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EXECUTION REVEALED. Of Fedor Fedorenko, 79, who in 1984 became the first Nazi war criminal to be extradited from the U.S. to the Soviet Union; in Simferopol, Soviet Crimea. Fedorenko was stripped of his U.S. citizenship in 1981 for failing to report his service as a Treblinka concentration-camp guard. In June 1986 the Soviets convicted him of participating in the murder of 800,000 inmates...
Home from the heavens, Major Yuri Gagarin was the toast of Russia. Simferopol in the Crimea threw up a hastily sculpted plaster bust of Yuri. Moscow planned a 287-ft. commemorative obelisk. Yuri's voice in space on an LP record with commentary in six languages was being readied for world sale. Yuri's image blossomed on everything from postcards to pottery. The grateful Soviet government outdid itself: it bestowed on the first spaceman and his household of six a new, four-room apartment...
...other Soviet dig is in the Crimea, north of Simferopol. In 1827, a peasant turned up a carved stone. Since then a few diggers have puttered around the site, but not until 1945 did a real dig get going. Soviet archeologists call the place "Neapolis [New City] of the Scythians...
...Simferopol, the Crimean capital (prewar pop. 80,000), fell almost without a fight. So did the key ports of Yevpatoriya, Feodosiya, Yalta on the sun-drenched, wooded Black Sea coast. In seven days the Russians reported killing 29,000 Germans and Rumanians, capturing 41,000 more...
Rebound in the South. On the Crimean peninsula, both sides agreed that the Germans had strongly counterattacked at points southeast of Simferopol. New York Timesman Daniel T. Brigham, covering the Russian war from censor-free Switzerland, declared: "The mere fact that the Germans in that sector are in a position to counterattack at all is taken to indicate that their situation in Simferopol cannot be considered as desperate as it was first thought to be. . . ." Capping the week was a German High Command claim of recapture of Feodosiya, on the Black Sea coast, one of the first Crimean points reclaimed...