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  History of Russia Encyclopedia Articles @ LaunchBase.org (Launch Base)   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-10)
The tsar's most influential adviser was Konstantin Petrovich Pobedonostsev, tutor to Alexander III and his son Nicholas, and procurator of the Holy Synod from 1880 to 1895.
Under Pobedonostsev, revolutionaries were hunted down and a policy of Russification was carried out throughout the empire.
After the rapid succession of Yuri Andropov and Konstantin Chernenko, transitional figures with deep roots in Brezhnevite tradition, the relatively young and energetic Mikhail Gorbachev made significant changes in the economy and the party leadership.
www.launchbase.org /encyclopedia/History_of_Russia   (8598 words)

  
 Glushko
It made a powerful impression on him, resulting in his own first naïve pencil sketch of a primitive rocket with a braking unit.
On 26 September 1923 he wrote a letter to Konstantin Tsiolkovskiy, the father of Soviet astronautics, and received an encouraging reply on 8 October.
The launch was successful and the missile reached an altitude of 90 km.
www.astronautix.com /astros/glushko.htm   (8188 words)

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