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Siberia boom draws in workers for big coal project
In Neryungri eastern Siberia a cadre of workers from Leningrad and elsewhere flock to a vast coal mine and accompanying plants. They seek high wages and bonuses, despite brutal cold and spartan housing. Some, like Ana Platonoyov, have saved thousands of rubles while wives work as painters. The project stabilizes as veterans stay for the pay and benefits, though dorm living and limited leisure mark a tough life under Andropov era discipline.
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Neryungre
U.S.S.R
Crimea
Leonid I. Brezhnev
Cuba
Anatoly Platonoyov
Platonoyov
Leningrad
Kremlin
Siberia
Platonogov
Neryungri
Soviet Union
Moscow
Platonoyev
Vladimir Ilyich Zakharov
Zakharov
Neryungrn
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