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protested against police negligence on the football stadium stunt people killed seventy four people last seen a growing frustration of how the youth leadership is afraid to bring change. to the next or from the unique urals as we can see you through the russian city of. a two hour flight east of moscow will land you in a city called pub it's one of russia's most populous as minister to capitals on the industrial and cultural center of the european urals. lying on the banks of the comma river it's home to almost one million people and as you take a walk around it's easy to see that this is a russian city trying to create an impression. perm is quickly making

a name for itself in the contemporary art world and the generous local governments grants means there's something colorful crunchy or just colossal around almost every corner. and right here in the center of the city you can fill in the highlights and it's consent real projects. that is fifty under logs making up a cyrillic letter. and the city's artistic pedigree has been further and honks by the new contemporary art museum it's been open since two thousand and nine and houses of the rise he of unusual and striking exhibits. among the paintings here are of the form of this little sculpture. quite an impressive bunch of criminals that. i'm ahead of perms public art program believes that the changes are adding to the city's reputation. for him today is in the vanguard of cultural and social issues

which affects not only these particular region but also the country as a whole this is very important. and it's not just professional artists that are being showcased here. now these six hundred snowmen are all part of the city want projects designed to get the people more involved in arts and they've all been made under great seats. for the local schools. and freezing temperatures are no barrier to a good time and icy playgrounds are filled with the young. and the young at heart. movable. really do not only think.

well i had a stroll through perms windsor wonderlands but it seems to me that there's one. very important guy still missing. says hello to a low j.m. was nice to me i'm glad to see you here in perm thank you very much and i've heard that you are quite an unusual thought of frost is a true yes i'm a real dyed in the wool father frost complete with a real beard persevered yet i'd like to show you some of my winter tricks would be going to be brilliant. and it's clear from the beginning that love is no more than a response or. plays a gentle and he luscious prettiest the frost does anyone want to be on his milton

list. so now i get to find out and my remote news coordinator does a sixty nine year old. probably not but we'll see yeah this is great for. me but it will. be. keeping me up here and a little help from. all the frosts. me . you ok i didn't break anything now. thankful that i hadn't done any

permanent damage i left left his acrobatics and headed back out into the streets it was time for a little souvenir hunting there aren't many things more strongly associated with russia and the bear and although you might not see too many running around the streets of perm doesn't mean you can't find them if you know it and look. if you go down to one particular workshop you're sure of a big surprise. now these are the sort of bears you really wouldn't mind bunny and sue them here in perth and their maker is a bit of a superstar because she's the winner of a golden watch equivalent. of a teddy bear what's. his designs have been clearly up in international competitions for several years now from her postcard pairs to her jeans characters i'm she's amassed an impressive collection of her own. some of natasha's bears a real antiques including one that's supposed to have belongs on eclipse the second

she used to be a told me can return to teddy's when a scottish friend brought us some plans to make their clothing now she can put together a new furry friend in around ten hours and she's a pretty good teacher too so that's why i say here is kindly offered to show me the odds of making your own pass from going to see. if i can get this little guy to look a little bit more cuddly. quick tutorial on stuffing my first began to look far more healthy and i was ready for something a little more delicate. although that was easier said than done. well after the failed. and then there was the question of how to get them in the right position no idea with me. and it's brutal it's been calls because i'm promising. nine

is. quite tricky. but eventually after some minor brain surgery we were ready for the finishing touch. on then oh boy. i only according to the tacit it's only when the eyes go in that the bear actually becomes a bear so. i don't ever think i'm going to be an oscar winner but i think it's quite lovable. i was finally ready to explore some of the perm region and i started in the southeast in the picture a city of congo back in the eighteenth century congo was considered to be the capital of the urals and it was one of the most important stops along the trade route to siberia but it was a hundred years later with the birth of its son and it really reached its heyday.

meet alexei good can the man who became russia's most famous tea importer and. play of the guide older is going to tell me a little bit about his life champion how no chains our cool air and the title of the t. capital of the russian empire thanks to the merchant. of his talent was responsible for the fact that he was no longer an exotic beverage it was something accessible to all aleksey was dumped at sea pioneer and discover all sorts of. hymns achievements transformed and as old as museum is devoted to his life and work and seemed only right to sample his wares well in this case i think we do need to have a couple of his own or so older group the group who have just gotten over it is of course james let's go and with calls. just below the main

exhibition hall is a replica of a nineteenth century russian tea house burned although the brew itself became more affordable and good can start on everyone was able to have their tea with all the trimmings. sugar was expensive so much so that ordinary people could not afford it. in their case they drank tea ball gazing at the sugar elmwood sugar was suspended from the ceiling. tea drinkers would just look at the sugar while sucking on the bottom it's food their brains just think in their tea was sweet and some of all it was also becoming more and more widespread and tea drinking a part and parcel of each meal. like this one more places to take your time in whether you were a merchant striking your deal or just friends enjoying allegedly discussion or listening as they have the royal idea to me back in the nineteenth century couple

an excellent company but you want. deviation the goal of what we know you are doing even if you wish it is you can usually be judged it was time to return to the present but down on the congo river a far more ancient tradition was taking place. i arrived in time for the russian orthodox celebration of a perfect festival commemorates jesus his baptism and dozens of people were gathering by a hole in the ice to observe the sanctifying of the waters but for you. to see the crowd coming in here on mass with as many containers as they can carry because off the water's been blessed the russian orthodox people believe that it's

become incorruptible and they'll take all this force of home with them to bless themselves their families and their houses. it was a bit of a scramble but at least for now everyone mistaking drawing and i headed off to watch the festivals culmination and one of converse most famous landmarks. this is got to be the poem region's natural high lights i'm in the cave and it's the only ice cave in russia let's quit the tourist expeditions and these beautiful crystals hang from the walls all around the caves ventilation system acts like a natural freeze up leaving the ice near its entrance never forced and stomach tight some stolid mites decorated ceilings and for us. amazingly beautiful but. it isn't

a slip break and became was first documented back in the nineteenth century and it's been a going to tourist attraction for well over a hundred years so. it can be pretty cramped in places but as you move further back the ice receives the landscape starts to change the whole pave extends almost six kilometers underground and this should give you an idea of some of the variations of the size of the cross just this one is massive compared to the pole across that we saw right at the beginning and also it's not much warm up it's probably about plus two here and back at the start was around minus twelve. hundred. became reaches a depth of almost sixty metres and it's here at the bottom that you find it's underground lakes and just for tonight

a crowd of the faithful. so once the basis for this here everyone queues up for a quick splash of holy water and a blessing from the priest. and for the bravest believers that's the signal to take the plunge. freefall dips into the lake to all of the holy trinity and wash away all their sins from the past year. now and go the utmost respect for guys like this but. purely for health and safety reasons you understand me i'm missing my whole body in this freezing water so i think i'm going to try an epiphany light. and i may be able to take care of hawking find something.

i made my way out of a cave away from. the city maybe a few to be preserved poems of the region's industrial past but i was ready to take a trip into the countryside to a place with a mysterious script. of

in a place. of. just another piece of poem region countrysides but apparently you can have close encounters here with much more than just nature. perms version of area fifty one drawing sources eighteen encounters and unusual goings on have been reported here and i want to see if there was anything to it. the guards look for extra terrestrials around. i believe. i've got the most experienced. in the business

strange things happening come it's supposed to have its own equivalents of the triangle some even believe that it's a gateway to a parallel universe and larry and i believe they can prove it is not what it seems . pretty tricky. but. this part is supposed to be the most. anomalous zone so something weird is going to happen it's very likely to happen right here. and nikolai has an instrument he thinks shows up discrepancies in the areas energy fields through first. i have brought a few devices with me. this one is interesting because of the text things we can't normally see. there's a pulsing signal. going around.

if you go kind of like a pop pop pop pop pop pop pop pop pop pop. which gets a lot. when i move up. the tone will vary there is infrared radiation here it may affect the operation of appliances and even the human body when you take a photo sometimes tears appear. there is an anomaly here for sure we can hear it. there was certainly something strange afoot and the larry had yet more tales of the unexpected for me. several years ago i came across strange markings in the snow this is what they looked like. snow was only here in this place and it seemed to have evaporated there was no snow here. so i saw two squares and something looking like this. you have in which i think this was left by a u.f.o.

i barely noticed the i was passing but the sun had already started to set if i was going to see something in the lab it had to happen fast. so i've encountered parallel universes energy anomalies and even lapses in time but i still haven't found any of these pesky aliens so there must be some way to do it. take me. well i don't know what happened next i seem to have some strange unexplained memory loss but aliens or no i needed to head north and three hundred twenty kilometer drive or a switch teleportation will take you to one of the area's most populous cities and a genuine industrial powerhouse this place is called soul accounts and it may be the most important city in the whole of the perm region they call it russia salt

cellar and it's been supplying the vital minerals of the country for more than six hundred years. the city lies on the karma river and its name translates to salts of the common it's particularly famous for its time seem chloride which is refined and sold as fertilizer and a trip through the city shows how the process has changed over time. these buildings urge tribute to a bygone age they date back to the eighteen eighties and they're the oldest standing salt factory left in russia. all of this is original equipment and this borehole goes down to a depth of almost two hundred meters i found the down there the salt water had a higher concentration and they would pump it out and take it to the furnace house for the next stage of the process. so it was obtained by of operation and the incident boiled from this great big basin here it would have been put up the top ready for the next batch and then it would all been transported by hands. like this

this one was supposed to be just for the ladies concerned about fifty kilos they made in those days. so this will give you a better idea of what the board looks like this one was drilled in one thousand nine hundred six and was actually under another old factory the water still flowing and nowadays people basically come and use it as some sort of tonic paris was to be very good for the skin. and the refreshing. but times have most definitely changed. days of course the salt production is

a bit more sophisticated so i think songs are annoying like it's all of the knowledge. in the world. something a little bit less to turn this on now we're going down about four hundred twenty five meters the right to take about two minutes. away from is it. fun don't tell us. this is rudnick show off number four and they can sound around one point three million tonnes of all from it every month. as we moved on would it was easy to make a different lens present on the mines where. it's believed to have a deposits of an ancient seat that flowed through this from. in around two hundred fifty million years ago and they have some seriously heavy equipment to collect them. this massive drilling machine is the softs workhorse it weighs

about one hundred tons and excavates almost thirty meters down each scene every shift and i'm going to get a chance to put it into action right now is not a. clock on. there we get to see. them once it gets going it needs to be emceeing pretty quickly. so our transport vehicle is coming out here to the drilling the sea. i mean this seconds. that funnel is going to come down and we should see about the civil war. going on in the back here. just gets everywhere you there's your mouth.

but there's more. along. the north as far as there and see again. and all we have. becomes are loaded up all that's right now. get into position. and then on. the fifth floor it's transplanted to the top three her side. this point is most are now quote it's believed this mine contains enough salts to last another forty years and there is a story to make sure the production continues around the clock but. alexander and always the shift was nearly finished i can't get over this year and scale of this story it's about twenty metres high and almost two hundred metres long it's like

something out of a hollywood horror movie i keep thinking that some is going to jump out at me from the shadows but just thinking about the scale of the work that must be required to fill this with all makes me tired so i think on that note it's probably time for a well earned cuppa tea. and after the journey back to the capital perm thought i deserved a point to eat to. all of my favorite things about traveling around us is that it gives me a chance to try out all the different local cuisines and on a chilly winter day like today it's the perfect excuse to eat something hot fattening. now this is a city off the oil and hot because palm is famous for its poisonous i'm going to learn how to make one. hello i will still more so can we cook today i can

teach you how to. keep it better be great thank you very much thank you i will. translate as you see paul is tiny supposedly to much to shore towns of daylight's their winter favorite here in perth. ok. ok because you have a good time with a rolling pin. and then the contents is redundant so we've got minutes chicken breasts with some with some young ones in there as well i did have cream that's going to make up off of it because. once each has a generous dollop the edges a sealed and crimp it into a shape that reminded me of how. they live west country roots hope they're. used to working with the past these are uses to eat in the past as we can see

through you each one is handmade and has the reputation of being the best in the city the restaurant serves them to around fifty guests tonight. guess the best right now drawing them in lots of oil. more space for taste better. and after just a couple of minutes they're ready to be plated up and served with this special sauce appropriate poem treat it all with give us just his analysis ok so mustard a minute or. so of course the proof of the course of course you can only need to. think i'm going to be putting on the winter insulation movies. there's no doubt that if you're visiting russia the region has

a great deal to offer a thriving capital that's making an autistic statements natural highlights and an industrial sense of it's still going strong off to six hundred years. on slave move care for the n.r.a. just in case.