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From: igor@cs.columbia.edu (Igor Pankevich)
Subject: Re: Translation problem
Organization: Columbia University Department of Computer Science
Date: Wed, 6 Jan 1993 16:27:40 GMT

In article <1993Jan4.224440.29141@nntpd.lkg.dec.com>, seltzer@ics.enet.dec.com (Richard Seltzer) writes:
> 
> I'm just finishing translating a 350-page book, and a handful of words,
> which don't appear in any of my dictionaries, are giving me headaches.
> 
> Three refer to specific kinds of edible grain:
> poa
> elevzin

Could you please post the context for the above? The words don't seem to make
any sense..

> kogo

"Whom"

> 
> From context, another word seems to mean a platform of storage area for grain:
> kluni (plural)

No idea

> 
> One refers to part of the anatomy of a goat:
> zhigo or dzhigo


Nonono! It, I think, should be "adzhiga" - a hot sauce used in meat cooking,
originating, I think, in Georgia.


> 
> One is a proper name, refering to ancient rulers of Egypt:
> ed vocab.txt
> Mesraim (could this be a form of the name Moses?)

Metsraim - Hebrew word for "Egypt"

> 
> One refers to a surveying procedure:
> nonius

No idea

> 
> One refers to a kind of perfume:
> santal ("The queen other was heavily scented with attar of roses and santal.")

I think it should be "sandal". It is a tree an extract from parts of which were
(and, maybe are) used in parfume production.

> 
> And for this one the dictionary entry is no help:
> sal'nik

Again, please, post the context.

> The Oxford Russian-English Dictionary renders this as "1. (anat.) epiploon, 
> 2. (tech.) stuffing box, (packing) gland"
> "Epiploon" is an obscure English word that sends one on a merry chase through 
> the unabridged dictionary.  It appears to be some sort of growth attached to 
> the stomach and the colon and hanging over the small intestine.
> This word appears in two different contexts in the book I'm translating.  
> First, it is the organ of an animal (probably a ram), which an Ethiopian witch 
> doctor hangs around his neck as a charm.
> Second, it is an organ of a ram which can be used to make candles. ("Iz 
> zhirnogo baran'yego kurdyuka my bytopili salo, iz sal'nika zhe ego sdelali 
> svechi..."
> 
> Any help would be greatly appreciated.
> 
> Thank you.
> 
> Richard Seltzer  seltzer@ics.dec.com
> -- or --      ...!decwrl!ics.dec.com!seltzer
> -- or --      seltzer%ics.enet.dec.com



--Igor P.
Newsgroups: soc.culture.soviet
From: LANDSBERG@sbhep2.phy.sunysb.edu (Greg Landsberg)
Subject: Re: soc.culture.soviet, discussions, etc.
Organization: SUNY at Stony Brook
Date: Mon, 11 Jan 1993 01:33:17 GMT
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In <1993Jan10.061725.1770@math.ucla.edu> aps@sonia.math.ucla.edu writes:

> Vspominaetsya kommentarij Bitova k ego zhe romanu ``Pushkinskij dom'',
> a imenno k fraze ``...rugal poslednimi slovami Sof'yu Vlas'evnu...'':
> 	``V pis'me k drugu na vopros, kak on zhivet,
> 	  Pushkin otvechal, chto de zhivet-to on nichego, da vot
> 	  tol'ko Zhozefina Pavlovna myerznet. V kommentarii k hetomu
> 	  pis'mu skazano: ``Zh.P. - neizvestnaja znakomaja Pushkina''
> [all quotations are given from memory, sorry for possible mistakes]

Even though you  admitted that the  quotations might be  wrong, this one is
TOO wrong. In his  ``Kommentarij k  obstcheizvestnomy''  Andrej Bitov cited
the letter  written not  by Pushkin  but by Anton  Chehov.  The text of the
citation is, however, close to the original.

Cheers,

Greg
Newsgroups: soc.culture.soviet
From: dbd@urartu.sdpa.org (David Davidian)
Subject: Re: Sun & Russia
Organization: S.D.P.A. Center for Regional Studies
Date: Thu, 7 Jan 1993 03:40:41 GMT


At last October's SofTool '92 which took place in Moscow there was a firm 
selling Suns -- without any problems! They had color & monochrome SPARC IPCs
as demos. The prices he quoted were no better than here.

Across the auditorium there was a girl selling Next machines, the latest full
blown setup! I inquired as to what she felt was the best use for a Next, and
she didn't know, I asked here was she does with a Next and she said she only
runs the demo. A guy from Latvia standing next to me said, when he saw me shake
my head and speak in American English, that her function there was attract
guys like us!

-- 
David Davidian <dbd@urartu.sdpa.org> |"The massacres? Oh well! They merely  
S.D.P.A. Center for Regional Studies | amuse me!"  -Talaat Pasha, architect of 
P.O. Box 382761                      | Turkish the genocide of Armenian people. 
Cambridge, MA 02238                  | (Four Years Beneath the Crescent, p 208)
From: cmp0118@sys.uea.ac.uk (S. Green)
Newsgroups: soc.culture.soviet
Subject: HELP!
Date: 12 Jan 93 14:03:38 GMT
Organization: UEA School of Information Systems, Norwich, UK.

I'm not sure if this is the right place to post to. My apologies
if I'm looking in the wrong place.

I'm looking for the Internet address of Pyatigorsk Institut
in southern Russia. I don't suppose anybody could help?

Many thanks in advance.

S.
From: vadik@cs.umd.edu (Vadim Maslov)
Newsgroups: soc.culture.soviet
Subject: Re:    USA source for videos of Russian movies?
Date: 12 Jan 1993 21:39:28 GMT
Organization: U of Maryland, Dept. of Computer Science, Coll. Pk., MD 20742
NNTP-Posting-Host: adroit.cs.umd.edu

In article <93012.095011ICBAL@ASUACAD.BITNET> <ICBAL@ASUACAD.BITNET> writes:
>Does anyone know of a good American mail-order source for videos of Russian
>movies? English sub-titles would be nice, but not necessary.  The standard
>video catalog available in most video stores only has about a dozen titles.
>I know the Kamkin bookstore has another handful of titles.  Does anyone
>know of a good source, both of the "classics" (such as War and Peace--not the
>short dubbed version) and the more recent films?
>
>Bruce Long
>Arizona State University  icbal@asuvm.inre.asu.edu

Go to Brighton Beach, my dear. There are some video stores
selling/renting/sending sovok movies. I watched 3 to 5 recent
soviet/russian movies. They were terrible. They (directors) certainly had
a desire to produce a movie like in America, but they didn't have
technology nor guts to do it. And it's questionable whether
American movie-making ways are best to follow.

They also have some old movies and cartoons.

I can remember `Sverdlov Video' off the top of my head.
Yes, he's a grandson of the famous revolutionary.
For address take a look into Brooklyn YP or Novoye Russkoye Slovo.


Vadim Maslov.
From: STCL@MUSIC.CC.UGA.EDU (STCL000)
Newsgroups: soc.culture.soviet
Subject: Starshina, "Soviet em. jokes.," etc.
Date: 7 Jan 93 23:53:01 GMT
Organization: University of Georgia

Izvinite za vtrozenie v razgovori ob armii (ja imeju pravo -
1988-1989 sluzil v **7 parashutno-desantnom polku v .......) i za
vtorzenie v razgovor o tom kto ch'ja zhopa etc.(ja imeju v vidu temu:
Soviet res. jokes...). U menja vopros takogo plana:
Ne kazhetsja li vam gospoda chto vse eti i podobnie razgovori, ne
nesushie nikakoi smislovoi nagruzki est' prostoe i primitivnoe
projavlenie nostalgii ? Chto to est' v russkih ljudjah otlichajushee
ih ot vseh ostalnih narodov mira ( nazovite mne narod kotorii bi tak
samozabzavenno materilsja i rugalsja mezdu soboi vdalike ot Rodini).
Ot chego eta nostalgija (bolshinstvo emmigrantov ved' nenavidjat
Sojuz) ? I daze kogda zdes' vse horosho,vse ravno tak tjanet po-
materitsja, porugat'sja; ot vsei dushi, zahlebivajas'p'janjashem
oshusheniem svobodi, rezanut' krutim slovzom "velikogo  russkogo "
( primitivnaja nostalgija). Ni v koem sluchae ne hochu nikogoobidet'
etim. Prosto hochu uznat' ot chego ona eta nostalgija ?

Ponimaju chto dovolno putanno izjasnjajus',
no vse zhe...?
From: pwoles@ccat.sas.upenn.edu (Peter Wolesagle)
Newsgroups: soc.culture.soviet
Subject: Bright bilingual grad. seeks employment using Russian
Date: 6 Jan 93 05:09:00 GMT
Organization: School of Arts and Sciences, UPENN


                (Abbreviated resume)
                
                Peter L. Woleslagle
                4403 Pine St. #2R
                Philadelphia, PA 19104-3955
                (215) 222-6384
                e-mail: pwoles@ccat.sas.upenn.edu

OBJECTIVE:
        A challenging position in a corporation or organization making use of my
        Russian language skills.

EDUCATION:
        M.A. expected, University of Pennsylvania, Department of Slavic
                Languages (current)

        B.A., University of Pennsylvania, 1991.  Magna cum laude.
                Dual majors: Russian and English

PRESENT POSITIONS:
        Editorial Assistant, Slavic Review (journal)
        and Research Assistant,Perestroika Dictionary Project,
        Center for Russian and East European Studies, University of
Pennsylvania
        Responsibilities include research, translation, proofreading, editing,
        word processing.

        Freelance translator.  Worked for several clients in Philadelphia,
        including Atrun Group, Strategic Management Group, and the Wharton
        School of Business.  Work included financial, legal, biomedical, and 
        petroleum industry materials.

MISCELLANEOUS:
        - 5 months total living/study experience in Russia
        - Experienced in use of Macintosh computers and software
        - Numerically adept (GMAT 700 total; GRE 760 quantitative, 710
          analytical)
        - Some experience in youth counseling
        - Creative and analytical thinker
        - Self-starter and motivator
        - Willing to travel and/or relocate within North America, CIS, or
          Europe
        - Available June 1993
From: ryyti@jyu.fi (Jarmo Ryyti)
Subject: Re: Bilingualism - a good cause!
Organization: University of Jyvaskyla, Finland
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Date: Thu, 7 Jan 1993 08:36:16 GMT

Matthew Huntbach (mmh@dcs.qmw.ac.uk) wrote:
: In article <1993Jan6.085712.14512@cs.chalmers.se> tammet@cs.chalmers.se (Tanel Tammet) writes:
: >
: For whatever reasons there are large numbers of people in
: Estonia whose first language is Russian just as there  are lage
: numbers of people in England, particularly in inner London
: where I live, whose first language is not English but one of
: the Asian languages. Last time I went to vote there were voting
: instructions in nine different languages.

So you compare the asians of London with the russians of Estonia?
Bilingualism-a good cause. When the englihspeople have started to practise
real bilingualism on their isles?

: 
: The right to use one's own language and not to be discriminated
: against or placed at a disadvantage because of one's langauge
: is a fundamental part of liberalism. If Estonia cannot
: understand this, it is a sign that far from escaping from the
: Russian Imperium, its thinking is stlil tied up with all the
: nasty illiberal dictatorial human-right-abusing ways which were
: assocaited with that imperium, and that it does not have the right
: to be treated as an equal by those more civilized nations in
: western Europe who understand liberalism, but rather must be
: treated with suspicion as another potential nasty nationalistic
: racialist state.
: 
"If England cannot understand that the use one's own language...blah blah.."
In London there should be in all schools a mandatory language 
for all hindi and urdu. Also the english street signs should be removed
away and replaced by the hindi and urdu ones.If the englishpeople oppose
the idea I consider them as narrow-mided and rasist.

Then I beleive in your liberalism and other stuff you write if you work
for liberalism in your own country.

What is the situation of welsch and gaelic? After some hundred years of
english colonialism gaelic nearly disappeared from Ireland. English
liberalism?

There are only 1 million estonians, they are afraid of Irish example,
A type of cultural imperialism what englishepeople have practised
on their isles since centuries and elsewhere makes that it is better
that you keep your mouth shut. 

If I were you I would not advice the estonians at all.

regards,
jarmo
From: mam18@jaguar.uofs.edu
Newsgroups: soc.culture.soviet
Subject: Re: some Soviet emigre restaurant jokes
Date: 6 Jan 93 17:58:21 GMT
Organization: University of Scranton

In article <1993Jan3.215118.3983@ramon.bgu.ac.il>, ioffe@black.bgu.ac.il (Ioffe Nicolay) writes:
> mam18@jaguar.uofs.edu writes:
> : In article <1992Dec26.221939.9896@ramon.bgu.ac.il>, ioffe@ivory.bgu.ac.il (Ioffe Nicolay) writes:
> : > mam18@jaguar.uofs.edu writes:
> : > : In article <15192.2b35cb0f@ohstpy.mps.ohio-state.edu>, viznyuk@ohstpy.mps.ohio-state.edu writes:
> ..deleted...


> Gospodin Martynov byl prav! Ja oshibsja! On zerkalo russkojazychnoj
> intelligencii. No ja ne dumaju, chto to chto on tam videt uluchssshitsja ot
> konstatacii dannogo fakta. Vse skazannoe otnositsja i k G-nu Vyznyuk'u.
> I voobshe, ja rekomenduju im vmesto pisanija v UseNet smoptret' v zerkalo.
> Tam G-n/tov. Vyznyuk uvidit G-na/tov. Martynova. I naoborot.
> 
> 
> A naschet dostavanja v Israile ja vm skazhu G-n Martynov - poprobyjte!
> Tut-to my vam i pokazhem. Budete v luchshem vide - kak vyslannye Hamasovcy!
> 
> Nus?
> 
> Hochetsja?
> 
> Proshu!
> 
> Nick.

Kak govoril velikii pisatel' Nikolai Gogol' (vam by, gospodin Ioffe, gordit'sia
svoim tezkoi!), "Necha na zerkalo peniat', koli rozha kriva."  Ia dazhe rad,
chto vy menia sravnili s zerkalom russkoiazychnoi intelligentsii, k koei vy 
sebia, po vsei veroiatnosti, otnosite.

Po semu povodu, predlagaiu nabit' vam etu samuiu, krivuiu, rozhu po nedorogoi
tsene: oplata bileta do Izrailia i obratno.  Vam, togda, nachisto otob'et 
okhotu sviazyvat'sia s Pennsilvaniei (i, esli gn.Vizniuk ko mne prisoedinitsia,
s Ohio), a osobenno s predstaviteliami eio Vnutrennikh Voisk, koim ia
iavliaius'.

Tak chto sidite u sebia v zhope (ia khotel skazat' v Izraile) i ne
vyebyvaites'.  A ezheli vse-taki zakhotite po toi samoi, krivoi, pishite mne
lichno po e-mail i vysylaite bilet na samolet--priedu, kak polozheno, i 
razberus'.

S glubokim uvazheniiam k
mudaku iz Izrailia i nekotorym
drugim,

Michael Martynov.
From: burshtey@watusi.seas.upenn.edu (Alexander Burshteyn)
Newsgroups: soc.culture.soviet
Subject: Re: soc.culture.soviet, discussions, etc.
Date: 12 Jan 93 18:44:44 GMT
Organization: University of Pennsylvania

In article <1iu407INNodc@uniwa.uwa.edu.au> dima@maths.uwa.oz.au (Dima Pasechnik) writes:
>aps@sonia.math.ucla.edu (Alexei Stolboushkin) writes:
>>Kstati, po povodu ryada: bylo li pridumano chto-to luchshee, chem
>>``Konstantin Nezhilets''?
>
>It seems that the best was "Kucher", though it's another style of aliases.

I also often heard Chernenko being called "Ustim Akimych", which probably
belongs to the latter if not yet another style of aliases.
                                                                         
Alex Burshteyn.
Newsgroups: soc.culture.soviet,soc.culture.europe,talk.politics.soviet
From: 20676KCH@msu.bitnet ("Ken.Hendges")
Newsgroups: soc.culture.soviet
Subject: Re: "Zeleny"s Armenian friend.
Date: 12 Jan 93 20:24:00 GMT
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From: feldstei@silver.ucs.indiana.edu (Ronald F. Feldstein)
Subject: Re: Glubokie izvineni'a ( starshina i t.d. .... )
Keywords: strashina and related flame....
Organization: Indiana University
Date: Wed, 13 Jan 1993 04:04:06 GMT



Newsgroups: soc.culture.soviet
From: kilman2y@fiu.edu (Yevgeny Kilman)
Subject: Re: some Soviet emigre restaurant jokes
Organization: Florida International University, Miami
Date: Thu, 7 Jan 1993 15:54:12 GMT

In article <93007.094409BAV2@psuvm.psu.edu> <BAV2@psuvm.psu.edu> writes:
>After reading this long discussion I understood at last what is the main
>cause of ..hm.. special nature of this group. Their main contributors
>are just from the barracks!
>
>One quotation. Mikhail Zhvanetsky (sorry, quoting as I remember - no text
>on hand):
>
>I mysli u nas soldatskiye, i razgovory u nas soldatskiye, i razvlecheniya
>u nas soldatskiye, i shutki u nas soldatskiye, i mechty u nas soldatskiye,
>i zheny nashi soldatki, i lechenie, i pokhorony posle nego u nas
>soldatskiye.
>
>To be more serious, this discussion proves that soviet culture indeed exists,
>and is indeed a barrack culture.
>
>With compliments
>
>-Boris

Ne ponimaesh ti Boris vskormlenih v Rossi dush! ( sig! Ia ne skazal Russkih 
dush...). Vot poidu ia seichs na ulicu i kriknu "&^%$#%$!!!!!" I vedi ni kto
ne poimet! A polojim, skaju ia cto ti, Boris "*%$#^&$!!!" na ves' net, tak
gladish kto i otvetit. Vot vsem i legche na dushe stalo.

Y.K.

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Subject: Re: some Soviet emigre restaurant jokes
From: ioffe@ivory.bgu.ac.il (Ioffe Nicolay)
Date: Thu, 7 Jan 1993 17:04:00 GMT
Organization: Ben-Gurion University, Beer Sheva, Israel

sergei@upenn5.hep.upenn.edu (Sergei Borodin) writes:
: In article <1993Jan6.125821.1@jaguar.uofs.edu> mam18@jaguar.uofs.edu writes:
: >In article <1993Jan3.215118.3983@ramon.bgu.ac.il>, ioffe@black.bgu.ac.il (Ioffe Nicolay) writes:
:
: >> Tam G-n/tov. Vyznyuk uvidit G-na/tov. Martynova. I naoborot.
:
:   Ja pozvolju sebe s etim ne soglasitsja.
:
: >............................................................  Ia dazhe rad,
: >chto vy menia sravnili s zerkalom russkoiazychnoi intelligentsii, k koei vy
: >sebia, po vsei veroiatnosti, otnosite.
:
:  Nu, Vas to, dorogoj v shutku nazvali 'zerkalom' - ne obizhaites'.
:  Komu-zh v golovu pridet skazat' eto ser'ezno? Nu kakoe-zhe vy
:  'zerkalo' - vy bolshe pohozhi na soltata vnutrennih voisk, po stilju
:  pis'ma.
:
: >s Ohio), a osobenno s predstaviteliami eio Vnutrennikh Voisk, koim ia
: >iavliaius'.
:
:   Zagadka: Chto obschego mezhdu militsionerom i govnom?
:
: >Tak chto sidite u sebia v zhope (ia khotel skazat' v Izraile) i ne
: >vyebyvaites'.
:
:   Kak-zhe tak? Vy, Martynov, (nu ne povorachivaetsja jazyk nazvat'
:   _vas_ gospodinom) sami zh v etu "zhopu" lezli. Dazhe v dissidenty
:   sebja za eto zapisali. V grud' kulakom stuchali: "Ja geroi!".
:   Poluchaetsja, chto vrali pro geroistvo-to? A ja bylo uzh i poveril.
:   Mozhet, dumaju, paren'-to i vravdu geroi? - ne pustili ego svolochi
:   na prarodinu, a on mozhet hotel kulturnjye tradicii nasledovat',
:   zabytomu jazyku pouchitsja, na kotorom ego pra-pra-pra-predki
:   govorili. A teper' ono vot kak povernulos' - "zhopa" okazyvaetsja
:   vasha prarodina. Interesno.
:
: >S glubokim uvazheniiam k
: >mudaku iz Izrailia i nekotorym
: >drugim,
:
: >Michael Martynov.
:
:  Veritsja, chto sebja-to vy uzh tochno uvazhaete.
:
:  S.B.

Ja proshu proshenja za molchanie(nestnyj server ne rabotal).

Vy uvazhaemyj g-n/tov. Martynov oshiblis'. Uzh kogo-kogo, a sebja ja ni k
russkoj ni k russkojazychnoj intelligencii ne prichisljaju. B-g miloval.

I naschet "zhopy". Hm, tov. Martynov, ne byli li vy sluchajno dissidentom.
ja sebja k sionistam ne otnoshu, no vy-to nesomnenno v Sovke po vsem kuhnjam
vseh svoih znakomyh(a na ulitse slobo bylo, ved' starshina, imenno!) zvonili,
kak vy , da na istoricheskij rodine, da my, da ja, da isr. armija, da Moshe
Dajan etc. Vsem znakomy eti razgovorgiy. I vy takim byli. Ne skryvajte. No vy,
kak starshina VV, chitaete tol'ko 2 knigi - Kratkij Kurs i Isbrannye
proizvedenia V.V.Lenina. Imenno ottuda vy i vzjali opredelenie intelligencii.
I soglasno emu vy bez somnenij javljaetes' ne tol'ko predstavitelem sego tipa
ljudej, no i zerkalom.

I poslednee. Vy ved' byli dissidentom. vas tjanulo na rodinu - v zhopu kak vy
skazali. I eto eshe raz svidetel'stvyet, chto vy takoe.

S zatknutym ot voni nosom, Nick.

P.S. Ved' narushil ja taki poslovitsu. tronul.....
Fuuu, kak zavonjalo......

Newsgroups: soc.culture.soviet
From: alexei@cartan.math.nd.edu (Alex Strouwe)
Subject: Re: some Soviet emigre restaurant jokes
Organization: University of Notre Dame
Date: Thu, 7 Jan 1993 00:25:08 GMT

Yevgeny Kilman writes
|> 
|> Mi takih leitenantov v armii ebali polenim v jopu!!!!!
|> Poka vciakie umniki priatalic' op voennim kafedram, chesnie jidi gorbili
|> v ebannoi sovetskoi armii. Kogda mne v chast' popadali etakie leitenanti, 
|> to ia prigalashal vseh churok srat' v ih sapogi i ssat' v pilotki, chto oni  
i delli s bol'shim entuziazmom. Osobenno zapomnil ia odnogo jirnogo moskvich
|> kotorogo ia pimal nochiu v stolovoi poedaiushim hleb. Ia etogo ubludka  
zastavil
|> sest' pol lotka!
|> 
|> Starshina.

Govorila mne babushka: "Vot zaberut tebya v armiyu i sdelayut tam iz tebya  
cheloveka"

Ona byla prava -- bol'shevichki preuspeli v dele promyvania mozgov.

Novyi chelovek? Kakov on? Ne nachat' li nam novuyu diskussiyu?

--


When I tell any Truth it is not for the sake of convincing those
who do not know it, but for the sake of defending those who do.
         
	                           WILLIAM BLAKE Public Address
From: pv02@ns1.cc.lehigh.edu (PETER VOROBIEFF)
Newsgroups: soc.culture.soviet
Subject: Re: Soviet space disaster?
Date: 6 Jan 93 01:07:51 GMT
Organization: Lehigh University

In article <4121@iris.mincom.oz.au>, marks@iris.mincom.oz.au (Mark Stavar) writes:
>Charles Packer (packer@amarna.gsfc.nasa.gov) wrote:
>: Somebody told me recently that they had read that the
>: former Soviet Union had suffered a space disaster in which
>: they had to leave one of their cosmonauts in orbit to die
>: because they couldn't rescue him. My informant said that
>: his information came from reading newspaper accounts of
>: formerly secret material that was made public in the last
>: couple of years during the unravelling of the Soviet system
>: and the subsequent increase in openness of discussion and 
>: publication in Russia.
>
>--
>
>I recall reading that at some point earlyish in the Russian space
>programme that there was a retro mis-fire on one of their missions.
>This lead to the unfortunate situation of the space craft in question
>flying off directly into the sun.  The story mentioned something about
>the wife of the cosmonaut in question being in radio contact with him
>up to the very end.
>
>I have no hard material evidence with which to back up this story - it
>may be plain wrong.

The humbug that gave birth to this story was created by the "Sovershenno
Sekretno" ("Classified") tabloid in Moscow. The guy whom "SS" launched 
to the Sun was Vladimir Komarov. His widow sued "SS" for slander. Dunno
about the results though.

BTW, Komarov got killed due to parachute failure (just a bit too high
velocity at landing). He had only the time to notice the problem, say
"Ooh, blya..." and hit the ground. Must have been a tough guy - nice death.

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Thus spake Kalmoth the Dreaded, Bane of the Forests of Gnoy.
From: pv02@ns1.cc.lehigh.edu (PETER VOROBIEFF)
Newsgroups: soc.culture.soviet
Subject: Re: some Soviet emigre restaurant jokes
Date: 7 Jan 93 04:16:25 GMT
Organization: Lehigh University

In article <1993Jan6.125821.1@jaguar.uofs.edu>, mam18@jaguar.uofs.edu writes:
>In article <1993Jan3.215118.3983@ramon.bgu.ac.il>, ioffe@black.bgu.ac.il (Ioffe Nicolay) writes:
>> mam18@jaguar.uofs.edu writes:
>> : In article <1992Dec26.221939.9896@ramon.bgu.ac.il>, ioffe@ivory.bgu.ac.il (Ioffe Nicolay) writes:
>> : > mam18@jaguar.uofs.edu writes:
>> : > : In article <15192.2b35cb0f@ohstpy.mps.ohio-state.edu>, viznyuk@ohstpy.mps.ohio-state.edu writes:


>Po semu povodu, predlagaiu nabit' vam etu samuiu, krivuiu, rozhu po nedorogoi
>tsene: oplata bileta do Izrailia i obratno.  Vam, togda, nachisto otob'et 
>okhotu sviazyvat'sia s Pennsilvaniei 

Pennnsylvania is a much-dreaded place: somewhere in the Poconos Kalmoth
the Vile dwells, the Lost Caves give shelter to Gleb the Overtroll, and
now I learn that Mr. Martynov also liveth here! Truly the Lurking Beasts
of the Forests of Gnoy flee when his fell warcry is heard amongst the 
trees!

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Thus spake Kalmoth the Dreaded, Bane of the Forests of Gnoy.