All articles starting with K

Kremlin (fortification)

A kremlin (Russian: кремль) is the central fortified part of an old Russian city, containing the prince's residence, churches, and administrative buildings behind its own walls and towers.

Kremlin and Red Square, Moscow

Kremlin and Red Square, Moscow (Московский Кремль и Красная площадь), a UNESCO World Heritage Site since 1990: the former tsarist residence and religious center, rebuilt in 1485–1516 with 20 towers, and Red Square with St Basil's Cathedral.

Kremlin Armoury

The Kremlin Armoury (Оружейная палата) is the treasury museum of the Moscow Kremlin, first a royal workshop from the 1500s and made Moscow's first museum in 1806.

Kremlin Wall Necropolis

Kremlin Wall Necropolis (Некрополь у Кремлёвской стены), Soviet national cemetery on Red Square, Moscow, begun 1917 with 238 buried fighters; wall niches, mass graves, and leaders' graves beside Lenin's Mausoleum.

Kremsier Parliament

The Kremsier Parliament (Kroměřížský sněm), also called the Kremsier Reichstag, was the constituent diet of the Habsburg monarchy that sat at Kroměříž, Moravia, in 1848 and 1849.

Kreni-Promeni (Крени-Промени)

Kreni-Promeni (Крени-Промени, Move-Change) is a Belgrade-based Serbian citizens' association and opposition movement led publicly by Savo Manojlović, known for the 2021–2022 anti-Rio Tinto lithium protests, its 129,868-vote 2024 Belgrade list, and its 2026 backing of the Student List.

Krept and Konan

Krept and Konan are a British hip hop duo from South London, Casyo 'Krept' Johnson and Karl 'Konan' Wilson, son of Delroy Wilson. Known for Young Kingz (2013), The Long Way Home, Freak of the Week, and The Rap Game UK.

Kres

Kres, Slovene for "bonfire," is the name of two Slovene literary periodicals: a literature and science journal (1881 to 1886) and a family magazine (1921 to 1923).

Kresimir Cosic

Krešimir Ćosić (Kresimir Cosic), Croatian basketball center (1948–1995), BYU All-American, 1980 Olympic gold with Yugoslavia, first European NBA draftee, Hall of Famer, later Croatian diplomat.

Oct 10, 2026

Krešimir Krnjević

Krešimir Krnjević (1927–2021) was a Croatian-born Canadian neurophysiologist at McGill University who helped establish glutamate and GABA as the brain's principal transmitters, and later studied anesthetics and hypoxia.

Kresling origami metamaterials

Kresling origami metamaterials are architected mechanical materials built from the Kresling pattern, a multistable cylindrical fold arising from twist buckling, used in soft robotics, deployable structures, and energy absorption.

Oct 15, 2026

Kresling pattern

The Kresling pattern, developed by Biruta Kresling from paper experiments on twisted tubes, is a cylindrical origami pattern used in deployable structures, metamaterials, and soft robotics.

Kresna–Razlog uprising

The Kresna–Razlog uprising (Кресненско-Разложкото въстание) was an 1878–1879 revolt by Bulgarians in northeastern Macedonia against Ottoman rule, responding to the Congress of Berlin and crushed by spring 1879.

Kresnik Award

The Kresnik Award (nagrada kresnik) is an annual Slovenian literary prize, given since 1991 by the publisher Delo for the best Slovenian novel of the previous year.

Oct 20, 2026

Kresoxim methyl

Kresoxim methyl is a broad-spectrum strobilurin fungicide, modeled on a natural antifungal compound and introduced by BASF in 1996 for fungal disease control on crops.

Sep 21, 2026

Kresten Lindorff‐Larsen

Kresten Lindorff-Larsen is a Danish computational structural biologist and professor at the University of Copenhagen, known for long-timescale protein folding simulations and for simulating conformational ensembles of the human intrinsically disordered proteome.

Sep 24, 2026

Krestotselovalnaya zapis of Vasily Shuisky (1606)

The Krestotselovalnaya zapis of Vasily Shuisky (Крестоцеловальная запись) is the tsar's 1606 accession oath, the first in which a Russian tsar swore allegiance to the people.

Krestovsky Stadium

Krestovsky Stadium, the Gazprom Arena («Газпром Арена»), is Zenit Saint Petersburg's retractable-roof, retractable-pitch stadium on Krestovsky Island; built 2006–2017 for RUB 42.8 billion, it hosted 2017 Confederations Cup, 2018 World Cup, and Euro 2020 matches.

Kretek

Kretek (rokok kretek) is an Indonesian clove cigarette blending tobacco with shredded cloves, invented in Kudus, Central Java, around the 1870s-1890s by Haji Jamhari. Named for the crackling sound of burning cloves, it holds nearly 90% of Indonesia's cigarette market.

Kretopolis

Kretopolis (Κρητόπολις), ancient city of Pisidia, Turkey, founded by Cretan colonists under Alexander's satrap Nearchos after 332 BC; near Yüreğil/Buğdüz; site of Antigonus's 319 BC campaign against Alcetas.

Kretschmann scalar

The Kretschmann scalar, also called the Kretschmann invariant, is a scalar invariant in general relativity formed by fully contracting the Riemann curvature tensor with itself, used to test whether apparent metric singularities are physically real.

Kreusis

Kreusis (Κρεῦσις, Creusa, Creusis) was an ancient Boeotian harbor town on the Corinthian Gulf at modern Livadostro, the port of Thespiae, fortified in the 4th century BC and a Roman landing place.

Kreuzberg

Kreuzberg, Berlin district named after the 66 m Kreuzberg hill in Viktoriapark; former West Berlin peripheral area, SO 36 squatter and alternative center, over 180 nationalities, and among Berlin's most expensive rental districts (19.42 EUR/m², 2024).