Word: glavsevmorput
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...icebreaker J. Stalin tried to reach the Sedov, but another winter set in and she had to give up. At this point Joseph Stalin decided to turn the Arctic fiasco into an asset. He purged the Glavnoye Upravlenya, Severnovo Morskovo Puty (Central Administration of the Northern Sea Route-Glavsevmorput' for short), kicked its chief. Professor Otto Schmidt, upstairs into a vice-presidency of the Academy of Sciences, named 46-year-old Ivan Papanin (who had made himself famous by drifting from the North Pole almost to central Greenland on an ice pan) to be head of Glavsevmorput'. Then...
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