在10月初，苏联时期的水翼船震颤着穿过大片荒地，河岸上成排的白桦只会被偶尔出现的露营地打断，成群的水鸭像乌云般像南飞去，几个星期过后，冰的痕迹第一次出现了，水翼船也停止了服务，一直到翌年的六月初，才能在伊古拉耶夫斯克（Nikolaevsk）再次看到其他船的身影。
Clouds of teal barrel southwards. A couple of weeks later the first ice appears, the hydrofoil service is suspended and Nikolaevsk will not see another boat until early June.
“这将是俄罗斯迈向闻名世界的标志，”古里耶夫说,“俄罗斯离之不远”。
“It will be a sign that Russia is moving towards the civilised world, ” says Mr Guriev, “not away from it.”
暂时的，访问伊古拉耶夫斯克(Nikolaevsk)的船只带来了古巴雪茄，日本家具，法国胶水，不消几年，符拉迪沃斯托克就取代了伊古拉耶夫斯克(Nikolaevsk)成为了俄罗斯面向太平洋的新港口。
For a while, ships calling at Nikolaevsk brought Cuban cigars, Japanese furniture, pate from France. Within years, Vladivostok replaced Nikolaevsk as Russia's Pacific port.
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