MEADOWS, city (with 1777) in the Russian Federation, the Leningrad region, on r. Luga. A railway junction. 41,8 thousand inhabitants (1992). Factories: abrasive, litejno-mechanic, chemical; a light industry.

MEADOWS, the river in northwest of the European part of the Russian Federation. 353 kms, the area of basin of 13,2 thousand êì2. Runs into the Finnish hall. It is navigable on 182 kms from a mouth. A river plant.

LUGALBANDA, in shumerskoj mythologies the legendary governor of the first dynasty of Uruk, the marital partner of goddess Ninsun, father Gilgamesha. There is a myth about protection Lugalbande on the part of heavenly bird Anzud of which nestlings he has taken care.

LUGALZAGGISI, the governor of. Umma, then tsar Uruk and all Sumer (24 century up to n. e.). Has conquered Urukaginu. Has sufferred a defeat from Sargona Ancient and has been taken in a film.

LUGANIS (Louganis) Greg (r. 1960), the American sportsman (jumps in water). The champion of Olympic Games (1984, 1988) in jumps from a springboard and a tower. The repeated world champion (5 times) and the USA (47). The champion of World games of homosexuals (1992).

LUGANO (Lugano), city in Switzerland, on an eskar. Lugano. 28 thousand inhabitants (1986, with suburbs of 92 thousand inhabitants). A light industry. A climatic health resort. Museums of fine arts, istoriko-archeologic; collection Tissen-Bornemisa. A Romansko-Gothic cathedral the Dignity - Lorentso (13 century, a front in style the Renaissance), church Santa-mary delji Andzholi (15-16 centuries), baroque churches and private residences (16-18 centuries), a town hall (19 century, a serotinal classicism)

LUGANO (Lugano), lake in Italy and Switzerland, for austral spurs of a mountain of the Alpes, in an intermountain valley, at the altitude 274 m. The area 49 êì2, depth up to 288 m. Navigation. In mid-range it is crossed by the multiple-arch bridge on which the railway and highway of Milan - Lucerne passes. Numerous health resorts, including. Lugano.

LUGANSK, (to 1935-58 and 1970-90 Voroshilovgrad), city on Ukraine, the centre of Lugansk region, at confluence Lugan and Alder. A railway junction. 503,9 thousand inhabitants (1991). The large centre of a machine industry of Donbass (a software " Lugansk teplovozostroitelnyj factory ", factories: machine-building, car assembly, "Dynamo", "Uglepribor", alkaline accumulators, etc.). Tubal factory. Mild (tonkosukonnyj combine, the knitted, boot, sewing enterprises), wood-working, himiko-pharmaceutical, a flavoring industry; manufacture of a building materials. 4 high schools. 3 theatres. Museums: study of local lore, artist V.I.Dalja (was born in Lugansk). It is based in 1795 at Ekaterinoslavskom (with 1797 Lugansk) iron-works.

LUGANSK RANGE, in a southeast of Ukraine. 26,7 thousand êì2. The population of 2871,1 thousand person (1991). An administrative centre - Lugansk.

LUGANSK RESERVATION, in Lugansk region. Ukraine. It is built in 1968. The area 1580 ga. 3 plots: Streltsovskaja and steppes Provalskaja, raznotravno-kovylnaja vegetation, colonys of bobacs; the Stanichno-Lugansk plot of reservation - a locality muskrats.

LUGANSK Sergey Daniilovich (1918-77), doubly the Hero of Soviet Union (1943, 1944), the general - major of aircraft (1957). In Great Domestic war in a fighter aviation, the squadron commander, a shelf; has knocked down personally 37 and in group - 6 airplanes.

LUGININ Vladimir Fedorovich (1834-1911), Russian fizikohimik. Transactionses on thermochemistry. Has based first in Russia thermochemical laboratory. The participant of liberation movement of 1860th.

LUGO (Lugo), city in northwest of Spain, on r. Minjo, an administrative centre of province Lugo. 74 thousand inhabitants (1981). Shopping center of cattle-breeding area. Agricultural fairs, auctions of cattle. Alimentary, textile, machine-building, woodworking enterprises.

GRASSLAND ECOLOGY, section of a geobotany, the theoretical basis of a meadow culture. Studies phylums of meadows, regularities of distribution, a species composition and dynamics of meadow grasses.

MEADOW CULTURE, the branch of a plant growing engaging use and improvement of natural meadows, building and use of synthetic hay fields and pastures. Production - hay, senazh, a green food. Reseeding: surface (delete a bush, stones, adjust a water relationships, podsevajut grasses on partly stocked places, dress them) and native born (a ploughing and crop of pod-bearing plants and a grass family of grasses).

MEADOW (an ice-film. fam. Tihonov) Alexey Alekseevich (1853-1914), the Russian writer. Novels of " the Edge of life " (1892), " Return. Roman of oscillating moods " (1898), "Net" (1901), " our days (the Family history) " (1907). Plays. Verses.

COYOTE, the same, that a coyote.

BEET WEBWORM, the butterfly of a set of melonworms; the pest of many agricultural and wild - plants. It is distributed widely. Front fenders dun, rear - burovato-grey. Caterpillars eat superstructures of plants.

FAIRY-RING MUSHROOM, flap-type mushroom of the order agarikovyh. A fruit body coriaceous with a flat cap. Will grow on meadows, often derivating vedminy rings. It is edible.

LUGOVSKOJ Vladimir Aleksandrovich (1901-57), the Russian poet. Romanticism of the Civil war, social transformations: collections "Muscle" (1929), " Desert and spring " (kn. 1-4, 1930-54). In a poem " Midpoint of eyelid " (1958), in collections "Solstice" (1956), " Blue spring " (it is published in 1958) - philosophical understanding of a history.