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o·gon·ek

 (ə-gôn′ĕk, -gŏn′-)
n.
A mark resembling a hook (˛) placed beneath a letter, usually to indicate nasalization, as in Polish, or sometimes vowel length, as in Lithuanian.

[Polish, from diminutive of ogon, tail, from Proto-Slavic *ogonŭ (probably originally "that which drives away (flies and the like)") : *o-, ob-, around, on + *goniti, to push, chase, drive.]
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Over the period 1941 to 1978, he published at least 78 articles or encyclopedia entries, mainly on the history of Arctic exploration, in journals such as Sovetskaya arktika, Morskoy flot, Meteorologiya, Gidrologiya, Vokrug sveta, Problemy Arktiki i Antarktiki, Ogonek, Izvestiya Vsesoyuznogo Geograficheskogo Obshchestva, Priroda and Letopis' Severa, and newspapers such as Pravda, Vodnyy Transport, Vechernaya Moskva, and Nedelya, as well as entries in the Bol'shay a Sovetskaya Entsiklopediya and Kratkaya Geograficheskaya Entsiklopediya.
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The broad scope of the evening sky described in the opening lines of Pushkin's poem is juxtaposed in the second stanza with a detailed, intimate view of a private, "homey" interior that could not be further from a military camp in feel: "And night has clothed with twilight / The peaceful corner of comfort / In the fireplace burns a small flame" (I mirnyi negi ugolok / Noch' sumrakom odela, / V kamne gasnet ogonek).
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