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...Soviet Union Government, which two months ago resuscitated the Russian Orthodox Church (TIME, Sept. 13), last week bowed toward Mecca. Though the Bolsheviks have carried on an unflagging struggle with the more pious believers among their Mohammedan citizens, a Moslem congress has been convened at Tashkent, capital of the Soviet Republic of Uzbek. The congress chose as leader of Russia's Mohammedans 82-year-old Ichan Babachan Abdumadchiktchanow. It also called upon all Mohammedans in the Uzbek, Tajik, Turkomen, Kirghiz and Kazak Soviet Socialist Republics to "wage a merciless fight against the German usurpers...
Foresight. For the last decade Russia has paid increasing attention to the development of great new industrial areas. One straddles, and partly hides behind, the Urals. Another is the Kuznetsk Basin, next to Outer Mongolia. In the extreme south, centered at Tashkent, there is a less concentrated area, mainly of light industries such as textiles...
...Odessa, Soviet Russia took delivery on the latest addition to its Black Sea fleet, the Italian-built, 2,895-ton destroyer Tashkent...
...picturesque Tashkent last week, Farmer George Lomakin was tried for sabotage. "You are accused of failure to weed adequately, " rattled off the Bolshevik prosecutor, "and of using too much fertilizer." According to the Soviet official news agency, Farmer Lomakin was then stood up before a firing squad and shot...
More significant to science was the news that such experiments are conducted at the Mid-Asiatic University at remote and romantic Tashkent, in the wilderness east of Lake Aral and north of the Hindu Kush. Before the Russian 1917 Revolution only eight Russian cities had universities. The Soviets have set up a dozen more in districts which they control. All are staffed by men who, radiating Communistic culture, are intent on obtaining scientific proofs for their materialistic theories...