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Johannes Bernardus van Loghem in a letter from Kemerovo: "I sent soil samples to Holland for analysis. They indicated the local clay is ideal for making bricks. The Russians are most suspicious as I replace their heavy walls 2 feet thick with cavity brick walls of 3 inch each, using slag as insulation.

Other innovations are sewerage, running water and cables for current. We lay the pipes 7 feet down to prevent them from freezing (temperatures down to minus 40 degrees Celsius in the winter). Plenty of digging. The costs this brings about, forces us to build houses in rows."
van loghem in 1926

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