Animals and Plants
Beluga (sturgeon): A large kind of sturgeon Beluga (whale) (from Russian белу́ха belukha): A type of white whale.
Khramulya (Russian: храму́ля), name of several fish species of Cyprinidae family: Anatolian Khramulya, Colchic Khramulya and Sevan khramulya.
Lenok (Russian: лено́к; otherwise known as Asiatic trout or Manchurian trout), a genus, Brachymystax, of salmonid fishes.
Sheltopusik (also Scheltopusik; Russian: желтопу́зик, literally "yellow-bellied"), European Legless Lizard (Pseudopus apodus).
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