About the capital of Russia other uses Moscow disambiguation Pp move indef Infobox Russian federal subject en name Moscow ru name image skyline Moscow collage new 2011 .jpg image caption Top St. Basil s Cathedral , Spasskaya Tower Spasskaya Clocktower br Center Kotelnicheskaya Embankment Kotelnicheskaya Embankment building , Monument to Minin and Pozharsky , Cathedral of Christ the Saviour , Worker and Kolkhoz Woman Worker and Kolkhoz Woman sculpture br Bottom Moscow International Business Center image map Moscow in Russia special marker .svg latd 55 latm 45 lats 06 longd 37 longm 37 longs 04 image coa Coat of Arms of Moscow.svg coa caption Coat of Arms of Moscow image flag Flag of Moscow.svg flag caption Flag of Moscow anthem Moya Moskva My Moscow holiday The first Saturday and Sunday of September holiday ref ref cite web title Holidays and significant dates of Moscow url http old.mos.ru wps portal EnglishVersion?documentId 119125 work Moscow City Government accessdate 29 September 2010 ref POLITICAL STATUS political status Federal city political status link Federal cities of Russia federal district Central Federal District Central economic region Central economic region Central STATS pop 2010census 11503501 pop 2010census rank 1st pop 2010census ref ref name 2010Census urban pop 2010census 100 rural pop 2010census 0 pop density 9682 pop density as of January 1, 2010 pop density ref ref cite web title url http www.gks.ru bgd regl b10 109 IssWWW.exe Stg 3Cextid 3E 3Cstoragepath 3E 7Ctabl 02 10.xls work Rosstat accessdate 30 September 2010 year 2010 ref pop latest 11510097 pop latest date 2011 pop latest ref ref name 2011Est Goskomstat Rosstat . http www.gks.ru bgd free b04 03 Isswww.exe Stg d01 65oz shisl28.htm 1 2010 ., 1 2011 . 2010 ru icon ref area km2 1091 area km2 ref ref name RusArea2009 http ... more details
File Novgorod Monument LOC 06268u.jpg 300px thumb The Millennium of Russia monument in Veliky Novgorod , featuring the statues and reliefs of the most celebrated people in the first 1000 years of Russian history . File 1000 Prosvetiteli.jpg 300px thumb Men of enlightenment at the Millennium of Russia File 1000 Gos cheloveki.jpg 300px thumb Statesmen at the Millennium of Russia File 1000 Voina cheloveki.jpg 300px thumb Military men and heroes at the Millennium of Russia File 1000 Art cheloveki.jpg 300px thumb Writers and artists at the Millennium of Russia This is a list of people associated with the modern Russian Federation , the Soviet Union , Imperial Russia , Russian Tsardom , the Grand Duchy of Moscow , and other predecessor states of Russia. Regardless of ethnicity or emigration, the list includes famous natives of Russia and its predecessor states, as well as people who were born elsewhere but spent most of their active life in Russia. For more information, see the articles Russians and Demographics of Russia . For specific lists of Russians, see Category Lists of Russian people and Category Russian people . Statesmen and military Monarchs main Russian rulers Rurik , ruler of Novgorod , progenitor of the Rurikid Dynasty , traditionally the first ruler of Russia File 1000 Vladimir 2.jpg 90px thumb Vladimir the Great Oleg the Seer Oleg the Seer , conqueror of Kiev and founder of Kievan Rus , famous for his wars with Byzantium Igor of Kiev Igor the Old , the first historically well attested Rurikid ruler St. Olga Olga , the first woman ruler of Rus regent , the first Christian among Russian rulers Svyatoslav I , united all East Slavs under Kievan rule and destroyed the Khazar Khaganate Vladimir of Kiev Vladimir I the Great , turned from pagan to saint and enacted the Christianization of Kievan Rus Yaroslav of Kiev Yaroslav I the Wise , reigned in the period when Kievan Rus reached the zenith of its cultural flowering and military power, founder of Yaroslavl Vlad ... more details
File Lomonosovportrait.jpg thumb 220px Mikhail Lomonosov , Russian polymath scientist, inventor, poet and artist, the founder of Moscow State University . This list of Russia n scientist s includes scientists associated with modern Russian Federation , the Soviet Union , Imperial Russia , Russian Tsardom , Grand Duchy of Moscow and other predecessor states of Russia. Regardless of ethnicity or emigration, the list includes famous natives of Russia and its predecessor states as well as the people who were born elsewhere but spent most of their active life in Russia. Polymaths File Baer Karl von 1792 1876.jpg 100px thumb Karl Baer Baer Karl Ernst von Baer , polymath naturalist, formulated the geological Baer s law on river erosion and embryological Baer s laws , founder of the Russian Entomological Society , co founder of the Russian Geographical Society Alexander Borodin , chemist and composer, author of the famous opera Prince Igor , discovered Borodin reaction , co discovered Aldol reaction Alexander Chizhevsky , interdisciplinary scientist, biophysicist, philosopher and artist, founder of heliobiology and modern air ionification , Russian cosmist Johann Gottlieb Georgi , naturalist, chemist, mineralogist, ethnographer and explorer, the first to describe omul fish of Baikal , published the first full scale work on ethnography of indigenous peoples of Russia File Levitzky Lvov 1770.jpg thumb 95px Nikolay Lvov Lvov Mikhail Lomonosov , polymath scientist, artist and inventor founder of the Moscow State University proposed the law of conservation of matter disproved the phlogiston theory invented coaxial rotor and the first helicopter invented the night vision telescope and off axis reflecting telescope discovered the atmosphere of Venus suggested the organic matter organic origin of soil , peat , coal , petroleum and amber pioneered the research of atmospheric electricity coined the term physical chemistry the first to record the freezing of mercury element mercury co ... more details
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