Word: sverdlovsk
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Since the October Revolution at least ten towns, one city and three rural regions have been named for Stalin. Molotov has been immortalized in the names of four Russian towns, one region, countless streets, and a square in Soviet-dominated Hungary. The cities of Sverdlovsk, Kaliningrad (formerly Königsberg), Kuibyshev (formerly Samara) and Kirovabad carry the names of four more Soviet faithfuls across the land...
...those bullet holes are disfiguring. And the little hemophiliac-Tsarevich Alexei! Ah, yes, I understand-doomed for a certain term to walk the night. . . . Why, I've scarcely given you a thought since that time when the Communists threw your bodies down the mine shaft in Ekaterinburg [now Sverdlovsk]. Whatever brings you here...
...eastern Germany will be better off than western Russia. Foreign and Soviet observers who have recently reached Berlin from various parts of the U.S.S.R. unanimously agree that the average German in the Soviet zone is better fed, better dressed, and better housed than the average Russian in Moscow, Sverdlovsk or Leningrad. He is incomparably better off than the average citizen of devastated Ukraine and Byelorussia...
...those bullet holes are disfiguring. And the little hemophiliac-Tsarevich Alexei! Ah, yes, I understand-doomed for a certain term to walk the night. . . . Why, I've scarcely given you a thought since that time when the Communists threw your bodies down the mine shaft in Ekaterinburg [now Sverdlovsk]. Whatever brings you here...
...passes for specific competitions. The Government is emphatically pro-sport. (The Red Army discovered that its average draftee in 1939 was an inch taller and five pounds heavier than in 1932, and attributes some of the improvement to mass sport movements.) Ski championships at Sverdlovsk this winter will stress military patrol competition. January's sports carnival for youngsters has events in shooting and grenade throwing...