[1] ECG Ö Electrocardiogram

[2] GRU Ö Chiefà Intelligence Department in Russia

[3] Kursk Ö Russian nuclear submarine which was wrecked in theà Barenz Sea in 2000

[4] Kaf‡kaà Franz, 1883Ö1924, 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]à THE TALE OF THE GIRL DARN FISH  -à reference to PuschkinÒsà literary work

à ÓThe Fairy Tale of The Fisherman and the Golden FishÔ

[11]àà Skuratov Ö Chief ofà repressive machinery under Ivan the Terribleà in the 15^th century

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

[13]à Moskino -Administrative body of Moscow cityà Cinematography

[14]à Goskino - Administrative body of all - Russianà State Cinematography

[15]à Bashmet Ö contemporary Russian musician and composer

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

[17]à Blok,à 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]àà 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]àà Bo‡yarà -à A member of a class of higher Russian nobility that until the time of Peter Ià headed the civil and military administration of the country and participated in an early duma.

[20] àBa‡bi Yarà -à A ravine outside Kiev , the Ukraineà where the Jews of the city were killed by German troops in 1941. The massacre is commemorated in Yevgeny Yevtushenko's 1961 poem ÓBabi Yar.Ô