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Wednesday, Jan. 23, 2002 Stalin saw Marshal Mikhail Tukhachevski as the potential leader of a military coup. What's more, Tukhachevski publicly accused Stalin of losing the Polish campaign of 1920. Stripped of his office and appointed to command the obscure Volzhski military district in Kuibyshev, Tukhachevski was doomed ? but Stalin never acted openly. On May 13, 1937, he invited Tukhachevski to the Kremlin. The Party, said Stalin, still had confidence in the Marshal, and wished him success in his new command. On May 22, they arrested Tukhachevski in Kuibyshev and brought him to Moscow to be shot...
Tempers are smoldering across the Soviet Union as irate smokers vent their rage over the country's summer-long tobacco shortage. "No tobacco -- no work!" shouted angry factory workers in Kuibyshev who would rather strike than switch. In the Urals town of Perm, nicotine-starved crowds blocked the main street, and "tobacco riots" have hit other cities...
Born on Oct. 30,1908, in Samara (now Kuibyshev), a city 550 miles southeast of Moscow on the Volga River, Ustinov was the child of working-class parents. He began his career working as a fitter in a paper mill and as a diesel mechanic and went on to study design engineering in Leningrad...
...scene is Kuibyshev, a Russian industrial city on the Volga. Enter stage left the Soviet version of Gogol's greedy Inspector General. The inspector is put up in a luxurious little hotel on the picturesque banks of the Volga, especially built for the pleasure of inspectors and other snoopy officials from Moscow. It stands in a gracious park surrounded by a barbed-wire-topped fence and guarded by burly professional wrestlers. The hotel staff includes a cook who serves up the local delicacy, sterlet fish from the Volga, and a team of maids who provide sex. The high point...
...plan is put into action, Occidental and San Francisco's Bechtel Corp. will build a huge chemical-plant complex in the Volga River city of Kuibyshev. It would produce up to 4,000,000 tons of liquid ammonia and 1,000,-000 tons of urea annually, which Occidental would get over a 20-year period in return for its investment...