VADI (arab). (ued), dry valleys in deserts of Arabia and the Sowing. Africa; are filled in with water routinely after the strong downpours. See also Cry, Uzboj.

VADIA (Wadia) Darashav Noshervan (1883-1969), the indian geologist. The writer of capital transactionses on geology of India. Probeed a stratigraphy, a tectonics and a geologic structure of the Himalaya zone.

VADIM VALIANT (?-864), polulegendarnyj the leader novgorodtsev, grandson Gostomysla. Has raised revolt against Rjurika and it is killed by him{it}.

VADI-NATRUN, tectonic a hollow in Egypt, to the west from delta of Nile, at the altitude 24 m are lower than a sea level. Small-sized brine lakes. Production thrones.

VADKOVSKY Feodor Fedorovich (1800-44), the decembrist, the ensign. The member of Boreal and Austral societies. It is convicted on transportation for life. With 1826 in Keksgolmskoj strengths, with 1828 in Nerchinskih mines, with 1839 on a settlement.

VAD-MEDANI (Ued-Medani), city in Sudan, an administrative centre of Central locale. 145 thousand inhabitants (1987). A traffic centre and shopping center of Gezira - main area of an irrigation farming of country.

BARODA (. Baroda), city in the west India, pieces. Gujarat. 1,1 million inhabitants (1991). A traffic centre. The large centre of cotton industry in a cotton-growing area Maches - Normada. Chemical, metal-working, pharmaceutical, cement, electrotechnical, etc. the enterprises; handcrafts. Bliz Baroda, in Kojali, large petroleum refinery.

VADUZ (Vaduz), capital of the principality Liechtenstein, on Rhein. 4,8 thousand inhabitants (1990). A precise machine industry, a textile industry, wine-making. A state museum. The clasp of 9 century with a Gothic chapel of 15 century. Tourism.

VAER (from English wire - a strand{wire}), a steel wire rope for trailing a trawl.

VAZHA PSHAVELA (an ice-film. A name of Onions Pavlovich Razikashvili) (1861-1915), the Georgian poet. Ideas and modes{images} of folklore and mythology are philosophically rethought in racy poems about life gortsev (" the Visitor and a host ", 1893; "Zmeeed", 1901), stories, a drama "Cast-off" (1894).

SHE-DEER, samka a reindeer.

VASE (Vasa) (Vasa), the Swedish royal dynasty in 1523-1654. Founder Gustav I. In 1587-1668 reigned also in Poland.

VAZARELI (Vasarely; an ice-film. fam. Vasharhej) Victor (r. 1908), the French artist. The native of Hungary, in 1930 has moved to Paris. In 1950-60-Ñ has become one of founders and the largest master op-arta. His{its} picturesque compositions written by bright and clear tints of " a space spectrum " are based on the optical illusions bearing to effect of magicly transfigured space. Developed the art discoverings in a broad band - from the monumental architecture up to small luxury multiplej.

VAZARI (Vasari) Dzhordzho (1511-74), the italian painter, the architect, the historian of art. Worked primarily in Florence. The representative manjerizma (frescos in Palace Vekkjo, 1555-71); architectural ensemble Uffitsi (nowadays a museum, with 1560). " Biographies of the most well-known painters, sculptors and architects ".

VAZGEN I (Levon Karapet Abramovich Palchjan) (1908-94), with 1955 supreme patriarch and catholicos of all Armenians. In 1943 has accepted monasticism and a dignity of archimandrite, with 1951 diocesan. In 1947-55 headed the Armenian archdiocese in Romania.

PETROLATUM (frants. vaseline), uniform{homogeneous} salve-like mass, a mix of heavy hydrocarbon oil and solid hydrocarbon (paraffin, a ceresine, etc.). Receive fusion of hydrocarbon in oil{butter} with afterpurification of a mix by sulfuric acid and claying. In medicine - the basis{fundamentals} of ointments; in technique - for impregnation of paper capacitors and in the capacity of a grease.

VAZEH (an ice-film. Name Mirza SHafi) (1796-1852), the Azerbaijan poet, the educator. In satirical verses dissected faults of a society, invoked for extirpation for individual liberty; many lyrical verses become national songs. Wrote in forms of a gazelle, rubai, mesnevi, etc.

VAZOV Ivan (1850-1921), the Bulgarian writer, the public figure. Revoljutsionno-patriotic verses, a cycle liroepicheskih poems " the Epopee forgot " (1881-84), a novel - epopee " Under a yoke " (1889-90) - about national-liberation extirpation. Social - accusatory stories, stories, the novel "New Land" (1896), historical dramas from life of medieval Bulgaria " To an abyss " (1908), "Borislav" (1909), a comedy " Researchers of cushy jobs " (1903).

VASOPRESSINUM (antidiuretic hormone), neurohormone animal and the person, produced in a hypothalamus; acts{goes} in a hypophysis from which it is secreted in blood. Boosts a back suction of water in renal kanaltsah and thus reduces a diuresis. Invokes{produces} reductions of capillaries of blood system. On a chemical nature - a peptid.