Word: irkutsk
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...environmental-protection service to police air and water pollution throughout the nation. Beyond that, the government will spend over $1 billion to clean up the Volga and Ural drainage basins, $840 million for purifying facilities in 420 factories, and $360 million for sewage-treatment plants in 15 cities. At Irkutsk, new water-treatment plants have already made the Angara River, Mayor N.F. Salatsky says, "as clear as a woman's tears." It will be many years, however, before the same can .be said about other Russian rivers. Fifty years of headlong industrial development have left the Soviet Union with...
...building ICBM launch pads at Shuangchengtzu, the high (4,000 ft.), sandy plain near the Mongolian border that remains China's main missile-test complex. Then again, the Chinese may have decided simply to stick with their relatively cheap MRBMs, which can hit cities like Vladivostok and Irkutsk, and thus would be sufficient to make the Russians think twice about sending troops across the Ussuri, or even hurling their own ICBMs at Peking. In any case, a Chinese ICBM force big enough to give Peking a creditable threat against Russia (which has more than 1,400 ICBMs...
...tours promise something different for jaded jet-setters. For $850, 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...