Word: krasnoyarsk
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...will strongly protest alleged Soviet violations of existing arms- control treaties. In particular, Shultz was supposed to tell Gromyko that the giant radar station the Soviets are building near Krasnoyarsk in Siberia is "a dagger pointed at the heart of arms control." The U.S. considers the installation to be a step toward development of a nationwide system of antiballistic-missile defenses forbidden by a 1972 treaty. An Administration official elaborated that the U.S. must be assured of Moscow's compliance with past treaties if it is to have any "confidence we can conclude a satisfactory agreement in the future...
...Soviets have a vigorous ABM research program of their own, including work on technologies like laser beams. Their radar at Krasnoyarsk could very well turn out to be part of an ABM network. They are poised on the starting line - and perhaps ready to jump the gun - if the U.S. seems committed to a space race...
...boyhood: I was born into a large and poor peasant family in the Krasnoyarsk region of Siberia in 1911. I lost my mother when I was a young boy. At twelve I went to work for a wealthy master to earn my living. New Soviet life was just coming into its own, and I felt its fresh winds when I had joined the Young Communist League. That was back in 1926. We studied and held down our jobs at the same time. We were underfed and poorly clothed, but the dream of a radiant future for all fascinated...
Born to a Russian peasant family in the Krasnoyarsk region of Siberia, Chernenko was trained as a party propagandist. After a meeting in postwar Moldavia with Brezhnev, then local party boss, Chernenko was brought to Moscow in 1956. By the time Brezhnev took over the party in 1964, he had made Chernenko his chief of staff. Chernenko arranged Brezhnev's appointment schedule and kept close watch on the daily operation of the party bureaucracy...
...Metallurgy Institute in Irkutsk. Sent to the mining-smelting plant in the northern Siberian city of Norilsk in 1958, he won high marks in the Kremlin for his skill in coordinating industrial development in the severe Arctic environment. Dolgikh was appointed party boss of his home base, the Krasnoyarsk region, in 1969, reportedly at the direct behest of Brezhnev. Three years later he was named a Central Committee secretary and has managed heavy industry for the party since...