The GO-ANYWHERE VEHICLE, terraneous trackless vehicle of high flotation ability off-road, an inundated land, a snow virgin soil.

VEZENBERG, the official title of. Rakvere in Estonia up to 1917.

WESER (Weser), the river in Germany, runs in Boreal m. It will be derivated by confluence Verra and Fulda. Length of 440 kms (from a headstream r. Verra 724 kms), the area of basin of 46 thousand êì2. Average discharge of water 312 m3 / with. It is navigable from Kassel (on r. Fulda), for courts of admiralty - from Bremen; it is paired by channels to Elba and Ems. Seaport - Bremerhaven.

VESICLE (an armour. vesicula - an alveole), an element of a dermal crop - polusharovidnyj an alveole with diaphanous or rather turbid contents.

VEZIR (vizir) (the arab.), the maximum dignitary and the chief of departments in many states Short-range and Compare. The orient, primarily in Middle Ages and new time.

VEZIROV Nadzhaf-bek Fatali-bek ogly (1854-1926), the Azerbaijan playwright. Plays about life and tempers of the Azerbaijan society kon. 19 - nach. 20 centuries. The play " the Beginning of new eyelid " (1924) about establishment of the Soviet authority in Azerbaijan.

VESUVIANITE (idokraz), a mineral of a class of nesosilicates, Ca10Al4 (Mg, Fe) 2 (OH, F) 4 [SiO4] 5 [Si2O7] 2. Yellowish-green, dark-brown prismatic crystals and acinose masses. Hardness 6,5-7,0; firmness ok. 3,4 g / sm3. Meets in skarnah. Diaphanous versions - ornamental stones.

VESUVIUS (Vesuvio), an active volcano in the south of Italy, bliz Naples (unique in continental Europe). An altitude of 1277 m. Will derivate 3 cones as though inserted each other (outside - Monte-Somme, it hardly eroded). At eruptions will reject a lot of ash. Outputs of gases and fallow. During eruption in 79 cities Pompeii and Herculaneum (afterwards over 50 eruptions, the last eruption in 1957-59) have perished. Up to an altitude of 800 m - gardens, vineyards, pine groves. Vulkanologicheskaja an observatory.

VEJGAN (Weygand) Maxim (1867-1965), the French army general. In 1-¯ world war, with 1918, the chief of headquarters of supreme commander in chief. In 2-¯ world war, since May 1940, the commander-in-chief the French armed forces. One of parties in fault of surrender of France. In July - September 1940 minister for the national defence of government of Vichy.

VEJGELA, a stem of bushes of a set of a honeysuckle family. Ok. 15 kinds, in Vost. Asia; including 3 views on the Far East. Are decorative.

VEJGEL (Vajgel) (Weigel) Elena (1900-1971), a german actress. Wi B.Brecht. Together with nymas the organizer of theatre " Berliner band " where has acted the best role - Mummy Spirit in Brecht play. The founder and the member of german Academy of arts (GDR).

VEJDE Adam Adamovich (1667-1720), the Russian general from infanterii. The participant of the Azov marchings 1695 and 1696, Boreal war 1700-21, Prutskogo a marching 1711. In 1698 has constituted "Military regulations" (" Charter Vejde ") which a little bit flying ministered a guiding in Russian army. With 1717 2-nd president of Military board.

VEJDEMEJER (Weydemeyer) Joseph (1818-1866), the german revolutionary, friend K.Marksa and F.Engelsa. The member of Soyuz of communists, one of organizers of the working unions and democratic societies in Westphalia. During the Civil war in the USA 1861-65 colonel of army of northerners.

VEJDENREJH (Weidenreich) Frants (1873-1948), the german anthropologist. The main transactionses on problems of anthropogenesis and on a paleoanthropology. The writer of the theory of polycentrism.

VEJDLE Vladimir Vasiljevich (1895-1979), the Russian critic, the historian of art, the publicist, the culturologist. Taught a history of art in Petrograd, with 1924 in emigration in Paris where taught up to 1952 in founded S.N.Bulgakovym Orthodox Doctrinal institute. Numerous essays on a history of the Russian and european literature and art crop, about destinies of Christian art, a place of Russia in a spiritual history of Europe.

VEJDT Ê., see Fejdt To.

WEIERSTRASS (Weierstrass) Charles Teodor Wilhelm (1815-97), german mathematician, foreign corresponding member (1864) and the foreign honorary member (1895) Petersburg AN. Transactionses on a calculus, function theories, to a calculus of variations, differentiated geometry and a linear algebra. Has developed system of the logic substantiation of a calculus.

VEJZE (Weise) Christian (1642-1708), the german writer and the teacher - educator. The opponent of aristocratic Baroque. The writer of the nravoopisatelno-satirical novel " Three greatest in light of the fool " (1672), dramas for " school theatre " "Mazanjello" (1682), etc.

VEJI (Veji), city 1-st floor. 1-st thousand up to n. e. - nach. 4 century up to n. e., northward from Rome. Residues of an acropolis, it is dry-rot, temples, a tomb, etc.

VEJL (Weyl) Hermann (1885-1955), german mathematician; with 1933 in the USA. Transactionses on a function theory, number theories, group theories and to its applications to physics.