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Amazing numbers

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How many hundreds of kilograms of pig iron can be smelted in 3 seconds? How far would the annual circulation of newspapers stretch if stacked one after the other? How many tons of grain must be mined and loaded onto steamships to stretch from the source of the Volga to the Caspian Sea? How many million horses does a single power plant replace? We're accustomed to hearing about multi-million or multi-billion figures in the news—but do we always understand how much these numbers actually represent?

This book helps you grasp the scale of these dizzying numbers: millions of tons, hectares, kilowatt-hours—all of this was developed by the Soviet Union and continues to be developed by Russia. The entire might of the Soviet economy is contained here—the great legacy we inherited from Soviet times. It's impossible not to admire the strength of the workers and peasants who were able to build such a power!
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