Word: ulyanovsk
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...evening still glowed on the Volga River, but few passengers aboard the cruise ship Alexander Suvorov were paying much attention. Most of the travelers had crowded into a large room on the uppermost deck to watch a movie. They never saw the end. While navigating a narrow channel near Ulyanovsk (pop. 650,000), the river port 425 miles east of Moscow where Lenin was born, the vessel apparently rammed into a railroad bridge with such force that the entire top section of the boat was sheared off. The number of casualties is still not certain, but as many...
...higher. According to another unconfirmed report, a freight train was crossing the bridge at the time of the crash and several cars toppled off, possibly crashing through to the ship's jammed upper deck. Witnesses claim that only 40 people were rescued. Said a distraught resident of Ulyanovsk: "There is great chaos in the city. People are crying in the streets...
...hanging in the hall. As sustained applause greeted the very mention of his name, the TV screens showed Brezhnev embracing officials, kissing women factory workers, acknowledging the cheers of the crowd, and planting a birch tree at the dedication of a new shrine at Lenin's birthplace in Ulyanovsk. Brezhnev also filled the front pages of Soviet newspapers. Even after Kosygin and Podgorny reappeared, the party boss continued to hog the headlines and prime TV time...
...scene was symbolic and significant: Soviet leaders gathering solemnly, even reverently last week in Ulyanovsk (formerly Simbirsk), where, 100 years ago, Vladimir Ilyich Lenin was born on April 22. They had excellent reason to be reverent and grateful, for their formidable aggregate of power still derives from Lenin's genius and from his achievements as the true architect of Communism. Thus they will invoke his name to legitimize their rule, and adroitly select from his speeches and writings to justify the existing social order. They will cite Lenin to sanctify Russia's quarrel with China, its invasion...
...anticipation. Interest in Lenin is growing in American cities, says Tass, including Baltimore, where his books are "undoubtedly most popular with youth." Calcutta and Mogadishu, capital of Somalia, have renamed streets for him. According to Tass, Indian students have asked their Soviet friends to send them seedlings from Ulyanovsk because "they want to grow trees from the motherland of Lenin." He was the subject of an "international" meeting in Bamako, Mali, and of a quiz show on Radio Sierra Leone. A program called Lenin Soirées is reported to be "greatly popular with televiewers in Brazzaville," while in Paris...