Infobox ship begin Infobox ship image Ship image File Russian coast guard vessel 183.jpg 300px Ship caption Russian Coast Guard Project 97P Border Patrol Icebreaker Volga 183 . Infobox ship class overview Builders Admiralty Yard, Leningrad Operators navy SUN br span class flagicon File Russian Border Guard.svg 22x20px border   span Border Guard Service of Russia Class before Class after Subclasses Built range 1975 1981 In commission range 1975 present day Total ships building Total ships planned Total ships completed 8 Total ships cancelled Total ships active 6 Total ships laid up Total ships lost Total ships retired 2? Total ships scrapped Total ships preserved Infobox ship characteristics Hide header Header caption Ship type Icebreaker patrol vessel Ship displacement 3,400 tons full load Ship length 70 m Ship beam 18.3 m Ship draught 6.5 m Ship draft Ship propulsion 2 shaft diesel electric 4,800 hp Ship speed 14.5 knots Ship range 13,000 nm at 9.5 knots Ship complement 140 Ship sensors Radar 2 x Don Kay, 1 Strut Curve, 1 Owl Screech Ship EW Ship armament 2 x 76mm guns br 2 AK630 CIWS guns Ship armour Ship armor Ship aircraft Ship aircraft facilities helicopter pad Ship notes The Ivan Susanin class is a group of icebreaker Patrol ship s operated by the Border Guard Service of Russia Russian maritime border guard . The Soviet designation is Project 97P . The ships are also known as the Aysberg class patrol ice breakers. Design These ships are modified versions of the Dobrynya Nikitich class civilian icebreaker. They are armed with a twin 76mm gun mounting forward and two AK630 CIWS guns aft as well as having a helicopter pad and surveillance radar. Ships Eight ships were built between 1975 and 1981 by Admiralty Shipyard Admiralty yard , Leningrad 6 are operational and two have been retired. Aysberg 1974 based in the Pacific Dunaii 1977 based in the Pacific Imeni XXVI S yezda KPSS renamed Murmansk 1978, Northern Fleet Ivan Susanin operated by the Russian Navy as ... more details
Posadnik Cyrillic was the mayor in some East Slavic peoples East Slavic cities or towns. Most notably, the posadnik equivalent to a stadtholder , Burgomaster burgomeister , or podest in the medieval west was the mayor of Novgorod and Pskov . The term comes from the Old Church Slavic Citation needed date April 2012 posaditi, meaning to put or place they were so called because the prince in Kiev originally placed them in the city to rule on his behalf. Beginning in the twelfth century, they were elected locally. Novgorod Despite legends of posadniks such as Gostomysl that were set in the ninth century, the term posadnik first appeared in the Primary Chronicle under the year 997. The earliest Novgorodian posadniks include Dobrynya an uncle of Vladimir the Great , his son Konstantin Dobrynich and Ostromir , who is famous for patronizing the Ostromir Gospels , among the first books published in Russia it is now housed in the National Library of Russia in St. Petersburg . In the Novgorod Republic , the city posadnik was elected from among the boyar s by the veche public assembly . The elections were held annually. Novgorod boyars differed from boyars in other Rus lands in that the category was not castelike and that every rich merchant could reasonably hope to reach the rank of boyar. Valentin Yanin , the Soviet dean of medieval Novgorodian history, has found that most posadniks held the office consecutively for sometimes a decade or more and then often passed the office on to their sons or another close relative, indicating that the office was held within boyar clans and that the elections were not really free and fair. ref Valentin Lavrent evich Yanin, Novgorodskie Posadniki Moscow Moscow State University, 1962 reprinted Moscow Iazyki Russkoi kultury, 2003 . ref Yanin s theory challenged historians understanding of the Novgorod Republic, showing it to be a boyar republic with little or no democratic elements. It also showed the land owning boyarstvo to be more ... more details
Otheruses File Dobryna.jpg thumb 200px Ivan Bilibin , Dobrynya Nikitich rescues Zabava Putyatichna from the zmey Gorynych dragon Gorynych . Dobrynya Nikitich rescues Zabava Putyatichna from the zmey Gorynych dragon Gorynych , by Ivan Bilibin . Bylina or Bylyna lang ru plural pl. lang ru Byliny lang uk Bylyna plural pl. lang uk Bylyny is a traditional East Slavic oral epic narrative poem. ref Bylina Russian Poetry Britannica Online Encyclopedia, Encyclopedia Britannica Online Encyclopedia, accessed December 05, 2010, http www.britannica.com EBchecked topic 86999 bylina. ref Byliny singers loosely utilize historical fact greatly embellished with fantasy or hyperbole to create their songs. ref Felix J. Oinas, Russian Byliny, in Heroic Epic and Saga an Introduction to the World s Great Folk Epics Bloomington Indiana University Press, 1978 , 236. ref The word Bylina is derived from the past tense of the verb to be Russian byt and implies something that was. ref James Bailey and Tatyana Ivanova, An Anthology of Russian Folk Epics Armonk, NY M. E. Sharpe, 1998 , xx. ref The term most likely originated with scholars of Russian folklore in 1839, Sakharov, a Russian folklorist, published an anthology of Russian folklore, a section of which he titled Byliny of the Russian People, causing the popularization of the term. ref Alex E. Alexander, Bylina and Fairy Tale the Origins of Russian Heroic Poetry, The Hague Mouton, 1973 , 13. ref Later scholars believe that Sakharov misunderstood the word bylina in the opening of Igor Tale as an ancient poem. The folk singers of byliny called these songs stariny Russian or starinki Russian meaning stories of old. ref Felix J. Oinas, Russian Byliny, in Heroic Epic and Saga an Introduction to the World s Great Folk Epics Bloomington Indiana University Press, 1978 , 236. ref History Most historians of East Slavic and Russian folklore believe that byliny as a genre arose during the Kievan period ... more details
their ancestral paganism and convert to Christianity . Image Dobryna.jpg thumb left Dobrynya Nikitich ... errant knights errant , such as the Russian Dobrynya Nikitich . In some variants of Tristan and Iseult ... more details
interesting finds was the Zbruch Idol , a stone figure of a deity with four faces. Dobrynya i zmiy Dobrynya and the Dragon was one of the monuments of the Epic poetry epic literature of Rus . There are different ... more details
and was brought from her cave to the palace to predict the future. Malusha s brother Dobrynya was Vladimir ... legendary Dobrynya highly doubtful is the fact of her being Anna s offspring a granddaughter of Otto ... more details
About the genre in the arts File Dobryna.jpg right thumb Fairy tales and legends, such as Dobrynya Nikitich s rescue of Zabava Putyatichna from the dragon Gorynych , have been an important source for fantasy. Fantasy Fantasy is a genre of fiction that commonly uses magic paranormal magic and other supernatural phenomena as a primary element of Plot narrative plot , Theme literature theme , or Setting fiction setting . Many works within the genre take place in imaginary world s where magic is common. Fantasy is generally distinguished from the genres of science fiction and Horror fiction horror by the expectation that it steers clear of scientific and macabre themes, respectively, though there is a great deal of overlap between the three, all of which are subgenres of speculative fiction . In popular culture , the genre of fantasy is dominated by its Medievalism medievalist form, especially since the worldwide success of The Lord of the Rings and related books by J. R. R. Tolkien . Fantasy has also included fairy tale s, wizard fantasy wizard s, Magician fantasy sorcerers , or witchcraft , etc. , in events which avoid horror. In its broadest sense, however, fantasy comprises works by many writers, artists, filmmakers, and musicians, from ancient mythology myths and legend s to many recent works embraced by a wide audience today. Fantasy is a vibrant area of academic study in a number of disciplines English language English , cultural studies , comparative literature , history , medieval studies . Work in this area ranges widely, from the structuralist theory of Tzvetan Todorov , which emphasizes the fantastic as a liminal space, to work on the connections political, historical, literary between medievalism and popular culture. ref Jane Tolmie, Medievalism and the Fantasy Heroine , Journal of Gender Studies , Vol. 15, No. 2 July 2006 , pp. 145 158. ISSN 0958 9236 ref Traits of fantasy The identifying traits of fantasy are the inclusion of fantastic elements in a self coherent ... more details
Tristan , Margaret the Virgin , Heinrich von Winkelried , Dobrynya Nikitich , Smok Wawelski Skuba Dratewka ... Gorynych was killed by bogatyr Dobrynya Nikitich . Other Russian dragons such as Tugarin Zmeyevich ... more details
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