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...past twelve months, the West Germans have delivered or contracted to deliver equipment for Russia's coal, chemical, natural gas, steel, truck, electronics and toolmaking industries. Since 1970. West German banks have provided about $800 million in credit so that the Soviet Union could barter natural gas from Siberia for steel pipes from Mannesmann and Thyssen. Brezhnev wants to make more such deals...
...Siberia's prospects and potential are of continental scale," cabled TIME's Moscow Bureau Chief John Shaw after a 5,000-mile swing through the region. "It is as though North America were being rediscovered. The delays and errors of Soviet planners have been considerable, but so have many of their achievements. In the face of fierce winters and broiling summers, when the tundra thaws just enough to become a mosquito-ridden swamp, Siberia has been converted into a force to be reckoned with in the world economy...
TYUMEN, a province in western Siberia where the first rich find of gas and oil was discovered, lies at the southern edge of a vast field stretching 1,000 miles down the Ob River. Its oil production, which has doubled every year since 1965, is expected to hit 130 million tons by 1975, comparable to half of Saudi Arabia's output. A spur from the Trans-Siberian Railroad has been completed between the provincial capital of Tyumen and Tobolsk-both sleepy towns become boom cities-and is being extended 300 miles northward to Surgut...
YAKUTSK, the capital of the republic of Yakutia in northeastern Siberia, lies at the heart of a huge gas deposit estimated by the Russians to measure 460 trillion cu. ft., or one-quarter more than all known deposits in the Middle East. Moscow announced last week that production had begun at the nearby field of Middle Vilyui, but it will not be easy to get the gas out. Yakutsk's Permafrost Institute is experimenting with new techniques to pipe gas and oil through the perennially frozen earth...
Extracting the wealth of Siberia is a matter not just of money and machinery, of course, but also of people, and the cruelty of life in the Arctic area is enough to deter many. Siberia boosters used to claim that the population would climb from its present 25 million to about 60 million by the year 2000; the current rate of growth is unlikely to produce more than about half that number. All Siberian workers, from a waitress in Yakutsk to a drilling engineer at Nadym, get "northern bonuses" that double and triple Moscow wage rates, but the labor turnover...