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temple construction. some of the sporting events could be helping me see of. course must. call next week travel to russia's once closed military city of kid off which is a time capsule of a long gone soviet past. less than a thousand kilometers northeast of moscow the city of care of its regional capital a million people and if you like places that in the historic. this is the town for you. 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 outside investment is starting to improve facilities here and amongst the buildings you can still find

a few done in the rough. place is a real institution it's one of the oldest buildings in the whole city and for two centuries it's been the center of the region's printing industry. books newspapers calendars magazines if you need paper they'll princes and they get through more than forty tons every week. there's been a press here since seventeen months and to 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 the modern era and something that i guess would be about nineteen right with something that is spread out of the twenty first century. and in the mix room there's a machine that might easily have used it days it's for all the different. we take

it to mean the right interim which we didn't. strain to think of machines like this result was printing is itself in the hundreds of years ago the press was like this one might have produced the first shakespeare a good book bible this one is producing packaging for delicious nothing three. 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. five and. the rest. of the newspaper had a section advertising some lies 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. unleashed on the first. like. one thousand. enemies 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 order. 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. 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

a space make everyone feel welcome. and you get to wear some pretty cool. this is well the first years officially begin cation. gives the various classes a chance to show their proud mums and dads the routines. thank. you this morning the little ones being welcomed into the school they run the foreign exchange program here and several students from across the glued have come to experience a russian way of life and improve their language skills. the countess the milky way it was but is has to be the other way because those spells with feet but then i need to find them this one is broken so to speak we seem to end up with no milk. each student comes for an academic year after the ceremony i dropped in on

a group of americans and germans having a russian lessons. there has recovered yesterday here and this is. everybody this is a russian less law school 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 force to communicate in russian and that you know sisters and one speaks no english and speak some english so they don't need things communicating it's really helpful to have a sister you can communicate and translate but fairy things like learning the words used to make. me go to walk and we go to cafes and i'm going to do homework but in my city it's not the 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 he is a square so that's better i think living in this people have to live so close to sunny other people it's easier to find groups there were and so in that respect i think in most places for young people. i think it's necessary. recently for. the first and foremost they had to study and is determined that when they do go home they'll have had the full russian experience as an it is it an economic program so the main objective of the course is learning the language but it's not only the language that's reward but also the cost 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 the. toys. lydia in her daughter occurring on the local 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 even just three so they supplied their children with toys made locally at the same time wealthier people decorated their homes with toy horses cows and the like. yet thrown upon you and i was put to work on some bird life so i have a good. thing is that what we do to manage here and then do it. and it'll surgery here. look. we take

a piece of clay each. and do like this. that's a duck that might actually swim. like countless this. stuff is here and it's must dry it's real temperature for four days it yeah he did yeah right so i felt this is a long process it says the you have to live in drawing room temperature for more days the end will die not enough and peachy and then they go in the oven and they bake but of course that's really just the start half of the piece has been fired you've gone by delicate brush work to take care of so i get the bat with the bottle like well the bear with about. and tell us better. and just as painting weiss i don't smile i must piece will be joining any sales catalogue but lydia has had some serious v.i.p.'s walk through hood doors or look

sort of walking in some pretty famous footsteps because the ladies made this run with prison but that was. but i think i hope that we'll look at it i get to make amazing duck and. cure alls dem good 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 culling of 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 a piece of paper she draws. all jackets coats hats. 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 can broad picture on it so clever. 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 wool and chip skin. in broidery made out of a lever. but how much would this set you back. eight hundred dollars ok this one is really unusual to have a seam. like this but where's this for i'm going to start us to hunt and place

llama and this is why wreck quite unusual and they're quite expensive. but with otis coming in from. cross the country it seems that there are people willing to pay the high prices and a new campaign for the twenty fourteen winter olympics in sochi is likely to give even more publicity production is always going to be controversial but in russia it's just a fact of life when the temperatures plunge outcome the supers but if you want a new one all 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 for a. big wad carries a metal detector unspayed with him everywhere he goes and it seems cure all has a few prime spots for buried treasure. now you might not believe it but where we're standing there used to be

a village now it was abandoned forty years ago but it was actually centuries and edward and his friends think that if you think we're finding here. the metal detecting here can be a rover has to disprove fashion. that's a really far better only crap there are any bets. that get there. fortunately our furry friends kept their distance and we were able to start hunting it 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 to one by the russian craftsmen at such a find is not a surprise in england there are a lot of such metals how it appeared here and there is a mystery that. it wasn't long before we came on something on

selves. 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 the. i have no. clue what that is. well this is excellent parts of the fence. but i'm from an accordion. like a corn on. the make something in about a year. more tread on wood. 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 wos my label it was not we might not have

ended up million it was but it had been a real adventure coming out with it what and he left me with a few keepsakes to take home to strange then about just a couple of i was searching for found things from three different areas of the village. and century belt buckle discoid for the last years of imperial russian military thirty finally a little soviet army jacket button. with some pretty good treasure hunting for the day. and it was time for me to go and see what else i could dig up about life in the care of reaching. like millions of americans i've lost thousands of dollars in retirement funds and i haven't had as bad as many it's not just about them it's about need to.

see. and g.-d. . needed. now . since this is my film i get the last word this financial crisis will not be turned off like a light switch. when two people of how the two abandon the trappings of the twenty first century could you imagine living your life as if it was ten o nine rather than two thousand and nine well in cure of there's a man who's done just that.

looks like it could be straight out of a grin. even looks like it might be home. to me the which wasn't home but just around the corner little did i know i was about to bump into a medieval blacksmith. man is the head of one of the most popular historical societies and he considers himself a viking. we for chair it's our little smithy and a 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 decorations and weapons we just have fun for example actually throwing things. every viking needs to prepare for a day's pillaging with some weapons practice and down to

a fine art. on the other hand 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 when they recreate historical. mission ok. ok ok. james the destroyer is here to crush your menfolk and drink much of your.

confusion 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. 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 sports 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 you can really see why. a game that takes the best of ice hockey out of football who catches people's imagination i haven't even seen anyone try ronaldo style dive yet. and the people here love their team open images can attract up to ten thousand spectators even in the dead of winter but those. from the comfort of their armchair will be seeing this. this is were not so and expect to tell you who runs a couple of best restaurants 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 salads was too good to pass up. thank you

very much not just 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 me. and how all of the russian reacted to her having a real italian restaurant here was a surprise for. disability. restaurant they have. every dish. the. first time. you know. after. home after. players and rich people and after a few finishing touches i was ready to try it for myself.

that's what i was waiting. and i was so raw something looked that good smell like. real thick. you know. from the best restaurants and hero but there were a couple of other things i wanted to see to go. home normally i don't hate lists with strange men on motorcycles list but this is one of russia's most unusual clubs although to find it you needed someone in the know. oh 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 soul. maybe the could shed some light something else. i'm sorry i think i was told that this was actually a bikers club. bit of

a mistake. yes i'll explain everything to you. back ok. ok well this is. dropped off. and i. met a priest who said. we'll explain things that we will that means and in the meantime. with all was revealed as i met father alexander. priest he's the founder of the city's motorcycle club. exactly hell's angels hello lou. took me outside and introduced me to some fellow club members including my old friend. as well as writing the group also me to restore old bikes well i think this one is going to take some serious work so this was a real russian classic about forty five years ago the. equivalent to the.

seen better days little bit of russian history. this certainly isn't your typical biker club but christian writers have become part of the landscape. on the road. looks like. they're off to spread the word. this year but as for me. the rest of. it was almost time for me to leave the city but i always like to check out a bit of the local music scene on my travels although in the basement of the jazz. point when i can expect. piece of the shakes it's a little slice of nine hundred fifty. most popular.

you know he's really. well. carol. ok. thank you how did you guys get into playing fifty's. fifty's country and all the rock n roll well you know we've been playing this music i mean rockabilly and country western for almost seventeen seventeen years. we got to know about it from our parents who were also big fans red fans this music and elvis presley and bill haley so that's how it happened this is about his wealth and it's i've seen. well you're right. the fact is that we're the only group the only band around and i think that the popularity of this music and 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 out of fear of the first close you might be reminded of the great urban chill soviet zone but it's the people that really give this city its color and there's some of the most vibrant and diverse that i've had the pleasure of meeting.