Word: bratsk
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Komsomol claims 23 million members, busy at activities that span the range of Soviet society. Since 1950, more than 1,800,000 Komsomoltsy have given up summer vacations and sometimes whole school years to work on development projects in Siberia and the Soviet Far East. Komsomoltsy helped build the Bratsk hydroelectric station, are now participating in the construction of the Togliatti auto plant, which is scheduled to produce 600,000 Soviet versions of the Italian Fiat a year. Some of the youngsters go out of ideological zeal, some simply for the adventure of getting away from home. But for most...
...something of what must be Yevtushenko's great quality in his native tongue comes through in at least one poem in the Marshall translation, his uncompleted "epic" composition, Brat-sky GES (Bratsk State Hydroelectric Power Station). There is special pleasure in these episodes where the original metrical scheme does not call for rhymes above and beyond the call of the English language, and where...
...called for the creation of the world's largest electric-power complex, which would dwarf the TVA and the Grand Coulee Dam, produce as much power as 17 Aswan high dams (or about a 36 million-kw. generating capacity) and make Russia's biggest hydroelectric project at Bratsk in Siberia seem modest. Ten Western power companies and the municipally owned Los Angeles Water & Power Dept. announced last week that they expect to spend $10.5 billion on this project in the next two decades to serve an area that covers one-sixth of the U.S. and spreads over nine...
...going for power, the other for poetry, Secretary of the Interior Stewart Udall, 42, and Poet Robert Frost, 88, shared a plane to Moscow to see what the Russians are up to in both fields. Udall was soon flying off to Siberian sites at Bratsk, Irkutsk and Kuibyshev, on the Volga River, to mosey around hydroelectric plants, high dams, and extra-high-voltage transmission lines; Frost, escorted by Russian Literary Editor Aleksandr Tvardovsky, 52, and Angry Young Poet Evgeny Evtushenlco (TIME cover, April 13, 1962), began searching for common mind-meeting ground. The search led him far afield...