Belarus Competitive College Club Visit to Yerevan
Nine high school participants of the Belarus Competitive College Club (CCC), accompanied by EducationUSA Belarus advisers Elena Mikhailava and Justyna Sokaitiene, had the opportunity to attend EducationUSA Alumni Talks in Yerevan, Armenia on May 4-6. The event was organized by American Councils and EducationUSA Armenia and featured presentations from U.S. higher education institution representatives and alumni. Participation of Belarusian cohort students was made possible with the support of the U.S. Embassy in Minsk.
Such events, as lectures and workshops on May 5 and the alumni fair later that day, have not been possible to organize in Belarus. Belarusian participants were impressed and inspired, particularly by tips on representing themselves to offices of admissions and how to organize their life on campus. Students also had a chance to meet their Armenian CCC counterparts and share their experiences in applying to U.S. institutions, researching financial aid options, and talking generally about their future plans and aspirations. Participants saw the experience they gained as invaluable to their understanding of the admissions process and, moreover, were personally affected by the connections and friendships they made over an intensive three days.
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The Great Patriotic War. Operation Barbarossa. Episode 1. Docudrama. English Subtitles
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Type: historical reenactment
Genre: docudrama
Year of production: 2011
Number of episodes: 18
Directed by:Anna Grazhdan
Written by:Artem Drabkin, Aleksey Isaev
Production designer:Valeriy Babich
Music by:Boris Kukoba
Producers: Valeriy Babich , Vlad Ryashin , Sergey Titinkov , Konstantin Ernst
Premiere:29/03/2010 (Russia), 03/05/2010 (Ukraine), 20/06/2011 (UK)
The project “Soviet Storm: WW2 in the East” depicts the most important events and battles of World War II. The task of the project is to illustrate the history of the war by means of computer graphics, motion-picture images and wartime actuality shots.
Episode 1: Operation Barbarossa
Episode 2: Kiev, 1941
Episode 3: The Defence of Sevastopol
Episode 4: The Battle for Moscow
Episode 5: Leningrad
Episode 6: Rzhev
Episode 7: Stalingrad
Episode 8: The Battle for Caucasus
Episode 9: The Kursk Bulge
Episode 10: From the Dnieper to the Oder
Episode 11: Operation Bagration
Episode 12: War in the Air
Episode 13: War in the Sea
Episode 14: The Partisan Movement
Episode 15: Secret Intelligence of the Red Army
Episode 16: The Battle for Germany
Episode 17: Berlin
Episode 18: War Against Japan
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Belarusian (; беларуская мова biełaruskaja mova [bʲelaˈruskaja ˈmova]) is an official language of Belarus, along with Russian, and is also spoken in Russia (where it is known as Western Russian) and Ukraine.
Before Belarus gained independence from the Soviet Union in 1991, the language was only known in English as Byelorussian or Belorussian, transliterating the Russian name, белорусский язык Belorusskiy yazyk, or alternatively as White Ruthenian () or White Russian. Following independence, it has acquired the additional name Belarusian.Belarusian is one of the East Slavic languages and shares many grammatical and lexical features with other members of the group. To some extent, Russian, Rusyn, Ukrainian, and Belarusian are mutually intelligible. Its predecessor stage is known as Ruthenian (14th to 17th centuries), in turn descended from Old East Slavic (10th to 13th centuries).
In the first Belarus Census of 1999, the Belarusian language was declared as a language spoken at home by about 3,686,000 Belarusian citizens (36.7% of the population). About 6,984,000 (85.6%) of Belarusians declared it their mother tongue. Other sources, such as Ethnologue, put the figure at approximately 2.5 million active speakers.According to a study done by the Belarusian government in 2009, 72% of Belarusians speak Russian at home, while Belarusian is actively used by only 11.9% of Belarusians. Approximately 29.4% of Belarusians can write, speak, and read Belarusian, while 52.5% can only read and speak it.
Polikarpov I-16 Soviet fighter aircraft , Ishak, Ishachok, Rata, Mosca, Siipiorava
The Polikarpov I-16 was a Soviet fighter aircraft of revolutionary design; it was the world's first low-wing cantilever monoplane fighter with retractable landing gear to attain operational status and as such introduced a new vogue in fighter design. The I-16 was introduced in the mid-1930s and formed the backbone of the Soviet Air Force at the beginning of World War II. The diminutive fighter, nicknamed Ishak or Ishachok (Donkey or Burro) by Soviet pilots, figured prominently in the Second Sino-Japanese War,[2] the Battle of Khalkhin Gol and the Spanish Civil War[3][4] – where it was called the Rata (Rat) by the Nationalists or Mosca (Fly) by the Republicans. The Finnish nickname was Siipiorava (Flying Squirrel).
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ポリカルポフ I-16（露:И-16 イー・シヂスャート、 Polikarpov I-16）は、ソビエト連邦のポリカルポフ設計局の開発した単葉戦闘機である。戦間期から第二次世界大戦の初期にかけて労農赤軍の主力戦闘機を務めた、世界最初の実用的な引き込み脚を持った戦闘機である。
木製の太く短い胴体を持つ本機の外観は、アメリカ合衆国製の高速レース機であるジービー・レーサーに類似して、極度に寸詰まりな形態となっている。機首のエンジンカウリング前面にシャッターを設け、厳寒時にエンジンがオーバークールとなることを防止している[1]。1933年に試作機のTsKB-12が完成、12月に初飛行した。
時代に先駆けた機構的な特徴は、パイロットの人力によってワイヤ駆動で作動する引き込み脚で、速度は配備当時世界最速であり、実戦でも九五式戦闘機やHe 51など複葉戦闘機を性能的に圧倒した[2]。
スペイン内戦、ノモンハン事件、独ソ戦の初期、ソ連・フィンランド戦争に使用されたが、この時期の航空機の進歩は目覚しく、いずれの戦闘でも敵方により新しい高性能の戦闘機が現れたことで、不運にもある意味で「やられ役」を演じることとなってしまった。それでも、ソ連ではI-16を操縦する撃墜王が幾人も誕生した。だが、ドイツ国防軍がソ連に侵攻した1941年時点ですでにI-16は相対的に旧式化しきってしまっており、その後も戦闘機や戦闘爆撃機として運用が続けられたものの、より高性能なYak-1やLaGG-3、MiG-3が登場すると、徐々にそれらに取って代わられていった。
1932年の設計着手時には、複葉機全盛の中で、純片持式低翼単葉、純モノコック構造の胴体、引込脚、スライド式の風防、推力式単排気管など、新機軸を盛り込んだ意欲的な設計であった。各種の派生型を合わせ、1941年までに8,644機（9,450機とも）が作られた。第二次世界大戦勃発時には旧式化していたが、新たなタイプが再生産され、1943年頃まで対地攻撃任務などに運用された。
そのずんぐりした機体からソ連兵からはイシャク（Ishak、ロバ）スペイン内戦の兵士からはモスカ（Mosca、ハエ）、ラタ（Rata、ハツカネズミ）などの愛称で呼ばれた。
南京抗日航空記念館で、実機が観られる。塗装は暗緑色で国籍マークは青天白日。
Polikarpov I-16 (ven. Поликарпов И-16) oli Neuvostoliiton ensimmäinen alatasoinen hävittäjä. Koneen venäjänkielinen nimitys oli Išak (ишак) eli pieni muuli. Espanjan sisällissodassa se sai lempinimet Rata (rotta) ja Mosca (kärpänen). Sen I-16UTI versio oli kaksipaikkainen koulukone.
Kone oli Suomen ilmavoimien vastuksena talvi- ja jatkosodassa ja tunnettiin nimellä Rata. Se oli ominaisuuksiltaan Suomen tärkeintä talvisodan aikaista hävittäjämallia eli Fokker D.XXI:tä selvästi parempi, mutta Fokker-koneen parempi syöksynopeus mahdollisti irtautumisen. Fokker ohjaajille annettiin käsky välttää kaartotaistelua I-16-koneita vastaan, jos mahdollista.[2] Talvisodan alussa venäläisten lentäjien keskimääräinen taso oli heikko, mikä ei tehnyt oikeutta koneen ominaisuuksille. Joissakin taistelukuvauksissa esiintyy I-16 bis -nimi ja kuvailuja koneen ulkonäöstä, mutta tällaista tyyppiä ei ollut olemassa.
Jatkosodassa kone tarjosi vastuksen Curtiss Hawk -koneelle, jonka etuna oli parempi syöksynopeus.[3] Brewster F2A -koneen menestys I-16:ta vastaan perustui niin ikään sen syöksynopeuteen ja tehokkaaseen aseistukseen, joita käytettiin taktisesti oikein ketterää tyyppiä vastaan - syöksy, tulitus, syöksy pois - ylösveto tai poistuminen saavutetun nopeuden avulla.[4] I 16 -lentäjät pyrkivät väistämään alle tiukalla kaarrolla ja tulittamaan ylösvetäviä koneita. Toinen keino oli muodostaa puolustusrengas, Espanjalainen kehä, jossa koneet lensivät ympyrää toistensa takana suojaten toisiaan.
Suomen ilmavoimilla oli kuusi I-16-sotasaaliskonetta, joista kaksi kunnostettiin ja ne olivat käytössä 1940–1943. Kunnostetut koneet olivat alatyyppejä 6 ja 18.
Suomen ilmavoimat ampui alas 16 Rataa talvisodassa. Yksi I-16UTI otettiin sotasaaliiksi ja korjattiin UT-1-tunnuksella varustetuksi ilmavoimien koneeksi, jolla esiteltiin konetta eri laivueille vuonna 1942. Vuoden 1943 loppuun mennessä molempien käyttö oli lopetettu ja toinen oli toimitettu Saksaan. Koneilla lennettiin vain noin kuusi tuntia Suomen ilmavoimien käytössä. Nykyään UT-1 on entisöitynä Suomen ilmailumuseossa.