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Alexander Mikhailovich Prokhorov [1] (born Alexander Michael Prochoroff, Russian: Алекса́ндр Миха́йлович Про́хоров; 11 July 1916 – 8 January 2002) was a Russian physicist and researcher on lasers and masers in the former Soviet Union for which he shared the Nobel Prize in Physics in 1964 with Charles Hard Townes and Nikolay Basov.
Mikhail Prokhorov. Mikhail Dmitrievich Prokhorov (Russian: Михаил Дмитриевич Прохоров, IPA: [mʲɪxɐˈil ˈdmʲitrʲɪjɪvʲɪtɕ ˈproxərəf]; born 3 May 1965) is a Russian-Israeli businessman, politician, and former owner of the Brooklyn Nets. After the collapse of the Soviet Union, Prokhorov obtained Russian state ...
Prokhorovka, Belgorod Oblast. Coordinates: 51°02′11″N 36°44′11″E. A memorial on the Prokhorovka battlefield. Prokhorovka's monument to the dead Soviet soldiers. Prokhorovka (Russian: Про́хоровка, IPA: [ˈproxərəfkə]) is an urban locality (a settlement) and the administrative center of Prokhorovsky District of Belgorod ...
The Battle of Prokhorovka was fought on 12 July 1943 [a] near Prokhorovka, 87 kilometres (54 mi) southeast of Kursk, in the Soviet Union, during the Second World War. Taking place on the Eastern Front, the engagement was part of the wider Battle of Kursk and occurred when the 5th Guards Tank Army of the Soviet Red Army attacked the II SS-Panzer ...
Russia: 71 11.5 –US$6.9B: Steel, telecom, and investments in the privatization of Russia [11] 8: 173 Gennady Timchenko: Russia Finland Armenia: 71 11.3 –US$10.7B: Oil & gas industry and investments in the privatization of Russia [12] 9: 177 Andrey Melnichenko: Russia United Arab Emirates: 52 11.1 –US$6.8B: Coal industry and fertilizer [13 ...
Prokhorov was born on 19 January 1922 to a Russian family in the village of Rozhdestvenskoe, in the Novokhopyorsky Uyezd of Voronezh Governorate. A decade after moving to the city of Borisoglebsk in 1930 he graduated from the local aeroclub and his tenth grade of school before being drafted into the Red Army in August 1940.
The Russian Academy of Sciences (RAS; Russian: Росси́йская акаде́мия нау́к (РАН) Rossíyskaya akadémiya naúk) consists of the national academy of Russia; a network of scientific research institutes from across the Russian Federation; and additional scientific and social units such as libraries, publishing units, and hospitals.
In 4 March 2012 presidential polls, Prokhorov gained 7.94% of the vote. [7] Mikhail Prokhorov conducted a tour around the country, meeting with his supporters in various cities. He was the only candidate to do so except for Putin, who visited Russia's regions as a part of his Prime Minister of Russia duties. [citation needed]