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Military academy. The theoretical physicist became now a combatant officer. He served in the anti-aircraft artillery along Moscow’s military lines for 4 years.
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A major European river which flows through Russia, Belarus, and Ukraine to the Black Sea.
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Literally The “Small” Theater, one of the famous Moscow drama theaters.
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N.I. Ryzhov (1900–1986) was an actor who mostly performed in The Maly Theater.
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F.E. Dzerzhinsky Artillery Academy of the Red Army was formed in 1932 in Leningrad from The Military Technical Academy, a descendant of The Mikhaylovskaya Artillery Academy of Russian Empire. The Dzerzhinsky Artillery Academy had a Moscow branch since 1938. Presently, The Dzerzhinsky Military Academy of Rocket Forces.
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The capital of Uzbekistan, then a Soviet Socialist Republic.
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From “self-synchronizing,” aka “synchro” is used for electromagnetic synchronization of rotating parts without mechanical contacts.
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Melitopol is a small city in south-eastern Ukraine.
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This stands for the High Military School of Air Defense Forces, formed in 1941 within the Frunze Military Academy. Later, it was known as Marshal Govorov Air Defense and Radio Engineering Academy.
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M.V. Frunze (1885–1925) was a Bolshevik leader during the October Revolution, allegedly murdered on the order of Stalin.
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B.K. Kolchigin (1895–1976) was a Russian and Soviet military leader.
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G.M. Koblents (1894–1991) was a Russian and Soviet military leader.
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A Russian city, about 400 miles south-east of Moscow.
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The author uses the word dedovshchina, the subjection of junior conscripts to brutalization by the last year’s conscripts, an informal practice.
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Currently Volgograd, a major city on the western bank of Volga River, was named Stalingrad after Joseph Stalin in 1925–1961. In World War II, during the battle for Stalingrad, the city became famous.
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A political officer.
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The author uses the word mat, the strongest form of obscene profanity.
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West-southwest of Moscow, close to the MKAD, a ring road encircling the City of Moscow.
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Moskva river.
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M.I. Kalinin (1875–1946) was a revolutionary and the Head of State of the Soviet Union from 1919 to 1946.
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N.A. Bulganin (1895–1975) was a Soviet politician and a member of the State Committee of Defense during the war.
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SMERSH, an acronym (Russian: Смерть Шпионам, English: Death to Spies) were the counter-intelligence departments in the Soviet Army, formed during the war.
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The largest Soviet and Russian airline.
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Here Landau Institute for Theoretical Physics.
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In Soviet times the distribution of such tickets was heavily controlled.
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The Wehrmacht was the name for the armed forces of Germany during the World War II.
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Soviet era name of Nizhny Novgorod. The mentioned cities are situated northeast and east of Moscow, while the battlefront was west of it.
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Russian cities south of Moscow.
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Goznak—Russian and Soviet State Mint.
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18–25 miles.
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A.A. Baykov (1870–1946) was a metallurgist and chemist.
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N.N. Voronov (1899–1968) was a Soviet military leader, Chief Marshal of Artillery during the war.
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One of Stalin maxims.
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In Russia, this is September 3rd, 1945.
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The acronym IPP below stands for the Institute for Physical Problems.
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Khalatnikov, I.M. (2012). The War. In: From the Atomic Bomb to the Landau Institute. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-27561-6_2
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