golden train that i might have used to save the russian empire gold reserves from the bolsheviks but disappeared without trace next time. russia celebrated deep sea submersibles have uncovered quite a few secrets hidden underwater. 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 still on the lake bed amidst which is left of old railway cause. some claim that law is a siberian ministry's. others say it is even the way in case of the country's far east even smell the czech republic. what happened to the bulk of the russian empires gold reserves 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 foreclosed 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 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 marching victoriously along the streets of. the bolsheviks seize this building as a matter of priority at the time it was the cause 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 throughout 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 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 bank building the idea was to use trams to take the gold to the river pier this old picture shows. their street the cars keep on the footpath because the rest of the cobblestone pavement is occupied by tracks the could of least directly to the banks main entrance to the gold was to have been removed from the bible in just a few months hundred eighty. one prevented people palatial dion's to the question is contained in the archive of all to live in professor of history at university he is drawing the 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 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 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 war it's only in units of the so-called czechoslovak legion entered with the seventh one thousand nine hundred eighteen the. capital center telegrams only headquarters of the he visited the frank said the trophies beyond all calculation we have seized russia's gold was of the whites were 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 a card to this backyard and 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 have 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 accrington shorter strips the czech brigade was formed in the

summer of nine hundred fourteen and we came to bases forty two. russian school. during world war one russian emperor nicholas the second backs 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 he legionnaires 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 floor is the same route. she 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 have let us talk with the intention of returning to europe this means that nobody but me and roll call charke had access to the gold reserves. that our culture. the n.t. based should be government formed in siberia and live a midnight 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 seems to because. the bullshit culture offensive in the summer of ninety nine team forced culture expo me to retreat eastwards. when the train load of 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 of the troy they

were in control of the entire lake to translate period railway. professor of history prologues military institute the streets 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 the gold is taken from to some other a zip it. was placed on the train and then sent from homes to go train to

cook in the east of the country so we needed to train station it was discovered the future mountain the gold was missing by that time and culture exporters 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 so team crates of bullion were found to be missing on january the twelve months hundred twenty eight days of the legionnaires began guarding the train. this fact 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 khosla max 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. with this document refutes what historian powell cutrone claims the report states of the russian god by the name of shoe called in a 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 their 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. 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 bank of the newly independent czech state. 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 could come to that station in short crates which would disappear out to trace the next stop on the gold trains route would prove fatal for cultural. every month we give you the future we help you understand how to get there and bring the best in science and technology from across russia and around the world to

join us it's acknowledging update on our g wealthy british style. markets why not scandals. find out what's really happening to the global economy in the kinds of reports. in conspicuous real way hope has a permanent place in the history of the gold of the russian empire today the station is called to but in general no one hundred twenty it bore the name. it was here that the offices of the czechoslovak legion arrested their russian ally admiral cool check 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 channel slovaks surrendered culture to centrist revolutionaries in their coats they wanted to have them put on trial but with the arrival of the bolsheviks they deposed the centrists arrested culture and executed him. with. having played their role to excuse to trick the chief slovak dejan is presumed journey in the direction of the folder flooded full stop. now the question is where did they go. and they looking for it in a lake like. this story and alexander and even. have lived in the body call area the whole lloyd's they oh sure the quite

a sizable part kolchak's gold ended up in the lake off to one of the trains crushed that eastbound train was moving along the called railway. train was it the way it was carrying that goal to according to an exalted theory the also as lowly in a contract made between the czechs live engine is and the bolsheviks cutin agreement. with boarding to the carriage and agreement half of russia's gold reserve that villagers seized from call chalk was to be handed over to the bolsheviks while their legionnaires kept the other half as a result russia acquired thirteen carriages and the czechoslovak stock seventy. to 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 ball should be 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. to the link to an even keel 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. did indeed krrish was after the agreement had been signed the chicas law x. headed on eastwards with the gold quite a common indeed it however turned out lennon had signed of telegram ahead to local followers intercooler sc at the last moment and in it his message was blunt 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 what color will the world's most dangerous routes one so if there was sheer cliffs. is on the. there are frequent rockslides here this enormous piece of rock sticking out of the lake has been what caused the crash. the driver of that 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 trouble. just some of the train cars remained 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 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 all of those crates were filled with gold. yes don this thought that i'm going to try and reports indicate that several trains of carrying the goal of the location of the carriages elemental crates that were so heavy that they couldn't be moved coincides with a crash site because the. people in submersibles for only been able to examine the lake bed dragging up heavy objects are an altogether different vessel yes a bus stop its 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 isn't 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 maps or got that they were made of precious metals he ordered them to be added to his gold reserves all of that was

all that is to say the russians called reserve. he said it should be kept in church basements intel other additions included a church on a month and possibly valuables belonging to the family a former russian emperor. there are two dates is between moscow and tobolsk to 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 away 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 two poles during the civil war. of tobolsk one of his residence 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 what it feels like. you know you find a lot of metal yes we have lots of but. i find this quite intriguing and there is a lot of metal here because insurgents 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 x. gold his job gave him access to secret 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 siberian gold be evacuated

immediately. in october one thousand nine hundred. were loaded from the spare onto a steam ship called the power of the ak. early winter and there was alton cold weather compelled the convoy to hold on near the village of turner no close to sir good. escorts 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 price of the liberation of siberia metals have not yet been found. for people to go and train with the stone the translight theory and railway truth decodes the russians railways converge at the point that if they stop the countries east in situation no one thousand promise away from. the translight period well wait a minute see the city one theory has in the past russians gold is

a recent 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 future to transport ships took some seventy thousand offices and many of the checks flew back to teaching to your. members of the army corps where curing normal arms industry marked on ships 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 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 by

what's in them the only one to be found. is easiest to treasure hunters invented full stop the along the route of the gold train believe the plot of kolchak's was a is hit in some way here. see 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 show a local. 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. soon gave his friends received official papers is royson them to do its completion work of the sort of the following so gave then made arrangements for the expedition to go. put up with but it was a hillside waste at the signing off of. this knowledge debater to dig up

a stone after stone. and they excavated a rishta flat surface made of 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 build billion. and paintings in teams and even some flags. seemed those were paintings because the tubes were quite on. brewer but he touched nothing for fear of triggering a blast of. 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. well most appear through looking for gold charts gold is something of a hobby for moral club members some evidence suggest that it is here in the primordial territory in all go screech in our nature. that we are going to know more excavation work in the near future. for. nineteen 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 with it is a significant fact that the gold returned to this building after it siberian journey so it took several days to bring it here by trams and motivate them in october and nine hundred twenty the gold reserve was sent to moscow for printing moscow. in the early twentieth century trains carrying crosses the goal of the

russian empire was with the country. every now and salaciously culture treasure. up again with. many living along the trail 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. ministry of the girl's disappearance has remained unsold the new you heard he is. hungry for the full story we've got it first hand the biggest issues get a human voice face to face with the news maker.

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