Word: bratsk
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...flowing north into the Arctic Ocean, may one day provide hydroelectric power across the Bering Strait for Canada and the U.S. It is not so wild a dream. Already the Russians have built the world's largest dams on the Yenisei and Angara rivers at Krasnoyarsk and Bratsk, and a third one is going up at Ust-Ilimsk (see map page 39). The riches of Siberia may well figure largely in China's border dispute with the Soviet Union. Other governments, including the U.S. and Japan, are also eying Siberia's resources for commercial development...
...ANGARA VALLEY, north of the old caravan-crossroads city of Irkutsk, is being opened up through dams on the Angara and Yenisei rivers. Nearby will be smelters, wood industries and chemical factories. The Russians' pride is the $1 billion Bratsk Dam, which was completed in 1964 after ten years of hardship and which contains as much masonry as the Great Pyramid of Cheops. "That was our October," says one veteran, using the image of the Russian Revolution to describe the days when construction workers lived in tents at temperatures of 60° below zero. Today the effort is being...
Still, a hard core of confirmed Sibiryaki is slowly growing. They are a new breed: hardy, adventurous, optimistic, apparently enjoying the contest between man and nature. Most are young: the average age in Bratsk is 30, and the city has the highest birth rate in the Soviet Union...
...which takes care of all expenses (even liquor), travelers will get a whirlwind eight-day tour of Siberia. It will include a flight with a view of the Great Wall of China, a banquet in Irkutsk, a hydrofoil trip on Lake Baikal and a visit to the Bratsk dam. For another $400, the package will stretch to 15 days. Aeroflot, the Soviet airline, will take over at Khabarovsk and fly tourists to Moscow, Samarkand and Tashkent...