Word: sverdlovsk
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...were 10,000,000 industrial workers in Russia before the Revolution. There were only 1,500,000 more after ten years of Soviet rule. But as the First Five-Year Plan gave way to the Second, the Second, less publicized, to the Third, as Stalingrad grew on the Volga, Sverdlovsk on the site of the Tsar's execution, industrial life moved as swiftly as the political life of the State. The 37,000 plants that were nationalized by the end of 1920-two-thirds of them employing fewer than 15 men each-gave way to 61,000 large-scale...
Commissar's official mansion, where she was inclined to talk just a little too much for a diplomat's wife. Result was that soon Comrade Ivy was reported as having "moved" to Sverdlovsk, in the Ural Mountains, some 900 miles east of Moscow, where she was following her big hobby of teaching "basic English"-some 850 "essential" English words-to young Russians. Mme Litvinoff was brought back to Moscow for big social functions of the Foreign Commissariat. Last autumn, however, at the usual Soviet reception to diplomats the invitations were written simply in the name of the Foreign...
...months ago. In 1934 at the high point of his international journalistic career Doletsky signed up Tass with the Associated Press and the United Press in an exchange news arrangement, was feted in Manhattan. Last week The Ural Worker, an obscure newspaper published 900 mi. from Moscow at Sverdlovsk, arrived by mail and Tass men devoured its announcement that Director Jacob Doletsky and his immediate assistants are "Trotskyist bandits who penetrated into the main office of Tass and caused incalculable damage to the Soviet Press...
Doletsky and his Tass gang, according to The Ural Worker, tried to undermine the foundations of Soviet achievement by putting on Tass wires invariably rosy accounts of successes of the Five-Year Plans and achievements of leading Bolsheviks. "Instead of unmasking the shortcomings of Sverdlovsk industry and the mismanagement of collective farms," declared The Ural Worker, "Tass published a flowery story about the arrival of spring. . . . Thus Doletsky and his accomplices carried out the dictates of Fascist bosses...
...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...