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those they regard as heroes but some of the choices of course. brings up to date for the moment i'll be back with more news for you in less than thirty minutes from now in the meantime we travel to south western siberia where a modern industrial region. james brown takes you to. that's next. the camera region is one of russia's great mineral deposits based in southwestern siberia it's stuffed with coal and iron ore which supplies heavy industry around the country but it's there's plenty of whites to go with the black the region also borders some stunning mountain ranges and is a mecca for the snow and scale of this but with temperatures dropping sometimes to minus thirty five celsius or minus thirty one firefight in the winter make sure you

wrap up with. one good thing about traveling in these kind of extreme temperatures as you can expect some real sudbury in hospitality and one camera of a nature reserve definitely lays out the welcome we wanted to see a real scene of siberian winter i guess this would be about as picture perfect as you'd get. but before we go in here. little boring. day i get to say hello welcome to the nature reserve tomsk a piece an accent and a code into allah custom where treating you with boxcutters welcome. to the show. right. because of him sorry to hold me up a little bit. but if.

you missed it well come to my residence don't scare peace in your. eyes. this is father frost who did models in russian might give it away but he's russia's equivalent of santa claus there are no right. here but we do have a one horse open sleigh. this. school so i think you have to work all year round because there's a lot of kids really like they're waiting to see. you yet. apparently if you're going to be a guest of the frost you need to pack you don't think she's just a sheepish you know she will really. keep telling us all how. much you

little. will do will be soon to be mean i get my presence here. would feel like i've been a good boy this year oh. i actually did have a serious reason for visiting this reserve and it was down on the stones below. the russian empire gained a foothold in this region a little more than four hundred years ago but people have been living in this area for thousands of years and they've left their mark the locals call these drawings hand-writing of the river to. see that. we can't have to.

go. hunting see this alongside the animals you can make out ships and bronze age symbols of the song which was worship body ancient indigenous tribes very unique painting of cameras past. and they bring thousands of visitors here every year don't believe those. six thousand years if you would history. these rocks and you just take a look at the landscape here. and you can think this is new. really hasn't changed much. but this kind of peace and tranquility is the exception rather than the rule and once you step into the city itself you can find what really makes this place take. it's not difficult to see that this is

a pretty heavily industrial zone but there's one industry that stands head and shoulders above the rest here they call this region russia's coal basin and without but it be no city here at all. the mining industry really took off for the beginning of the last century and developed during the soviet union now adays the region supplies around sixty percent of the country's coal and on surprisingly they're rather proud of it. the real mining museum has plucks and old equipment from all of camera has pits but with me here it might not exist at all yes. or. very strong. this museum or. only that he has a great i dream about this museum of nine hundred ninety i have lost

bicycle. and go for a camera left to amsterdam the whole of the. yes and so on going off my three seven thousand skeletor slogan on the street or. i want to make museums red hill nowadays the museum is one of the town's most popular tourist attractions. they've even built their own replicas soft. welcome to our museum. near exhibition utilites in right mind. and. as a commission was built approximately three or four years ago it's really a popular place for canada with children but yes. yes we're going to sell it so there's a right to get into the spirit because i've been generous. ok. there is a bit of a necessity if you are as tall as but david. definitely this is to be sure and here

i think this is a commitment exhibition so the exhibition focuses only early months and hundreds i mean has a selection of old mining safety gear i'm tools so this is i guess they're really twentieth century yes you can see a special box for all you see. and special instruments and if you were low in the. rye. it's a very old. somebody with any sick i guess from back in the day. it's even possible to watch footage from the pits back in one thousand nine hundred sixteen and the conditions the men had to endure on the ground. almost two hundred years old in the coal industry is still the region's largest exports but not all the fuel here ends up on the phone. igor smirnoff has a much more creative use for it he claims he's the only coal sculptor in the world

it's amazing to think you can create something as foreign and detailed as this out of such a fragile and thorsten difficult tiriel to work with but without a little incentive from a friend none of these might be here at all one of the goals made bets in that he'd never be able to make a sculpture of cole. he didn't put too much money on. his work ranges from fantasy pieces to portraits of the saints and he's quite happy to give lessons to. do less work on a design. this is such a tricky material to work with the coal is coated with a special glue to stop it shattering but with every stroke of the chisel i was afraid i was going to chop the bear's head off i'm pretty sure the ego is going to have to do a little reconstructive surgery. look at it he's looking at you good. i

think it's. a little bit of tidying up. he's not blind but he might need glasses i think. ok. he has shown off his work around siberia but his biggest fans closer to home. it is my daughter arranged for me to examine my works at a fair in kemet i bought it and a whole bunch of coal miners thanked me they shook hands with me and i realised that people appreciated my work as somebody who needed it and that what i was doing was interesting. and in this region a miner's approval counts for a lot of coal is camera of his life blood and the vast majority of it is found in one specific place. as you can see i'm about to take a pretty job first time and i'm not just anyone this is the biggest one in the whole of the country eight million tonnes of coal comes out of the ground

here every single year. but before i could make my way to the shown i still had some equipment pick up. pretty essential bits of kit. and of course light. and once everything was properly attached we were ready to head to the lift and literally take the plunge. is the pitch. here. about two hundred fifty meters. and. this is the. there's more than half

a billion tons of coal down here that's enough to last another seventy years but we had a long way to get to the lake to see. the miners work six hour shifts in tights cramped conditions but they're using some of the most sophisticated equipment in the world and it's so simple to understand anyone can operate it. this is. something that takes the coal out of the safety of the conveyor belt. like a black hole. because a slice is eighty centimeters of coal at a time and once one side has been thoroughly excavated the whole operation. moves forward. because you know it's all exciting visually for us that you could say if your example of a crash. it only takes two hours to dig out

a train load of coal a once it's been cut from the old to convey it takes it straight to the factory. and occasionally it's a quick way out for a time and money. to six. weeks now minus one. i don't even down the pit for a short time but there's no avoiding the water in the cloying dust and it was a relief to get back out into the sunshine. tough to soak up the jesse tough job people speak about the day at the coalface want to see how did they know that all of. it was time for me to hit the showers but the co was just beginning its journey and its mixed destination was a business that's essential to the camera of a region as the mining industry itself.

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in the us army. trying to become an american by getting part in the. ranks and reasons differ but one thing brings them together once they disobey. just a couple of hundred kilometers from kemmerer of a is no because knits and it's a journey from coal county to steel city. the everest plant is one of the fifteen largest steel mills in the world and has russia's lowest production costs. everything is watched over from an air conditioned control room but down on the factory floor things really start to heat up there's no problem with the siberian winter if you work in a place like this now this should give you an idea of what this region is really all about the ground here is full of iron ore and coal and if you put those two

together a hell of a lot of heat you get to go on and from that you can get steel. this is a real river of and it runs down into a series of huge cold returns ready for the mix stage of the process. and this is what this deal is. the most in figure mixes with the start of the human the conversing here i don't know lights up like guy fawkes night. but like if they give you these really. safe you don't just buy. oxygen is added and after a while the steel is ready to be cooled down cost and sliced up. do things by homes here. yeah braz each one of these red hot steel slabs weighs around twenty tons once they move in mind up but. they can then be packed so i sent off the heavy industry clients around the country and around the.

this is definitely reason whether people call and play on us but you won't catch them at the football stadium on a saturday afternoon because the coal basins favorite sport is a whole different. this is the home of the who's boss banditti it's a cross between football and always smoky and it's hugely popular. so the top team in the country and many believe it's all down to head trainer andre. this is. far. right good business so nice to meet you. so this is the good this got you on a ninety day win streak i think so. so listening to him some will surprise the guys that much of it's before. that don't go sideways

boy. but even if you're not surprised there's always a game going on around here somewhere. really well this is be interesting bundy a school they play outside in siberia in the winter. wish me luck. this looks like it might move i sort of started possibly. james his mystic and the team playing for the lights ok i'm with the whites the big con much . limits the to start with i was a little hit and miss but after running around for a while mike deadly accuracy soon became apparent. one nil to the wall right there little bit. of a feature. but if you want to play this game you'll definitely have to work on your

cardio just a go between to stick. those really reminds you of school you know who's put me in . it was clear i was a natural for the woods well you have to try and impress the manager think you know who. you are. so what do you think of that coach that was fine great girl where are you treat your. physical exercise it was definitely saw him for an unhealthy snack. and it turns out that this region produces some of the country's favorites. this is the home of the k.g.b. biscuit factory and if you're munching on a chocolate or just a cake in russia the chances they were made here things change and now let's try to do that by ourselves let's do it direct to you lynn assured me around the factory fool them gave me

a quick lesson in biscuit making. disability and competently help make a bit of the feeling. we need. to start off with yes . that is the let's put it here at the second ingredient here is less of fame we should add a little bit here. a little this which i guess is some kind of. cheekily stuff. that. helps. to keep everything. this is sweet production on a massive scale they make nine million of these little wife is here every single. this reminds me of my very. pointedly for all these new graduates into the fountain. of the so.

they may be home to the region's most modern factories but no because nets also retains a strong link with its past and walking through some of the city suburbs can be like taking a trip back in time. the street is a real snapshot of history things really haven't changed here in the last hundred fifty years and over here might just be the most famous building. of the whole city. in a scene fifty seven after a long courtship the famous russian writer federal ski married his great love and first wife maria. in this city they lived here in this house for just twenty two days and now it's a museum and a monument to the people. of this the writer and his wife took a romantic stroll they might well have come to look over the city from its old

military fort. where this fortress was built around two hundred years ago the old city of cosmic scale still a popular rating point for bandits and also an important trading route so these guns were designed to keep the caravans moving and the raiders out. before skis house have a steady stream of visitors but most of the tourists here have a different destination in mind. so the cosmos region is a place of heavy industry but once you get past all the coal in the eye and you don't have to come too far and you've got yourself a little mini version of the alps. of foreign withdrawing from them because minsk and you're into perfect ski conditions and some of the region's most beautiful. apparently the most spectacular views are at the top of the green mountain just

just up here and it's really only one way to get. now all true and snowboarding once before in russia but suppose going to get the most times of this trip i thought i'd better have a slightly more reliable means of getting around. me that it is cool just up here and fortunately i've got a friend who's going to be able to show me around a little bit better and he's got a rather special little snow but it's going to look. good because i'm the head of the tourist office. getting to see all sights. and the mountains they are all very beautiful places. before ok. if you want to get around up here this is by far the quickest and easiest way to do

it is. now being on the back of a snowmobile is all well and good. but really i couldn't wait to take the controls myself. what a way to travel. silly to the boat though. you take a look at where we get a city pretty obvious well the coolest place the cowboy. the very top of the mountain is most by a huge steel cross and it's the best view of the mold. now this is what i call living the high life we're about fifteen hundred metres up here over there you can see the outside region and over here. you've got the krasny all screeching as well it's such a clear and perfect day you can see it out a thousand kilometers in all directions and using. i didn't have long left in the camera the region but there was still time to meet a bit of

a local celebrity before i went home. well larry has been the local sheriff a nearly thirty years until the forty's snowmobile back in two thousand and five he used to patrol this whole territory on skis. he's from the short sea troy indigenous people who've lived in the mountains and forest here for more than a thousand years. was is here we are james this is the most beautiful landscape in these parts is called. there's a river down there only about two hundred meters from here is called the main us is distinguished by its clean water people used to live beyond the fields there were foreigners in the time very many cattle was not far from stock breeding local people went hunting and fishing there were very little blacksmiths many of the tribes were nomads shifting from one place to another. and valarie took me to see one of the most stunning pieces of the region's natural

architecture. village he has been visiting this cave since he was a boy every winter the water forms on the style of toilets and stuff like minds that can last well into the someone. but that's not the only surprise that could be in store for an unsuspecting. family of as more to this cave than just these beautiful starlets heights that have formed over here a short sea have a legend about this place they talk about a shadowy figure called the mosque or of the mountain is supposed to be eight feet told harry sounds remarkably like big for to me. but. he's supposed to live in this cave if you see here. very good luck sir. i mean really. the master of the mountain was keeping himself to himself and it was time for me to make my way out of this strange and diverse region with

a halt of cold.