This winter, some teachers have even staged wildcat strikes in Moscow, Leningrad, Tomsk and elsewhere.
With his savings from that, he started in the food business, and is now one of the biggest traders in Tomsk. The food trade is very profitable, but also a target of the Russian mafia.
Four Siberians from Tomsk were recovering in the camp after a stormy ascent of Khan Tengri, a legendary marble mountain further up our side of the glacier which is said to glow pink on fine evenings.
The Soviets maintain two major weapons complexes, one at Kyshtym in the Ural Mountains near Chelyabinsk and the other at Tomsk, deep in Siberia, said Cochran.
A Communist Party official from Tomsk told Martin Walker of the British Guardian that Mr. Ligachev "believed in the sanctity of family life and refused to promote men who had been through a divorce."