Struggle in Soviet Russia

On the banks of the Vodra, Pudoch.

Victor's jeep slowly drove into October Square in the city center, and finally stopped in front of the fourth-floor Soviet building.

Varenka jumped out of the car first, trotted all the way around to the back, opened the door for Victor, took the briefcase in his hand first, and then carefully protected him from the car.

Victor, who has been around the whole Karelia region for more than half a month, seems a little dusty, but the whole person seems to be in good spirits.

He got out of the car, and just as his feet stood firm on the ground, he couldn't wait to let out a long breath. He didn't know how many times he had made up his mind that he must take the Karelia region for a period of time when he was in power in the future. The traffic situation is fundamentally improved. At least, the highway and traffic network between cities should be well constructed, which is the most basic.

During the time he was running outside, Victor had a deep understanding of how bad the traffic conditions in the "Northland" were. In the urban belt around Lake Onega and Lake Vigozero, there was even a systematic road traffic network. It does not exist. Even in the capital Petrozavodsk region, there are many trunk roads built in the 1920s. From then to now, even basic maintenance has not been performed.

Know what is the main form of transport in the Karelia region today? It may be unbelievable to say that after several five-year plans, the former Republic of Karelia, and now the Karelia-Finnish Soviet Socialist Republic, has mainly relied on water transportation to solve supplies. The reason for the problem of transportation is that the water network in the region is vertical and horizontal, and the cost of water transportation is the lowest.

If it is said that the reason for not building a systematic road and railway network in the past is that it is located in the border area between the Soviet Union and Finland, and may be threatened by war at any time, so there is no more investment in transportation, then what about now? Does anyone else think that in the next few years, the Alliance will still have a large-scale war to participate in?

Standing under the car, stomping his feet hard, and twisting his waist that was about to lose consciousness, Victor looked up at the building in front of him—Podozh has always been a city belonging to the Union, and has nothing to do with Finns. Therefore, the architectural style in the city, unlike some cities west of Lake Onega, does not have so many Nordic features. Just like the building in front of me, it is a boxy, standard Stalinist architectural style.

Although Puduoga is a city, the population of the city is less than 40,000. It can only be regarded as a small city. Therefore, the Municipal Party Committee, the Municipal People's Committee, and the Soviets all work in this building.

At this time, it was almost dusk, and there were many people in and out in front of the building, and everyone seemed to be in a hurry.

Victor tugged at the collar and winked at Varenka beside him. Then, the two walked up the stairs in front of the building and walked directly to the entrance of the building.

There was a registration room at the entrance of the building, and two guards in NKVD uniforms, and one of the guards stopped them and asked them about their situation, perhaps seeing the two of them face to face.

Victor didn't answer. Varenka, who was walking a little ahead, took out his work card and handed it over, and asked at the same time, "We have made an appointment to meet the two comrades who came from Moscow. Do you know the situation?"

The reason why Victor came here was not to inspect the local work. He didn't have the leisure to do so, let alone to go to a certain place to inspect the work without saying hello. It is not a good leader's behavior style, at least not a wise behavior style.

Although the drama of secretly visiting and eradicating evil through micro-serving can make people's blood boil, but more often, this approach is not desirable, and it is easy to attract backlash from all sides, especially Victor In this situation, don't forget that he has not established enough personal prestige in the Karelia region. In this case, if you try to use private visits to catch other people's pigtails, you will only end up with He was pitted by himself.

Today, the reason why Victor came to Puduoji was because he made an appointment to meet here, and he had already greeted the city people's commissar on Puduoji in advance.

The guard apparently received a relevant notice. After seeing Varenka's documents, he first gave the two a military salute, then turned back to the registration room and made a phone call.

After about half a minute, a group of more than a dozen people hurriedly greeted them from the building.

Among the group of people, walking at the front was a young man who looked at most in his early thirties. He was wearing a straight brown suit with an old-fashioned back. He didn't wear glasses, but he had a moustache. People look quite spiritual.

Viktor didn't know the young man, but when he saw him for the first time, a name flashed in his mind: Nikita Vladimirovich Dalaroyan, Pudozh The people's committee of the people's committee, which is equivalent to the mayor of the city, is the role that presides over government affairs. The current first secretary of the Puduozhi Municipal Party Committee is Abriakin, who was seriously injured in the war and has been raised for nearly two years. Due to his achievements, the Central Committee of the Republic has not yet removed him from his post, but Dararoyan also served as the acting secretary, which is equivalent to arresting the city's government affairs and party affairs.

The fact that the party and government are not divided is also something that Viktor criticizes in private. However, he is very soft-spoken now, and it is not his turn to discuss such issues at all, not to mention... He is also the same now. The beneficiary of the malpractice, go a step further and think about taking the government's work from the People's Committee of the Republic.

"Hello, hello, Comrade Secretary Viktor Viktorovich," Dararoyan hurried up to meet Viktor when he saw Viktor for the first time, and said to Viktor while extending his hands, "I received a notice earlier, Said that you will come here in the afternoon, I was discussing with the comrades in the office just now, whether to arrange a car to greet you, I didn’t expect you and Comrade Varenka to arrive now.”

As he spoke, he shook hands with Viktor, then turned to shake hands with Varenka.

"I thought about going to Wardera before," Victor said without pretending to be his boss, shaking hands with the person behind him, "However, considering that the experts from the Academy of Sciences may come earlier, I gave up temporarily. The original plan was, therefore, half a day ahead of schedule."

After a pause, he followed up and asked, "How is it, are the comrades from the Academy of Sciences here?"

"It's already here," Dalaroyan nodded and said, "Arrived at dusk yesterday, a total of four comrades, temporarily arranged in the sailor club, but they came over this morning and are now checking the watermarks in the archives, Geological Archives."

Victor nodded without being too polite, and said directly: "Let's go, take me to meet them."

"Look, it's still early, do you want to eat something first? Take a rest?" Dalaroyan asked tentatively.

Seeing his eyes swept across his trousers, Victor looked down subconsciously, but found that there were a lot of mud spots on his trousers, which were stained in the morning, and he really hadn't noticed it before.

"No need," Victor shook his head and said without thinking much, "It won't be too late to rest until we meet."

Victor knew that the expert group of the Academy of Sciences that came to Karelia this time was extraordinary, and Kurchatov himself was the one who led the team. Today, there are a total of 14 working groups working on site selection within the alliance. To tell the truth, there are definitely more places that are more qualified than Karelia. If nothing else, just say Siberia. There are simply not too many places that qualify. But having said that, Karelia is a more suitable option if you consider security, economy and other issues comprehensively. As for whether it can be chosen here in the end, it depends on the political operation.

For this work, Victor himself is relatively confident, not only because he has the advantage of knowing, but also because he has been in charge of part of the nuclear research project, and the minds involved in this project are very Familiar, for example, Comrade Kurchatov, who is in charge of research work, for example, Comrade Berusin, who is in charge of the general work, and Comrade Malenkov, who is in charge of the work of the special committee, and so on.

The most important thing is that in the research work of the nuclear project, Victor once put forward a lot of suggestions to Comrade Stalin. In the past few years, he has talked about the importance of this project countless times, even "nuclear blackmail", The concept of "nuclear balance" was put forward by him, so even in Comrade Stalin, he could get some support.

Overall, Viktor has a must-win mentality to keep the project in Karelia. The reason why Comrade Kurchatov personally led the team to Karelia this time is probably to give him a face. In the past few years, Viktor has helped him a lot.

Seeing that Victor was not in the mood to rest, Dalaroyan no longer discouraged him. He made a gesture of invitation and personally led Victor into the office building and went straight to the archives room on the third floor.

As far as the current nuclear power plant site selection conditions determined by the Academy of Sciences, there are three most basic items: first, it must be far away from big cities, considering the scale of the nuclear power plant, the distance should be about 50 kilometers; second, close to the water source, and preferably It is close to the sea, and at the same time, it cannot be located in the coastal areas where hurricanes frequently occur; thirdly, in the deep underground part of the site selection area, there should be no fault zones caused by earthquakes, and the geological structure must have certain stability.

The reason why Kuznetsov and others have to look at the water pattern and geological archives is to understand the situation in this regard.