Word: surgut
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Dates: during 1973-1973
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...accompany the article, February's visit was his 15th to the Soviet Union since 1958. This time both he and Shaw were treated to a view of Russia's interior that few foreign journalists have ever seen. They traveled to the western Siberian oilfields of Samotlor and Surgut, and emerged with the first color photographs of the area ever taken by an American photographer. At Aldan, Sochurek talked Aeroflot officials into renting him a helicopter to photograph the gold fields and track down the reindeer herds that graze in the area. In the eastern Siberian republic of Buryat...
...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...