family she left the town which had a population of forty thousand at the time. today it's home to just twenty thousand people or so apart from a few friends from his school days my mother doesn't know anyone in cairo tallon a more. current town the green always is in the middle of the steps the clean affluent soviet showpiece town what has become of. the apartment block with the circular staircase and people here were once proud of this modern building it was home to many young families what defines the town scape