Word: kuibyshev
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Dates: during 1941-1941
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Victory at Moscow. As the Government moved back from Samara (Kuibyshev), the Russians told the world their story of the Battle of Moscow...
...China Clipper in San Francisco, Maxim Maximovitch Litvinoff stepped on U.S. soil at week's end for the first time in eight years. After a 24-day, 20,000-mile airplane journey from Kuibyshev, Comrade Litvinoff and his snowy-haired English wife looked like any bourgeois tourists who had not had enough sleep...
Almost as turbulent and dangerous as the two years he has spent as Ambassador to Russia was his 14-day trip back to Washington. In a howling blizzard he had flown from Kuibyshev, Russia's auxiliary capital, to Teheran in Iran. At one time his party, which included newly appointed Ambassador to the U.S. Maxim Litvinoff, was reported lost. In Teheran, Litvinoff was left behind, while Steinhardt flew on to Cairo because he had broken a tooth, and there was no good dentist short of Egypt...
...KUIBYSHEV, Russia--German panzer columns prowled along a 35-mile battle line semi-circling MOSCOW in vain search of a weak spot today, reportedly on orders from Adolf Hitler to seize the Soviet capital by Friday, 24th anniversary of the Red Revolution, war dispatches said...
...KUIBYSHEV, Russian--Soviet Government sources reported today that ferocious fighting raged in the principal sectors of the Moscow front after the Germans launched their third and perhaps decisive assault against the capital...