Word: soyuz
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...second time. Russia's remarkable distance machine Vladimir Kuts, a 29-year-old navy lieutenant or an army captain-depending on which Russian a foreigner talks to-gave the crowd a great display of distance running, and the band an excuse to play Soyuz Nerushimy (Union Indissoluble). After outrunning and outsmarting Britain's Gordon Pirie in a 10,000-meter demonstration of brilliantly employed endurance. Kuts came back five days later to do it all over again in the equally demanding 5,000-meter race...
...years Russia has had two or three battleships under construction. At least one of them, the Sovietsky Soyuz, may be in commission in the Baltic. Russia is not known to have any carriers, but the Red navy is developing a land-based naval air force...
...gossip in Swedish seaports last week was that the 35,000-ton Sovietsky Soyuz (the Soviet Union), the U.S.S.R.'s first battleship, was making trial runs in the eastern Baltic. It was the first report heard by the Western world since January, when word came over the seamen's grapevine that the ship had been commissioned...
...Soyuz' keel was reportedly laid in 1935 along with those of two sister battleships, Trety Internatsional (the Third International), launched this year and still being fitted out, and Sovietskaya Ukraina (the Soviet Ukraine), not yet off the Leningrad ways...