LAPTEV Konstantin Antonovich (1904-90), the Russian singer (baritone), the national actor of the USSR (1957). In 1930-41 in Odessa, in 1941-52 in Kiev, in 1952-68 in Leningrad theatres of opera and ballet.

LAPTEVO, the title of. JAsnogorsk in the Tula region up to 1958.

LAPTEVYH the PEST (Siberian), marginal sea the Sowing. Ledovitogo ok., for coasts of the Russian Federation, between p-ovom Tajmyr and islands the Sowing. The Earth in the west and Novosibirsk on the orient. 662 thousand êì2. Prevailing depths up to 50 m, maximum 3385 m. Large bays: Hatangsky, Oleneksky, Buor-find fault. In a western part starving it is a lot of islands. Run rr. Khatanga, Lena, Yana, etc. The Large part of year it is coated with ice. The sea cow, a marine hare, the seal dwell. A main port - Tiksi. The title in honour D. ß. and H.P.Laptevyh.

LAPTI, wum shoe from a bast or a birch bark; up to it is grey. 19 century - a principal view of country shoe in Russia.

CINQUEFOIL, stem of grasses, it is fruticulose also subshrubs of a set of a rose family. St. 300 kinds, primarily in the Sowing. To America and Eurasia a cinquefoil ancerine, or the ancerine lug, is suitable in I peep. Medicinal (a tormentil, etc.) and ornamental plants; honey plants.

LAPCHATONOGI, a set of birds of order zhuravleobraznyh. Length 28-62 see 3 kinds, in Africa, Center and JUzh. To America, JUgo-Vost. Asia. Lodge on small rivers in heavy-bodied tropical. Woods.

LAPCHINSKY Alexander Nikolaevich (1882-1938), the Russian commander, kombrig (1935). In the Civil war the chief of headquarters of aircraft of Red army. With 1926 professor of military academy. Transactionses on a history and theories of aircraft and to its battle application. It is repressed; it is rehabilitated posthumously.

LAR (Laer) Peter van (1582-1642), the Netherlands painter. Small patterns on scenes from life of wanderers, pastorals.

LARA (Lara), staff in northwest of Venezuela. 19,8 thousand êì2. The population 1,3 million person (1990). Adm. ts. - Barquisimeto.

LARAMIJSKAJA the RIPPLE MARK, epoch tektogeneza at the end of Cretaceous - the beginning paleogenovogo the seasons. It was fullestly exhibited in Rocky mountains.

LARVIK (Larvik), city in an austral part of Norway, a port on western coast a hall. Bohus. Ok. 40 thousand inhabitants. Shipbuilding, a paper-pulp industry.

LARGA (Larga), the river in Moldova, the left-handed in-leak r. Prut. Length of 25 kms, the area of basin 117 êì2. Rises and weeps within the limits of western downslope Bessarabskoj vozv. During russko-turkish war 1768-74 Russian troops of general P.A.Rumjantseva under Larga 7.7.1770 have divided an advance-guard of turkish army - a troops of the Crimean khan Kaplan - Gireja.

LARGA (spotty, or dace, a seal), an aquatic mammal of a set of seals. Length ok. 1,6 m, weigh ok. 65 kg. Dwells for coasts of Asia and the Sowing. America - from Chukchi m. to the south up to Korea and California. Object of a craft

LARGO (ital. largo, characters. - it is wide), in music - sluggish rate.

LARGO KABALERO (Largo Caballero) Fransisko (1869-1946), in 1936-37 prime minister and military minister for government of the Popular front in Spain. In 1918-37 secretary general of the Overall union of workers (VST), in 1932-1935 chairman of the Spanish socialist working consignment.

LARDNER (Lardner) Ringgold (Ring) Uilmer (1885-1933), the American writer. In stories has ironically described the world of sport (the collection " thee know me, El ", 1916), has satirically derided narrow-minded values (collections: " Gnezdyshko love ", 1926, " How to write stories ", 1924). The satirical autobiography " the History of the lucky beggar " (1927).