Word: nijni
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Russian journalist's deferential request for a farewell statement, she flippantly answered: "There are no roads after Nijni Novgorod [ancient commercial fair city] for the next 5,600 miles, but the tracks the peasants use are often better than the Russian roads and there are bridges over most of the rivers...
President Rykov, aged 53, is a former Vice Chairman of the Council of Commissars and head of the S. C. N. E. Born at Nijni Novgorod of peasant parents, he early forsook the land and managed to give himself a university education. Unlike most Bolsheviki, he has not been much abroad; like most Bolsheviki, he has served terms of imprisonment, has been an exile in Siberia. In 1899 he joined the Social Democrat Party, before it split into Bolshevik and Menshevik factions, actively plotted against the Tsar...