Word: altai
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...many millions of poods (one pood equals 36.113 pounds); for example, "the amounts of grain delivered and sold to the state are greater by 289,000,000 poods than on the same date in 1953." . . . the grain harvest in Siberia was double that of last year . . . . grain production in Altai Territory this year has grown almost four-fold...
...Komsomoltsy of the Yaroslavl locomotive roundhouse proudly reported that they had already reached their production goals for 1948 and were taking on more. Comrade Ilichev, secretary of the Altai committee of the Komsomol, was in dutch because there had been a drop in membership in his area, and the secretary of another group, in Barnaul, Siberia, had just had his knuckles rapped for organizing a bourgeois kissing game of postoffice one evening. On the whole, however, the jubilee tone was one of Soviet satisfaction. Moscow announced that the Komsomol (for youths 15 to 25) now numbered 9,000,000 members...
Last week excited Soviet archeologists were studying a burial mound recently found in the Altai mountains near the boundary of Outer Mongolia. The mound showed a vivid glimpse of how the barbaric nomads buried an honored young woman some 2,000 years ago. Through the short summers of the Altai, the frozen tomb had preserved all its contents as if in a giant deepfreeze...
Prodigious Apple. Alma-Ata is a beautiful city amid the snow-capped Altai Mountains. This capital of the Kazak Republic is nearer Chungking than Moscow. It has 400,000 population (40,000 in 1925), was not reached by the railroad until...
...Russian scientist chopped through 50 feet of ice in the Altai mountains of Siberia, uncovered a log stable hewn by Bronze Age axes. In the stable were the well-preserved bodies of ten horses, saddled and bridled...