Word: baikal
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...Rundle, China bureau chief at Shanghai, flew to Peiping to break the news. The U.P. was fed up with such Packard specials as the Russian "evacuation" of Dairen last fall, the "human-headed spider" he discovered near Peiping, and the discovery of a Russian atomic bomb plant on Lake Baikal...
...Japanese will probably be well pleased if they can storm Vladivostok by land, air and sea, slice up the Trans-Siberian, come to rest near Lake Baikal, retake the rich half of Sakhalin which they lost after winning it 17 years ago. Then they will have a sufficient barrier between Russia and Japanese Asia. They will have removed, at Vladivostok, an ever-present threat of Russian or U.S. air attack on Tokyo itself. Russian aid to China will be completely shut off, and Chiang Kai-shek's resistance may finally be smothered...
...Fronts for the Axis? In Siberia, a Russian army under General Grigory Stern stood on its arms, waiting for the Japanese under General Seishiro Itagaki to strike east from Manchukuo against Vladivostok, north toward Lake Baikal to cut the Trans-Siberian Railroad. If the slashes struck deep, Russia's wounds might be mortal. If Russia parried the blow, her defense would call for a new U.S. aerial front based in Siberia, with Japan the target of its attack. But thousands of Japs in the Aleutians barred...
...second Plan opened new mines and industries, with ports in the Arctic at the mouth of the Lena and Kolyma Rivers. Later defense industries and power plants were constructed as far east as Lake Baikal, new oil fields opened in the Urals. Most railroad construction under the Plans was in the East, and as population followed production, agriculture and food industries followed...
...delegates of 54 nationalities to the Council of Nationalities. Ukraine, Uzbek on the Afghanistan border, Turkmen on the Caspian, Armenian, Georgian, six other "constituent republics" sent 25 each. Tatars from the Volga, Karelians from the swampy North, Buriat-Mongolians from the shores of Lake Baikal, Moldavians from the southwestern borders of the Ukraine, 18 other "autonomous republics" sent eleven each, while 45 came from nine regions and twelve from national districts like Komi, Chukotsk in the Arctic...