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Zvenigora (Звенигора)
Zvenigora (Звенигора) is a 1928 silent film by Oleksandr Dovzhenko, produced by VUFKU in Odessa and premiered in Kyiv on 13 April 1928. Its treasure-quest plot spans two millennia of Ukrainian history and opens Dovzhenko's silent trilogy with Arsenal and Earth.
Zveno
Zveno (Bulgarian: Звено, "Link") was a Bulgarian political circle founded in 1927 by intellectuals and army officers, which seized power in the coup of 19 May 1934.
Žverine Chasma
Žverine Chasma (Zverine Chasma) is a 1,300 km rift valley on Venus at 18.5°N, 271°E, named for a Lithuanian hunting goddess in 1997; it is a branch of the Hecate rift system radial to Beta Regio and cuts the volcano Kono Mons.
Zverinets (Gatchina)
Ecological trail and menagerie (Экалагічная сцежка і звярынец): the marked ecotrail through Zverinets park, Gatchina, a former 18th-century imperial hunting menagerie of about 391 ha, now part of the Gatchina museum-reserve and UNESCO site.
Zvezda
Zvezda Minsk (Зорка Мінск) is a Belarusian football club founded in Minsk in 1996, now named FC Energetik-BGU Minsk and affiliated with the Belarusian State University.
Zvezda (Звезда) (ISS module)
Zvezda (Звезда, "Star") is the service module of the International Space Station, launched in July 2000 as the first fully Russian contribution to the station.
Zvezda Vostoka
Zvezda Vostoka (Uzbek: Sharq yulduzi, "Star of the East") is a Russian-language literary journal published in Tashkent by the Union of Writers of Uzbekistan since 1932.
Zvezdelina Stankova
Zvezdelina Entcheva Stankova (Звезделина Станкова) is a Bulgarian-American combinatorialist at UC Berkeley, a two-time IMO silver medalist for Bulgaria who founded the Berkeley Math Circle and Bay Area Mathematical Olympiad.
Zvi Artstein
Zvi Artstein (צבי ארטשטיין) was an Israeli mathematician at the Weizmann Institute of Science who worked on control theory and optimization, with about ten concepts named after him.
Zvi Bern
Zvi Bern is an American theoretical physicist, professor at UCLA and founding director of the Mani L. Bhaumik Institute, known for the unitarity method and the double copy in quantum gravity.
Zvi Galil
Zvi Galil is an Israeli-American computer scientist known for real-time string matching and sparsification, and for creating Georgia Tech's affordable Online Master of Science in Computer Science.
Zvi Griliches
Zvi Griliches (1930–1999) was a Lithuanian-born American econometrician at Chicago and Harvard, best known for measuring the economics of technological change, R&D returns, and productivity growth.
Zvi Grossman
Zvi Grossman (צבי גרוסמן) is an Israeli immunologist and emeritus professor at Tel Aviv University, known for mathematical models of HIV pathogenesis and T-cell homeostasis, including his 2006 Nature Medicine paper.
Zvi Hashin
Zvi Hashin (1929–2017) was an Israeli solid mechanician at Tel Aviv University, known for the Hashin-Shtrikman bounds and composite failure criteria, and winner of the 2007 Israel Prize.
Zvi Y. Fuks
Zvi Y. Fuks, also known as Zvi Yechiel Fuks, is an Israeli-born radiation oncologist who chaired Memorial Sloan Kettering's radiation oncology department and helped develop IMRT for prostate cancer.
Zvika Brakerski
Zvika Brakerski is a computer scientist and full professor at the Weizmann Institute of Science, known for foundational work on fully homomorphic encryption, computing on encrypted data.
Zvonimir Boban
Zvonimir Boban, born 1968 in Imotski, Croatian midfielder; Dinamo Zagreb captain, AC Milan 1992–2001 (four Serie A titles, 1994 Champions League), captain of Croatia's 1998 World Cup bronze team; later FIFA, Milan, UEFA executive and Dinamo Zagreb president.
Zvonimir Dogic
Zvonimir Dogic is a physicist who studies liquid crystals, self-assembly, and active matter built from microtubules and kinesin motors, and has been professor of physics at UC Santa Barbara since 2017.
Zvonimir Janko
Zvonimir Janko (1932–2022) was a Croatian mathematician, professor at Heidelberg, whose four sporadic simple groups, J1 to J4, helped launch the classification of finite simple groups.
Zvonkiy
Zvonkiy (Звонкий) is the stage name of Andrey Lyskov, a Russian singer and producer on the Velvet Music label whose «Голоса» was the most-played male-vocal song on Russian radio in 2019.
ZVS101e (CYP4V2 AAV gene therapy)
ZVS101e, also registered as rAAV2/8-hCYP4V2, is an AAV gene therapy delivering a functional CYP4V2 gene by subretinal injection, developed by Chigenovo of Beijing to treat Bietti crystalline corneoretinal dystrophy.
Zvuk
Zvuk (Звук) is a Russian music and audio streaming service with more than 75 million tracks, podcasts, and audiobooks, launched in 2010 as Zvooq and acquired by Sberbank in 2020.
Zvuki Mu
Zvuki Mu (Звуки Му) was a Russian post-punk group from Moscow led by singer and songwriter Pyotr Mamonov, formed in 1981 and regarded as a leader of Soviet post-punk.
ZW sex-determination system
ZW sex-determination system: females ZW, males ZZ, so the egg determines sex; found in all birds, many reptiles, butterflies, some fish, crustaceans, and plants; independent of the mammalian XY system, with DMRT1 dosage determining avian sex.
Zwai Bala
Zwai Bala, born Mzwandile Bala, is a South African singer, arranger, and producer best known as a founding member of the kwaito group TKZee, whose 1998 album Halloween sold over 200,000 copies.
Zwan
Zwan was Billy Corgan's short-lived supergroup (2001-2003) with Jimmy Chamberlin, Matt Sweeney, David Pajo, and Paz Lenchantin; one album, Mary Star of the Sea (2003), then breakup and announced unreleased archives.
Zwangendaba
Zwangendaba (uZwangendaba kaZiguda Jele) was a king of the Ngoni who led his followers more than 1,000 miles from near Swaziland to present-day Tanzania, crossing the Zambezi in 1835.
Zwanzig ab
Zwanzig ab (20 ab, Twenty Down) is a German four-player Rams-family trick-taking card game with a 32-card deck; players start at 20 points and race to reach zero, with dropping out, trump rules, and doubled heart scores.
Zwarte Piet
Zwarte Piet, also known as Black Peter, is the helper of Sinterklaas in the Netherlands and Belgium, first depicted in 1850 and now controversial for its blackface portrayal.
Zwei kleine Italiener
"Zwei kleine Italiener" is a 1961 German Schlager song recorded by Conny Froboess; it placed sixth at Eurovision 1962 and topped the German charts for six weeks.