Public Access E-Mail Sites in
Kazan, Novosibirsk, and Vladivostok


For the past few years a variety of organizations have conducted programs to distribute modems and provide basic e-mail training in the NIS. Now that the hardware is pretty widely available, people have started to think about the applications: "What can I do with this modem?" Last autumn IREX (International Research and Exchanges Board) began a pilot project to encourage scholars and representatives of NGOs in the NIS to use e-mail to communicate with partners abroad and to access resources on the Internet.

IREX has established three public access e-mail sites in Russia at universities in Kazan, Novosibirsk, and Vladivostok. Each site has a full-time staff of two to three people who offer training and support to scholars and representatives of non-governmen tal organizations.

Role for Americans

Americans stateside can play a role in increasing the number of e-mail users in Kazan, Novosibirsk, and Vladivostok by sending messages to their contacts in these cities, care of the public access site. IREX will attempt to notify your contact of the mes sage�s arrival, and encourage them to send a reply via e-mail. Messages should only be sent to scholars or representatives of non-governmental, non-commercial organizations.

Messages to these sites should include as much identifying information about the addressee as possible. A phone number is very useful.

Here are the e-mail and street addresses of the three public access sites:

Kazan
[email protected]

Republic of Tatarstan
420008, Kazan
ul. Lenina, 18,
Kazan State University,
International Department,

Tel: (843-2) 387-321
Tel/Fax: (843-2) 387-390

Novosibirsk
[email protected]

Novosibirsk, Russia 630090
Prospekt akademika Lavrent'eva, 6
Vychislitel'ny Tsentr (Computing Center)
IREX, komnata 441

Tel: (383-2) 350-579

Vladivostok
[email protected]

Vladivostok, Russia 690600
Far Eastern State Technical University;
ul. Pushkinskaya 10, komnata 105

Tel: (423-2) 267628, 269-860.

For more information, contact IREX at:

1616 H Street NW
Washington, DC 20006
Tel: (202) 628-8188
Fax: (202) 628-8189
Email: [email protected]
or
IREX/Moscow
8 Khlebnyi Pereulok
Moscow, Russia 121069
Olga Galkina or Bill Fick

Tel. 290-58-78
[email protected]
[email protected]

This article is from the May 1994 issue of
Civil Society ... East and West

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Last updated: October 8, 1996

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