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In his letters to Peter I, Nartov wrote that nowhere in Europe could he find lathe masters comparable to Russian ones. On his way back to Russia, he taught lathe-working to the Prussian King Friedrich Wilhelm I. After the death of Peter I in 1725 Nartov went to work at the Moscow Mint, where he supervised modernisation of the machinery. In 1727 ...
John Scott (1912–1976) was an American writer. He spent about a decade in the Soviet Union from 1932 to 1941. His best-known book, Behind the Urals: An American Worker in Russia's City of Steel, [1] is a memoir of that experience.
Pavel Loukianoff was born in San Francisco, California, on August 9, 1948, into an ethnic Russian family of Don Cossack ancestry, [1] who escaped to China after the Russian Revolution, and in the 1940s to the US after the Communist takeover. There he studied at the Ss. Cyril and Methodius Russian Church gymnasia and school.
The fire began in the dynamite magazine and burned the wooden dormitory that housed the tunnel workers. 46 workers survived the fire by jumping into the lake and climbing onto ice floes or the spoil heap near the crib. 29 men were burned beyond recognition, and approximately 60 men died. Most of the remainder drowned or froze to death in the ...
Vladimir Vladimirovich Ipatieff, also a talented chemist, remained in the USSR and was punitively arrested after the defection of his father. While living in the USA, the Ipatieffs also adopted two Russian girls. Ipatieff died suddenly in Chicago in 1952. He held over 200 patents and published over 300 research papers. [3]
He was born in 1889 in Kishinev, in the Russian Empire (the present-day capital of the Republic of Moldova). He and his older sister, Olga Averbuch, survived the Kishinev pogrom. [8] Averbuch followed his sister to Chicago, Illinois, immigrating a year after her [9] and arriving in late 1907. [10]
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Andriacchi was identified in a 1995 Chicago Tribune article as being an underboss for day-to-day operations for the Chicago Outfit. [5] In 1997, the Chicago Sun-Times reported that Andriacchi was "at the top of the Outfit's new organizational chart," identifying Andriacchi as a reported longtime lieutenant of Chicago Outfit kingpin John ...