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  • A plane crash in 1950 near the Russian city of Sverdlov, now called Yekaterinburg, claimed the lives of 13 players and officials in the air force's ice hockey squad, while the Munich air crash of 1958 cost eight Manchester United players their lives.

    Russian jet crash kills 43, many top hockey stars 2011

  • The picture of Lenin and Dzerzhinsky and Sverdlov and all those wonderful people in the back, actually, were depicted on this huge portrait that was hanging in the Communist Party guest house.

    Breaking Free: A Memoir of Love 1995

  • Arkady paid his last rubles to the taxi driver and walked to Sverdlov Square just as William Kirwill came out of the Metropole Hotel carrying a suitcase to an Intourist bus.

    Gorky Park Smith, Martin Cruz, 1942- 1981

  • As Arkady pulled away from the Metropole Hotel and around Sverdlov Square he was laughing.

    Gorky Park Smith, Martin Cruz, 1942- 1981

  • He puts this knife right through the collar of my coat to my throat in Sverdlov Square and says he doesn't know what I'm talking about, but he better not see me again and Osborne better not either.

    Gorky Park Smith, Martin Cruz, 1942- 1981

  • Revolution Square opened at its north on Sverdlov Square, at its south on Red Square.

    Gorky Park Smith, Martin Cruz, 1942- 1981

  • Central Committee of the Soviets, Sverdlov, said: 'We invoke the

    The Red Conspiracy Joseph J. Mereto

  • Kameniev was stripped of his powers as president of the Tsay-ee-kah, and Sverdlov elected in his place.

    Chapter 11. The Conquest of Power 1922

  • ” After a few words of welcome from Sverdlov, Maria Spiridonova, slight, pale, with spectacles and hair drawn flatly down, and the air of a New England school-teacher, took the tribune—the most loved and the most powerful woman in all Russia.

    Chapter 12. The Peasants’ Congress 1922

  • Sverdlov, president of the Tsay-ee-kah, greeted them.

    Chapter 12. The Peasants’ Congress 1922

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