RDS is a group of road construction companies founded in 2005 as the “Rost” investment group for housing and commercial real estate construction.
It is included in the TOP-3 road companies of Ukraine in terms of volume (mileage) of roads built. The main office is in Odessa.
The company was founded in 2005 as an investment group "Rost" for the construction of housing and commercial real estate, but in the same year the company began investing in road construction and was named "Rostdorstroy". In 2019, it changed its name to RDS.
Since 2014, RDS has been participating in international tenders, including road overhaul tenders in the Republic of Moldova, conducted under the auspices of the EBRD.
In 2020, RDS completed the construction of the runway at Odessa Airport, while continuing to build highways in Cherkasy, Poltava, and Mykolayiv Oblasts.
In April 2020, the company bought the Kredmash DS-16837 asphalt plant.
Beneficial owners of the RDS Group are Yuriy Schumacher and Yevhen Konovalov.
The group of companies "RDS" includes LLC "Rostdorstroy" and PE "Kyivshlyakhbud" and operates in 9 regions of Ukraine. The company's assets include asphalt and cement plants, laboratories, fleet of vehicles. There are over 2,000 employees.
RDS Group of companies is a co-founder of the National Association of Road Workers of Ukraine (NAPA).
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, more than 8,000 institutions in more than 160 countries had access to JSTOR. Most access is by subscription but some of the site is public domain, and open access content is available free of charge.
JSTOR's revenue was $86 million in 2015.
Brian Trueman
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Víctor Crisólogo
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Sokil Kyiv
Hockey Club Sokil Kyiv (Ukrainian: ХК Сокіл Київ; English: Falcon Hockey Club), commonly known as Sokil Kyiv or HC Sokil, is a Ukrainian Professional Hockey League team in Kyiv, the capital of Ukraine. Their home arena is in the city, but the team also plays out of Brovary, still within the Kyiv region.
Sokil is developed many of the country's top young hockey players, producing NHL All Stars such as Dmitri Khristich and Alexei Zhitnik, and Stanley Cup Champions Ruslan Fedotenko and Anton Babchuk.
The team was founded in the summer of 1963 by the Deputy Chairman of Sports of Ukraine, Adrian Miziak, under the name of "Dynamo Kyiv". 1963 may be the official birth date of the team, but it was a decade earlier that a Dynamo team from Kyiv would play in the Soviet Cup, making it as far as the second round of the playoffs. The current incarnation, however, would begin its hockey operations in the second tier of Soviet ice hockey, holding its first game on 27 October 1963 against SKA Kuybyshev.
For the club's 10th anniversary in 1973, the club would drop the Dynamo name. The historical white and blue colors of the Dynamo sports society would be kept intact, but the team would adopt the name of the "Falcon", or "Sokil" in Ukrainian. Though Sokil's play would remain inconsistent throughout the 70s, the hiring of Anatoli Bogdanov as head coach in 1976 would have an immediate impact on the team's fortunes.
With the dissolution of the IHL, orphaned teams from the Soviet Bloc found a home in the newly formed Eastern European Hockey League. Benefiting from a lower level of competition than that of the Russian league, and new head coach Oleksandr Seukand, the team would find renewed success. Sokil would finish 1st overall in 4 of the league's 8 seasons, and become league champions in both 1998 and 1999.
Following the 2008–09 season in the Russian league, the club announced they would rejoin the Belarusian Extraleague for the following year. This was a move largely attributed to the financial burdens brought on by the Russian Ice Hockey Federation's (RHF) mandate that foreign teams pay for the travel, accommodations, and meals of visiting teams. The RHF also demanded that foreign teams pay an annual fee of p.1,500,000 (approx €35,000).
The team's original colors as Dynamo were, hence the nickname that has held to this day ("white-blues"), white and blue. When the Sokil name was adopted, the team changed their colors to red and blue, the same colors of the Kyiv coat of arms of the time. The team would eventually return to its white and blue roots, along with the addition of a darker accent of blue, as well as black.
The team's original jerseys were white with horizontal blue striping. In 1973, the primary color of red was added, and the body striping was eliminated for a more contemporary look. When the sponsor's name ("Eskulap") was added briefly in 1992, the team logo was changed to a tryzub. Also, the Coca-Cola logo was added to the front of the team's jerseys for a period of time.
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He also taught at The New School for Jazz and Contemporary Music for 23 years, retiring in 2011.
From 1990 to 2009 Mance was part of a group called "100 Gold Fingers" which toured Japan every other year.
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Cesare Maestri
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Maestri began climbing in the Dolomites. He was known as the "Spider of the Dolomites". He became an alpine guide in 1952.
He also climbed the Civetta, the Solda-Conforto Route on the Marmolada, and the southwest ridge of the Matterhorn in winter.
Maestri died on 19 January 2021, aged 91.
Gustavo Peña
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Peña died on 19 January 2021, aged 78.
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