person
Molchanov
also: Молчанов, Correspondent Molchanov
An invented newspaper correspondent sent, in the squib's opening joke, on assignment to the unexplored South Pole; the surname puns on molchat', 'to be silent'.
Reading notes
- Departed from Moscow: §1 Correspondent Molchanov
An invented newspaper correspondent whose name (from Russian molchat', 'to be silent') is a joke in itself, sent on the era's most absurdly remote assignment.