Eric, I read in your bio that you had been an engineer for Svetlana. Do you speak any Russian, by chance?

I have a tape showing some history of the Svetlana factory, showing it back in the Soviet days and its condition today. The building is still there. Back in its hey-day, it was a top-secret plant and I'm not sure that the old images of factory workers in this mini-documentary are actually Svetlana workers. It could be they were working at a different tube plant. I just don't know, but it is interesting to see a Russian documentary about the plant.

It seems that there was some controversy about the name here in America. I don't think there is any such controversy in Russia, but I don't know.

Do you have any interesting stories about the company?