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Only one hint of the Soviet Union's vastly stepped-up nuclear program (five bombs exploded since August 1956) was given by Pervukhin: an order to rush work on big electric-power projects-essential to atomic development-at Kuybyshev, Saratov and Stalingrad (on the Volga) and Kairak-Kum, Irkutsk and Novosibirsk (in Siberia). Something speedier and more pliable than the old Piatiletki was needed to harness these horses...
Died, Valerian Vladimirovich Kuybyshev, 47, vice Premier of the U. S.S.R., vice President of the All-Union Council of People's Commissars, member of the Communist Party Politburo; of arteriosclerosis; in Moscow. A pioneer young Bolshevik, he chairmanned the Gosplan (State Planning .Commission), launched two Five-Year Plans...
Second Piatiletka. Since last summer the Caspian (State Planning Commission) has been studying, planning, replanning a program for the years 1933-37. Last week on the eighth anniversary of the death of Bolshevism's sainted Lenin, its work was done. Author of the plan was Gosplan Chairman Valerian Kuybyshev, onetime chairman of the Supreme Eco-omic Council, who looks like an Italian tenor. Sang...
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