Word: yakutsk
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...route covers mountainous regions where there have been earthquakes, and broad areas of permafrost and innumerable bogs where the ground heaves during the short summer thaw; pressure tests of the Siberian soil are conducted at an underground Permafrost Institute at Yakutsk. Some 3,700 bridges and culverts must be built across rivers and streams. Subway experts from Moscow, Leningrad and Kiev have helped drill tunnels (one of them 9.5 miles long) through seven mountain ranges...
...present, so few of the reserves have been tapped that the Soviets themselves import gas from Iran). The only deal involving Americans, however, is a tentative agreement between the Soviets, Occidental Petroleum, El Paso and a group of Japanese firms to develop a major field near Yakutsk in Siberia. After years of negotiating, the Soviets are still surveying the area. If the deal finally goes through, gas would be piped 2,000 miles to Vladivostok for shipment to the U.S. and Japan...
Right now we are talking to the Soviets about seven projects, including the Tyumen oil pipeline, the Yakutsk natural gas fields and offshore oil and gas exploration. The main objective for us is to diversify our sources of raw materials. Admittedly, there is a political aspect to oil. That is why we are asking for the participation of U.S. capital. We would hope that $200 million would come from U.S. oil companies...
...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...
...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 is nonetheless high. Every year 17,000 new workers arrive in the Irkutsk region, and 10,000 others leave. Some of these are students who are sent out on compulsory...