But closer to Voskresensk, the fresh country air turns acrid with the noxious odor of fumes belched from smokestacks atop one of Russia's largest fertilizer plants.
Voskresensk is a well-known hockey town, and residents proudly remind visitors that Igor Larionov left here to become a star center for the Detroit Red Wings.
But walks around the outside of the sprawling factory, and interviews with residents of Voskresensk, indicate that there is very little that is state of the art about the plant.
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