Word: yaroslavl
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This was clearly not what Boris Yeltsin expected. On May 3, a bright and unseasonably warm day, the President of Russia traveled about 160 miles northeast of Moscow to Yaroslavl, an industrial city known as part of the "golden ring" of ancient fortified towns that formed the historic heart of Russia. Before the 10-hour tour, Yeltsin's campaign handlers described Yaroslavl as "one of the nation's most stable" places, code for an area presumed sympathetic to Yeltsin. Yaroslavl was the first town outside the capital that he visited after the unsuccessful 1993 rebellion failed to dislodge him from...
...Crimson (7-5-1 overall, 5-3-1 Ivy) has already battled up in Fairbanks, Alaska and hosted a travelling Russian squad from Yaroslavl...
After all, how many people know where Fairbanks, Yaroslavl, Canton and Potsdam are located...
...Harvard hockey took on Torpedo Yaroslavl anyway, one of the best teams in Russia's premier hockey league...
Their size? Torpedo has one player over 190 pounds--its goalie! Without any size, Torpedo Yaroslavl had to be precise with passing, exquisite with its breakouts, and more than perfect in its shot selection...