GALAKTION (Galaction) the Gal (1879-1961), the Romanian writer. The criticism of the modern society combines with the sermon of Christian asceticism in novels "Roksana" (1931), " the Doctor the Typhoon " (1933).

GALAKTIONOV Stepan Filippovich (1779-1854), the Russian schedule. The master reztsovoj gravures with an etching, with nach. 1820th - lithographs (one of first in Russia). Urban and park landscapes, Galaktionov case histories differ imaging precision and careful development of gradations of tint.

GALACTIC COORDINATE, in astronomy - coordinate systems with a datum plane passing through the centre of a galaxy and conterminous to a galactic plane. This plane traverses celestial sphere through link a galactic equator; coordinates: galactic longitude l - an arch of a galactic equator from a direction of the centre of a galaxy aside increase of right ascensions (from 0 up to 360 °); a galactic latitude b - an arch of a circle of a galactic latitude from a galactic equator up to a heavenly body (from 0 up to ±90 °).

GALACTIC YEAR, period for which the Solar system commits one revolution around of the centre of a galaxy, compounds ok. 230 million flying.

GALACTOSIS, a monosaccharide (hexose). Is part of a lactose, vegetative and animal polysaccharides (galactans, resins, etc.); in animal tissues loose a galactosis turns to better acquired glucose.

HALANUM JAroslav Aleksandrovich (1902-49), the Ukrainian writer, the publicist. Anti-fascist and anticlerical sketches, pamphlets (collections " Front on air ", 1943, " Their faces ", 1948, " Father of darkness and prisnye ", 1949). Plays. The state premium of the USSR (1952, posthumously). It is killed.

GALANIN Mihail Dmitrievich (r. 1915), Russian physics, corresponding member of the Russian Academy of Science (1991; corresponding member AN the USSR with 1984). Transactionses on a luminescence, a quantum electronics, nonlinear optician. Has developed transport theory of power.

GALANIS Dimitrios (1879-1966), the Grecian schedule. Cable cores in France (with 1899). Heavy gravures on a tree, portraits, occasional drawings, case histories (to products Sofokla, U.Shakespeare, P.Merime).

HALANUMS Boris (an ice-film. A name Galanter Boris Efimovich) (r. 1914), the Russian critic, the literary critic. The main orb of interests - the literature and art of the Soviet season. Books: "Boris Polevoj" (1953), "S.J.Marshak" (1956), " Ilya Ilf and Eugeny Petrov. Life. Creativity " (1961), "Sergey Mikhalkov" (1966), " Art of a portrait " (1967), " the longest years " (1970), " Painting by the word. The person. A landscape. A thing " (1972), " Showers of a volatile sign. Literary - critical sketches " (1982), " Valentine Kataev. Speculations about the Master and dialogues from nymas " (1989), " the Dress for Alisy. The artist and the writer. Dialogues " (1990).

GALANSKOV Jury Timofeevich (1939-72), the Russian poet, the participant pravozashchitnogo motions in the USSR. In 1968 has been sentenced to 7 years of camps of a stringent mode, has died in the conclusion. Verses were published in samizdate.

HABERDASHERY (from frants. galanterie, characters. - politeness, manner), a trade name of subjects of a W.C. and personal custom (napr., tapes, cravats, buttons, etc.).

GALANTUS, a stem of grasses of a set of a primrose family; the same, that a snowdrop. The title is used in a flower growing.

GALAPAGOS (Galapagos) (the Turtle islands, arh. Colon), 13 major and flock of small-sized volcanic islands in Quiet ok., in structure of Ecuador. 7,8 thousand êì2. The population of 9,8 thousand person (1990). Vanishing huge turtles and lizards iguany are characteristic. About 1936 national park.

The GALATEA, in the Grecian mythology, 1) one of nereid, olitsetvorenie a slack sea. 2) Izvajannaja Pigmalionom a statue of the perfect girl with which he has fallen in love; under his request she was ozhivlena the Aphrodite.

The GALATEA, the guide of Neptune, is open from a side of a space vehicle "Voyager - 2" (the USA, 1989). Distance from Neptune ok. 62 thousand in km, a diameter ok. 160 kms.

GALATON (2-n a floor. 3 century up to n. e.), the ancient greek artist from Alexandria. Has written the satirical pattern representing modern to the artist of poets, eating that izrygaet from stomach Gomer.

GALAHOV Alexey Dmitrievich (1807-92), the Russian writer, the critic, the historian of the literature, the teacher. Literary - critiques in " Domestic notes " (1839-48) in a race course of aesthetic views of V.G.Belinsky. Historicoliterary experiences, close to formed cultural - historical school. Hrestomatii on domestic literature. Literary memories. Stories.

GALATZ (Galati), city and a port in Romania, on Danube, an administrative centre zhudetsa Galatz. 307,4 thousand inhabitants (1989). Integrated iron-and-steel works, shipbuilding, manufacture of marine equipment, chemical, textile, a furniture industry. A museum historical, the modern Romanian art. Churches of 17 century, band of the centre of Galatz (1956-60), new residential districts.