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r.t. . petra's of votes is a city on the bank of lake and russia's northwest. saw peter the great founded it in the early eighteenth century as a supply base for the russian navy today just one of the leading centers the wooden boat making. tons of books. about turning the corner some of the bill. cheesy island just a short distance from pictures of old school nothing has changed in the past two hundred years. the island looks like an open m.z. and. once a year it becomes a meeting point the festival's to belong to a bygone era.

other than march a cold set of 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 them maiden voyage. joy is firstly best for the wooden boats have been built throughout human history third this is and i don't see any reason why we should ever stop making them. after all is the only building material that actually has a life of its own still. today pavel is launching a boat which was built on the request of a group of scientists it will help researches muster university's biological

station situated by the y. . see. children not to call of son of cattle not to cough is back in his hometown of countries following the trip to some creatures but educated as an engineer he spent a good deal of time there in the libraries he was looking for suitable prints for a new project. technical expertise and the experience of a historian but equally important these kind of should. you know the great founded papers of old skin seventeen o three literally a month after he established st petersburg bettors of all the schools created for the purpose of manufacturing cannons and cannon balls for the fledgling russian navy and it you know however peter didn't build wooden boats here his shipyards were elsewhere. there are several private shipyards and pictures of us

they operate just like the ones owned by the nazi calls. and says 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 fuz yes tick enough to set up businesses of their own moreover they pass their interest wooden boats on to their children. are we going to make the steering or. the boats quite small so let's take a look at design forty five. it is. a look. i think for us we should design forty eight it's a bit smaller the construction is the same as forty five. monkfish testis has come to petra zawacki from the volga region he has ordered the construction of replicas of russian both stating back to ancient times the monk

keeps a watchful eye on the progress of the work. will be here. again in ten all's over that. are you going to cover it up here there's no this stays open for number but it should be covered up. you know you'll get access through this opening. which will this be closed. they'll be open you have a hard time getting anything through there if the hole is positioned to los. cabos shipyards stand side by side with the wall known by victor dimitri of the st nicholas is about to set out from the pair of the arctic odyssey club victims mitri if he's off his son alexei. gone for leno with his side to read history strong. safety first. the st nicholas was built in 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 every part of northern europe. over the past two decades maritime festivals made to st nicholas a familiar sight all the way from bergen and norway to bristol in britain. we sailed past france and norway which travelled across the northern sea to newcastle in england we've been in swedish and danish waters that we've covered practically the whole of northern europe. the ship will cover some forty nautical miles before it reaches keiji island while a canoe got. nearly all local ship builders meet there once a year the key sheila jackson is a traditional boat race in russia's northwest it takes place on the first weekend

of oldest. goodness and it historical book is like a time machine when you get on board if you're dressed up accordingly or even just wearing your regular quilts of it when you find yourself in the atmosphere of a life that is no more. victor dimitri have built his first sailing vessel more than thirty years ago since then private enterprises have sprung up in a. different boot was called the pull more little army than bush was in nineteen eighty seven when we went to spitzbergen aboard the vessel if you will you know what we naturally we experienced first hand the pleasures of going to history boarded into each boat. from companies often turn to cutters of boats ship builders. one of the scenes from the blockbuster pirates of the caribbean beaches a sailing vessel built

a puddle much you called shipyard. paddle has warm memories of another occasion when he got a request from british filmmakers. about the run up to the violence of the telephone call and the caller said he represented a film company in the studio that'll be always a bill some models for a film 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 author sessile scott forrest it was clear from the list of ships that he was being asked to do his bit for an adaptation of the book. you know we're not going to go with it but he said roy's a way though it was about see battles during the napoleonic wars so were there no more to. serve even that small bit of information narrowed it down forests and forrester was the first name that sprang to mind to receive forward with the

customers were impressed by the ability of petra's of old shipbuilders to identify the historical background by word of mouth alone the boats for the hornblower sequel which were built in petra savant's one two emmy awards. this is a. person not a bullet you know a building rowing boats as well as models was quite a challenge for the force. which we had to handle a lot of archive material to be able to make english and french vessels. with and 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 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 a traverse of a year to complete the job as a person we don't models with sales cannons and cogs. things board. some of the ships launched in petra's of all skin the past years are already part of modern history a museum in the siberian town of circuits is playing with the idea of enriching its collection with a replica of a cosigner but it was made in victor dmitri of shipyard in petra's avoid school most 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 planks here please. record it was featured in a film about the legendary. the man who conquered siberia. is difficult with

natural walls saw it up into four sections separate it in the midsection and then put it all back together and it's so good museum. sometimes victor and pavel compete for clients on other occasions they combine forces on joint projects. one of the his employees is showing the monk how the project is progressing. a song still oh good day how's it going another month everything's fine. have you finished in the decade. but let's install the gas tank here for a moment maybe let's put it there about. whether all the other equipment has been linked up to. like the engine control. right now

dimitri have company is working on boats ordered by theodore to the monks idea was 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 there is nobody 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 i think to tell me to f. has built some fifty vessels and shipyard launches new boats on a reg. the basis in pictures of victor is known by the nickname. some of the monks specially older boats are ready to test on the water accompanying the monk on his trip all historical enthusiastic their aim is to reach the shores

of p.g. island to take part in a special performance. from the days of the manhattan project nine hundred forty two the university of california has been involved through the science of its provision and scientists and their relationship with their city you see since day one has been in charge of researching designing and testing nuclear weapons and to some extent producing weapons every single long nuclear weapon inside a star single place signed by university of california. we don't want to go it's. a little verse of the problem for neo who was selected as the clock struck because the army needed scientists to leave their diversity positions. a group of

protesters interrupted a university of california border regions meeting to demand the school's severed ties with the nation's nuclear weapons program. at the beginning of the season the article odyssey shipyard that was launched to pummel boats. they had been ordered by the government of russia's northeast region of chukotka which is less than a hundred kilometers from alaska. are. more choirs the opposing place spoke.

but this one shifted to won't get in the way. of. the wind is picking up quickly. in the fifteenth to seventeenth centuries european explorers were busy looking for routes leading 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 its very roots as a reminder of the discoveries made by russian seafarers. there's some young just notes voyage around you called full of seven such boats he set out from the arctic ocean and ended up in an a deer where the boats were taken apart while the expeditions members returned to their base and yet on foot. seven replicas of camo boats that you just set out on

an expedition retracing the schnorrers route only two of them have been built so far. has 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. at face 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 what with all that completely changes your mindset and even helps you to find your purpose in life or favor. the st nicholas to safely reach t.g. island with tourists on board. tomorrow one of the main events of the year the kishi regatta will take place. here ya

hang the ladder up to the right side. seven old men from to cope are going to take part in the first occasion regatta. they're building a traditional church she kayak on a nearby island but. these days they use only small car yachts for hunting at sea well in the old days large coyotes like this one were used for to hunt for whales and walrus like the. this one here is the bee guy a. maxime team and six companions spent more than two days i'm a journey from to cut cut. they travel by air train and steamboats the team had brought with them one hundred fifty kilograms of war which they were going to use to make a boat but they were in for

a disappointment at the end of that journey probably were over unfortunately each wallet in transit because we didn't stored properly. but. nevertheless the chook tree craftsman managed to find an alternative. they replaced the natural skin of a common chook she wore us with plastic. kayak was ready to use the day before the race. you know joe we turn it around no we'll turn it around when we get to the water. she is an island the lake an egg. here is a unique museum would not the texture. of. the collection includes dozens of structures some of them more than two hundred years old. one of the buildings dates back almost five hundred years. more recent structures are

found on the coast such as pier visitors. but for the most part the items looks just like it did one hundred fifty years ago. outsiders can only come here 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 monk clip just just insist on historical friend to city their sporting armor and learning how to wield mediæval weapons. wooden boats and sailing vessels standing side by side with three hundred year old wooden churches strengthen the illusion of a journey to the times when timber was the principal building material here.

that's another where our traditional russian i could texture reasoning this is because the main constructions have been made without the bridge peasants so to make do without nails because they cost a lot of money. there are such roofs spring stones were piled up churches houses bonds you can but houses and the like barn for a woman. 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 and 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 and four now the church is almost suspended in the air because of the restoration work on its foundations. but this is a begin with we needed a good foundation the lower part was taken away to be restored we put up a new stance and this is part of church this is the lifting system of complete with lifting jacks. it works just like this. which was there were done with this means that the building as such doesn't get in the way as we work on the foundation. one of the first bowring is in post communist russia is cycling briskly to make sure he reports from work on time. these hundreds the bells and three

of the t.g. church 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 and it is impossible to confuse the chime of kanji bells with any of. this everything here. 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 turn up by noise. the water also helps the charge travel over long distances. shines depending on whether the richest secular holiday is being celebrated igor who saves the village is sometimes even danced to the sound bells. if you are going improvise ation on the theme of festive choice well. i mean normally this stall is

not intended for people marching in a religious procession of people. rather it's adopted to the stroke of an old good . example that. is only natural to chime from the belfry signals the start of the key gene regatta . thirty four discipline beating three arteries. additional wooden boats a modern sports spokes each category has a subgroup with a number of holes been ranging from one to six. after a brief deliberation the panel of judges decides to class the true cheek kayak as a traditional temple but. one rope. strong very strong force. 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. the rudders come loose. through harder stroke one. stroke. stroke free. but neither the tiresome journey the ruined wall riskin all the failure of the other can stop the choke she races they take first place in that category with a record sixty minutes and forty seven seconds. stroke four stroke five stroke six stroke seven. the son of the ship builder from petra zawacki has taken part in the p.g.

regatta for the first time this vessel in the modern sports by category came second and many generations of profit margin calls ancestors lived on the shores of the neck and lake. with another p.c. with has come to an end. guests and participants bid farewell to one another and prepare for departure. the keiji rules astringent everybody and the exception of museum staff is required to leave the island for eight pm. to send nicholas to say goodbye to everybody by firing a shot from its cannon. the boat's crew gets ready for another voyage.

i've seen people are put to the test and it soon becomes abundantly clear what sort of person they are. later a new guy is new tourist for his character sailing that is sometimes more treacherous than an open water indeed locals often regard it as a see how strong is the way to fly westerly wind ten meters per second to roger about. the crew of the scent because he set sail for the lake. last in the book asked. are you frightened no not yet then fossett. told the rider. before they reach home they will have to cover some fourteen also cool miles through rough waves.

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