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Svetozar Marković

Svetozar Marković (Светозар Марковић, 1846–1875) was a Serbian socialist thinker and publicist who founded the socialist movement in Serbia and published the Balkans' first socialist newspaper.

Svetozar Pribićević (Светозар Прибићевић, 1875–1936) was a Serb and Yugoslav politician from Croatia who served as the kingdom's first interior minister and later turned federalist opponent of King Alexander.

SVG

Scalable Vector Graphics (SVG) is an XML-based W3C standard language for describing two-dimensional vector graphics on the Web, first standardized in 2001 and scalable to any display resolution.

Sviatlana Bahinskaya

Sviatlana Bahinskaya (Svetlana Boginskaya), Belarusian artistic gymnast born 1973 in Minsk, five-time Olympic medalist with three golds for Soviet Union, Unified Team, and Belarus.

Sviatlana Nahieykina

Sviatlana Nahieykina (Svetlana Nageykina, Святлана Нагейкiна), Belarusian cross-country skier born 1965 in Tambov; 1988 Olympic relay gold for USSR, later competed for Russia and Belarus at four Winter Games.

Sviatlana Tsikhanouskaya (Святлана Георгіеўна Ціханоўская)

Sviatlana Tsikhanouskaya (Святлана Георгіеўна Ціханоўская) is the exiled Belarusian opposition leader who challenged Lukashenko in the 2020 presidential election after her husband's arrest, heads the United Transitional Cabinet, and works from Lithuania.

Sviatopolk II of Kiev

Sviatopolk II Iziaslavych (Святополк Ізяславич), grand prince of Kyiv 1093–1113, son of Iziaslav and grandson of Yaroslav the Wise; fought the Cumans, joined the Liubech and Vytychiv congresses, blinded Vasylko, and died in 1113 before the Kyiv uprising brought Monomakh to the throne.

Sviatopolk the Accursed

Sviatopolk the Accursed (Святополк Окаянный) was grand prince of Kiev in 1015–1016 and 1018–1019, remembered for the killing of his brothers Boris, Gleb, and Sviatoslav.

Oct 20, 2026

Sviatoshynskyi Raion

Sviatoshynskyi Raion (Святошинський район) is a western administrative district of Kyiv, created in 2001 from the Leningradskyi Raion; third largest by area, about 318,000-340,000 residents, named after the historic Sviatoshyn locality.

Sviatoslav I (Свѧтославъ)

Sviatoslav I (Свѧтославъ), Sviatoslav Igorevich, prince of Rus 945–972, son of Igor and Olga, last pagan ruler of Kievan Rus'; destroyed Khazaria in 965, campaigned in Bulgaria 967–971 against Nikephoros II and John I Tzimiskes, killed by Pecheneg khan Kurya at the Dnieper rapids in 972.

Sviatoslav Igorevich

Sviatoslav Igorevich (Святослав Игоревич) was grand prince of Kiev from 945 to 972, a warrior who destroyed the Khazar Khaganate and died fighting the Pechenegs.

Sviatoslav II of Kiev

Sviatoslav II of Kiev, son of Yaroslav the Wise, was a prince of Kyivan Rus' who ruled Chernihiv from 1054 and founded the Chernigov, Murom, and Ryazan dynasties.

Sviatoslav III of Kiev

Sviatoslav III of Kiev (Святослав Всеволодович), a prince of the Olgovich branch of the Rurikids, ruled Chernigov from 1164 and was grand prince of Kiev until 1194.

Sviatoslav Mykhailiuk

Sviatoslav (Svi) Mykhailiuk, Ukrainian NBA guard-forward born 1997 in Cherkasy; Kansas record-setting shooter, 47th pick in 2018 draft, seven NBA teams, 2024 champion with Boston, now Utah Jazz wing.

Sviatoslav Shevchuk (Святослав Шевчук)

Sviatoslav Shevchuk (Святослав Шевчук), born 1970 in Stryi, Ukraine, is a Ukrainian Greek-Catholic hierarch serving since 2011 as Major Archbishop of Kyiv-Halych and head of the Ukrainian Greek Catholic Church.

Sviatoslav's invasion of Bulgaria

Sviatoslav's invasion of Bulgaria was a 967/968 to 971 war in which Rus' ruler Sviatoslav I of Kiev, paid by Byzantium, attacked Bulgaria, then turned on Byzantium itself.

Svit (journal)

Svit (Світ, "World") was a Ukrainian literary and scholarly magazine published in Lviv in 1906 and 1907 as the organ of the Galician modernist group Moloda Muza.

Sep 27, 2026

Svitlana Onyshchuk

Svitlana Onyshchuk (Світлана Онищук), born 1984 in Zabolotiv, is a Ukrainian lawyer, economist, and politician, appointed head of the Ivano-Frankivsk Oblast State Administration by presidential decree in 2021.

Švitrigaila

Švitrigaila (Boleslovas Švitrigaila, about 1370 to 1452) was Grand Duke of Lithuania from 1430 to 1432, deposed in a conspiracy, and fought for two decades to recover the throne.

SVKM's NMIMS

SVKM's NMIMS (Narsee Monjee Institute of Management Studies) is a private Deemed-to-be University founded in 1981 in Mumbai by the Shri Vile Parle Kelavani Mandal trust, declared a university in 2003, with 17 schools, eight campuses, and NAAC A++ accreditation.

Oct 15, 2026

SVO (visual odometry)

SVO (Semi-direct Visual Odometry) is a visual odometry algorithm combining direct image alignment with feature-based refinement, introduced by Forster, Pizzoli, and Scaramuzza at ICRA 2014.

Svoboda (political party)

Svoboda (All-Ukrainian Union "Freedom", Всеукраїнське об'єднання «Свобода») is a Ukrainian far-right nationalist party founded as the SNPU in Lviv in October 1991, renamed in 2004 under Oleh Tyahnybok, peaking at 10.44% in the 2012 elections.

Svol Catena

Svol Catena, a 161 km crater chain (catena) on Jupiter's moon Callisto at 10.6°N, 37.2°W, IAU-named in 1997 for a Norse river; formed by a tidally disrupted comet about 1.9 km across.

Oct 15, 2026

SVOLT

SVOLT, also known as 蜂巢能源, is a Chinese battery manufacturer spun off from Great Wall Motor in 2018, headquartered in Changzhou, Jiangsu, and known for Short Blade cells.

Oct 15, 2026

SVOM

SVOM is a Franco-Chinese space telescope for detecting gamma-ray bursts, developed by CNSA and CNES and launched on a Long March 2C rocket on 22 June 2024.

SVT-40

The SVT-40 (СВТ-40), also known as the Tokarev SVT40, was a Soviet semi-automatic rifle designed by Fedor Tokarev, adopted by the Red Army in 1940, and used widely in World War II.

Svyatopolk II Izyaslavich

Svyatopolk II Izyaslavich (Святополк Изяславич), baptized Michael, was grand prince of Kyiv from 1093 until his death in 1113, a grandson of Yaroslav the Wise who founded Saint Michael's Golden-Domed Monastery.

Svyatopolk-Chetvertinsky Palace and Park Complex

Svyatopolk-Chetvertinsky palace and park complex (Палацава-паркавы комплекс Святаполкаў-Чацвярцінскіх) in Zheludok, Belarus: neo-baroque palace completed 1908 by Prince Ludwig Svyatopolk-Chetvertinsky, designed by Władysław Marconi, now a protected, privately restored heritage site.

Oct 10, 2026

Svyatoslav Fyodorov

Svyatoslav Fyodorov (Святослав Николаевич Фёдоров) was a Soviet and Russian ophthalmologist who pioneered radial keratotomy and artificial-lens implantation, and ran for president of Russia in 1996.