European Stars And Stripes (Newspaper) - November 29, 1987, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Magazine now Yolk Tim Rota in the siberian town of Magadan leads to the Kolyma Gold mines in Northern Siberia. Many Young soviets Are seeking Opportunity and Money in the frigid Region. Tamin Gubera by Carol j. Williams associated press Oviet Young people Are chasing a development Boom into Siberia braving its rigid hardships in Exchange Lor the Chance of a More promising future and higher rewards than those who stay behind heeding the Callol Komsomol the communist party s youth organization tens of thousands of University graduates each Spring Are pledging their first years of work to the Laming of Siberia which together with the soviet far East covers 5.3 million Square Miles one and a half times the size of the United states some come for the Money. Salaries plus hardship bonuses average 400 rubles $635 a month twice the National average for skilled Industrial workers others come for the relative Freedom they find 3000 or More Miles from Moscow and the bureaucracy that directs Industry in the nation s european regions but Linof Vic Litulu Inlo a  but Biu Upney land notorious for forced labor Camps and penal colonies since the Lime of the russian czars also is a vital part of Mikhail s Gorbachev s plan to transform the soviet Union into an economic superpower 35 Well As a military one. Economists at the siberian Branch of the soviet Academy of sciences in Novosibirsk say Lull exploitation of the Region s resources when More extensively developed could double the nation s Industrial capacity while it still in t a Yuppie lifestyle 3.100 Miles East Southeast of Moscow and just North of Manchuria in China it s a Good place to Start your life in a new place where you can make a difference said Vcra Grinvald. A Hydro Engineer in her mid-30s and a Mother of three children who lives in Tynda. Despite their higher wages Many of Tynda s new pioneers live in shabby Concrete housing blocks propped on pillars drilled into the permafrost of this Frontier boo town those working on the Railroad live in insulated old Railroad cars and construction shacks in a sort of circular trailer town that houses nearly half of Tynda s population of 63,000 a Maze of rutted Asphalt roads connects Hilltop High rises with a skirt of shantytowns and in Between the buildings Are unplanned stretches of ground that freeze solid in Winter and become seas of mud in two months of summer. For Active Young people there in t much to do after work but play basketball or go Cross country skiing. But for a 17-year-old youth who gave his name Only As Alexander said. I Don t feel isolated Here i have friends and a social life in Siberia. I Don t have to live in Moscow to know who Michael Jackson is and simple things become pleasures it s too hard to explain if you Haven t lived through it said Yelena Ivankovich of the local communist parly Council after having water delivered to barrels outside our doors for a year when we got running water of our Street we thought we were the most fortunate people in the world " Tynda is the capital and midpoint of the Baikal amur mainline Railroad Bathe largest of soviet hero projects a 1.938-mile Trail of track blazed through Virgin land the government has defined As the next economic heartland by the year 2000. The Railroad and the enterprises it will carry eastward Are expected to make Siberia the nation s fourth major Industrial zone joining the Volga sunday. November 29. 19b7 River Basin the ural mountains and the Donetsk Valley 13am. Hailed As inn project of Iho Century. Is intended to take people and look into the siberian Gronlier and transport the Region s minerals Orev cold and precious stones out to the Western and Louth porn areas of Iho country where 90 percent of the population lives we build Bam and foam builds   Elivna cd ores. The Young Wilt of a Railroad builder reciting one of the local slogans and saying she docs i mind the difficult conditions Galina Maslennikov now 38. Moved hero with her husband and two sons five years ago from the Ukraine to work on the Railroad the project was under Way and workers wore needed and we wanted to do or part she said Olga Chulkova an economist in her mid 30s, has three sons and a spacious four room apartment she and her husband came to Siberia 12 years ago i never planned to slay Long she said Bui once i started to work. I got to like it Here and now i Don l plan to go anywhere else in my Lite " despite stalwarts such As Olga Chulkova. The government is still trying to to establish a stable work Force in the Region it it is to Lap Siberia s wealth Bam s director Valery a Gorbunov. Said 30 percent of the Railroad s employees leave the project each year but Vyacheslav Solic Rostov. Deputy director of the siberian economics Institute said in in interview Hal 30 million people now live in Siberia and he suggested the Normal population growth Wilh a birthrate 20 percent higher than the National average will Jiro vide an adequate work Force Lor the future the harsh climate and isolation Are partly to blame for people leaving temperatures along the Bam route olten drop to 58 degrees below Zero fahrenheit and the great distances and shortage of Iran Poulalion make travel difficult. But some analysts also blame the system which rewards production Yel pays scant attention to living conditions. For the ministries the main priority has always been Industrial indicators and provision of social services has been left up to local  said Vladimir a Pushkarev a sociologist Al the regional economics Institute in Novosibirsk the problem in Siberia has been that when new cities Are created from scratch there is no local government " on the Angara River about 750 Miles West of Tynda is ust Ali ask a cily that was built exactly from scratch 21 years ago As the site of a hydroelectric Plant it now has a population of 106.000 and Many of its residents Are Young people one is Tatyana Mana Yeva. 29, a Deputy director of a dormitory where the average ago of the 578 residents is 28. She said she Carne 10 us in Omsk six years ago  two other single women from Kazakhstan and has a one room apartment of her own a rarity Lor single women living in Moscow or Leningrad my heart Drew me  Mana Yeva said from grammar school on i heard so much about Siberia and list Ali ask. It All sounded so romantic and adventurous " what stands out in us in Omsk is the number of women 20 percent More of them than men we have a surplus of women and we have trouble finding jobs for them  said Andrei v Andreyev of the City s communist party Council we be begun construction of a health Institute and some sewing enterprises to provide More work Tor women " one reason Lor the surplus is that Hall the marriages registered in the soviet Union end in divorce and Many women raising children on their own find in difficult to get by in the european soviet cities to the West wages for women workers Back West average about 120 rubles $190 a month but in ust Ali ask the average Lor women and men is 350 rubles $555 Here a single woman can support herself and even one or two children and we Are seeing a lot of them coming to  Andreyev said Galina Makovetskaya. 31, a labourer now on maternity leave said she and her husband had to live with their parents in their Home City of Dnepropetrovsk where housing is As Short As it is in most developed soviet cities at least Here there is Hope because everything is in our own  she said the stars and stripes Page 13