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Eleven hijackers commandeered the Tupolev-154 jet as it was en route to Leningrad after a fueling stop in the Ural Mountains city of Kurgan, and they told the pilot to fly to London, Tass said. It identified them as the Ovechkins, a family musical group from Irkutsk, the southern Siberian city where the flight originated...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Family of Soviet Musicians Hijacks Plane | 3/11/1988 | See Source »

...perimeter. In addition, each country will be allowed to make 20 surprise visits to suspected weapons facilities during the first three years of the treaty, 15 during the next five years and ten annually in the remaining five years. U.S. officials will be able to fly into Moscow or Irkutsk, and Soviets into Washington or San Francisco, without advance notice of the site to be inspected...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Russians Are Coming | 12/7/1987 | See Source »

...town about 2,000 miles east of Moscow. He is thought to be the son of a former senior official in the Ministry of the Interior. After brief service with the Red Army in World War II, he earned a scientific degree from the Mining and Metallurgy Institute in Irkutsk. Sent to the mining-smelting plant in the northern Siberian city of Norilsk in 1958, he won high marks in the Kremlin for his skill in coordinating industrial development in the severe Arctic environment. Dolgikh was appointed party boss of his home base, the Krasnoyarsk region, in 1969, reportedly...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Soviets: Also-Rans Who Still Have Clout | 11/22/1982 | See Source »

...days, 7865 kilometers, Peking to Moscow via Ulan Balor, Irkutsk, Novisibirsk and Omsk. Taking the Trans-Siberian railroad shouldn't be this easy. Just allow two weeks in Pecking: After making a reservation at the China International Travel Service (CITS), report to the Russian Embassy to apply for a free transit visa. A week later, pick it up and present it to the Mongolian Embassy, which in a single day will grant you a transit visa for $2, payable only in U.S. dollars. (As a penalty for not recognizing the People's Republic of Mongolia, Americans pay double) Then return...

Author: By Sylvia C. Whitman, | Title: A Trans-Siberian Journey | 11/8/1982 | See Source »

...that the blast was caused by something less exotic: a meteorite. Many scientists in the past refused to accept the meteorite theory because there is no trace of any impact crater at the center of the destruction, in the isolated Tunguska area, about 950 km (590 miles) north of Irkutsk...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Science: Fireball over Siberia: 1908 | 3/3/1980 | See Source »

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