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...peasant origin, solemn, brooding Georgy Zhukov joined the Red Army in 1915. His military career was unpublicized abroad until 1939, when he won recognition for effective use of tanks against the Jap on the Khalka River. In quick succession he became commander of the Kiev military district (1940), Chief of Staff of the Red Army (1941) then commander of the Moscow Front in October 1941, the hour of Moscow's greatest peril...
Soon Kahn's engineers were given full charge of the entire heavy industrial building program of the first Five-Year Plan. In two years they had built 521 factories from Kiev to Yakutsk, and trained some 4,000 Soviet engineers and apprentices to carry on their work...
...choir music, a dazzle of peacock blues, flaming reds and gold filled the Baltimore Museum. It was also filled with socialite art tasters and leather-jacketed shipyard workers who had come to see "The Golden Age of the Russian Icon"-sacred pictures from the ancient towns of Holy Russia (Kiev, Novgorod, Moscow) in the religious setting that alone gives them meaning...
...Director Igor Savchenko set out to make his picture, he took his company to a small central Ukrainian hamlet named Svirki. Some of the townsfolk had been guerrillas in World War I; none had forgotten the Germans. None would play German soldiers; those extras had to be imported from Kiev...
...Lost both Kiev and Odessa...