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...early in 1929 a great many of the forged British and American notes were despatched to Mongolia for General Feng* while large amounts were sent by the Soviet Government to Irkutsk, Siberia, to be used in the Far East...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: RUSSIA: Counterfeiting Explained | 2/10/1930 | See Source »

Land of the Soviets, Russian round-the-world plane, was forced down and damaged in an uninhabited Siberian region, 170 miles from Irkutsk. The tour was canceled...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: AERONAUTICS: Flights & Flyers: Aug. 26, 1929 | 8/26/1929 | See Source »

Doubled was the gravity of this grim account when it appeared how widespread are the areas where red flames reared high, last week, and crude Kulak butcher knives carved the white flesh of "women as well as men." Named as trouble centers by Isvestia were Irkutsk in Siberia, Minsk and Smolensk in White Russia, Kiev in the Ukraine, and three important towns on the upper, middle and lower Volga River - Yarosalve, Samara and Stalingrad. The latter and famed town is not the birth place of Soviet Dictator Josef Stalin but a strategic base which he valorously defended against the "White...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Foreign News: Days of Wrath | 11/26/1928 | See Source »

Soon Californians heard how Fraulein Stinnes had set out from Berlin, last May, with two Adler cars, four mechanics and Herr Soederstroem. By way of the Balkans, Turkey, Persia and the Caucasus they drove to Moscow and thence to Irkutsk, Siberia, where the four mechanics refused to press on and returned by rail to Berlin. Not thus craven was Herr Soederstroem. He stuck with Fraulein Stinnes at Irkutsk for almost three months, while they waited for Lake Baikal to freeze, then drove across and on to Mongolia, China, Japan and the President McKinley...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: GERMANY: Fraulein and Swede | 6/11/1928 | See Source »

...Jerboa or jumping rodents of Mongolia were reported last week to have become carriers of the Black Plague and to be spreading it with appalling mortality among dwellers on the steppes near Irkutsk...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Foreign News: Plague, Famine, Eruption | 1/10/1927 | See Source »

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