QUESTION MARK, the punctuation mark (?) staked in the extremity (in some tongues, napr., in spanish, and in the beginning, in an inverted kind{view}) a question.

SEAL OIL, the obsolete title of marine animal oil and some fishes (rattles, etc.).

VORVULEV Nikolay Dmitrievich (1917-67), the Byelorussian and Ukrainian singer (baritone), the national actor of the USSR (1956). With 1946 in Byelorussian, with 1957 at the Ukrainian theatre of opera and ballet.

VORDSVORT (Uordsuort) (Wordsworth) William (1770-1850), the English poet - romantik. The representative of " lacustrine school ". " Lyrical ballads " (together with S.T.Kolridzhem, 1798), a poem "Prelude" (it is published in 1850). Has approximated poetic tongue to informal conversation.

VORKUTA, city (with 1943) in the Russian Federation, Republic Komi, behind the Polar circle, on r. Vorkuta. A depot. 116 thousand inhabitants (1992.) Center of the Pechora coal basin (combine " Âîðêóòàóãîëü "). Mechanic, mechanical-repair, cement, wood-working and other factories. 2 theatres.

VORMSI (Vormsi), an island in Moonzundskom arh., in Baltic m., in structure of Estonia. 93 êì2. Fishery.

VORMSSKY the CONCORDAT 1122, is encased in german. Vorms, has finished extirpation for investiture. Emperor of " Sacred Roman empire " was refused for the benefit of Roman dads from spiritual investiture; in Germany (but not in Italy and Burgundy) to emperor the right of sharing{participation} in election of diocesans and abbes was ensured.

VORMSSKY EDIKT 1521, it is issued by emperor of " Sacred Roman empire " Charles V; declared Luther the heretic and put it{him} outside of the law. It is disclosed on rejhstage in. Vorms.

SPARROWS Alexey Alekseevich (r. 1931), the Russian physics - experimenter, corresponding member of the Russian Academy of Science (1991). Transactionses on nuclear physics and fundamental particles. The state premium of the USSR (1983).

SPARROWS Arcady Nikitich (r. 1924), the Russian sportsman (weightlifting), the deserved master of the sport (1952), the deserved trainer of the USSR (1964), the doctor of medical sciences (1970). The champion of Olympic Games (1956, 1960), the repeated champion and the champion of the world, Europe and the USSR in 1950-1959.

SPARROWS Vladimir Vasiljevich (r. 1929), Russian ekonomikogeograf, the academician of the Russian Academy of Science (1991; academician AN the USSR with 1990). Transactionses on economic geography, geography of the population and cities of Siberia.

SPARROWS Vladimir Petrovich (1876-1937), the Ukrainian anatomist, academician AN of Ukraine (1934). Probes on anatomy of nervous system. Has developed stereomorphological methods of preparing. The writer of " the Atlas of anthropotomy " (t. 1-5, 1938-42). Participat in an embalming of a body of V.I.Lenina. The premium him{it}. V.I.Lenina (1927).

SPARROWS Vladimir Petrovich (r. 1912), the Russian shipbuilder, the Hero Socialist Transactionses (1963). The chief designer of designs of combat ships. The lenin premium (1970), the State premium of the USSR (1949).

SPARROWS Eugeny Zaharovich (1911-90), the Russian writer. Novels "Altitude" (1952) about builders of large factory, " the Hunt to vicissitude of places " (1978). The book " Moscow. Close to heart " about the defence of city in 1941-42.

SPARROWS Ivan Alekseevich (r. 1921), doubly the Hero of Soviet Union (1944, 1945), the colonel (1956). In Great Domestic war in an attack aviation, the squadron commander; ok. 400 sorties.

SPARROWS Konstantin Dmitrievich (1919-75), the Russian writer. In the autobiographical stories noted by psychologic accuracy, the ruthless plotting of a wanton cruelty of war ("Cry", 1962; " Are killed near Moscow ", 1963; " It we, My God! ", it is uncompleted, 1943, it is published in 1986), tragedies of collectivization (" Wash friend Momich ", 1965, it is published in 1988). Stories.

SPARROWS Maxim Nikiforovich (1787-1855), the Russian painter. The representative of romanticism. Landscapes - architectonic kinds{views} of Moscow, Petersburg - combine accuracy of a perspective with a diversification of effects of illumination{lighting}.

SPARROWS Michael Petrovich (1896-1957), the Russian commander, marshal of an engineering troops (1944). In Great Domestic war the chief of engineering troops Zap. Front, with 1942 - an engineering troops of the Soviet Army (till April 1946).

SPARROWS (an ice-film. fam. Bogaevsky) Nikolay Nikolaevich (1908-89), the Russian poet. In structure of the Don Cossack body in 1920 has been evacuated to Egypt; after cable cores in Turkey, Yugoslavia, Germany, the USA. A poem " Kondraty the Bulavin " (1965) - about the Cossack revolt on Don. Poetic collections: " Verses about miscellaneous " (1969), " About chelovechkah from other planet " (1972).