Word: urals
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...year-old prodigy from the Ural asbestos beds...
While investigating asbestos beds in the Ural Mountains, a Soviet engineer, M. Troutman, himself an amateur artist, met a 14-year-old Russian boy, Peter Miranov, found promise in his drawings. Troutman brought the boy back with him to Moscow, showed his work to Malieva, who declared that, apart from minor technique, he could teach him nothing, as the boy possessed the rarest of natural gifts−correct draftsmanship. Troutman continued further, interested the Soviet authorities, who have recently commissioned the boy to travel through the South to do landscapes for the State gallery...
...first two. None of these schemes accomplish the result he had hoped for, and Taylorization--making production 100 percent efficient--served only in raising Russia's output to 25 percent of the normal. The absurdity of his last scheme--that of using the water powers of the Ural Mountains to generate free electricity for the whole country--would seem to indicate that his dreams are already falling...