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Svenska kraftnät
Svenska kraftnät is the Swedish state authority and transmission system operator that owns and runs the national electricity grid and balances power supply, established in 1992.
Sverdlov-class cruiser
The Sverdlov-class cruiser (Project 68bis, Свердлов) was a class of 14 Soviet gun-armed light cruisers completed between 1952 and 1955, the largest cruiser class in Soviet history.
Sverdlovsk Film Studio
Sverdlovsk Film Studio (Свердловская киностудия), a state-owned Russian film studio in Yekaterinburg founded 1943, known for «Угрюм-река», Petrov's Oscar-winning «Старик и море», and its 2021 relaunch as an anchor studio.
Sverdlovsk Oblast
Sverdlovsk Oblast (Свердловская область) is a federal subject of Russia in the Ural region, straddling the Ural Mountains, with Yekaterinburg as its administrative center and a metallurgy-heavy economy.
Sverdrup (unit)
The sverdrup (Sv) is a non-SI oceanography unit of volume transport equal to one million cubic meters per second, named for Norwegian oceanographer Harald Ulrik Sverdrup.
Sveriges Riksbank
Sveriges Riksbank is the oldest central bank in the world and the central bank of Sweden, established in 1668 to maintain low and stable inflation.
Sveriges Television
Sveriges Television (SVT) is Sweden's public service television company, one of three with SR and UR. Broadcasting since 4 September 1956, foundation-owned, tax-funded since 2019, channels SVT1, SVT2, SVT24/Barn, Kunskapskanalen, and SVT Play.
Sverker the Elder
Sverker the Elder (Sverker den äldre, Sverker I) was King of Sweden from the early 1130s until his murder on Christmas Day 1156 near Alvastra; founder of the Sverker dynasty, patron of the Cistercian abbeys Alvastra, Nydala, and Varnhem.
Sverker the Younger
Sverker the Younger (Sverker den yngre Karlsson, born before 1167, died 17 July 1210) was King of Sweden 1196–1208, son of Karl Sverkersson; he favored the church, fled to Denmark in 1207, lost the Battle of Lena to Erik Knutsson, and fell at Gestilren in 1210.
Sverre Farstad
Sverre Melvin Farstad (1920–1978), Norwegian speed skater of SK Falken's Falken Trio; 1948 Olympic 1,500 m gold (2:17.6) and 1949 European allround champion with first official allround world record.
Sverre Lunde Pedersen
Sverre Lunde Pedersen (born 1992) is a retired Norwegian speed skater who won Olympic gold in the team pursuit at the 2018 and 2022 Winter Games and 5,000 m bronze in 2018.
Sverre Petterssen
Sverre Petterssen was a Norwegian meteorologist, a leading figure in synoptic meteorology who helped produce the Allied forecast that fixed the Normandy invasion date on 6 June 1944.
Sverre Stenersen
Sverre Stenersen (1926–2005) was a Norwegian Nordic combined skier from Målselv, Olympic champion at Cortina 1956, bronze at Oslo 1952, world champion 1954, five straight Norwegian titles, Holmenkollen medal 1955.
Sverre Strandli
Sverre Strandli (1925–1985), Norwegian hammer thrower, 1950 European champion, two-time world record holder (61.25 m in 1952, 62.36 m in 1953, both at Bislett), first man over 200 feet, three-time Olympian.
Śvetāmbara ancillary canonical texts
The Śvetāmbara ancillary canonical texts, or Aṅgabāhya, are the 34 Jain scriptures outside the eleven Aṅgas, comprising 12 Upāṅgas, 6 Chedasūtras, 4 Mūlasūtras, 10 Prakīrṇakas, and 2 Cūlikāsūtras.
Śvetāmbara Āṅgas
The Śvetāmbara Āṅgas are the eleven surviving limb texts of the Śvetāmbara Jain canon, its oldest stratum, traditionally written down at the council of Valabhi around 450 CE.
Sveti Stefan (Свети Стефан)
Sveti Stefan (Свети Стефан), also Santo Stefano, is a fortified islet-hotel near Budva, Montenegro, founded by the Paštrovići, first recorded 1442, converted to a luxury town-hotel in 1960, closed 2021, reopened July 2026 under Aman after an arbitration settlement.
Svetitskhoveli
Svetitskhoveli (სვეტიცხოველი), meaning "life-giving pillar," is an 11th-century Georgian Orthodox cathedral in Mtskheta, Georgia, built between 1010 and 1029 and the burial place of many Georgian monarchs.
Svetla Otsetova
Svetla Otsetova (Светла Христова Оцетова), Bulgarian rower born 1950 in Sofia; 1976 Montreal Olympic gold in women's double sculls with Zdravka Yordanova, world champion 1978, later architect of about sixty Olympic and World Rowing regatta courses.
Svetlana
Svetlana (Светлана) is a romantic ballad by the Russian poet Vasily Zhukovsky, published in 1813 in Vestnik Evropy, which reworks Bürger's Lenore into a Russian setting and ends happily.
Svetlana A. Sukhishvili
Svetlana A. Sukhishvili (Сухишвили) is a polymer scientist and professor of materials science at Texas A&M University since 2015, known for erasable hydrogen-bonded polymer films and salogels.
Svetlana Alexievich (Светлана Александровна Алексиевич)
Svetlana Alexievich (Светлана Александровна Алексиевич), Belarusian documentary writer born 1948, author of the 'Voices of Utopia' cycle and 2015 Literature Nobel laureate for polyphonic testimony books.
Svetlana Alliluyeva (Светлана Иосифовна Аллилуева)
Svetlana Alliluyeva (Светлана Иосифовна Аллилуева), later Lana Peters, 1926–2011, only daughter of Joseph Stalin; defected to the US via the New Delhi embassy in March 1967, wrote Twenty Letters to a Friend, returned to the USSR in 1984, and died in Wisconsin in 2011.
Svetlana Anastasovska-Obućina
Svetlana Anastasovska-Obućina (Светлана Атанасовска-Обућина), Serbian handball player born 1961 in Belgrade; Yugoslav international with 157 caps, Olympic silver 1980 and gold 1984, bronze 1982 Worlds; not the younger EHF player Svetlana Obucina born 1979.
Svetlana Antipova Zaboluyeva
Svetlana Antipova Zaboluyeva (Светлана Антипова-Заболуева), also competed as Svetlana Antipova and Svetlana Zaboluyeva, is a Russian basketball player who won 1992 Olympic gold and seven Russian titles with CSKA Moskva.
Svetlana Babanina
Svetlana Babanina (Светлана Викторовна Бабанина), Soviet breaststroke swimmer born 1943 in Tambov, swam for Spartak Tashkent; two Tokyo 1964 bronzes and two 100 m breaststroke world records (1:17.2, 1:16.5).
Svetlana Badulina
Svetlana Badulina (Светлана Бадулина), born 1960 in Moscow, is a Russian volleyball player who won Olympic gold with the Soviet Union at the 1980 Moscow Games, later playing as Svetlana Safronova.
Svetlana Baitova
Svetlana Baitova (Светлана Баитова), Belarusian artistic gymnast for the USSR, born 1972 in Mahilyow; 1988 Seoul Olympic team gold, 1987 and 1989 Worlds team medals, and the Baitova double twisting Yurchenko vault named after her.
Svetlana Bazhanova
Svetlana Bazhanova (Светлана Бажанова, born 1972, Chelyabinsk), Russian speed skater; 1994 Olympic 3,000 m gold at Lillehammer, three European allround medals, competed at 1992, 1994, and 1998 Olympics.
Svetlana Boginskaya (Светлана Леонидовна Богинская)
Svetlana Boginskaya (Светлана Леонидовна Богинская, born 1973, Minsk), the Belarusian Swan, is a Soviet/Belarusian gymnast: 1989 world all-around champion, three-time Olympic champion (1988 team and vault, 1992 team), three-time Olympian.