Word: kosmodemyanskaya
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...served by it. Among his compositions is a Poem on Stalin. His pretty wife, Nina V. Makarova, who was a student of Miaskovsky's too, has written A Cantata for Molotov. She is working on an opera, ordered by the Bolshoi Theater, based on a story of Zoya Kosmodemyanskaya, a girl-Partisan heroine who was executed by the Nazis. Aram has won the Order of Lenin and two Stalin prizes (the last for his swirling, furiously rhythmic ballet, Gayane, a U.S. best-seller). He made a big hit with the Russian public during the war by returning...
...pharmacist can tell you that heroine of the Soviet Union, Zoya Kosmodemyanskaya (TIME, March 2), has a venerable name. Saints Cosmas and Damien are the patron saints of the pharmaceutical [and medical] world. . . . Fact and fancy credit them with many medical miracles. They were victims of the Diocletian persecutions in the 4th Century, and their tomb in Cyrus, Syria, has been venerated as a shrine for centuries...
...Kosmodemyanskaya is one of the many faded footprints of Christianity in Godless Russia...
Last week Moscow told this story and gave Zoya Kosmodemyanskaya* a title: Hero of the Soviet Union...
...Skeptical correspondents were informed that Kosmo and Demyan were both proper first names, which had been combined to make an all-inclusive family name with the feminine ending kaya. Hence, said Moscow, any similarity in pronunciation between Kosmodemyanskaya and "Damyankee" was purely coincidental...