BLACKBURN (Blackburn), city in the Great Britain, in England. 88 thousand inhabitants (1981). Textile, sewing, alimentary, a footwear industry.

BLEKETT (Blackett) Patrik Mejnard Stjuart (1897-1974), English physics, the member (1933) and the president (1965-70) London royal societies, foreign member AN the USSR (1966). Classical probes on physics of ultrarays with the help improved him{it} of an expansion chamber. The Nobel Prize (1948).

BLACKPOOL (Blackpool), city in the Great Britain, in England; a climatic health resort on Irish m. of 144 thousand inhabitants (1988).

BLAIR (Blair) Robert (1699-1746), the Scottish poet. His{its} poem "Tomb" (1743) was illustrated by U.Blejk (1808).

BLAIR (Blair) Entoni (r. 1953), the English statesman, the prime minister (with 1997). The leader of the Labour party of the Great Britain (with 1994), a member of Parliament (1983).

PATELLA STEPPE (zapadiny, baking plates), flat-bottomed hollows, are more often than the spherical form, in a diameter up to several hundreds meters and depth up to several meters; predominary procharge origin. Are distributed in steppe and forest-steppe zones of the European part of the Russian Federation and on Ukraine.

BLUES (English blues, abbr. from blue devils - a melancholia, depression), originally solo village, and then a urban lyrical song of the American Negros of routinely sad content. Has developed in nach. 20 century, one of sources of jazz music. Bljuzovaja the tradition is submitted{shown} practically in all main{basic} jazz styles.

BLOOM (English bloom) (bljums, blum), intermediate of metallurgical manufacture - a steel billet with the party over 140 mm, received from bullions a bloomimg or from molten metal on machines of a continuous casting.

BLOOM (Blume) the Isabella (1892-1975), the Belgian public figure. The member of Presidium of World Advice{Council} of the World with 1951, in 1965-69 his{its} president - coordinator. The international Lenin premium (1953).

BLOOM (Blum) Leon (1872-1950), the leader and the theorist of the French socialist party. In 1936-38 chapter of governments of the Popular front. Conducted a course on "reconciliation" of fascist aggressors. After german occupation of France (1940) it arrested and interned in Germany. In December 1946 - January 1947 headed the government which has unleashed war in Indochina.

BLOOM (Blum) Robert (1807-48), the participant of Revolutions 1848-49 in Germany and Austria. The chief of democrats of Saxony, one of leaders of the left-handed wing of the Frankfurt national assembly, the participant of armed extirpation in Vienna (October 1848). Rasstreljan under the sentence of the Austrian military court.

BLJUMENTAL-TAMARINA Maria Mihajlovna (1859-1938), the Russian actress, the national actress of the USSR (1936). On the scene with 1887. With 1933 at Small theatre. The best roles in A.N.Ostrovsky plays. Acted in film.

BLJUMENTROST Lawrence Lavrentjevich (1692-1755), lejb-physician Peter I, the first president Petersburg AN (1725-33).

BLOOMING (English blooming) (bluming), the rolling mill for compression of steel ingots in blooms. Are sometimes used for slabbing and shaped blanks. The dia of mill rolls in mm which is routinely written down near to the word a blooming (napr is defined.. 1500).

BLOOMING-SLABBING MILL, the combined rolling mill for compression of large steel ingots in slabs or blooms.

BLJUMMER Leonid Petrovich (1840-88), the Russian journalist. In 1862-64 emitted abroad the liberal - constitutional log-book " the Loose word ", newspapers "Message" and "European".

BLUCHER Vasily Konstantinovich (1890-1938), Marshal of Soviet Union (1935). In the Civil war in the summer 1918 supervised over a marching of the Ural army, for what is awarded with order of the Red Banner ¹ 1. The chief of 51-st rifle division at the defence of bridgehead Kahovskogo and storm Perekopa. In 1921-22 military minister, the commander-in-chief of National - revolutionary army of Far East republic, supervised Volochaevskoj over the operation. In 1929-38 commanding Special Far East army. It arrested, has died under inquest.

BLUCHER Gebhard Lebereht (1742-1819), the Prussian commander, general - field marshal (1813), prince Valshtatt. In 1813-14 commander-in-chief russko-Prussian Silezskoj army in war with France, in 1815 - the Prussian army participating in battle at Waterloo.

BLJAHIN Paul Andreevich (1886-1961), the Russian writer. The Revoljutsionno-adventure story " Red djavoljata " (1923-26).

BO TSZJUJI (772-846), the Chinese poet. Lyrical quatrians, poems "Lute" and " the Ode about infinite melancholy ", noted by clearness and depth of idea; verses on hardships of national life (cycles " TSinskie tunes " è " New national songs ").