Favorite links

Astronomy

Galaxies

NED NASA/IPAC Extragalactic Database (in English)

LEDA Lyon-Meudon Extragalactic Database (in English)

SIMBAD Centre de Donn?es astronomiques de Strasbourg (in English)

The Hubble Deep Field the deepest view of the Universe (in English)

Digitize Sky Survey photographic surveys in E, V, J, R, and N bands conducted with the Palomar and UK Schmidt (in English)

STScI: Space Telescope Science Institute (in English)

Pictures

Comet Hale-Bopp "official" comet Hale-Bopp site (in English)

Comet Hale-Bopp Images over 5,000 images (in English)

Comet Hyakutake Image Archive (in English)

Collections of interacting galaxies wonderful pictures, collected by B Keel, the University of Alabama (in English)

Hubble Space Telescope Public Pictures (in English)

Messier Picture Gallery a collection of Messier objects (in English)

AIDA Astronomical Image Data Archive of pictures made by amateur astronomers (in English)

Astronomy Picture of the Day Each day a different image or photograph of our fascinating universe is featured, along with a brief explanation written by a professional astronomer (in English)

Astronomy Photography Search View thousands of images of space, planets, stars, and more.

Journals

ADS Astronomy Query Form a search system for Astrophysics, Planetary Sciences, and Solar Physics abstracts (in English)

Astrophysical Journal (ApJ) (in English)

Astronomical Journal (AJ) (in English)

Astronomy and Astrophysics (A&A) (in English)

Astronomy and Astrophysics Supplement (A&AS) (in English)

Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society (MNRAS) (in English)

Other

Astronomical Departments a Yahoo list of Astronomical Departments (in English)

Astronomical Observatories a Yahoo list of observatories (in English)

Astronomical Department of Saint-Petersburg State University (in Russian/English)

Vladimir Reshetnikov's Home Page need to learn more about unusual galaxies? Here is information concerning interacting, polar-ring, and merger galaxies, and more (in Russian/English)

Balsa Terzic's Home Page the site contains information concerning selestial mechanics and dynamics, pretty pictures, and more (in English)

Pau Amaro-Seoane Home Page for those who are interested in Galaxy dynamics, AGNs, and dense gas-star systems. Pictures and links on various subjects (in English)

History

Paleoanthropology

The Talk.Origins Archive a collection of articles and essays that explore the creationism/evolution controversy from a mainstream scientific perspective (in English)

The Evidence for Human Evolution an overview of the study of human evolution, and of the currently accepted fossil evidence-the exellent site containing all you'd like to know about hominid origins (in English)

Human Evolution site of Handprint Media (in English)

A Look at Modern Human Origins a reference site for students of paleoanthropology (in English)

'In Search of Eden' by Paul de Nooijer (in English)

Paleoanthropology, a short jorney through time (in English)

Arcaeology.Info a very good site (in English)

The evolution of primates a rewiew of primate origins (in Russian)

Journal of Human Evolution (in English)

Solikamsk

The official server of Solikamsk the information site of the city of Solikamsk (in Russian)

Solikamsk site a good page containing information about Solikamsk business, service, entertainments, etc (in Russian)

Perm regional server official site of Perm oblast administration - information both about Solikamsk and Perm region (in Russian)

Solikamsk on Perm Region Site information about Solikamsk (in English)

JSC "Solikamskbumprom" page about one of the leading enterprises in Russian pulp & paper industry (in English)

The wood buildings of Solikamsk look at the wood buildings from Solikamsk at Perm ethnographic museum under the open sky "Khokhlovka" (in Russian/English)

Ancient cities

Novgorod

Novgorod On-Line basic information about the city and city's business (in Russian/English)

Veliky Novgorod, a virtual guide history, culture, tourism, hotels, transport, etc (in Russian/English)

Veliky Novgorod for travellers an exellent guide, many pictures (in English, Russian)

Novgorod Archaeology (in English)

Saint-Petersburg

Saint-Petersburg City govenerment an official site (in English/Russian)

Saint-Petersburg Sights views of the city and its suberbs (in English)

Saint-Petersburg Picture Gallery (in Russian/English)

Saint-Petersburg and its suburbs in pictures lovely photos (in Russian/English)

The State Hermitage Museum official site one of biggest museums in the world (in Russian/English)

Kyiv

Kyiv City administration an official site (in Ukranian/Russian/English)

Kyiv Photo Gallery over 500 images (in English)

Orthodox Kyiv the city's convents, churches, and cathedrals (in Russian)

Churches of Ukraine the most beautiful churches of Kyiv (in English/Russian)

Lviv

Lviv City administration an official site (in Ukranian/Russian/English)

Lviv resources a list of Lviv links (in English/Ukranian)

Lviv Photo Gallery (in English)

Lviv Photo Gallery more than 7,000 pictures (in Ukranian)

Other

The Russian Movement "Memorial" site, discovering the unknown history of Russia - it contains a lot of materials, documents, maps, and pictures dedicated to the investigating of Stalin's repressions and other communist crimes of the 1930-1950s (in Russian)

Russian architecture an exellent site dedicated to the Russian architecture. It has the catalogue of monuments containing about 1000 pretty pictures of churches, cathederals, bell towers, and other (in English/Russian)

Serene Cultural Alliance Research Institute S.C.A.R.I SCARI is an institution committed to defining and describing our state, both physical and spiritual; the psychic glue binding our need to make more because less is not enough -- an ontological need to mark and name. (in English)

Pictures of Italian cities a site of my friend Iraida Vereshagina containing pretty photos of Italy and more (in Russian)

Literature

Ivan Efremov

Specimens described by Dr. Efremov in Russian Dinosaur Exposition (in English)

Learn more about Dinosaurus an exellent site contains much information, picturies, etc, concering Dinosaurus, in fascinating and funny form (in English)

Efremov's literary works in on-line and donwload forms (in Russian)

Efremov's literary works in English "Andromeda Nebula" and "The Land of Foam" in Russica Miscellania (in English)

Andromede, a site dedicated to Ivan Efremov one can find here all Efremov's literary works as well as articles about I. Efremov written by his friends and investigators of his activities (in Russian)

Ivan Efremov, his life and creative work an interesting site, which contains a lot of materials, dedicated to the great scientist and writer (in Russian)

Initiative "Noogen" a movement for humanistic reorganization of the society (in Russian)

Old Science Fiction a library of science fiction from old magazines and books. (in Russian).

Soccer

Spartak Moscow

Spartak Mockow, official site (in English/Russian)

Official site of Spartak's fans (in Russian)

Spartak Moscou info about the club (in French)

FC Spartak Moscow unofficial site (in Russian)

Other

Russian Premier Division standings, results, and statistics (in English)

Russian League tables and results (in English)

Russian Football Premier League (in Russian)

Association Proffessional Football League Russian Proffessional Football League (in Russian)

Football Union of Russia (in English/Russian)

The soccer Home Page a good site containing many useful soccer links (in English)

Soccer glossary explanations of soccer terms (in English)

A Daily Tip (Soccer) Updated Weekly material on soccer coaching, soccer training, soccer drills, soccer drill, soccer skills, soccer skill, soccer strategy, soccer tactics (in English)

UEFA (in English)

FIFA (in English)