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Broken Empire – After the Fall of the USSR
Yakutsk, Russia 2001. Accustomed to violent winters, women in the Sakha Republic keep warm in floor-length furs. Thanks to its rich natural resources, Russia's remote northern province harbors islands of prosperity - but not warmth. In January, the daily high in the capital, Yakutsk, averages minus 43°F.
© Gerd Ludwig
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Broken Empire – After the Fall of the USSR
Yakutsk, Russia 2001. Accustomed to violent winters, women in the Sakha Republic keep warm in floor-length furs. Thanks to its rich natural resources, Russia's remote northern province harbors islands of prosperity - but not warmth. In January, the daily high in the capital, Yakutsk, averages minus 43°F.
© Gerd Ludwig
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Nuclear Tourism
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Nuclear Tourism
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Broken Empire – After the Fall of the USSR
Novokuznetsk, Russia 1992. Smoke from the KMK steel plant belches carbon monoxide above this Siberian city. By the early 1990's, pollution had impacted every major river in Russia, had left one quarter of the drinking water unsafe, and had cursed 35 million Russians with unhealthy air.
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Broken Empire – After the Fall of the USSR
Novokuznetsk, Russia 1992. Smoke from the KMK steel plant belches carbon monoxide above this Siberian city. By the early 1990's, pollution had impacted every major river in Russia, had left one quarter of the drinking water unsafe, and had cursed 35 million Russians with unhealthy air.
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Lethal Legacy. Pollution in the Former U.S.S.R. 1992 - 1994
Novokuznetsk / Russia
When KMK was originally built by Stalin as a major production facility for bullets to fight the German invaders in World War II ecological aspects were not a priority. Driven by their quest for even higher productivity during the cold war era Soviet technocrats never allowed the situation to improve. The steel plant in Novokuznetsk still belches thick smoke into the Siberian sky.
© Gerd Ludwig
23/02/2011 3601
23/02/2011
Lethal Legacy. Pollution in the Former U.S.S.R. 1992 - 1994
Novokuznetsk / Russia
When KMK was originally built by Stalin as a major production facility for bullets to fight the German invaders in World War II ecological aspects were not a priority. Driven by their quest for even higher productivity during the cold war era Soviet technocrats never allowed the situation to improve. The steel plant in Novokuznetsk still belches thick smoke into the Siberian sky.
© Gerd Ludwig
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Lethal Legacy. Pollution in the Former U.S.S.R. 1992 - 1994
Prokoyevsk / Russia
Miner Sasha Balaganov has removed the coal dust covered snow from the roof of his small house located near a coal enrichment plant.
© Gerd Ludwig
23/02/2011 3578
23/02/2011
Lethal Legacy. Pollution in the Former U.S.S.R. 1992 - 1994
Prokoyevsk / Russia
Miner Sasha Balaganov has removed the coal dust covered snow from the roof of his small house located near a coal enrichment plant.
© Gerd Ludwig
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Lethal Legacy. Pollution in the Former U.S.S.R. 1992 - 1994
Baku / Azerbaïjan
According to firemen major oil fires in the Baku area ignite on average about once a week, caused by playing of children, default of powerlines, sparks from electric trains etc. Often, all that firemen can do is to try to extinguish the fire by throwing stones in the water in order to create some sort of waves.
© Gerd Ludwig
23/02/2011 3574
23/02/2011
Lethal Legacy. Pollution in the Former U.S.S.R. 1992 - 1994
Baku / Azerbaïjan
According to firemen major oil fires in the Baku area ignite on average about once a week, caused by playing of children, default of powerlines, sparks from electric trains etc. Often, all that firemen can do is to try to extinguish the fire by throwing stones in the water in order to create some sort of waves.
© Gerd Ludwig
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Lethal Legacy. Pollution in the Former U.S.S.R. 1992 - 1994
Siauliai / Lithuania
Siauliai, a small town of about 80.000, in the center of Lithuania, was the largest soviet air base in Europe. The last Soviet military personnel left in 1993, leaving behind environmental damages which would cost up to $ 250 million to clean up. The largest threat to the environment comes from years of leaking kerosene tanks into the undergroung water system. It is that much kerosene that people have started to dig wells and ditches into the ground and collect about 600 liters of kerosene per day in total. The “kerosene-exploration” has become a commercial venture. Students or pensioners are employed to work in shifts around the clock, and a certain part of profit goes to local mafia. A teacher said that 2 days of collecting kerosene equals his monthly salary.
© Gerd Ludwig
23/02/2011 3571
23/02/2011
Lethal Legacy. Pollution in the Former U.S.S.R. 1992 - 1994
Siauliai / Lithuania
Siauliai, a small town of about 80.000, in the center of Lithuania, was the largest soviet air base in Europe. The last Soviet military personnel left in 1993, leaving behind environmental damages which would cost up to $ 250 million to clean up. The largest threat to the environment comes from years of leaking kerosene tanks into the undergroung water system. It is that much kerosene that people have started to dig wells and ditches into the ground and collect about 600 liters of kerosene per day in total. The “kerosene-exploration” has become a commercial venture. Students or pensioners are employed to work in shifts around the clock, and a certain part of profit goes to local mafia. A teacher said that 2 days of collecting kerosene equals his monthly salary.
© Gerd Ludwig
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Lethal Legacy. Pollution in the Former U.S.S.R. 1992 - 1994
Semey / Kazakhstan
Atomic Lake, as it is known locally, shimmers in the midday air 65 miles southwest of Semey. To create a reservoir, a shallow underground device was detonated here in 1965. Large amounts of radiation were vented, exposing the downwind population. Over the years, the Soviets used scores of nuclear devices for other “peaceful” purposes like diamond mining and stanching oil-well fires.
© Gerd Ludwig
09/12/2009 3583
09/12/2009
Lethal Legacy. Pollution in the Former U.S.S.R. 1992 - 1994
Semey / Kazakhstan
Atomic Lake, as it is known locally, shimmers in the midday air 65 miles southwest of Semey. To create a reservoir, a shallow underground device was detonated here in 1965. Large amounts of radiation were vented, exposing the downwind population. Over the years, the Soviets used scores of nuclear devices for other “peaceful” purposes like diamond mining and stanching oil-well fires.
© Gerd Ludwig
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Broken Empire – After the Fall of the USSR
Siberia, Russia 1997. Endless trees and the frozen silence of the Russian taiga slide past the frosted window of the Trans-Siberian Railroad as it sweeps east of Lake Baikal.
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Broken Empire – After the Fall of the USSR
Siberia, Russia 1997. Endless trees and the frozen silence of the Russian taiga slide past the frosted window of the Trans-Siberian Railroad as it sweeps east of Lake Baikal.
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Lethal Legacy. Pollution in the Former U.S.S.R. 1992 - 1994
Sillamae / Estonia
Gerd Ludwig’s Russian assistant stands on the shore of a lagoon at the Baltic Sea in the town of Sillamäe. Radioactive waste from a plant that once processed uranium for the Soviet military send the needle of his Geiger counter soaring.
© Gerd Ludwig
03/11/2009 3605
03/11/2009
Lethal Legacy. Pollution in the Former U.S.S.R. 1992 - 1994
Sillamae / Estonia
Gerd Ludwig’s Russian assistant stands on the shore of a lagoon at the Baltic Sea in the town of Sillamäe. Radioactive waste from a plant that once processed uranium for the Soviet military send the needle of his Geiger counter soaring.
© Gerd Ludwig
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Lethal Legacy. Pollution in the Former U.S.S.R. 1992 - 1994
Prypyat / Ukraine
Wind blows through the desolate town of Prypyat. On April 26, 1986, this amusement park was being readied for the annual May Day celebrations when the nuclear accident struck.
© Gerd Ludwig
03/11/2009 3595
03/11/2009
Lethal Legacy. Pollution in the Former U.S.S.R. 1992 - 1994
Prypyat / Ukraine
Wind blows through the desolate town of Prypyat. On April 26, 1986, this amusement park was being readied for the annual May Day celebrations when the nuclear accident struck.
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Lethal Legacy. Pollution in the Former U.S.S.R. 1992 - 1994
Magnitogorsk / Russia
MMK (Magnitogorsk Metallurgy Kombinate) also called the Lenin Steel Plant is the world’s largest steel mill employing some 70,000 people.
© Gerd Ludwig
20/03/2017 3593
20/03/2017
Lethal Legacy. Pollution in the Former U.S.S.R. 1992 - 1994
Magnitogorsk / Russia
MMK (Magnitogorsk Metallurgy Kombinate) also called the Lenin Steel Plant is the world’s largest steel mill employing some 70,000 people.
© Gerd Ludwig
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Lethal Legacy. Pollution in the Former U.S.S.R. 1992 - 1994
Magnitogorsk / Russia
Workers on top of the coke ovens in the Magnitogorsk Lenin steel works.
© Gerd Ludwig
03/11/2009 3586
03/11/2009
Lethal Legacy. Pollution in the Former U.S.S.R. 1992 - 1994
Magnitogorsk / Russia
Workers on top of the coke ovens in the Magnitogorsk Lenin steel works.
© Gerd Ludwig
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Lethal Legacy. Pollution in the Former U.S.S.R. 1992 - 1994
Magnitogorsk / Russia
Extreme heat and sulfur fumes turn the work on top of the coke ovens in the Lenin steel works in Magnitogorsk into a living hell.
© Gerd Ludwig
20/03/2017 3579
20/03/2017
Lethal Legacy. Pollution in the Former U.S.S.R. 1992 - 1994
Magnitogorsk / Russia
Extreme heat and sulfur fumes turn the work on top of the coke ovens in the Lenin steel works in Magnitogorsk into a living hell.
© Gerd Ludwig
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Lethal Legacy. Pollution in the Former U.S.S.R. 1992 - 1994
Magnitogorsk / Russia
The Lenin steel works are situated in the center of Magnitogorsk. They can be seen from most of the cities suburbs.
© Gerd Ludwig
03/11/2009 3569
03/11/2009
Lethal Legacy. Pollution in the Former U.S.S.R. 1992 - 1994
Magnitogorsk / Russia
The Lenin steel works are situated in the center of Magnitogorsk. They can be seen from most of the cities suburbs.
© Gerd Ludwig
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Lethal Legacy. Pollution in the Former U.S.S.R. 1992 - 1994
Mirnyy / Russia
Mirnyy is a center of diamond mining. On an average of once a week, the rock in the diamond pit is being exploded. The explosions release an orange cloud of dust and gases. Depending on wind and weather this cloud can remain in the pit for days causing a shut down of all work activities in the pit.
© Gerd Ludwig
30/10/2009 3592
30/10/2009
Lethal Legacy. Pollution in the Former U.S.S.R. 1992 - 1994
Mirnyy / Russia
Mirnyy is a center of diamond mining. On an average of once a week, the rock in the diamond pit is being exploded. The explosions release an orange cloud of dust and gases. Depending on wind and weather this cloud can remain in the pit for days causing a shut down of all work activities in the pit.
© Gerd Ludwig
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Lethal Legacy. Pollution in the Former U.S.S.R. 1992 - 1994
Kiev / Ukraine
Baffling cases of allergies and dermatological diseases among children in Ukraine as in this one afflicted with skin disease, are raisng alarm among parents and doctors who attribute the rise in the number of diseases to the Chernobyl accident and pollutants from nearby industrial centers.
© Gerd Ludwig
30/10/2009 3585
30/10/2009
Lethal Legacy. Pollution in the Former U.S.S.R. 1992 - 1994
Kiev / Ukraine
Baffling cases of allergies and dermatological diseases among children in Ukraine as in this one afflicted with skin disease, are raisng alarm among parents and doctors who attribute the rise in the number of diseases to the Chernobyl accident and pollutants from nearby industrial centers.
© Gerd Ludwig
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Lethal Legacy. Pollution in the Former U.S.S.R. 1992 - 1994
Baku / Azerbaïjan
Oil fires in the outskirts of Baku have become so frequent that this shepherd who is herding his sheeps in Bibicheybet is not even taking much notice of the black cloud temming from the burning oil nearby.
© Gerd Ludwig
30/10/2009 3573
30/10/2009
Lethal Legacy. Pollution in the Former U.S.S.R. 1992 - 1994
Baku / Azerbaïjan
Oil fires in the outskirts of Baku have become so frequent that this shepherd who is herding his sheeps in Bibicheybet is not even taking much notice of the black cloud temming from the burning oil nearby.
© Gerd Ludwig
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Lethal Legacy. Pollution in the Former U.S.S.R. 1992 - 1994
Moscow / Russia
Several clusters of children with missing forearms were discovered in Moscow. All these hemi-melia births, as scientist call them, occured between 1985-1990 in two neighborhoods. Also no certain links can be drawn between these births defects and Moscow’s bewildering mix of pollutants (dioxin, military plants, trash incinerators etc), most scientific research points to pollution as a cause.
© Gerd Ludwig
30/10/2009 3570
30/10/2009
Lethal Legacy. Pollution in the Former U.S.S.R. 1992 - 1994
Moscow / Russia
Several clusters of children with missing forearms were discovered in Moscow. All these hemi-melia births, as scientist call them, occured between 1985-1990 in two neighborhoods. Also no certain links can be drawn between these births defects and Moscow’s bewildering mix of pollutants (dioxin, military plants, trash incinerators etc), most scientific research points to pollution as a cause.
© Gerd Ludwig
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Lethal Legacy. Pollution in the Former U.S.S.R. 1992 - 1994
Kunda / Estonia
Workers take welcome breaths after a shift in the dust-filled confines of their cement plant. Exposure to the pollution leaves them exhausted at day’s end.
© Gerd Ludwig
27/10/2009 3576
27/10/2009
Lethal Legacy. Pollution in the Former U.S.S.R. 1992 - 1994
Kunda / Estonia
Workers take welcome breaths after a shift in the dust-filled confines of their cement plant. Exposure to the pollution leaves them exhausted at day’s end.
© Gerd Ludwig
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Lethal Legacy. Pollution in the Former U.S.S.R. 1992 - 1994
Murmansk / Russia
Broad belts of pine and birch forest around the town of Monchegorsk are being destroyed by pollution from a nikel plant. Trees even dozens of miles away, die of acid rain and thus are susceptible to forest fires. Conservationists mark the few surviving trees in some parts of the forest with red flags and labels to monitor their survival.
© Gerd Ludwig
23/07/2009 3575
23/07/2009
Lethal Legacy. Pollution in the Former U.S.S.R. 1992 - 1994
Murmansk / Russia
Broad belts of pine and birch forest around the town of Monchegorsk are being destroyed by pollution from a nikel plant. Trees even dozens of miles away, die of acid rain and thus are susceptible to forest fires. Conservationists mark the few surviving trees in some parts of the forest with red flags and labels to monitor their survival.
© Gerd Ludwig
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Lethal Legacy. Pollution in the Former U.S.S.R. 1992 - 1994
Baku / Azerbaïjan
With forests of oil rigs in their backyards and no playground around, the children of suburban Baku have learned to enjoy the viscous pools of runoffs from the dilapidated and leaky pumps, not realizing what danger they pose to their future health.
© Gerd Ludwig
14/04/2009 3603
14/04/2009
Lethal Legacy. Pollution in the Former U.S.S.R. 1992 - 1994
Baku / Azerbaïjan
With forests of oil rigs in their backyards and no playground around, the children of suburban Baku have learned to enjoy the viscous pools of runoffs from the dilapidated and leaky pumps, not realizing what danger they pose to their future health.
© Gerd Ludwig
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Lethal Legacy. Pollution in the Former U.S.S.R. 1992 - 1994
Kohtla Jarvae / Estonia
Slag heaps of the chemical plants in northerm Estonia consist mostly of oil shale remains. Water that is poured down the heaps washes out sulfur and other toxic chemicals. It is then collected in ditches but eventually seeps into nearby rivers which now lack any life.
© Gerd Ludwig
14/04/2009 3588
14/04/2009
Lethal Legacy. Pollution in the Former U.S.S.R. 1992 - 1994
Kohtla Jarvae / Estonia
Slag heaps of the chemical plants in northerm Estonia consist mostly of oil shale remains. Water that is poured down the heaps washes out sulfur and other toxic chemicals. It is then collected in ditches but eventually seeps into nearby rivers which now lack any life.
© Gerd Ludwig
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Broken Empire – After the Fall of the USSR
Semey, Kazakhstan 1992. Homey decor does little to ease young fears at a medical diagnostic center. Area residents suffer nighmarishly high rates of cancer and other diseases linked to fallout from nuclear tests.
Copyright © Gerd Ludwig 1992
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Broken Empire – After the Fall of the USSR
Semey, Kazakhstan 1992. Homey decor does little to ease young fears at a medical diagnostic center. Area residents suffer nighmarishly high rates of cancer and other diseases linked to fallout from nuclear tests.
Copyright © Gerd Ludwig 1992
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Lethal Legacy. Pollution in the Former U.S.S.R. 1992 - 1994
Aral Sea / Kazakhstan
Where fish once swam, the camels now tread over the floor of Aral Sea. The seashore has receded by nearly 50 miles leaving behind a dozen rusty shipwrecks locally referred to as the “graveyards of ships” in the once beautiful bay of the fishing village of Zhalanash. Moscow’s decision to irrigate huge cotton and rice crops from the lake’s two feeder rivers caused the Aral Sea to shrink to half of its former size.
© Gerd Ludwig
19/01/2009 3604
19/01/2009
Lethal Legacy. Pollution in the Former U.S.S.R. 1992 - 1994
Aral Sea / Kazakhstan
Where fish once swam, the camels now tread over the floor of Aral Sea. The seashore has receded by nearly 50 miles leaving behind a dozen rusty shipwrecks locally referred to as the “graveyards of ships” in the once beautiful bay of the fishing village of Zhalanash. Moscow’s decision to irrigate huge cotton and rice crops from the lake’s two feeder rivers caused the Aral Sea to shrink to half of its former size.
© Gerd Ludwig
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Lethal Legacy. Pollution in the Former U.S.S.R. 1992 - 1994
Semipalatinsk / Kazakhstan
A homey decor meant to ease children’s fears gives cold comfort at Semipalatinsk Diagnostic Center. The region’s frequency of cancers and other maladies is primarily due to fallout from the nearby nuclear test site. Some suggest that radiation causes a breakdown of the immune systems similar to AIDS.
© Gerd Ludwig
19/01/2009 3581
19/01/2009
Lethal Legacy. Pollution in the Former U.S.S.R. 1992 - 1994
Semipalatinsk / Kazakhstan
A homey decor meant to ease children’s fears gives cold comfort at Semipalatinsk Diagnostic Center. The region’s frequency of cancers and other maladies is primarily due to fallout from the nearby nuclear test site. Some suggest that radiation causes a breakdown of the immune systems similar to AIDS.
© Gerd Ludwig
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Lethal Legacy. Pollution in the Former U.S.S.R. 1992 - 1994
Donetsk / Ukraine
A coal miner scrubs down after a day in the pits. Though relatively well-paid, they risk gas explosions and face frequent equipment breakdown to extract Ukraine’s high-grade coal. One miner, it is estimated, dies for every million tons of coal mined - 10 times the fatality rate of underground coal miners in the U. S. A.
© Gerd Ludwig
08/10/2008 3582
08/10/2008
Lethal Legacy. Pollution in the Former U.S.S.R. 1992 - 1994
Donetsk / Ukraine
A coal miner scrubs down after a day in the pits. Though relatively well-paid, they risk gas explosions and face frequent equipment breakdown to extract Ukraine’s high-grade coal. One miner, it is estimated, dies for every million tons of coal mined - 10 times the fatality rate of underground coal miners in the U. S. A.
© Gerd Ludwig
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Lethal Legacy. Pollution in the Former U.S.S.R. 1992 - 1994
Moscow / Russia
Dolgoprudinskaya garbage dump site where people searching for eatables, like breads and fruits or for bottles, construction materials, waste from cigarette factories, etc.
© Gerd Ludwig
11/08/2008 3606
11/08/2008
Lethal Legacy. Pollution in the Former U.S.S.R. 1992 - 1994
Moscow / Russia
Dolgoprudinskaya garbage dump site where people searching for eatables, like breads and fruits or for bottles, construction materials, waste from cigarette factories, etc.
© Gerd Ludwig
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Lethal Legacy. Pollution in the Former U.S.S.R. 1992 - 1994
Baku / Azerbaïjan
Once the U. S. S. R.’s major source of oil and one of the most productive fields in the world shortly after the turn of the century, Azerbaïjan’s oil pumping systems fell into decrepitude and more oil was spilled while the Soviets began exploring their great Siberian deposits in the 1960s.
© Gerd Ludwig
05/03/2008 3599
05/03/2008
Lethal Legacy. Pollution in the Former U.S.S.R. 1992 - 1994
Baku / Azerbaïjan
Once the U. S. S. R.’s major source of oil and one of the most productive fields in the world shortly after the turn of the century, Azerbaïjan’s oil pumping systems fell into decrepitude and more oil was spilled while the Soviets began exploring their great Siberian deposits in the 1960s.
© Gerd Ludwig
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Lethal Legacy. Pollution in the Former U.S.S.R. 1992 - 1994
Novokuznetsk / Russia
Workers take tea and warm themselves between firing of open-hearth furnaces at the KMK steel plant, one of the oldest in Siberia. Victim of a tragic broken promise the once treasured “new Soviet man” is now threatened in his physical existence : his life expectancy has fallen to 61 years (1994) lower even than that of many developing nations.
© Gerd Ludwig
24/10/2006 3584
24/10/2006
Lethal Legacy. Pollution in the Former U.S.S.R. 1992 - 1994
Novokuznetsk / Russia
Workers take tea and warm themselves between firing of open-hearth furnaces at the KMK steel plant, one of the oldest in Siberia. Victim of a tragic broken promise the once treasured “new Soviet man” is now threatened in his physical existence : his life expectancy has fallen to 61 years (1994) lower even than that of many developing nations.
© Gerd Ludwig