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...Siberia-rarely visited, even more rarely photographed, by outsidersis-is big, brawling, self-confident. TIME herewith presents eight pages of color pictures by Photographer John Launois, who, with TIME Correspondent Don Connery, traveled across Siberia from the Sea of Japan to Moscow...
Snowbound Dark. Despite obvious progress, Siberia continues to evoke terror in European Russia. Moscow University graduates are plunged into despair when ordered to emigrate east of the Urals. Workers and peasants are so reluctant to settle in the virgin lands that the Soviet government must tempt them with tax exemptions, bank credits and free grain...
...most Russians, as to most of the world, Siberia means desolation and exile. In the old days it seemed a trackless waste infested by brodyagi, branded criminals with slit noses and lashed backs who had escaped from convict prisons and lived by robbery and murder. Siberia was synonymous with space, silence, emptiness and snowbound darkness for 20 hours of every winter's day. The grim land was said to unhinge men's minds: bored Czarist officers in isolated forts broke the monotony by playing Russian roulette. Settlers in the barren north fell victim to "arctic hysteria...
Today's Siberia contains remnants of the past. There are still dismal, muddy villages like those where Dostoevsky and other political exiles suffered their dark night of the soul. Most of the Communist labor camps have been closed, but the ghosts of those who died in them are as palpable as the polar blizzards heralding Siberia's long winter. The cities are still cluttered with the wooden hovels of yesteryear, peasant women still do their laundry in the icy rivers, and men still wear the padded-cotton clothing of China. Horsetail Banners. But there have been vast changes...
Spaced across Siberia, at approximately 1,000-mile intervals, are three other industrial complexes. One is based on the coal and iron ore of the Kuznetsk Basin, the second on the hydroelectric power of the Angara River, the third on the mines of Yakutia...