SECRET SOVIET CITY OPENS ITS DIRTY DOORS
Dzerzhinsk (der-
JZINSK), a once-secret city 300 miles east of Moscow once housed the Soviet Union’s chemical industry. Today, it manufactures consumer goods — including soaps, car parts and plastics in factories that are still dumping massive amounts of pollution into the air, land and water. Beth Knobel reports.
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