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    Mironovich Kirov (born Kostrikov; 27 March 1886 – 1 December 1934) was a Russian and Soviet politician and Bolshevik revolutionary. Kirov was an early...
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    The Kirov Plant, Kirov Factory or Leningrad Kirov Plant (LKZ) (Russian: Кировский завод, romanized: Kirovskiy zavod) is a major Russian mechanical engineering...
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    incomplete to Vladivostok for fitting-out. Kirov was commissioned into the Baltic Fleet in the autumn of 1938, but was still being worked on into early...
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    26 September 1938. She was commissioned into the Baltic Fleet in the autumn of 1938, but was still being worked on into early 1939. Kirov sailed to Riga...
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    Great Purge (category 1938 in the Soviet Union)
    Killed Kirov? 'The Crime of the Century'". www.wilsoncenter.org. Retrieved 3 December 2021. People's Comissariat of Justice of the U.S.S.R. (1938). Anti-Soviet...
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  • (1968) Orchestra: Symphony No. 1 "To the Memory of Kirov" (1938; premiere Moscow, 28 November 1938) Symphony No. 2 (1945; received Stalin Prize) Georgian...
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  • 1 [nl], Op. 5 (1916) Vano Muradeli Symphony No. 1 "To the Memory of Kirov" (1938) Nikolai Myaskovsky Symphony No. 7, Op. 24 [nl] (1921-2) (nominally in...
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    The Governor of Kirov Oblast (Russian: Губернатор Кировской области) is the governor of Kirov Oblast, a federal subject of Russia. The title of Governor...
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    the Kirov murder. Zaporozhets was first publicly accused of complicity in the murder of Sergei Kirov during the third Moscow Show Trial in March 1938. The...
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  • circumstances of the murder of Sergey Kirov prior to the beginning of the Great Purge, the years from 1936 to 1938. It is the third book of the trilogy...
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    Perm Oblast (category States and territories established in 1938)
    with Komi-Permyak Autonomous Okrug to form Perm Krai. It was established in 1938 as part of the RSFSR. From 1940 to 1957 it was named Molotov Oblast in honor...
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    executed in 1940, after being arrested at the end of the Great Purge in 1938. Born to a Polish worker's family in Tykocin in the Łomża Governorate of...
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    Union prior to the Second World War. It was named after Sergei Mironovich Kirov, a Communist Party official assassinated in 1934. The SMK was discovered...
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  • 17 August 1908 – Batumi, 1994) was a Soviet–Volga German politician. From 1938 to 1941, he served as the last head of government of the Volga German ASSR...
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    Romeo and Juliet (Prokofiev) (category 1938 ballet premieres)
    the Kirov Ballet to replace works based primarily on choreographic display and innovation). Following Radlov's acrimonious resignation from the Kirov in...
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  • espionage and treason. The Trial of the Twenty-One took place in Moscow in March 1938, towards the end of the Soviet Great Purge. The accused were tortured to...
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    Aleksandra Sokolovskaya (category 1938 deaths)
    of Sergei Kirov. She was last seen in a Kolyma labor camp by Nadezhda Joffe, Adolph Joffe's daughter. She was shot probably on 29 April 1938. According...
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    Vyatskiye Polyany (category Cities and towns in Kirov Oblast)
    Поля́ны) is a town in Kirov Oblast, Russia, located on the right bank of the Vyatka River, 350 kilometers (220 mi) southeast of Kirov. Population: 35,162 (2010...
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    during World War II. The L-11 was designed in 1938 by IA Makhanov of the SKB-4 design bureau at the Kirov Plant in Leningrad. It was 30.5 calibers long...
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    Nikolai Bukharin (category 1938 deaths)
    [nʲɪkɐˈlaj ɪˈvanəvʲɪt͡ɕ bʊˈxarʲɪn]; 9 October [O.S. 27 September] 1888 – 15 March 1938) was a Russian revolutionary, Soviet politician, and Marxist theorist. A...
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    Pavel Bulanov (category 1938 deaths)
    Case Summed Up April 1938 Bulgakov The Master and Margarita Novel which relates some events of his trial. Case of the murder of Kirov N.V. Petrov (Н.В.Петров)...
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    Rudolf Nureyev (category 1938 births)
    Rudolf Khametovich Nureyev (17 March 1938 – 6 January 1993) was a Soviet-born ballet dancer and choreographer. Nureyev is widely regarded as the greatest...
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  • Muza Niýazowa (category 1938 births)
    Muza Alekseýewna Niýazowa (née Melnikova; born 10 June 1938) is a Turkmen public figure who held the role of First Lady of Turkmenistan from 1991 until...
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    promoted to Leningrad party chief following the assassination of Sergei Kirov. He would go on to play a major role during the Great Purge. In 1939, he...
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    Saint Petersburg, first locomotive 1870 Briansk, Moscow, founded 1873 Kirov Plant (or Putilov), Saint Petersburg, first locomotive 1894 Kharkov Locomotive...
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  • (1885) → Bondyuzhsky (1928) → Mendeleyevsk (1967) Borovskaya Sloboda → Bor (1938) Beryozovskoye (Björkö) → Koivisto → Primorsk (1948) Chegem Pervy → Chegem...
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    Old Bolsheviks from positions of power during the Great Purge from 1936 to 1938. Purged Old Bolsheviks were condemned in a series of show trials known as...
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    were added to the SU-1-12 models. Most SU-12 units were decommissioned by 1938, but the Su-1-12 models served in the Battle of Lake Khasan, the Battles...
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  • American countries. Italian Empire 3,798,000 Includes Italian colonies. Size in 1938. Ilkhanate 3,750,000 A Khanate remnant of the Mongol Empire, lasting from...
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    police official under Joseph Stalin who was head of the NKVD from 1936 to 1938, during the height of the Great Purge. Yezhov organized mass arrests, torture...
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