Word: volgas
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...broad boulevard that leads to the Kremlin. There, Western diplomats last week were atwitter over the reappearance of a morning-and-evening official convoy that has not been seen for nearly four months: two black ZIL limousines, the sort reserved for the Soviet elite, protected front and rear by Volga security sedans. Atop one of the ZILs were red and blue lights, apparently an indication that Andropov was inside. He has not been seen in public since Aug. 18, a protracted absence that has been unconvincingly explained as the result of a "severe cold" and has led to widespread speculation...
...elderly woman wearing a mobcap carries a yoke on her shoulders, with buckets of water hanging on each end. She is returning to her home, a wooden cabin with no running water, in a village not far from Pomary, an obscure rail siding on the banks of the Volga River, 400 miles east of Moscow. Along the way, she encounters brightly colored blue-and-yellow bulldozers and pipelaying machines...
Horror on the Volga River...
...last light of evening still glowed on the Volga River, but few passengers aboard the cruise ship Alexander Suvorov were paying much attention. Most of the travelers had crowded into a large room on the uppermost deck to watch a movie. They never saw the end. While navigating a narrow channel near Ulyanovsk (pop. 650,000), the river port 425 miles east of Moscow where Lenin was born, the vessel apparently rammed into a railroad bridge with such force that the entire top section of the boat was sheared off. The number of casualties is still not certain...
...casualty figures. The following day, however, a representative from Intourist, the state travel agency, provided a few unofficial details. He speculated that the ship's pilot may have steered the boat off course or misjudged how much room he had to maneuver because the water level of the Volga was higher than usual. The official put the death toll at 170 and added that no foreigners were killed...