Word: rybinsk
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...that Moscow no longer runs the former union, local governments are returning to traditional national place names that evoke far different memories. They are dumping the old communists: the city of Andropov, for Yuri Andropov, party boss from 1982 to '84, is Rybinsk again; Sverdlovsk, for Lenin's henchman Yakov Sverdlov, who approved the execution of Czar Nicholas II and his family there, has reassumed the proud title Yekaterinburg, for Peter the Great's wife, Catherine...
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