Word: orenburg
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...Malenkov's parental and class origins hardly anything is known. He was born on Jan. 8, 1902 in Orenburg, since renamed Chkalov in honor of the famed Soviet flyer who in 1937 hopped over the North Pole to the U.S.* His father was presumably a Cossack subaltern. Orenburg, on the southern flank of the Urals, where Europe meets Asia, was in those days a terminal for camel caravans from Turkestan. It also had the reputation of being a restless, independent place. The Cossacks and peasants of the Orenburg region had mounted one of the most troublesome popular uprisings...
...uprising of 1917-18 came to Orenburg while Malenkov was a pupil at the local high school. He cut his classes, joined the Bolshevik army, fought in bitter campaigns against the local anti-Bolshevik forces of Ataman (Chief) Alexander Dutov. At 18, Georgy Malenkov joined the party, was assigned as politruk, i.e., political commissar, to a Red army battalion. He was an effective indoctrinator, kept a keen check on the loyalty of his men. Within three years he moved up to be commissar for a regiment, then for a brigade, and finally for the whole "Eastern and Turkestan Fronts...
Georgy Malenkov, son of an Orenburg Cossack. He became Stalin's personal secretary after a chance meeting with the boss in 1925. Now a Politburo member, he is one of the four most powerful men in the U.S.S.R...