Word: uzbekistan
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...zinc producer, the second-largest source of copper. Its capital, Alma-Ata (Father of Apples), where Leon Trotsky was exiled in 1927, is full of bleak new Soviet-style construction. A more recent exile from Moscow, ex-Premier Georgi Malenkov, now runs a hydroelectric power station at Ust-Kamenogorsk. Uzbekistan (pop. 8,113,000), with new irrigation projects, gives Russia two-thirds of its cotton. Its capital, Tashkent, with farm-implement factories, railroad shops, textile and paper mills, clothing and shoe factories, is one of the U.S.S.R.'s biggest cities. More primitive and inaccessible are the other three republics...
...secretariat when Georgy Malenkov was Premier, but had been literally sent to Siberia when Khrushchev and Bulganin took over. Shtykov's return to favor is the latest in a series of significant changes in the Communist Party superstructure in the past month (others: in the Russian Republic, Lithuania, Uzbekistan). This sudden flurry of shake-ups apparently represents Khrushchev's increased grasp of the party machinery on the eve of this week's 20th Communist Party Congress in Moscow, the first since Stalin's death...
Frye, who was in Russia from August 25 until September 22, went to gather information about his specialities, Iranian and Central Asian linguistics and history. His travels through Uzbekistan and Kazakistan were the first unrestricted Western visit to those areas since...
This is the area where Frye, after a few days in Leningrad and Moscow, spent most of his time in the U.S.S.R. He visited the universities of Samarkand, Uzbekistan, and Tashkent, even attending classes in the latter institution. But most of the time he traveled just as a tourist, seeing people at their jobs and talking to them whenever possible. Traveling alone, without guide or interpreter, the Russian-speaking scholar journeyed with as much freedom as he would have had in the United States...
Neither Berman, who speaks fluent Russian, nor Frye, conversant as well in Uzbek, was easily recognized as a foreigner. On more than one occasion Berman was asked for street directions in Moscow, and Frye acted frequently as an interpreter. Once at a bazaar in Uzbekistan he translated for an Uzbek and a Muscovite, neither of whom could understand the other...