Eight Russian environmentalists visited Berea on October 3rd to learn about the effects of coal mining on the land and people of Eastern Kentucky.  The visitors were chosen by the U.S. State Department Embassy in Russia to spend twenty-one days in various places of environmental interest in the United States.  Our distinguished guests included; Irina Nesvetaeva, Nadezhda V. Storozhenko, Dmitry Ivanov, Ekaterina V. Kolesova, Yan A. Tsygankov, Marina Ryzhenkova, Mikhail Samsonov, and Vera Tankeeva.