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Sokol (Сокол, Russian for " falcon") was a planned high speed train in Russia. It was to be a successor of the ER200 for use on the Moscow–St. Petersburg mainline, and was designed to operate at a cruising speed of 250 km/h. A prototype was built in 2000 and tested by Russian High Speed Railway Shareholding Co.
The Sokol project was cancelled in 2002. Instead of a Sokol-based design, high speed trainsets (named Sapsan) based on the Siemens Velaro were procured from Siemens in Germany. The Sapsan trains have been operating on the Moscow-St.Petersburg line since December 2009.
The Sokol movement (from the Slavic word for falcon) is an all-age gymnastics organization first founded in Prague in the Czech region of Austria-Hungary in 1862 by Miroslav Tyrš and Jindřich Fügner. It was based upon the principle of "a strong mind in a sound body." The Sokol, through lectures, discussions, and group outings provided what Tyrš viewed as physical, moral, and intellectual training for the nation. This training extended to men of all ages and classes, and eventually to women.
The movement also spread across all the regions populated by the Slavic culture ( Poland ( Sokół), Slovene Lands, Serbia ( SK Soko), Bulgaria, the Russian Empire (Poland, Ukraine, Belarus), and the rest of Austria-Hungary (e.g. present day Slovenia and Croatia)). In many of these nations, the organization also served as an early precursor to the Scouting movements. Though officially an institution "above politics," the Sokol played an important part in the development of Czech nationalism, providing a forum for the spread of mass-based nationalist ideologies. The articles published in the Sokol journal, lectures held in the Sokol libraries, and theatrical performances at the massive gymnastic festivals called slets helped to craft and disseminate the Czech nationalist mythology and version of history.
Sokol is a Moscow Metro station on the Zamoskvoretskaya Line. The station opened on 11 September 1938. Designed by K. Yakovlev, V. Polikarpova, and V. Andreev, it features a single row of pillars which flare upward into the arched ceiling, separated by circular coffers. Sokol is finished in a variety of materials, including white and gray Koyelga marble, onyx, granite, and white ceramic tile. The two entrances to the station are located on both sides of Leningradsky Prospekt. An additional exit to the underpass is available from the south end of the platform. Another entrance was cut in 2003 from the nearby Metro Market shopping center. It was the northwestern terminus of the line until 1964 when 3 northern stations were opened. A Zamoskvoretskaya Line depot is located near the station.
The station is named after the Sokol cooperative settlement (built in the 1920s) that also gave name to the district of Moscow.
On 19 March 2006, a section of tunnel between Sokol and Voykovskaya stations collapsed and fell onto a metro train. It was reported that the accident was due to workers setting up an advertising billboard in the street above the tunnel. Despite a concrete slab piercing one of the carriages the accident did not cause any injuries.
Sokol is a Pan-Slavic physical education movement, with origins in the Czech lands.
Sokol or Sokół may also refer to:
- Sokół, Polish offshoot of the Czech movement
Sokół (, Polish Gymnastic Society "Falcon") is the Polish offshoot of the Czech ( pan-Slavic oriented) Sokol movement, and the oldest youth movement organization of Poland. Created in Lwów in 1867, by the end of World War I the movement had its units – gniazda ("Nests") – in all parts of Poland, as well as among the Polish communities abroad. The group's goal was to develop fitness, both physically and mentally, with a motto mens sana in corpore sano ("a fit spirit in a fit body").
Sokoľ (meaning Falcon in Slavic languages) is a village and municipality in Košice-okolie District in the Kosice Region of eastern Slovakia.
Sokol and Sokol-2 were Soviet 35 mm photo camera brands. In 1966-1986, more than 400,000 were produced by LOMO. Some were exported to Europe.
Sokol ( German Falkenberg) is a cone-shaped peak in the Lusatian Mountains, just south of the frontier between Germany and the Czech Republic. There are traces at the summit of a medieval castle—Starý Falkenburk (Alte Falkenburg).
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Sokół , real name Wojciech Sosnowski is an MC born in Warsaw, Poland 11 March 1977. Founder of ZIP Skład (Ziomki I Przyjaciele) and WWO (W Witrynach Odbicia, W Wyjątkowych Okolicznościach), together with DJ Deszczu Strugi, and Jędker. He recorded four albums with WWO (in the years 2000 - 2005, two of them sold gold), three albums with Pono as Sokol feat. Pono (in the years 2007 - 2009, one gold) and two albums with his girlfriend partner Marysia Starosta (both platinum)(2011, 2013). He lives in Poland, but lived in Latvia and Georgia for two years. Estimated of his textes and thoroughgoing rap. Founder and co-owner of Prosto record label and clothing company.
- Alejandro Sokol (1960–2009), Argentine rock musician
- Daniel Sokol (* 1978), barrister and medical ethicist
- David L. Sokol (* 1956), American businessman
- František Sokol (1939–2011), Czech volleyball player
- Herman Sokol (1916-1985), American chemist
- Jan Sokol (disambiguation)
- Jason Sokol, American historian
- Koloman Sokol (1902–2003), Slovak-American artist
- Kyle Sokol, American bassist
- Marilyn Sokol (* 1937), American actress
- Natalia Sokol, Russian activist
- Ondřej Sokol (* 1971), Czech director
- Ronald Sokol (* 1939), American lawyer and writer
- Sasha Sokol (* 1970), Mexican singer
- Tony Sokol (* 1963), American playwright, writer and composer
- Viktor Sokol (footballer born 1954), Soviet and Belarusian footballer
- His son Viktor Sokol (footballer born 1981), also Belarusian footballer
- Vilem Sokol (1915-2011), conductor and music professor
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Usage examples of "sokol".
Sarah could sing, and Mel Torme, and Dave McKenna was the piano player, and The Four Seasons, in New York, for that one meal, and Sokol Blosser Pinot Noir, and Catamount beer, and German shorthaired pointers, and Ali maybe was the best heavyweight, though Ray Robinson was, of course, the best ever, any weight, and Krug champagne, and Faulkner, and Vermeer, and Stan Kenton and Mike Royko, and fitful sleep.
Sokol Keep, though I have heard some rather ugly rumors about the gnoll leader.
Confronted with a form of worship more corrupt than any he had imagined possible, Tarl responded with a pent-up rage of his own, meeting the swinging club of one gnoll with his shield and slamming another with the broad side of the hammer he had recovered from Sokol Keep.
He was sitting in the passenger seat of a navy-blue Lada Sokol, parked in the shade of a Japanese umbrella pine in a big open-air car park.