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Valdas Ivanauskas Valdas Ivanauskas (born July 31, 1966 in Kaunas) is the current first team coach of Hearts football club and a former football striker from Lithuania. He played 28 international matches and scored 8 goals for the national team, and also played 5 matches for the Soviet Union between 1988 and 1990.
Valdís Óskarsdóttir Valdís Óskarsdóttir (born 1950, in Akureyri, Iceland) is an award-winning Icelandic film editor, whose work as an editor includes The Celebration, Les Misérables, Finding Forrester and Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind.
Valdecoxib Valdecoxib is a prescription drug used in the treatment of osteoarthritis, rheumatoid arthritis, and painful menstruation and menstrual symptoms. It is classified as a nonsteroidal anti-inflammatory drug, or NSAID, and should not be taken by anyone allergic to these types of medications.
Valdemar I of Sweden Valdemar Birgersson (1239 – 1302), King of Sweden 1250 – 1275/1288/1302, was the son of princess Ingeborg Eriksdotter of Sweden and Birger jarl, Birger Magnusson from the House of Bjelbo, who more or less ruled Sweden from 1248 under king Eric Ericsson the Lame, his father-in-law. When king Eric XI died in 1250, Valdemar was elected king, while Birger jarl was presumably on a campaign in Finland.
Valdemar II of Denmark Valdemar II (1170–1241), called Valdemar the Conqueror or Valdemar the Victorious (Valdemar Sejr), was the King of Denmark from 1202 until 1241. The nickname Sejr is a later invention and was not used during the King's own lifetime.
Valdemar III of Denmark Valdemar III of Denmark (1314 - 1364) was a king of Denmark from 1326 to 1329 briefly when underage, as well as in 1325-26 and 1330-64 Duke of Schleswig. He was a rival king set up against the unsuccessful Christopher II and was widely opposed by his many subjects.
Valdemar Santana Valdemar Santana (sometimes referred to as Adema Santa) was a Brazilian fighter, who trained in Capoeira under Mestre Bimba and also in Judo, Boxing and Brazilian Jiu-Jitsu. He is famous for defeating his former master HĂ©lio Gracie in 1955, in a record-breaking 3 hours, 45 minutes long match.
Valdemaras ChomiÄŤius Valdemaras ChomiÄŤius (born May 4 1959 in Kaunas, Lithuania) is a former basketball player for the Soviet and Lithuanian national basketball teams currently assistant coach for BC UNICS in Russia and assistant coach on the Lithuanian national team.
Valdesqui Valdesqui is a ski area situated near the town of Cercedilla in the Sierra de Guadarrama near Madrid (Spain). The area is close to the Navacerrada resort (Madrid) and there have been projects to link the two areas, stopped by ecologist movements.
Valdez Blockade The Exxon Valdez oil spill of 1989 had devastated the shore around Prince William Sound, diminishing the marine population. Consequently, the fishery industry in the area faced a sharp fall on their fish catch and revenue.
Valdir Peres Valdir Peres, real name Waldir Peres de Arruda, (born January 2 1951 in Garça), was a football (soccer) player from Brazil. He played goalkeeper, in particular with São Paulo FC and the Brazilian national team.
Valdivia Culture The Valdivia Culture was one of the oldest settled civilizations yet recorded in the Americas. It thrived on the on the Santa Elena peninsula near the modern-day town of Valdivia, Ecuador between 3500 BC and 1800 BC.
Valdivia River The Valdivia River or Rio Valdivia, as it is known locally, is a major river in southern Chile. It is the continuation of the Calle-Calle River, from the point where it meets the Cau-Cau River in the city of Valdivia.
Valdivia, Chile Valdivia is a city and municipalty in southern Chile, founded by Pedro de Valdivia, located at the confluence of the Calle Calle, Valdivia and Cau Cau rivers, some 15 km east of the coastal town and bay of Corral. The city administratively belongs to Los Lagos Region and is the capital of the Valdivia Province.
Valdivian Coastal Range The Valdivian Coastal Range is a geographical region of southern Chile, along the Pacific coast. Named for the town of Valdivia, it covers about 1 million acres (4,000 km²) of the Valdivian temperate rain forests, approximately one-quarter of which are protected.
Valdivian temperate rain forests The Valdivian temperate rain forests are a temperate broadleaf and mixed forest ecoregion located on the west coast of southern South America, lying mostly in Chile and extending into a small part of Argentina. It part of the of the Neotropic ecozone.
Valdo Filho Valdo Cândido de Oliveira Filho better known simply as Valdo, was a Brazilian footballer born in 12 January 1964 on Siderópolis, Brazil. He played as an offensive midfielder for such clubs as SL Benfica and Paris Saint-Germain, and the Brazil national football team.
Valdosta State University Valdosta State University is a public university located in the city of Valdosta, Georgia in the United States, and is part of the University System of Georgia. Degree levels offered at VSU include: Associate's, Bachelor's, Master's, Education Specialist, and Doctoral.
Valdotanian Union The Valdotanian Union (French: Union ValdĂ´taine) is a liberal regionalist political party in the Aosta Valley, Italy. It has close ties with the parties of the centre-left, and is the main political group in the region.
Valdoviño Valdoviño is a City Council of Ferrolterra in Northwestern Spain in the Province of A Coruña, in the autonomous community of Galicia. Ferrolterra's population represents the third largest concentration of people in Galicia, and its disperse population exceeds 211,000 (2005).
Valdres vidaregĂĄande skule Valdres videregĂĄande skule is a high school located in the Valdres area of eastern Norway. The school is the primary high school for the vast majority of students in the greater Valdres area, and offers a relatively broad range of subjects.
Valdunciel Valdunciel is a village and municipality in the province of Salamanca, western Spain, part of the autonomous community of Castile-Leon. It is located 14 kilometres from the provincial capital city of Salamanca and has a population of 104 people.
Valdy Valdy (born Paul Valdemar Horsdal on 1 September 1945 in Ottawa, Ontario) is one of Canada's established folk musicians. Valdy has been part of the folk scene in Canada since the early 1970s and is perhaps best known for his compositions "Rock and Roll Song", "Yes I Can", and "Peter & Lou".
Vale In geography a vale is a wide river valley, usually with a particularly wide flood plain or flat valley bottom. Vales commonly occur between the scarp slopes of pairs of chalk downs, where the chalk dome has been eroded, exposing less resistant underlying rock, usually clay.
Vale class gunship The Vale-class was a class of five gunships built for the Royal Norwegian Navy between 1874 and 1878. Small, nimble vessels, they were armed with a single large caliber muzzleloading gun for offencive purposes and several small, quick firing guns for self defence.
Vale do ParaĂ­ba Vale do ParaĂ­ba (Paraiba Valley) is a valley that extends from the eastern area of SĂŁo Paulo State to the west of Rio de Janeiro State. It is crossed by ParaĂ­ba do Sul River and it is located between the Mantiqueira Mountains and Serra do Mar (Portuguese for Mountain Range of the Sea).
Vale Festival The Vale Festival, commonly abbreviated to Festivale, is a music festival that takes place on campus of The University of Birmingham. Uniquely, it is planned, organised and largely staffed by volunteer students.
Vale of Atholl Pipe Band The Robert Wiseman Dairies Vale of Atholl Pipe Band is a competitive Grade One pipe band. The band has placed highly in the Major Scottish competitions and the World Pipe Band Championships since at least the late 1980s.
Vale of Belvoir The Vale of Belvoir (pronounced bee-ver), an area of outstanding natural beauty (AONB), is on the borders of Leicestershire, Nottinghamshire and Lincolnshire in England. Indeed, the name itself derives from the Norman-French for beautiful view.
Vale of Eden The Vale of Eden is formed by the course of the River Eden, one of the major rivers of Northwest England. It is however of much greater extent than the actual valley of the river, lying between the Cumbrian Mountains (more usually referred to as the Lake District), and the northern part of the Pennine Range.
Vale of Glamorgan The Vale of Glamorgan (Welsh: Bro (or rarely Dyffryn) Morgannwg) is an exceptionally rich agricultural area in the southern part of Glamorgan, Wales. It has a rugged coastline, but its rolling countryside is quite untypical of Wales as a whole.
Vale of Glamorgan Railway The Vale of Glamorgan Railway is a heritage railway based at Barry in the Vale of Glamorgan, South Wales. There is a heritage centre (VoGRC) with a short running track at Barry Island, near to the site of the former Woodhams' Scrapyard.
Vale of Leven The Vale of Leven is an area of Scotland in West Dunbartonshire in the valley of the River Leven, which flows from Loch Lomond to the River Clyde. The area is situated just a few miles north of the town of Dumbarton, and consists of a number of communities which were historically separate villages but expanded into one conurbation.
Vale of Leven F.C. Vale of Leven Football Club are a Scottish football (soccer) club based in the town of Alexandria in the Vale of Leven area of West Dunbartonshire. Nicknamed the Vale and formed in 1939, they play at Millburn Park.
Vale of Llangollen Railway The Vale of Llangollen Railway was built as a spur from the Shrewsbury and Chester Railway at Ruabon to the town of Llangollen. It was initially opened for goods only on 1 December 1861 and to passenger traffic on 2 June 1862, and was worked by the worked by the Great Western Railway and subsequently the Western Region of British Railways.
Vale of Mowbray The Vale of Mowbray (sometimes mistakenly referred to as the Vale of York) is a stretch of low lying land between the North Yorkshire Moors and the Cleveland Hills to the east and the Yorkshire Dales to the west. To the north lie the Tees Valley lowlands and to the south the Vale of Mowbray becomes the Vale of York proper.
Vale of Neath Railway The Vale of Neath Railway was a broad gauge railway line from Neath to Merthyr Tydfil, in Glamorgan, Wales, and also operated the Swansea and Neath Railway which gave it access to the docks at Swansea. It was opened on 24 September 1851 and amalgamated with the Great Western Railway on 1 February 1865.
Vale of Neath Railway 0-6-0ST locomotives Vale of Neath Railway 0-6-0ST locomotives were 0-6-0 saddle tank steam locomotives for working the heavy goods traffic on the Vale of Neath Railway and its associated lines in Wales. The first of 13 broad gauge locomotives entered service in 1854 and the last was withdrawn in 1886.
Vale of Pickering The Vale of Pickering is the flat area in North Yorkshire, England, between the North York Moors (to the north), and the Yorkshire Wolds (to the south). To the east the flat area extends to Scarborough, and to the west it merges with the Vale of York.
Vale of Rheidol Railway The Vale of Rheidol Railway (VoR, Welsh: Rheilffordd Dyffryn Rheidol ) is a narrow-gauge gauge heritage railway that runs for 11Âľ miles between Aberystwyth and Devil's Bridge in Wales, UK. It was the last steam line to be operated as part of the nationalised British Railways network.
Vale of Tempe The Vale of Tempe (modern Greek: TĂ©mbi), celebrated by the Greek poets as a favorite haunt of Apollo and the Muses, is the ancient name of a gorge in northern Thessaly, Greece, located between Olympus on the north and Ossa on the south. The valley is 10 kilometers long and as narrow as 25 meters in places, with cliffs nearly 500 meters high, and through it flows the Pineios River on its way to the Aegean Sea.
Vale of York "The Vale of York extends for mile upon flat mile around the ancient city after which it is named" (Mark Whyman and Andy J. Howard, Archaeology and Landscape in the Vale of York, York Archaeological Trust, 2005).
Vale, Sibiu Vale (Hungarian: Vále) is a village under the administration of the town of Sălişte in Sibiu County, Transylvania, Romania, at the foothills of the Cindrel Mountains, about 20 km west of the county capital Sibiu, in the Mărginimea Sibiului ethnographical area.
Valeant Pharmaceuticals International Valeant Pharmaceuticals International is a pharmaceutical company with activities spanning the drug discovery pipeline from target identification through clinical trials and commercialization. The focus of the company is on neurology, dermatology and infectious disease with several drugs in late-stage clinical trials and several currently on the market.
Valedictorian In the United States and Canada, the title of valedictorian (an anglicized derivation from the Latin vale dicere, "to say farewell") is given to the top graduate of the graduating class (the Australia/New Zealand equivalent being dux) of an educational institution. The title comes from the valedictorian's traditional role as the last speaker at the graduation ceremony.
Valeen Tippetts Avery Valeen Tippetts Avery (1936 - 2006) was an American biographer and historian best known for her work on Western American and Latter Day Saint history. With biographer Linda King Newell, she co-authored Mormon Enigma: Emma Hale Smith, a biography of the wife of the founder of the Latter Day Saint movement, Joseph Smith, Jr..
Valehouse Reservoir Valehouse (or Vale House) reservoir is a man-made lake in Longdendale in north Derbyshire. It was built between 1865 and 1869 as part of the Longdendale chain, which was built to supply water from the River Etherow to the urban areas of Greater Manchester.
Valech Report The Valech Report (officially The National Commission on Political Imprisonment and Torture Report) was a study that detailed abuses committed in Chile between 1973 and 1990 by agents of Augusto Pinochet's military regime. The first part of the report was published on November 29, 2004 and detailed the results of a six month investigation.
Valen Valen is the fictional leader of the Minbari in the science fiction television show Babylon 5. Valen is part of the back story of the show, and is said to have appeared one thousand years before the story on Babylon 5 begins in 2258.
Valençay SOE Memorial The Valençay SOE Memorial is a monument to the members of the Special Operations Executive F Section who lost their lives for the liberation of France. The memorial was unveiled in the town of Valençay in the Indre département of France on May 6, 1991, marking the fiftieth anniversary of the despatch of F Section's first agent to France.
Valence (chemistry) In chemistry, valence, also known as valency or valency number, is a measure of the number of chemical bonds formed by the atoms of a given element. Over the last century, the concept of valence evolved into valence bond theory (1927) and then into modern valence bond theory (1990s).
Valence bond theory In chemistry, valence bond theory explains the nature of a chemical bond in a molecule in terms of atomic valencies.Murrel, JN, Kettle, SF Tedder, JM "The Chemical Bond", John Wiley & Sons (1985) ISBN 0-471-90759-6 Valence bond theory summarizes the rule that the central atom in a molecule likes to form electron pair bonds in accordance with geometric constraints as defined by the octet rule, approximately.
Valence effect The valence effect of prediction is the tendency for people to simply overestimate the likelihood of good things happening rather than bad things. (Valence refers to the positive or negative emotional charge something has.
Valence electron In chemistry, valence electrons are the electrons contained in the outermost, or valence, electron shell of an atom. Valence electrons are important in determining how an element reacts chemically with other elements: The fewer valence electrons an atom holds, the less stable it becomes and the more likely it is to react.
Valencia (autonomous community) Valencia, Valencian Country, Land of Valencia, Valencian Community or Region of Valencia (Comunitat Valenciana or País Valencià in Catalan, Comunidad Valenciana or País Valenciano in Spanish) is an autonomous community in eastern Spain. Between the Sénia and Segura rivers, it has 518 kilometers of coastline on the Mediterranean and covers 23,255 km² of land with 4.
Valencia CF season 2006-07 The Valencia CF season 2006-07, consists of several competitions for Spanish football (soccer) club Valencia CF compete in. They play in the domestic 2006-07 La Liga championship, the Copa del Rey and the international 2006-07 UEFA Champions League tournament.
Valencia High School (Los Lunas, New Mexico) Valencia High School is a high school (grades 9 - 12) currently under construction in Los Lunas, Valencia County, New Mexico. Formerly known as the "Los Lunas Career Academy", the high school will serve students on the east side of the Rio Grande with the exception being students who attended Ann Parish Elementary School.
Valencia orange The Valencia Orange is an orange first created by the Californian agronomist William Wolfskill, on his farm in Santa Ana. The orange was later sold to the Irvine Company, who would dedicate nearly half of their land to its cultivation.
Valencia Subdivision Residential District The Valencia Subdivision Residential District is a historic district in Rockledge, Florida. It runs from 14 through 140 Valencia Road, 825 through 827 Osceola Drive and 24 through 28 Orange Avenue, encompasses approximately 100 acres, and contains 54 historic buildings and 2 objects.
Valencia, Santa Clarita, California Valencia is a planned community located in Los Angeles County, California in the northwestern corner of the Santa Clarita Valley, adjacent to Interstate 5. In 1987, it was one of the four unincorporated communities (along with Saugus, Newhall, and Canyon Country) that merged to create the city of Santa Clarita, California.
Valencia, Spain Valencia (Castilian Spanish: Valencia [ba'lenθja]The pronunciation [va'lenθja], although not standard Castilian Spanish, is commonplace in Valencia area. There is no [v] in Castilian Spanish but the sound is present in Catalan.
Valencian Valencian (valenciĂ ) is the historical, traditional, and official name used in the Land of Valencia (Spain) to refer to the language spoken therein, also known as Catalan (catalĂ ) in the Spanish Autonomous Communities of Catalonia, Aragon and the Balearic Islands; in the country of Andorra; in the southern French region of the Roussillon; and in the Italian city of Alghero on the island of Sardinia. Valencian is also the name used by linguists to identify one of the most important dialectal varieties within the Catalan language spoken in central and southern Valencia.
Valencian Left Valencian Left (in Catalan: Esquerra Valenciana) is a historical nationalist Valencian left party founded the July 26 in 1934 that advocated the self-determination of the Valencian Country. Suppressed during the Francoist dictatorship, was refounded April 7 in 1998 by a group of ex-militants of Unitat del Poble ValenciĂ  (Valencian People Union) after the conversion of this party in Bloc Nacionalista ValenciĂ  (Valencian Nationalist Group) (BNV).
Valencian Marxist Front Valencian Marxist Front (in Valencian: Front Marxista ValenciĂ ), an underground communist group in the Land of Valencia, Spain, founded in 1954 by youth active in Lo Rat Penat. It disappeared in 1962, when its members joined either the Valencian Socialist Party or the Communist Party of Spain (later forming the Communist Party of the Valencian Country).
Valencian Nationalist Bloc The Valencian Nationalist Bloc (Bloc Nacionalista ValenciĂ , BLOC or BNV) is a nationalist party of Land of Valencia which was created in 1998. It was constituted from the federation of several parties after a coalition which run an election in 1995.
Valencian Sign language Valencian Sign Language (LSCV or LSPV) is a sign language used by people with hearing impairments in Valencia, Spain. Some linguists consider LSCV a variant of Spanish Sign Language (LSE), while others believe it is a dialect of the latter.
Valenciennes Valenciennes (Dutch: Valencijn, Latin: Valentianae) is a town and commune in northern France in the Nord département on the Escaut river. While the city and region had seen a steady decline between 1975 and 1990, it has since rebounded.
Valenciennes FC The Valenciennes Football Club (known as "Valenciennes FC" or as "USVA", the acronym of a previous name) is a French football club (team) founded in 1915. In the 2005-06 season, it competed in Ligue 2 (Division 2), with Francis Decourrière as general manager and Antoine Kombouaré as head coach.
Valene Ewing Valene Clements Ewing Ewing Gibson Waleska Ewing, also known as "Val ", was a character in the American television series Knots Landing and also in the television series Dallas, played by Joan Van Ark.
Valens Flavius Iulius Valens (Latin: IMPERATOR CAESAR FLAVIVS IVLIVS VALENS AVGVSTVS; 328 – August 9, 378) was Roman Emperor (364 - 378), after he was given the Eastern part of the empire by his brother Valentinian I. Valens, sometimes known as the Last True Roman, was defeated and killed in the Battle of Adrianople, which marked the beginning of the decline of the Roman Empire.
ValentĂ­n ValentĂ­n is a 2002 film direted by Alejandro Agresti. The film revolves around the world of an 8-year old boy, ValentĂ­n (Rodrigo Noya), growing up in 1960s Buenos Aires and dreams of becoming an astronaut while attempting to better the bewildering world around him.
Valentín Canalizo Valentín Canalizo (January 14, 1794, Monterrey, Nuevo León—February 20, 1850, Mexico City) was a Mexican general and conservative politician. He was a supporter of a centralist (not federalist) national government and an obedient follower and confidante of General Antonio López de Santa Anna.
Valentín González Valentín González (1909 Malcocinado, Badajoz—1983, Madrid) was a Republican military commander during the Spanish Civil War. Known as El Campesino ("the Peasant"), Valentin Gonzalez was one of many well-regarded officers to have served in the Ejército Popular (People's Army) of the Second Spanish Republic.
Valentín Paniagua Valentín Paniagua Corazao (September 23, 1936 – October 16, 2006) was a Peruvian politician and former President of Peru. He was elected by the Peruvian Congress to serve as interim president of the country after Alberto Fujimori was declared Morally Disabled by Peruvian Congress in November 2000.
Valenti Angelo Valenti Angelo (1897-1982) (variant name Valenti Michael Angelo) was an Italian-American printmaker, illustrator and author, born June 23, 1897 in Massarosa, Italy. He immigrated to the United States with his family in 1905, living first in New York City then settling in Antioch, California.
Valentia Island Valentia Island (Dairbhre in Irish), is one of Europe's westernmost inhabited locations, lying off the Iveragh Peninsula in the southwest of County Kerry in the Republic of Ireland. It is linked to the mainland by a bridge at Portmagee, as well as by a ferry which sails from Reenard Point to Knightstown, the island's main settlement.
Valentich Disappearance The Valentich Disappearance occurred on October 21, 1978, when 20 year old Frederick Valentich disappeared while piloting a small Cessna 182 aircraft over the Bass Strait to King Island, Australia, after reporting a strange craft flying nearby. The disappearance generated significant press attention, both throughout Australia and internationally.
Valentin Avrorin Valentin Avrorin (born in Tambov Russia 1907-1977) to a family of teachers, was a Corresponding Member of the Academy of Sciences of the USSR and an expert in languages. He was outstanding in the sphere of Tungus and Manchurian languages, and was one of the active creators of the Nanai written language.
Valentin Baskakov Valentin Baskakov (born August 11, 1985 in Moscow, Russia) is a Russian rugby league player currently playing for RC Lokomotiv Moscow in the Championship of Russia competition. His position of choice is usually in the backs.
Valentin Bădoi Valentin Bădoi (born 16 December, 1975 in Turnu Măgurele) is a Romanian football striker who currently plays for the Romanian league side Rapid Bucureşti. Badoi previously played for FCM Bacău, Chimia Turnu Măgurele and Turris Turnu Măgurele.
Valentin Boberev Valentin Vasilyevich Boberev (Russian: Валентин Васильевич Бобырев, also transliterated Bobyrev; born November 27,1947) is a member of the State Duma of Russia for the Liberal Democratic Party of Russia. He is a jurist, and sits on the State Duma's Committee on National Security.
Valentin CeauĹźescu Valentin CeauĹźescu (born 1948) is the adopted son of Nicolae CeauĹźescu and his wife, Elena CeauĹźescu. The adoption, in March 1948, was part of the Romanian Workers' Party campaign for party members to adopt war orphans.
Valentin Clastrier French musician Valentin Clastrier (b. 1947) is one of the few performers in the world specializing in contemporary music for the hurdy-gurdy; before Clastrier, the instrument was used primarily in the performance of European Medieval and folk musics.
Valentin Friedland Valentin Friedland, also called Valentin Troitschendorf (or Trozendorf or Trotzendorf), (born February 14, 1490 in Troitschendorf near Görlitz, Germany; died April 26, 1556 in Liegnitz) was an eminent scholar and educationist of the Reformation.
Valentin Glushko Valentin Petrovich Glushko (born September 2, 1908 in Odessa, Ukraine, died January 10, 1989) was a Soviet engineer of Ukrainian descent, and one of the three principal Soviet "Chief Designers" (along with Vladimir Chelomei and Sergei Korolev) of spacecraft and rockets during the Soviet/American Space Race.
Valentin Christian Wilhelm Sibbern Valentin Christian Wilhelm Sibbern (1779-1853) was a Norwegian government minister who served in different positions - as Minister of Auditing, Minister of Justice, Minister of the Army and Minister of the Navy - between 1830 and 1852.
Valentin Joseph Boussinesq Joseph Valentin Boussinesq (born March 13 1842 in Saint-André-de-Sangonis (Hérault département), died February 19 1929 in Paris) was a French mathematician, physicist. In 1897 he published Théorie de l' écoulement tourbillonnant et tumultueux des liquides, a work that greatly contributed to the study of tubulence and hydrodynamics.
Valentin Kataev Katayev, Valentin (Petrovich) (Russian: Валентин Катаев) (28 January 1897 --April 12 1986), was a Soviet novelist and playwright whose lighthearted, satirical treatment of postrevolutionary social conditions rose above the generally uninspired official Soviet style. He is a brother of Yevgeny Petrov.
Valentin Mihov Valentin Mihov () (born on January 18, 1954 in Sofia) is a Bulgarian football administrator. He is a former president of the Bulgarian Football Union (BFU) and the current president of the Professional Football League (PFL).
Valentin Pavlov Valentin Sergeyevich Pavlov (September 26, 1937 - March 30, 2003) was the Prime Minister of the Soviet Union from January to August 1991. He was one of the leaders of the August Coup that attempted to depose Mikhail Gorbachev in 1991.
Valentin Schindler Valentin Schindler (d. 1604See under Lexicons, which gives his birthplace as Meissen])) was a [[Lutheran Hebraist and professor of the University of Wittenberg, where he was an important teacher of the Hebrew languagePupils included Sibrandus LubbertusHe moved by 1594 to Helmstedt].
Valentin Trifonov Valentin Andreyevich Trifonov (1888-1938) was one of the leaders of Cossack revolutionary forces who played a major role in establishment of Soviet rule in the Don Voisko Province. His son Yury Trifonov became one of the most popular Soviet writers.
Valentin Turchin Valentin Fyodorovich Turchin (, born 1931) is a Russian-American cybernetician and computer scientist. He developed the REFAL programming language, the theory of metasystem transitions and the notion of supercompilation.
Valentin Valentinovich Ivanov Valentin Valentinovich Ivanov () (born July 4 1961 in Moscow) is a Russian international football referee. The son of two Olympic champions of 1956, Valentin Ivanov and Lidiya Ivanova, he lives in Moscow where he works as a teacher.
Valentina (Database) Valentina is object-relational DBMS that makes it easy to switch between a local embedded database and server using the same sources. It supports disk and in-memory databases, field types from Bit to BLOB, a SQL92(99) and non-SQL API, and relational, extended navigational, and OR data models.
Valentina Grizodubova Valentina Stepanovna Grizodubova () (May 10 1909 in Kharkov – April 28 1993 in Moscow) was a one of the first female pilots in the Soviet Union and was awarded titles Hero of the Soviet Union and Hero of Socialist Labour. On September 24-25, 1938 as the commander of the crew she completed the flight of the Rodina (Russian for "Motherland"), the ANT-37 airplane, setting an international women's record for a straight-line distance flight.
Valentina Medina March 2000, Valentina Medina, of Mausica Lands, Arima, Trinidad aka Iere was named Carib Queen for life, at an election held on Sunday at the Santa Rosa Carib Community Centre in Arima. Medina, 66, the fifth Queen was named as the successor after Justa Werges, queen for the past 11 years, passed away in January.
Valentina Tsareva Valentina Georgievna Tsareva () (born in 1926) was a former Soviet cross country skier who competed in the 1950's. She earned a gold medal in the 3 x 5 km at the 1954 FIS Nordic World Ski Championships in Falun.
Valentina Tsybulskaya Valentina Tsybulskaya (born February 9, 1968 in Rostov, Russia) is a Belarusian race walker. She has won World Championships silver and bronze medals, but no Olympic medals although she participated in 2000 and 2004.
Valentina Vezzali Maria Valentina Vezzali (born February 14, 1974 in Jesi) is an Italian fencer who has won four Olympic gold medals in foil competitions. She also won a silver medal in foil at the 2006 World Fencing Championships.

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