Hello former KAO colleagues and friends,
I have been diligently checking the website for quite a long time but never got around to sending a message to everybody (even though Dennis and Ruby have been asking me to do it for the last year). My name is Julia Gousseva. I used to work in Usinsk in 1992 and 1993, mostly with Dennis Knudtson in HAKO (remember those little islands of civilization among the snowy Komi desert?). I also spent some time in POISK — a lot of engineers who worked there probably saved their helicopter-quality ear plugs just as a reminder of how noisy life can get.