• Thumbnail for Kurgan
    A kurgan is a type of tumulus constructed over a grave, often characterized by containing a single human body along with grave vessels, weapons, and horses...
    27 KB (3,207 words) - 13:07, 17 October 2024
  • Thumbnail for Kurgan, Kurgan Oblast
    Kurgan (Russian: Курган, IPA: [kʊrˈgan]) is the largest city and the administrative center of Kurgan Oblast in the south of the Urals Federal District...
    16 KB (1,343 words) - 16:15, 3 August 2024
  • The Kurgan is a fictional character from the first Highlander film. He is portrayed by Clancy Brown. He is an Immortal, the main antagonist to Connor MacLeod...
    15 KB (2,029 words) - 02:05, 28 April 2024
  • Thumbnail for Kurgan hypothesis
    The Kurgan hypothesis (also known as the Kurgan theory, Kurgan model, or steppe theory) is the most widely accepted proposal to identify the Proto-Indo-European...
    34 KB (3,818 words) - 02:41, 26 August 2024
  • Look up kurgan in Wiktionary, the free dictionary. A kurgan is a tumulus or burial mound in Eurasia. Kurgan may also refer to: Kurgan, Kurgan Oblast,...
    1 KB (177 words) - 19:12, 8 December 2023
  • Thumbnail for Kurgan Oblast
    Kurgan Oblast (Russian: Курга́нская о́бласть, romanized: Kurganskaya oblast') is a federal subject of Russia (an oblast). Its administrative center is...
    16 KB (1,862 words) - 11:23, 7 November 2024
  • Thumbnail for Kurgan stelae
    Kurgan stelae Kurgan stelae or Balbals (Ukrainian: балбал, most probably from Turkic word balbal meaning "ancestor" or "grandfather") are anthropomorphic...
    27 KB (3,331 words) - 23:57, 23 October 2024
  • Thumbnail for Salbyk kurgan
    The Salbyk kurgan (Bolshoi Salbykskii Kurgan, "Great Salbyk kurgan") is a Saka funerary tumulus (kurgan), belonging to the Tagar culture. It is located...
    5 KB (490 words) - 22:07, 9 April 2024
  • Highlands in the 16th century. After being mortally wounded by the murderous Kurgan (Brown) in battle, he makes a seemingly miraculous recovery and is banished...
    58 KB (6,675 words) - 20:43, 2 November 2024
  • Thumbnail for Mamayev Kurgan
    Mamayev Kurgan (Russian: Мама́ев курга́н) is a dominant height overlooking the city of Volgograd (formerly Stalingrad) in Southern Russia. The name in...
    12 KB (1,467 words) - 18:59, 24 October 2024
  • Thumbnail for T-34 Tank Monument (Matveev Kurgan)
    T-34" Matveev Kurgan (Russian: Памятник "Танк Т-34" в Матвеев Кургане) is a Russian monument located near the village of Matveev Kurgan. On May 9, 1972...
    3 KB (383 words) - 23:21, 9 November 2024
  • Thumbnail for Soldier Monument (Matveev Kurgan)
    Monument "Soldier" Matveev Kurgan (Russian: Памятник Неизвестному солдату в Матвеев Кургане) is a Russian monument located Matveev Kurgan. The Soldier Memorial...
    3 KB (345 words) - 16:08, 9 November 2024
  • The Kurgan (or Kurganskaya) cattle breed originates in south-western Siberia and is a composite of Shorthorn, Simmental, German Black Pied Cattle, Bestuzhev...
    1 KB (75 words) - 06:50, 10 June 2023
  • Thumbnail for Filippovka kurgans
    342968; 54.116974 The Filippovka kurgans (Ru: Филипповский курганный) are Late-Sauromatian to Early-Sarmatian culture kurgans, forming "a transition site between...
    20 KB (1,888 words) - 20:44, 5 March 2024
  • Thumbnail for Bokhtar
    Bokhtar (redirect from Kurgan Tyube)
    Bokhtar (Tajik: Бохтар), previously known as Qurghonteppa, Kurganteppa and Kurgan-Tyube, is a city in southwestern Tajikistan, which serves as the capital...
    11 KB (603 words) - 12:27, 8 November 2024
  • more academic collaboration between Western and non-Western scholars. The Kurgan hypothesis, which is the most widely held theory as of 2017, depends upon...
    54 KB (6,411 words) - 09:32, 18 September 2024
  • Jetisu Taldykorgan (Kazakh: Жетісу Талдықорған футбол клубы, Jetisý Taldyqorǵan Fýtbol Klýby) is a Kazakh professional football club based at the Zhetysu...
    12 KB (251 words) - 14:14, 12 November 2024
  • Thumbnail for Royal Kurgan
    The Royal Kurgan or Tsarskyi Kurgan (Ukrainian: Царський курган) from the 4th century BC, is one of the most impressive tumuli (kurgans) of the eastern...
    3 KB (400 words) - 20:23, 30 October 2024
  • "Anchor" Matveev Kurgan (Russian: Памятник "Якорь" в Матвеев Кургане) ― Monument "Anchor" Matveev Kurgan. Not far from Matveev Kurgan in Rostov region...
    3 KB (406 words) - 14:14, 8 November 2024
  • Vakhsh Bokhtar (Tajik: Вахш Бохтар) formerly known as Khatlon Bokhtar is a professional football club based in Bokhtar, Tajikistan. They currently play...
    21 KB (709 words) - 07:11, 8 November 2024
  • Ipatovo kurgan refers to kurgan 2 of the Ipatovo Barrow Cemetery 3, a cemetery of kurgan burial mounds, located near the town of Ipatovo in Stavropol Krai...
    3 KB (383 words) - 05:45, 13 August 2021
  • Thumbnail for Issyk kurgan
    The Issyk kurgan, in south-eastern Kazakhstan, less than 20 km east from the Talgar alluvial fan, near Issyk, is a burial mound discovered in 1969. It...
    11 KB (1,139 words) - 09:51, 11 June 2024
  • Thumbnail for Kattakurgan
    Kattakurgan (redirect from Katta Kurgan)
    between Bukhara and Samarkand. The name is Turkic and means "large town or kurgan". The town does not appear to be of any great antiquity, although after...
    5 KB (356 words) - 17:03, 9 November 2024
  • Thumbnail for Malakhov Kurgan
    Malakhov Kurgan is a tactically important height in the Crimean city of Sevastopol, known for the defense of Russian troops against French and British...
    710 bytes (77 words) - 00:06, 28 May 2024
  • Thumbnail for Lukasz Kurgan
    Lukasz Kurgan (born 4 October 1975) is a Polish-Canadian bioinformatician. He is the Robert J. Mattauch Endowed Professor of Computer Science at the Virginia...
    6 KB (455 words) - 02:56, 10 October 2024
  • Thumbnail for Araltobe kurgan
    The Araltobe kurgan (Ru: Аралтобе курган) is a burial ground found near Araltobe, Zhylyoi District, in northwestern Kazakhstan, thought to belong to a...
    4 KB (300 words) - 04:50, 23 February 2024
  • Thumbnail for Motherland Monument (Matveev Kurgan)
    The Monument "Motherland" Matveev Kurgan (Russian: Памятник "Родина-Мать" в Матвеев Кургане) is a Russian monument located near the village of Starorotovka...
    4 KB (357 words) - 03:01, 10 November 2024
  • Thumbnail for Melgunov Kurgan
    Melgunov Kurgan (Ukrainian: Мельгунівський курган), also known as Lyta Grave (Ukrainian: Лита могила), is one of the oldest Scythian kurgans (burial mounds)...
    5 KB (472 words) - 13:23, 5 November 2024
  • Yunior Kurgan (Russian: Юниор Курган) is a junior ice hockey team from Kurgan, farm-club of Zauralie Kurgan. They are members of the National Minor Hockey...
    1 KB (39 words) - 09:27, 8 November 2024
  • Thumbnail for Taksai kurgans
    176884 The Taksai kurgans (more precisely Taksai-1, Ru: Таксайский курган) are a series of Saka or Sauromatian funeral mounds or kurgans, located in the...
    8 KB (868 words) - 15:50, 28 September 2024