Word: baku
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...group in Western Europe and then seized upon by the KGB as a pretext for cracking down on dissident elements. According to one account, the KGB has used the appeal to justify sweeping investigations not only in Tallin, but also in other places, including Leningrad, the Azerbaijan city of Baku and the Siberian industrial center of Khabarovsk...
Line of Teachers. An indefatigable crusader for the enrichment of the scant cello repertory, Rostropovich has induced several other composers to create for the cello. Prokofiev and Shostakovich both wrote works for him. Born in Baku, Russia, Rostropovich was virtually weaned on cello music; his grandfather and father, who studied under Casals, were noted teachers of the instrument. When the family moved to Moscow, Rostropovich joined his father's class at the Children's Music School, began teaching on his own at 15. At 19 he was appointed soloist with the Moscow Philharmonic, played in a trio with...
...factories had to be suspended because their goods simply would not be bought. Moreover, state trade organizations returned or marked down 20% of all clothing, 10% of hosiery and 9% of shoes produced. Russian refrigerator factories received 56,000 written complaints about faulty products-including refrigerators from the Baku factory lacking refrigerant gas in their coils. As a result of the consumer's stiffening standards and an increased inclination to complain, an incredible $3 billion worth of unsellable junk has accumulated in Soviet inventories...
...reader. Richard Ullman's Intervention and the War, a history of Anglo-Soviet relations from November 1917 to November 1918, is such a drama--one whose characters include British diplomats, Japanese generals, Czech troops and Bolshevik leaders. Its setting stretches from London to Tokyo, from Archangel to Baku...
...years ago, all this was impossible, for Russia produced barely enough oil for itself. But now, with expansion of the old Baku fields and opening of the vast new deposits east of the Volga, Soviet output has soared to an annual 148 million tons, next only to the U.S. (368 million tons) and Venezuela (149 million tons). From this gushing wealth comes the surplus pumped into export channels by Soyuzneftexport, Russia's oil marketing agency, which hopes to break the world monopoly of the eight Western "majors" with alluring sales stunts...