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The eastern wall of the Novgorod Detinets Map of Novgorod Kremlin Novgorod Kremlin Wall on a 5-ruble banknote. The Novgorod Detinets (Russian: Новгородский детинец, romanized: Novgorodskiy detinets), also known as the Novgorod Kremlin (Russian: Новгородский кремль, romanized: Novgorodskiy kreml'), is a fortified complex in Veliky Novgorod, Russia.
The Moscow Kremlin [a] or simply the Kremlin [b] is a fortified complex in Moscow, Russia. [1] Located in the centre of the country's capital city, it is the best known of the kremlins (Russian citadels ) and includes five palaces, four cathedrals, and the enclosing Kremlin Wall along with the Kremlin towers .
A compound microscope uses a lens close to the object being viewed to collect light (called the objective lens), which focuses a real image of the object inside the microscope (image 1). That image is then magnified by a second lens or group of lenses (called the eyepiece ) that gives the viewer an enlarged inverted virtual image of the object ...
Antonie van Leeuwenhoek (1632–1723). The field of microscopy (optical microscopy) dates back to at least the 17th-century.Earlier microscopes, single lens magnifying glasses with limited magnification, date at least as far back as the wide spread use of lenses in eyeglasses in the 13th century [2] but more advanced compound microscopes first appeared in Europe around 1620 [3] [4] The ...
A kremlin (/ ˈ k r ɛ m l ɪ n / KREM-lin ⓘ; Russian: кремль, romanized: kreml’, IPA: [ˈkrʲemlʲ] ⓘ) is a major fortified central complex found in historic Russian cities. [ 1 ] [ 2 ] The word is often used to refer to the Moscow Kremlin [ 3 ] and metonymically to the government based there. [ 4 ]
Inside the Kremlin's Cold War, From Stalin to Khrushchev. Harvard University Press, 1996. ISBN 9780807830987, OCLC 226044981; A Failed Empire: the Soviet Union in the Cold War from Stalin to Gorbachev. University of North Carolina Press, 2007. OCLC 740788529; Zhivago's Children: the Last Russian Intelligentsia. Harvard University Press, 2009.
Kremvax was originally a fictitious Usenet site at the Kremlin, named like the then large number of Usenet VAXen with names of the form foovax. Kremvax was announced on April 1, 1984, in a posting ostensibly originated there by Soviet leader Konstantin Chernenko .
Wall thicknesses was reduced, loopholes were replaced by rectangular windows. Low slanting iron roof was erected. In the early 18th the Kremlin walls and the Dmitrievskaya Tower were traditionally painted white, in accordance with fashion. Height of the tower decreased by 6 m after back filling of a moat between 1834 and 1837 around the Kremlin.