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...American expert in earthquake reconstruction has worked out an agreement to rebuild Leninakan, one of the Soviet Armenian cities leveled by a quake last December...
...said his Cambridge-based architecture firm, Lozano, White & Associates Inc., expects to spend about a year on the project, beginning in June with an aerial survey of Leninakan...
Soviet officials have estimated that the quake killed 40,000 to 55,000 people in the cities of Leninakan, Spitak and Kirovakan and in up to 100 villages...
Lozano said he was contacted by Soviet officials about Leninakan a few days after the quake, when a delegation from Yerevan, the Armenian capital, visited Cambridge, its American sister city...
With hope fading that any survivors remained buried in the rubble, many of the doctors, rescue squads, fire fighters and dog handlers who had converged on the ravaged cities of Leninakan and Spitak from around the globe began to head home last week. Ryzhkov, who spent 13 days in the area as head of a special Politburo commission supervising the relief efforts, offered a grim tally before he returned to Moscow. The number of dead, he reported, was certain to exceed 55,000. Relief workers had rescued 15,300, while 514,000 had been left homeless by the quake...