Word: volgas
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...economics section of the Soviet embassy in New Delhi for the past two years, last Thursday began ordinarily enough. The Indian chauffeur took the diplomat and his wife shopping, and then began driving back to the embassy. It was noon when the driver steered the off-white, Soviet-built Volga onto Satya Marg, an expansive boulevard in the heart of the capital's exclusive Chanakyapuri diplomatic enclave...
Suddenly two men on a motorcycle appeared behind the car, and the man on the back of the bike fired a pistol through the Volga's rear window. The panic- stricken chauffeur jammed on the brakes, allowing the gunman to pump more bullets through a side window of the car. Khitrichenko was hit four times--in the head, chest, neck and wrist; less than an hour later he was pronounced dead at Lohia Hospital. His wife and the driver sustained minor injuries from flying glass...
Born on Oct. 30,1908, in Samara (now Kuibyshev), a city 550 miles southeast of Moscow on the Volga River, Ustinov was the child of working-class parents. He began his career working as a fitter in a paper mill and as a diesel mechanic and went on to study design engineering in Leningrad...
...most ambitious projects. The village's 400 residents, who earn their living from farming have seen their isolation jarred by the incessant sound of explosions, jackhammers and heavy construction equipment. Located along the pipeline's route, Pomary is not far from where the line passes under the Volga River. One of 41 compressor stations whose huge 25-megawatt turbine compressors will move the gas is also near...
...make room for one of four pipelines that converge near Pomary, an enormous gash has been cut through the forest east of the river. In the middle of the Volga a powerful dredge scoops up hundreds of tons of sand, digging the trench in which the pipeline will be laid. On the river's western bank, the completed pipeline juts up from the water and disappears into a steep, rocky ridge. Unperturbed by tl frenetic activity, fishermen walk along the pipe that has not yet been laid and cast their nets into the Volga...