Word: nikolaevsk
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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AMUR MILITARY ZONE, headquarters at Khabarovsk: 13 divisions (at least six airborne); 200 four-engined bombers based at Nikolaevsk, near the Amur River mouth; 100 navy attack planes based at Sovetskaya Gavan. Oil is refined at Komsomolsk (founded in 1932, present pop. 250,000), which also has large navy yards. Komsomolsk's huge Amurstal mills roll steel for modern submarines, destroyers and cruisers...
...Pacific shore. Partly completed: a northern trunk of the Trans-Siberian railway, from Lake Baikal eastward to the lower Amur River region. Under construction: a highway from the mid-Siberian maneuvering and training center of Yakutsk eastward toward Anadyr, near the tip of Siberia, facing Alaska; a railroad from Nikolaevsk to Kamchatka, circling the Sea of Okhotsk and making Japan's northern water flank in effect a Russian lake...
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