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activists as the crackdown on the movement escalates across the country. was the main news for you that's next we discover. james brown as he delves into local life and traditions of the region stay with us. with more news in half an hour from now. if you're traveling in the russian winter it's always good to head to somewhere well developed under some more region definitely fits the bill the capital is the seventh largest city in the country and can lay claim to being one of the most important business and cultural centers in european russia it's also one of the most picturesque boasting the largest central square in europe and along beautiful embankment alongside the volga river it's a ninety minute flight from moscow or if you prefer the scenic route you can take a leisure li fifteen hour train ride.

well that was a long journey and there's nothing like coming into minus twenty so wake you up but i mean some are one of the biggest cities in the whole russia. and i was also in one of its largest and most unusual buildings the glass front of train station was completed in two thousand and eight and it's one of the highest places in town so this isn't a bad view point to take my first look at the city from this post to be around one of million people down there and hopefully plenty of interesting places to explore as well. and my first stop was a real hidden gem. well it's not exactly a very patriotic place here but underneath all this rather tacky concrete oh that's one color one of some more as if you've seen this. during the second world war many soviet governmental institutions as well as most of the foreign embassies moved

some are a huge chunk was created in one thousand nine hundred two has a back up for stalin and his cabinet. is a really amazing feat of engineering this this entire bunker goes down was forty meters and they built a space of no it. seems even more incredible to me is that the people have some or apparently didn't even know that this place was. was only in nineteen million city when the soviet union was dissolved. and they finally found this huge structure had been under their feet for almost fifty years . the rumors are that it was built by conflicts who were them executed but nothing was ever confirms. i'm just kind of the first level here hopefully we'll get some. sort of fellow close to me. and one man who knows all about the place is my guide i'm

a totally even after all this time the power systems are still working. here you find life support systems the equipment was installed when the bunker was still under construction it has not been replaced since then but it still operational and it works automatically it's russian made equipment the bunker was built to house up to six hundred people and they had some pretty effective defenses . right this is over it's. the reinforced steel it this is what the germans would go through. if they make it in the. rusty of. the bunker now doubles as a museum with various classrooms holding its old equipment geiger counters gas masks and first aid kits are all on display at the most interesting area is right

down in the depths. it's an eerie experience entering this huge conference room and imagining the plans that might have been made here. the central table is laid out for the generals and politicians the stenographers are off to the right and stalin himself would have sat under the huge map at the head of the room for the majority of the soviet union's existence some are was renamed sheriff on the map clearly indicates its strategic position safely away from the german front lines it was never confirmed that uncle joe ever set foot here but the designers had obviously been told to meticulously prepare just in case nothing like a little megalomania to start the day but i was very happy to make my way back to the surface and take in some fresh air there's one real benefit to venturing out on days as cold as these it's got to be this sort of view of the mighty volga river

in all its frozen glory where the river here is covered in ice for at least three months of the year and it was always a real pain to get across until some local businessmen opened up a rather unusual ferry service. but larry has been running the operation here since two thousand and seven literally thousands of people comes across the river every month and they all jump into the air cushion hovercrafts and it's made the journey a lot less precarious. before we started using the hovercraft people would try to cross the river by truck or car but sometimes the thin ice caused disastrous accidents so it is the only thing of method. but now it only takes ten minutes and costs around one euro to make the journey safely and the bus itself is surprisingly easy to control. gods. cross see the lists.

make. seven time like across the ice they want to see me with any passengers but i was very happy to be going solo. we can avoid hitting any ski is good. but when you don't have customers some acosta it is easy to get carried away. i think the problem with this is so much if i was driving this all the time i'd speak to like to. drive people to the other side of. this great. boss by now there was several chilly passengers waiting for a ride so it was time for me to make my exit. now that.

is what i call a ferry crossing. back on foot i was ready to check out some of somalia's other attractions i'm one of them is quite literally out of this world. if you talking about the soviet all the russian space program when you're talking about samoa on the soyuz rocket the seventy percent of the world space flight school use these rockets and they made right here in the city. one of the proudest parts of summer is history and include the launch vehicle to stalk the carried the first man into space and now some of the city's cosmic achievements are on display to the public. this museum is full of a lot of smaller as space memorabilia. i'm next to an old landing module and i met up with museum director yelena for

a guided tour of the premises persons some are is the right place for such a museum. because our city has been the local point of this country's space engineering for decades here you can see there are man satellite that has been in outer space. it is a replica of war to the world renowned cosmology yuri gagarin used during his space missions. there are around six hundred different exhibits that date back to the beginning of space exploration including some of the most advanced technology of the cold war. it's very small when you realize that you're next to something that's actually been out there among the stars and these spy satellites were parts of the soviet and russian space programs for the best part of forty years and these lenses are so powerful that. if i open this up to that even probably a hundred kilometers above the had to be able to read. the news here is definitely

one of the city's cultural highlights but if you're also a winter sports fan you won't be disappointed either ok so if your smee fun things to do in the russian winter i can tell you maybe sledging a bit of skiing i probably wouldn't say go. for us here in samoa but don't let a small thing like the conditions get in the way of the round. and designers of the ski resorts have built their own icy night hold course. weeks over the. past week you allude to speak english yeah. well i'm of the school instance james m. well then let me. ok well this is a first for me ok in the snow actually for me to so. what's the idea about today what's going on well it's

a golf tournament so you play golf almost the same rules as some of you have some local rules that. all of us rules are in accordance to using conditions of weather conditions right now ok so now you're trying to play it nine holes. but always been in the good walk spoiled camp when it came to goals but louder was obviously a dab hand and she said she could give me a few pointers. what do we need to do so the first thing is to set up the ball on the tee ok yeah. so make a position. so. so make and. so make. the headlines now not exactly in all species starts mother was thought go for the non-contact sport. oh.

walking wounded want to. get out of the way the person playing us off to some soothing tea i was ready to tee off. and as the ladies went on with that's one of them i decided i'd play a solo round and as long as i wasn't attempting to blow its longest drive the ball did seem to head in the right direction it. was. easy to miss. see you ball your way here. the game is always cold now for people who judge. mind you my technique wasn't my first concern. with the temperature john around minus twenty celsius so minus four

fahrenheit i reckon i may have made one of the quickest ice cold frowns in history . course. comes in the only school. can they make. and the. james brown who is now going to enjoy some very well deserved vodkas. in the clubhouse it may have been freezing but some are was turning out to be a lot of fun and i was ready to take a look at another famous russian business the coals this region home. ragin clean and ghost town. squandered money. abandon. what is now.

more than sixty square kilometers of environmental devastation and those who are still surprisingly alive i'm finding we're just. getting bad out here but not saying hardly any birds squirrels. you know i don't know what's going on here. on screen on our cheek. twenty years ago and i just country. just. where did it take. if you wander around the streets of samarra there's one car that you'll see more than any other and that's no surprise because it's dominated the region's manufacturing industry

the decades. if you think of the russian car that you can't help but think of the older they've been going up and down the country's roads for almost half a century and their story right. this is the factory more than seventy thousand employees work within it six hundred hexis and they could use to inhofe thousand new calls every day. ok so when i think of a lot of this that's a classic this is pretty much what props up in my head what's. making something a little more modern. and i was ready to see how it was. the right place to. live

a few nice to me it. doesn't mean that i don't think about the populace ok so this is where everything begins. so this is madness the only hope on the part i think you mean we are in the world and at least in the club a little more than that but these three of us began in the late sixty's. imports we produced more than twenty six new wins of cards to print them a list of silly we could use for the infamous of course. from all the money. on the basis of the art to more than possible the fun of the free will. cleaner is one of the longest biggest sellers and machines work day and night keeping production line going to lower the price high you really are given to the german company to come up good it is there will then have to resume the my the cardboard of chile only a few persons need it here and there is the priests so he was mostly good at it.

and once the frameworks assembled it's on to the next post the operation november went on the job and it worked up with the body ok and the border with forces going the sweetest qualities again. and in the neighboring higher things were moving on quickly. from the wind screens to the engines and the wheels all the parts returned separately and it's remarkably fast operation . and what you get for your seven thousand euro price tag. something like this. so often sixteen hundred pieces of metal but only four hours on the production line are brand new the law of the killing are you ready for the roads. to clean or maybe a very popular color around here bounce in the winter time it can't get you everywhere sometimes you just have to try out

a more traditional means of transport now recently strapped on a pair of skis around about the first time in twenty five years no that was quite quiet easy reintroduction but here in sonora i decided i'm going to ramp things up a little bit. so you know if. i'm guessing it but even some are like to do things a little bit extreme yes you got the extreme right now what exactly are we going to be doing today we're going to skijoring on. this instant and speed that's almost while they're all and this ok this will be between sixty kilometers. maybe one hundred right that sounds terrifying. good thank you let's go. in here and his friends a funds of skewering which apparently is skiing behind animals in this case

a high powered snowmobile. romo makes him look very effortlessly. yeah right here that would be me of any fear or just. because i had my medical insurance up today. but it's one way or another i was going to have to give it a go so i was properly kitted up but i was starting to wish i'd just gone and taken the whole the craft and. being you know is actually. really. really is all a very good life so please please. ok i got a good people about it. and mrs lee there were a couple of false starts but eventually i managed to stay all right.

ok i know you like thirty wasn't out but. i still. could tell you i'm still on my skin. what you managed to control your balance this is an amazing experience and soon i was ready to join the going for a group effort. and we're ready to rock. just a nice little piece that will. be flying. but if you're trying this for the first time it's special to get a confident. well

that's a fairly intense reintroduction to. but i think. everything still intact. should excuse me a minute i got a little rest but unfortunately my recovery was to be short lived. still taking from my session out there on the ice but apparently my new friend has another thing that he wants me to try something about. coming back. it sounded rather ominous but once again i go as a promised i was going to enjoy myself. with a mission to see you get so what you're going to. cause will. be ok so simple no super screw it gives you instant

flying power. useful i think you got it well. and. now here is the real place ok. turns out of the tunnel rat is an acrobatic expert inverter cooling tunnels and i was about to get my first lesson. fortunately it was like. you'll get is really really. beautiful imagery. if you are good and happy to look at it. smiled on it. how you could die here. clearly the secret here is something changes to your body surface area do it right and you should rise and fall safely and if you train enough eventually you can do

stuff like this the wind speed is apparently more than two hundred kilometers an hour and it's powered by a five hundred horsepower engine enough to even get someone like me off the ground . good long. right ok we're into the tunnel. but tunnel tara. made this clear. and then it was time to take to the air i was a little worried about the crash to the floor at any point but remember had a good grip on me. the theory. was a little bit more. true. oh like it felt better than.

an outright made it through a ton of them run it was time to go solo. them despite bouncing off the walls a few times i made it down in one piece. in the maze experience ok there are about thirty something needs to do their part and they but i think i'm going to call that one a bellyful i know it does seem uncertain works after all. they have been a lot of fun but some are a was beginning to tie me out so i thought i'd end my trip with a little self-indulgence the muslim leeds festival is definitely going to be one of my favorite times in russia because basically it's a weeklong extended version of country today but it also is supposed to signify the

end of winter and i've heard that the two of us sonora through dish will make it how it's put on quite a show for. not just a claims to have people with a. first residents of this area after they paddled with bashkirian nomads back in the eighteenth century. and it seems they still want to expend some serious energy to get themselves in the mood for a feast. i think this guy very worked up there must be what it is. for several most upset because they were hungry but a bit of a body seems to solve problems. really are not here. i have no idea what was going on under two. zero.

zero zero zero zero zero zero zero zero zero zero zero zero zero people. and then the guest of honor arrives this old lady represents muscle units and she's here for a special reason. and then things started to get weird. i. think this is the. funding element of the massively successful. i'll. try to have some sort of significance a. recipe is right i signed up for this. apparent you know mustn't series hate speech all the bad spirits out of you before the year starts anew. and then you can have a go well with over it i guess. the status is that i thank you for it but sorry i'll be about it. i found once everyone has been

cleansed this is his mortal sin to celebrate but finally i managed to sneak off to some to. windsor is rank with oh i am not kids my only. so i was eight. and. i should have been the robot and so. i i definitely earned my pancakes but sadly it was time for me to be leaving some aren't. i found a thriving cultural business and scientific center and people that are always ready to show you a great time. man

in the ship would be soo much brighter.