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Coach Aleksandrov, not surprisingly, thinks Boginskaya has the advantage.
Gymnastics 2008
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"My word as a Russian officer, Comrade," Aleksandrov pledged, with a bob of his head.
The Bear and the Dragon Clancy, Tom, 1947- 2000
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It was a good spot, Aleksandrov thought, unless the enemy got his artillery set up sooner than expected, and he hadn't seen or heard Chinese artillery yet.
The Bear and the Dragon Clancy, Tom, 1947- 2000
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The bad part about watching them was that you had to anticipate everything they did, and that meant that they got to have more sleep, about an hour's worth, Aleksandrov figured, and no more than that only because they were predictable.
The Bear and the Dragon Clancy, Tom, 1947- 2000
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Captain Feodor Il'ych Aleksandrov commanded the 265th Motor Rifle's divisional reconnaissance element-the division was supposed to have a full battalion for this task, but he was all they had-and for that task he had eight of the new BRM reconnaissance tracks.
The Bear and the Dragon Clancy, Tom, 1947- 2000
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Aleksandrov asked the men down below in the track.
The Bear and the Dragon Clancy, Tom, 1947- 2000
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Aleksandrov was removed, so one is told, for writing a book in which Karl Marx was represented only as the greatest of philosophers, instead of someone different from and greater in kind than any philosopher — an insult, I suppose, rather similar to describing Galileo as the greatest of astrologers.
The Arts in Russia Under Stalin Berlin, Isaiah 2000
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The captain and his sergeant walked back north to their track, leaving three other scouts to keep watch on their "guests," as Aleksandrov had taken to calling them.
The Bear and the Dragon Clancy, Tom, 1947- 2000
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"Let's move, Sergeant," Aleksandrov ordered, and together they ran to their BRM for their first trek into the woods for their own third installment of frog leap backwards.
The Bear and the Dragon Clancy, Tom, 1947- 2000
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Their BRM reconnaissance track had a fine 30-mm cannon that could reach out and turn the gardener into fertilizer from a thousand meters or so, but Captain Aleksandrov had forbidden it, worse luck, Buikov thought.
The Bear and the Dragon Clancy, Tom, 1947- 2000
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