LEVKA (grech. White), in the Grecian mythology one of islands of beatas where after mors dwelt Ahill with Elena. About the Stock identified an island in Pontus Evksinskom (Black sea), for a mouth of Danube, presumably about. Berezan.

LEVKAS (from grech. leukos - white), Cretaceous a ground in Russian medieval painting.

LEVKY Kesarijsky (Vifinsky) (mind. ok. 251), the Christian martyr damaged in persecution of emperor Detsija. Memory in the Orthodox church on August, 17 (30) and on December, 14 (27).

LEVKIPP (5 century up to n. e.), the ancient greek philosopher, one of creators of antique atomism, teacher Demokrita.

LEVKIPP, in the Grecian mythology governor Messenii, the grandson the Persea, father Levkippid.

LEVKOV Vladimir Izrailevich (1895-1954), the Russian designer of the first air-cushion vehicles (air-support vessel). In-process " the Vortex theory of a curl " (1925) has justified a capability of building of air-support vessel. Tests of first three-man motorboat ï-1 were comprised in 1935. Up to 1941 under his guiding 15 trial motorboats with different displacement (from 2 up to 15 ò) are constructed. In 1939-52 headed special design bureau.

GILLYFLOWERS Igor Ivanovich (1909-78), Russian chemists - organics, corresponding member AN the USSR (1968). The main transactionses on chemistry tsianinovyh dyes and photographic materials. The state premium of the USSR (1946).

STOCK (stock), stem one and perennial grasses and subshrubs of a set. A cruciferae family. Ok. 55 kinds, in Eurasia and Africa. Grades of a stock gray-haired with flowers of the different form (simple and double-flowering) and colour use in an ornamental gardening.

LEVKON I, tsar Bosporskogo of the state (389/388-349/348 up to n. e.). Has finished seizure Vost. Crimea and terrain Prikubanja; for the first time has manufactured golden coins to Panticapaeum.

LEVKOFEJA, in the Grecian mythology the goddess of a meershaum to whom has turned Ino, rushed at-sea with the son Melikertom (Palemonom).

LEUCTRA, city in Boeotia (Greece), about Thebes. Ok. Leuctra 5.8.371 up to n. e. beotijskie troops Epaminonda, for the first time in a history built a striking force on flank for deposition of main impact, have routed Spartans, and Sparta has lost hegemony in Greece.

LEFT (Leveau, Le Vau) Lui (ok. 1612-70), the French architect. The representative of a classicism. Dynamically organized in the space, the composite under plans dvortsovo-park bands (In - le-Vikont, 1656-61, Versailles, 1661-68).

The LEFT-HANDED ARM the RULE, determines a force direction which acts on an explorer located in a magnetic field with a current. If a palm of the left-handed arm to arrange so that elongated pins have been directed on a current, and lines of force of a magnetic field entered in a palm the set aside major claw will indicate a force direction, operational on an explorer.

LEVOMYCETINUM (Chloramfenicolum), the antibiotic formed by a microorganism from group of actinomyces or received by chemical synthesis. Has a broad spectrum of antimicrobial action. It is used for treatment of a typhoid, paratyphoids, a dysentery, etc.; it is applied in biochemistry at probe of a biosynthesis of protein in cells.

LEVOCHA, city in Slovakia. 13 thousand inhabitants (1988). Gothic church over. JAkuba (14-15 centuries, pozdnegoticheskie altars, including masters of Paul from Levochi), a town hall in style of the Renaissance (15 - nach. 17 centuries).

LEVOESEROVSKY REBELION, armed performance left-handed eserov 6-7.7.1918 in Moscow with the purpose to thwart the Brest world to provoke war with Germany. It is suppressed by Red Army.

LEVRETKA (from frants. levrette), the decorative nanous breed of a borzoi of dogs. It is introduced in Middle Ages in Italy. Are distributed in many countries.

LEVSKY Vasil (1837-73), the Bulgarian public figure, the participant of 1-st and 2-nd Bulgarian legy, one of organizers of the Bulgarian revolutionary central committee (the writer of his charter). The initiator of building (1872, Bucharest) the unified centre of the Bulgarian revolutionary movement. It is executed by turkish authorities.

LEVSTIK (Levstik) Fran (1831-87), the Slovene writer. Liroepicheskie verses spirit of national songs, ballads, satyrs; the story " Martin Krpan " (1858) has laid foundation to Slovene classical prose.

LEVULOZA, the same, that a fructose.