Word: stalinsk
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Novosibirsk (2,000 miles east of Moscow) was a primitive country town of 70,000. Today it is a thriving city of 500,000, known as the "Chicago of Siberia." Siberian iron and steel production (chief centers: Novosibirsk, Komsomolsk and Stalinsk) is estimated to be already as large as Japan's, and new mills are going up in scores of localities. According to Maurice Hindus (TIME, April 27), one of the few men outside the Soviet Union who was right about Russia's western front, "Komsomolsk . . . the steel city in the Far East . . . is a roaring ammunition plant...
...Ukraine, was already passed in the new southern German drive toward Rostov-on-Don; Stalingrad, on the lower Volga and only 260 miles farther east, was threatened by it; and Staliniri and Stalinissi, in Georgia, might be cut off with the rest of the Caucasus by this same drive. Stalinsk, in the Far East near Manchukuo, would probably fall if the Japanese moved. This left only Stalinabad, southeast of Samarkand, and another Stalinsk, a new industrial city in what might be the new Russia-Central Siberia...