 There was a small power station, a refinery for vegetable oil, a steel-rolling mill, a dairy factory, auto repair shops, saddleries, leather and felt factories, a post and telegraph office, a bank, and branches of national trading houses.Most of the Chinese worked in small own businesses.The Russian community could find here its only high school in the area, the seat of the Russian Association and the local branch of the nation-wide "Office for the Russian Emigrants' Affairs" (BREM) which published the weekly newspaper "The Cossack Life" (Russian