Russia (72 page)

White Sea,
69
,
97
,
251

Wilmanstrand,
171

Wladyslaw, Prince,
122
,
123
,
126

World Bank,
312

Yaik Cossacks,
158

Yakutia,
244
,
273

Yakuts,
134
,
199
,
216
,
272

Yakutsk,
131
,
251

Year of Revolutions (1848),
208

Yedigei, Tatar Khan,
62
,
63

Yelets,
110

Yeltsin, Boris,
289
-
90
,
294
-
8
,
302
,
322
,
323
; constitutional changes,
305
-
6
; economic mismanagement of,
302
-
4
,
310
—
12
; health of,
309
; re-election of,
309
—
10
; resignation of,
313
; support for,
306
,
312
-
13

Yenisei river,
131
,
280

Yerevan,
191
,
199
,
204

Yermak (Cossack leader in service of the Stroganovs),
97
,
110

Yermolov, General A.P.,
199
-
200

Yngvar the Viking,
32
-
3

Yugits,
134

Yugoslav Communist Party,
267

Yugoslavia, Yugoslavs,
263
,
265
,
294
,
298
,
313

Yukagirs,
132
,
176

Yukos (oil company),
316

Zagorsk,
60
,
64
; Trinity St Sergius

Monastery,
124

Zakaev, Akmed,
316

Zaporozhian Cossacks,
95
,
122

Zaporozhian Sech,
143
,
144
,
155
,
163
,
181
,
184

Zarutskii, Hetman Ivan,
124
,
126

Zhukov, Marshal Georgi,
253
,
255
,
257
,
258
,
269

Ziuganov, Gennadi,
309
-
10

Zoe/Sofia Paleologue (wife of Ivan IV),
70
-
1
,
82
-
3

Zolkiewski (Polish commander),
123

Zosimus, Metropolitan,
82

Zubov, Platon,
188

Zvenigorod,
63