[OldNavyVet]

buried under a Pleistocene-age permafrost at a site near Kolyma, Russia.

The Kolyma River is where Solzhenitsyn spent his prison years.

They had access to books and Solzhenitsyn read a few science books and passed himself off as a trained scientist ... It landed him a State Laboratory where he faked his way through ... and survived.

[Little Bill]

Solzhenitsyn was a Math teacher, the Ruskies killed off all of the bright ones in WW2. He was selected to the First Circle to help the Ruskies develop what they got from the Germans as war booty, read the book.