Credits and
Acknowledgements
This web site is maintained by Professor Robert Beard, Director of the Bucknell Russian Program. Most of the artwork and text he prepared himself.
The photograph of the Gateway apartments was taken by Terry Wild and provided by Sharon Poff of the Bucknell Public Relations office.
The architectural drawings of the carved decorations of Russian wooden homes were done by T. A. Lapshina from the book Arkhitektura russkoi narodnogo zhilishcha by I. V. Makovetski.
The electronically stylized graphic of the cathedral on the 'Study Abroad' page was done by Greg Cole, co-webmaster of Friends and Partners web site.
Ideas for some of the flags were taken from 'An Incomplete Collection of World Flags' maintained by Christopher J. S. Vance and 'Flags of the World' maintained Giuseppe Bottasini.
Royal Frazier is the creator of the letter animation on the alumni page and the Java applet on the homepage is by Chris Skinner of Web Integration Systems.
Kevin Brooke provided dates of Russian-Khazaria interaction for the chronology on the Russian history page.
Many thanks to Lina Gorchakova and Irina Pankratova who proof-read the Russian grammar, and Gerry Greenberg, Vadim Zaliva and others have offered several comments which led to improvements in it.
We are also grateful for the assistance of various people at the Bucknell Computer Center, in particular, Gene Spencer, Mary Beth James and the ITEC crew (Steve Rickard and Jeremy Dreese, especially), and Dan Kelly. Chris Reynolds, former director of Bucknell's Media Services Center, also deserves a tip of the hat for his assistance in scanning our slides and the like.
Most recently, Skeets Norquist made a major contribution by converting our list of US firms in Russia to a highly sophisticated searchable data base.
