What happens
The Pacific Story presents an account of Siberia's people and how they built the region's strength. A chemist, a professor and the writer Aponion are sent into exile from Moscow, and the story follows their march east to Yakutsk on the Lena River. There they study the land, its metals and the native Yakut people, and they learn the language. Later the story turns to the migrations of Russian settlers to Soviet Asia, the planned growth of industrial cities, farms and rail lines, and the workers who moved their factories east during the war. The program was first broadcast on November 18, 1945.
Siberia and Soviet Asia, from the exile road to Yakutsk on the Lena River to the industrial cities and frontier regions of the Soviet Far East
Characters: Aponion, Yakut mine director, Vladimir Litzlennan
Listen for: The description of the exiles' march to Yakutsk and how the exiles came to know the land and its people
Written from the episode itself; it never gives away the ending. Every recording is remastered for the stream: cleaned of rumble, hiss and mains hum (and the old TV whine where we found it), then levelled in two passes to steady broadcast loudness, so one show is never quieter than the next.