(ərzəmäs`), city (1990 pop. 110,000), E European Russia, on the Tyosha River. A rail junction, it has food-processing plants and industries that produce farm implements. An ancient Mordovian settlement, Arzamas became a fortress after Czar Ivan IV captured it from the Kazan Tatars in 1552.
a city, the center of the Arzamas Raion in the south of Gorky Oblast, RSFSR, on the Tesha River (tributary of the Oka). Intersection of railroad lines (Murom, Gorky, Kazan, and Ruzaevka lines). In 1969 the city had a population of 62,000. Its industries include machine-building (machines for municipal services, light industry, and so on), railroad transport, felt, ornamenting of cloth, leather and shoe factories, food (liqueur and vodka distilleries, breweries, and so on), and production of building materials. An automobile spare parts factory is being built (1970). The city has a pedagogical institute, technicums for the mechanization and electrification of agriculture, cooperative and medical schools, and a college of music. There is also a theater of drama, a museum of local history, and the memorial home (now museum) of A. Gaidar, who lived in Arzamas in his childhood.
The city of Arzamas sprang up in 1578. After 1779 it was the chief town of the district. From 1802 to 1862, Arzamas was the location of the first provincial school of painting in Russia. In 1901, M. Gorky was exiled to Arzamas; he portrayed the customs of Arzamas in his novella The Town of Okurov.
a literary circle which existed in St. Petersburg from 1815 to 1818. It was named in connection with the humorous work by D. N. Bludov, Apparition in an Arzamas Tavern, Published by a Society of Scholars. Among the members were V. A. Zhukovskii, K. N. Batiushkov, P. A. Viazemskii, A. S. Pushkin, and V. L. Pushkin. As supporters of the reforms of N. M. Karamzin, they opposed the conservative ideas of the Forum of the Lovers of the Russian Word and were in favor of bringing the literary language closer to the spoken language and of new genres in poetry.
“Arzamas” i arzamasskie protokoly. [Introduction by M. S. Borovkova-Maikova. Foreword by D. Blagoi.] Leningrad, .
This is the completion of the construction of the road "Bypass of Saransk from the road IP 178 Saransk - Surskoye - Ulyanovsk to the highway IP 158 Nizhny Novgorod - Saratov (via Arzamas, Saransk, Issa, Penza) in the Republic of Mordovia", as well as the construction of a highway on the street.
The Russian semi-automatic loading rifled 2S9 Nona-S 120mm howitzer/ mortar system (on the Volgograd Tractor Plant BMD amphibious airborne infantry fighting vehicle) and 2S23120mm self-propelled howitzer/mortar (on an eight-wheel drive Arzamas BTR-80 chassis) fill a similar role.
He was signing his own name and identifying himself accurately as having worked at the Soviet Arzamas 16 nuclear weapons laboratory.
Guslistova); la composicion del personal de las comisiones locales de testigos para los casos de tierras prestadas a condicion del servicio militar en la region de Arzamas a finales del siglo XVI y comienzos del XVII (A.
The SPM-2 GAZ-233036 "Tiger" is a high-mobility multipurpose military vehicle manufactured by MIC, a GAZ Group division, at the Arzamas machine-manufacturing plant.
Russia's Central Military District to Receive Ten Armored "Tigers"
To study and develop scorecards physical development used the results of anthropometric screenings 4619 rural students (2137 boys and 2482 girls) conducted in 21 districts of the Nizhny Novgorod region (Table 1) paediatricians Health Center for Children Arzamas, teams of scientific laboratory staff "monitoring the physical health of students at all levels of education" Arzamas UNN branch affte N.
Three cars on a train carrying the explosive substance hexogen to Kazakhstan detonated in Arzamas, Gorky Oblast, USSR, killing 91 and injuring about 1,500.
Ozone instrument used was Medozons BM, Arzamas Instrument Plant.
The well-known episode of the nightmare he had at the Arzamas inn was related in a letter to his wife in September 1869 and retold fifteen years later in his fictionalized Memoir of a Madman [[TEXT NOT REPRODUCIBLE IN ASCII]; 1884].
Zhukovsky was the leading Russian poet and founder of the literary society, Arzamas, of which the young Pushkin became a member.
Nor does Tosi neglect the linguistic and stylistic debate between those Russians, led by Shishkov, who advocated the use of a literary language imbued with Slavonicisms, and those, inspired by Karamzin and belonging to the society Arzamas, who advocated a more elegant, accessible style based on educated speech and drawing on foreign models.
For example, Cheboksary and Arzamas were bolstered with new monasteries in less than five years after these towns were created.