Word: angara
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Spaced across Siberia, at approximately 1,000-mile intervals, are three other industrial complexes. One is based on the coal and iron ore of the Kuznetsk Basin, the second on the hydroelectric power of the Angara River, the third on the mines of Yakutia...
Typical City. Because of the dreary similarity of the "official" architecture, Russian cities tend to look alike. In Siberia it is even more so, since a raw frontier flavor still persists. Irkutsk is typical of Siberian cities, sprawling across both banks of the Angara River and surrounded by industrial suburbs whose factories turn out plywood as well as machine tools; bricks, knitwear and cement as well as tractors. In the city, the old is carelessly mixed with the new. Many streets are potholed and puddled, lined with haphazard wooden hovels that have leaned crazily for years. Others are wide, tree...