Word: sverdlovsk
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Left behind in Moscow, in Leningrad, in the off-limits-to-Westerners industrial centers of Novosibirsk and Sverdlovsk a priceless fund of good will and friendliness toward...
From cheering Novosibirsk, Nixon moved on to Sverdlovsk, where the Bolsheviks shot Czar Nicholas II and his family in 1918, then drove deep into the Urals to visit a copper mine and Russia's largest tube and pipe plant. At every log-cabin village and dusty crossroads, hundreds of peasants gathered to wave and cheer Nixon-and they stayed on for hours to do the same for the caravan of reporters and U.S. officials strung out along the road behind...
...just try to finish the race on our feet, men," mumbled the New York Daily News's Frank Holeman. nodding sleepy-eyed over a glass of white Georgian wine in Sverdlovsk's Grand Urals Hotel. His sentiment was shared by all of the 73 U.S. newsmen accompanying the most tireless tourist ever to visit Russia: Vice President Richard Nixon. "[The other] tourists encountered along the way are regarded by now rather enviously as a happy, carefree lot," cabled the Washington Star's European Correspondent Crosby Noyes. "For them there are, presumably, no pre-dawn departures, no missed...
...ranking executives, moved to regional councils thousands of miles away. Last week it developed that many upper-bracket wives had refused to join their husbands in the sticks. Komsomolskaya Pravda summoned seven such wives to its offices to find out why they were not with their husbands in provincial Sverdlovsk, in the Urals. First the women talked of Moscow's culture and comforts, but when assured that Sverdlovsk has culture, too, the most common excuse was: "My Mama is sick." One woman complained that she had nine different ailments (the ninth: hydrophobia against the kind of water used...
...Borden, 26, Law Partner William M. Blair, and Russian Specialist Robert Tucker, he found official smiles and small but friendly crowds in big cities, rural hamlets, Siberian industrial towns rarely seen by Westerners. Among the trip's happiest chapters: a lavish official picnic in a forest near Sverdlovsk, within sight of a boundary marker inscribed "Europe" on one side and "Asia" on the other; a leisurely trip up the Volga in a side-wheel steamer left over from Czarist days. "Everywhere I went," said Stevenson politely at a farewell reception in Moscow, "I saw signs and heard speeches urging...