BELSKO-BJALA (Bielsko-Biala), city in the south of Poland, in Predkarpatje, Belsky administrative centre voevodstva. 178 thousand inhabitants (1990). A machine industry, a textile industry.

BELSKOE GORODISHCHE, residues of a reinforced Scythian settlement of 6 century up to n. e. - 1 century n. e. For a seconds. Belsk on Ukraine, the Poltava region. Residues of home units, pinfolds, craft workshops.

BELT MAJOR (dates. Store Baelt) one of the channels bridging Baltic m. from prol. Kattegat. Ok. 120 kms, the least width of 11 kms, a critical depth of 11,3 m. In inclement winters solidifies.

BELT SMALL (dates. Lille Baelt), one of the channels bridging Baltic m. from prol. Kattegat. Ok. 130 kms, the least width of 0,5 kms, depth from 10-15 m in a north up to 25-35 m in the south. In inclement winters solidifies. Through Belt Small are constructed a railway bridge (on a main Hamburg - Copenhagen - Stockholm) and 2 automobile bridges.

BELT DUCK (from English belting - a drivebelt), a strong cotton duck for manufacturing conveyer belts and rubberized drivebelts.

BELTRAMI (Beltrami) Eudzhenio (1835-1900), italian mathematician. The main{basic} transactionses on geometry. Has shown, that Lobachevsky geometry (plane geometry) will be realized{sold} on a surface called as a pseudosphere.

BELFLER-CHINESE APPLE, pozdneosenny a grade of an apple tree, in mean and austral areas of a fruit growing of Russia. I.V.Michurinym is introduced. Fruits large, soft, sweet - sourish, spicy, incense. Productivity up to 100-180 kg from a tree.

BELFOR (Belfort), city on the orient France, an administrative centre of department Belfor. A traffic centre for mountain pass between Vosges and JUroj (" the Burgundian gate "). St. 50 thousand inhabitants (1982). A machine-building, chemical, textile industry. In past Belfor - the military strength withstanding a number{series} osad (1814, 1815, 1870-71), has existed down to 1-st world war.

STEPPE BELTSSKAJA (Stepa-Beltsuluj, Stepa Baltului), pologoholmistaja plain in a north of Moldova, in a bass. r. Reut. An altitude of 150-200 m. Almost bodily it ploughed up.

BELTSY, city in Moldova, see. Belts.

BELCHIKOV Nikolay Fedorovich (1890-1979), the literary critic, corresponding member AN the USSR (1953). Transactionses about F.M.Dostoevskom, N.G.Chernyshevskom, G.V.Plehanove.

DRESS CIRCLE (frants. beletage), 1) the first storey (level) of auditorium above a front stalls and an amphitheatre;.. 2) the second, ceremonial level of a palace, a private residence.

BELJUTIN Eliahs Mihajlovich (r. 1925), the Russian artist and the theorist of art. One of leaders Russian " informal art ", has organized well-known (due to the scandal made by N.S.Hrushchevym) an exhibition of avant-gardists in the Moscow Manege (1962). Long years led private{individual} studio where learned{taught} principles to " a new reality " - to skill to extend full-scale forms, saving them in abstraction. The same principle of monumental - pointless transfiguration of a nature is characteristic and for his{its} painting and polihromnoj sculptures.

BELYAVSKY Sergey Ivanovich (1883-1953), the Russian astronomer, corresponding member AN the USSR (1939). Transactionses on astrophotometry, probe of variable stars, a photographic astrometry. Has discovered 37 planetoids, over 250 variable stars and a comet.

BELJAEV Alexander Romanovich (1884-1942), the Russian writer. Sci-fi products{creations}: " the Head of professor Douelja " (1925), "Person - amphibia" (1928), " Aster KETS " (1936), etc.

BELJAEV Anatoly Ivanovich (1906-67), the Russian metallurgist, corresponding member AN the USSR (1960). The main{basic} tr. On metallurgy of light metals, semiconductive materials.

BELJAEV Vasily Nikolaevich (1902/03-67), the Russian cameraman and the producer. Documentaries: " Line Mannergejma " (1941), "CHernomortsy" (1942), " National avengers " (1943), etc. Together with M.I.Romm - "Vladimir Iljich Lenin" (1948). State premiums of the USSR (1941, 1943, 1946, 1949, 1951).

BELJAEV Victor Mihajlovich (1888-1968), the Russian musicologist, the doctor of art criticism (1944). The main{basic} transactionses on a history of music of the Orient. The professor of the Moscow conservatory (with 1944).