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DATE: FRIDAY, April 6, 1990                   TAG: 9004060463
SECTION: BUSINESS                    PAGE: A11   EDITION: METRO 
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DATELINE: SAN FRANCISCO                                LENGTH: Short

BECHTEL TO HELP BUILD SOVIET SCIENCE CITY

Bechtel Group Inc. has been chosen to help the Soviet Union turn a government research center near Moscow into a Silicon Valley-style "technopolis" where science is commercialized.

Although the Soviets have contracted only for a feasibility study, Bechtel said the government intends to spend $100 million a year to build a network of entrepreneurial, high-tech research communities.

The new research park is planned for Troitsk, 20 miles southwest of Moscow and already home to the Kurchatov Institute of Atomic Energy. - San Francisco Chronicle

by CNB