[quote=Corporal Lance] the tiny town of Zarinsk in the not so tiny Russia[/quote]

Zarinsk (originally Zarinskaya) was a train station established in 1952. It became an urban-type settlement in 1958, and wasn't a town until 1979.

[quote=Corporal Lance]Kazakhstan[/quote]

By the same token, Kazakhstan was just another part of Russia at that time, and in fact when it had it's first brief moment of independence in 1917, it was referred to as the Alash Autonomy.

Jorick doesn't have very many specific details for me to look into, and Lukas Kelly got through by the skin of his teeth in terms of California.