Russia-1 (Russian: Россия-1) is a state-owned Russian television channel founded in 1991. It belongs to the All-Russia State Television and Radio Company (VGTRK). Russia Channel was previously known as RTR (Russian: РТР). Russia-1 has the second largest audience in Russian television. In a typical week, it is viewed by 75% of urban Russians, compared to 83% for the leading channel, Channel One. The two channels are similar in their politics, and they compete directly in entertainment. Russia-1 has many regional variations and broadcasts in many languages.
Russia-1 had started in 1965 as Program 3 in the Soviet Union and moved to Channel 2 in 1967 when a new channel, Program 4 (now known as NTV), was officially launched and the Moscow Program, which started in 1956, was transferred to Channel 3. From the very start, it only hosted programs produced by the Ministry of Education of the Soviet Union, as well as children's programming, in monochrome. The move to a new channel frequency resulted in it being renamed Program 2 and becoming the second home of the national newscast Vremya since 1968.
Russian wine refers to wine made in the Russian Federation and to some extent wines made in the former Union of Soviet Socialist Republics though this later referencing is an inaccurate representation of wines from Armenia, Azerbaijan, Georgia, Moldova, Ukraine. The phrase Russian wine more properly refers to wine made in the southern part of the Russian Federation-including the areas around Dagestan, Chechnya, Kabardino-Balkaria, Krasnodar Krai, Rostov, and Stavropol Krai. Russia currently has the following controlled appellations that correspond to the sorts of grapes: Sibirkovy (Сибирьковый), Tsimlyanski Cherny (Цимлянский чёрный), Plechistik (Плечистик),Narma (Нарма), and Güliabi Dagestanski (Гюляби Дагестанский).
Wild grape vines have grown around the Caspian, Black and Azov seas for thousands of years with evidence of viticulture and cultivation for trade with the Ancient Greeks found along the shores of the Black Sea at Phanagoria and Gorgippia. It is claimed that the Black Sea area is the world's oldest wine region.
The Arktika class is a Russian (former Soviet) class of nuclear-powered icebreakers; they are the largest and most powerful icebreakers ever constructed. Ships of the Arktika class are owned by the federal government, but were operated by the Murmansk Shipping Company (MSCO) until 2008, when they were transferred to the fully government-owned operator Atomflot. Of the ten civilian nuclear-powered vessels built by Russia (and the Soviet Union), six have been of this type. They are used for escorting merchant ships in the Arctic Ocean north of Siberia as well as for scientific and recreational expeditions to the Arctic.
On July 3, 1971, construction began on a conceptual design of a larger nuclear icebreaker, dubbed Arktika, in the Baltic Shipyard in then Leningrad. Four years later, on December 17, 1975, Moscow and Leningrad received radio messages informing them that sea trials had been completed successfully. The newest and largest nuclear icebreaker at the time was ready for the Arctic.
AT NIGHT HE WOKE UP BY A SOUND THAT CAME DOWN THE LONG FLOOR
A THREE FOUR TIME PART, OPEN WINDOW THE NOISE OF THE SHORE AND A GLEAM FROM THE DOOR
AWARE OF A TRESPASSERS LOT HE WENT IN THE HALL
THE LIGHT THAT HE SAW FULL OF GLORY HOWEVER UNBORN
AND THE MUSIC PLAYED ON
WITH A ROSE IN HIS HAND HE HAD BEEN INVITED TO DANCE
AT A PLACE OF DARKNESS, OF YEARNING AND DEMANDS
LET ME DANCE WITH A ROSE IN YOUR HALL
I SEE YOU`VE DECIDED TO GIVE ME A NEW TOMORROW
BEFORE YOU GET DOWN TO MY TIES YOU`VE SOMETHING TO KNOW
AT THIS HORRIBLE PLACE
THE EMIT YOU FEEL IS THE GLOW OF AN UNBORN ROMANCE
THE WAY THAT YOU CHOOSE ISN`T EASY BUT THERE IS A CHANCE
IF YOU GO NOW TO DANCE
THE GRIM REAPER WAITS, ONE WRONG STEP, I CAN HELP YOU NO MORE
DON`T YOU SEE THE DRY LEAVES OF ROSES, DANCED BEFORE
GAVE A TRIAL WITH THEIR ROSE IN MY HALL
TO BLOW THE OLD LEAVES FAR AWAY WAS THE GEMINI`S PART
A PICTURE APPEARED, THE ARCHER, THE TARGET HIS HEART
AND A SMILE FROM HIS FACE
A DOUBT MADE HIM STUMBLE, THE EDGE OF THE REAPER SO TIGHT
THE BEAUTY IT CAME TO BE GLORYING AND HE LOST HIS SIGHT
AND A SCREAM IN HIS MIND
DO NOT BELIEVE WHAT YOU SEE, BELIEVE WHAT YOU KNOW
KEEP ON MOVING FURTHER TO A PLACE WHERE ROSES GROW
NEVER LOST THE GROUND OF THIS HALL
LET`S BE AS THE ROSES, OF BEAUTY AND THORNS
WHILE THE NIGHT, IST STILL WAITING, FOR OUR DANCE IN THE HALL
AND THE LIGHT , KEEPS ON SHINING , FOR YOU AND FOR ME