settlers were told they were supposed to stay on the corals for five years the parents of the talia kosova who's employed at the local history museum arrived here early in one thousand nine hundred six after the war natalia's parents were promised jobs with good salaries. some brought cows along the others barrels filled with nearby when the newcomers didn't have the foggiest idea about what life in the corals would be like arius a man for example if he managed to find the bottom of a barrel into a frying pan here it is. this family never thought of getting rid of it there were nine children in the family which but as it is. until nine hundred forty seven russians and japanese worked together on the corals they even joined public processions marking soviet national holidays there was a time when the talia kosovars father was a fisherman aboard an old japanese schooner many years later he met a fellow fisherman from japan who used to work alongside him in the same crew that was after the collapse of the soviet union but nothing in britain which for many years had passed when i found the jap