Word: kharkov
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...refuse to consider buying "Commie tractors." Others find that practical considerations outweigh ideology. At prices typically ranging from $4,600 to $12,000, Belarus' line of five models undersells its American rivals by anywhere from 15% to 20% or more. The Soviet tractors, made in plants in Minsk, Kharkov, Lipetsk, Vladimir and Kirov, are less plushly fitted out than American makes, but they also are durable and more economical to run. Says Chambers: "We have the Volkswagen philosophy around here. Our tractors may not have all the bells and whistles of the latest models from the U.S., but they...
...Hurok also authored two autobiographies (Impresario, S. Hurok Presents) about a life that began, like those of so many of his artists, in Russia. When he was 16, his father, a hardware merchant in the small Ukrainian village of Pogar, gave him 1,500 rubles and sent him to Kharkov to learn the hardware business. Instead, Sol headed straight for America, arriving with the equivalent of $1.50 in his pocket...
...East German government is one of the most doctrinaire Communist regimes in Eastern Europe. Nonetheless, in 1963 it flirted with the ideological heresy of "Libermanism," a theory that takes its name from its principal proponent, Evsei Liberman, an economics professor at Russia's Kharkov University. Libermanism emphasizes the profit motive and individual reward within the Communist system. Even today, the G.D.R. rewards increases in productivity more generously than any other East European country. As a result, there are East Germans-not all of them party insiders-who have accumulated enough cash to buy that most treasured of possessions...
...trying to take to his village. Police seized 150 Ibs. of his haul. "I'll be back next week," he said ruefully. Pravda reported long queues at bakeries in Gorky, a major industrial center, while travelers said that in cities as widely scattered as Saratov, Yaroslavl and Kharkov, cereals had been virtually unobtainable for weeks. Northerners from the Barents Sea port of Archangel complained that their rationed potatoes were "not much bigger than peas...
...died in Aeroflot katastrofy in the past five months. Just nine days earlier, a turboprop Ilyushin-18 carrying 106 known passengers and crew crashed into the Black Sea shortly after takeoff from the resort city of Sochi. No bodies were recovered. Last June a turboprop Antonov-10 crashed near Kharkov in the Ukraine, killing 108, many of them children on their way to summer holiday camp. In addition to the three Aeroflot tragedies, 156 people died in the crash of a Soviet-manufactured Ilyushin-62, operated by Interflug, the East German airline, near East Berlin last August...