Word: volga
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...distributed and inevitably some voices proved less fortunate standing alone than others. One baritone in particular had egregious difficulties with intonation, singing either sharp or totally out of tune. Nonetheless he more than redeemed himself in Akh, Ty Step Shirokaja, that emotionally charged and typically Russian hymn to the Volga River. By and large the soloists were excellent and served less to highlight particular individuals than to underscore the power and expertise of the group as a whole...
...when the long thrust of Hitler's armies into Russia was halted and reversed. This week the 720,000 people of Volgograd-as Stalingrad was renamed in 1961 during Khrushchev's destalinization campaign-mark the 25th anniversary of the end of the furious battle on the Volga's west bank, in which about 300,000 soldiers and civilians lost their lives. For its commemoration, the city has a statue of a bosomy Mother Russia waving a sword, which rises 170 feet above the Mamaev Hill, where some of the fiercest fighting raged. Farther down the hill...
...Europe and more than 700 miles into Russia when his elite Sixth Army and panzer units were sent to take Stalingrad in August 1942. As squadrons of Luftwaffe dive bombers darkened the skies above, German troops surged into the city and, toward the north, broke through to the Volga. But Stalin had issued a grim order: "Not one step backward." With their backs to the river's edge, the Russians dug in determinedly. They fought the invaders in the streets, factories and cellars for each foot of land, bombarded them from across the river with mortars. A few tied...
Making statements about Leo Tolstoy is like pouring a fifth of vodka into the Volga. Academic theses, the complex configurations of criticism, even psychology's intimate probes are quickly engulfed by Tolstoy's turbulent, enigmatic genius...
These are minor woes compared with the ones that the government will face when the new Tolyati Fiat plant in the Middle Volga region is completed in 1969. Right now there are only about 1,000,000 cars in Russia, and only 75,000 in Moscow, a city of 6,500,000 people. Moscow has only eight filling stations and Leningrad just three. Yet the Fiat plant, for which the Italians are providing equipment and technical advice, will produce some 600,000 cars a year by the early 1970s-more than triple the present Soviet output. Mechanics of the Soviet...