welcome back you're watching r.t. live from moscow these are the week's top stories nato is preparing to leave libya saying it's achieved its goals after the killing of colonel gadhafi but there are fears the country could now be plunged into chaos of mob rule. the leaders are meeting in brussels to brainstorm ways to save the euro zone slash greece's enormous debt comes after the greek government approved another round of eye watering cuts to secure a bailout leading to a two day strike and clashes with police. and ask service program nato from dismantling their barricades at a disputed border crossing in northern cause of on friday peacekeeping troops used tear gas to disperse hundreds of locals who sat on the road to stop the. top stories of the week and right now we bring you our special report the takes you to the city found by peter the great as a supply base for the russian navy in the early eighteenth century.

pictures of oscar's a city on the bank of lake in russia's northwest. saw peter the great found 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. sand supports. roger lapses turning the corner somewhat of an. easy island just a short distance from the trees of the old school nothing has changed in the past two hundred years. the island looks like an open any easy a. once a year it becomes a meeting point for vessels to belong to a bygone era. puzzle

master called set of the private shipyard more than twenty years ago. since then the shop has been crammed with wooden boats even under construction already for sailing. the cattle each launch is an exciting and festive occasion. the shipyards owner is unlikely to ever get bored with sending vessels on then maiden voyage. so it's their success for the wooden boats have been built throughout human history three this year 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 true. today 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. call of son of kabul not to cough is back in his hometown of countries of 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 he's kind of shook up. the grit founded petra's a vote's going seventeen zero three literally a month after he established st petersburg headers of all this was created for the purpose of manufacturing cannons and cannon balls for the fledgling russian navy and again however peter didn't build wooden boats here on his shipyards where elsewhere. there are several private shipyards and petra zawacki they operate just like the ones owned by the marquis 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 fuz yes to enough to set up businesses of their own moreover they passed their interest in 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. 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 four. monkfish has come to petra zawacki from the volga region he has ordered the construction of replicas of russian both stating back to ancient times a month keeps a watchful eye on the progress of the work. will be here. different

channels over there. are you going to cover it up near here to know this stays open for a couple of that it should be covered up. you know you'll get access through this opening. will this be closed. they'll be open you know of a hard time getting anything through there if the hole is position too low. levels 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 victor demetrius sees off his son alexei. john to lean over their 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 to eighteenth centuries similar boats to pummel 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 and norway to bristol in britain. we sailed past france and norway which travelled across the northern seed to new castle in england and we've been in swedish and danish waters that we've covered practically the whole of northern europe. the ship will cover some fourteen or so who miles before it reaches keiji island file a canoe get. nearly all local ship builders meet there once a year the keiji regatta is a traditional boat race in russia's northwest it takes place on the first weekend of oldest. listen if the historical good is like

a time machine when you get on board here if you're dressed up accordingly or even just wearing your regular quilts you find yourself in the atmosphere alive there is no more. victor dimitri have built his first sailing vessel more than thirty years ago since then private enterprises have sprung up going to. defer school it was called the pull more little army was in one hundred eighty seven when we went to spins bergan aboard that vessel if you will you know what we naturally we experienced first hand the pleasures of going to history boarded into each boat going to. film companies often turn to purchase of boats ship builders. one of the scenes from the blockbuster pirates of the caribbean beach is a sailing vessel built puzzle much uncalled shipyard. pavel has warm memories of another occasion when he was

a request from british filmmakers. of all for ramos. bios of the telephone call and the caller said he represented a film company in the third year much of the oscars a bill some models for a film there 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. beautiful and then over to go with it but he said right away though that it was about see battles during the napoleonic wars so were there no more to god so even that small bit of information narrowed it down for us and forrester was the first name that sprang to mind. 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 will build in pictures of votes one two emmy awards. if there were. not a bullet to the building rowing boats as well as models was quite a challenge if worth whether we had to have a lot of our current material to be able to make english and french vessels. from but then we were also told that british audiences can be quite sophisticated. but they have no difficulty selling an interest free from the french one. and two puzzles shipyard less than a year to build eleven replica vessels and four full scale run butts dating back to the late eighteenth century. collingswood done by restores the keiji.

in the poles of yourself a year to complete the job and we build models with sales cannons and carvings. since. some of the ships launched in patches 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 custom boat it was made in vic to dmitri have shipyard in petra's avoids almost twenty years ago at the request of a russian film company the vessel is an exact copy of the sixteenth century cost poached. so you have replaced the spark here yes excellent now the planks here please. replica was featured in a film about the legendary. a man who conquered side there it. is difficult with natural wool saw it up into four sections then will separate it by the meat section

and then put it all back together and it's still good museum with. sometimes victor and pavel compete for clients on other occasions they combine forces on joint projects. one of the tos employees is showing the monk how the project is progressing. oh good day hours ago and not mine everything's fine. have you finished in the deck i've been working. but let's install the gas tank here for what may be let's put it there i'll go. with whether all the other equipment has been linked up to. like the engine control. right now demetrius company is working on boats ordered by thier protesters 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 but in the americas life has lost their 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 victor to me to the earth has built some fifty vessels as shipyard launches new boats on a regular basis in petra's of victories known by the nickname admiral. some of the monks specially ordered boats are ready to test on the water accompanying the monk on his trip historical enthusiastic their aim is to reach the shores of keiji island to take part in a special performance. on

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a little like thing is us crash seven in smashed feeling. like ultimate in classes in athens three b. i think for me i'm just programs in greece bring it to an economist. at the beginning of the season the article to see shipyard that was launched to pummel but. they had been ordered by the governments of russia's northeast region of chukotka which is less than

a hundred kilometers from alaska. well why is the road close in grade school. but this one shifted so we're getting away. from. the windows bring up quickly with kids. in the fifteenth to seventeenth centuries european explorers were busy looking for routes into 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. the same young just notes forge a ranch or called current of seven such boats he set out from the arctic ocean and ended up in the alagiri are where the boats were taken apart from the expeditions members return to their base on foot. seven replicas of camo boats

a team 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 in two of europe's largest lakes and yoga and lot of alexei vala boy the job of took part in both trials. for it is a completely unique experience it's nothing like what you're used to back in town you don't need to take ten calls all right five hundred e-mails 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 for. the st nicholas to 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 bang the ladder up to the right side. up. seven old men from two katka are going to take part in the first occasion recap. their building a traditional chook key kayak on a nearby island. these days they use only small car yards for hunting at sea but in your old days large kayaks like this one were used for to hunt for whales and walrus with this one here is the big guy a. mark thinking anew and six companions spent more than two days i'm a journey from to quote good to keiji they travelled by air train and steamboat a team had brought with them one hundred fifty kilograms of war risk in which they

were going to use to make a boat but they were in for a disappointment at the end of that journey for there were over unfortunately each wanted in transit because we didn't stored properly. but. nevertheless the truck tree craftsman managed to find an alternative. they replaced the natural skin of a common chukchi war us with plastic. kayak was ready to use a day before the race. so we turn it around no will turn around when we get to the water. she is an island on lake a nigga. here is a unique museum of would not the texture of the island. collection includes dozens of structures some of them are more than two hundred years old.

none of the buildings dates back almost five hundred years. more recent structures are found on the coast guard such as appear for visitors. but for the most part the island 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 month the pistis insist on historical authenticity of 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 to me here. that's another of our traditional raw. and i could say actual reasoning this is because the main constructions have been made without really sought to make do without because they cost a lot of money greater more things that are this is a big right so the troops for instance who are part of the church's. bonds both houses and like everybody else who would. this is the source of the legend claiming that the key z. 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 of being gradually replaced some. now the church is almost suspended in the air because of the restoration work on its foundation. this to begin with we needed a good foundation the lower part was taken away to be restored we put up a new stance and disassembled part of the church this is the lifting system of complete with lifting jacks. it works just like this. with a wooden of what this means the building a substrate doesn't get in the way as we work on the foundation with. igor huzzah one of the first bell ring is imposed communist russia is cycling briskly to make sure he reports welcome time. these hundreds

the bells and three of 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 bells with any of. this everything here now is just as it was in the eighteenth and 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. and the water also helps the chinese travel over long distances. trying different depending on whether the secular holiday is being celebrated igor who says that village is sometimes even danced to the sound bells. because often it will be seen improvise ation on the theme of best of choice. i mean normally this

stall is not intended for people marching in a religious procession. rather it stops at the stroke of an old. pick up that. is only natural that chime from the belfry signals the start of the keys. thirty participants beating three cancerous. boats for additional wooden boats and modern sports popes each category has a subgroup with the number of all xmen ranging from one to six. after a brief deliberation the panel of judges decides to class the took cheek kayak as a traditional timber but. stroke one rope. strong very strong 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 butts. even over that short distance accidents still happen the brother of the chief breaks. the rudders come loose. rule harder stroke one. stroke. stroke free. but neither the tiresome journey the ruined wall riskin all the failure of the world to construct which she races i take first place in that category with a record sixty minutes and forty seven seconds. stroke four stroke five stroke six stroke seven.

son of the ship builder from petra zawacki has taken part in the p.c. regatta for the first time his vessel in the modern sports but catch a great came second and many generations of pilch not to cause ancestors lived on the shoals of the neck and make. it another t.v. regatta has come to an end. some participants bid farewell to one another and prepare for departure. occasion rules a sponge and everybody with the exception of museum staff is required to leave the island as 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 its current selling that is sometimes more treacherous an open water indeed locals often with god it is a see how strong is the wind a westerly wind would send me just the second to roger. to prove the scent because he set sail for the lake. last in the book. are you frightened no not yet it's very possible it's. called the rudder. before they reach home they will have to cover some fourteen multiple miles through

rough waves.

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