LE-MAN (Le Mans), city in northwest of France, an administrative centre dep. Sarta and main city of historical region. Maine. 148 thousand inhabitants (1990). Automobile, air, textile, a chemical industry.

LEMAN (Lehmann) Wilhelm (1882-1968), the german poet. Collections of chamber lyrics " In glory of life " (1953), " Long day " (1954), " Visible time " (1967).

LEMAN (Lehman) Iogann Gotlib (1719-67), physics, the geologist, the academician Petersburg AN (1761). By origin the German, with 1761 - in Russia. Has described a number of minerals, including wolframite and natural lead chromate. Has perished in laboratory.

LEMAN (Lehmann) Otto (1855-1922), the german physics - experimenter. Activities on physics of crystals, molecular physics, microscopies. Has discovered liquid crystals.

LEMBERG, the official title (german) Lvov on Ukraine in 1772-1918.

LEMBERGS (Lehmbergs) Aleksandrs (1921-85), the Latvian ballet dancer, the ballet master, the teacher, the national actor of the USSR (1982). In 1940-41 and with 1943 at the Latvian theatre of opera and ballet, with 1968 main ballet master.

LEMBOLOVSKAJA the HIGH GROUND, in a central part of Karelian isthmus, northward from Saint Petersburg. An altitude up to 205 m.

LEMBRUK (Lehmbruck) Wilhelm (1881-1919), the german sculptor. From early plastic clear activities has transfered to ekspressionizmu, to tragical modes and elongated, conditional forms ("Fallen", 1915-16).

LEMER (Le Maire) JAkob (1585-1616), the Netherlands merchant and the seafarer. In 1615-16 together with V.K.Shautenom supervised over expedition to Indonesia during which have been open cape Horn, atolls and islands in Tuamotu archipelagos, Samoa and Bismarck.

LEMERSE (Lemercier) Jacque (ok. 1585-1654), the French architect. Bridged principles of a classicism and Baroque (church Sorbonny in Paris, 1635-54).

LEMETR (Lemaitre) George (1894-1966), Belgian astrophysicses. Has advanced (1927) theory of the extending Universe (after A.A.Fridmana, but irrespective of him) and has explained open by E.Hubble razbeganie galaxies as a result of general expansion of the Universe.

LEMETR Ô., see. Frederik-Lemetr.

SHARE, in the Russian architecture oblong tablets, often the jogged form, serving for cover of chapters, drums, tents, etc.

LEMESHEV Sergey Jakovlevich (1902-77), the Russian singer (lyrical. The tenor), the national actor of the USSR (1950). In 1931-56 at Major theatre. Among roles: Lensky ("Eugeny Onegin" P.I.Chajkovskogo), Vladimir ("Dubrovsky" E.F.Napravnika), Werther ("Werther" Z.Massne). Acted in film. The state premium of the USSR (1941).

LEMZAL, the official title of. Limbazhi in Latvia up to 1917.

LEMKE Michael Konstantinovich (1872-1923), the Russian historian, the publicist. Transactionses on a history of Russian revolutionary movement, public idea, censorship.

LEMKI, ethnographic group ukraintsev. Live in Carpathian mountains and in terrain of the Lvov, Ternopol and Nikolaev region. Ukraine.

LEMLEN (Lemelin) to the Erysipelas (r. 1919), the canadian writer. Writes in French. In novels " For foot of a dip-slope " (1944), "Family Pluf" (1948) from life of workers - criticism of a latin church and petty-bourgeois tempers.

LEMMA, the lemma used at the proof of one or several theorems.

LEMMINGS, group (4 stems) mammals of a subfamily of field - mouses. Length of a body of 15 sm, a tail up to 2 see. Ok. 20 kinds, in woods and tundras of Eurasia and the Sowing. America. The main nutrition of a white fox. Can be carriers of causal organisms of some virus infections. In some years are multiplied in huge quantities and undertake far migrations.