Word: vladimirovich
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Died. Boris Vladimirovich Asafiev, 64, Stalin Prizewinning Soviet musicologist and composer (his work is little known outside Russia), chairman of the powerful Union of Soviet Composers (to which Prokofiev and Shostakovich apologized last year for their "bourgeois, antidemocratic" music); in Moscow...
...misanthropic robot. He is blunt, aloof, without imagination, without the right (or apparently the will) to independent thought. He refers every decision to Moscow. His diplomacy consists in executing Moscow's will to the letter, to the accompaniment of paraphrased Pravda editorials. He is assisted by Physics Professor Dmitri Vladimirovich Skobeltsin (Atomic Energy), Economist Alexander P. Morozov (ECOSOC) and Lieut. General Alexander P. Vasiliev (Military Staff Committee). Gromyko works as hard as any man on his team. "Oh," says Mme. Gromyko with a nice sense for the hierarchy of toil, "Andrei does work hard, yet not as hard...
...Vassily Vladimirovich Khomyak was in charge of the special agency set up by the Ukrainian Government to handle the distribution of UNRRA supplies. Vassily is a wiry little man with a tired, wizened face and instinctively gentle manners. His expression ordinarily was one of harassed patience. I never once saw him lose his temper, in spite of maddening and innumerable provocations. When they became unendurable, he would merely sigh, run his fingers through his rumpled tussock of greying hair and grit his stainless steel teeth. (That's the usual material for bridgework in the U.S.S.R. because of the shortage...
Thus last week, by a simple roll-call vote, did Sergei Vladimirovich Simansky (Alexei), 67, become the 13th Patriarch of the Holy Orthodox Eastern Catholic and Apostolic Church. This week he was crowned in the illuminated forest which arc lights and laurel decorations had made of Bogoyavlensk Cathedral. Unseen silver bells tinkled, rose to full tones as the Patriarch entered, wearing a white veil and miter, and a green silk robe with white and red stripes and golden cords over the shoulders. With the end of the elaborate service, Alexei's religious authority over 100,000,000 souls became...
Between 1921 and last week Samara had been renamed Kuibyshev, after Valerian Vladimirovich Kuibyshev, who was head of the State Planning Commission and prime mover of the First Five-Year Plan when he died in 1935. The city had been refurbished, as the junction of important railroads joining Moscow, the Donets Basin and Siberia, as the location of an armature and carburetor factory famous throughout the U.S.S.R., as a cultural center with seven colleges, 18 technical schools, six scientific research institutes, six repertory theaters...