Word: novosibirsk
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...women and soft Mediterranean climate. Five hours by plane from Moscow are the ancient Asian cities of Tashkent, Samarkand and Bukhara, with beautiful mosques and colorful bazaars. Northeast of them lies AlmaAta, a 20-year-old planned city that is the capital of Kazakhstan. The Siberian scientific center of Novosibirsk was opened to foreigners last year and tourists who wish to go farther out can go on to Irkutsk (8 hours from Moscow). There they can visit Lake Baikal, the world's deepest. One taste of its pure waters, and one will thirst for them for life. Or they...
With that, De Gaulle took off on a 6,200-mile swing through Russia that was less political than it was crowd pleasing. In Novosibirsk-"the Chicago of Siberia"-fully half of the city's 1,000,000 residents turned out to greet the French leader. Accompanied by Podgorny and Zorin, De Gaulle inspected power plants and electrical-equipment factories, then stalked through Akademgorodok, a seven-year-old academic city of 37,000, which gave him the opportunity to strike again on the anvil of Franco-Russian cultural rapprochement. "How can one forget," he said, "that the great academy...
...From Novosibirsk, De Gaulle flew south to Baikonur, the Soviet Union's main space center. No other Westerner had ever seen the Baikonur "cosmodrome," and the Russians topped that distinction by launching a satellite in De Gaulle's honor-probably, said wags, a polar-orbiting satellite aimed at spying on the U.S. From there, at week's end, De Gaulle flew on to Leningrad for tours of the Hermitage and the Petrodvorets palace-and more talks with Podgorny and Kosygin about the ultimate disposition of Europe...
...Russians have laid out a split-second itinerary for le grand Charles: he stops first at Moscow for two days, then Siberia's Novosibirsk, then Leningrad and next Volgograd, nee Stalingrad. There, the Russians imply, he may see "something no foreigner has ever seen before" - probably a Soviet missile site. Ultimately, De Gaulle will return to Moscow for the grand finale...
Economic horse sense has even begun to permeate the touchy issue of unemployment, which is officially nonexistent in Soviet society. Last week Novosibirsk's prestigious Economic-Mathematical Research Laboratory published a detailed study of job opportunities in the Soviet Union today-and found that there are not enough to go around, particularly for new high school graduates entering the employment market. The report blamed that old capitalist bugaboo, automation. In time, if creeping Libermanism continues to advance at its present rate, Pravda may have to list job opportunities for unemployed bureaucrats...