Word: siberians
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Russians, Vladivostok was the most fortuitous acquisition in the Far East; for the Chinese, it was the most galling loss. The port is situated on Golden Horn Bay, which opens onto the Sea of Japan; it was linked to Moscow by the Trans-Siberian Railway...
...foreign intervention during the Russian Civil War after the 1917 Revolution, and at various tunes it was occupied by Japanese, British, Italian and French forces, as well as some 9,000 American soldiers sent by Woodrow Wilson in August 1918. The interventionists vied for influence over the Trans-Siberian railhead off and on until 1922, when the new Bolshevik regime in Moscow finally managed to extend control over the Far East...
...statement of principles on the need for cooperation in energy. A joint committee will probably be set up and an exchange of scientists arranged. Specifically, the accord could lead to geological studies of Siberian natural-gas and oil reserves, with the possibility of joint exploitation...
...weathering both the shift to mechanized warfare and Stalin's purges of military professionals, Zhukov was Chief of Staff when Hitler first trained his guns on the U.S.S.R. In 1941 the marshal smashed the myth of Nazi invincibility by engineering the defense of Moscow with a flood of Siberian troops, and later won the great battles of Stalingrad, Leningrad and the Dnieper. An icy strategist and disciplinarian, he pushed to Berlin, sustaining a million casualties, and returned to Moscow as Russia's savior. Annoyed by Zhukov's celebrity, Stalin downplayed the marshal's achievements and farmed...
...ventures. Late last week the coal project was settled, and early agreement on the timber venture appeared likely. But everything hinges on getting the gas deal, with U.S. participation, sewed up too. If that can be done, the Soviets could start receiving Japanese mining and foresting machinery by September. Siberian timber could start moving to Japan as early as this fall, coal by 1979 and natural gas some time in the 1980s at the earliest. If the September deadline is not met, the loan will not be made, and Japanese-Soviet economic cooperation will still be mired in Siberian...