Word: prospekt
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...Moscow last week, a spotless, modernistic fish market opened on Komsomolsky Prospekt, enabling the average Soviet citizen to buy fresh caviar for the first time in recent years. Across from Moscow's city hall, an Italian-built, self-service supermarket went into operation, offering Bulgarian chickens, Spanish oranges, Moroccan sardines. Established shops blossomed with chinaware, meat grinders, bath towels and other goods that have long been scarce...
Despite such shortcomings, however, the Soviet consumer has never had it so good. Food shops arrange supplies, while they last, in neat, tempting pyramids. New Soviet shopping centers such as the showplace stores along Moscow's Kalinin Prospekt are virtually indistinguishable in appearance from shops in West Berlin or Amsterdam...
...Kremlin was anxious to bury the memory of Leningrad's tragic, heroic wartime stand, its citizens were not. For nearly ten years, on Stalin's orders, coats of paint covered the blue and white signs that had sprouted on the Nevsky Prospekt and other major avenues during the siege, with the warning: "Citizens: In case of shelling, this side of the street is the most dangerous." Today, the signs have been repainted as they were. Touched up every spring, they stand as reminders of a past too terrible to be buried...
...bitterly cold day, and most passers-by on Moscow's Kutuzovsky Prospekt hurried past the bus stop at Badaev factory. Buses came and went, but a tall American diplomat in a sports jacket stood peering at Lamppost 35, which was marked with a crude circle in charcoal. Finally, he jumped into a waiting car and roared off toward the Moscow River. Shortly afterward, another American ducked into a house at 5-6 Pushkin Street, where he surreptitiously reached behind a hallway radiator. As he was about to pocket the paper-wrapped matchbox that had been concealed there, Russian counterespionage...
Late-arriving delegates brought alarming news. Some 10,000 people, demonstrating in the Liteiny Prospekt in support of the Constituent Assembly, had been dispersed by Red gunfire. Witnesses reported that dozens of bodies lay bloodily in the snow. We had hoped that two crack regiments, the Semyonov and the Preobrazhensky would act in defense of the Assembly. Now word came that they had decided to remain neutral; they would neither go into the streets against the demonstrators nor join with them. Like other regular army units, they believed that all that was at stake was a simple misunderstanding between...