Word: uralic
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...Siberian and Ural miners worked twelve-hour shifts digging coal for Russia's railroads and metallurgical plants. North of Moscow 80,000 city officeworkers felled timber for firewood. Logs were transported by barge, train, bus and trolley car to the capital. After classes and on Sundays pupils and teachers toted firewood to their schools...
...against the mountains, Russia would have salvaged something from this year's fighting. Baku, would yield some 13,000,000 barrels of oil monthly. There would be no direct shipping route to the main Red Army, but there would still be a waterway up the Caspian to the Ural River, another across the Caspian to the Krasnovodsk terminus of the Turk-Sib railway, which loops northward through Central Asia to Samara and the Middle Volga...
With Stalingrad gone, said Karpovich, Baku oil could be sent across the Caspian to ports in the Ural region and shipped from there overland by rail. Such a method, of course, would tax Russian rail facilities to the utmost...
Half a Continent. Soviet Asia is bounded on the west by the 2,000-mile watershed of the Ural Mountains and bends its breadth upon half the planet, to end within dory distance of Alaska. Siberia is almost half of Asia, and more than seven-eighths of the Soviet Union. To all but the Russians, and to most of them, it was for centuries as dark as Africa...
...next four years Kohn was shipped up and down the whole continent of Asia, where he got a taste of Russian prison camps from the Ural Mountains to the Pacific Ocean. His Russian captors gave him surprising liberties, which included catching malaria and typhoid fever with only the help of a broken down Czech dentist to pull him through. For two years after the Bolshevik Revolution, he was imprisoned in the Siberian cities of Novosibersk and two other unpronounceable locations. Kohn, who just before the war had completed law school in Prague, acquired his first teaching experience in these cities...