The year was 1981 and Marina was excitedly filling out her application to join the Chemistry Faculty of Moscow State University. For a girl from an industrial city in rural Ukraine, the opportunity to study at the best university in the Soviet Union was a dream, although her ambitions were met with suspicion by many around her. But Marina was bright and…
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