Information about Troika

A general meaning of the Russian word troika (Cyrillic alphabet: тройка) is threesome, a collection of three of any kind. The following particular meanings entered into other languages:

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Troika - a three-horse drawn sled
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Maslenitsa, a 1919 painting by Boris Kustodiev depicting troika in the centre.
The word has also been used for naming of:
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Writing system: Cyrillic (Russian variant)  
Official status
Official language of:  Abkhazia (Georgia)
 Belarus
 Commonwealth of Independent States (working)
 Crimea (de facto; Ukraine)
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Cyrillic alphabet

Sister systems Latin alphabet
Coptic alphabet
Armenian
Unicode range U+0400 to U+052F
ISO 15924 Cyrl

Note: This page may contain IPA phonetic symbols in Unicode.
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3 (three) is a number, numeral, and glyph. It is the natural number following 2 and preceding 4.

In mathematics

Three is the first odd prime number, and the second smallest positive prime.
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A sled, sledge or sleigh is a vehicle with runners for sliding instead of wheels for rolling. It is used for transport on surfaces with low friction, usually snow or ice but any grassy surface is good when it is not too dry.
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Troika is a Russian folk dance, where a man dances with two women. The Russian word troika means three-horse team/gear. In the Russian dance the dancers imitate the prancing of horses pulling a sled or a carriage.
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NKVD troika or Troika, in Soviet Union history, were commissions of three people employed as an additional instrument of extrajudicial punishment (внесудебная
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Lieutenant Kijé (Russian: Поручик Киже, Poruchik Kizhe) is a novella by the Soviet author Yury Tynyanov (1894-1943) published in 1927.
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The Seasons, Op. 37b (published with the French title Les saisons) is a set of twelve short character pieces for solo piano by the Russian composer Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky (1840-1893).
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Troika Games

Privately held
Founded 1998 (defunct 2005)
Headquarters Irvine, California

Key people Tim Cain, Leonard Boyarsky & Jason Anderson
Industry Computer and video games
Products , The Temple of Elemental Evil &
Troika Games
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The Troika

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Author Stepan Chapman
Country United States
Language English
Genre(s) Science fiction novel
Publisher Ministry of Whimsy Press
Publication date 1997
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Gears of War is a tactical third-person shooter video game developed by Epic Games (the creators of the Unreal series) using Unreal Engine 3.0 technology and published by Microsoft Game Studios.
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Troika was an art pottery operating in Cornwall from 1963 to 1983.

Troika was set up in 1963 by Leslie and Caroline Illsley and took over the existing Wells pottery underneath St Ives Seamens' Mission in Wheal Dream (not on the seafront).
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The Troika is an amusement park ride, designed and manufactured by HUSS Maschinenfabrik in the early 1980s.[1] The ride is available in both transportable and permanent forms, although due to the total weight and size of the ride (35 tons, plus an additional 27 tons for
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