X-Message-Number: 27957 From: "John de Rivaz" <> Subject: Pravda on KrioRus Date: Fri, 19 May 2006 23:07:50 +0100 From Pravda: >> The first cryonic storage facility has been recently opened in the village of Alabychevo, near the town of Solnechnogorsk, some 50 km Northwest of Moscow. The facility is expected to store frozen brains of those who wished to be immortal. ... At the moment the specialists at KrioRus storage in Alabyshevo are dealing with two customers. << The village isn't given on Google Maps http://maps.google.com but it may he somewhere here: http://maps.google.com/maps?f=q&hl=en&q=Solnechnogorsk&ll=56.413901,36.427917&spn=0.117182,0.262642&t=k&om=1 >> Information about the first customer is pretty scarce. He was a man, aged 60 or 70. He died of prostate cancer. His son, a businessman, decided to freeze the father's brain. The son reportedly holds dual citizenship (Russian and Swiss), he dreams of preserving his body too so that his father and he may revive together. The other customer is a woman, called Lydia Fedorenko, a math teacher from St. Petersburg . She was 79 years old at the time of death. Her grandson, Daniil Fedorenko, a researcher at the Institute of Exact Mechanics and Optics, decided to preserve her brain for further revival. << more on http://english.pravda.ru/science/tech/18-05-2006/80548-immortal-0 where there are also some interesting links off. It is interesting to note that Russia has a long history of interest in similar ideas. There is NF Ferdorov or Fyodorov. http://www.venturist.org/fyodorov.htm and of course the Communists' attempt to store the body of VI Lenin. I am not sure whether this continues or has been ceased. The communists' conventionally negative view of cryonics as expressed by Boris Belizsky and Vladimir Pozner on Radio Moscow was recorded in the 1980s and will be made available at some future date. -- Sincerely, John de Rivaz: http://John.deRivaz.com for websites including Cryonics Europe, Longevity Report, The Venturists, Porthtowan, Alec Harley Reeves - inventor, Arthur Bowker - potter, de Rivaz genealogy, Nomad .. and more Rate This Message: http://www.cryonet.org/cgi-bin/rate.cgi?msg=27957