PHYLLOTAXY, the order of disposition of leaves on a stalk. A regular attribute. Phylums of a phyllotaxy: spiral, or alternate (1 leaf on a unit of a stalk, napr., for an oak); opposite (2 leafs on a unit of a stalk, napr., for a maple); multicilate (3 and more leaves, napr., for an oleander).

LEAFY MOSSES (true mosses), class of mosses with a body, fissured on a stalk and leaves. 3 subclasses: sphagnum, andreevye and brievye. St. 15 thousand kinds, including a haircap, dikranum, a sphagnum, etc. Are distributed on all terrestrial globe, primarily in tundra, woods, on bogs and in the alpine belt of mountains.

LISTOTELY (listovidki), a set of hexapods of order prividenjevyh. Protective similarity of a body to a leaf is promoted by colour. Ok. 20 kinds, predominary in tropical Asia.

LEAF - REPRINT, unit of calculation printed listazha: a printed reprint on one party of sheets of paper of a format 60õ90 sm (napr., the issuing in 20 quires at circulation of 100 thousand copies compounds 2 million leafs - reprints), a parameter of a work content of the polygraphic enterprise.

LEAVES Vladislav Nikolaevich (1957-95), the Russian TV reporter. "View" (1987-90) master popular television programs, " the Field of miracles " (1990-91), "Theme" (1991-93), "Rush hour" (1994-95). It is killed in a porch of a natural house. His assassination has called a broad public resonance.

LISJANSKY Jury Fedorovich (1773-1837), the Russian seafarer, the captain of 1-st rank (1809). On I.F.Krusenstern first Russian round-the-world expedition 1803-06 commanded "Neva". Has discovered one of the Hawaiian islands, called in his honour island Lisjanskogo; probeed. About. Kadiak and a part arh. Alexander.

PENINSULA LISJANSKOGO, on boreal shore Ohotskogo in m. Ok. 625 êì2. An altitude up to 1248 m. Coasts raised, places rocky. Thrickets of a cedar elfin woodland and mountain tundra prevail. It is called named J.F.Lisjanskogo.

... LIT, the part of the composite words meaning: 1) (from grech. lithos - a stone) relating a stone, similar to a stone (napr., a paleolith, laccolith); 2) (from grech. lytos - cankered, soluble) a product of dissolution, decomposition (napr., an electrolyte).

LITAVRA (litavry) (from grech. polytaurea; ital. mn. Hours timpani, a nem. Pauken), an impact musical instrument kotloobraznoj forms with a membrane, often twin (a burn, etc.). It is distributed from the most ancient times. Into structure of a symphonic orchestra enters from 17 century, are routinely used 2 and more litavr.

LITAVRIN Gennady Grigorjevich (r. 1925), the Russian historian, the academician of the Russian Academy of Science (1994). Activities on a history of Byzantium.

LITBEL, see. The Litovsko-Byelorussian Soviet socialist republic.

LITVINENKO Paul Andreevich (r. 1924), the Hero Socialist Transactionses (1971), the full gentleman of orders of Glory (1944, 1945, 1946), the foreman. In Great Domestic war the commander of the anti-tank instrument. After war the worker, the deputy chief of shop on kombajnovom factory in Tula.

LITVINENKO-VOLGEMUT Maria Ivanovna (1892-1966), the Ukrainian singer (a lyrico-dramatic soprano), the national actress of the USSR (1936). The wife of singer I.S.Patorzhinskogo. In 1935-53 at the Ukrainian theatre of opera and ballet. The professor of the Kiev conservatory. (1944-64). The state premium of the USSR (1946).

LITVINOV Boris Vasiljevich (r. 1929), the Russian scientist, corresponding member of the Russian Academy of Science (1991), the Hero Socialist Transactionses (1981). Transactionses on new ways of a cumulation of power. Has created explosion-proof designs of charges. The lenin premium (1966).

LITVINOV Victor Jakovlevich (1910-83), avikonstruktor and the organizer of an aircraft industry. In 30th participat in organization of the production extension of different phylums of airplanes (including. The Instant), during Great Domestic war has adjusted the production extension shturmovikov Ooze - 2 in Kuibyshev. In 1965-73 was the deputy minister of a general machine industry. The state premium of the USSR (1946, 1950).

LITVINOV Maxim Maksimovich (an ice-film. fam. And name Vallah Maks) (1876-1951), the Russian statesman. With 1918 member of board Narkomindela, in 1921 ambassador in Estonia. With 1921 deputy, in 1930-1939 narkom foreign businesses of the USSR. In 1941-43 deputy narkoma foreign businesses, simultaneously a salting of the USSR in the USA. Member VTSIK, the Central Electoral Committee of the USSR.

LITVINOV Nikolay Vladimirovich (1907-87), the Russian producer, the national actor of Russia (1972). One of organizers and master masters of broadcasting for children.

FOUNDRY FEVER, occupational disease working for a casting, a smelt, an autogenous weldment and metal cutting: a heat, a fever, a headache, a vomiting, a conjunctivitis, a bronchitis, abdominal pains, etc. Flow paroxysmal.