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...Primorski on the Pacific coast; however, convention has labeled as Siberia all Russian lands east of the Urals--an area that covers more than 5 million sq. mi. Within these boundaries are nearly the entire lengths of four of the longest rivers on earth--the Yenisey, the Ob, the Lena and the Amur, which constitutes most of Siberia's border with China. Yakutia, now designated the Sakha Republic and the largest of Siberia's dozens of political divisions, is more than seven times the size of California. Magadan is three times; Krasnoyarsk is nearly six Californias. The entire region...
Yakutia, which suffered horribly from radioactive fallout from nuclear tests and chemical pollution during the Soviet era, has shown itself to be farsighted in dealing with some environmental issues. The delta of the Lena River lies atop reserves of oil and gas. It is also a diverse ecosystem created in part by the meeting of the great tectonic plates that lie under North America and Eurasia. Mindful of Siberia's sorry record of leaky oil pipelines and catastrophic spills, the republic was hesitant to open this vulnerable area to drilling. Says Vasili Alekseev, the Minister of Ecology: "Since there...
...daughter Lena Gavrilova, 42, is a teacher, and she believes it is important to understand the past. She only recently discovered what happened to her paternal grandfather, she says. He was denounced as a kulak in 1930 and was sent to Solovetski Island in the far north. "He died there. We don't even know where his grave is." She continues, "This is our history, and we need to respect it. We need to learn from it. But our politicians have forgotten that. I don't know for sure what's going on in Chechnya, the politics of it. When...
...daughter Lena, also a school teacher, was born after Stalin died, in November 1953. Of the celebrations of World War II, she says she has no special feelings of pride. "What I remember most about the war is the movies," she says. "They were dozens of World War II movies, but they were so blatantly propagandistic. All the Nazis were portrayed as idiots, and the Soviets as great heroes. We had a phrase, kino nemetskoe, which is slang for a show so ridiculous you cannot believe it." Of the time after the war she says, "It was stable...
...Lena was in therapy for half of high school, but no one ever tried to stop her bulimic behavior, she says. The thing that seems to have helped her most was a summer spent living and working in New York City...