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Education: After serving in the Red Army at 15, he entered the Leningrad Co-operative Technicum, later earned a degree at the Leningrad Textile Institute...
...Moscow. The young boy shone in the local school, and after completing the sixth grade, he was sent to manual training school in a Moscow suburb. He graduated as a molder, but never worked at this skilled trade; his record was good enough to get him into an "industrial technicum" (a sort of technical junior college) at Saratov on the Volga. While there, he learned to fly at the Saratov Aero Club and was admitted to the Soviet air force's cadet academy at Orenburg. He graduated with top honors in 1957 and married a pretty medical graduate, Valentina...
...state Physculturum Technicum was renamed for Soviet Marshal Vasilevsky...
...last nine years the Technicum has been training clowns, acrobats, jugglers and bareback riders for the 150-odd circuses which are perpetually junketing up & down & across the Soviet Union, furnishing entertainment which the "little brothers" like almost as well as cinemas. To U. S. circus troupers, toughened in the service of Barnum's, the Technicum's method of training is apt to seem funnier than the serious-minded clowns it produces...
...entertainment, is also a medium of propaganda. All loyal clowns try to make their buffoonery a satire on the enemies of the Party without, inefficient bureaucrats within. To the infinite disgust of old and unsympathetic moujiks who go to the circus for amusement, the eager young graduates of the Technicum of Circus Art like nothing better than to drop their fun-making and stunts, put on a pageant of the class struggle...