Russia полностью

Wallhausen, Johann von: The Art of Infantry Warfare, 136—7

Warsaw, 196, 213-14, 284

Warsaw Treaty Organization (WTO), 276, 288

Washington, 278, 286-7, 303, 305, 311, 313

Waterloo, battle of (1815), 195

weather see climate

Wenden, 104

Wesenberg, 98

West Germany (Federal Republic of Germany), 278, 290

Western Dvina river, 142

Western Powers, 264, 279

White army (anti-Bolsheviks), 238, 240, 242, 243, 244; see also army; Red Army

White Cowl, Legend of, 68, 85

White Horde, 97

White Sea, 69, 97, 251

Wilmanstrand, 171

Wladyslaw, Prince, 122, 123, 126

World Bank, 312

Yaik Cossacks, 158

Yakutia, 244, 273

Yakuts, 134, 199, 216, 272

Yakutsk, 131, 251

Year of Revolutions (1848), 208

Yedigei, Tatar Khan, 62, 63

Yelets, 110

Yeltsin, Boris, 289-90, 294-8, 302, 322, 323; constitutional changes, 305-6; economic mismanagement of, 302-4, 310—12; health of, 309; re-election of, 309—10; resignation of, 313; support for, 306, 312-13

Yenisei river, 131, 280

Yerevan, 191, 199, 204

Yermak (Cossack leader in service of the Stroganovs), 97, 110

Yermolov, General A.P., 199-200

Yngvar the Viking, 32-3

Yugits, 134

Yugoslav Communist Party, 267

Yugoslavia, Yugoslavs, 263, 265, 294, 298, 313

Yukagirs, 132, 176

Yukos (oil company), 316

Zagorsk, 60, 64; Trinity St Sergius

Monastery, 124

Zakaev, Akmed, 316

Zaporozhian Cossacks, 95, 122

Zaporozhian Sech, 143, 144, 155, 163, 181, 184

Zarutskii, Hetman Ivan, 124, 126

Zhukov, Marshal Georgi, 253, 255, 257, 258, 269

Ziuganov, Gennadi, 309-10

Zoe/Sofia Paleologue (wife of Ivan IV), 70-1, 82-3

Zolkiewski (Polish commander), 123

Zosimus, Metropolitan, 82

Zubov, Platon, 188

Zvenigorod, 63