Word: leningraders
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...Basketball in Russia begins with Stalin," explained the deadpan manager of the Russian team. "From Vladivostok to Leningrad, everybody plays," said Team Captain Ivan Lissov, who called himself a "master sportsman."** That was about all anyone could get out of the visiting Russians, who were whisked daily from the Soviet Embassy to Paris' Palais des Sports and back, under the watchful eye of a hollow-cheeked cultural attach...
...source of Art News's story was Voks Bulletin, a Communist "cultural relations" magazine published in Moscow. What Voks Bulletin actually said was that Leningrad's Hermitage collection includes two Raphaels-The Holy Family and the Conestabile Madonna* which is true. Voks blunderingly illustrated the story with Mellon's Madonna, mislabeled it The Holy Family. People have been sent to Siberia for less...
There are at least 200 million people in the Soviet Union. Of them, 140 million live in Russia's western tip, the area inside the arc that runs through Leningrad and along the Volga to Astrakhan on the Caspian Sea. In other words, 70% of the U.S.S.R.'s people are concentrated in about 13% of the nation's area. (In the U.S., 70% of the population is concentrated in 32% of its area...
Transport is the overall limiting factor in the economic growth of the U.S.S.R. Russia's resources, especially iron ore and coal, are wide apart (see above). Russia has five main industrial regions: north western European Russia (Moscow, Leningrad, Gorky); the Ukraine (Kiev, Krivoi Rog, Dneprostroi) ; the newer industrial complex just behind the Urals (Sverdlovsk, Magnitogorsk, etc.); the Kuznetsk Basin (Novosibirsk, Stalinsk, etc.); and the scattered mills, mines, army bases and slave-labor camps near the Pacific. Despite a widespread belief in the West that Russia's industrial trend is toward "safety behind the Urals," there is evidence that...
...from Rembrandt's last and best period (TIME, Oct. 30). Last week the Cleveland Museum of Art, which had two early Rembrandts already, also bought a late one: Portrait of a Student. In 1910, Banker Otto Kahn paid more than $100,000 to get the canvas from a Leningrad collection. His heirs, who sold it for an estimated $125,000, gave the proceeds to the Metropolitan Opera Association for some new Met scenery...