Word: baikal
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...newlyweds gave no sign that they were troubled by the speculation. After a couple of quiet days in the Moscow Intourist hotel, they prepared to depart for a Siberian honeymoon at Lake Baikal and the town of Magadan, the site of several Stalin-era prison camps. Afterward, the couple will share a 2½-room flat with Sergei's mother until they buy an apartment of their own. Christina says that she will assume the quiet life of a Russian housewife and start a family. "I don't know why reporters want to find out something spectacular about...
...Communist Party Chief Leonid Brezhnev, it is "the project of the century." In the Soviet press, it is BAM. But whatever it is called, the Soviet Baikal-Amur Mainline Railway is the biggest construction project under way anywhere in the world today. To tap directly into the varied resources of Siberia, the Soviets are laying track across a 1,965-mile stretch of wilderness running from the frontier town of Ust-Kut near Lake Baikal to an eastern terminus at Komsomolsk, 565 miles north of Vladivostok. By the time the last rail is laid in 1983, the cost...
...they should go. "What he wants to see, we will show him," the Soviet leader said. Brezhnev noted that unlike the President's 1972 trip, when he visited Moscow, Kiev and Leningrad, this time they might go as far afield as Minsk in Byelorussia, Volgograd in Southern Russia, Lake Baikal in Siberia and Yalta in the Crimea, the site of the controversial summit meeting of Roosevelt, Churchill and Stalin during World War II. Speaking of the agreements he hoped they might reach, Brezhnev said, "I think we shall please people both in the United States and hi our Soviet land...
...they are clearly very eager to learn from the American experience. During our tour, for instance, an agreement was reached that will enable Soviet scientists to study air pollution in St. Louis and water pollution in Lake Tahoe; American scientists will have similar access to Leningrad and to Lake Baikal, the world's deepest fresh-water lake...
Under the highly specific agreement, Soviet scientists will help American experts probe the air-pollution problems of St. Louis and then do the same in Leningrad. The water pollution of Lake Tahoe will be compared with that of Siberia's Lake Baikal. The capability of both nations to predict earth quakes will be tested along California's San Andreas Fault and in Tadzhikistan's Pamir Mountains. The murky waters of the Delaware and Potomac rivers will be analyzed, along with those of two Soviet rivers yet to be designated. More broadly, the general urban environmental problems...