Word: fyodorov
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...still newer and more controversial corneal operation was developed by Soviet Ophthalmologist Svyatoslav Fyodorov. In 1973 he examined a nearsighted 16-year-old youth whose glasses had been smashed in a fight. The shards had cut the cornea of one eye. Three days later the boy could see perfectly out of the eye-without glasses. The injury had inadvertently flattened the cornea...
Such ideas were hardly original. During his Sierra Maestra days, Che carried in his knapsack the Spanish edition of an obscure two-volume Soviet manual called The Clandestine Regional Committee in Action. Written by Aleksei Fyodorov, a World War II Russian guerrilla leader, the book spells out methods for establishing sources of supply as well as discussing such everyday guerrilla problems as how to handle a hard-drinking subordinate, how to check out a supply runner suspected of double-dealing, and how to use propaganda. "You see?" Che would say of Fyodorov's ideas. "It's all come...
Apparently Che copied passages from Fyodorov's book as a source of comfort and instruction...
...joyful scientists, who carried a portrait of Joseph Stalin. All their equipment was transferred to the Taimyr. After drawing lots to decide which ship should have the honor of carrying which heroes home to glory. Leader Papanin and Radio Operator Krenkel boarded the Murman, Astronomer-Magnetologist Fyodorov and Hydrobiologist Shirshov, the Taimyr. Which ship got the dog Jolly, mentioned in dispatches three weeks ago as a companion of the four men on their floe, last week's dispatches did not disclose...