Eduard Berzin and Yuri Bilibin. Confrontation
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Serie Discovering Northeast. Book 13
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Book 13
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This book is about the dramatic destinies of two prominent figures of the Soviet period who influenced the history of the development of the North of the Far East. With the discovery of gold deposits by Yuri Alexandrovich Bilibin in Kolyma, the industrial development of a vast, previously undeveloped Russian territory began. Another pioneer, appointed by Stalin the director of the Dalstroy special trust, Eduard Berzin, carried out the construction of the region with the hands of thousands of civilians and prisoners, organized gold mining, founded the city of Magadan and dozens of settlements of the present Magadan region.
