Vera Efron was born in the Siberian city of Novokuznetsk in the shadows of the Ural mountains in 1959. She belongs to the famous Russian publisher family Efron, equivalent to the Germany Brockhous family. It is most known for the large Russian encyclopedia, 86 volumes, published between 1890-1906.
At seventeen years old, she followed in her parents footsteps and started studying geology at the ...