People

 

This is just a random selection of interesting people some of whom I know and some of whom I do not.

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Academician Nikolai G. Chumachenko, Director, Institute of Industrial Economics, Academy of Sciences.  The title Academician was a very big deal in the Soviet Union.  As I recall, there were only five economists in Ukraine in 1991 with that distinction.
These traditional looking women were selling tomatoes along a country road.






Academician Chumachenko with an old school friend, who was then the deputy director of a vodka factory.
A group of university professors and bus drivers.  Which is which?




 

Making a living on the Arbot in Moscow.
Ditto.  The accordionist was a whole lot better.






Boys picking apricots, which were all over the place.
You see women with brooms like this everywhere.  When it wears out, just collect a new bundle of twigs and sweep on!






The guy in front and the one just in back of him are twin brothers who are both deputy directors of a cooperative farm in eastern Ukraine.  The bearded chap peeking out to the left is the dean of the economics faculty at the Donetsk State University.  Behind him to the left is the dean of the law school.  In the back to the right is a driver.
A fisherman.






L to R: Deputy director of cooperative, driver, dean of the law school at Donetsk State University, and dean of the economics faculty.
Same chap as above catching little fresh-water lobsters (like miniature Maine lobsters, aren't they?) for our picnic.





A neighbor of a friend who wondered over with his guitar while I was visiting.  He was amazing.   Wife of one of the deputy directors of the cooperative farm with more of those miniature lobsters.  I guess I should call these crayfish.  Whatever, they were delicious.
     
 
Flower vendor in a private market.   My colleague Misha with some newly-caught fish.
     
 
I have no idea what she was doing here with so little to sell.  Every other vendor had lots.   The chap in the middle with the grey hair is the deputy speaker of Parliament in the newly independent Ukraine.  Misha is seated at the right.
     
 
Misha standing in front of Lenin's Tomb in Red Square.   Misha (on the right), me, and the director of a coal mine.  That hard-hat and lamp, which the director gave me, now reside in my office.
     
 
Just a colorful character in a private market.
The deputy director of a vodka factory.  She is visiting her good friend, the deputy director of a champaign factory.


This is my good friend Alexander Anatoliyevich Minayev, Rector of the Donetsk National Techinical University.  This is the only picture I did not take -- I downloaded it from the University's Web site at http://donntu.edu.ua/english/strukt/strukt_e.html.



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