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 SLIN Moscow TASS in English 0832 GMT 9 Jan 92
 SUBS [By TASS correspondents Nikolay Milov and Gennadiy Talalayev
 SUBJ Yeltsin Begins Visit to Ulyanovsk
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 2    [Text] Ulyanovsk January 9 TASS -- Russian President Yeltsin's working
 visit to Ulyanovsk began this morning with a tour of the local aircraft
 building complex, recently reorganised into the "Aviastar" joint-stock
 society.
 3    Yeltsin showed interest in the plant's technical equipment, its
 efficiency, new development projects, contractual relations with partners,
 mutually profitable cooperation ventures offered by foreign firms and
 banks, and, naturally, in the personnel policy, living standards, working
 conditions and leisure of aircraft builders.
 4    The Russian president was shown the world's first thermoplane, an
 absolutely new type of flying apparatus, developed at the plant jointly
 with scientists of the Moscow Aviation Institute.  Designers believe
 thermoplanes, which have the form of "flying saucers" may soon find broad
 application in various branches of economy and in forbidding areas of the
 country.
 5    Boris Yeltsin spent an hour and a half talking to managers of the plant.
 The talk proceeded in camera.  (endall) 090832             40901.01
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