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Intourist|ˌɪnˈtʊərɪst| [Russ. Inturíst, abbrev. of inostránnȳĭ turíst foreign tourist.] Name of the State Travel Bureau of the U.S.S.R. Also attrib.
1932Intourist's Pocket Guide to Soviet Union 581 The State Joint-Stock Company for Foreign Tourists—Intourist—was established in 1929 jointly by the People's Commissariat for Foreign and Domestic Trade, the People's Commissariat for Ways and Communications and the Soviet Mercantile Fleet. 1935N. Mitchison We have been Warned ii. 194 All arrangements in the competent hands of the Intourist Office, who undertook all Russian travel. 1940H. G. Wells Babes in Darkling Wood iii. ii. 251, I suppose they were packing off most of the Intourist people. 1949F. Maclean Eastern Approaches i. iii. 35, I walked into the local branch of Intourist and informed the seedy little Armenian clerk behind the counter that I wished to book a passage across the Caspian to Central Asia. 1952M. McCarthy Groves of Academe (1953) ix. 169 He took you through that session like a regular Intourist guide with a party of dumb fellow-travellers. 1958J. Gunther Inside Russia Today i. 29 You go to any travel agency that has an arrangement with Intourist, the official Russian agency..and apply for a tourist visa. 1973T. Allbeury Choice of Enemies xix. 95 The failed ballerinas seconded to Intourist as easy lays for Western salesmen. |