Word: leningraders
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...investigator, Nikolai Danilov, left his work on the island of Sakhalin and took a job as a legal-aid consultant in a Leningrad law office. He was arrested and confined in a special insane asylum for political offenders, where he is being "treated" with insulin shock...
...Leningrad last December, three intellectuals were tried and sentenced to hard labor for "producing, harboring and circulating works of an anti-Soviet nature." These included Milovan Djilas' The New Class and Barry Goldwater's Why Not Victory? and The Conscience of a Conservative...
...written by an anti-Communist group in Western Europe and then seized upon by the KGB as a pretext for cracking down on dissident elements. According to one account, the KGB has used the appeal to justify sweeping investigations not only in Tallin, but also in other places, including Leningrad, the Azerbaijan city of Baku and the Siberian industrial center of Khabarovsk...
...chief shrine for this northern wooden architecture is the isle of Kizhi in Lake Onega, some 200 miles northeast of Leningrad. There, a dozen wooden buildings-to be joined eventually by 60 additional examples of northern architecture from nearby villages-faithfully re-create a 17th century Russian community, dominated by the 22-domed Church of the Transfiguration...
Narrow Range. The most glowing testimonial to amantadine's value came, ironically, from the U.S.S.R.'s most famous vaccine developer, Dr. Anatoli A. Smorodintsev. The drug was given, he reported, in reduced doses of 100 mg. daily to 10,000 Russians in Leningrad, a flu epidemic area. Half of them did not develop flu at all; most of those who did had cases that were milder than average. According to Smorodintsev, the side effects were negligible-though Soviet researchers have been known to soft-pedal side effects before...