Word: erivan
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...university diploma, as every Soviet schoolboy knows, is an essential passport to a white-collar job and ultimate success. Inevitably, the competition for college has led to a displeasing amount of corruption. This spring, reported Komsomolskaya Pravda, 32 students were expelled from the Armenian state university in Erivan when authorities discovered that they had gained their admission through political influence and faked records, and had not passed a single entrance test...
...than his share of sorrow. Born Vosdanig Adoian in Turkish Armenia, he was three when his father deserted the family and ran away to avoid being conscripted into the Turkish army. During the Turkish massacres of the Armenians, his mother fled with the boy and his three sisters to Erivan in Russian Armenia. After his mother died at the age of 38, Gorky and his youngest sister decided to go to the U.S. Barefoot and ragged, they made their way to Tiflis. There they joined a band of Armenian refugees and set sail for America...