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8 unusual facts about Pravda


General line of the party

Once the Central Committee formulated a statement about the party line on a particular issue, it was republished in major newspapers, such as Pravda.

Kalinin K-7

The existence of the aircraft had only recently been announced by Pravda which declared it was " victory of the utmost political importance" since it had been built with steel produced in the USSR rather than imported.

Kalininsko-Solntsevskaya Line

In 1984 Solntsevo became part of Moscow, and as a result of the over-congested center, Burdakov published an article in Pravda where he proposed a set of lines that would bypass the city center and the Koltsevaya Line.

Leonid Steele

In addition, his paintings and his story were featured in numerous top Soviet mass media publications - such as Ogoniok, Rabotnitsa, Pravda, Izvestia, Sovetskaya Kultura, Smena, and Ukraina - as well as a variety of regional and local newspapers, radio programs and TV shows.

Lev Chernyi

Twelve Communists were killed and fifty-five others were wounded, including eminent Bolshevik theorist and Pravda editor Nikolai Bukharin.

Political censorship

Pravda, the predominant newspaper in the Soviet Union, had a near-monopoly.

Pravda

The Communist Party of the Russian Federation, which gained new ground in Russia after the 1996 Duma elections, finally purchased Pravda.

Strogino–Mitino extension

Owing to the disadvantages of the over-congested centre, initially in 1984 I.Burdakov published an article in Pravda where he proposed a set of chordial and semi-chordial lines that would bypass the city centre and the Koltsevaya Line, or at least have some of the transfers outside the ring, which applies to the latter group and the Lyublinskaya Line was a result of this.


14098 Šimek

The asteroid was discovered on August 24, 1997 by A. Galád and A. Pravda at Modra, Slovakia.

Chegemskaya Pravda

The direct motivation for the threat was said to be the critical article Беспрограммная любовь (Love without programme) published on 3 February in Chegemskaya Pravda about the congress of United Abkhazia held on 27 January.

Ernst Kolman

In July–August 1936, Nikolai Luzin was criticised in Pravda in a series of anonymous articles, whose authorship later was attributed to Kolman.

Kazakhskaya Pravda

In 1998, an article in the newspaper Karavan accused Aimbetov of using his paper as a platform to publish antisemitic materials; Kazakhskaya Pravda filed suit against Karavan in response and won 260,000 in compensation.

Letter of Forty-Two

Communist Pravda reacted by publishing a letter of three renowned Soviet dissidents – Andrey Sinyavsky, Vladimir Maksimov and Pyotr Abovin-Yegides – calling for Boris Yeltsin's immediate resignation.

Lunar space elevator

The idea of space elevators has been around since 1960 when Yuri Artsutanov wrote a Sunday supplement to Pravda on how to build such a structure and the utility of geosynchronous orbit.

Maria Osten

The boy is adopted by a Soviet journalist for Pravda, Mikhail Koltsov, and his partner, the German journalist Maria Osten, who took the boy in 1935 to the Soviet Union.

Mikhail Rojter

From the late 1950s he travelled extensively in the USSR, as a special correspondent for the Pravda, Komsomolskaya Pravda and Literaturnaya Gazeta newspapers, and the journals Ogonyok and Yunost, documenting these trips with drawings and prints of the Bratsk and Krasnoyarsk hydropower plants, the industrial Urals, the oil fields of Baku, and the Moskvich car factory in Moscow.

Pavel Postyshev

A letter from Postyshev published in Pravda on December 28, 1935 calls for the installation of New Year trees in schools, children's homes, Young Pioneer Palaces, children's clubs, children's theaters and cinemas.

Revolutionary Catalonia

Pravda and the American communist Daily Worker claimed that Trotskyists and Fascists were behind the uprising.

Žeravé znamenie osudu

"Pravda víťazí" is featured in the 2005 horror film Hostel, directed by Eli Roth.


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