WHETHER VAN (r. 1916), the chairman of Standing committee Vsekitajskogo of collection of national representatives in 1988-93. Member KP of China (handheld computer) with 1936. With 1980 in a guiding of a handheld computer.

VANSJAN, city in China, prov. Sichuan, on r. Yangtze. 157 thousand inhabitants (1990). Impregnated-paper, textile, chemical, an oil-mill industry.

VAPTSAROV Nikola (1909-42), the Bulgarian poet. In verses - fervor of revolutionary extirpation of the Bulgarian worker, the communist, accusation of fascism (the collection " Songs of a motor ", 1940). Rasstreljan monarho-fascist authorities. The international premium of the World (1952, posthumously).

PITCH (volt-ampere reactive), unit of a reactive power alternating-current; pitch is meant. Differs from a watt a multiplier sin?, where? - phase shift between pressure and a circuital current.

PITCH (Varus) (ok. 53 up to n. e. - 9 n. e.), the Roman commander. The viceroy of a province Germany with 5 n. e. Having sufferred a crushing defeat in Tevtoburgskom to a wood from the German nations led by Arminius, has committed suicide.

VARADERO (Varadero), city on Cuba, prov. Matanzas. A climatic health resort, the tourist centre on Atlantic a shore. 16 thousand inhabitants (1990). Annual festivals of arts.

VARAZHDIN, city in Croatia. St. 40 thousand inhabitants. Sewing, textile, a food-processing industry. The clasp 15-16 centuries (museum). A town hall of 16-18 centuries Bliz Varadzhina - balneogrjazevoj and climatic health resort Varazhdinske-Toplitse.

The VARACTOR [from English var (iable) - variable and act - action], crystal rectifier, on a mode of functioning analogous to a varicap. It is used predominary as the nonlinear component in frequency multipliers, and also for intensifying oscillation in parametric amplifiers of a microwave range.

VARANASI (Benares), city in the Sowing. India, on r. Ganges, pieces. Uttar Pradesh. 926 thousand inhabitants (1991). The cultural, historical centre and a place of religious pilgrimage induistov and Buddhists (up to 1 million person annually). The cotton, polygraphic, alimentary, glass, chemical enterprises, a machine industry. Center of book printing in tongue of a Hindi. Art handcrafts (a brocade, carpets, jewels). University. Has arisen ok. 7 century up to n. e. " Golden temple SHivy " (ok. 1750), majestic palaces of 16-19 centuries (including. Man Mandir, 1600).

VARANGER-FIORD (Varanger fjord), Varjazhsky bay Barentseva in m., for boreal coasts of Europe, between p-ovami Fishing (Russian Federation) and Varanger (Norway). Length of 120 kms, width for an orifice of 50 kms, depth up to 420 m. Ports: Varde, Vadse (Norway).

MONITOR LIZARDS, a set of lizards. Length of 0,8-3 m. 1 stem (30 kinds), in Eastern hemisphere. Predators, eat lizards, snakes, small mammals, etc. The Largest representative - komodsky the goanna. The largest lizard of a fauna Compare. Asia - the grey goanna, length up to 1,6 m; in the Red Data Book of the International union of nature protection and natural resources.

VARAHY Melitinsky (mind. 298), one of thirty three Christian martyrs - soldiers damaged in the Melitin in persecution of emperor Diokletiana. Memory in the Orthodox church on November, 7 (20).

VARAHISY Persian (mind. ok. 330), the Christian martyr damaged in Persia in persecution SHapura II; the brother of the martyr Ions Persian. Memory in the Orthodox church on March, 28 (on April, 10), in Roman catholic - on March, 29.

VARAHSHA, gorodishche 5-8 centuries, in 40 kms to the west from Bukhara, a monument of art Sogda - ruins of a citadel and a palace with the ceremonial halls decorated with monumental painting and a sculpture (a thread on knocking).

VARBOLA, residues medieval (12-14 centuries) cities in 60 kms to the south from Thalline, a base estov in extirpation with german and danish aggressors.

VARBURG (Warburg) Otto Genrih (1883-1970), the german biochemist. Probeed redox processes in a living cell, a nature and functions of ferments. First has explained the mechanism of cellular respiration by enzymosis. Transactionses on a photosynthesis and oncologies. The Nobel Prize (1931).

VARVARIZMY (from grech. barbaros - foreign), foreign words and the expressions not completely run in by tongue and accepted as stranger.

VARVARINA the MOUNTAIN, parking of epoch of a serotinal paleolith in Zaigraevskom r-not Buryatiya. Residues of home units, economic holes, instruments, bones animal.

BARBAROUS TRUTHS (an armour. Leges barbarorum - laws of barbarians), records of the customary law of the German nations, the constituted between 5 and 9 centuries Are known Vestgotskaja, Burgundian, Salic, etc.