  Our results concern the transition of a quantum string through the
singularity of the compactified Milne (CM) space. We restrict our analysis to
the string winding around the compact dimension (CD) of spacetime. The CD
undergoes contraction to a point followed by re-expansion. We demonstrate that
both classical and quantum dynamics of considered string are well defined. Most
of presently available calculations strongly suggest that the singularity of a
time dependent orbifold is useless as a model of the cosmological singularity.
We believe that our results bring, to some extent, this claim into question.
