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Siberia: Russia's Frontier

• 1972 ----- color ----- 28 min ----- 16mm
• Siberia, the land of the exile, is changing. A symbol of the growing industrial development is the city of Irkutsk, halfway between Moscow and the Pacific. To staff its hundred major manufacturing plants, the Soviet government has offered wages as much as 40% higher than in European Russia. New arrivals, most of them young people, crowd into Irkutsk each month, attracted as much by the challenge of the frontier as by the wages. Despite temperatures of 50 degrees below zero for six months of the year, this city below zero for six months of the year, this city expects a population of about a million people by 1980.
• Topics: (Economics, Geography, Soviet Union)

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