holiday encircling the. holiday inn the ski rolls are really emotional in the region country club so boring sure to find this beach of the first or a book called sure convinced switzer told closing the whole bill to let me go it's gone golden beach a coach and. it's four thirty in the morning in the russian capital i says i'll see the public. most used to options either through the security somehow america's only draw the treetop friend barack obama to some kind of european received would be skewed look into the end as i think the burger will taste the best for me then for the two of you. russia and germany said the table the way to cope ration with the west at a summit in the urals on the menu transport and technology advances for russia

followed by a billion dollar deals at the meeting president medvedev also urged iran to be more transparent in its nuclear program. also the uighurs hands over the last iraqi prison on dates control to local authorities america will continue to hold two hundred detainees including eight members of the former regime says the allied invasion the us run system has handled more than one hundred thousand prisoners as president obama's deadline for withdrawal from iraq is set for december next year. that five years ago russia and the u.s. which their first joint space mission apollo say use the event marks not only the beginning of an aerospace corporation but also a warming in cold war. as the headlines up next the mystery of a train loaded with the russian empire is gold reserves which disappeared almost a century ago the legend surrounding this story are alive to this day and it's the

subject of our special report up next. russia celebrated deep sea submersibles quite a few secrets hidden under water. on one occasion a scientific expedition found traces of the so-called gold train which crashed into lake baikal in the early twentieth century. according to the scientists part of the russian empire as gold reserves is told to be still in the lake bed amidst what is left of old railway cause. some claim it lies and siberian ministry. others say it is hidden away in case in the country's far east even now the czech republic. what happens to the bulk of the russian empire as gold reserves. t.v. 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 with east leaving a multitude of secrets and room is in their wake. because it is a 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 had 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 marching victoriously along the streets of. the bolsheviks seize this building as a matter of priority at the time it was the king of the national bank. nearly ninety years have passed since then but today too there is a bank behind the stores according to the bank's 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. but then at the time that russian gold reserve was one of the world's largest if not the largest u.s. a had not yet accumulated because lost all gold reserves it has now.

transporting some. a bulky and heavy call go was quite a problem the bolsheviks 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 shows . their street cars keep on the footpath because the rest of the pavement is occupied by tracks the could of least directly to the bikes main entrance the goal was to have been removed from the bike on august the fifth hundred eighteen. what prevented people palatial dion's to 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 outrageous brought the team self-worth into the beast matilde because on bank only in the evening of august the fifth they were about to start removing valuables from the bank when the city was shelled by the enemy. when four trucks and shipped them and fifty armed red army men down 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 into. the seven from one nine hundred eighteen the. capital center telegram to only headquarters of the he visited the bank said the trophies beyond all calculation we have seized russia's gold reserve the whites were in includes to repeat the bolsheviks mistake they made swift arrangements for the valuables to be taken out of to

a safe distance from the front line. here in this yard they brought cards to this backyard then at. anybody capable of lifting heavy weights help shift those enormous loads. the goal was taken to the pool by trams and translate by the bolsheviks but they never have the opportunity to use them in cargo it was guarded by the russian soldiers although legionnaires from the czechoslovak 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 accrington 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 emperor nicholas the second backed the idea of forming a military brigade consisting of czechs and slovaks living in russia the legion is what to fight on the side of the russian army against a straight hungary and germany immediately after the nine hundred seventeen revolution the czech slovak legion gave support to the white movement in russia against the bolsheviks but afterwards legally jeanette's wanted was to get back to their 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 full of the same route. just a lot. of acts fought in a special sector of the front porch when admiral cole chalk seized power they took

a neutral position and now they wanted to achieve their initial goal the aim was to get to have lady talk with the intention of returning to europe this means that nobody but me and roll call charke had access to the gold reserve. the n.t. based should be government formed in siberia in live aid but now it's made team named alexander culture russia's head of state in 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. when the train go to gold so telcel the journey through siberia called check was in his own personal courage next to the steam locomotive units of the czech slovak legion made sure the train had free passage throughout the route and that's why they were in control of the

entire lake to translate the 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 two or 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 gold was taken from to some lower this. was placed on the train them and sent them from homes to go train to do good in the east of the country so we needed to

train station it was discovered the future mountain pickle was missing by that time and called transporters to go on to the golden train was handed over to the czechoslovakia jeanette as. ted 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 this 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.

however this document refutes what historian powell could turn into a news report states a russian by the name issue called in a beijing official by the name of cousin of steve discovered the absence of two seals on 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 after their return from russia in the one nine hundred twenty it was the first i think of the newly independent czech state. its manual i'm sure thirteen creeds 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 continued on its way to the east to be or could come to that station in short crates which disappeared without a trace the next stop on the gold in the trains route would prove fatal for culture .

hungry for the full story we've got it first hand the biggest issues get a human voice face to face with the news makers on. dealing with this in conspicuous real way hope has a permanent place in the history of the gold of the russian empire to date the station is called to but in general no one hundred twenty it bore the name you know . it was here that the offices of the czechoslovak legion arrested their russian ally admiral 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 their checco slovaks surrendered culture to centrist revolutionaries in their coats they wanted

to have him put on trial. with the arrival of the bolsheviks they deposed the centrists arrested culture and executed him. from. having played their role to execution of a coup trick the chief slovak dejan is resumed the journey in the direction of the folder but it will stop now the question is where did the gold go and while they looking for it in late like coming. this story and alexandra to. have lived in the body call area. they are sure the quite a sizable part kolchak's gold ended up in the lake off to one of the trains pressure that eastbound train was moving along the railway what sold the train was

it and where was it carrying go to according to an exalted theory the all says lowly in a contract made between the check slovak engine is and the bolsheviks cutin agreement . to the kilted agreement half of russia's gold reserves that villagers seized from culture shock was to be handed over to the bolsheviks while their legionnaires kept the other as a result russia acquired thirteen carriages and the checklist of acts took seventeen. chick historians disagrees with the theory of his russian counterpart to the truce agreement was signed it station as a result of the truce the russian gold reserve was handed over to the bolshevik government led by lenin. the treasurer was in the state that it had been while in

call chocks custody with the exception of the thirteen crete's that and disappearing and station. to the link and even. the distance several times before one hundred twenty kilometers it's a flying. locomotive they are looking for evidence that the golden train controlled by the czechs did indeed crash after the agreement had been signed the law of x. headed on eastwards with a gold quite a common peanut. however it turned out lennon had sent a telegram ahead to local followers in your course at the last moment and in it his message was obliged to blow up the tunnels and bridges and care of the cracks not a single gram of the gold was to be allowed to go any further east. to prove my cold will wait as one of the world's most dangerous routes and one saw

it there was sheer cliffs lake baikal is on the other. there are frequent rockslides here this enormous piece of rock sticking out of the lake must have been 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 by call . 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 to sent to the bed of lake called on board amid deep sea submersible from here as it did one thousand four hundred meters they

found great carriages and post objects resembling crates this picture shows them in great detail childes as all of those crates were filled with gold. yes don their stores both under different reports indicate that several trains carry the goal the location of the carriages elemental crates that were so heavy that they couldn't be moved coincides with a crash site because. people in submersibles are only been able to examine the lake bed dragging up heavy objects or an altogether different vessel yes a bus stop its if the search for 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 it 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 middle step before culture came to power the new medals the inscription liberation of siberia. knew the medals had already been stamped more than mapped out so they were made of precious metals he orders them to be added to his gold reserves although most of that is to say the russians called reserves. he said it should be kept in church basements in tumbles other additions included church on amends and possibly valuables belonging to the family a former russian empire. there are two places between moscow and to boles

to this 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 portion 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 topolski during the civil war. of tobolsk one of his residency is here. with some of the church valuables and valuables and belonging to the siberian white movement were kept here in the monastery it is now being restored look what it feels like you just don't see. how do you 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 were executed here by this wall 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 xcode his job gave him access to secret and transcripts of interrogations relating to archbishop of tobolsk according to his testimony when the rebel army was perching to nine hundred nineteen call check and ordered the siberian gold be evacuated immediately. in october one thousand nine hundred. one load up from the spear onto a steam ship called the power back. early winter and there was alton cold weather

compelled the convoy to hold on near the village of turner no close to sir good. course unloaded the valuable credits and hit them deep in the woods but it is not known where the cargo was left those treasures including the prices liberation of siberia metals have not yet been found. for people to go in train which is still the translight period railway truthdig quids the russians railways conferred at the port like a full stop in the country's east and situated no one thousand promise a way for moscow to translate very well wait two minutes in the city one theory has in the past russians gold is a priest the city of culture x. execution. this picture shows czechoslovak legionnaires waiting for the turn to him

and ships in the pool to fly to full stop it's easy to transport ships took some seventy thousand officers and men of the czech slovak he took to europe. members of the army corps were curing normal arms industry marked on ships only personal belongings. even they were not allowed to exceed a certain weight limit with them and this seems to suggest that there was very little room in those ships therefore i cannot honestly believe that the concept of secure itself on a railway course would have been accommodated dear. this picture from the all cause of the military institution prologue 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.

it's easiest to treasure hunters and got a full stop of all along the route of the gold train believe the part of kolchak's reserve is him in some way here. see a game at yankee founder of the motor club began looking for the gold in two thousand and five after he met vic to shoot a local bristol should move promise to take sergei to a cave where he said he had found gold bullion with a coat of arms of the russian empire impulse only. gave his friends received official papers in stores and them to do its completion work of the sort of the following surrogate then made arrangements for the expedition to go. put up with but it was a hillside waste at the signing of it and we used this analogy of ater to dig up a stone after stone in the end of the excavator reached a flat surface made of stone it was easy to see that had been made by hand.

well. it seems we can get in there now if we could find gold. only she. told me that he had seen stacks of build billion. and paintings in teams and even some flags. he has seen those were paintings because the tubes were quite on. the ruler but he touched nothing for fear of triggering a blast. because team found nothing after two months of work later other treasure hunters literally collapse the cave to the ground vic to shoot 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 his gold reserve is still unknown. almost appears true looking for gold shocks gold is something of a hobby for motor club members some evidence suggest that it is here in the

premarket territory although screeching are let you go. we're going to no more excavation work in the near future. hundred twenty the bolsheviks but some of the gold whites have taken from the state banks to broach. in that system with it when all is said and 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 at nine hundred twenty the gold reserve to moscow depriving moscow. in the early twentieth century trains carrying crosses the goal of the russian empire to the country. every now and then the fascination with treasure. with. many living along the gold trim and many other parts of russia claimed they

know where the gold bullion is to. sit back. these treasure hunts is a term to go on with. the mystery of the girl's disappearance has remained unsold in media hundred years.

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