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Nikolai: Retired Machinery Worker

Nikolai: Retired Machinery Worker

RAMENSKOE, MOSCOW SUBURBS: I could see a group of school children from across a pond playing on the ice.

One was skating in circles with a hockey stick. As I git closer, I realized the hockey player was an adult.

As I got around to that end of the pond, I realized it was a pensioner.

He said his name was Nikolai and had worked his whole life as a machine factory.

Now in his mid 60s and retired, he got back into ice skating a few years ago to stay in shape.

He said he had gone a few decades without skating, but quickly got back in the grove. 

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