BALEARIC ISLANDS (Baleares), in a western part of Mediterranean m., autonomous region of Spain. Actuate islands Maljorka, Minorca, etc. The Area together with islands Pitiusskimi over 5 thousand êì2. The population of 686 thousand person (1992). An altitude up to 1445 m. The Mediterranean bushes, epines of woods. Main city and a port - the Palm - de-Maljorka (on about. Maljorka). A recreation area and tourism; climatic health resorts.

BALEVSKY the Angel (r. 1910), the Bulgarian scientist, the academician (1967), the president (1968-88), the honorary president (with 1988) Bulgarian AN, the foreign member of the Russian Academy of Science (1991; foreign member AN the USSR with 1971). Transactionses on a physical metallurgy, process metallurgies, to methods of obtaining of new metal materials. Has created a casting method with back pressure. A golden medal him{it}. Lomonosov AN the USSR (1975).

BALEJ, city (up to 1938 seconds Novotroitsky the Craft) in the Russian Federation, the Chita region, on r. Unda, in 55 kms from zh.-d. An item. The high. 23,7 thousand inhabitants (1992). Production of gold.

The DANCER (ital. ballerina, from pozdnelat. ballo - I dance), the dancer in ballet troupe. The term has appeared in 2-nd floor. 19 century.

" BALLET ON ICE " ST.-PETERSBURG, it is built in 1967. The founder and main ballet master K.F.Bojarsky (in 1967-74), K.A.Rassadin (with 1979).

The BALLET MASTER (a nem. Ballettmeister), the writer and the director of ballets, choreographic miniatures, dances.

BALETOMAN (from ballet and... man), the fan{amateur} of ballet and his{its} permanent visitor.

BALI, in induizme the lord of the underground world, tsar dajtjev. Vishnu in appearance of a dwarf has won from him{it} the celestial and earth world.

BALIEV Nikita Fedorovich (Mkrtich Baljan) (1876-1936), the Russian theatrical figure, the actor, the producer. The active participant of "kale - yards" of the Moscow Art theatre. With 1908 director, the artistic administrator of a theatre - cabaret "Bat". With 1920 in emigration.

BALIJTSY, people in Indonesia on about. Bali and in the west about. Lombok. 3,65 million person (1992). Tongue of the Indonesian branch. Believers - induisty.

BALIKPAPAN (Balikpapan), city and a port in Indonesia, on about. Kalimantan. Ok. 300 thousand inhabitants (1989.) Center of oil fields. A woodworking.

BALINSKY Ivan Mihajlovich (1827-1902), the founder of the Petersburg school of psychiatrists, one of founders of psychiatry in Russia.

BALINO (Balino) Karlos (1848-1926), the cuban revolutionary. The participant of a war 1868-78 against spanish colonialists. Together with H.Marti has based the Cuban revolutionary consignment (1892), from H.A.Meljej - National - socialist party of Cuba (1925).

BALK in construction and a machine industry - a structural member routinely by the way a balk (reinforced-concrete, steel or wooden), working primarily on a bending.

BALK, dry or with a temporary channel a flat-bottomed valley; a final stage of development of gullies.

BALKANISTIKA, set{combination} of the scientific disciplines investigator tongues, a history and crop of peoples populating Balkan p-ov.

The BALKANO-CAUCASIAN STRAIN, enters in major evropeoidnuju strain. A dark hair and eyes, a copious coat on a face and a body, high growth, brahikefalija, a broad face are characteristic. It is distributed in countries Center. And JUzh. Europe (in JUzh. Austria, in a north of Italy and Greece, in Yugoslavia), on Caucasus (a large part of an aboriginal population), in Asia (lury, bahtiary and other peoples Zap. Iran).

BALKAN ANTANTA, see Antanta Balkan.