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Geography of the project: Chelyabinsk
Applications: Miass, Snezhinsk, Zlatoust and other
places of Chelyabinsk region
Major participants: Regional Center of FREEnet
Southern Ural State University
The Chelyabinsk Scientific Center of Russian Academy with supporting of
Chelyabinsk region Administration
Chelyabinsk region is an area that was stuffed with large enterprises
and military plants till recently. Metallurgical complexes in Magnitogorsk
and Chelyabinsk are examples of the first group, Russian Federal Nuclear
Center in Snezhisk and factory for radioactive waste - of the second one.
They did not disappear nowhere at present but their influence upon life
of people , economic indices and ecology has been decreased. Changes being
in the country could not pass by Southern Ural where small and middle business
is activated.
In September 2000 there will be 264 anniversary of Chelyabinsk (http://www.urc.ac.ru/Chelyabinsk/City/),
it has more than 1,200,000 inhabitants now. This is a large industrial
and cultural center with high developed transportation system. The city
has many universities, the biggest one is Southern Ural State University
(SUSU, http://www.susu.ac.ru/). Perhaps
"thanks to" nearness of serious nuclear objects one of specific feature
is existence of wide set of ecological NGO.
In 1993 Victor Krivoshekov and Dmitry Latukhin who have graduated from
Moscow Physics and Engineering Institute realized idea about launching
regional center of FREEnet (The network For Research, Education and Engineering)
in Chelyabinsk. At those times it was the first non-commercial network
(http://www.free.net/) , it had quite
good capabilities and connected several regions in Russia.
FREEnet has extented its activity in the area. Soon not only universities
and research centers became its users but also schools, hospitals, libraries,
NGO and social initiative groups. Their number increases every year.
That is why participation in competition for RCNP, announced by Friends
and Parnres Foundation (http://www.friends-partners.ru)
was almost naturally determined. We have overtopped limits of the status
of scientific and educational provider and have accumulated wide experience
how to collaborate with different collective users. We have also established
good working contacts with numerous organizations and associations. RCNP
has been shown an excellent opportunity to open new page of activity and
to develop a local network community.
Workgroup of Chelyabinsk Civic Network (CCN) project consists mostly
from staff of the FREEnet center in SUSU.
Victor Krivoshekov - head of the center and SUSU division of WAN technologies.
He has great organizing abilities and very high capacity for work.
Dmitry Latukhin - vice-chief of the division, coordinator of the project
and activity of the center which is in any event connected with developing
information resources.
They both are Ph.D., directors of several projects that were supported
by Russian and foreign foundations as well as NATO.
System administrators Anton Voronin and Fedor Dudarev that substituted
Konstantin Chuguev in 1999 are real professionals. Our large "networking
economy" with Cisco routers, servers and equipment of point of public access
to Internet (center "Internet for Everyone") is still working due to efforts
of these persons. By the way, as I think, the mentioned point is unique.
One can read about it in details in papers of IOL'2000 conference (http://iol.spb.osi.ru/db/doc/get_thes.php3?id=206).
 "Unix Guru #1"
 "The break between
battles"
Andey Sizikov and Natalia Skladenko work in our user support service.
They answer to various calls and email messages, to all questions concerning
modem pool, software options and setup, networking services, etc.
 Natalia Skladenko
Staff of center "Internet for Everyone" (http://openweb.ccn.org.ru/)
includes Elena Mitlosh and Galina Korepanova. I can say only good words
about them. Please imagine, more than 1000 users were registered in the
center. All of them receive assistance if they need especially when they
see Unix workstations for the first time. In addition the center is a great
base for trainings of teachers, scholars and students, NGO personnel.
 " Elena Mitlosh,
Curator of Public Access Point "
CCN project gave to NGO and different non-commercial organizations a
possibility to expand their Internet presence. Some of them got free access
through the networking center as well as free mail boxes, are working on
their own web pages. These words can be illustrated by following values.
Atr present the following organizations are connected to civic network:
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NGO 10
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libraries 3
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hospitals and medical research centers 7
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schools 68
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people with disabilities 3
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and others
Some organizations in Miass, Zlatoust and Snezhinsk (these are cities
in Chelyabinsk region) are involved in the project too.
There are two technical mailing lists for supporting our users - On-line
User and UUCP User. The third list named [email protected]
is for sharing information among all participants of the network. Now we
have approximately 30 subscribers. The list serves for grant and conferences
announcements, discussions, inquiries about training, etc.
Many people were able to fill up their knowledge at our workshops and
learning courses that are held in "Internet for Everyone" center. It is
a place for work of those people who do not still have their own computer
and modem for on-line access.
Two web sites tell about CCN project and the point for free access to
the Internet - www.ccn.org.ru
and openweb.ccn.org.ru.
Next important networking part is chat server for on-line discussion which
was developed by programmers of our networking center. We deal also with
distributing free and shareware, Internet guides and references books and
so forth.
All these things, from my point of view, confirm successful results
of our activity. So the project works for formation new and for development
of already existent NGO, for creating information environment for them.
Dmitry Latukhin,
The project coordinator
Email: [email protected]
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