Word: vasilievich
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Died. Alexander Vasilievich Vishnevsky, 74, leading Soviet surgeon, holder of the Stalin Prize (for brilliant work in the treatment of wounds and shock) and the Order of Lenin; in Moscow...
...Moscow's trade union paper Trud took a tuck in the tail of his kite. Said Trud, in effect: Ben was just wasting his time in that thunderstorm, back in 1752. He could have saved himself trouble and danger* by dropping a postcard to St. Petersburg where Mikhail Vasilievich Lomonosov had proved, a year before, that lightning is electricity...
Most people believe that Western genius, for better or for worse, created the humming miracles of modern technology and science. But Moscow tells its children that that is just capitalist propaganda: Mother Russia really did it all. On "Radio Day" last week, Communications Industry Minister Gennady Vasilievich Alexenko patiently repeated that the man who first developed radio (in the year 1895) was Alexander Popov of St. Petersburg. (Popov had thought up radar, too.) And what of the world's acclaim for Italian Inventor Guglielmo Marconi? Said Moscow: "Sham laurels...
...naval officer, Alexander Mozhaisky. The first jet plane was designed by Nikolai Kibalchich, a terrorist, while he awaited execution, in 1881, for his part in the assassination of Czar Alexander II. It was Vyacheslav Manassein who discovered penicillin, 75 years ahead of Britain's Alexander Fleming, and Leonid Vasilievich Sobolev who discovered insulin, 21 years ahead of Canada's Frederick Banting...
Very few Americans knew his name or were aware that Nikolai Vasilievich Novikov had been, for the last 19 months, the Soviet Ambassador to the U.S. Very few Americans knew that he had been called to Moscow in July for consultation and had not been back since. Very few Americans noticed that, last week, Ambassador Novikov had been relieved of his duties. His mission to Washington - whatever it was, and however well he had done it - was over. His successor: Alexander Semyenovich Panyushkin...