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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 Leningrad University. In spite of the fact that Vera left university as top of her class, her dreams to become a researcher were smashed when she had to leave the Soviet Union under dramatic circumstances. Her too straight critic of the Soviet dictator's regime forced her to take this drastic measure. After obtaining permanent residence in Sweden in 1989 and having learnt Swedish, she founded the publishing house Efron & Daughter AB.