Slava Paperno: How many times did you travel to the island?
G.N. Lepeshkin: Let me count... Not three years, but a lot of years... So the last time I was there was in ’95. Before that I was there in ’89, ’88, ’87, ’85, ’83, ’82... no, wait a minute, ’82, no, no, I mixed it up. In ’82...
Paperno: What did you go for each time? Was it always the same task? You traveled to the island...
Lepeshkin: You understand, I was traveling there as a specialist. In other words, some preliminary work had been done, and it had to be tested. So I would go there and do that work. I started going there in sixty... in 1970. And then every other year...
Paperno: Even when you worked in Kirov?
Lepeshkin: Yes, of course.
Paperno: Was that testing ground on Vozrozhdeniya used by all of the organizations in Russia... in the Soviet Union?
Lepeshkin: You read that [book], yes it was. Everything is written there. Of course.