Ruska

American  

[ruhs-kuh, roos-kah] / ˈrʌs kə, ˈrʊs kɑ /

noun

1. Ernst (August Friedrich) 1906–88, German physicist and electrical engineer: developed electron microscope; Nobel Prize 1986.

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Ruska Scientific  

/ rŭs′kə /

1. German electrical engineer who in 1931 developed the world's first electron microscope, which he continued to improve in subsequent work. For this work he shared with German physicist Gerd Binnig and Swiss physicist Heinrich Rohrer the 1986 Nobel Prize for physics.

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Ruska

As an angry orphan, Eve was taken in by Anjelica Huston’s Director, who runs a co-ed academy of fledgling mercenaries called the Ruska Roma.

From Los Angeles Times ● Jun. 5, 2025

The memorial’s website reports that as many as 3,500 Jews from Rava Ruska had already been sent to Belzec earlier in 1942 and that from Dec. 7-11, the city’s Jewish ghetto was liquidated.

From Seattle Times ● Sep. 16, 2023

Soldiers in Ruska Lozova say the unit has about 1,800 soldiers.

From Washington Post ● Jun. 3, 2022

The fighting for Ruska Lozova devastated the village that sits in a fold cut by the Lozovenka River through rolling hills north of Kharkiv.

From Reuters ● May 15, 2022

Just in time Ruszky was restored to the command of the northern group of Russian armies, and the victor of Rawa Ruska and Prasnysz was not doomed now to break his uniform record of success.

From A Short History of the Great War by Pollard, A. F. (Albert Frederick)