Broad paths cutting through the residential district made the new town of Cheremushki good for strolling, even on a cold winter day. The photograph in Figure 1 shows residents ofthis Soviet city outfor a walk. Pushing their baby in a pram, with another child walking closely behind, the young family passes by birch trees, conifers, and a communal laundry line with sheets hung out to dry.A dozen or so prams belonging to other families living in the neighborhood are parked by each ofthe entrances to the apartment complex on the right. Benches near each entryway accommodate sitting outside when the weather warms.Another apartment building stands in the distance. This neighborhood, with its clusteroffive-story buildings, was brandnew, builtforworkers ofthe nearby Sayano-Shushenskaya dam located along the Yenisei River in southwestern Siberia. The firstturbine ofthe dam, still one ofthe world’s largesthydroelectric power plants today, whirled into action in 1978, one year after this photograph was taken. The dam was designed by engineers in Leningrad, some 5,000 kilometers away. And like its designers, the dam’s workers also came from afar. It is likely that the residents pictured here were newcomers to this remote region, having joined thousands ofother young workers like them in building and maintaining the dam and in populating this new Soviet town.