Word: yaroslavl
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Russian futurists, suprematists and constructivists of the early 20th century. More than 200 experimental studio theaters have sprouted in Moscow alone. The cultural explosion has been felt as far away as the Pacific port of Nakhodka, where local artists set up a puppet theater workshop, and in Yaroslavl in the Soviet heartland, scene of a rollicking street festival celebrating the arts...
Just how all-pervasive the KGB presence can be was illustrated last November, when a dozen Pentecostalists set out from Chernogorsk, Siberia, to visit relatives living in the basement of the U.S. embassy in Moscow. On their arrival at Yaroslavl station, they were greeted by a KGB agent who claimed to work
...power to console Stalin's victims, as has been amply documented in the writings of survivors of Stalin's gigantic Gulag of prisons, camps and places of exile. A compelling example is Eugenia Ginzburg's description of solitary confinement in a maximum-security prison in Yaroslavl. A former schoolteacher and an ardent Communist, Ginzburg was arrested in 1937, like millions of other innocent citizens caught up in Stalin's Great Terror. Lying in a glacial underground punishment cell, where rats scuttled past her face, she asked herself...