Word: magnitogorsk
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...barren steppes behind the Ural Mountains more than a decade ago Soviet workers wrested a city of iron: Magnitogorsk. They paid for it with blood and sweat and countless rubles. They built it with modern tools and with their naked hands, and they are still building it today. The reward for them, and for those who built other great industrial centers in the Urals, was nothing less than the salvation of their country from the Germans...
...Christmas Day, 1943, Magnitogorsk had a celebration. The first red rivulet of molten iron flowed from the sixth blast furnace to be erected in the city, the second to be built there since the war began...
...Europe-five in England (most of them at Oxford), four in France (the Sorbonne and the Ecole des Sciences Politiques in Paris), four in Germany (Heidelberg, Berlin, Munich and Leipzig)- three in Austria, two in Switzerland, one in Ireland, one in Italy- and one at the Engineering Institute in Magnitogorsk, Russia...
...MAGNITOGORSK John Scott, who spent ten years in Russia-first as a welder, then as a research chemist, finally as a foreign correspondent...
...millions of her fellow countrymen knew why the Red Armies were relatively well supplied and were winning victories. Veronika knew that: >Much of Soviet industry had been evacuated to the Urals and Siberia, where it was producing more tons of products than all Soviet pre-war industry. >In Magnitogorsk a giant new blast furnace had been blown in, a strange, but fitting, Christmas present from the Russian people to themselves. >Baku oil production was 40% above...