The 2011 IPC Biathlon and Cross-Country Skiing World Championships took place from 2–11 April 2011 in Khanty-Mansiysk , Russia . IPC stands for International Paralympic Committee . This was the first time these championships were hosted in Russia, and the first time the championships were hosted in the same city as the IBU Biathlon World Championships which was held in Khanty-Mansiysk from March 3 to March 13, 2011.
29-502: Khanty-Mansiysk (Russian: Ха́нты-Манси́йск , romanized : Khánty-Mansíysk , lit. Khanty-Mansi Town ; Khanty : Ёмвоҷ , Jomvoćś ; Mansi : Абга , Abga ) is a city in west-central Russia . Technically, it is situated on the eastern bank of the Irtysh River , 15 kilometers (9.3 mi) from its confluence with the Ob , in the oil-rich region of Western Siberia . Though it
58-722: A Latin alphabet for the Russian language was discussed in 1929–30 during the campaign of latinisation of the languages of the USSR , when a special commission was created to propose a latinisation system for Russian. The letters of the Latin script are named in Russian as following (and are borrowed from French and/or German ): 2011 IPC Biathlon and Cross-Country Skiing World Championships Skiers competed in sitting, standing, or visually impaired classification categories in various biathlon and cross-country skiing events. The Opening ceremony
87-618: A Working Group of the United Nations , in 1987 recommended a romanization system for geographical names, which was based on the 1983 version of GOST 16876-71 . It may be found in some international cartographic products. American Library Association and Library of Congress (ALA-LC) romanization tables for Slavic alphabets are used in North American libraries and in the British Library since 1975. The formal, unambiguous version of
116-453: A system of transliteration fitted for their keyboard layout , such as for English QWERTY keyboards, and then use an automated tool to convert the text into Cyrillic. There are a number of distinct and competing standards for the romanization of Russian Cyrillic , with none of them having received much popularity, and, in reality, transliteration is often carried out without any consistent standards. Scientific transliteration, also known as
145-473: A visual impairment compete with a sighted guide . The skier with the visual impairment and the guide are considered a team, and dual medals are awarded. A percentage system is used to calculate the final time of each skier. Each skiers finishing time, is multiplied with a percentage factor, to determine a final, calculated time. Within each category (sitting, standing, visual impairment) there are skiers with various classifications (for example B1, B2 and B3 in
174-647: Is a hyphenated word combining the names of two Russian indigenous peoples local to the region, the Khanty and the Mansi , ending in "- sk " as is typical for the names of Russian towns, which means city. Before 1940, the settlement's name was Ostyako-Vogulsk, as these tribes were previously known as the Ostyaks and the Voguls, respectively. Khanty-Mansiysk experiences a subarctic climate ( Köppen climate classification Dfc ). The climate
203-445: Is an independent city , Khanty-Mansiysk also functions as the administrative centre of Khanty-Mansiysky District , and the administrative center of Khanty-Mansi Autonomous Okrug–Yugra . With 101,466 estimated inhabitants, Khanty-Mansiysk is among Russia's few regional capitals that are not the largest cities in their surrounding area, as it is surpassed in population by Surgut , Nizhnevartovsk and Nefteyugansk . Khanty-Mansiysk
232-530: Is an adoption of an ICAO standard for travel documents. It was used in Russian passports for a short period during 2010–2013 ( see below ). The standard was substituted in 2013 by GOST R ISO/ IEC 7501-1-2013, which does not contain romanization, but directly refers to the ICAO romanization ( see below ). Names on street and road signs in the Soviet Union were romanized according to GOST 10807-78 (tables 17, 18), which
261-724: Is an equivalent of GOST 16876-71 and was adopted as an official standard of the COMECON . GOST 7.79-2000 System of Standards on Information, Librarianship, and Publishing–Rules for Transliteration of the Cyrillic Characters Using the Latin Alphabet is an adoption of ISO 9:1995 . It is the official standard of both Russia and the Commonwealth of Independent States (CIS). GOST 52535.1-2006 Identification cards. Machine readable travel documents. Part 1. Machine readable passports
290-491: Is available at the Khanty-Mansiysk Airport , located just outside Khanty-Mansiysk inner city. The airline Utair has its head office at the airport. Khanty-Mansiysk is a skiing and alpine skiing centre. Biathlon World Cup competitions are annually held in the city, and tourism infrastructure has been developed here quite well. The city was the venue of the 2003 and 2011 Biathlon World Championships , and in 2005
319-423: Is based on its predecessor ISO/R 9:1968, which it deprecates; for Russian, the two are the same except in the treatment of five modern letters. ISO 9:1995 is the first language-independent, univocal system of one character for one character equivalents (by the use of diacritics) that faithfully represents the original and allows for reverse transliteration for Cyrillic text in any contemporary language. The UNGEGN ,
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#1732852455033348-417: Is extreme, with temperatures as low as −49 °C (−56 °F) and as high as +34.5 °C (94.1 °F). On average, however, the region is very cold, with an average temperature of −1.1 °C (30.0 °F). Precipitation tends to be fairly low; 553 millimeters (21.8 in) per year, which is heavier in the summer than in the winter. The average wind speed is 2.4 meters per second (7.9 ft/s), and
377-474: Is incorporated separately as the town of okrug significance of Khanty-Mansiysk —an administrative unit with the status equal to that of the districts . As a municipal division , the town of okrug significance of Khanty-Mansiysk is incorporated as Khanty-Mansiysk Urban Okrug . Population: 107,473 ( 2021 Census ) ; 80,151 ( 2010 Census ) ; 53,953 ( 2002 Census ) ; 34,462 ( 1989 Soviet census ) .. Ethnic composition (2010): Air travel
406-527: The Cyrillic script into the Latin script ), aside from its primary use for including Russian names and words in text written in a Latin alphabet, is also essential for computer users to input Russian text who either do not have a keyboard or word processor set up for inputting Cyrillic, or else are not capable of typing rapidly using a native Russian keyboard layout ( JCUKEN ). In the latter case, they would type using
435-779: The International Scholarly System , is a system that has been used in linguistics since the 19th century. It is based on the Czech alphabet and formed the basis of the GOST and ISO systems. OST 8483 was the first Soviet standard on romanization of Russian, introduced on 16 October 1935. Developed by the National Administration for Geodesy and Cartography at the USSR Council of Ministers , GOST 16876-71 has been in service since 1973. Replaced by GOST 7.79-2000. This standard
464-507: The FIDE Grand Prix tournament was held here. The 2018 FIDE Women's World Championship was held here on November 2–23, 2018. It included 64 chess players from 28 countries and was won by Ju Wenjun . [REDACTED] Media related to Khanty-Mansiysk at Wikimedia Commons Romanization of Russian The romanization of the Russian language (the transliteration of Russian text from
493-609: The Oxford University Press, and a variation was used by the British Library to catalogue publications acquired up to 1975. The Library of Congress system (ALA-LC) is used for newer acquisitions. The BGN/PCGN system is relatively intuitive for Anglophones to read and pronounce. In many publications, a simplified form of the system is used to render English versions of Russian names, typically converting ë to yo , simplifying -iy and -yy endings to -y , and omitting apostrophes for ъ and ь . It can be rendered using only
522-399: The average humidity is 77%. It was founded in 1930 as a work settlement of Ostyako-Vogulsk ( Остяко-Вогульск ). Khanty-Mansiysk is the administrative centre of the autonomous okrug and, within the framework of administrative divisions , it also serves as the administrative centre of Khanty-Mansiysky District , even though it is not a part of it. As an administrative division, it
551-599: The basic letters and punctuation found on English-language keyboards: no diacritics or unusual letters are required, although the interpunct character (·) may be used to avoid ambiguity. This particular standard is part of the BGN/PCGN romanization system which was developed by the United States Board on Geographic Names and by the Permanent Committee on Geographical Names for British Official Use . The portion of
580-715: The first Mixed Biathlon Relay Championships took place here, and again in 2010 . The 2011 IPC Biathlon and Cross-Country Skiing World Championships where skiers with a physical disability compete, took place in Khanty-Mansiysk in March–April 2011 as well. Khanty-Mansiysk was home to the 2015 Winter Deaflympics and the HC Yugra of the Supreme Hockey League . The city includes the Ugra Chess Academy, which has been
609-492: The introduction of a dedicated Latin alphabet for writing the Russian language. Such an alphabet would not necessarily bind closely to the traditional Cyrillic orthography. The transition from Cyrillic to Latin has been proposed several times throughout history (especially during the Soviet era), but was never conducted on a large scale, except for informal romanizations in the computer era. The most serious possibility of adoption of
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#1732852455033638-473: The new system and the old one, citizens who wanted to retain the old version of a name's transliteration, especially one that had been in the old pre-2010 passport, could apply to the local migration office before they acquired a new passport. The standard was abandoned in 2013. In 2013, Order No. 320 of the Federal Migration Service of Russia came into force. It states that all personal names in
667-456: The passports must be transliterated by using the ICAO system , which is published in Doc 9303 " Machine Readable Travel Documents, Part 3 ". The system differs from the GOST R 52535.1-2006 system in two things: ц is transliterated into ts (as in pre-2010 systems), ъ is transliterated into ie (a novelty). In a second sense, the romanization or Latinization of Russian may also indicate
696-410: The system for bibliographic cataloguing requires some diacritics, two-letter tie characters , and prime marks. The standard is also often adapted as a "simplified" or "modified Library of Congress system" for use in text for a non-specialized audience, omitting the special characters and diacritics, simplifying endings, and modifying iotated initials. British Standard 2979:1958 is the main system of
725-494: The system pertaining to the Russian language was adopted by BGN in 1944 and by PCGN in 1947. In Soviet international passports , transliteration was based on French rules but without diacritics and so all names were transliterated in a French-style system . In 1997, with the introduction of new Russian passports , a diacritic-free English-oriented system was established by the Russian Ministry of Internal Affairs , but
754-447: The system was also abandoned in 2010. In 2006, GOST R 52535.1-2006 was adopted, which defines technical requirements and standards for Russian international passports and introduces its own system of transliteration. In 2010, the Federal Migration Service of Russia approved Order No. 26, stating that all personal names in the passports issued after 2010 must be transliterated using GOST R 52535.1-2006. Because of some differences between
783-616: The venue of the 2010 Chess Olympiad and the Women's World Chess Championship 2012 . In 2010, the Olympic Hotel was built just to house the players in the Olympiad. It also hosted the 2005 Chess World Cup , the 2007 Chess World Cup , the 2009 Chess World Cup and the 2011 Chess World Cup . It hosted the World Rapid and Blitz Championship in 2013 and the 2014 Candidates Tournament . In May 2015,
812-486: Was amended by newer Russian GOST R 52290-2004 (tables Г.4, Г.5), the romanizations in both the standards are practically identical. ISO/R 9, established in 1954 and updated in 1968, was the adoption of the scientific transliteration by the International Organization for Standardization (ISO). It covers Russian and seven other Slavic languages. ISO 9:1995 is the current transliteration standard from ISO. It
841-665: Was held on March 31, and the Closing ceremony was scheduled to be held on April 10. Canadian Brian McKeever competed at the Championships without his brother Robin McKeever as his sighted guide , who recently had knee surgery. The Championships can be seen free at IPC 's internet TV channel ParalympicSport.TV as video on demand . The provisional schedule of the event is below. All times in UTC+3 . Calculated times Skiers with
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