Word: leningrader
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...advantage of a physical sciences carreer in Russia can hardly be overestimated, Paul M. Doty, Professor of Chemistry, told the Associaton of Graduate Students in Chemistry last night. Doty spent 12 days last May in Moscow and Leningrad...
...second impression came as he landed in Leningrad late in the afternoon, before the street lights were turned on, when the town was a dark gray. "The workers emerged from the metro and entered their cracker-box houses looking like small ants," he observed...
...cruisers, the Russians have decided on essentially a submarine force (500 boats) as the heart of their navy. The sub is basically a defense weapon, designed to deny the seas to an enemy. As any tourist can see, there is no military shipbuilding at the massive Kronstadt yards near Leningrad. The ways are jammed instead with commercial shipping; four cruisers of the Sverdlov class lie there still uncompleted. In tune with the defensive concept is the fact that the Russians have devised the most deadly mines yet known in warfare. One navy officer told me that "we couldn...
...commotion, 15 U.S. graduate students last week checked into Moscow State University, inspected the comfortable single rooms they had been assigned, and settled down to begin work on their Ph.D. theses. Part of a group of 21 Russian-speaking young men-the other six are enrolled at the Leningrad State University-they are the first students sent for a year's study in Russia under this year's cultural agreement, and the first U.S. scholars to enroll at Russian universities since before World War II. Twenty Russian students are expected to arrive in the U.S. later this month...
Once the domain of oracles, astrologers, sooth-sayers, and writers of science fiction, the future is now much with many moderns. So much so that it takes half of Leningrad Popular Science Films Studio's production to get us out of the past. Billed as "Russian science fiction," the Brattle film is only partly that. After an account of the early struggles of the late Soviet scientist Konstantin Tsiolkovsky, a breathless rundown of recent rocket developments culminates at the magic date of October 4, 1957. As past becomes future, satellites flourish, Soviet citizens view the "other" side of the moon...