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Sverdlovsk may refer to:
- Sverdlovsk, name of the city of Yekaterinburg, Russia, from 1924 to 1991
- Sverdlovsk, Ukraine, a town in Ukraine
- Sverdlovsk Raion, raion in Ukraine
- Sverdlovsk Oblast, a federal subject of Russia
Usage examples of "sverdlovsk".
As I rose higher in The System, I applied some of the lessons of Sverdlovsk to the plants under my control.
Compound 19, the biological arms production facility in Sverdlovsk, scribbled a quick note for his supervisor before going home.
The scientist who was working in the Sverdlovsk facility at the time told me the death toll was 105, but we will probably never know for sure.
Yefim Smirnov, commander of the Fifteenth Directorate, flew to Sverdlovsk a week after the incident.
Since World War II, Sverdlovsk, renamed after an early Bolshevik leader, had been the heart of the Soviet military-industrial complex, turning out tanks, nuclear rockets, and other armaments as well as biological weapons.
The Communist Party chairman of Sverdlovsk at the time of the accident was Boris Yeltsin, the first leader of post-Soviet Russia.
As Party chief of Sverdlovsk, he had carried out a Kremlin order to bulldoze the house where Czar Nicholas II and his family had been murdered in 1918.
Ukrainian nuclear plant, but just as the Chernobyl disaster alerted the world to our questionable management of nuclear power, Sverdlovsk was a grim warning of the dangers of our secret science.
I ran into another veteran of Sverdlovsk, Lieutenant Colonel Boris Kozhevnikov.
Pyotr Burgasov, who led the original Ministry of Health team into Sverdlovsk, headed the delegation.
Before the Sverdlovsk accident, most people ignored such minor security precautions, but the regulation was there to be enforced, and I had landed my superiors in a mess.
The contingent from Sverdlovsk, which included the unfortunate Nikolai Chernyshov, helped us achieve a breakthrough in developing the most effective anthrax weapon ever produced.
When he reported success, Moscow finally took Sverdlovsk Compound 19 off the roster of anthrax production plants.
He had slept deeply on the five-hour shuttle Aeroflot Tupolev from Novosibirsk, via Sverdlovsk, Perm, Kirov and Vologda - but a sleep interrupted when he was jerked out of unconsciousness each time the plane landed.
He had asked Dasha to come with him to Sverdlovsk on the other side of the Urals, but Dasha had refused, finding work instead with Mama at the uniform factory.