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to come up with the answers. and your of policies under fire. for the spread of an extremist threat. the heart of western siberia and a powerhouse of the country's coal mining industry. 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 fire heights in the winter make sure

you wrap up. 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 it gets. before we go in here. plus you. get to say hello welcome to the nature reserve tomsk a piece in itself and decode into all custom we're treating you with a box cutter welcome. to the show. rice. pickles some inside to hold me up a little bit. and

what is. it well come to my residence don't scare peace in your. eyes. this is fall the 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 open slather. 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. apparently if you're going to be a guest of the frost you need to pack you don't think she's just a show. you know she will really hope. i keep

telling myself how. much you. will. get my presence here pretty. soon feel like i've been a good boy this year. 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 the. candidate.

it's. ancient. go. in. here i've come to see this alongside the animals you can make out ships and bronze age symbols of the song which was worship body ancient indigenous tribes there are unique painting of cameras past. and they bring thousands of visitors here every year don't believe was. six thousand knew he would history. these rocks when 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 that you know city here at all. the mining industry really took off for the beginning of the last century and developed during the soviet union nowadays the region supplies around sixty percent of the country's coal and not surprisingly they're rather proud of it. the real mining museum has pluck some old equipment from all of kemmer of his pits but with me here it might not exist at all yes. or mind. very strong. this museum or. that he has a great idea about this museum again one thousand nine hundred i have lost

a bicycle. and go for a camera left to amsterdam the whole and. yes and so long gone off my. seven thousand skeletor slalom. or. i want to make a museum 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. there's a new exhibit the lights 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 that we could see yes we are right to get into the spirit because i didn't. ok. there is a bit of a necessity if you are as tall as

a diva. definitely better to be sure and here i think this is a commitment. 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 there is only twentieth century yes you can see a special box for all you see. and special instruments and if you were alone 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 a hundred years old in the coal industry it's 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 us he claims he's the only coal sculpture in the world

it's amazing to think you can create something as foreign and detailed as this out of such a fragile and the tourist 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 mates 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 and 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 he might need glasses i think. ok me. he has shown off his work around siberia but his biggest fans closer to home. it is my daughter arranged for me to exhibit 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 mine as approval counts for a lot of coal is camera of his life blood on the vast majority of it is found in one specific place. as you can see. pretty well first time. 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 show i still had some equipment pick up. pick up two 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. this is a pitch. right here. two hundred fifty meters. must be considered.

this is the response. 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 toilets 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 what i felt right. so it 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 it's all eccentric. you could say if you example a crack. it only takes two hours to dig out

a train load of coal i 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. to say. something. i don't even down the pit for a short time but there's no avoiding the water and the cloying dust and it was a relief to get back out into the sunshine. so give up and just see a tough job people speak about the day at the coalface going to say how does he know that. it was time for me to hit the showers but the cold was just beginning its journey and its mixed estimation was a business that's essential to the camera of the region as the mining industry itself. for the full story.

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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 a guy and i'm from that you can get steel. this is a real river of oil and it runs down into a series of huge cold rings ready for the next stage of the producers. and this is what this deal is all of the motion picture mixes with the spark to you and the converting here i don't know lights up like guy fawkes night. quite like if they give you these really. safe you don't just buy that.

oxygen is added and after a while the steel is ready to be cooled down cost and sliced up. things by homes here and you have rez each one of these red hot steel slabs weighs around twenty tons a once they move in mind up and laid out here. they can then be packed up and sent off to the heavy industry clients around the country and around the world. this is definitely reason whether people work and play on but you won't catch them at the football stadium on a saturday afternoon because the cold places flavor of sport is a whole different because. this is the home of the cruz bass banditti it's a cross between for. football and i still keep 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.

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. you know 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 spool they play outside in siberia in the winter. wish me luck. this looks like it might mean i sort of. possibly. james his the stick and the team playing for the whites ok i'm with the whites the big much here . it's the to start with i was a little hit and miss but after running around for

a while my deadly accuracy soon became apparent. one nil to the wall i won't. go off teach an explorer. if you want to play this game you'll definitely have to work and you called. just have a go between the stick. really reminds you of school you know. it was clear i was a natural for well you have to try and impress the manager think oh. so what do you think of that coach i'm not sure. that was fine great girl where are you treat. 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 floor gave me a quick lesson in biscuit making. believe he had competently. a bit of the feeling which we need. to start off with yes. that if you put it here at this second and greedy and here it's less a thing we should add to. this which i guess is. ok . to keep. this

is sweet production on a massive scale they make ninety million of these little wife is here every single day. this reminds me of my very. pointedly rowley's new graduates into the chocolate fountain. to be so. maybe home to the region's most modern factories but no because knits also retains a strong link with its past i'm walking through some of the city's suburbs can be like taking a trip back in time. the street has a real snow. history things are. they haven't changed here in the last hundred fifty years and over here might just be the most famous building. of the whole system. in

a scene fifty seven after a long courtship the famous russian writer federal dostoyevsky married his great love and first wife maria asya 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 mess. and 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 course knit school 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. nowadays the fort and dostoevsky's 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. a four hour drive from the because minsk and you're into perfect ski conditions and some of the region's most beautiful city. 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. soon so. now all true and snowboarding once before in russia months if i was 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. we're going to see all sights. crossed and the mountains they are all very beautiful places. but if we're 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. who is a travel. ciliates in the boat and. you take a look at where we get a city pretty obvious well the coolest place the powerball. 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 meters up here over there you can see the outside region and over here. you've got the crabs we are screeching as well it's such a clear and perfect day you can see it out a thousand kilometers in all directions. i didn't have long left in the camera region but there was still time to meet a bit of a local celebrity before i went home. but larry has been the local sheriff if i'm nearly thirty years until the pool to 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 metres from here is called the met 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 blacksmith men in the tribes who were nomads shifting from one place to another. and larry 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 mines that can last well into the summer. but that's not the only surprise that could be in store from home suspect. family there's more to this cave than just these beautiful stylish tights that have formed over here a short sea have a legend about this place they talk about a shadowy figure called the my. auster of the mountain is supposed to be about

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 served. for shopify militia. the monster 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 the hearts of cold. russia would be soon which brightened if you knew about sun from finest impressions

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