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past the hour here in moscow you with your headlines now look ahead to a country without nato the shady circumstances of the colonel's death cost a blood stained shadow over the nation's future the libyan interim government claims he died in a shootout with police video shows a man posting that he executed khadafi. new york sees it dozens of new arrests during peaceful and corporate demonstration at the altar by wall street movement grow stronger inspiring more people all across the world to call for economic justice. as e.u. ministers are gather in brussels for another round of crisis talks euro skeptics in the u.k. pushing for a nationwide referendum on britain's membership in the e.u. . ok right now here at. explore the tourist destination just north of some petersburg our special report on a trip to. a place founded by peter the great was
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a supply base for the russian navy in the early eighteenth century and a hub for the ancient craft of timber and boat building that's next right here on alt. petra's of votes is a city on the bank of lake in russia's north west. south peter the great founded it in the early eighteenth century as a supply base for the russian navy to date as one of the leading centers the wooden boat making. it turn supports. roger maps and turning the corner somewhat of an. easy island just a short distance from the trees of old school nothing has changed in the past two hundred years. diamond looks like an open any easy a. once
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a year it becomes a meeting point the vessels to belong to a bygone era. rather than march a cog set up a private shipyard more than twenty years ago. since then the shop has been crammed with wooden boats even under construction already for sailing. for pavel each launch is an exciting and festive occasion. shipyards owner is unlikely to ever get bored with sending vessels on then maiden voyage. joy is their success for the wooden boat so been built throughout human history three years there and i don't see any reason why we should ever stop making them for. after all is the only building material that actually has
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a life of its own. today pavel is launching a boat which was built on the request of a group of scientists it will help researches at moscow university's biological station situated by the y. . see. children call of son of tell them not to cough is back in his hometown of petra zawacki following the trip to st petersburg educated as an engineer he spent a good deal of time there in the libraries he was looking for suitable blueprints for a new project. technical expertise and the experience of a historian but equally important these kind of shikoku. agree it sounded ok results came seventeen o three literally a month after he established st petersburg better savalas was created for the purpose of manufacturing cannons and cannon balls for the fledgling russian navy and yet however here didn't build wooden boats here his shipyards were elsewhere.
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there are several private shipyards. they operate just like the ones owned by the mock you calls. and says it times a local plant built wooden minesweepers for the navy it was shut down in the one nine hundred ninety s. but some of the stuff when thieves yes think enough to set up businesses of their own moreover they pass their interest with clothes on so that children. are we going to make the steering over. the boats quite small so let's take a look at design forty five. it is. not a look. i think for us we should take design forty eight it's a bit smaller the construction is the same as forty.
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a monk theater testis has come to petra zawacki from the volga region he has ordered the construction of replicas of russian boats stating back to ancient times among peeps a watchful eye on the progress of the work. will be here. different channels over there. are you going to cover it up here. this stays open for the number of acres it should be covered up. you get access through this opening. will this be closed. that will be open you have a hard time getting anything through there if the hole is positioned to a low. level shipyard stand side by side with the wall known by victor to meet three of the st nicholas is about to set out from the payer of the arctic odyssey club victor demetrius sees off his son alexei. donk lean over the
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side to lead us through strong. safety first. the st nicholas was built and petra's of all skin one thousand nine hundred one such boats were used by paul most people who lived on the russian coast of the white sea in the fifteenth through the eighteenth centuries similar boats to formal merchants to every part of northern europe. over the past two decades maritime festivals made to st nicholas a familiar sight all the way from bergen in norway to bristol britain. we sailed past france and norway which travelled across the northern seed to new castle in england we've been in swedish and danish waters which covered practically the whole of northern europe. the ship will cover some forty nautical miles before it reaches p.g. i. island by lake lanier got. nearly all local shipbuilders meet that once
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a year the keys the regatta is a traditional boat race in russia's northwest it takes place on the first weekend of oldest. will miss the skiff the historical boat is like a time machine when you get on board if you dressed up accordingly or even just wearing your regular clothes you find yourself in the atmosphere of a life that is no more. to dmitri have built his first sailing vessel more than thirty years ago since then private enterprises have sprung up. with a feel for the difference it was called the pool more little army than bush was in one nine hundred eighty seven when we went to spitzbergen aboard that vessel if you will you know what we naturally we experienced first hand the pleasures of going to history boarded interest boat. film companies often turn to
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purchase of boats ship builders. one of the scenes from the blockbuster pirates of the caribbean beach is a sailing vessel built a couple notches called shipyard. pavel has warm memories of another occasion when he got a request from british filmmakers. about for a run or. i also the telephone call and the caller said he represented a film company in the us would you. rather go he also has a bill some models for a film review but he didn't say exactly which film it was going to be. shortly before the phone call pavel had read the hornblower a novel by the british officer sessile scott forrester it was clear from the list of ships that he was being asked to do his bit for an adaptation of the book together for many of those go work but he said right away that it was about see battles during the napoleonic wars so were there are more to. observe even that
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small bit of information narrowed it down for us and forrester was the first name that sprang to mind when. the customers were impressed by the ability of petra's of old shipbuilders to identify the historical background by word of mouth alone the votes for the hornblower sequel which will build in petra's of votes one two emmy awards. it's an old. person not ability to building rowing boats as well as models was quite a challenge the force. which we had to handle a lot of archive material to be able to make english and french vessels. but then we were also told that british audiences can be quite sophisticated. but they have no difficulty telling an industry it from a french one. into puddles shipyard less than
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a year to build eleven replica vessels and four full scale rowing boats dating back to the late eighteenth century. collingswood done by restores the keiji museum. in the polls of yourself a year to complete the job is personally build models with sales cannons and carvings. since board. some of the ships launched in petrus of all skin the past years are already part of modern history a museum in the siberian town of circuit is playing with the idea of enriching its collection with a replica of a cosigner boat it was made in the take to dimitri of shipyard in petra zawacki almost twenty years ago at the request of a russian film company. the vessel is an exact copy of the sixteenth century cost but. so you have replaced this part here yes excellent now the blanks here
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please. replica was featured in a film about the legendary. the man who conquered siberia. with it have to live naturally will sew it up into four sections then will separate it go in the meat section and then put it all back together in some good museum with. sometimes victor and pavel compete for clients on other occasions they combine forces on joint projects. one of the does employees is showing the monk how the project is progressing. a song still oh good day i was a go and not much everything's fine. have you finished in the decade been. well. let's install the gas tank here.
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maybe let's put it there you go with with all the other equipment has been linked up to me. like the engine control. right now demetrius company is working on boats ordered by theater amongst ideas to use three replicas of ancient russian boats to retrace the waterway that links russia to the balkans in the eleventh century of opinion that life has lost that precious kernel that used to be at its very core the joys of creation learning and discovery if we hope to be able to revive those values by organizing what we call the journey from russia to the land of the serbs. since then the to tell me to f. has built some fifty vessels the shipyard launches new boats on a reg. a basis in pictures of the tourism known by the nickname admiral. some of the monks specially ordered boats are ready to test on the water
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accompanying the monk on his trip a historical enthusiastic their aim is to reach the shores of keiji island to take part in a special performance. but i still struggle with the idea of australia if you want to tell you there's a long wait until you see the film on screen if you want to have sex go and have
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sex. at the beginning of the season the optical odyssey shipyard veterans launched to pummel but. they had been ordered by the government of russia's northeast region of to cut cut which is less than a hundred kilometers from alaska. out but you know north more choirs the road doesn't play school. one shifted so we're getting away. from the. windows bringing up quickly. in the fifteenth to
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seventeenth centuries european explorers were busy looking for routes eating to asia and africa meanwhile their russian counterparts explored the northernmost parts of the asian american continent the authorities of chukotka now want to send an expedition retracing those very roups as a reminder of the discoveries made by russian seafarers. just continue on just notice forage around you called kernville of seven such boats he sent out from the arctic ocean and ended up in an a deer where the boats were taken apart by the expeditions members return to their base and yet on foot. seven replicas of camo pope's agenda set out on an expedition retracing the north's route only two of them nothing built so far. they have been tried out in both the white sea and into of europe's largest lakes and yoga and lot of alexei vala boy the job of took part in both trials.
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at the if it's a completely unique experience it's nothing like what you're used to back in town you don't need to take ten calls or write five hundred emails here you need to know how to set a sale in the nick of time or refloat your vessel if it runs aground well with all that completely changes your mindset and even helps you to find your purpose in life or face. the st nicholas has safely reached keiji island with tourists on board. tomorrow one of the main events of the year the kishi regatta will take place. here yeah hang the ladder up to the right side. seven old men from the two katka are going to take part in the first occasion
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regatta. they're building a traditional chook she kayak on a nearby island. these days they use only small kayaks for hunting at sea but in the old days large kayaks like this one were used to hunt for whales and walrus or. this one here is the big guy of. extreme doing and you and six companions spent more than two days on their journey from to cut cut the key they travelled by train and steamboats the team had brought with them one hundred fifty kilograms of war skin which they were going to use to make a boat but they were in for a disappointment at the end of that journey but we were there for unfortunately troy it entrancing because we didn't stored properly. nevertheless the trip she craftsman managed to find an alternative. they replaced
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the natural skin of a common. with plastic. kayak was ready to use a day before the race. so we turn it around no we'll turn it around when we get to the water. she is an island the lake an acre. here is a unique museum would not the texture of the island. the collection includes dozens of structures some of them are more than two hundred years old. one of the buildings dates back almost five hundred is. more recent structures are found on the coast such as appear to visit his. but for the most part the island looks just like it did one hundred fifty years ago. outsiders can only come here
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either as tourists or as participants in the keiji regatta which is held once a year. the participants in the balkan expedition being organized by a month it just insists on historical authenticity of their sporting armor and learning how to wield mediæval weapons. wooden boat she sailing vessel standing side by side with three hundred year old wooden churches strengths in the illusion of the journey to the times when timber was the principal building to you. all were traditional russian architecture reasoning this is because the main constructions have been made without really peasants so to make do without because
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they cost a lot of money. that are this is so the troops for instance who are part of churches because it spawns both houses and the like the barn over the. this is the source of the legend claiming that the keys e churches were built without a single nail in the in reality only the walls and roofs were made without using nails they were indispensable church terms nowadays children play with building blocks know only too well how the walls were built this technique makes restoration much easier damaged parts of the transfiguration church have been gradually replaced since two thousand. now the church has almost suspended the end because of the restoration work on its foundations. this is to begin with we
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needed a good foundation the lower part was taken away to be restored we put up a new stance and disassembled part of church this is the lifting system of complete with lifting jacks to see it works just like this. with a wooden of this means that the building a substance doesn't get in the way as we work on the foundation. vigor huta one of the first bowring is imposed communist russia is cycling briskly to make sure he reports from work on time. these hundreds the bells and both leave the keys each charge for almost two decades there are only a few places in the world where the sound of bells can spread far and wide without echoing off of the surface since it is impossible to confuse the chime of kanji
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bells with any of. this everything here now is just as it was in the eighteenth or nineteenth century there's no noise of the kind you find in cities. today the bells sound as they did a hundred or two hundred years ago because they're not drowned out by noise. the hole in the water also helps the chimes travel over long distances. trying to depending on whether the richest secular holiday is being celebrated igor who says that villages sometimes even danced to the sound bells. this is often a good improvise ation on the theme of best of choice the flick with quote i mean normally this stall is not intended for people marching in a religious procession of. rather it stuck to the stroke of an. exam that. it is only natural that chime
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from the belfry signals the start of the key gene regatta. thirty four to support. three categories. additional wooden boats and modern sports spokes each category has a subgroup with a number of alls been ranging from one to six. after a brief deliberation the panel of judges decides the class that took cheek kayak as a traditional timber but. one. stroke free stroke for. the races are expected to cover one nautical mile with each boat going at its own pace as a rule half an hour is enough for even the slowest boats. even over that short distance accidents still happen the rudder of the cheek brakes.
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the rudders come loose. rule harder stroke one. stroke. stroke free. but neither the tiresome journey the ruined walrus skin all the failure of the other construct the choke races they take first place in that category with a wreck or sixty minutes and forty seven seconds. stroke four stroke five stroke six stroke seven. p. all to son of the ship builder from petra zawacki has taken part in the p.z. regatta for the first time his vessel in the modern sports by category came second many generations of profit margin calls ancestors lived on the shores of the neck and lake. with another p.c.
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regatta has come to an end. guests and participants bid farewell to one another and prepare for departure. the keiji rules astringent everybody with the exception of museum staff is required to leave the island before eight pm . to send nicholas two says goodbye to everybody by firing a shot from its cannon. the votes crew gets ready for another voyage. of seeing people are put to the test and it soon becomes abundantly clear sort of person they are. later nigga is notorious for its character selling that is sometimes more treacherous an open water indeed locals often with god it is
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a see how strong is the wind westerly wind it sent me just a second to kill roger. the crew of the scent because set sail for the lake. last in the book just. cause you frightens no not yet it's very fossett. all the rudder. the bull they reach home they will have to cover some fourteen or so cool miles through rough waves.
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