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the ruins of an eighth century temple which they stumbled upon by accident. next we travel to russia's once close military city kid off which is a time capsule of long gone soviet times. less than a thousand kilometers northeast of moscow the city of carroll's its regional capital home to a million people and if you like places that combine the historical with the modern this is the town for you. at first isn't exactly. it was a closed military city until the fall of the soviet union and parts of the town still feel like they belong in a bygone era but the city is developing its transport hub and outside investment is starting to improve facilities here amongst the buildings you can still find this you don't see in the rough. place some about to visit is a real clear old institution it's one of the oldest buildings in the whole city and

for more than two centuries it's been the center of the region's princeling industry. books newspapers calendars magazines if you need paper they'll princes and they get through. every week. there's been a press here since seventeen months and two and a living have some of the latest technology available there are still a few relics of a bygone age so i love this the fact that you get the. bits of history combined with. something that i guess would be about nineteen right with something that is spread out of the twenty first century. and in the next room there's a machine that might easily have used it days it serves a role the difference is when taken to mean the right entry to the we didn't have to. strain to think that machines like this result as printing is itself in the

hundreds of years ago the press was like this one might have produced a fake. a good book bible this one is producing packaging for delicious nazi treats but why dismissed it just will still use. see if i can. pick this one without destroying much of it. fortunately as watchful supervision i managed to escape with all my fingers intact and i headed into the modern heart of the factory. it takes six min the good twenty minutes to get this machine up and once it starts it really knows how to shift. to the right thing by. reading the tree by press. one thousand and. then. the rest.

of. the newspaper have a section appetizing some live music in the local park. and it seemed like a perfect place to make my going to the city this park is named. so it was built and. i'm like i'm the first. one to see shoes. and he's a second school teacher a born and bred curious boy and she knows this town inside out. from this place you can see the monastery you can see the bell tower in the church and there's also a sense in which people. there are areas of the city that are less picturesque carol has a real problem with its roads which is supposed to be some of the worst in russia and the overwhelming color on the streets is a steely gray change has been slow but i'm just saying is that life here is

starting to improve i think became even better we have a new things here we have new plants like the plants and we have. new. it's just. everything is different. and as a teacher she's very proud of their education system we have a lot of universities here and those in her study here can find a good job. is going to be to her school to see the facilities for myself and also to attend one of the most solemn ceremonies of the year if you're a seven year old but it's another when i was little before of going to growed up school was a pretty scary but here in russia they have a ceremony that's supposed to make everyone feel welcome. and you get to wear some pretty cool. this is well the first years officially begin their formal education.

gives the various classes a chance to show their proud mums and dads routines. thank you. for this moment the little ones being welcomed into the school they run the foreign exchange program here and several students from across the globe have come to experience a russian way of life and improve their language skills. the countess the milky way who is which is has to be the other way because spells with c. but then i need to find them this one is broken so to speak we seem to end up with no look. each student comes for an academic year and after the ceremony i dropped in on a group of americans and germans having a russian lessons there as we have read yesterday here and this is.

everybody this is a russian less emotional troy do this in russian. james journalist is must be they're encouraged to try and immerse themselves as much as possible although of course every new city has its challenges. you find that that's helping your russian more the fact that you have your forced to communicate in russian and that you know sisters white speaks no english and one speak some english so they need things communicated it's really helpful to have a sister you can communicate and translate but for everyday things like learning the words used to make. me walk and we go to cafes and i'm going to work but in my city it's not a city it's a village and there's two thousand people and there's nothing there is nothing so here is cafes here's the cinema are you for squares that's better i think living in this heat my pleasure so close to seventy other people it's easier to fire.

so in that respect i think it's. it's a city for young people. i don't think it's necessary. as recently as may. first and foremost they had to study and has determined that when they do go home they'll have had the full russian experience as an it isn't an economic program so the main objective of the course is learning the language but it's not only the language that's we were in but also because from traditions of the country this to whether or not they go home speaking like natives the guys are certainly going to be loaded down with souvenirs and you can get much more authentically care of them these toys. lydia and her daughter a carrying on a little tradition that started in the neighboring village of m goes back more than four hundred years from brightly colored milkmaids to a huge variety of animals each piece is handmade and i was about to learn some of

their secrets and then we're going to put you the reason why toys were made locally . was that there were many rich merchants in quito where you what they decorated the homes with such toy is that the people in didn't cover didn't have enough money to buy toys for their children. so they supplied their children with toys made locally at the same time wealthier people decorated their homes with toy horses cows and the lie. young teens produce upon you and i was put to work on some bird life so i have a good. thing is that the what we do to the head here and then glue it. and it will surgery here. look at this we take a piece of clay each. and do like this. that's a duck that might actually swim.

countless this. stuff is here it's mistry it's real temperature for four days yeah he did yeah right so i felt this is a long process it's the you have to live in drawing room temperature for more days it was the end well then i'd seen enough in p.t. and then they go in the oven and they big but of course that's really just the start half of the piece has been fired you've got a delicate brushwork to take care of so i get the bat with the bottle like. well the bear with the better tell us better. i'm just painting white i don't mind most peace will be joining any sales catalogue but lydia has had some serious v.i.p.'s walk through her doors looks like good walking and some pretty famous footsteps because the ladies made this run with prison but that was. but i

think i got better deal only did i get to make amazing duck and. cure of jim q toys may have been around for centuries but the fur trade here has been going on far longer. the area is rich in mink fox and even introduced raccoon and the local clinker factory has been making the most of it. it was founded in one nine hundred ninety one and has gained a reputation for international collections and its bespoke clothing. for this we were everything star says. this is the sign with a pencil and paper he truly was. chekist builds paths for the factory employs around a hundred people who take care of the various stages of production and once the government starts to take shape it's time for the embroidery. would make the sign on level so they are broad picture on some level.

compared to the western world there's little stigma attached to wearing fur in russia and the shuba coat is still a part of most women's wardrobe although if you want to pick up one of these designs only in very deep pockets so i guess this would be the really exclusive stuff this second is made from ship skin. so a short cut it ships skin and the lining. and here is a long will ship skin. in broidery made out of a lever. but how much would this set you back. eight hundred so there it goes ok this one is really unusual but it does seem. like this where is this for i'm going to start us to hunt and make claims llama and this is why i read quite unusual and they are quite expensive. but with those

coming in from across the country it seems that there are people willing to pay the high prices and a new campaign for the twenty four team winter olympics in sochi is likely to give killing even more publicity for production is always going to be controversial but in russia it's just a fact of life when the temperatures plunge outcome the schubas but if you want a new one. well that's going to cost you. but if you don't happen to have several thousand dollars just lying around there are always other ways to make money like digging forward. carries a metal detector unspayed with him everywhere he goes and it seems cure alls has a few prime spots for buried treasure. not believe it but where we're standing there used to be a village it was abandoned forty years ago but it was actually centuries.

and his friends think they're still like if you think we're finding here. that's. the metal detecting here can be a rover hazardous profession. at the really. only there are any bets. that get there. fortunately our furry friends kept their distance and we were able to start hunting had once been searching spots like bees for more than a decade and he's had quite a few impressive discoveries. found a medal it was made in sixty two russian craftsmen at such a find is not a surprise in england there are a lot of such medals how it appeared here in kirov he's a mystery. and it wasn't long before we came on something on selfs.

because to cope. with dreams of hidden riches running through my head i decided to have a go myself although it didn't quite work out like that. it's like a baby buzzing in you. know this. i have no. clue what that is. well this is excellent part of this. but i'm from an accordion. to make something in about a year. but then the metal detector started going crazy and i was sure we were on to something big. it's a basin. well big it was valuable it was not we might not have ended up millionaires but it had been a real adventure coming out with it and he left me with a few keepsakes to take home to strangers and then about just

a couple of searching found things from three different eras of the village. from the last years of imperial russia and. finally a little. some pretty good treasure hunting for. when it was time for me to go and see what i could dig up about life in the region . it's the secret incursion into the country. it's the invasion by means of. tradition the language. this is the first complete beat.

culture. the thing is that the had the danes are still unaware of what's going on in their land just last year my dear it's like nothing i don't know anything about alaska the great. an arche. to people of how to abandon the trappings of the twenty first century but could you imagine living your life as if it was ten zero nine rather than two thousand and nine well in cure of as a man who's done just that. this place looks like it could be straight out of a grimm fairy tale. even looks like it might be home to some enormous which.

fortunately for me the which wasn't home but just around the corner little did i know i was about to bump into a medieval blacksmith. the man is the head of one of cure olds most popular historical societies and he considers himself a modern day viking. we for chair it's our little smithy and the house this meadow belongs to our club we arrange holidays we can rest and even sleep here sometimes we spend the weekends people in our club make different decoration years and weapons we just have fun for example actually throwing thing. every viking needs to prepare for a day's pillaging with some weapons practice and romance got down to a fine art. on the other

hand just may require a few more lessons in the middle. ok the man's not a man to tolerate this he invites belong to his training group where they recreate historical battles and it's not for the faint. nation ok. ok ok. ok. villages for james the destroyer is here to crush your menfolk and drink much of your. fortunately it turns out that fighting with what feels the equivalent of

a small color on your body is really quite hard these guys used to do this all day . yeah but i am the head of the team yeah i am yes. i am james incredibly tired. as i change back into my civvies i decided it was time to let some of the people round my head it off was one of carroll's most popular and unusual schools this is bundy a combination of football and ice hockey that was apparently invented by the british in the nineteenth century who sadly like many of our sports were not very good at it but the russians and supposedly have the top ten teams in the world. is one of them. the game is played on a field the size of a football pitch uses a round plastic pool and. there's minimal physical contact as this is

a school that requires primarily skill and agility definitely better that i stifle this side of the ice and you can really see why. a game that takes the best of ice hockey out of football who catches people's imagination and i haven't even seen anyone try rinaldo. and the people here love their team opening them matches can attract up to ten thousand spectators even in the dead of winter but those who prefer to watch the sport from the comfort of their armchair will be seeing this man. versus. this. and expect to tell you who runs a couple of. months and i was very keen to meet. for russia almost twenty years ago and he's been educating pilots here ever since the chance to help make some of my favorite silence was too good to pass up please to me thank you very much. started up

a pizzeria in moscow in the early nineties but after his daughter was born he decided to move out of the big city and as his wife's from kiro it seemed like the obvious choice. we call. this restaurant and the the russian reacted to her having a real italian restaurant here was a surprise for. disability. restaurant they have. every dish. here. for the. first time. you know. after school after home after. players for rich people and after a few finishing touches i was ready to try it for myself. that's what i was waiting. but it's something look

that good smell like. real thick grass in it that will bring. from the best restaurants but there were a couple of things i want to see. normally i don't pitch lifts with strange men on motorcycles. but to have one of russia's most unusual clubs point it you needed someone in the know. well i had been expecting to be dropped off at some level. so i was a little surprised when i opened the door to the chip which was my new friend hinting i should play for my so maybe the local vicar could shed some light something. i'm sorry i think i was told that this was actually a bike his club. bit of a mistake. i'll explain everything to you. back

ok. this is. a priest. we'll explain exactly what all that means. let's go. but then he was revealed as i met father alexander very own priest he's the founder of the city's motorcycle club although admittedly not exactly hell's angels hello lou. took me aside and introduced me to some fellow club members including my old friend. as well as writing the group also meet to restore old bikes lou i think this one's going to take some serious work so this was a real russian classic about forty five years ago the. because equivalent to the

italian vesper seen better days the little bit of russian history. this certainly isn't your typical pollock of the cure old scripts to reuters have become part of the landscape united by love of going on the roads. it looks like. they're off to spread the bike a words one last time this year but as for me i they are going to enjoy the rest of care of. me. it was almost song for me to leave the city but i always like to check out a bit of the local music scene in my travels although in the basement of the johnston face point when i can expect. these are the shakes it's a little slice of nineteen fifties america in northeastern russia i'm one of your olds most popular but it's. not all came over here that.

he was a long while living in cairo. ok i have stated that i wasn't expecting to come. but it's also thank you how did you guys get into playing kind of fifty's fifty's country and all the rock n roll well you know we've been playing this music. for almost seventeen seventeen year old. we got to know about it from our parents who are also big fans red fans this music and elvis presley and bill haley so that's how it happened this is about as. well you're right. the fact is that we are the only group the only band around and i think that the popularity of this music and of our band depends on this fact once or twice

a month we go out sat our region and rock the house today. crowd was getting the benefits and the role was in the mood for a concert. you have to scratch under the surface to get the best care of the first close you might be reminded of a great provincial soviet town but it's the people that really give this city its color and they're some of the most vibrant and diverse but i've had the pleasure of meeting.