Coal town changes with the times

THE historic town of Most into which Olga Vagasiova was born 29 years ago has completely disappeared.

Coal town changes with the times

It was demolished in the early 1970s and its 70,000 inhabitants moved to a concrete jungle a short distance away.

The only thing to survive was the Gothic Cathedral which, through a feat of engineering that could be devised only by the Soviets, was moved completely intact to a new site almost a kilometre away.

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