the latest news on the week's top stories here on r t a bloodstained end to an era in libya with allegations colonel gadhafi was executed by the interim government streets. breaking point this week violent clashes erupted in greece as people were hit with more sturdy measures e.u. leaders up against the clock need to try and resolve the debt crisis. battle over barricades nato forces failed to remove roadblocks at the disputed serve because of a border as ethnic serbs guard the blockade to stop the peacekeepers advance. and that historic moment a russian soyuz rocket settle from the french space in the tropics carrying europe's first satellite navigation system. i'll be back with more on this story not about them and us and half an hour from now but in the meantime as promised our special report takes you to the city founded by peter the great as

a supply base for the russian navy in the early eighteenth century sailing through the ages next on r.t. . petra's of votes is a city on the bank of lake county enter 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 for wooden boats making. tons of ports. large amounts of churning to corner somewhat of an. easy island just a short distance from such as of august 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. rather than mark to call such 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 mr sylvester the wooden boats have been built throughout human history three years ago and i don't see any reason why we should have to stop making them a present. after all was the only building material that actually has a life of its art school. today pavel is launching a boat which was built on the request of

a group of scientists it will help researches muster universities biological station situated by the one. see. children are two call of son of cattle not a cause of his back in his home town 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 should. you know the great founded results can 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 what

they operate just like the ones owned by the march he 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 took enough to set up businesses of their own moreover they passed their interest wooden boats on to their children. how are we going to make the steering or. the boats quite small so let's take a look at design forty five. here it is. 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 the monk peeps 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. up like it should be covered up. you know you'll 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 position too low. level shipyards stand side by side with the wall known by victor dimitri of the st nicholas is about to set out from the payer of the arctic odyssey club victor demetrius sees off his son alexei. gone to lean over the 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 votes 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 and norway to bristol person. we sailed past france and norway which travelled across the northern seats in newcastle and 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 to keiji regatta is

a traditional boat race in russia's northwest it takes place on the first weekend of oldest. pulled my friend skip the 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 you find yourself in the atmosphere of a wife there 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 one nine hundred eighty seven when we went to spitzbergen aboard the vessel if you will and we naturally we experienced first hand the pleasures of going to history boarded into each boat they were going to. film companies often turn to touches of boats ship builders. one of the scenes from the blockbuster pirates of the caribbean

features a sailing vessel built puzzle much called shipyard. pavel has war memories of another occasion when he got a request from british filmmakers. of alpha ronald. bios of the telephone call and the caller said he represented a film company in the us would you. rather go beyond me to build some models for a film really 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 it's going to go work but he said rise that way though it was about see battles during the napoleonic wars so we think no more to. serve even a 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 boats for the home blow a sequel but for built in petra's of votes one two emmy awards. it's a good. first. building rowing boats as well as models was quite a challenge to force people up i think we have to handle a lot of our current material to be able to make english and french vessels. with them 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 puzzles 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. of yourself a year to complete the job as we build models with sails cannons and carvings. since 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 the boat it was made in think to dimitry of shipyard in petra's avoid score most twenty years ago at the request of a russian film company. the vessel is an exact copy of the sixteenth century cost but not so you can replace this part here yes excellent now the blanks here please. replica was featured in

a film about the legendary. the man who conquered siberia. with the with naturally wall saw it up into four sections general separate it in 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 his employees is showing the monk how the project is progressing. a song stylo good day hours ago a. month everything's fine so. have you finished in the deck i've been working. but let's install the gas tank here for almost maybe let's put it there. patients whether with all the other

equipment has been linked up to. like the engine control. right now dmitri apps company is working on boats ordered by theatre pistis 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 it's what 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 they took to me to have has built some fifty vessels and shipyard launches new boats on a reg. the basis in pictures of victor is known by the nickname admiral. some of the monks specially old of boats are ready to test on the water accompanying the monk on his trip are historical enthusiastic their aim is to reach the shores of

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at the beginning of the season the optical odyssey shipyard that was launched to pall mall 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. but your own are more choirs the opposing players will. go on shift it so we're getting away. when this period quickly. in the fifteenth to seventeenth centuries european explorers were busy looking for routes leading to asia and africa meanwhile the russian counterparts explored the northernmost parts of the asian american continent the authorities of chukotka now want to send an expedition retracing those very routes as a reminder of the discoveries made by russian seafarers. business in your own just

notes voyage around. seven such boasts 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 on foot. seven replicas of camo boats that you just set out on an expedition retracing the schnucks 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 geography took part in both trials. at the fence 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 e-mails here you need to know how to set a sale in the nick of time. float 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 kishi island with tourists on board. tomorrow one of the main events of the year the kishi regatta will take place. in the outback hang the ladder up to the right side. seven old men from to court are going to take part in the first key genre. they're building a traditional till she cut back on a nearby island. these days they use only small car yards for hunting at sea but in the old days large coyotes like this one were used more to hunt for whales and walrus like. this one here is a bee gaia. maxime king and six companions spent more than two days

a med journey from to quote cut the keys they travel by air 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 there were over unfortunately it's roiling transit because we didn't stored properly. nevertheless the chukchi 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 we'll turn it around when we get to the water if. she is an island the lake an egg or. pier is

a unique museum of would not the texture of the island. 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 yards such as appear to 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 bolton expedition being organized by a monk click to still 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. massive are our traditional raw. and i could tell actual reasoning this is because the main constructions have been made without nails in a brilliant person so to make do without because they cost a lot of money. and it's better he says be got such groups for instance who are part of the church's. both houses and like everybody else who would. 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 of being gradually replaced some sometimes. now the church is almost suspended in the air because of the restoration work on its foundations. this is 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 list. of places they were going with and what this means to the building a substance doesn't get in the way as we work on the foundation with.

one of the first bowring is imposed communist russia is cycling briskly to make sure he reports from welcome time. these hundreds the bell is now free of the cheesy church foolish 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 bells with any of. this everything here. 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 don't turn up by noise. and the water also helps the charms travel over long distances. shines different depending on whether the richest secular holiday is being celebrated igor

who saves the villages sometimes even danced to the sound bells. for peace in improvise ation on the theme of festive choice or well both with a quick quote i mean normally this stall is not intended for people marching in a religious procession of people. rather it's adapted to the stroke of an old group . i think that. this is only natural to chime from the belfry signals the start of the key gene regatta. thirty participants singing three categories. additional wooden boats and modern sports sports 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 classical cheek kayak as

a traditional timber but. one stroke. stroke very strong form. 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 the short distance accidents still happen the rudder of the. brakes. the rudders come loose. rule harder stroke one. stroke. stroke free. but neither of the tiresome journey the ruined war risk in all the failure of the rudder can stop the chukchi races they take first place in that category with a record sixty minutes and forty seven seconds. stroke four stroke

five strokes six strokes seven. pianta son of the ship builder from patches of votes has taken part in the p.g.a. regatta for the first time his vessel in the modern sports by category came second and many generations of margin calls ancestors lived on the shoals of the neck and make it. a good place to another p.v. regatta has come to an end. guests and participants bid farewell to one another and prepare for departure. the keiji rules astringent everybody of 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 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. laken a guy is notorious for its character selling that is sometimes more treacherous and in open water indeed locals often regard it as a see how strong is the way in a westerly wind ten meters per second to kill roger. the crew of the scent because set sail for the lake. passing the boom just. for you frightens no not yet

then fossett. told the rider. before they reach home they will have to cover some fourteen or tickle miles through rough waves.

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