in time to eat learn desoto tell an ambassador it's hard to go to the point and i would print search to be splendid in touch with her tell me touch your world the features of a good girl how would international flood to change every green lol he told in total. we're watching aussies great to have you with us the headlines. russia and germany wrap up their summit and the seizure of nicotine in baghdad but the leaders praise most who's ever improving relations with the west. in the last remaining detention center under american control in iraq is transferred to local authorities two hundred eighteen mates will name the u.s. provision of president obama's deadline for withdrawal from iraq is set for

december next year. allen russia and the u.s. montana better of the first joint space flight and the storm called more relations that followed on this day thirty five years ago two spacecraft one solve it one american love to go and later talks in orbit and the opponent to see his mission. up next the mystery of a train loaded with the russian empire has gold reserves has disappeared almost a century ago the legend surrounding this story out alive to this day and it's the subject of our special report up next here on out he. rushes celebrated near deep sea submersibles covered quite a few secrets hidden under water. on one occasion the sides of expedition traces the so-called gold train which crew. into lake baikal in the early twentieth

century. according to the side just part of the russian empire has gold reserves is still to be still a lake bed amidst what's left of old railway cause. some claim it lies and siberian ministry's. others say it is hidden away in case of the country's far east even smell the czech republic. what happened to the bulk of the russian empire as gold reserves which went missing teeth is one of the most ensuring myths of russian history if. by cal is not the only place linked to the mystery of the russian empire as gold was of laws on the bed of the world's deepest lake will you be the tip of the iceberg in the past century trainloads of gold went missing across the country the

precious payloads travelled from west to east leaving a multitude of secrets and rumors in their wake. is the city eight hundred kilometers east of moscow. most of the russian empire as gold was set out on a moment journey from this old city nearly a hundred years ago. the bolsheviks and seized power in russia often by nine hundred seventeen revolution the civil war was still raging and at that time there was fighting on the streets between the morning just wants movement and the bolshevik read all the power in the city changed hands many times this photo was taken in early nine hundred eighteen. the red army corps cavalry is mulching victoriously along the streets of. the bolsheviks seize this building as a matter of priority at the time it was the case of the national bank.

nearly ninety years have passed since then but today too there is a bank behind the stores according to the banks accounts there was some one thousand two hundred eighty tons of valuables here in the one nine hundred eighteen including gold platinum and silver today the gold alone would be worth more than twenty six billion dollars. now the time that russian gold reserves was one of the world's largest if not the largest he'll say had not yet accumulated. gold reserves it has now. transporting some. a bulky and heavy call go was quite a problem most weeks wasted no time laying tram tracks leading to the building the idea was to use trams to take the gold to the river pier this old picture.

street the cars keep on the footpath because the rest of the pavement is occupied by tracks the kind of least directly to the bikes main entrance the goal was to have been removed from the bike all in just the fifty nine hundred eighty. one percent of people who ration the allston the question is contained in the archive of all to live in professor of history at the university he is drawn of witness reports to reconstruct that day's events almost in full could they be attributed to . one of the eyewitnesses who writes that i'm trying to miss broad team self-worth into the beast mathilda cousin bank only in even the fifth they were about to start removing valuables from the bank when the city was shelled by the enemy. when four trucks and you damn and fifty armed the red army men back to the bank they started moving gold out despite the shelling but they could take out only a hundred crates with gold worth six million roubles and ninety five million rubles

worth of my bank notes for. the point zero million units of the so-called czechoslovak legion entered with the seventh nine hundred eighteen the command of vladimir kapil sent a telegram to only headquarters of the he visited the bank it said the trophies beyond all calculation we have seized russia's gold reserve the whites were to repeat the bolsheviks mistake they made swift arrangements for the valuables to be taken out to a safe distance from the front line. here in this yard they brought a card to the back yard then as. anybody capable of lifting heavy weights help shift those enormous loads. the gold was taken to the pool by trams and translate by the bolsheviks but they never

had the opportunity to use them because it was guarded by the russian soldiers although legionnaires from the czech and slovak cool with the first seize the bank . puzzle could have is a military historian as well as the president of the czechoslovak legion as memorial society but this is the standard uniform of the russian army worn cheering world war one this one is the uniform of the service men of the chant brigade as can be seen from the crimson shorter strips the czech brigade was formed in the summer of nine hundred fourteen and became good basis for the. russian school. during world war one russian impression it was the second but the idea of forming a military consisting of czechs and slovaks living in russia the legion is what to fight on the side of the russian army against the strait hungary and germany immediately after the nine hundred seventeen revolution the czech slovak legion

gave support to the point movement in russia against the bolsheviks but afterwards he wanted was to get back to the home country these pictures from the colors of the military institute in prague they tell the story of the czechoslovak legions journey by rail from samoa to volleyball stuck in the country's east the gold train follows the same route. just a lot actually koslow x. fought in a special sector of the front porch when admiral cole chuck seized power they took a neutral position and now they wanted to achieve their initial goal the aim was to get to let us talk with the intention of returning to europe this means that nobody but an roll call charke had access to the gold reserves. the n.t. bullshit government formed in siberia in live aid but not in a team named alexander culture russia's head of state and supreme commander in

chief of the home force of the whites movement culture took control of most of the gold the whites had seized because. the bullshit culture offensive in the summer of ninety nine team forced culture expo me to retreat eastwards. with the train load of gold so tell us a little journey through siberia called check this in his own personal courage next to the steam locomotive units of the czech slovak legion made sure the train had free passage through out the route of troy they were in control of the entire lake patrol siberian railway. professor of history prologues military institute has traced the route of the gold train based on military reports and accounts by officers of the czech slovak legion blocks in one thousand twenty officials from the ministry of finance

a former sars to russia were constantly with the russian gold reserve travelling from cars and to here could. this means they were in control of the gold in one way or another. of course there's much speculation about whether or not some of it was stolen from. the golden train called the long distance by nine hundred twenty two going this taken from to some lower. was placed on the train and then sent from homes to go train to goods in the east of the country so we need to the train station it was discovered the future mouth of the gold was missing by that time and culture exporters to go on to the golden train was handed over to the czechoslovakia generis. ten it is a small station the train loaded with gold came here nearly ninety years ago

thirteen crates of bullion were found to be missing on january the twelfth month hundred twenty eight days of the legionnaires began guarding the train. it is theft was reported by nature koslow x. because the russian guards had disappeared so there was no one else who could report their theft some of the treasures had also disappeared it was discovered early in the morning by the chief cost of x. standing guard. when they approached the carriage to find out what had happened they saw that the doors had been broken and that something was missing inside. this document refutes what historian pavel cutrone claims the report states of the russian by the name issue called the beijing official by the name of keselowski discovered the absence of two seals in one of the carriages they also discovered that thirteen crates of gold were missing the report stresses that the carriages

were in good order both inside and outside the documents wrists in the old clothes approx institute of military history. prague ligia bank was in this building years ago it was founded by the men of the czech slovak cool off to their return from russia in the one nine hundred twenty it was the first bank of the newly independent czech state. and its manual i'm sure thirteen creates wouldn't have made much difference today to cost the american economy what's really helped it was the fact that issued its own currency. the train with what was left of the russian emperors gold continue to wait east to puts them to the station. crates which disappeared without a trace the next stop on the gold trains route would prove fatal for the culture.

question is the same i understand natalie and i have always rumors on the back of the new fires in the markets well he's back now castro's appearance on cuban television for years again puts into focus on it.

dealing with this in conspicuous railway hub has a permanent place in the history of the gold of the russian empire to date the station is called it a good school too but in general no one hundred twenty it bore the name you know came to sky it was here that the offices of the czechoslovak legion arrested their russian ally had real culture on this unremarkable platform he and his colleagues were locked up in this small house and were then handed over to the revolutionaries in this way they were given safe passage to a port of blood of all stock so they could sail home. to cause lots and chuckle slovaks surrendered culture to centrist revolutionaries in their coats they wanted to have them put on trial. with the arrival of the bolsheviks they deposed the centrists arrested culture and executed him. for. having played their role to the excuse of every contract the chief slovak dejan is

resumed the journey in the direction of the field of blood it will stop now the question is where did the gold go and while they looking for it in the lake baikal the. historian alexander to the link oh and right to even put the lives in the baikal area the whole lloyds they are sure the quite a sizeable part kolchak's gold ended up in the lake after one of the trains crushed head that eastbound train was. moving along the railway. train was it the way it was a carry go to according to the theory the also slowly in a contract made between the chicks live like an engine is and the bolsheviks take you to agreement. with gordon into the kitchen agreement half of russia's

gold reserve villagers seized from kolchak was to be handed over to the bolsheviks while legionnaires kept the other half as a result russia acquired thirteen carriages and the czechoslovak stock seventeen. to chick historians disagrees with the theory of his russian counterpart to truce agreement was signed it station as a result of the truce the russian gold reserve was handed over to the balsa big government led by lenin. that the treasure was in the state that it had been while in call chocks custody with the exception of the thirteen crates that had disappeared and station. alexander to the link and even called the distance several times the four hundred twenty. it's

a flight. locomotive they are looking for evidence that the golden train controlled by the. crash after the agreement had been signed the law of x. headed on eastwards with the gold quite a common peanut however it turned out lennon had sent a telegram ahead to local followers. at the last moment and you know his message was obliged to blow up the tunnels and bridges and tear up the cracks not a single gram of the gold was to be allowed to go any further east. the crew by car will wait for the world's most dangerous routes and one saw it there was sheer cliffs lake baikal is on the other. there are frequent broke slides here this enormous piece of rock sticking out of the lake being what caused the crash. the driver of the steam locomotive told event about

it when he was still young. according to the driver of the road fragment crashed into the train just when the locomotive that entered the tunnel. just some of the train cars serino on the tracks like others fell in the direction of pike home. one of the carriages was on the bank after being ripped apart crates were taken out of it. in the summer of two thousand and two the linker and other scientists still said that the sent to the bed of late i called on board amid deep sea submersible from here as it did one thousand four hundred metres they found a wrecked carriages and a host of objects resembling crates this picture shows them in great detail child says all of those crates were filled with gold. yes than the stores both under the trend reports indicate that several trade carried the gold

the location of the carriages elemental crates that was so heavy that they couldn't be moved coincides with a crash site because. people in submersibles the only been able to examine the lake bed dragging up heavy objects are an altogether different vessel yes a bus stop it if the search for a coach asks gold is put on a strictly scientific basis success may be achieved. in the east bound train carrying the gold reserve by pulse the siberian city however is in this building that a trace of the so-called siberian share of culture x. gold was found in nine hundred ninety one. the building used to house the local branch of the soviet k.g.b. today belongs to russia's federal security service. alexander patrician of the

k.g.b. he was looking through secret stating from the civil war when he came across a document pertaining to the nine hundred twenty s. it contained a description of the medal stand before culture came to power the new medals the inscription liberation of siberia. knew the medals had already been stamped more than maps got so they were made of precious metals he ordered them to be added to his gold reserves all of that was and that is to say the russians called reserve. he said it should be kept in church basements in tumble schools other additions included a church on a month and possibly valuables belonging to the family a former russian empire. there are two cases between moscow and to balls to what is a historical russian city it was founded in the sixteenth century and it used to be the capital of siberia with the with siberian ocean of culture x.

gold kept where did it end. there are many streets and churches around to poles according to alexander patricians theory the siberian portion of culture gold was hidden in one of them's the street is several kilometers from tobolsk during the civil war. of tobolsk one of his residence is here. some of the charge valuables and valuables and belonging to the siberian white movement were kept here in the monastery it is now being restored what it feels like. you know i do find a lot of metal yes we have lots of. i find this quite intriguing and there is a lot of metal here because insurgents are taking part in the one nine hundred twenty one peasant revolt where executed here by this wall this one finds gold jam

and human bones here all in one place which was. cool alexander protrusion of the federal security service now retired has spent a good deal of time in search of culture. his job gave him access to secret transcripts of interrogations relating to. of tobolsk according to his testimony when the rebel army was approaching. one hundred nineteen culture kind of ordered siberian gold be evacuated immediately. in october one thousand nine hundred. and there was alton cold weather compelled the convoy to hold on near the village of close to sir good. courts a lot of the valuable credits were deep in the woods but it is not known where the cargo was left in those treasures including the prices liberation of siberia metals

have not yet been found. for the golden train when he stole the trans-siberian railway truthdig crudes the russians railways conferred to the poor people in the country's east and situated no one thousand columbus away from. the translight period wait two minutes in the city one theory the russian school has reached the city called execution. this picture shows chicken slow. legionnaires waiting for that turn to him and ships in the pool to fly to full stop future to transport ships took some seventy thousand offices a minute of the checks live back to teaching to your. members of the koslow ak army corps were cheering no more arms industry more time shifts

only personal belongings. even they were not allowed to exceed a certain weight limit this seems to suggest that there was very little room in those ships therefore i cannot honestly believe that the const tough scores of other railway cars would have been accommodated dear. this picture from the old cause of the military institution pearled shows legion is sitting on crates as they prepare for embarkation. and another photo shows large packages on the ships what's in them the old want to be found. is easiest to treasure hunters in but it will stop all along the route of the gold train believe the plot of kolchak's was is hidden somewhere here. say a game at the inn co-founder of the motor club began looking for the gold in two thousand and five after he met vic to shoot

a local visit to. promise to take sergei to a cave where he said he had found gold bullion with the codes of poems of the russian empire impulse to only. see again his friends received official people's interest in them to do it's the finishing work of the sort of the family surrogate then made arrangements for the expedition to go to. put up with that there was a hillside waste at the site and we use this knowledge to later to dig up a stone after stone. and they excavated reached a flat surface made of cut stone it was easy to see that had been made by hand. well. it seems we can get in there we could find gold. only she. told me that he had seen stacks of guild billion. and paintings in teams and even

some flags. here seemed those were paintings because the tubes were quite wrong. to her but he touched nothing for fear of triggering a blast of. the incas team found nothing after two months of work later of the treasure hunters literally collapse the cave to the ground vic to shoo more of the man who found the cave in the first place died under mysterious circumstances this raises the suggestion that he may indeed have found something valuable but whether that was part of the russian empire as gold reserve is still unknown. well most appear through looking for gold chalks gold is something of a hobby for motor club members some evidence suggest that it is here in the premarket territory although screeching or let you go. we are going to do more excavation work in the near future. five. hundred twenty the bolsheviks but some of the gold whites have taken from the state banks

broach. in that system with the with when all is said and done it is a significant fact that the gold returned to this building after its siberian journey so it took several days to bring it here by trams and motivate comes in october and nine hundred twenty the gold reserve to moscow to prong must. in the early twentieth century trains carrying crosses the goal of the russian empire which would show you the country. every now and the fascination with culture its treasure. to fire up again with. many living along the route to go for it and many other people see russia claimed they know where the gold bullion is to. sit back. these treasure hunts is the term to go with the.

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