Word: sverdlovsk
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...factor in the economic growth of the U.S.S.R. Russia's resources, especially iron ore and coal, are wide apart (see above). Russia has five main industrial regions: north western European Russia (Moscow, Leningrad, Gorky); the Ukraine (Kiev, Krivoi Rog, Dneprostroi) ; the newer industrial complex just behind the Urals (Sverdlovsk, Magnitogorsk, etc.); the Kuznetsk Basin (Novosibirsk, Stalinsk, etc.); and the scattered mills, mines, army bases and slave-labor camps near the Pacific. Despite a widespread belief in the West that Russia's industrial trend is toward "safety behind the Urals," there is evidence that about 1947, Stalin & Co. hardheadedly...
...Minister, is a 40-year-old former schoolteacher from Ljubljana, in Slovenia. He joined the party in 1928, went to Russia in 1933 and taught the history of the Comintern at Sverdlovsk University. When he talks, his face is completely deadpan. It is hard to believe that he could regard a normal human emotion as anything but a degrading weakness. With his scholarly eyeglasses, small stature and sober, meticulous clothes, Kardelj is a patent imitation of Molotov, the iron functionary. Kardelj had his toes broken in prison by the police of the late King Alexander, and he still walks awkwardly...
...rest of Europe, TV development ranges from the prenatal to the spoon stage. The Netherlands has an experimental station at Eindhoven and is planning another. Soviet Russia boasts transmitters at Leningrad and Moscow and is still at work on a coaxial cable to link them up with Kiev, and Sverdlovsk in the Urals. Russians seem to have reached the second phase in television: they are beginning to complain about it. In a recent letter to the newspaper Vechernyaya Moskva, carping Reader Vladimir Savochkin demanded more TV sets, more and better programs, spare parts for fans who are building their...