Word: aldan
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...over the earth, he grew tired when he got here, mixed up everything he had left, and dumped it haphazardly." BAM will eventually carry a marvelously mixed bag of these riches: petroleum from major new oilfields in Western Siberia, coal from Neryungri and Chulman, iron ore and gold from Aldan, diamonds from Yakutia, and salt, asbestos, molybdenum, copper, tin and bauxite from various areas. Shipped to Japan and other resource-hungry nations, such exports will help Moscow earn the foreign currency it needs to pay for technological development...
...both he and Shaw were treated to a view of Russia's interior that few foreign journalists have ever seen. They traveled to the western Siberian oilfields of Samotlor and Surgut, and emerged with the first color photographs of the area ever taken by an American photographer. At Aldan, Sochurek talked Aeroflot officials into renting him a helicopter to photograph the gold fields and track down the reindeer herds that graze in the area. In the eastern Siberian republic of Buryat, he visited and became the first American to photograph the isolated Buryat Buddhist monastery...