Word: sverdlov
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Behind the mausoleum [of Lenin], at the base of the Kremlin wall, runs a tree-planted walk, and all along it are the graves of revolutionary heroes, and the common grave of many who died in the October Revolution. Sverdlov is buried here, and Dzerzhinski, Nogin, Podbyelski, Krassin, John Reed and others. Set in niches in the Kremlin wall are funeral urns containing the ashes of others of the honored dead including those of Bill Haywood, Charles Ruthenberg and Paxton Hibben, all Americans...
...they might not recognize the existence of Ekaterinburg, whose name they changed to Sverdlovsk in honor of Jacob Sverdlov. chair-man of the Central Executive Committee, who arranged the executions...