portraits almost of the great theater masters and not only the russian ones as well pleased to see that there's even mr shakespeare herit well. i think you've been rather proud of that before you became an artist who was an actor and you can feel the drama in his sculpture looking around his workshop is a weird and wonderful experience and he even offered to give me something to remember him by. it's definitely the first on the eve of the been a model. this is for you. is one of those that you like. take it. truly quite funny sketch for stephanie go that is right. and oh it's not the only thing that galvanizes people around here school so has a thriving music scenes and every week during the summer locals meets up nearly on tues riverside start shooting for a bit of

a nice up. to play big project it's called chakra fridays on that occasion very cheerful people get together any of them all you meant to the russian writer which stands here on base and. there's been a lot of debates over what it should be here a tall. merry making people come shit each friday to sing down this or declaim point train. and there are plenty of unusual styles on display it's all he has created a whole set of songs inspired by the culture of the couloir people a two thousand year old indigenous refer. back to. respond. come rain or shine check on fridays

always bring out the crowds and after the music stops everyone gives the launch a couple send us. this trickle fridays on tech savvy enough for you you can also hire a boat for river cruise across the tome although you might want to avoid the one with fifty teenagers on it's. these are thrushes attempts polytechnic university they've just been. the first day of college. ok. been a pretty long day. thank you very much. i met up with the good guys from students union to take a university tradition with. the slogan be checking the union reps

from fellow students and collect them in a time capsule. full of hopes and dreams. for five years. and. they wonder how many of these go back. to see what's happened. in the first two years of thompson management faculty already. pressures in a whole different way so. much time you look at the future business.

but as all students know the fun and games can't last forever and the next day i went to take a look at the more serious side of university life with a fellow brit who's made his home. peter has been teaching here since two thousand and four legs and he's a senior lecturer at the faculty of foreign languages today's topic was all about how teaching and examination methods are about to change across europe. if you look at the us we can see that every european country except. and some of the reno have signed up to it we will be discussing the future of cation next week thanks for attention. this is going to be a first and probably i don't really i would think your support comes and becomes a lecture to you to first talk. well it's

a simple story sound so i study russian university and then in two thousand and four i came here is a long distance i like to so much that's after i graduated i was an advisor to come back and i've been here ever since. and so that's five years now. since little is a great city and it's constantly changing and you can see the show you see in the wonderful architecture that we have here. in addition to being such an old. city it's also a very young city we have twenty percent the population of. six universities under a very vibrant atmosphere which is inventing itself of course it's a different culture of course the climate is pretty harsh off the around. but the people here are very friendly. people always rushing around all the time very nice people so this is the real rush for the. phrase often in my trips around russia

and this really is a city full of characters i wanted to find more about tom's history there's one place here which deals with the city's time. terror of the. imprisoned and killed in. the stones. to them i'm going to visit the first museum in russia dedicated itself to covering the political repressions. this building was a jail for the k.g.b. predecessors the n.k.v.d. and even sixty years after the last prisoner walked out of here it's still clawing and claustrophobic. more than fifteen thousand people pass through these walls between one hundred twenty three and one hundred forty nine ten thousand of them never went home. museum is filled with photographs papers and authentic

memorabilia including letters where people gave up their own friends and neighbors say oh. well this could be that these are the folders for denunciations you can see written letters and typed letters i'll read you one of them a letter to the chief of tomsk special n.k.v.d. department secret an urgent at a thompson pencil factory there is someone named simeon coble born in one thousand and nine of belorussian origin was ok middle legally from poland in one nine hundred thirty two. visitors moved through a series of different rooms showing exactly what went on during the political repressions but by far the most affecting of the souls themselves it's difficult to imagine terrifying it would have been to have been christened here who could've been taken out of your home in the middle of the night probably with little or no idea of why you were being arrested and then throw them here with up to twenty of

frightened confused people then you'd have to watch that door close knowing you might never see anyone you love to get to. being cooped up here is a chilling experience and i was definitely ready to head back up to the lines. sure is that so much of. it means a lot of people are. going to be popular in commercially lucrative but just how realistic are these programs are the ultimate.

vote for bush will. always ads by one vote for kerry. so the people that are going to be validating this machine can stand there all day long and vote for somebody and it will be right every time but the guy can walk up here and if he hits the right button. he can flip a vote. with more than half a million people tomsk is a lively and bustling city but if you're looking for a little peace and quiet the countryside is just a short drive away. if you wanted a symbol of siberia this would probably be it's the siberian stone pine tree there used to be millions of these in the forests but now its numbers are declining

ironically because of its own pine cones the seeds in here are used in the q source is sweets and literally thousands of people come and gather them up every summer and sell them and that means that the tree is having trouble reproducing naturally but here in this garden center they're trying to make sure that the species continues to survive. so he has been running this nursery for almost a decade the idea is to sell people their own trees so that future generations will have no need to raid the forest for seeds for the stone pines numbers can start to recover he's brought different varieties here from across the country and beyond and even created some of his own. so this. was like kind of a rush. equivalent. you know. what this

used to be wild branches that later recut only the good ones were left here are here. right. this tree has been an orca lated for fifteen timeouts. the samplings grow incredibly slowly just a few centimeters each year but they can keep on going for centuries most of the trees here are still very young but it's a full time job making sure they reach their full potential fairly intensive work keeping these tiny little saplings healthy up to about thirty people work here during the high season and of course there are a lot of we have got to come out these ladies have a better idea because on the bottom of the looks a little prickles going to end up with some small hands hopefully should help the trees take the pain. see the size of this was as big as the tree itself and massive really prickly and they want to come out. more and more people are

coming here to buy their own samplings but sergei says that securing the stone pine trees future is going to be a long and expensive process the little mild cedar being with four to five meters tall produces its first cone and twenty five thirty years there are some nut bearing strain myself but if the mug finding investors is difficult. this is because the project would only payoff decades from now. so that's not been a problem for another new business and tom which might be about to make its back has been serious money. the filters are nothing new but this local company believes they've come up with a product that's the first in the world to remove one hundred percent of harmful microorganisms and with more than a billion people still drinking contaminated water every day around the world there's a huge market out. there in this sort of how do you keep your head so. why

is the fed. with. loads very loud. that. they can breed. and once they've been elected it's time to start putting everything together. they say well these people are scrubs but this is way. out in. the field so i'm not trying to. make the one hundred percent. but the big question is of course does it actually was. well anyway to find out. you know they say the people putting. so i think it's time to put this matter to the test.

that's great color as well. through. his being held in that. moment of truth. thankfully there were no unpleasant side effects. from one of the most innovative companies one of its oldest. one in the same thing but it turns out that in russia at least they're very different and they've been making them in seventy years. this is such

a dirty job we're going. to make kids for this two hundred kilos of chemically treated robot coming down to this assembly line every ten minutes i mean just gets everywhere. it's whole tough and intensive work the factory churns out three million pairs of shoes a year and twelve hundred steaming boots at a time come out of the vulcanizing oven ready for the linings. to the moment i'm putting together the insulin to below the left school shoes here. you should feel easy to do it doesn't it but there are about forty ladies here but one shoe can be made in this case they make thirty five every five minutes so to keep up. the finish. they're ready to be shipped off to the shops.

wondering around factories i was definitely ready for some fresh air. to small mind wants and. this is f.c. told siberia's only premiership football team until just pride and joy. be packed with household names but they hold their own against russia's best and they don't even mind random journalists turning up to train with them. train but see for yourselves right i said be interesting reminds me a little bit of school in a way for some reason whenever i played football they always wanted me to go in goal. i guess it must be like reflexes. ok. they had. to let the coach score a few goals just to keep him happy but obviously really i had everything under control. when i said i never play for england. mr capello

i'll be waiting for your cool but speaking to the manager yuri it's easy to see that this is a city that really. here in winter as well as the summertime when the up to two hundred fifty teams take part in the winter tournaments ball is played by people as young as seven at the all the way up to sixty year olds tomsk tournaments attract fans from thirty three safe area in town including yours. and each of our games gets twelve to thirteen thousand spectators. and the next us noon i was going to be one of them so this is what a saturday school made for perfect weather and healthy foods and premiership football. but the seats on the other pretty spectacular rise in russian football climbing from division two to the premier league and yes

and this weekend they were taking on the capitalist must by law i'm i'm giving them a really hard time little of i used to say it but it was really has been a game of. somewhat dominating the first period and now most seem to come out really hard still no mill labatt and that holding out just lets hope the best of the odd live i love this shot. of the leg of the leg gold leg of the bags and we pleaded with the players just couldn't find the targets and after a frustrating ninety minutes to get the mexican waves the final. nail the boards are all but it does leave home ten points above the relegation zone so i guess these guys who are going all the chance to do a little international bonding over on day are seven and roman abramovich pushing

me but. if you want to leaving the stadium please be attentive and cautious there's nothing like watching other people exercise to work up an appetite and there was one place in tomsk i had to visit before i left even chekhov said. this place was good. so this is. it's the oldest restaurant and supposedly the very best so. honestly little fuss is about. the coffee. and amazing choice but these prices i think this. is another way that my son. who was thinking of washing dishes but spun amazing coincidence it turned out they was short in the chef to day. on the

finishing touch. it was probably kids are the knives came out and i was ready to have a go at making a real siberian favorite. siberian sterlite is very popular here today we're going to make smoke sterling prepared for cookie first. but never tried to stir it before but it's from the sturgeon family and the rivers around thompson full of them. once the missi part was out of the way it was tons of perk up the fish with a few extra ingredients. so these are some. siberian herbs and spices. and once everything was prepared it was time to get cooking it's.

beautiful smoked siberian stir. it was almost fun for me to leave toms and it was still so much i wanted to see but you can't play. a week sightseeing into just a morning can you. well maybe you can. but never been in a hang glider before. you feel as if you might drop out at any moment but one side unpeeled my knuckles from the seat in front i really didn't want it to end and there are some pretty amazing piece to.

pass. i got that so. absolutely story with. us. i just finished one flights but it was time for me to head to the airport for another. because all the benefits of the big city but it's still small enough that you only have to be here a few days and you start to feel at home.