[ noun ] soviet statesman and head of state of the USSR (1875-1946) <noun.person>
Boris A. Petrov, deputy Communist Party head of the Kalinin region where the accident occurred, said in a telephone interview that two of the 107 people initially hospitalized after the crash had died.
A poem published with the decree said: "Well, goodbye Kalinin. You were just a pseudonym of our returning Tver." Now, even the newspaper will have to call itself something else.
On July 19, Kalinin was given back its old name of Tver.
At least 100 people stopped along Kalinin Prospekt, a major avenue leading to the Kremlin, to watch the refusenik protest and to argue their views about Gorbachev's effort to rebuild Soviet society.
A huge TV screen on a building on the busy Kalinin Prospekt remained dark throughout the speech and all the TV sets in the Orbit electronics store were turned off.