[1] ECG Ц Electrocardiogram

[2] GRU Ц Chiefа Intelligence Department in Russia

[3] Kursk Ц Russian nuclear submarine which was wrecked in theа Barenz Sea in 2000

[4] Kaf╖kaа Franz, 1883Ц1924, Austrian novelist and short-story writer, born in Prague.

[9] Che╖lya╖binsk - A city of western Siberian Russia, south of Sverdlovsk. Founded in 1736 as a Russian frontier outpost, it is a major metallurgical and industrial center. Poulation, 1,096,000.

[10]а THE TALE OF THE GIRL DARN FISH  -а reference to PuschkinТsа literary work

а УThe Fairy Tale of The Fisherman and the Golden FishФ

[11]аа Skuratov Ц Chief ofа repressive machinery under Ivan the Terribleа in the 15^th century

[12]а Kio -а famous Russian magician and conjurer

[13]а Moskino -Administrative body of Moscow cityа Cinematography

[14]а Goskino - Administrative body of all - Russianа State Cinematography

[15]а Bashmet Ц contemporary Russian musician and composer

[16]а Shura -а common Russian name, short for Alexander (also:а Shurik,а Sasha)

[17]а Blok,а Aleksandr Aleksandrovich. 1880-1921. Russian poet. Considered Russia's greatest symbolist poet, he is particularly noted for his lyrics, verse dramas, and long poem The Twelve (1918).

[18]аа Blake, William. 1757-1827. British poet and artist whose paintings and poetic works, such as Songs of Innocence (1789) and The Marriage of Heaven and Hell (c. 1790), have a mystical, visionary quality.

[19]аа Bo╖yarа -а A member of a class of higher Russian nobility that until the time of Peter Iа headed the civil and military administration of the country and participated in an early duma.

[20] аBa╖bi Yarа -а A ravine outside Kiev , the Ukraineа where the Jews of the city were killed by German troops in 1941. The massacre is commemorated in Yevgeny Yevtushenko's 1961 poem УBabi Yar.Ф