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yacht
Sail- or motor-driven vessel used for racing or recreation. The term is popularly applied to large recreational engine-powered boats; the sailboats known as yachts and used for racing are usually light and comparatively small. Until the mid-19th cent., yachts were designed along the lines of naval craft such as schooners and cutters. Yacht design was greatly affected by the 1851 success of the America in the race that established the America's Cup. In the 20th cent., notably after World War II, smaller racing and recreational craft became more common. See also sailing.


Yezhov
Soviet secret-police chief. By 1927 he was a functionary for the Moscow party's central committee and a favorite of J. Stalin. He became a member of the party's Central Committee (1934) and succeeded G. Yagoda as chief of the Soviet security police, or NKVD (1936). He instituted the most severe stage of the Great Purge (see Purge Trials), known as Yezhovshchina. By 1938 he had become the object of Stalin's suspicions and was replaced by L. Beria as head of the NKVD. He disappeared in 1939 and was probably executed.

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