BORATYNSKY E. À., see Baratynsky E.A.

BORACITE, mineral of a class of borates, Mg3 [B7O12] OCl. Impurity{additives} Fe (up to 36 %), Mn, etc. Bluish, colourless crystals, acinose masses. Hardness 7 - 7,5; firmness ok. 3 g / sm3. Meets in sedimentary deposits. Ore of a milletgrass.

BORG (Âorg) Bjorn (r. 1956), the Swedish sportsman. The world champion on tennis (1978-80). The winner of 62 large international tournaments (1973-82), including 5 Wimbledon (1976 - 80), in solitary category{discharge}.

BORGEN (Borgen) JUhan (1902-79), the Norwegian writer. Psychologic novels "Summing up" (1934), " the Trail of love " (1946), the trilogy " Small lord " (1955-57), " Dark sources " (1956) and " Now to him to not leave " (1957), stories.

BORGES (a nem. Borgis, from ital. borghese - urban), the typographical font, a point which (dimension) is peer to 9 points (ok. 3,38 mm).

BORGMAN Ivan Ivanovich (1849-1914), physics, the chapter of the Petersburg school of physicists, one of organizers of Russian physical society. The first elective rector of the St.-Petersburg university (1905-10), has left university in a mark of the protest against afflictings students. Transactionses on an electricity and magnetism.

BORGOSKY PARLIAMENT 1809, class collection of representatives of Finland, called by the Russian government in. Borgo (the Swede. Borgî; fin. Porvoo, Porvo). Has affirmed its{her} autonomy in structure of Russia.

BORDA (Borda) Jean Charles (1733-99), French physics and the geodesist. Has defined{determined} (1792) length of a second floating lever in Paris. Transactionses on hydraulics.

BORDE (Bordet) ZHjul (1870 - 1961), the Belgian immunologist and the bacteriologist. Probeed the mechanism of serological tests; has discovered a reaction of binding complement. Has placed{installed} the causal organism and has developed a method of an immunization against kokljusha. The Nobel Prize (1919).

BORDZHA, Bordzhia (ital. Borgia, isp. Borja), the notable stem of the spanish origin, played signifies. A role in 15 - nach. 16 centuries in Italy. Are most known: Rodrigo Bordzha (a dad Alexander VI), CHezare Bordzha, Lukretsija Bordzha.

BORDEAUX (Bordeaux), city on a southwest of France, on r. Garonne, an administrative centre of department Gironde and main city of historical regions. Gien and Gascony. 210 thousand inhabitants (1990). The major port, is accessible for courts of admiralty (freight turnover over 10 million t. Annually). An international airport. Oil processing, a machine industry, a chemical industry. Center of wine-making and wine trade. University (since 15 century). A museum of fine arts, etc. Residues drevnerimskogo an amphitheatre, Gothic churches, theatre (18 century).

BORDER (frants. bordure, from bord - an edge{a boundarouse}), in a broad sense - an edge, a border, a border; a kind{view} of ortamental dressings of texts or case histories; in a road construction - narrow bandwidths (border stones, slabs), roads separable a carriageway from footwalks; in an ornamental gardening - planting of low plants on edges{boundarice} of tracks, lawns or a circuit of a flower bed.

BOREADY, in the Grecian mythology winged sons of god Boreja and Orejfii, participants of a marching of argonauts.

BOREV Jury Borisovich (r. 1925), the Russian critic, the literary critic, the writer, the Doctor of Philology. In a centre of attention - the theory of the literature, a problem of an aesthetics. The main{basic} transactionses: " About comic " (1957), "Aesthetics" (1969), " Art of interpreting and an assessment{evaluation}: Experience of perusal of " the Copper rider " (1981), etc. Collections of jokes and histories Stalin and poslestalinskoj epoch ("Staliniada", 1990, "Pharisee", 1992; " the History of the state Soviet ", 1995).

BOREJ, in the Grecian mythology the god of boreal wind. It was figured by the strong winged the man. Figuratively - a choppy cool wind.

BOREL (Borel) Emil (1871-1956), the French mathematician, foreign corresponding member AN the USSR (1929). Transactionses on a calculus, function theories, mathematical physics and a theory of probabilities.

BORESKOV George Konstantinovich (1907-84), Russian fizikohimik, academician AN the USSR (1966), the Hero Socialist Transactionses (1967). Transactionses under the theory of a catalysis, mathematical modelling of industrial catalytic processes. Has developed new industrial catalysts. State premiums of the USSR (1942, 1953).

BORESKOV Michael Matveevich (1829-98), the Russian artificer officer, the general - lieutenant. Supervised over installation of mine-fields during Crimean (1853-56) and russko-turkish (1877-78) wars. Has offered a method of calculation of charges for blasting (formula Boreskova).

The FIGHTER, in botany - the same, that an aconite.

BORETSKIE (Isakovy), family of the Novgorod boyars of 15 century. Are known: 1) Isaak Andreevich (? - ok. 1460), sedate posadnik in 1438-1439 and 1453; his{its} wife - Martha Posadnitsa... 2) Dmitry Isaakovich (? - 1471), sedate posadnik in 1471, it is captivated in SHelonskoj to battle and it is executed by Ivan III;.. 3) Feodor Isaakovich, arrested for activity hostile to Moscow.