Word: novosibirsk
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...life is rougher, tougher than in most cities, but the people work hard, seem happy. Said Works Director Nosov: "Two or three years after the war we will have time to build thousands of new individual homes, streetcar lines, roads, theaters, cinemas, clubs, restaurants." But now-in Novosibirsk, Omsk, Tashkent, Alma-Ata-production for war is all that matters. In the 15 years since Stalin decreed the creation of this industrial reserve in Asiatic Russia, the Soviet Union had achieved neither the capacity nor the efficiency of the industrial U.S. But the Russians had done a miraculous...
Russian Chicago. Novosibirsk is becoming one of the world's great cities, the Chicago of Russia. It had 100,000 population in 1925, now has 700,000. The outlook of its leaders is like that of last century's western Americans. The double-laned Krasny Prospekt is one of Russia's finest avenues. An $8,000,000, 2,000-seat opera house is rich in red velvet, lush statuary, a Phantom-of-the-Opera chandelier, a 105 by 105 ft. stage with an electrically driven, concrete safety curtain...
...Novosibirsk Secretary of the Communist Party is tough, wiry, 44-year-old Mikhail Kulagin. He looks and acts like a cross between Jimmy Cagney and a Rotary greeter. Politically, he is a sort of Russian Jim Farley, slapping backs, shaking hands. Everyone knows him, wants a private word with him. He sent regards to his old pals, Hank Wallace and Don Nelson, who met him during their travels in Russia...
Brother's Advice. Pokryshkin's mother still lives in Novosibirsk, with the youngest of her four sons. She is a plain old peasant woman, proud of her sons. Recently she wrote to Alexander: "Your brother [also an airman] wants to shift to your unit." Replied Alexander: "Let him prove his mettle...
Pokryshkin has earned a chestful of medals (including the U.S. Distinguished Service Cross), a bust in his native Novosibirsk. But the highest prize comes through his earphones when he slashes into enemy formations. Then the German flight leaders identify his plane with its cluster of red stars-one for each aircraft downed -and shout "Achtung, Achtung-Pokryshkin...