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Word: magnitogorsk (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1960-1969
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...were assigned Intourist guides to keep them from straying. In 1955 the State Department finally retaliated by banning Soviet visitors from some 27% of the U.S. on a tit-for-tat basis (e.g., Pittsburgh was closed because the Russians forbade U.S. tourists to visit the Soviet steel center of Magnitogorsk...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Travel: Comrades, On to Vegas | 7/13/1962 | See Source »

Factory chimneys, grain elevators, the steel pylons of power lines rise above the plains. In the foothills of the Urals, Magnitogorsk lies on the slope of a magnetic mountain, which is fed ton by ton into the city's open-hearth and blast furnaces, making it the greatest metallurgical center in the Soviet Union. Nearby Sverdlovsk used to be known as Ekaterinburg, and was chiefly famous as the spot where, in 1918, the Bolsheviks executed Czar Nicholas II and his family. Today its 800,000 people build machine tools, TV sets, railroad cars and ball bearings...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Atom Blasts & TV Sets: Siberia Is Still Empty, but Bursting witb Raw Power | 9/22/1961 | See Source »

Back in the '20s and '30s, U.S. firms helped build tractor plants in Stalingrad and a steel mill at Magnitogorsk; and U.S. engineers helped build Russia's great dam on the Dnieper...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: BUSINESS ABROAD: Spindles from America | 1/11/1960 | See Source »

Vova Marchenko was three months old when his parents took him to the Church of St. Michael the Archangel in Magnitogorsk (pop. 284,000) to be baptized by immersion, as is the practice of the Russian Orthodox Church. When the Rev. Ivan Scherbatov lifted little Vova from the font, the baby was dead-"the victim of a senseless rite," as Moscow's daily Sovietskaya Rossiya put it. Called before a People's Court, Father Scherbatov denied his guilt, contended that the child was ill and would have died anyway. But medical investigators disputed him, and the priest...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Religion: Death at the Font | 1/4/1960 | See Source »

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