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Back at school I had decided that I wanted to become a construction engineer, but due to the fact that my father was a “specialist” [that is, a specialist with a university degree who was an office worker], I could not enroll in the construction department. Things were very difficult, because the Soviet authorities at that time recommended that all institutions give educational priority to the children of workers and peasants – and my father was a lawyer. I could only enter a self-supporting school, so I enrolled in the textile technical college that was located at Podvalna Street [today’s Yaroslavov Val Street].
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Alfred Liberman