Word: samara
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Revolution at least ten towns, one city and three rural regions have been named for Stalin. Molotov has been immortalized in the names of four Russian towns, one region, countless streets, and a square in Soviet-dominated Hungary. The cities of Sverdlovsk, Kaliningrad (formerly Königsberg), Kuibyshev (formerly Samara) and Kirovabad carry the names of four more Soviet faithfuls across the land...
...monthly. There would be no direct shipping route to the main Red Army, but there would still be a waterway up the Caspian to the Ural River, another across the Caspian to the Krasnovodsk terminus of the Turk-Sib railway, which loops northward through Central Asia to Samara and the Middle Volga...
Victory at Moscow. As the Government moved back from Samara (Kuibyshev), the Russians told the world their story of the Battle of Moscow...
Later Ambassador Litvinoff cooled somewhat and flew off in the Russian war plane that had brought him from Samara. The British Government was all apology. London reports said that prior to the incident Ambassador Litvinoff had refused passage in a special R.A.F. plane, declaring that the seats were not suitable, and that the Russian Embassy at Teheran had been informed that the transport plane was full. One London rumor, conflicting with the Teheran dispatches, claimed that the plane was already in the air when the Ambassador arrived at the airport...
...welding these two masses -the untrained ore and partly trained ingots-into a more or less efficient machine was entrusted three weeks ago to a good general, Klimenti Voroshilov, and a not-so-good one, Semion Budenny. Last week Marshal Voroshilov reached Russia's auxiliary capital at Samara to organize his great new Army. And as he traveled east to the rear, he passed trainload after planeload of special winter troops, trained since the Finnish war in cold-weather war fare. There were said to be 750,000 of them, of which some 200,000 were reported to have...