behind that people may say look if i'm not going to get my money back on greece why should i learn to portugal why should i went to spain why should i lend to italy. this is say now moscow out on the air with a distinctly italian twist coming up. oh .

absolutely beautiful welcome to florence on the famous punster becchio bridge on this week's program we'll be continuing our exploration of russian culture and influence a broad from famous people who live here to curb russians who live and work in italy and who wouldn't be happy here with glorious swing to sun sensational food and often culture overload the beginning of the nineteenth century saw a number of russian wealthy families move to skinny italy has always held a special attraction for russians many sort of italy's the cultural center of the world and with its breathtaking architecture food and style it gets you thinking that maybe some truth announced today dozens of companies offer excursions by plane and bus loads of russians advice every week. the famous landmarks such that's why

murder conservation a bridge in a fancy museum because you're not saying that everyone will be impressed on the first visit here. still it's amazing here were especially impressed that despite so many tourists the city is still clean quiet safe and relaxed who are you. with that you would be living in florence for nine years and in my experience russians like not only the architectural and cultural beauty of the city but also enjoy shopping here a lot especially from that the good to see the ideas that. would make is the hometown of michelangelo and ensure they spent a lot of time living and working in this region of italy the art and culture that have created and contributed influenced many outstanding russians who came to florence for inspiration and stayed here for a while but there are many ways talented and skilled italians enriched russian cultural life and vice versa over the centuries italian architects

a huge influence in the design of moscow and st petersburg. one of the other great things about florence is the shopping. pastime of many russian tourists prices are lower here for designer goods than back home although this next luxurious pretty well it might be better not to look at the price tags. here in the main shopping street of florence you can find a designer boutique a brand that was founded at the beginning of the twentieth century by a russian noble family reestablished in two thousand and eight it's now an international company based in france with several stores in italy. owned by the russian mobile sort of about these three of the russian fashion they will ever see reads like an exciting novel the story of the brands you can say is part of

russia's heritage and history. founded in paris one nine hundred twenty four by prince felix you suppose and his wife marina the niece of the last russian thought the second and says she clothing range does old european and american customers but the prince has a little business sense and two years after the nine hundred twenty nine a street crash ruins his most prosperous clients do you suppose it was forced to shut up shop. almost eight decades after the original house especially close stores of the struggle has restored the branches for the glory. to our next location now and in a city known as the cradle of the renaissance surrounded by terra cotta roofs a cluster of onion domes each topped with a tall cross is certainly not what you would expect to see in the florence skyline less than a mile from florence is to most these brightly colored domes of a different kind marked the surviving history of russian immigration to italy and

florence the russian orthodox church of the nativity of christ's. for. the old. there's been a russian orthodox church on the site since my two no three built by the russian community in foreign time this is something to consider will damage over the years but was restored several times elegant exotic and much is the city's cultural heritage perfectly reflecting in the true architectural style of seventeenth century moscow today the church is popular with orthodox worship as from all over tuscany. the church in florence houses many historic relics of the russian orthodox church including works by both russian and it's how you artists it's on the market

you can't miss in florence and it's a place that brings the local russian community closer together welcome addition to christian life in tuscany. although you know most of the congregation of our church consists of people of many nationalities including russians ukrainians georgians greeks italians serbs and bulgarians this church is the first big orthodox cathedral that was built initially then more cathedrals and son removed and very appeared and only five years ago a big church in rome was built that. tchaikovsky the demi the family to see as a real russians with a strong connection to italy. twenty minutes outside the city will match with beautiful scenery vibrant colors. but what has this park got to do with russian culture. to answer that question let's meet this week's guest. great to meet you

thank you very much for your time nice to meet you while we here in this beautiful and i guess a big question this place is called par delight because sheen and there are many beautiful alleys here one of them in fact where we're standing right now is named after dusty of ski he spent a year in the city and it was said to be one of the happiest times it has. life is dustier ski came to florence with his young wife and they found out here that they were going to have a baby and the couple stayed in the city while she was pregnant just to also finish their nobody eaters here so she left a remarkable trace in the history of this city. and it's not just dostoyevsky who lived tchaikovsky's but on this life there are many russian influences here in florence to simulate tchaikovsky spend seventy years in florence and composed quit of space here enjoyed florence a lot there whether architecture art and the many museums the famous director talk

or ski also leave here in the ninety's seventy's and eighty's then there was joseph brought ski but turner who has not been to florence to go up to the model it seems that many russians love it so they but one particular florence there's a nor about this place the city is not too big and not too small and its historical center is packed with everything one might fancy museum goers admirers of there are nations and art lovers is perfect for everyone also those who are into fashion are excited to come here not to mention those seeking good food and wine. well thank you very much for your time and enjoy your time here florence. moving on and what other locations in florence are connected to russia one of the most beautiful palaces is still officially named brutally after a noble russian family who owned it in the nineteenth century it was pulled by count to me to be truly a senator and the director of the home of charge of the god son of empress

catherine the great palace also contained brutally impressive library which he started to put together in italy to replace his previous collection of books which were lost in the great fire in eighteen twelve. the brazilians were not the only wealthy russian family who made an impression in florence much of the city are also connected. the demeter family there are squares villas and monuments in honor of the family members who lived in florence in the nineteenth century and the family emblem can even be seen on the front of the dromo basilica of st mary the flower as it's officially cooled when money was needed to restore the cathedral prince to meet off donated a large sum as his contribution was so great the florentine governess thanked him by putting the emblem right next to the main entrance. many russian artists traveled all lived in italy in the previous centuries and the country is still an inspiration for many of their works far from classical but rather unusual

controversial contemporary art is displayed at a russian art gallery in the center of florence. and she stood fishing is good you know and galloway has existed for several years now and now we're working on a new concept. that we want to showcase work which would combine art blind and sound and would affect as my listeners this is all visitors as possible they want to share that or it will be not only visual treat little so heal a person because it will focus and. florence is full of captivating stories and legends connects to many corners of the world. one local met is that if you rub this bourse snout and put a coin in its mouth you will return to florence at some point in your life and know he doesn't really like to has poor rebels. and italian many similarities the culture of the two countries is very classical based and complementary in many ways both have a rich history incumbent's

a long tradition of excellence in every aspect of arts and design. and from modern russian french fashion houses to cranes with rocks churches cheap await the russian connections you can find in italy and you'll be amazed at the results. it's a costly did call florence the city of dreams they certainly are. fortunately that's how we have left on this week's program that's the end of our exploration of russian culture here in italy i'll see you again at the same time next week we'll be back in the capital to tell them for me and the rest of the moscow are grouped by.

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a hotbed of russian scientific activity and our first thought takes us to an institute that's long been the heart of the region's a famed academic cluster. the institute of nuclear physics is one of the world's leading research centers in its field but here it's not just experiments they're interested in they also design and build some of the most complex instruments used in particle physics research now most of us are familiar with adam smashers but here they're working on an extremely important but complimentary piece of equipment and electron cooler the technology behind this beast was pioneered back in the one nine hundred sixty s. by the man whose name graces the facade of this institute given the growing power range that modern particle accelerators are capable of the beam needs to be cooled in order to increase its effectiveness or as it's called in physics. electron accomplish this by shrinking the size divergence and energy spread of charged

particles without losing any stray particles. and that means the resulting collision is more intense and more particles are likely to smash into one another and when one is looking for extremely rare process he's most important from the tower looking part electrons are shot down through the tube powerful electromagnets guide the electrons to the cooling chamber where they interact with a hot. focused as a result of the cooling. thanks to their unparalleled know how. produces these high tech pieces of machinery not just for themselves but for other research centers all over the globe. the first instance of electronic killing took place at the institute of nuclear physics here in the superior several installations were built for domestic use. and the first installation for exports was for g.s.

which is in germany later two more were both for china one with a capacity of thirty five they other with three hundred but this. two million electron bold crueler is headed for the eula tree search center in germany the facility is part of a european union sponsored effort to better understand the fundamental hadrons most specifically the electron coolant will be installed at the centers institute of nuclear physics cosy synchrotron there are sprawling complex elementary particles will be accelerated around the synchrotron and smashed together for scientists to study and those efforts will be helped by the addition of notice of beer cooler. so what we get by is this get new meaning quality and it means we. have much. momentum range

very small. dimensions and this is the goal. so once the final touches have been applied this cooler will be on its way to hopefully groundbreaking experiments the collaboration here with the germans is just a part of a wider international effort all across the field of particle physics from asia to europe to the u.s. researchers basically have one goal in mind based on the proposition that all matter is made up of tiny unseeable particles scientists are keen to smash them to pieces to find the building blocks of our universe super charmed factories can produce billions of towel. quarks generating boatloads of new data and for one of these the institute is ready to throw more than a half a billion dollars at a new complex main objective as regards the super factory is to increase the

installations efficiency to the power of three that means by a thousand times to study the decay of particles you have to produce a certain number of them and then observe them so now we want to produce a thousand times more particles than it's now possible at any other installation for the time being though that super chantelle factory is still a ways away from becoming a reality but that doesn't mean the scientists here are waiting around for that to happen the institute has already built a new high accelerator and from this room a nuclear physicist can control and monitor all the activities of the institute's existing injector complex which creates the subatomic particles needed for now. these high powered particles are generated. already existing. where russian scientists are already conducting cutting edge experiments that are adding to the world's understanding of what underpins our very existence. using the.

money from the building an injector. it's a very complicated project. so a part of the. already completed. we've carried out the necessary planning for the project. designed all the buildings and facilities. commission from the. construction. factory will be connected to the already operational injector complex according to plans a new two hundred meter linear accelerator will bring the particles even closer to the speed of light and that will yield even more fruitful collisions but for now most attention is focused on the existing. the particle accelerator here has the capacity to create up to one trillion electrons and twenty billion positrons every second particles vacuum tubes where there sped up and.

timed so that a particle is pushed forward time it goes through a gap between the two and the higher the kinetic energy climbs the faster and faster they go. accumulated. look at them funny like across the linear electron and positron accelerator will be located in this tunnel. if it will take up this entire mostly empty space it won't look as if there isn't as now. this excel rater will raise the electrons and

positrons energy to the level required for the super chom tower factory and then at the end of the tunnel the particles will get injected into the main ring of the collider. so the particles zip down this currently dark passage will split into separate electron and positron rings. this tolo will contain the technical sections of the super factories. where the accelerating super high frequency resonators technical optics and beam diagnostics system will be located for additionally the injections of the electron and positron beams into the collider ring will be performed here as well. this trait of fortune should be continued to form semicircles into the left and right of the semicircle should come together in a large hall equipped with the detector of. a special building will be built above

the detector it will include the control room and the detector support systems of course the whole hasn't been finished yet. further financing is required in order to complete this facility. appeared in my eyes by the research taking place at cern and with the large hadron collider on the franco swiss border it's going to take a united global effort to fully understand these fundamental particles and processes and the super charm tao factory plant at the institute should ensure that russia's scientists contribute mightily to this ultimate goal but it's more than traditional science here and now with the b.s. just around the corner from the academic cluster of high tech. for many resident companies innovations are being incorporated in the latest edition. ever since the so-called first opened its doors it's been expanding as you can see with the new towers currently under construction this state of the art center is the latest

chapter of a decades long effort to encourage science in the region recently the federal and regional governments decided to use that history to create a unique environment to spur technological innovation it's hoped that the strong scientific base in the academic cluster will prove. for the newest high tech startups the parts main goal is to help small innovative companies get the running start that they need. developing for. technical. well as nanotechnology materials for each of these clusters we're creating special tree and industrial facilities. facilities that have been specifically adapted for the work of the corresponding companies benefiting from that is inversion since they're working on the next

generation. as you see here the traditional fire alarms have to be installed every few feet depending on the building code. inversion. detectors that monitor building stress and deformation and right now they're busy installing those. focused tower and. the company is pushing that technology one step further to take optical fibers and use them in a new kind of fire alarm which they say can be more cost effective and in some cases safer. propose using optical fiber as a sense of development to measure temperature along it. can act as a signal in large language it can be very canonical effective furthermore our senses are absolutely spark an explosion proof which therefore they can be used in coal mines but you chemical industries and so on where traditional exploring

senses your butt off the bed and. the passion. i want to commend in this room we're developing and researching our distributed fiber sensor and we're currently at the final testing stage it's important for us to understand what the maximum distance is that which we can monitor the temperature and what resolution we can get a q during crease the distance here in the lab we use these spools of fiber of course this isn't the same fiber that you sold being installed earlier a bundle of this cable would wear around two hundred kilograms and we don't need it since the fiber on the inside is the same as it has here this fiber goes along the wall from one school to another and eventually reaches our device into also we have about six kilometers of fiber here with this action of the fiber we want to affect is located inside the cat so he would use there's ten metres of fiber here so when

we turn the case alone we can observe the water temperature increasing in real time we see process results on the screen there are three charts the first one shows data from the signals coming in. the second they calculate the temperature. with a and the third computer the relationship between temperatures and time of year on the screen we can already see some kind of peak right at the peak is the water temperature inside the kettle we can even see it in more detail these peaks are processed by or device which are then determines whether a fire to employees or not and to prep the optic fibers for detection a method called bragg grading is employed this involves a laser i-ching a pattern of the core of the fiber this changes the way impulses travel along the length of the fiber certain wavelengths are reflected back to the impulse source others continue along this allows us to get specific data from every section of the fiber and this does it much faster than traditional detectors fibers like this

could be used to relate an ever growing amount of data helping us better monitor conditions. remotely and safely. but there's another. just about everywhere we go harmful particles around us if you live in a metropolitan area chances are your lungs are under constant attack whether it be car exhaust or secondhand smoke at your favorite bar or restaurant their potential to do long term harm is unabating fortunately though there's another firm up the techno carpet innovation help keep us safe from all kinds of airborne dangers. in the region part is. they think they may have made a major step forward in terms of cleaning the air we breathe for example with one of their units plugged in cigarette smoke is no longer the nuisance and thready can be and as they see it the potential demand for their filters is huge. where can you

purify air well everywhere. we attempted installing them in different places such as restaurants and other areas where people eat. household filtration devices we purified air from tobacco smoke which tried medical institutions. some point we realized which is something that most startups trying to survive do that we had to narrow. and focus on one particular segment in a particular market. in the past air filters have been made out of either paper or fiberglass but that's not the case here. instead they employ layer upon layer of polypropylene fibers. look like much by themselves when they're stacked up there one of the best defenses against those pesky airborne intruders. needed a little granules or first heated up and then spun. after they reached the right

thickness of the cylinder is removed. and placed into a. to make installation easier. but often simply catching the particles isn't enough to significantly reduce the risk of infection in hospitals life threatening microorganisms have to be destroyed and for that employs a multi-stage system against those harmful particles this is the crude filter which removes the big particles this is the ionization and ozone generation block this is the fine perfect filter capable of capturing particles that are already ionized and finally this is the absorption and catalytic filter which catches molecules pollutants orders in other words and last we have the ventilator the blues are the clean air but to better understand this let's break it down a little more after the particle filled air pat.