, which you should read because it discusses China's effort to make transport airplanes Y-20 and Y-8.
(ii) Ulyanovsk http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ulyanovsk
(a city and the administrative center of Ulyanovsk Oblast, Russia, located on the Volga River 893 kilometers (555 mi) east from Moscow; founded in 1648 as fort of Simbirsk; In 1924, the city was renamed Ulyanovsk in honor of Vladimir Ulyanov, better known as Lenin, who was born in Simbirsk in 1870)
* Ulyanovsk is "home of the Tupolev Tu-204 airliner, and a parallel assembly plant for the giant Antonov An-124."
(iii) Vladimir Lenin http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vladimir_Lenin
(1870-1924; born Vladimir Ilyich Ulyanov; Ulyanov adopted the nom de guerre of "Lenin" in December 1901, possibly taking the River Lena as a basis, thereby imitating the manner in which Plekhanov had adopted the pseudonym on "Volgin" after the River Volga)
(c) The report says, "苏联时代研制的伊尔-76运输机过去一直由位于乌兹别克斯坦的塔什干飞机制造厂生产。但由于苏联解体后技术人员的流失和设备老化,塔什干飞机制造厂没有能力为中国生产这样多数量的军用运输机,因此导致俄罗斯被迫中断同中国签订的伊尔-76军用运输机合同。"
(i) Tashkent 塔什干 http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tashkent
(literally "Stone City"; capital of Uzbekistan)
(ii) Tashkent is derived from Uzbek "tosch" meaning “stone”.
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(a) Lake Baikal http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lake_Baikal
(Mongolian: Baygal nuur, meaning "nature lake"; world's oldest lake; the most voluminous freshwater lake in the world, containing roughly 20% of the world's unfrozen surface fresh water; At 1,642 m (5,387 ft), Lake Baikal is the deepest and among the clearest of all lakes in the world)
(b) Baikal http://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/Baikal
(Etymology From Russian Байкал (Baykal, “Baikal”), from Buryat Байгал нуур (Baygal nuur, “Lake Baikal”), ultimately from the Turkic bai "rich", and kul "lake")
(c) Buryats http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Buryats
("The Buryats or Buriyads, numbering approximately 500,000, are the largest indigenous (aboriginal) group in Siberia, mainly concentrated in their homeland, the Buryat Republic, a federal subject of Russia. They are the major northern subgroup of the Mongols")