Word: vnukovo
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...other hand, the line's big-city strips are long and smooth, and the terminals abound with electronic landing equipment, radar and comforts for passengers. Moscow's Victorian-style Vnukovo Airport compares with some of the best in the West, houses a transient hotel and a nursery with toys and cots for the tots...
...Saturday his TU-104 brought him back to Moscow's Vnukovo Airport, where Marshal Malinovsky and other armed forces officials-but no high-ranking Communists-were on hand to meet him. Six hours later TASS issued its bulletin. Fifty minutes after that Radio Moscow broadcast the report as the 15th item in its evening news program...
...Kadar saw Moscow, back in January, he was sneaked into town. Last week, his country more firmly under his Russian-controlled thumb, Janos Kadar visited Moscow again, and this time his hosts felt they could safely pass him off as a leader of the people. At icy, flag-draped Vnukovo airport, Kadar was met by Soviet Russia's fur-collared elite, including Bulganin...
...gleaming Douglas C-118 (DC-6) transport had no sooner touched down at Moscow's Vnukovo Airport than U.S. Air Force Chief of Staff Nathan F. Twining smacked up against newsmen's questions about the "political" significance of his visit. Said General Twining, who had journeyed to Moscow at the invitation of Soviet leaders (TIME, June 11): "I am not in the political business." He had, he said, flown to the Communist heartland to "see their equipment and their latest developments." This week Nate Twining attended the vaunted Soviet Aviation Day flyover-and saw precious little...
...Moscow's Vnukovo Airport one day last fortnight, five bearded Russian Orthodox prelates waited nervously for the plane from Prague. Aboard it were the latest emissaries from the West: nine U.S. Protestant churchmen representing the National Council of Churches. The Americans, in Russia for ten days of talk with Russian churchmen, were whisked off to lush quarters in the Sovietskaya Hotel, taken that night to The Bronze Horseman ballet at the Bolshoi Theater. Since, for the Americans, it was Lent, and Sunday at that, they seemed a little discomfited. "When in Rome," said one wryly, "do as the Romans...