Alma-Ata
Names: Alma-AtaKazakhstan
First appears in Book 1: Intervention, chapter 24 (2)
Appearances
What you know
Book 1: Intervention
- Ch 24Green Kazakh city whose name means Father of Apples, near the Tien Shan foothills, where Yuri and Tamara have lived since 1974.
- Ch 63Alma-Ata was bombed in the morning by planes from Peshawar; the university, with its operant educational facility and many Soviet operant researchers, was destroyed.
Connections
- containsMedeo Stadium
- containsInstitute for Bioenergetic Studies
Key moments
- Book 1 · Ch 24Urgyen Bhotia meets Yuri and Tamara
Under cover of an Indian scholars' tour, Urgyen secures Moscow's approval to meet the couple, reveals his remote-viewing knowledge of them, and discusses Simonov's and Volzhsky's deaths.
- Book 1 · Ch 27Yuri explains the political situation
Over brandy, Yuri tells Pyotr that Andropov is dying, the Institute has been purged, and the KGB's grip will end. Tamara confirms the tremor via the Geophysical Observatory.
- Book 1 · Ch 27Yuri charges Tamara with the group's future
Privately, Yuri tells Tamara he is dying and she must protect the psychic children and eventually unite with other groups; she accepts reluctantly.
- Book 1 · Ch 40Sakhvadze's call from Alma-Ata
Tamara Sakhvadze phones in illicitly, endorses the demonstration, declares an end to state secrecy and invites the world to a congress in Alma-Ata.
- Book 1 · Ch 42General Secretary visits Tamara in Alma-Ata
The General Secretary visits Tamara, learns she spied on world leaders, and receives her portfolio proposing a psychic-observer corps, discussing the Politburo's reaction and the risks of the coming peace.
- Book 1 · Ch 56Debrief on the Congress mood
Kamil reports to Sergei that foreign operants regret the force used on Muslim riots but largely support the USSR, ahead of the General Secretary's speech.
- Book 1 · Ch 56Finster seizes Sergei
At the Arman Café, Finster, posing as J. Smith, takes total mental control of Sergei and mentions the Grand Mufti's assassination in Tashkent.
- Book 1 · Ch 56Pyotr's birthday feast
Pyotr's family and guests celebrate with a lamb's head feast; Denis rescues it by coercion. Tamara privately explains Kremlin politics and organizes nine minds to protect the General Secretary.
- Book 1 · Ch 56Assassination plot at the speech
As the General Secretary's speech winds down, Finster, controlling Sergei's body, prepares to kill him on television, a plan that would benefit both O'Connor and Kumylzhensky.
- Book 1 · Ch 63Central Asian and Azerbaidzhán uprisings
Alma-Ata's university is bombed and Baku's oil facilities are struck in coordinated attacks. The Coterie watches by excorporeal farsensing, and Barnes collapses from the horror.