onward to Novosibirsk
I have left Armenia and am in the airport now and soon on way to Siberia. Details later. Access to internet uncertain as we are headed to Koltsovo, a closed city.
posted by rod at 9:01 AM
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3 Comments:
Dude - I love Koltsovo
Just kidding. I try to track your trajectory with online maps but it’s been a challenge finding decent online maps of Russia and the former Soviet satellites. I’ve got a few bookmarked at this point and have been keeping up. Anyway, I couldn’t find anything on Koltsovo at first but then I tracked down a blurb on Wikipedia that sounds like a place that might be on an itinerary for the likes of your mission.
"Koltsovo was founded in 1979 as a settlement near Novosibirsk for employees of the State Research Center of Virology and Biotechnology (Vector). In 2003, Koltsovo was granted a new statut of a scientific city (naukograd). Population of Koltsovo - 10,700."
That’s all they had. Other than that the link is what Wikipedia calls a “stub” – kind of a placeholder for someone to start filling in more information. Perhaps you could provide the world with an entry on this mysterious destination.
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Dudeness
I agree with Dave. I think you should add to the Wikistub. You'd probably be pretty good at filling in all kinds of stubs on Wikipedia with all the crazy things your Kopf is filled with.
Koltsovo is somewhat part of the intellectual centre called the Akademgorodik, which was way cool. I got to see where the Marburg virus was being produced for biological weapons today.
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