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| Russian | English |
| "почтовый ящик" | post office box (As a senior engineer at a leading "post office box"– Soviet speak for secret institutes working on military-industrial projects – he [Dmitry Zimin, VimpelCom CEO] helped create the U.S.S.R.'s missile defense shield during the Cold War. TMT Alexander Demidov) |
| почтовый ящик | box (The "box" The "box" was the unofficial name of a secret Soviet facility much like the closed city, but smaller, usually the size of a factory. The "box" name was usually classified, as were the activities there. Incoming mail was addressed to "mailbox #XXXX", thus the name of "box". Most Soviet design bureaus for weapons, aircraft, space, military electronics and such were "boxes". 4uzhoj) |