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Very little investment had been made in the works, and it was not effcient. It was a small works, and very close to a car depot with which, probably, it could have advanta­ geously been merged. 11 Zheldorremmash was the share company affliated to the Railways Ministry that looked after the repair enterprises that had stayed tied to the Ministry, so in effect the Bogotol Works had merely come home after a nasty fright. Probably Zheldorremmash's decision to purchase was a pre­ emptive strike to prevent what was seen as a vital facility falling into unreliable, private, hands.

But there had been all kinds of delay with the paperwork, involving, it seemed, deliberate foot­dragging. Sochi had been raising prices somewhat, but was giving a very good service. It therefore had made enemies. When the privatisation instruction was pub­ lished, its precise status was uncertain. Sure enough, in 1996, the Sochi enterprise was ousted and replaced by the Vesna company. According to local and perhaps hyperbolic comment, this meant that menus that had become famous in the North Caucasus sud­ denly disappeared, to be replaced by dishes based on time­expired tins of imported food.

The frst private railway Although it was never privatised, being a 'commercial' project right from the start, the railway between Ledmozero and Kochkoma does deserve mention since it was regarded as part of the privatisation, or commercialisation, process. It was a 126 km line in Karelia link­ ing the October Railway's main line to Murmansk with the north­south Kostomushka branch to its west. Such a line had been suggested to 40 Soviet Railways to Russian Railways the MPS in the past but the idea had been put aside because of, among other things, the fnancial situation.

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