Word: krasnoyarsk
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...count, 450 harvesters in three Novosibirsk districts alone are laid up at present for want of parts. Krokodil, the satirical weekly, recently ran a cartoon showing a farm worker running a lottery to get a spare part for his thresher. Pravda complained that harvesters manufactured at the Krasnoyarsk plant in Siberia are so sloppily assembled that more than half have to be fixed at farm repair shops...
...great rivers, all flowing north into the Arctic Ocean, may one day provide hydroelectric power across the Bering Strait for Canada and the U.S. It is not so wild a dream. Already the Russians have built the world's largest dams on the Yenisei and Angara rivers at Krasnoyarsk and Bratsk, and a third one is going up at Ust-Ilimsk (see map page 39). The riches of Siberia may well figure largely in China's border dispute with the Soviet Union. Other governments, including the U.S. and Japan, are also eying Siberia's resources for commercial...
...Magnitogorsk has been swallowed in the furnaces, and ore now comes from mines far away. A thousand miles deeper into Siberia is the Kuznetsk basin, where it is planned to produce 80 million tons of coal a year by 1960. Around Kuznetsk, in fast-growing industrial cities -Novosibirsk, Kemerovo, Krasnoyarsk, and at Karaganda some way to the southwest-are new steel mills, blast furnaces and aluminum plants, with auxiliary industries proliferating...
...seem like a pyramid in which power rises from the grass roots up through local and regional committees to the top. The West, on the other hand, usually sees the party as a "monolith," in which Stalin has only to crook his little finger to produce a purge in Krasnoyarsk. The Russian version is nonsense, but the Western idea is not quite right either. The party is in fact a highly complex mechanism which must be kept well oiled if Stalin's finger is to have the desired effect in Krasnoyarsk or anywhere else. There is evidence that since...
...record: 2,061 miles, set by two Russians on a flight from Moscow to Krasnoyarsk...