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From: smir+@CS.CMU.EDU (Yury Smirnov)
Subject: Re: Mormons in Russia
Organization: Carnegie Mellon University
Date: Thu, 12 Nov 1992 00:23:34 GMT

In article <1992Nov11.133332.60699@cc.usu.edu>, slj1k@cc.usu.edu writes:
|> Greetings and salutations
|> 
|> I am a member of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints (the Mormons)
|> and am interested in knowing if there are any Russian members of the Church who
|> use the `Net'.  If there are members out there, please tell me how you became 
|> a member and your ideas and opinions about the Church in Russia.  I'm not doing
|> this for anything but my for own personal interest (I have a dear friend who is
|> currently serving a mission for the Church in Moscow), and I represent no one 
|> but myself.
|> 
|> Please email me at the following address:
|> 
|> Mark L. Reece SLJ1K@CC.USU.EDU.
|> 
|> Thank you 
|> 
   I knew a guy who attended prays in St-Petersburg and sessions in Crimea
   and Lietuva. He did it for the first time because it was dirt cheap even
   in Russian value - 200 roubles in 1991 for the 2-week trip to the seashore.
   Besides a nice weather he had free English classes and 5-time eating per 
   day. He told that praying wasn't a doubt compared with everything else.
   I don't know now, but it seems to me that he is still attending prays
   one time per week mainly for communication in English, but he told that 
   he would never sell accessories in a street even though it might lead to
   2-week trip to the US. If you are ready to advise cheap session with
   food and English classes near seashore, you'll find a lot of supporters in
   Russia.
   
   Yury.
From: sergei@upenn5.hep.upenn.edu (Sergei Borodin)
Newsgroups: soc.culture.soviet
Subject: Re: reply to S. Borodin
Date: 10 Nov 92 18:42:08 GMT
Organization: University of Pennsylvania

In article <NIKOLAY.92Nov6230646@husc10.harvard.edu> nikolay@husc10.harvard.edu (Philip Nikolayev) writes:
>sergei@upenn5.hep.upenn.edu (Sergei Borodin) writes:

>> In article <NIKOLAY.92Nov5232427@husc10.harvard.edu>
>> nikolay@husc10.harvard.edu (Philip Nikolayev) writes:

>>>sergei@upenn5.hep.upenn.edu (Sergei Borodin) writes:

>>>> In article <1992Nov5.193138.28842@EE.Surrey.Ac.UK>
>>>> @ee.surrey.ac.uk (null) writes:

>SB
>>>>  A lot of stuff which has nothing to do with my posting and, as
>>>> customized here, accusses me in a sort of a membership in
>>>> "Pamyat'" and other Neo- Nazi organizations.

>>>>  Dear Mr. Null, You defenetly missunderstood my posting. And I
>>>>  would
>>>> appreciate if you will read BEFORE start typing an answer. 

>PN
>>>Perhaps you should learn to write before you post.

>SB
>>  Ja, pozhalui, po russki: A ne poiti li Vam na hui, sudar'?
>> Kazhetsa, chto Vam tam i mesto.  

>Net, v Pennsilvanski Universitet menia ne tianet.

  Vy, uvazhaemyi, kak vsegda mimo. Rech' to idet ne o tom, kuda Vas
  "TIANET", a o tom, GDE vam MESTO. V zhizni eto chasto ne sovpadaet,
  kak i proizoshlo v dannom sluchae.

>A chto, pisat' len' uchitsia?

 Da uchus' ja, uchus'. A Vam tozhe neploho bylo by pouchitsa 
 ne vstrevat' v razgovor, sut' kotorogo vam malo ponjatna,
 so svoimi rekomendatsijami, kotorye k obsuzhdaemoi teme ne
 otnosjatsja. 

>SB
>> U Vas, kak ja zametil, lichshe
>> poluchaetsja kommentirovat' Patriciju, da i ne udivitelno -
>> nakinulis' tolpoi na slabuju zhenschinu i kliuete.

>Prezhde chem uchit'sia pisat', nauchites' 
>sperva chitat'. Ili otuchites' pizdet'.

  O, znachit ja oshibsja. Est' znachit ludi sredi moih opponentov,
  kotorye ne uchastvujut v travle slaboj zhenschiny. Otradno.
  V etom sluchae - proshu proschenija.

>Phil.

 S.B.
From: muh@physics1 (Yury M. Mukharsky)
Newsgroups: soc.culture.soviet
Subject: Re: Reply to S. Borodin (was: Antisemitism and Verbitsky)
Date: 9 Nov 1992 06:32:05 GMT
Organization: University of California, Berkeley
NNTP-Posting-Host: physics1.berkeley.edu

In article <kosinov.721260009@ceg.uiuc.edu> kosinov@ceg.uiuc.edu (Greg Kosinovsky) writes:

> time, and negligible historically. At any time since 1918
> there were more Trotskyites at CUNY and Berkley than in
> all of St. Petersburg.

It looks like Joseph Stalin and Alexander Solzhenitsyn were of the opposite
(to yours) opinion on this subject. 

Yury
Newsgroups: soc.culture.soviet
From: nobby@milton.u.washington.edu (Vitaly Shmatikov)
Subject: Re: Reply to S. Borodin (was: Antisemitism and Verbitsky)
Organization: University of Washington, Seattle
Date: Sat, 7 Nov 1992 00:34:20 GMT

In article <1992Nov6.183455.17177@husc3.harvard.edu> verbit@coolidge.harvard.edu (Mikhail S. Verbitsky) writes:
>In article <1992Nov6.003025.21354@u.washington.edu> nobby@milton.u.washington.edu (Vitaly Shmatikov) writes:
>>In article <1dcajdINNpi7@rodan.UU.NET> avg@rodan.UU.NET (Vadim Antonov) writes:
>

[... stuff gone away ...]

>
>	And could you, Valery, explain *me* what deserved hate in Alex
>	Goykman writings? I rather tolerate Pamyat' members, 
>	(especially potential ones :) but I don't see much offense
>	there either. He just expressed his opinion, and this opinion
>	appeared to be not the same as yours (and Vadim's). 
>	Why hate him?
>

Well, so far I've noticed only one Valery in this group but I can't
recall him participating in this thread. Since apparently the cited 
posting was produced as a follow-up to my article I'll take liberty to 
substitute Valery and to answer some questions.

Dear Michael!

Why have you decided that I hate Alex Goykhman? On the contrary,
I agree with 90% of his initial article. However, I find his statement 
about ethnic tolerance in the 20s and 30s rather strange and happen to
disagree with it. I tend to think that if Stalin's regime did enforce
ethnic equality then only in a sense that all tribes were equally 
persecuted. We can argue if it's indeed so but why do you deem my 
statement of disagreement an expression of hatred?!

The rest of Mr. Goykhman's article is quite reasonable and not only
I do not hate him for it but also admit that we coincide on many points.

As far as Mr. Antonov's reply goes it deeply upsets me. Vadim Antonov
is widely esteemed (no irony intended) not only in Soviet but also
in American programming circles. I happened to hear very good opinions
of him long before I joined this grim flame war. His previous
postings displayed our tremendous disagreement but his argument was
sound and well-sustained. Unfortunately, the last article crossed a
boundary and I find some of his recent claims outright insultive.

I was especially stung by his attempt to involve Israel into the
discussion of 'Jewish question' in the xSU. This technique is usually
used by dedicated bigots who I prefer to ignore and it is very sad
that Mr. Antonov resorted to it. My reply was overly heated and I will
apologize if necessary. But I feel that I expressed hatred neither to 
honorable Mr. Goykhman, nor to esteemed Mr. Antonov.

>	Misha.

nobby@u.washington.edu
From: nikolay@husc10.harvard.edu (Philip Nikolayev)
Newsgroups: soc.culture.soviet
Subject: Re: reply to S. Borodin
Date: 7 Nov 92 07:06:46 GMT
Article-I.D.: husc10.NIKOLAY.92Nov6230646
Organization: The Kremlin Wall of Harvard
In-reply-to: sergei@upenn5.hep.upenn.edu's message of 6 Nov 92 18:21:04 GMT

sergei@upenn5.hep.upenn.edu (Sergei Borodin) writes:

> In article <NIKOLAY.92Nov5232427@husc10.harvard.edu>
> nikolay@husc10.harvard.edu (Philip Nikolayev) writes:

>>sergei@upenn5.hep.upenn.edu (Sergei Borodin) writes:

>>> In article <1992Nov5.193138.28842@EE.Surrey.Ac.UK>
>>> @ee.surrey.ac.uk (null) writes:

SB
>>>  A lot of stuff which has nothing to do with my posting and, as
>>> customized here, accusses me in a sort of a membership in
>>> "Pamyat'" and other Neo- Nazi organizations.

>>>  Dear Mr. Null, You defenetly missunderstood my posting. And I
>>>  would
>>> appreciate if you will read BEFORE start typing an answer. 

PN
>>Perhaps you should learn to write before you post.

SB
>  Ja, pozhalui, po russki: A ne poiti li Vam na hui, sudar'?
> Kazhetsa, chto Vam tam i mesto.  

Net, v Pennsilvanski Universitet menia ne tianet.
A chto, pisat' len' uchitsia?

SB
> U Vas, kak ja zametil, lichshe
> poluchaetsja kommentirovat' Patriciju, da i ne udivitelno -
> nakinulis' tolpoi na slabuju zhenschinu i kliuete.

Prezhde chem uchit'sia pisat', nauchites' 
sperva chitat'. Ili otuchites' pizdet'.

Phil.
Newsgroups: soc.culture.soviet
From: brians@wsuvm1.csc.wsu.edu (Paul Brians)
Subject: Courier to Moscow?
Followup-To: soc.culture.soviet
Organization: Washington State University
Date: Fri, 13 Nov 92 06:11:44 GMT

I am acting as the literary agent for Liubov Makarovna Sirota, who wrote a
volume of poetry about her experiences as a victim of the Chernobyl
disaster.  Dr. Adolf Harash of Moscow State University wrote an article
introducing her poems which has recently been published in a Canadian
Russian/English women's magazine.  I would like to find someone going to
Moscow who would be willing to deliver his author's copy to him.  If you
are interested, please write me directly.

Paul Brians
Department of English, Washington State University, Pullman
BitNet: brians@wsuvm1   Internet: brians@wsuvm1.csc.edu
From: verbit@brauer.harvard.edu (Mikhail S. Verbitsky)
Newsgroups: soc.culture.soviet
Subject: LZ Roolz
Date: 10 Nov 92 05:27:38 GMT
Article-I.D.: husc3.1992Nov10.002739.17287
Organization: Sozialistische Patienten Kollektiv

In article <61877@mimsy.umd.edu> vadik@cs.umd.edu (Vadim Maslov) writes:
>In article <1992Nov9.193950.7317@galois.mit.edu> verbit@cauchy.mit.edu (Mikahil Verbitski) writes:

>>	The first part of film, which is actually a prologue, has
>>	a symbolic meaning. It depicts a semi-folklore story
>>	about Russian monk who invented a zeppelin (circa 1580).

>Ha-ha-Ha. Russia is not only a Motherland of Elephants but
>also of celebrities like M. Verbitsky. 

>Not knowing difference between zeppelin and hot air balloon 
>(which was actually shown in Tarkovsky's film) Mr. Verbitsky
>clearly demonstrates that well-brewed national spirit combined with 
>superior Harvard education may produce truly impressive results.

>Vadim Maslov.

For your information:

cauchy [21] 12:19am bin>webster zeppelin
zep.pe.lin \'zep-(*-)l*n\ n [Count Ferdinand von Zeppelin -1917 G airship 
   manufacturer] : a rigid airship consisting of a cylindrical trussed and 
   covered frame su pported by internal gas cells; broadly : AIRSHIP
 
It is a pity that unsufficient knowledge of English
induces such a big volume of noise and flames.

Misha.
Newsgroups: soc.culture.soviet
From: oleg@netcom.com (Oleg Kiselev)
Subject: Re: Jewish Autonomous Oblast
Organization: Netcom - Online Communication Services (408 241-9760 guest)
Date: Mon, 9 Nov 1992 09:11:27 GMT

In article <1992Nov09.082409.3811@eng.umd.edu> cema@eng.umd.edu (Simon Hawkin) writes:
>People used to see some logic in it.

The logic may have been Stalin's pseudo-anthropological idea that to be a
"nationality" people had to have a homeland.  If Jews were a nationality,
they had to have a homeland, a remote piece of dirt, taiga and mountains 
off on the Chinese border.  A home of their own!  To hell with the natives,
or the fact that there has never been any Jews in the area.  It's the
thought, if any, that counts.

-- 
Oleg Kiselev at home			...use the header to find the path
From: burshtey@eniac.seas.upenn.edu (Alexander Burshteyn)
Newsgroups: soc.culture.soviet
Subject: Lyrics for a song requested
Date: 12 Nov 92 23:31:35 GMT
Organization: University of Pennsylvania

Can someone please post the lyrics for Ivashchenko & Vasil'ev"s song
"Na dache Evgeniya Ivanycha"?

Thank you.

Alex Burshteyn
Newsgroups: soc.culture.soviet
From: gene@max.physics.sunysb.edu (Eugene Tyurin)
Subject: Re: Reply to S. Borodin (was: Antisemitism and Verbitsky)
Organization: Institute for the Theoretical Physics
Date: Fri, 6 Nov 1992 21:58:03 GMT

In article <1992Nov3.235241.2080@u.washington.edu> nobby@milton.u.washington.edu (Vitaly Shmatikov) writes:
>In article <1d6ra4INN7dg@rodan.UU.NET> avg@rodan.UU.NET (Vadim Antonov) writes:
>>In article <1992Nov3.003503.7239@u.washington.edu> nobby@milton.u.washington.edu (Vitaly Shmatikov) writes:
>
>[... stuff deleted ...]
>
>>
>>>I perfectly remember
>>>the problems that were routinely given to non-Jews at oral math exams.
>>>Most of them were akin to 'Prove that 3 < Pi < 4'.  Typical exam
>>>takes about 1-1.5 hours. If at the same time some applicants
>>>have to spend 6-8 hours solving 'slightly different' problems
>>
>>It's a matter of psychology. If you're trying to show an
>>examinator than you're smarter than he is you're in deep yogurt.
>>This attitude is really typical particularly between Jews who
>>were convinced by their parents that they're smartest people
>>in the world and that some evil (and stupid) Russians will try
>>to put them down. It does not mean that this problem is Jewish
>>only. I got a lot of troubles because of exactly the same attitude
>>(*now* i do realize it).
>>
>
	You can also think of this:
1) The scarciest exam (at least at the Physics dept. of MGU) is written
   mathematics. This gives the maximum amount of failing grades.
2) Now, applicant proved (after written exam) that he knows something.
   At an oral exam, examinator has to test both graduates of specialized
schools and people from "Ust'-Pizduisk" -- so they get different kinds of
problems. And I think it is reasonable, because specialized school graduates
are noticeable among other students only in the 1st year -- they were taught
the 1st year material at school; after that they get leveled.

	All the best and get yourself a life!

_______________________________________________________________________________
 Eugene  N.  Tyurin  <+>                           gene@max.physics.sunysb.edu
 Physics Department  <+>   Two wrongs do not make it right, but three lefts do.
 SUNY @ Stony Brook  <+>                                W. Siegel (unpublished)
From: burshtey@eniac.seas.upenn.edu (Alexander Burshteyn)
Newsgroups: soc.culture.soviet
Subject: What are talking about? (was Re: Fylologi fleim)
Date: 11 Nov 92 22:04:04 GMT
Organization: University of Pennsylvania

In article <BxJ2JC.2rw@max.physics.sunysb.edu> LANDSBERG@sbhep2.phy.sunysb.edu (Greg Landsberg) writes:
>In <1992Nov10.161147.34508@watson.ibm.com> bil@burka..aix.kingston.ibm.com writes:
>> Really valuable persons accept Visa, MC or Amex. :-)
>>
>> 	-igor
>
>Really valuable people do not accept AmEx :-)
>
>Greg
                                                                          
Here is your typical example of a deep intellectual discussion
in the soc.vulture.soviet.                                                 
                                                                          
Need I say anything else?                                                   
                                                                            
No further comments.                                                      
                                                                            
Alex Burshteyn                                                            
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From: ken@racerx.bridge.COM (Ken Hardy)
Newsgroups: soc.culture.soviet
Subject: Re: Roubles and Dollars
Date: 6 Nov 92 19:44:35 GMT
Organization: Planet Earth

In article <1dbupsINN8to@rodan.UU.NET> avg@rodan.UU.NET (Vadim Antonov) writes:
>The dollar to rouble rate mostly has a psychological impact -- the current
>auction rates (which can jump up and down 30% daily) are the only source
>of any information -- and therefore they determine which rate is considered
>good on the streets. The auction rates, in turn, are determined by large
>byers and sellers which basically are state enterprises with their "immaterial"
>roubles. No wonder, the auction rate is much higher than "real" rate you


Ruble Declines In Moscow Trading On New Exchange

From the WSJ:

+ 
+    By Elisabeth Rubinfien
+ 
+    MOSCOW -- The ruble is taking a beating at the Moscow Commodity
+ Exchange, one of the more important of Russia's nascent exchanges,
+ where trading in hard-currency futures began last month, The Wall
+ Street Journal reported.
+ 
+    The trading is held each Wednesday for about half an hour. At
+ yesterday's session, 30 traders working around a horseshoe-shaped table
+ handled $7,220 in contracts of $10 each, to be settled Dec. 14.
+ 
+    Since trading began Oct. 21, the value of the ruble has fallen
+ steadily.  Yesterday's average transaction price was 590 rubles per
+ dollar. Last week, the average price was 540 rubles per dollar. The
+ first week it was 459 rubles.
+ 
+    The decline in the value of the ruble in the dollar-futures
+ contracts follows the slide in the ruble's official exchange rate,
+ which is set twice a week at currency auctions of the Moscow Interbank
+ Currency Exchange. On Tuesday, the ruble closed at 396 per dollar, a
+ slight increase in value from 398 rubles the previous Thursday, but
+ down in value sharply from 368 rubles per dollar Oct. 20.
+ 
+    Futures-trading volume has grown from 235 contracts the first week
+ to 459 the second and 722 yesterday. Exchange officials realize trading
+ at this level is still minuscule. "Contracts of $10 are sort of a
+ practice game for the launch of $1,000 contracts," said Pavel Mochalov,
+ the exchange's vice president.
+ 
+    The exchange had planned to start futures trading for lots of $1,000
+ by year end but now plans to begin before December. Larger-scale
+ contracts will draw new clients, the exchange hopes, including banks
+ and trading companies that want to hedge their hard-currency business
+ activity, rather than simply speculate. For now, says Mochalov, dealers
+ are mainly speculating for clients who have allotted them an average of
+ $90.
+ 
+    Russia's twice-weekly currency auctions are still small, about $40
+ million at each session, but Russian investors are ready to trade
+ futures simply because of the instability of the ruble and the shortage
+ of convertible currency, traders say.
+ 

-- 

Ken Hardy
ken@bridge.com  (racerx!ken)
From: muh@physics1 (Yury M. Mukharsky)
Newsgroups: soc.culture.soviet
Subject: Re: Jewish Autonomous Oblast
Date: 9 Nov 1992 06:37:40 GMT
Organization: University of California, Berkeley
NNTP-Posting-Host: physics1.berkeley.edu

In article <rabjab.244.721280081@golem.ucsd.edu> rabjab@golem.ucsd.edu (Jeff Bytof) writes:
>
>Birobidzhan is the capital of the Jewish A.O.  Why are the Jews
>there?  Were they banished there by Stalin, or is there another

Well, I'm not old enough to remember the formation of the region, but
I was told that official reason for founding it there was (do not laugh, all
flames to sci.romours)

"In the process of random migration of nationalities in our multynational 
motherland, all Jews were concentrated ..."

Yury M.

Newsgroups: soc.culture.soviet
From: arto@leland.Stanford.EDU (Artavazd Khachikian)
Subject: Consultation needed
Organization: DSG, Stanford University, CA 94305, USA
Date: Thu, 12 Nov 92 21:34:15 GMT



	I would be grateful if some one competent in the legal
aspects of electronic mail and electronic networks could enlighten me
on that subject.

	Please write to me via e-mail. Arto.
Organization: University of Illinois at Chicago
Date: Sunday, 8 Nov 1992 18:40:39 CST
From: ---  BORYS  --- <U52539@uicvm.uic.edu>
Newsgroups: uic.culture.ukrainian,bit.listserv.ukraine,soc.culture.soviet
Subject: Viewing and discussion of Ukrainian film in Chgo




   FILM:      "Shadows of Our Forgotten Ancestors"
   DATE:      November 18    Wednesday
   TIME:      2-4pm
  PLACE:     University of Illinois at Chicago
                750 S. Halsted Ave.
                Douglas Hall  room310



       The movie "Shadows of our Forgotten Ancestors"   will
     be showed as an extension of the course SLAV 116  (Ukrainian/
     EastSlavic Folklore and Mythology) on Nov. 18.

       An introduction of the movie will be given by the lecturer,
    Prof.  Bohdan Rubchak  followed by a discussion of the movie.

      Everyone is invited to participate in this event.
      There will be no admission fee.

     For any questions about the film or the discussion please
    send comments to me,  Borys Bodnaruk  at U52539@uicvm.uic.edu.
From: vnoble@dhvx20.csudh.edu
Newsgroups: soc.culture.soviet
Subject: Self-introduction of a new member
Date: 6 Nov 92 00:07:05 GMT
Organization: CSU, DOMINGUEZ HILLS

Hello friends!

I am new to this group and network as a whole.  Our organization just purchased
VAX mainframe, so I hope I will become a regular reader/writer.

Let me informally introduce myself:

Name: Vladimir Noble

Age: Early thirties

Ocuupation: Computer Programmer

Place of Birth: Kiev, U.S.S.R.

Date of Arrival to USA: January, 1988

Marital Status: Single

Residence: Orange County, California

Place of Work: California State University

Hobbie(s): Stock market speculations

Since I have never dealt with Internet before, I'd appreciate any information
or suggestions on how to take advantage of this THING.


Thanx!

Vladie
Newsgroups: soc.culture.soviet
From: berlin@is.morgan.com (Alexander Berlin)
Subject: Re: Reply to S. Borodin (was: Antisemitism and Verbitsky)
Organization: Morgan Stanley - IS
Date: Thu, 5 Nov 1992 14:14:23 GMT

In article <1dar7aINN6r2@agate.berkeley.edu>, muh@physics.Berkeley.EDU (Yury M. Mukharsky) writes:
|> In article <Bx82sK.4sq@cs.columbia.edu> igor@cs.columbia.edu (Igor Pankevich) writes:
|> >
|> >Ahhh, p'yatides'yatisemity!
|> 
|> Cool!
|> 

You may like the other one:

Kto takie semity?       - Te, kto uspeli kupit' vodku do semi chasov?
A kto takie antisemity? - A eto te, kotorie ne uspeli i schitaut, chto 
                          v etom vinovati evrei.
-- 
Alex Berlin                     
berlin@is.morgan.com
Newsgroups: soc.culture.soviet
From: LANDSBERG@sbhep2.phy.sunysb.edu (Greg Landsberg)
Subject: Re: Fylologi fleim
Organization: SUNY at Stony Brook
Date: Wed, 11 Nov 1992 01:23:36 GMT
X-News-Reader: VMS NEWS 1.20

In <1992Nov10.161147.34508@watson.ibm.com> bil@burka..aix.kingston.ibm.com writes:

> Really valuable persons accept Visa, MC or Amex. :-)
> 
> 	-igor

Really valuable people do not accept AmEx :-)

Greg
Newsgroups: soc.culture.soviet
Subject: Re: "Groby"
From: vic@vms.huji.ac.il (VICTOR HALPERIN)
Date: 5 Nov 1992 20:24 IDT
Distribution: world
Organization: The Hebrew University of Jerusalem
News-Software: VAX/VMS VNEWS 1.41

In article <96168@netnews.upenn.edu>, burshtey@eniac.seas.upenn.edu (Alexander Burshteyn) writes...
>There has recently been another wave of controversy in this group whether
>"groby" on MGU mekhmat entrance exam can really be unsolvable in 20 munites.
>For those who still does not believe that, here is a genuine "grob", which is
>my favorite and which I consider the mother of all "grobs".
>
>Given three points, two of which are points of intersection of the lines
>containing the opposite sides of an inscribed quadrilateral (no sides of which
>are parallel) and the third is the point of intersection of the lines
>containing the diagonals of this quadrilateral, construct, using only
>straightedge and compass, the center of the circle into which the quadrilateral
>is inscribed.
>
>I was told that the construction itself is remarkably simple.
>The whole thing is to find out what it is.

Plot a strait line connecting the diagonals intersection point with
intersection point of a pair of sides, then construct a perpendicular
to this line passing through the intersection point of other pair of
sides. Repeat the construction interchanging the pairs of sides.
The intersection point of the two perpendiculars will be the center.

Not bad. I got something of similar difficulty at the same exam.
Regarding other students of my year I guess there did study some ten
of them (out of 475) who could possibly solve it in 15 minutes.

>Alex Burshteyn

Victor Halperin, a former mech-mat student.
Newsgroups: soc.culture.soviet