Word: nikolayev
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...late 1934, Leonid Nikolayev, a disgruntled ex-Bolshevik, showed up outside the Smolny Institute in Leningrad, where Kirov's office was located. Nikolayev was arrested, probably because he looked suspicious. He was searched and found to be carrying a gun. Yet he was set free. The only conclusion is that he was released on orders from higher-ups in the same organization who had sent him to commit a terrorist act. A short time afterward, Nikolayev penetrated Smolny and shot Kirov as he was coming up the stairway. Kirov's bodyguard had lagged behind...
Cosmonaut Valentina Tereshkova, who in 1963 became the first woman in space, was sick for most of her three days in or bit, and is reported to have panicked when she became ill. In 1970 her husband Andrian Nikolayev was one of two cosmonauts who set an 18-day space endurance record, in a craft that they could not stop from rotating, sometimes as often as one turn every six seconds. As a result, the cosmonauts on their return to earth had to be lifted from their couches and carried to an ambulance. The first Soviet space mission fatality occurred...
...doctor, at least, knew where he was. By now the Marines had set up a roadblock at the coastal bridge leading into Queen's Park. A Soviet diplomat who found himself there seemed less sure than the doctor of his whereabouts. Boris Nikolayev, who described himself as an economic counselor, stood with a letter in hand. He was visibly nervous. He leaned against his shiny black Mercedes-Benz with an aide, waving the letter he wished to deliver to the head of the country, whoever that was. One Soviet embassy official had been wounded. "It was not direct shooting...
...apparently part of a Soviet effort to develop long-distance, over-the-horizon radar. Its signal, which pulses ten times a second, is four times more powerful than the most potent civilian radio stations; sometimes it is augmented by a smaller transmitter near the Black Sea town of Nikolayev...
...West with the capability and reach of Soviet forces. One fallout from the first Okean exercise, for instance, was the decision to upgrade the Soviet carrier forces. Their third and most sophisticated carrier, the 35,000-ton Kiev, is now outfitting in the Black Sea port of Nikolayev and will undergo sea trials this summer...