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Krubera Cave (Крубера-Воронья)
Krubera Cave (Крубера-Воронья), also called Voronya, is a limestone cave in the Arabika Massif of the Western Caucasus in Abkhazia, and one of the two deepest known caves on Earth.
Kruchina Tesserae
Kruchina Tesserae is a 1000-km-wide tessera terrain feature on Venus at 36°N, 27°E in quadrangle V-08, IAU-named in 1997 for an East Slavic goddess of sadness.
Kruft
Kruft is a municipality in the district of Mayen-Koblenz in Rhineland-Palatinate, Germany, near the Laacher See, with two millennia of volcanic tuff mining, first recorded in 1093.
Kruger 60
Kruger 60 (Krüger 60, Gliese 860) is a pair of red dwarf stars in Cepheus 13.05 light-years away, in a 44.5-year visual binary; the B component is the flare star DO Cep, once a rejected candidate home system of comet 2I/Borisov.
Kruger National Park
Kruger National Park, South Africa's first national park (proclaimed 31 May 1926 from the 1898 Sabie Game Reserve), covers about 1.9 million hectares in Mpumalanga and Limpopo, holds 147 mammal and 507 bird species, and draws 1-2 million visitors yearly.
Kruger to Canyons Biosphere Reserve
Kruger to Canyons Biosphere Reserve (K2C), a UNESCO Man and the Biosphere site designated in 2001 in South Africa's Limpopo and Mpumalanga provinces, spans Kruger National Park and Blyde River Canyon across roughly 2.5 million hectares.
Kruger United F.C.
Kruger United FC, the Village Boys, is a South African football club from Bushbuckridge, Mpumalanga, founded 2023. It won the 2025/26 Motsepe Foundation Championship with 62 points and was promoted to the Betway Premiership, playing at Mbombela and KaNyamazane stadiums.
Krugerrand
The Krugerrand is a South African gold bullion coin first struck in 1967, containing exactly one troy ounce of fine gold; it was the first modern gold bullion coin.
Krui Tiancheng acquiring Biotest AG
Krui Tiancheng acquiring Biotest AG refers to the 2017–2018 takeover of German plasma-products maker Biotest by a Chinese consortium led by Creat Group and Krui Tiancheng (科瑞天诚).
Krull (film)
Krull (1983) is a British science fantasy film directed by Peter Yates for Columbia Pictures, written by Stanford Sherman, starring Ken Marshall, Lysette Anthony, Liam Neeson, and Robbie Coltrane, with a James Horner score; a box office failure that became a cult film.
Krull dimension
The Krull dimension of a commutative ring is the supremum of the lengths of chains of prime ideals, defined by Wolfgang Krull in 1928 as the standard notion of dimension in commutative algebra.
Krum (Крум)
Krum (Крум), khan of the Bulgars 803-814, rose via Pannonia and the Avar collapse, crushed Emperor Nikephoros I in 811, defeated Michael I in 813, besieged Constantinople, and died 13 April 814, succeeded by Omurtag.
Krumine Corona
Krumine Corona, a 300-km-wide corona (ring-shaped volcano-tectonic feature) on Venus at 5°S, 261.5°E in quadrangle V-40; IAU-named in 1994 for a Lithuanian food goddess.
Krummel nuclear power plant
Krummel nuclear power plant (German: Kernkraftwerk Krümmel) was a boiling water reactor at Geesthacht in Schleswig-Holstein near Hamburg that generated electricity from 1984 until its license expired in August 2011.
Krumping
Krumping (krump) is an explosive street dance created in early-2000s South Central Los Angeles by Tight Eyez and Big Mijo, growing out of Tommy the Clown's 1990s clowning and popularized by the 2005 documentary Rize.
Krunal Pandya
Krunal Pandya (Krunal Himanshu Pandya, born 1991) is an Indian left-handed all-rounder who played for Mumbai Indians and India, and set the fastest half-century record on ODI debut in 2021.
Krung Thai Bank
Krung Thai Bank, trading as KTB, is Thailand's only majority state-owned commercial bank. Established in 1966, it is the country's third-largest bank by total assets.
Krupp
Krupp is a German steel and armaments firm founded in Essen in 1811 by Friedrich Krupp, which became Germany's largest company and main arms supplier.
Krupp family
Krupp family, Essen dynasty of steel and armaments industrialists owning Friedrich Krupp AG from 1811 to 1967; five generations from Friedrich and Alfred Krupp to Alfried, whose 1948 Nuremberg conviction and 1951 pardon preceded the foundation ownership and 1999 Thyssen merger.
Krupskiy Rayon
Krupskiy Rayon (Крупскі раён, Крупский район) is a district in northeast Minsk Region, Belarus, centered on Krupki town. Founded 17 July 1924; area 2.1 thousand km²; agriculture-based economy; lake Selyava reserve; Lithuanian settler colonies.
Krupuk
Krupuk (kerupuk, keropok, kroepoek) is a Southeast Asian deep-fried starch cracker, usually tapioca with shrimp, fish, or garlic, documented in Java since the 9th-10th century and a major Indonesian snack and export.
Kruševac
Kruševac (Крушевац), central Serbian city, Rasina District center; founded 1371 as Prince Lazar's medieval capital, home of Lazarica Church and Lazar's Town; 113,951 inhabitants (2022 census), 854 km².
Kruševica (toponym)
Kruševica (Крушевица) is a South Slavic toponym from kruška, pear tree, borne by villages in Serbia (near Prokuplje, Vlasotince, Raška), Croatia (Slavonski Šamac), and Bosnia (Lukavac, Ljubinje).
Kruševo Republic
The Kruševo Republic (Крушевска Република; Republica di Crushuva) was a short-lived insurgent administration proclaimed in the town of Kruševo on 3 August 1903 during the Ilinden Uprising, led by Nikola Karev.
Krush Groove
Krush Groove is a 1985 American musical drama directed by Michael Schultz and starring Blair Underwood, loosely based on the founding of Def Jam Records by Russell Simmons.
Krushers of the World
Krushers of the World is Kreator's sixteenth studio thrash metal album, released January 16, 2026 on Nuclear Blast, produced by Jens Bogren, follow-up to Hate Über Alles.
Krushna Abhishek (कृष्णा अभिषेक)
Krushna Abhishek (कृष्णा अभिषेक), born Abhishek Sharma in 1983 in Mumbai, is an Indian actor-comedian, Govinda's nephew, famous for Comedy Circus with Sudesh Lehri, Comedy Nights Bachao, and Sapna Didi on The Kapil Sharma Show.
Krushna Chandra Mohapatra
Krushna Chandra Mohapatra is an Indian BJP politician who became Odisha's minister of Housing and Urban Development and Public Enterprises in June 2024, and chairman of all development authorities in the state.
Krushna Chandra Patra
Krushna Chandra Patra is an Indian Bharatiya Janata Party politician who serves as a minister in the Government of Odisha, holding the Food Supplies and Consumer Welfare portfolio.
Kruskal–Szekeres coordinates
Kruskal–Szekeres coordinates, also known as Kruskal coordinates, are coordinates on Schwarzschild spacetime, introduced independently by Martin Kruskal and George Szekeres in 1960, in which the metric is regular at the event horizon.