Youth Parade, Siberian Miracle: The Krasnoyarsk Dam

The NYPR Archive Collections | Jan 1, 2000

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This episode of Youth Parade features the Krasnoyarsk Dam, called the "Siberian Miracle" by the chief engineer Kirill Smirnoff. The Radio Moscow reporters interview Smirnoff and young people who have answered "the call of Siberia" to settle the land and build new cities, such as Divnogorsk on the Yenisei River.


Audio courtesy of the NYC Municipal Archives WNYC Collection


WNYC archives id: 150811
Municipal archives id: T7886

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