a couple of borrowed sentences from the other two articles, the rest is clean (I think) abakharev 11:08, 4 March 2006 (UTC)
 * The guy started two more pages full of copyrighted stuff. His talk page consists of copyright warnings only and he didn't answer to any of these. I don't know why admins treat his continuing disruptions so leniently. Probably an appeal in Russian would be more helpful. --Ghirla -трёп- 15:06, 4 March 2006 (UTC)
 * Andrey Maltsev by User:KirGlobal. Looks like a vanity to me abakharev 10:01, 4 March 2006 (UTC)
 * Vanity. No google hits. Should be AFDed, if you ask me. KNewman 14:46, 6 March 2006 (UTC)
 * RC Lokomotiv Moscow by User:Conscious
 * Also Russia national rugby league team and esppecially Russia national rugby league team with an interesting claim: "Rugby league was played in the Soviet Union prior to World War 1". --Irpen 10:07, 4 March 2006 (UTC)
 * Hermitage Theatre by me. --Ghirla -трёп- 08:35, 4 March 2006 (UTC)
 * History of Taganrog by User:ISasha is kind of new (been there since January). Overall, a pretty good article, but it needs copyediting.&mdash;Ëzhiki (ërinacëus amurënsis) 23:13, 3 March 2006 (UTC)
 * Anna of Kashin by me Kmorozov 14:02, 3 March 2006 (UTC)
 * New Category:Cossack uprisings. Please see Category talk:Cossack uprisings for discussion of possible subcats. --Irpen 06:58, 3 March 2006 (UTC)
 * Mukhu Aliyev by Academic Challenger.&mdash;Ëzhiki (ërinacëus amurënsis) 15:27, 2 March 2006 (UTC)
 * Vasili Dmitriyevich Yermolin with a redirect to Vasili Yermolin by me. KNewman 13:58, 2 March 2006 (UTC)
 * Grand Prince of Tver by me. Kmorozov 13:46, 2 March 2006 (UTC)
 * USSR First Division by Matthew hk. I've moved it to USSR Top Division and replaced USSR First Division with a substub. Better names for these articles could probably be found, like USSR Top League/USSR First League or Soviet Top League/Soviet First League. (We'll need a bunch of redirects either way.) Conscious 09:12, 2 March 2006 (UTC)
 * Petrovsk-Zabaikalsky, a geostub by me. KNewman 07:17, 2 March 2006 (UTC)
 * Shimanovsk, a geostub by me. KNewman 07:07, 2 March 2006 (UTC)
 * Another Belogorsk, Kemerovo Oblast in Kemerovo Oblast. KNewman 07:03, 2 March 2006 (UTC)
 * Belogorsk, a geostub by me. KNewman 06:56, 2 March 2006 (UTC)
 * Oleg Penkovskiy, redirected. Brandmeister 00:49, 2 March 2006 (UTC)
 * Alexander Afanasyev, one of missing Britannica articles, which was requested several times to boot. --Ghirla -трёп- 00:07, 2 March 2006 (UTC)
 * Administrative divisions of Amur Oblast by me.&mdash;Ëzhiki (ërinacëus amurënsis) 23:10, 1 March 2006 (UTC)
 * Valentin Varennikov by me. Fisenko 22:14, 1 March 2006 (UTC)
 * Thanks. I will nominate it for DYK. --Ghirla -трёп- 00:07, 2 March 2006 (UTC)
 * Does anybody have a picture of a Russian bayan? KNewman 21:44, 1 March 2006 (UTC)
 * Take a look at accordion or ask mikka to take one ;) --Ghirla -трёп- 00:07, 2 March 2006 (UTC)
 * OK. I took a look at accordion. What now? ;) mikka (t) 08:22, 2 March 2006 (UTC)
 * You seem to be knowledable on Russian musical instruments and probably know how to tell a Russian accordion from other types. I don't. --Ghirla -трёп- 09:00, 2 March 2006 (UTC)
 * An article on Aleksey Petrovich Yermolov needs to be fixed. Someone dumped a load of info in it without wikifying and stuff. Looks kinda ugly. KNewman 21:24, 1 March 2006 (UTC)
 * Actually, I raised similar concerns before. --Ghirla -трёп- 00:07, 2 March 2006 (UTC)
 * Uliana of Tver by me Kmorozov 12:15, 1 March 2006 (UTC)