On the banks of the Volga river, the small town of Plyos houses Russia's elite.

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Same day the Polish gold arrived, Paris experts announced they had totted up what they thought was a fair estimate of Soviet Russia’s gold reserve. Before World War I Russia ranked fourth among ...