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telemarketer broadcasting live from washington d.c. coming up today on the big picture. room this is a russian city on the drawings sitting of ukrainian border in the country's southwest it's a regional capital with a thriving business community and student population. owns nearly one million people it's a place of innovation research and close mission. in

the last few years an influx of cash has completely modernized the city center and there are plenty of fashionable new boutiques and cafes standing alongside growing issues ground on the books. for turning over the move was the stunning enunciation cathedral the third largest church in russia finally reopened in two thousand and knowing all to live in years of rebuilding with a brand new six trumbo calling the city to worship and that was a pretty good advertisement for one local company. oh really. that's a reason to go to the good see what you make here yeah yeah so we have our own as well. and so let's go i will show you that sister. and belief pose has certainly made a name for itself our foundry was found in one thousand nine hundred ninety one my father you see this family been a business. and they are web biggest that we have nothing russia and so in the

walls we produce every year about four hundred two hundred tons of this global domination has come on the back of entirely traditional bell making techniques. now this is our watches so. this is all separate from i can browse i here we make different backs icons and scrapes and then put them all on the full. the value. i feel when. we only peel off all plans. when it seems again that that's me gaps and carry out reality valuable.

some heavy duty safety because that furnace has been a little one thousand so serious nearly two thousand five hundred. this summer so i clean mixing fully and. if i hear of old soviet copper coke and there are cells made to make a little contribution to the bow making process. this is the most spectacular and certainly the most dangerous part of the whole process this revolt crucible is filled with mold some groans busy you can see. it's going to go over here. in their case to stand well back. once it's finally and position the finer the liquid is ready to fly. you can see the soup of copper and

skin all this most in bronze being poured into this huge cost it is going to take a round about a week to cool down before the whole thing can be taken outside and the next stage of the process begins. oh so that the workers really get to shake things up but there's. something else we've been based. this video seems to fade. in. the process is still far from over the new born bell needs to be washed to remove any traces of clay and it's been sand blasted and polished to give it a much surface. finish the other finished products ready to begin their

journeys to churches and temples across the globe including one six hundred fifty kilos monster. case right there can leave russia's biggest foundry without seeing what its biggest bell sounds right here again. were after all the fire and brimstone it seemed like a good time to clear my head so i ventured down to the riverside to meet another group of local craftsman ernest was historically famous as a ship building city in fact it's where emperor peter the first built the country's very first navy now those days may be long gone over earnest his love of pope's is still alive and well. even if these verona ship builders are working on a slightly smaller scale. from the city's model post club for more than fifteen years teaching the next generation to take to the waterways from submarines to

walsh it has a huge number of models for the children to work on and with the championship winning replica proudly on display plenty to aspire to as well. the small who has taken part in a national championship is won the cup that you can see over there for this model of a cannon boat mistaken policy in two world championships and the routine competition . comes luckily for me at mun the big kids have a go to. the. left. the books are all remote controls and after a quick lesson from eagle we were out on the open water full steam

a go go i guess it's not exactly sailing around the horn but they also allow for is negotiating the british canal with christmas just the fishing. because it's never good to get too complacent about these things i was about to find out trauma here was the solo but as well its difficulties on the move we had some ocean rescue missions but thankfully even here in the middle of russia the u.s. navy is on how to save the day go boys. to get close a. softer a little benefit to nudging it became clear that more drastic measures will require . so sometimes. even the lines of 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 that precious books so i went off in search of some of the robust on the watch and the ruinous business will to some. source this is blood is a sculptor and coke and so on and no project is too big or too strange to take home . because from the old fantasy forest creature flat has a workshop full of beautifully crafted pieces from a wild boar table clock to an eagle embossed coat rack so one longs to. these different. but of course each piece has to start somewhere.

something like this i salute perfect play with power tools i love it. when i was going to give me a quick course in woodwork when i warm and that meant getting hold of a chisel. and play this but. i was wiggling away on brad's mera but i couldn't help thinking back to the piece i'd seen out on the street. we might be able to do something similar. could rejoin have a go one of the biggest sculpture. lets go. you thought. lamb told me to meet him out in the woods but when i arrived he was nowhere to be seen. by looks and for seemed like hours my mind started playing tricks on me.

why couldn't i build a future for mirrors and cut backs why should other people be able to scull to not me it was in fact. a now somebody was going to pay me. that night. james. let me show you how dangerous. it seems landed narrowly avoided the road a shameful massacre. of or an ash tray office table was just about to begin.

there's nothing subtle about this form of sculpture and the absence of me down to the grounds on one side sliced off a bit here in the plant starting work on freeing the statue from the tree trunk and it was long before something with a wintry feel to its began to take shape. so i call coffee at five and hopefully you can make out a beautiful family penguin portrait here. lessons without. it's supposed to go. with you. leaving glad to put the finishing touches to our run talk to friends i headed back into the city it's a visit some more crossman working on a slightly launches scale. one company bigger is better than the longest employer in the city their territory is boss and the product they make just about fits. in that. this is the

cross production association surface. and inside this triangle six brand new i am one forty eight a fine for space. there ukrainian jet plane that's been around since two thousand and seven each one is worth around twenty five million dollars the muscle is aiming to produce fifty of them by two thousand and thirteen. plus two flats they're going to have to considerably speed up production and that's when these cars coming. 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 for the new multi-million dollar equipment means they have less to do than ever before. still idea of how technology is changing this was a few years ago i'm out of

a machine like bats would have taken around a hundred hours to make this in full piece of plane. but nowadays i've got these big also made to drills. and they can do them in what. i never saw it i got to take a look at the finished article. this is what a brand new claim looks like he seeks the business close 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 in the captain's chair here. and feel very important the controls but hopefully. they said light everything up yeah great. the

planes of i've been in service since two thousand and nine i would move and two hundred dollars worldwide the people of us a few years ahead of them. so that's what six weeks work for ten thousand people that's like one. baby coming to an ass trip the you. may already 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 roads before i had it's the. cultures that so much of me is going to create a lot of the play area look at japan's agony in the world when a disaster hits a major economic and trading power the forces of globalization punish the. wealthy british style.

market. can. find out what's really happening to the global economy with mike scott for a no holds barred look at the global financial headlines tune in to the report on our. you know just quickly about the road this is how fall the people work i met autists 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 schools for. whites just because i'm going to have a go at the game apparently it requires playing speak lightly flexes the nerves of

steel. it helps if you can catch bits of. the times normally play outside on a huge pitch but this version unfortunately for me is apparently a great deal for. play. the game is played in jules verne it's me looked a version of the russian game as well so this one is more dynamic and interesting than one played out dualistic washout. it seemed like a cross between facebook crickets and there were plenty of things i have to remember. the purpose of the game is to store as many points as possible as a supposed to get to the audience beyond it online and come back and do that only if they don't have to build every node. is not supposed to be on the sidelines of. steam get six shots. through seems simple enough now i just time to learn what

makes a great lot so pinched. this room this position you hit if you stay on this. was very technical and become a just go for be it in hope technique but seemingly flexibility may be the key to this game. just listed on the this is the best heavy duty is it is ok it's just killing my back. and then like a coiled spring i'm leashed my first shot. but here we go. i just totally took out the referee. is a clean hit you know will be sorry. i'm going to have like no friends but i didn't do this. perhaps amy amazingly officials wasn't the best way to begin my love's a career but my new teammates didn't seem to mind and it wasn't long before i was

up doing too badly. two points by thinking more about how i go cause i'm not sure. to lead to blinding speed may have deserts me if you. saw the side steps know what it was. but wasn't exactly sure what the final school was going to say he seemed happy. but. also the close victory 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 put your money was max was good it was u.g. i studied architecture and this is interesting it's very interesting i can take you an excursion if you like. bruges

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. many subjects that we had to. study professional stuff. everything related to construction will be. pretty intense stuff this is a six year cools and students can choose halfway through three want to specialize in architecture or construction. the grocers have around twenty people taking lessons and basics but also getting a chance to put their imaginations interaction. both will just think about this beauty james where do they get this the city is it yeah it's where our nation and buzzing builders have a chance to examine materials they might use and down in the department labs you

can do just that. so if you're involved in construction it is vitally important to know how strong the material your using are so in the name of science we must sacrifice this block of concrete. and then we went. around a minute later the results were in. wait for it. were . very low experiments so you go reading here of four hundred one killer newtons that means that concrete can take forty times with the weight discovering russia does physics school's out for the day and wal-mart's went off for a lot so rematch we have a slightly unusual point of keep thirty three so broad is so obviously seems to be homes and very clever people but. this one guy who says he's worth something really

. is why he wants me here in the middle of the. anybody. oh. i think that's the good stuff yes the real magic to say you know i'll show you. and apparently it's all based around this mysterious black box in the middle of the room. uses water enough that's enough. but it's reached its limits. and we're ready to go. press the.

james. magic check this out. this is some scenes police these are and it's a three d. holographic projection. the fairly easy uses of both bracing for the. cue was creating a mist then special fans and pipes blowing directly up with. this image here. that reflects. the. i wouldn't be surprised if it turns out to be constantine and stick it to the plate . so you put together mr project and

a little bit of magic and this is what you get i'm thinking that i'm not the only person. who's going to. i was running out of time in varanus and it was one of the places i still needed to check out but luckily for me doing things quickly isn't a problem for these guys. as one of those reassuring unchanging things about russia decades it's been chugging down the nation's roads doing nothing very spectacular but that's not particularly exciting so here in the road there's a group of people who like to take their lot. into it takes a fair bit of tinkering and that's where eagle comes. we are training for competition. here you can see our professional racing team. but i think we better start with the. shall we go. get your and his friends

a serious rally drive us to be competitive need a complete overhaul. everything in the world is cars of a different class which and with that it has very good performance in terms of speed. and the wheel can be removed in no time. but if the car has an all wheel drive and the russian the thousand five hundred fifty horsepower. even if we take it to european championships and the rover with an enormous is the steering column in case of an accident the wheel touches which helps keep the pilot staying . close reassuring safety features surely even a novice racer counsellor. will still come out of a drive by is of course you can before that you will need to go through a brake training exercise ok lesson thought. so this looks like your

average dog is evil at following driving around mostly for instance and the difference is that but one will take you about eight seconds to get snow to sixty i just want to do it in three point eight. you can probably do the security system is a little silly. and once i'm securely buckled him it was time for a quick purchase goods. bought it looked like. such a sick cat so we're. going to get a. good one cycle behind the truck i was ready to put my simple logic to a profit just please. please.

be seated. like this i know that and i tried to. somehow i had taken the least of them from house of no one. else. said simply son sensibly. to technology issues. but then finally a long straights loomed ahead of me. ok so i didn't have a look at a lot of what the same way again. it

would be. but you know go. separately go out into the you are. more get back to the last. thing on my visit a lot of gas. it's difficult to feel inspired to spend some time in romish this is a truly enterprising city where you can find crawl spend all praising 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 post and that's moving firmly some was the future. if. he.