GANSVINDT (Ganswindt) Hermann (1856-1934), the german engineer, one of pioneers of a rocketry. Has created (1893) design of a manned space vehicle with a jet engine on a solid fuel for flights in space. Name Gansvindta calls a crater on moon.

GANSEN Ã., see Hanssen.

GANSLIK (Hanslik) (Hansliek) Edward (1825-1904), the Austrian musicologist. Transactionses on a history of european music of 18-19 centuries and an aesthetics. In the polemic tract " About musical - perfect " (1854) considered the musical art as the special range of spiritual activity which are not requiring in vnemuzykalnyh associations. The professor of the Austrian university (with 1861).

GANTVARG Anatoly Abramovich (r. 1948), the Byelorussian sportsman, the international grandmaster (1976), the deserved master of sport (1985). The world champion (1978, 1980, 1984, 1985), the USSR (4 times in 1969-81) on salta.

DUMB-BELL (a nem. Hantel), the special weight from 2 cast-iron spheres, coherent the short hand lever. It is applied in the exercises developing muscles.

GANF July Abramovich (1898-1973), the schedule, the national artist of Russia (1964). Caricatures abounding with ridiculous component parts on international and internal themes. Worked in the newspaper "Truth" (with 1924), the log-book "Crocodile".

GANTSEVICHI, city (with 1973) in Belarus, the Brest region. A depot. 14,5 thousand inhabitants (1991). A food-processing industry. Combine of a large-panel house-building.

GANCH, the Central Asian title of the cementing material received by furnacing kamnevidnoj of breed, keeping gypsum and clay. From gancha do facing plaster, execute carved and molten decoras, a sculpture.

GANCHESHTY, see. Hynchesht.

GANSU, province in Severo-Zap. China. 366,5 thousand êì2. The population 22,4 million person (1990). Adm. ts. - Lanchow.

GANTSZJAN, the river in China, in a bass. r. Yangtze. Ok. 760 kms. The area of basin ok. 82 thousand êì2. The beginning in mountains Nan Ling, runs into an eskar. Poyang Hu. Average discharge of water ok. 2300 m3 / with. On Gantszjan - cities Ganzhous (the beginning of navigation), Nanchang.

GANZHOU, city in China, in prov. Jiangxi. St. 220 thousand inhabitants (1990). Textile, a woodworking industry.

GAO INSJAN (?-1636), one of main chiefs of Country war 1628-45 in China. It is executed.

GAOLAN, city in China, see. Lanchow.

KAOLIANG, annotinous herbaceous plant of a stem of a sorghum of a set of cereals. Grain (croup, a meal, and also hay, a silage and basketries) crop in China, KNDR, Japan, etc.

KAOHSIUNG, city and port in China, on about. Taiwan. 1,4 million inhabitants (1990). A machine industry, oil refining, textile, chemical, cement, a food-processing industry.

GAOSHAN (a whale. - gortsy), group of peoples (atajjal, tsou, amej, bunun, etc.) on about. Taiwan. 340 thousand person (1992). Tongues of the Indonesian group. Save traditional convictions.

HAPLOID (from grech. haploos - solitary and eidos - a kind), a cell or an individual with a single (haploid) panel of unpaired chromosomes. Gaploidny sexual cells, some mushrooms, algae.