Black Sea Governorate
The Black Sea Governorate( Chernomorskaya Guberniya meaning Black- Sea Government), was one of the" guberniyas" of the Caucasus Viceroyalty of the Russian Empire.
It was established in 1896 on the territory of the Black Sea Okrug of Kuban Oblast.
Its administrative center was Novorossiysk.
During 1905, the population of the governorate was about 70,000, and the area was, making it the smallest Russian governorate by both measures.
It ceased to exist when the Black Sea Soviet Republic was established during the springtime of 1918.
The governate's territory was included into the Kuban- Black Sea Oblast in March 1920.
Vasili Pichul
Vasili Vladimirovich Pichul( 15 June 1961 – 26 July 2015) was a Soviet and Russian film director, best known for his film" Little Vera"( Маленькая Вера," Malenkaya Vera" in Russian), released in 1988.
His film" How Dark the Nights Are on the Black Sea" was screened in the Un Certain Regard section at the 1990 Cannes Film Festival.
He died of lung cancer.
Gérard Oury
Gérard Oury( born Max- Gérard Houry Tannenbaum; 29 April 1919 – 20 July 2006) was a French film director, actor and writer.
Black Sea and Caspian Squadron
The Black Sea and Caspian Squadron also known as the Black Sea and Marmora Force and the Black Sea and Marmora Division was naval formation of the British Mediterranean Fleet from 1918 to 1919.
La Carapate
La Carapate is a 1978 French comedy film directed by Gérard Oury.
Black Sea
The Black Sea is a body of water and marginal sea of the Atlantic Ocean between Eastern Europe, the Caucasus, and Western Asia.
It is supplied by a number of major rivers, such as the Danube, Dnieper, Southern Bug, Dniester, Don, and the Rioni.
Areas of many countries drain into the Black Sea, including Germany, Russia, Turkey and Ukraine.
The Black Sea has an area of( not including the Sea of Azov), a maximum depth of, and a volume of.
It is constrained by the Pontic Mountains to the south, Caucasus Mountains to the east, Crimean Mountains to the north, Strandzha to the southwest, Balkan Mountains to the west, Dobrogea Plateau to the northwest, and features a wide shelf to the northwest.
The longest east – west extent is about.
Important cities along the coast include Odessa, Sevastopol, Samsun, and Istanbul.
The Black Sea is bordered by Ukraine, Romania, Bulgaria, Turkey, Georgia, and Russia.
It has a positive water balance; that is, a net outflow of water per year through the Bosphorus and the Dardanelles into the Aegean Sea.
There is a two- way hydrological exchange: the more saline and therefore denser, but warmer, Mediterranean water flows into the Black Sea under its less saline outflow.
This creates a significant anoxic layer well below the surface waters.
The Black Sea drains into the Mediterranean Sea, via the Aegean Sea and various straits, and is navigable to the Atlantic Ocean.
The Bosphorus Strait connects it to the Sea of Marmara, and the Strait of the Dardanelles connects that sea to the Aegean Sea region of the Mediterranean.
The Black Sea is also connected, to the north, to the Sea of Azov by the Kerch Strait.
The water level has varied significantly over geological time.
Due to these variations in the water level in the basin, the surrounding shelf and associated aprons have sometimes been dry land.
At certain critical water levels, connections with surrounding water bodies can become established.
It is through the most active of these connective routes, the Turkish Straits, that the Black Sea joins the world ocean.
During geological periods when this hydrological link was n't present, the Black Sea was an endorheic basin, operating independently of the global ocean system( similar to the Caspian Sea nowadays).
Currently, the Black Sea water level is relatively high; thus, water is being exchanged with the Mediterranean.
The Turkish Straits connect the Black Sea with the Aegean Sea and comprise the Bosphorus, the Sea of Marmara and the Dardanelles.
The Black Sea undersea river is a current of particularly saline water flowing through the Bosphorus Strait and along the seabed of the Black Sea.
The discovery of the river announced on August 1, 2010, was made by scientists at the University of Leeds and is the first of its kind in the world.
The undersea river stems from salty water spilling through the Bosphorus Strait from the Mediterranean Sea into the Black Sea, where the water has a lower salt content.
Soviet Navy surface raids on Western Black Sea
The Soviet Black Sea Fleet during the first years of the Black Sea campaigns (1941–44) conducted raiding operations along the Western coast of the Black Sea aimed to disrupt Axis communications and supplies by sea.
Even the Nights Are Better
" Even the Nights Are Better" is the title of a popular song from 1982( see 1982 in music) by the Australian soft rock group Air Supply.
" Even the Nights Are Better" was included on Air Supply's 1982 album" Now and Forever".
The song has also been covered by Anne Murray.
Released as a single in mid-1982," Even the Nights Are Better" first charted in the United States on the" Billboard" adult contemporary chart, where it spent four weeks at No. 1 in July and August.
This was Air Supply's third song to reach the summit on this chart.
It also reached No. 1 on the Canadian AC chart.
In September 1982, the song reached its peak position of No. 5 on the" Billboard" Hot 100, becoming the group's seventh consecutive top five hit on the US pop chart.
In the United Kingdom, where the group did not enjoy the same amount of success as they did in Australia and the US, the song reached No. 44 on the UK Singles Chart.
This song is notable for exiting the" Billboard" Top 40 the week after it peaked, falling from No. 6 to No. 42 in September 1982.
Taylor Swift has since beaten that chart phenomenon, with her song Red falling from No. 6 to No. 54 in October 2012.
List of islands in the Black Sea
This is a list of islands in the Black Sea.
How Dark the Nights Are on the Black Sea
How Dark the Nights Are on the Black Sea is a 1989 Soviet comedy film directed by Vasili Pichul.
It was screened in the Un Certain Regard section at the 1990 Cannes Film Festival.

Question: Which film has the director who died earlier, How Dark The Nights Are On The Black Sea or La Carapate?
Answer: La Carapate