Surov

Today, all the world knows the history of 'Surov's cactus', as it was inevitably if quite inaccurately christened, and it has lost much of its wonder.

Of Time and Stars Clarke, Arthur C. 1972

Yuri Surov, a 41-year-old translator who has been in Canada since 2003, has begun to hear from friends in Moscow asking for advice on emigrating.

Russians protest by emigrating, not demonstrating 2011

Yuri Surov, a 41-year-old translator who has been in Canada since 2003, has begun to hear from friends in Moscow asking for advice on emigrating.

Russians protest by emigrating, not demonstrating 2011

During the next two months, my men often spotted Surov making his lone way over the landscape, but he always avoided them if they got too near.

Of Time and Stars Clarke, Arthur C. 1972

The president of the U.S.S.R. Academy of Science was one of the leading proponents of this theory, and being too old to make the trip himself had done the next best thing by sending Surov.

Of Time and Stars Clarke, Arthur C. 1972

The tiny airtight greenhouses inside which Surov grew his vegetables and dwarf fruit trees were an oasis upon which we often feasted our eyes when we had grown tired of the immense desolation surrounding us.

Of Time and Stars Clarke, Arthur C. 1972

But that revelation still lay in the future; at the time of the first landing, it seemed that Surov had come to the moon in vain.

Of Time and Stars Clarke, Arthur C. 1972

If Surov designed this plant for lunar conditions, how would he arrange for it to propagate itself?

Of Time and Stars Clarke, Arthur C. 1972

But I couldn't find out what Surov was up to, though I never dreamed that his commander was equally in the dark.

Of Time and Stars Clarke, Arthur C. 1972

Perhaps it is because of this that I can remember all my trips outside so vividly; certainly I can recall my only encounter with Surov.

Of Time and Stars Clarke, Arthur C. 1972