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Bratsk

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[brahtsk] / brɑtsk /

noun

  1. a city in the S central Russian Federation in Asia, on the Angara River.


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In Bratsk, now a bustling metropolis of 200,000, the gastronom sells Algerian red wine, and visiting dance bands play a mixture of rousing Soviet songs and early Elvis at the new six-story Hotel Taiga.

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Bratsk hydroelectric complex, five years abuilding, had to be postponed last month in order to release urgently needed funds and engineers for other housing projects.

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Most are young: the average age in Bratsk is 30, and the city has the highest birth rate in the Soviet Union.

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It will include a flight with a view of the Great Wall of China, a banquet in Irkutsk, a hydrofoil trip on Lake Baikal and a visit to the Bratsk dam.

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The Russians' pride is the $1 billion Bratsk Dam, which was completed in 1964 after ten years of hardship and which contains as much masonry as the Great Pyramid of Cheops.

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