COSSACKS AGAIN RIDE WINDSWEPT STEPPES From: The Columbian (Vancouver, WA) | Date: October 31, 1997| Author: | . Provided by ProQuest LLC.Copyright information

MAURA REYNOLDS
The Columbian
10-31-1997
NOVOCHERKASSK, Russia — They ride cars, not horses, and make their homes in the city, not on the steppe.
They’re “asphalt Cossacks” — a new breed of the legendary warriors who are trying to conquer the world with commerce, not on horseback.
Novocherkassk, a mid-size city of tattered two-story buildings and dusty tree-lined boulevards, is the capital of the Don Cossacks, and deputy ataman Yuri Trukhmanov is busy making it an empire.
Trukhmanov rides herd on a team of employees who staff a network of businesses ...

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