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  • We visited great cities and power facilities, including Sverdlovsk where the U-2 was brought down, and impressive industrial centres in European Russia and the Ukraine such as Kuibyshev, Stalingrad-whose heroic defence against the German invader will still be fresh in your minds and which was 95 per cent obliterated-Stalino, Kharkov, and, of course, Leningrad and Moscow.

    The Formidable Reality of Khrushchev's Russia 1960

  • About 1½ miles from shore in the broad Kuibyshev reservoir along the Volga, the ship hit a heavy thunderstorm with high waves, officials said.

    Russia Ship Disaster Sparks Call for Probe Gregory L. White 2011

  • Much of the Soviet government, along with foreign diplomats and journalists, had just been evacuated by rail to Kuibyshev, the Volga city about 600 miles away that was supposed to serve as the new base for the government once the capital fell.

    Stalin’s Tipping Point 2007

  • The Soviet government transferred its headquarters to Kuibyshev.

    6. The Campaigns in the Soviet Union, 1941-1944 2001

  • 'Kuibyshev, take your men into the yard and stake out the perimeter and leave two men guarding that door!'

    Quiller Meridian Hall, Adam 1993

  • After finishing secondary school in 1941 in Voronezh Basov was called up for military service and directed to the Kuibyshev

    Nicolay G. Basov - Biography 1972

  • The news that government offices were being transferred to Kuibyshev prompted a mass flight by all those who were capable of movement.

    Barbarossa Clark, Alan 1965

  • They only found out it was Egyptian after we'd bombed Leningrad and Odessa and the nuclear establishments at Kharkov, Kuibyshev, and Molotov.

    On The Beach Shute, Nevil, 1899-1960 1957

  • The government moved to Kuibyshev, on the Volga, and Moscow prepared to fight for its life.

    The Story of World War II Donald L. Miller 1945

  • The government moved to Kuibyshev, on the Volga, and Moscow prepared to fight for its life.

    The Story of World War II Donald L. Miller 1945

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