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see. this is a russian city. sitting in the ukrainian border in the country's southwest it's reasonable capital with a thriving business community and student population. people it's a place of innovation. and closeness shift.

in the last few years an influx of just completely the city center and there are plenty of fashionable new cheeks and cafes. but towering over the moon was the stunning enunciation cathedral the third largest church in russia finally reopened in two thousand and knowing the culture eleven years of rebuilding with a brand new six term bell calling the city to worship and that was a pretty good advertisement for one local company. oh really. it's a reason to go to the good see what you make here yeah yeah so we have our own as well palm tree and so let's go i will show you that system. and belief this certainly made a name for itself i will foundry was found in one nine hundred ninety one my father you see this family have been a business. and they are where the biggest that we have not seen russia and so in

the world we produce every year about four hundred two hundred tons but this global domination has come on the back of in toilet traditional bell making techniques. now this is our watch a store. to sell step of making bells i hear we make the friends back so i can see the scrapes and then put them all on the fourth but this is no value. that it leaves me. here if i fear will make broth we only your coal plants you have to win these things again and that's me you get every hour every hour valuable long

yeah. and you need some heavy duty safety gear because that furnace has been either the one thousand so serious or nearly two thousand found nothing. there's some recycling in action for you in. the bank here of old soviet copper copecks and there are cells made to make a little contribute to the filmmaking process. this is the most spectacular and certainly the most dangerous part of the whole process this radio crucible is filled with most and groans as he can see. it's going to go over here. in the case of stand well back. and once it's funny and

position the finer the liquid is ready to fly. you can see the soup of copper and skin all this molson bronze being pulled into this huge cost that's going to take around about a week to cool down before the whole thing can be taken outside and the next stage of the process begins. so that the workers really get to shake things up a bit. off the balcony we've been based in a. piece of shit yeah this seems to take place and. the process is still full for most of the newborn bell needs to be washed to remove any traces of clay and it's been sandblasted and polish to give them a surface. finish joins the other finished products ready to begin their

journeys to churches and temples across the globe including one six hundred fifty kilos. ok so i don't know i can leave russia's biggest foundry without seeing what its biggest bell sounds i guess. they. were. after all the fire and brimstone it seemed like a good time to clear my head so i ventured down to the ridge assigned to meet another group of local craftsman curtis was historically famous as a ship building city in fact it's where emperor of peter the first built the country's very first navy now those days may be long gone the greatest is love the pope's is still alive and well. even if these verona ship builders are working on a slightly smaller scale. he has run the city's model post club for more than

fifteen years teaching the next generation to take to the ways from submarines to walsh it has a huge number of models for the children to work on the championship winning replica proudly on display plenty to sponsors well. this model has taken part in a national championship is won the cup that you can see over there for this model of a cannon boat has taken part in two world championships and a european competition. so luckily for me i don't mind the kids have a go to. the. left and. the boats are all remote controls and after a quick lesson from eagle we are out on the open water full steam ahead.

or i guess it's not exactly sailing the board but they also allow for is negotiating the british canal with christmas justifications. of course it's never good to get too complacent about these things i was about to find out. from here because the solo but has run its difficulties on the field so we have some ocean rescue missions but thankfully even here in the middle of russia the u.s. navy is on time to save the day go boys. get close a. little to the factual nudging it became clear stick measures will require us. so sometimes even the lines in america is not enough and you are the same i was in zero. zero zero boys. my stranded ship back to school but

understandably legal and co workers let me loose with any more of their precious bucks so i went off in search of some of the robust economy work and the owners there's no shortage of us. justice is blind is a sculptor and carpenter and no project is too big or too strange to take home but . apart from the old fantasy forest creature flat has a workshop full of beautifully crafted pieces from a wild or table cloth to an eagle embossed coat rack so one month to. these different pieces. but of course each piece has to start somewhere.

something like this excludes perfect play with power tools love it. when i was going to give me a quick course in woodwork one a warm and that meant getting hold of the chisel. hopefully this can be. i was whittling away on vlad's mirror but i couldn't help thinking back to the piece i'd seen on the street lowering if we might be able to do something similar. to rejoin have a go and figure sculpture. let's go to show you you from. the lamp told me to meet him out in the woods but when i arrived he was nowhere to be seen. by lucas and for seemed like hours my mind started playing tricks on me.

why couldn't i build useful near isn't cutbacks why should other people be able to scull to not me it was in fact. and now somebody was going to pay me. that. james. let me show you how to do it. he seemed glad it narrowly avoided the road to shame so massacre bumps the initial chainsaw off festival was just about to begin. some long run. there's nothing subtle about this form of sculpture and the absence

of me down to the ground on one side sliced off a bit here and glanced off the work on freeing the statue from the tree trunk and it was long before something with a wintry feel to it becomes take shape. circle cafe at five and hopefully you can make out a beautiful family penguin portrait here. lessons without will. with some leaving gloves put the finishing touches to our arms talk to friends i headed back into the city it's a visit small crossman working on a slightly larger scale. one company bigger is better but the longest employer in the city they territory is boss and the product they make just about fits. in that. this is the

cross production association of us or officials inside this town six brand new i n one forty eight of all into space. they're ukrainian jet plane that's been around since two thousand and seven each one is worth around twenty five million dollars and muscle is aiming to produce fifty of them by two thousand and thirteen. bus to france they're going to have to considerably speed up production and that's when these cars come and. each of these programs are helping to develop a new machine money fracturing system more than fifteen thousand different items need to go into the system and most information goes straight to the production plant. each employee looks off to one station but the new multimillion dollar equipment means they have less to do than ever before. still idea about sexuality is changing this was

a few years ago amounted to machine like bats would have taken around a hundred hours to make this beautiful piece of flame. but nowadays i've got these big automated drills. and they can do the mince words. and i saw it i got to take a look at the finished article. that . this is what a brand new plane looks like the seats for business clothes and then sixty in a color me. i thought this should be in the case of the exit saw here and here. but of course the really impressive stuff is in the cockpits right on a straight into the captain's chair here. i feel very important the controls but hopefully i can find it i should like everything yeah great. the

claims of id been in service since two thousand but with more than two hundred dollars well why is the people of so busy few years ahead of them. so that's what six weeks work for ten people that's like one. writes maybe coming to an asteroid the year. be. ready be flying around russia but i wasn't ready to catch a lift back to moscow just yet there was plenty more i wanted to see in the road before i got it's the. world. bringing you the latest in science and technology from around the world. we've got the future coverage. in here broadcasting live

from washington d.c. coming up today on the big picture. you know just quickly about the roads his house how the people work. industrialists and taking a look at both large and small businesses and there's a real energy that everyone seems to share so i was wondering how do people blow off steam here but it seems quite a few take a trip to the local sports. rights just because i'm going to have a go at the russian game a block size powered me it requires cooling listening reflects is the nerves of

steel. and helps if you can catch bits. block size memory play outside on a huge pitch this version unfortunately for me is apparently a great deal for. play. the game is played in tools various media assertion of the russian game as well so this one is more dynamic and interesting than one played out to a larger question of to. see much across between facebook crickets and. there were plenty of things i have to remember. the target of the game is to school as many points as possible want to play as a supposed to get to the audience beyond that line until they do that only if they don't hit. is not supposed to go be on the sidelines. team get six shots if you've got a rule seems simple enough now i just time to learn what makes

a great laptop pinched. his room this position you hit if you stay on the spot ok this is very technical i think i may just go for the get it and hope technique a seemingly flexibility may be the key to this game. here just to sit on the this is the best heavy. case just killing my back. and then like a coiled spring i unleashed my first shops. but here we go. i just find it's a cow the referee. is a clean hit you know will be sorry. i'm going to have like no friends but i did and they. say me amazingly officials wasn't the best way to begin my luck to career but my new teammates didn't seem to mind and it wasn't long before i was up

there into partly. through points but i think i'm more eyebrow because i go cool i'm not sure. the blinding speed my visits me a few years back. sidesteps know what it was. i wasn't exactly sure what the final school was but the going to set the scene topic. but. also the close victories of i decided it wouldn't hurt to get in a little more practice i'm trying to get to know my teammates a little better to. money was next and i was told that it was u.g. i studied architecture and this is interesting it's very interesting i can take an excursion if you like here the degree of. bruce has

an excellent reputation in russia as a university city and the next day i met up with max outside the architectural faculty. and it sounds like studying here is no picnic. well james this is my university this is actually. the first year was the most difficult one for many subjects that we had to. study professional still feeds. yeah everything related to construction all right. pretty intense stuff this is a six year cools and students can choose off way through three want to specialize in architecture or construction. grocers have around twenty people taking lessons and core basics but also getting a chance to put their imaginations into action. go to when you think about these beauty james magic it is the city isn't it yeah it's where all age. and buzzing builders have a chance to examine materials they might use and down in the department labs you

can do just that. so of course if you're involved in construction it is going to be important to know how strong the material you are using are so in the name of science we must sacrifice this block of concrete. and there we went. around a minute later the results were in. way through words. were. very low experiments so you go reading here of four hundred one killer newton so that means that our concrete can take comes with the weight discovering russia does physics school's out for the day and while much went off for a lot to rematch we have a slightly unusual appointment to keep thirty three so obviously seems to be homes and very clever people but i've been avoided to meet this one guy who says he's working on something really well. god knows why he wants me here in the middle of.

anybody. oh. this is. i think the kid stuff yes the real magic to say now i'll show you. and apparently it's all based around this mysterious in the middle of the room. uses water and that's enough. once it's reached its limits small generators. and we're ready to go. press the.

james because he wanted magic check this out. this is constantine's police reserve and it's a three g. holographic projection. these abuses about breaking just critics like. creating a mist then special fans and pipes blow it directly up with. this image head. into the water. i wouldn't be surprised if it turns out to be constantine's tickets or that they've . put together a mist make a. little bit of magic and this is what you get i'm thinking that i'm not the only

person that. is going to. i was running out of time in varanus and there was one other place i still needed to check out but luckily for me doing things quickly has no problem for these guys . as one of those reassuringly unchanging things about russia has been chugging down the nation's roads doing nothing very spectacular but that's not particularly exciting so here in the road as a group of people who like to take a lot of. loaded into a super car takes a fair bit of tinkering and that's where eagle comes from. we are training for competition i don't know why they were the ones here you can see our professional racing team but i think we'd better start with the carriage shall we go.

with the gore and his friends a serious rally drivers and in order to be competitive need a complete overhaul. it's the name of the building cars of a different class which. is very good performance in terms of speed and more about . the wheel can be removed in no time. but if the car has an all wheel drive and this motion the five hundred fifty horsepower. even if we take it to two european championships and the rover misses the steering column in case of an accident the wheel touches which helps keep the pilot say anything. who knows be assuring safety features surely even a novice race a counselor. most common dr oakley is of course you can go for that you will need to go through a brake training exercise ok lesson thought. so this looks like your

average dog that you might fall in driving around the state for instance the difference is that one will take you about eight seconds to get to know to sixty this want to do it in three points. you can probably do the security system is a little still. and whilst i was securely buckled him it was time for a quick practice good. like. side lesa catch up with. a. club and some go behind the truck i was ready to put my supra laws up to a proper test please.

i'm. like this now and then i tried to. somehow i had taken the lead but then for the house of no one. else. said simply sunsets with. technology issues. but then finally a long straights loomed ahead of me. ok so i didn't win well never look at a lower court the same way again. it

would be. but you know girl. i really got into the you are. my get back the last day of. my visit the gas. gets to the mill to feel inspired to spend some time in verona sure this is a truly enterprising city where you can find crawl spend all crazy in the same way they have hundreds of years alongside academics and engineers using the very latest technology it's a city that's in touch with its past and that's moving firmly towards the future.