Word: rostov
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Rostov was one of the richest trading towns of medieval Russia, exchanging its honey, furs, wheat and beeswax for Scandinavian amber, Arab coins and Volga pottery. Today, it is a favorite stop for Sputnik International Youth Groups, who stay in the famed Red Chamber that once housed visiting czars, including Peter the Great. Its sprawling kremlin is, next to Moscow's own, the most spectacular in Russia. Forty years abuilding, the Rostov Kremlin incorporates the Metropolitan's residence, churches, service buildings and princely quarters all into one grand architectural ensemble of striking dimension and originality...
During those years, Gorshkov also formed the attachment for heavily armed small craft that is reflected today in the Soviet navy's emphasis on Komar and Osa torpedo boats. He welded the turrets from T-34 tanks to motorboats and formed a river fleet that harassed the Germans from Rostov-on-Don to Vienna on the Danube. The young admiral impressed some Red Army officers who were fighting in the area. One was a major general named Leonid Brezhnev, another a lieutenant general named Nikita Khrushchev...
IVAN IVANOVICH (ABC, 10-11 p.m.). A visit to the Maltsevs of Rostov-on-Don offers a look at "the average Russian family" at home, at play, at work in the factory, and in the public schools...
After a month in Kharkov, the U.S. exhibit, which is being transported in a special train provided by the Kremlin, will pack up its tool sets and head to the Lower Don city of Rostov and thence to Erevan, capital of Soviet Armenia. Inaugurating the display in Kharkov, U.S. Ambassador to Moscow Foy D. Kohler noted that "at a time when political relations between our governments are not as good as they might be," such exhibits "help create a climate of understanding and good will between our two peoples" that "cannot but facilitate the search for solutions to political problems...
...played in the bestowing of an honorary doctorate on Sholokhov at Scotland's Saint Andrews University in April 1962, the first Russian writer to be so honored in a British university since Turgenev's honorary doctorate at Oxford in 1879. I was born and grew up in Rostov. That coat of felt and goat's wool is surely familiar to me, even though it does not at all belong in any groves of academe...