Word: gekel
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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After announcing a competition in Pionerskaya Pravda, the Soviet equivalent of the Scout newspaper, Govorukhin received up to 400 letters a day. From a pool of several thousand, he chose an unknown ten-year-old for the part of Gekel-berry (the Russian pronunciation of Huckleberry) and a professional child actor to play the wily Tom Sawyer...
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