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Expected to live only a few weeks due to his advanced tuberculosis Metesky had to be carried into the hospital. After a year and a half of treatment, his health had improved, and a newspaper article written fourteen years later described the 68-year-old Metesky as "vigorous and healthy looking".
(18 April 1957)

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Mayak

Ozyorsk, Chelyabinsk Oblast, Russia.

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