Digest for 97-01-24
Table of Contents
RECENT GUESTBOOK ENTRIES . . .
01-24 January 97 Sender: iceman@nstate.net
Subject: from Frank Edgerly
02-24 January 97 Sender: vladmira@etak.com
Subject: from Vladimir Amcheslavsky
03-24 January 97 Sender: PCHS@CityNet.Net
Subject: from Michael R. Hattman
04-24 January 97 Sender: karazsiaf@smithville.net
Subject: from Nancy Karazsia
05-24 January 97 Sender: tgoold@ix.netcom.com
Subject: from Tom Goold
06-24 January 97 Sender: linedsgn@pacbell.net
Subject: from Sarka
RECENT EMAIL . . .
01-24 January 97 Sender: Mary (maryanncat@postoffice.worldnet.att.net)
Subject: Russian Life Magazine
02-24 January 97 Sender: TScud@aol.com
Subject: "Moscow Nights"/"Midnight In Moscow"
03-24 January 97 Sender: Wadokwondo@aol.com
Subject: WWW.
04-24 January 97 Sender: Suzyq02@aol.com
Subject: Help?!
05-24 January 97 Sender: madry@ocean.rutgers.edu
Subject: Tsiolkovsky Museum in Kaluga
06-24 January 97 Sender: linedsgn@pacbell.net
Subject: Searching for Relatives
07-24 January 97 Sender: flowers@remembered.com
Subject: Help
08-24 January 97 Sender: "Valerij I. Gerasimov" (valery@irga.vernet.lv)
Subject: Russian2English and vice versa
09-24 January 97 Sender: John Anderson (tcail-76@msn.com)
Subject: World Wildfire and the Ilyushin-76
10-24 January 97 Sender: mac@MAINE.maine.edu (Dennis McConnell)
Subject: Russian/NIS Business Directories
APPENDIX: LISTSERV address & basic procedures
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RECENT GUESTBOOK ENTRIES . . .
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Sender: iceman@nstate.net
Subject: from Frank Edgerly
Nice site! I've been to Russia 14 times and still
find it exciting. I am intersted in Russian business
friends and life. Want any information on Business in
the Russian Far East. I have lots of info.
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Sender: vladmira@etak.com
Subject: from Vladimir Amcheslavsky
Hello everybody!
I was born in Russia, but I have lived in the US since Novenber of 1991.
Will heppy to get some information from Russia.
Thanks.
Vlad.
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Sender: PCHS@CityNet.Net
Subject: from Michael R. Hattman
For the second year we will participate in an exchange of students through
the AFS/USIA. In addition to grant funds, we are trying to raise money for
trips and activities while the Russians visit Parkersburg WV. If anyone
knows of a foundation or group that would help in this attempt to show 10
Russians and thier sponsors our culture. Please contact our school with
funding ideas or locations near WV that you would coordinate or sponsor
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Sender: karazsiaf@smithville.net
Subject: from Nancy Karazsia
Hello. I am exploring the net looking for information on Macedonia. Last
school year we hosted an exchange student from Skopje. She is now a
college student back home in Macedonia in hotel management. I would like to
see if there is a way to email her, since the Macedonian mail system isn't
that great. Any ideas?
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Sender: tgoold@ix.netcom.com
Subject: from Tom Goold
This is a great site to find as I try get involved in the wide world. I
would enjoy hearing from any of you also interested in the Northwest United
States, specifically the state of Washington. We have a great number of
former Soviets in this area and if anyone would like to find them I might
be of some help.
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Sender: linedsgn@pacbell.net
Subject: from Sarka (on line name)
I am trying to get information about missing relatives in 3 places:
Slavuta (Ukraine), Moscow, and Eastern Russia (possibly Khabarovsk). In
Slavuta the two family names are Mooza and Buinitsky. In Moscow, Yuri
Shaidurov and Khabarovsk (no first name) Shaidurov. This name may be
connected with the author of Finite Mathematics . . . I do not know.
I am from the Boston area but for 7 years live in S. California. I am a
Graphic Designer. Anyone with suggestions is welcome to write. I do not
know Russian except for a few words. I know Polish a little also and have
many friends from all over Poland. I am Polish, Czech, Ukrainian and
Russian with French and Italian from my father's side. We can trace all
species! but need to find relatives!
I have many Polish recipes and some Russian and Ukrainian.
My father would never believe that Commun. fell! His mother and he were
separated from his father and brother after World War I and he did
secondary schooling in Shanghai, China. He did not find his brother for 40
years! A friend from Harvard University, Cambridge, MA visited Moscow and
unbelievably found his brother living there! His photos showed him to be
almost an identical twin of my Dad!
My dad passed away several years ago, my mother's Russian is not very good
(she is first generation) and I sincerely wish to find my two families.
Someday I hope to visit and am planning to study some Russian soon.
Any suggestions?
Please write about anything that may interest you. I am Mac-based using
Photoshop, Illustrator and Quark with lots of bells and whistles. I hope
to have a webpage within 2 months.
Signing off now . . . linedsgn@pacbell.net
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E-MAIL POSTINGS . . .
Please continue to send your e-mail to friends@solar.rtd.utk.edu.
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Sender: Mary (maryanncat@postoffice.worldnet.att.net)
Subject: Russian Life Magazine
I used to access Russian Life from your home page. Now
Netscape can't find the URL. Do you know how I can access
this page?
Any help would be appreciated very much.
Mary A. Montgomery
NOTE: "Russian Life" and "Access Russia" are available from URL:
http://www.friends-partners.org/~rispubs/access/rispubs.html
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Sender: TScud@aol.com
Subject: "Moscow Nights"/"Midnight In Moscow"
Dear Reader:
First, I want to congratulate you on a wonderful source of information. This
was an unexpected treat in my attempts at research.
I am working on the music for an IMAX film called "Mission To Myr." We are
interested in using the Vasili Soloviev-Sedoy composition that has been
translated as "Moscow Nights" or "Midnight In Moscow." However, we are
looking to find out some information on Soloviev-Sedoy.
Do you have any suggestions on where we can find 1) the birth and death dates
of Mr. Soloviev-Sedoy and 2) when he wrote the composition.
I would appreciate any and all help that you may provide.
Again, I thank you and congratulations on developing such a terrific site!
Sincerely,
Tony Scudellari
TScud@aol.com
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Sender: Wadokwondo@aol.com
Subject: WWW.
I just found your site and unfortunatly I have to go now but will return.
Could you please translate two Russian words for me? The first sounds like
machinin(it means visit ?) and the second sounds in English like so or sew.
Thank you for your help. Your WWW site looks really good and I plan to
return when I have more time.
Thanks
Wadokwondo@aol.com
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Sender: Suzyq02@aol.com
Subject: Help?!
I have cousins in Ukraine who my mother and I have only just located as her
father and mother were the only emigrants, whose families' communications
were cut off by the Stalin regime. We have been writing back and forth, and
now some of the younger, educated family members have asked for our help in
immigrating here. While we don't have reservations about sponsoring them for
visas, I feel that locating some Ukrainian communities in the US could serve
as ideal areas to begin new lives (temporarily, as only one knows English,
and jobs even for natives are scarce where my parents live in California). Do
you know of any cities in US or Canada that contain large numbers of Russian
immigrants? Anything you know would be helpful.
Thanks! Susan Baker
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Sender: madry@ocean.rutgers.edu Scott Madry
Subject: Tsiolkovsky Museum in Kaluga
Press Release-For Immediate Release January 20, 1997
The Konstantin E. Tsiolkovsky State Museum of the History of
Cosmonautics-Kaluga, Russia and The Rutgers University Center for Remote
Sensing and Spatial Analysis,-New Brunswick, New Jersey, USA are pleased to
announce the development of a WWW homepage for the Tsiolkovsky Museum in
Kaluga.
This web page is a joint project of the two organizations, and has been
created by Dr. Scott Madry of Rutgers with the assistance of Dr. Vladimir
Litkin, Scientific Director of the museum.
The project is an outgrowth of the International Space University, where
Dr. Madry and Dr. Litkin are both on the Faculty of the ISU international
summer space education program. The webpage is a comprehensive tour (with
numerous color photographs) of the museum, which opened in 1967. It was
the first museum in the world dedicated to space history and cosmonautics.
The museum contains numerous manuscripts and documents of Konstantin E.
Tsiolkovsky (1857-1935), who is regarded as the father of cosmonautics and
who was a pioneer of space travel. His work on the theory of space travel
had a major influence on the Soviet and other early space programs and
pioneers. The museum cornerstone was laid by Maj. Yuri Gagarin, the first
human in space, in 1961, and the museum was championed by Sergey Korolev,
the famed "Chief Designer" of the Soviet space program. The museum also
contains numerous exhibits of the early Soviet space program, including
space capsules, satellites, space suits, and an outdoor rocket park. The
house where Tsiolkovsky lived in Kaluga for 29 years is also preserved as a
part of the museum complex.
It is hoped that this web page will make Tsiolkovsky and his work more
widely known to the world, and that it will assist the museum in connecting
with other museums and space history and education organizations around the
world. The url of the page is:
http://deathstar.rutgers.edu/museum/museumtop.html
Please consider linking this page to yours, and send any comments,
additional links, or suggestions about the page to: Dr. Scott Madry
madry@ocean.rutgers.edu Inquiries about the museum should be directed to:
Dr. Vladimir Litkin rita@elecs.kaluga.su
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Sender: linedsgn@pacbell.net
Subject: Searching for Relatives
Hello!
My name is Christine and I am trying to locate relatives living in Russia.
My father was born in Harbin, Manchuria and his name was Leonid Shaidurov.
Shortly after World War I the family became separated. His father was a
banker (White Russian) and his mother (Alla) (Anna) was Italian and French
and she was an artist. She also did sculptures.
He had a brother two years younger named Vitali Shaidurov. His brother and
father ended up in Khaborovsk (I believe) while he and his mother ended up
in Shanghai, China where they lived in the Russian Settlement.
After many years of searching, a Harvard University student found my
father's brother living in Moscow. Pictures revealed him to look exactly
like my father! Very exciting! He had been very well educated and was a
mathematician. He had a son named Yuri.
My father has passed away quite some time ago. My mother's Russian was not
good enough (being raised in the US) to be able to write to my uncle
telling him of my father's death.
The only Shaidurov I can pull up on line has to do with Finite Mathematics
and the author is from the Eastern part of Russia. Is there a way to find
out if this may be a cousin? Or is there a way to find out if Yuri
Shaidurov is living in the Moscow area?
I always wondered what happened to my father's family - ever since I was a
very little girl.
I also have a search on my mother's side. Her people were from the Ukraine
and we know the house is still standing! But this will keep for another
time.
Any suggestions will be greatly appreciated. I do not speak Russian and
have very little recollection of Russian alphabet etc. from my childhood
with grandparents.
Thank you for any help forthcoming!
Christine (Graphic Designer)
linedsgn@pacbell.net
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Sender: flowers@remembered.com
Subject: Help
Greetings,
I hope that I am reaching the people that have the Russian/English Website.
I have become friends with a family from Belarussia...they have lived here
now for about 2 years. I have taught the mother all of the English that
she knows and I taught her daughter in first grade.
I have a problem that I do not know how to approach and I hope that you can
help me..it must be a Russina custom or something ...but everytime they
come to my house they bring some kind of eatable gift...I invited them for
dinner and they brought there own complete dinner...uncooked..while the
meal I had prepared sat on the tabble getting cold.
How should I approach this? Is this a custom in their country?..You bring
your own meal when invited to someone's home?
Besides that the relationship has been wonderful and enlightening and I
feel very blessed to have our paths cross.
Thank you for any suggetions or direction you could lead me!
Sincerly,
Larua
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Sender: "Valerij I. Gerasimov" (valery@irga.vernet.lv)
Subject: Russian2English and vice versa
Dear Friends!
)Hello (Priviet). Greetings from Italy. This is a nice site. I'm looking
)for informations about computer translator English/Russian language.
)Someone can help me. Ciao (Poka) and thanks!
I know one:
STYLUS for Windows 95,
producer "PROMT" firm
Russia,
199053, Sankt-Petersburg, p.b.632, PROMT
E-mail: support@promt.spb.su
Best wishes,
Valerij
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Sender: John Anderson (tcail-76@msn.com)
Subject: World Wildfire and the Ilyushin-76
Russia (and Khazakstan) is the proud home of the world's largest, fastest,
longest range air tanker, or firefighting aircraft. It is the Ilyushin-
76. Any of these jet cargo planes can be easily converted to (and from)
the firefighting role.
To give you some idea of the relative capacity of this machine (43K l), it
will drop more than four times the capacity of Canada's largest air tanker,
the DC-6*, over an area-equivalent of six double-wide (U.S.)football
fields. 1100m x 80m.
Many jurisdictions around the world have wildfire problems, not only
endangering firefighters and people who reside in or near the danger zones
(eg. Australia's and California's bush); but also destroying valuable
timber and adding large quantities of CO2 to our endangered environment, at
the same time burning down one of nature's CO2 "sinks". This is a common
problem for the boreal forest countries like Canada and, of course, Russia.
For the past two+ years, I have had the pleasure of working with the joint
venture which offers the world the benefits of this marvellous firefighting
tool.
We hope to see it and its Russian crews in action on disasters in countries
other than Russia in the very near future. This sort of inititative takes
goodwill from many people who organize and operate the world's emergency
systems. As a chief organizer of the 1997 World Police and Fire Games
(Calgary, Alberta, Canada, July) told me, firefighters are usually very
conservative when it comes to their equipment and tools. Even if a new
tool is demonstrably superior, change is slow to come about.
But compared to the Il-76, which can be considered a strategic, global
response firefighter, other, usually older and much smaller capacity fire-
fighting aircraft are tactical firefighters at best.
During the course of my work, I visited Moscow, staying at a modern hotel
not far from the airport. I found the atmosphere vibrant and exhilarating,
if smoggy.
Happy 750th Birthday Moscow!
Hope the paint dries before the celebrations begin.
*There is, of course the World War II vintage Martin Mars "flying boat" air
tanker but it is privately owned and only available in B.C
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Sender: mac@MAINE.maine.edu (Dennis McConnell - Maine Business School)
Subject: Russian/NIS Business Directories
In response to my inquiry about Russian industry-specific busi-
ness information, I recently received e-mail about available
information resources from the Russian Information and Business
Center in Washington, DC. Perhaps some list members will find the
list of resources interesting/useful. I have reorganized the
information received, to make it a bit easier to read, and have
attached it to this note. Please contact the e-mail address in
the announcement for more information.
Information Resources
Russian Information and Business Center
Russian Industrial Directories: $99 for each (32 industries)
Automobile, Building Materials, Clothing, Coal Mining and Peat,
Consumer Goods, Electrical Engineering, Fish Processing, Food,
Footwear, Forestry & Timber, Oil & Gas, Oil Refining, Gold
Mining, Power, Printing, pulp & Paper, Radio-electronic, Rubber &
Plastic, Scrap & Waste Processing, Textile, Tobacco, Machine
Building, High Tech & PC, Medical Equipment, Metal Working,
Metallurgy, Mining, Pharmaceutical, etc.
Russian Business Library: $99 each (24 directories):
Russian Transportation; Russian Banks; Russian Universities &
Research Institutions; Russian Hotels; Joint Ventures; Mass Media
Directory; Russian Advertising Directory; Russian Trade Direc-
tory; Foreign Banks in Russia; Foreign Companies in Russia;
Russian Telecom Directory; Russian Charity, Religious and non-
profit Organizations; US Economic Assistance to Russia & NIS;
Foreign Companies in Russia; US Companies in Russia ($39); US
Government Working with Russia & NIS; International Financial
organizations & US Agencies with Russian Projects; Grants for
Russia-US Foundations; Russian Political Parties.
Russian Regional Business Directories: $99 each (89 directories--
a separate business directory for each Russian republic, kray or
oblast).
Newly Independent States & Baltics Industrial & Business Directo-
ries $99 each: Armenia, Azerbaijan, Belarus, Estonia, Georgia,
Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Latvia, Lithuania, Moldova, Tajikistan,
Turkmenistan, Ukraine (East, West & South), Uzbekistan.
Misc. Publications
NIS Industrial Directories: $89 each (32 directories)
Russian Nuclear Business Directory $295
Russian Regional Explorer on CD ROM $149.00
Russian Business White & Yellow Pages $49 (special offer for new
customers) Regular price $99.
Russian Regional Economic & Business Atlas $149
Russian Regions Today Atlas $149
Environmental & Health Atlas $95
Russia Today Atlas $149
Ukrainian Political Elite $39
Russian Parliament Directory $99
Ukrainian Guide to Business Information Sources $39
Ukrainian Mass Media Directory $39.
English-Ukrainian-Russian Economic Dictionary $19.95.
Russian Gold $49 (Russian language interactive course on CD for
students)
Russian-English-Russian Translation System on CD for students $49
(including several dictionaries).
Translation System on CD for professionals $199
Translation System on CD for Businessmen $399
Translation System on CD for Engineers $399
Translation System on CD for Lawyers $499
English-Russian-English Dictionary (600,000 words) on CD $199
All items can be ordered via fax, E-Mail, mail or phone. We take
all major credit cards, checks and purchase orders.
For more information:
Natasha Alexeyev
Russian Information & Business Center,
P.O. Box 15343
Washington DC 20003, USA
Tel: 202-546-2103
Fax: 202-546-3275
Fax: 703-521-6238
E-Mail: rusric@erols.com
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