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From: rprohask@ORION.OAC.UCI.EDU (Robert Prohaska)
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Subject: Re: Sending Email from Internet to Soviet Union?
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Date: 28 Oct 90 03:40:42 GMT
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Hi Dimitri,

Thanks for replying so fast, your letter gives me hope of establishing
a connection before I go there.  If it can be made to work it'll be 
a huge help.

I've included a copy of your letter below, for I am a little bit
puzzled by the included institute names.  Are these the sites which
are on RELCOM at the present time?

Do I have to give my contacts in Moscow any information besides the 
phone number 231-2129 and the names Dmitri Volodin and Vadim Antonov?


Thank you very much

bob prohaska


 >  
 > Bob Prohaska said:
 > }Can anybody tell me how to exhange email with the soviet union?
 > }
 > }I've been told it's possible to use Bitnet to reach Hungary, and
 > }there's at least one anonymous ftp site in Finland, so it dosen't
 > }seem completely out of the question.
 > }
 > }The people I want to reach are in Moscow at the Lebedev Institute and
 > }at the Institute for General Physics.
 >  
 > There is a UUCP connection between Helsinki and Moscow. The .SU domain
 > registered at SRI-NIC is this small Soviet UUCP network called RELCOM. Among
 > the institutions on it are the Kurchatov Institute of Atomic Energy, Joint
 > Inst. for Nuclear Research in Dubna, high-energy physics sites in Serpukhov
 > and Protvino, et al. I asked them to help me get e-mail to the Steklov
 > Institute of Mathematics, and they got it online right away and gave it a
 > domain name. Now we happily exchange e-mail. RELCOM people are perfectly
 > willing to connect new sites.
 >  
 > }KIAE (Institut Atomnoj Energii im. I.V.Kurchatova --- Insitute for Atomic
 > }Energy), Ul. Kurchatova 26, Moscow 123182.
 > }
 > }OIYaI --- Ob"edinennyj Institut Yadernykh Issledovanij, Joint Institute for
 > }Nuclear Research, P.O.Box 79, Dubna, Moscow Oblast', Head Post Office 101000.
 > }
 > }FIAN (Fizicheskij Institut AN im. V.N.Lebedeva --- Institute of Physics)
 > }Leninskij Prospekt 53, Moscow 117924.
 > }
 > }IOFAN (Institut Obshchej Fiziki AN --- Inst. of General Physics),
 > }Ul. Vavilova 38, Moscow 117942.
 > }
 > }IFP (Institut Fizicheskikh Problem im. S.I.Vavilova --- Institute for Physical
 > }Problems) Ul. A.N.Kosygina 2, Moscow 117973.
 > }
 > }Institut Teoriticheskoj Fiziki im. Landau --- Institute for Theoretical
 > }Physics, Ul. Kosygina 2; also Chernogolovka.
 > }
 > }IVTAN (Institut Vysokikh Temperatur --- High Temperatures), Kolomenskoe Shosse,
 > }Moscow 127412.
 > }
 > }IFTT (Institut Fiziki Tverdogo Tela --- Inst. for Solid State Physics)
 > }Chernogolovka, Moscow Oblast', 142432.
 >  
 > A while ago I had the pleasure of talking to some folks from IOFAN and
 > promised to let them know when it becomes possible to bring e-mail to their
 > institute. I tried to pass to them the message that they should call Dmitri
 > Volodin or Vadim Antonov at 231-2129 in Moscow to arrange a connection; once
 > they do, there will be an e-mail route there. If you're in touch with
 > someone at these 2 sites, or any other Soviet site, you might want to
 > encourage your contacts to do the same.
 >  
 > There is a LISTSERV mailing list (moderated and digested) used for posting
 > information about Soviet e-mail connections. It's called SUEARN-L and is on
 > LISTSERV@UBVM.CC.BUFFALO.EDU. For more information on using LISTSERV e-mail
 > 'HELP' to any LISTSERV. The digests are automatically posted to the
 > newsgroup talk.politics.soviet.
 >  
 > Dimitri Vulis
 > CUNY GC Math