Word: perm
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Down in Perm. First hint of any kind of trouble came when Russian radio and TV said nothing about the flight for more than eight hours. Finally came the announcement, four hours after the event, that the cosmonauts had guided their ship to a perfect landing near the city of Perm, 750 miles northeast of Moscow. This is hilly, forested country on the western slope of the Urals, and much more hazardous than the barren, level steppes of Kazakhstan, where Soviet spacemen usually touch down...
FLOOD by Robert Perm Warren. 440 pages. Random House...
...Communists fail with a program of building youth clubs, so that churches now outnumber clubhouses in some areas, but the churches are warmer and cozier than the clubs. Example: without openly taking the offensive, but "quietly and peacefully," the Russian Orthodox Church has infiltrated the industrial region around Perm in the Urals, so that "alongside the universities of culture, universities of obscurantism flourish." Unlike the propagandists for atheism, "these holy fathers are not deterred from their duties either by cold or by impassable roads...