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nationalists gather for an annual march condemned by half of the population and seen as an inspiration for young ailing nazis. next up more from the unique heroes as we guide you through the russian city of perm in our special report stay with us . a two hour flight east of moscow will land you in a city called. it's one of russia's most populous is minister to have 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. quickly making a name for itself in the contemporary art world and the generous local government

grants means there's something colorful crunchy or just colossal around almost every color. and right here in the center of the city you can find the highlights but it's contemporary art projects. that is fifty under logs making up a cyrillic letter. in the city's artistic pedigree is going further in haunts by the new contemporary art museum it's been open since two thousand and nine and houses of the rise here unusual and striking exhibits. now among the paintings here rather from this little sculpture. quite an impressive bunch of criminals that. i'm ahead of perms public art program know you're believes that the changes are adding to the city's reputation. broom today is in the vanguard of cultural and

social issues which affects not only this particular region you must 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 a city want projects designed to get the people more involved in arts and they've all been made fun decorates it's. other local schools. and freezing temperatures are no barrier to a good time and icy playgrounds are filled with the young and the young hot. really doing it all moves playing.

well i had a stroll through perms winter wonderland but it seems to me that there's one. very important guy still missing. alone j.m. was nice to me i'm glad to see you here and perm thank you very much it always hurts that you are quite an unusual for the frost is a true yes i'm a real dyed in the world father frost complete with a real beard. i'd like to show you some of my winter tricks that you're brilliant through. and it's clear from the beginning that love is no wooden response and. plays and gentle and he loves his fittest all the frost and certainly wouldn't want to be on his milton list. so now

i get to find out how my remote news coordinator does a sixty nine year old. probably not but we'll see yes his grades. blimey. will. be. keeping me up here in a little help from. all the frosts so. apply me. the u.k. i didn't break anything. thankful that i hadn't done any permanent damage i left level to 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 than a bear and although you might not see too many running around the streets of perm but doesn't mean you can't find them if you know what to do. but if you go down to one particular workshop you're sure of a big surprise. now these are the sort of pairs you really wouldn't mind running in see and here in perth there may cause a bit of a superstar because sees the winner of a golden george equivalent. of a teddy bear. his designs have been cleaning up in international competitions for several years now and her postcard bears to her genes characters she's amassed an impressive collection of her own. some of natasha's bears a real antiques including one that's supposed to have belonged to zone because the second she used to be it told me to turn to teddy 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 it has he has kindly offered to show me the arts of making your own. if i can get this little guy to look a little bit more cuddly. ultra quick tutorial on stuffing my first there began to look far more healthy and i was ready for something a little more delicate. all of that was easier said than done. no fail. and then there was the question of how to get them in the right position and how do you with your. looks brittle when it's been calls because i'm promising. nine has.

come quite tricky. but eventually after some minor brain surgery we were ready for the finishing touch. on them oh boy. only according to the tacit it's only when the eyes go in that the bear actually becomes a bear so. they would 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 per 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 one hundred years later with the birth of its favorite son but it really reached the taito. meet alexei group ken the man who became russia's most famous tea importer and.

boy lovely god is going to tell me a little bit about his life. hello chains our couture earned the title of the t. capital of the russian empire thanks to the merchant aleksey group in his talent was responsible for the fact that he was no longer an exotic about bridge it was something accessible towards aleksey was dumped at the pioneer edges garver all sorts of good games achievements transformed congo 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 cup in his honor so you know what shall we do to kill it just. because of course the games let's go for it and with course. 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 style not everyone was able to help their team little the trimming. sugar was expensive so much so that ordinary people could not afford it. in this case they drank tea all gazing at the sugar elmwood sugar was suspended from the ceiling to drinkers will just look at the sugar while sucking on the bottom its food their brains and to think in their tea was sweet some of all was also becoming more and more widespread and to drinking a part and parcel of each meal covers like this one more places to take your time in whether you were a merchant striking your deal or just friends enjoying allegedly discussion well it seems they have the right idea to me back in the nineteenth century a fine couple an excellent company if you want to can.

deviation of goal of what we know you are doing even here where it is believed to be true for leading the charge it was time to return to the present but down on the congo river far more ancient tradition was taking place. i arrived in time for the russian orthodox celebration of a picnic a festival commemorates jesus his baptism and dozens of people were gathering by a hole in the ice to observe the site to following up to watch this when you. will see the crowd coming in here on mass with as many containers as they can carry because off to the water's been blessed the russian orthodox people believe that it's become incorruptible and they'll take all this was at home with them to bless

themselves their families and their houses. it was a bit of a scramble but at least for now whether or misstating drawing them i headed off to watch the festivals culmination in one of congress' most famous landmarks. this is got to be the poem region's natural high lights i'm in the congo cave and it's the only ice cave in russia it's a quick the tourist expeditions and these beautiful crystals hang from the walls all around the caves homes and nations system acts like a natural freezer meaning the ice near its entrance never thought was on stomach tight and starwood might step right at ceilings and floors. amazingly beautiful but. it is no slip break and became was first

documented back in the nineteenth century and it's been a guide to tourists attraction for well over a hundred years. it can be pretty cramped in places but as you move further back the ice receives and the landscape starts to change the whole cave extends almost six kilometers on the ground and this should give you an idea of some of the variations of the size of the cross this one is massive compared to the pole across the whistle right at the beginning and also it's much much warmer it's probably about plus two here and back at the start was around minus twelve. reaches a depth of almost sixty meters and it's here of the bottom that you find it's underground lakes and just for tonight a crowd of the faithful. so once the

mrs finished 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. until they are most respects for guys like this but. purely for health and safety reasons you understand i should not be immersing my whole body in this freezing water so i think i'm going to try and appear in the lights. so. and i may be able to take care of a parking fine something like that. i

made my way out of the cave away from. the city maybe a beautifully preserved part of the region's industrial past but i was ready to take a trip into the countryside to a place with a mysterious rich. culture is that so much of an oldish musician on the market for a killing spree by a u.s. soldier the burning of korans and the disapprobation of taliban forces the u.s. says it remains committed to its. wealthy british style. markets. can find out what's really happening to the global economy. look at the global financial headlines to name to cause

a report. of in a place called. a first glance perhaps just another piece of poem region country saw its but apparently you can have close encounters here with much more than just nature. persion of area fifty one following sources eighteen encounters and unusual goings on have been reported here and i want to see if there was anything to get. the going to look for extra terrestrials around. if you were that good. i believe. i've got the most experience. in the business strange things happen in the lab 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 valarie and i believe they can prove what is not what it seems. pretty tricky. but. this part is supposed to be the most active 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 the first. i have a few devices with me. check this out this one is interesting because of the text things we can't normally see. there's a pulsing signal. joyce going around. if you got kind of like a pop pop pop pop pop pop pop pop pop. which gets

a lot. when i move. mentioned the total very there is infrared radiation here that 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. i haven't when 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 lead 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 i must be some way to do it. take me to your leader. well i don't know what happened next i seem to have some strange unexplained memory loss aliens or no i needed to head north and the three hundred twenty kilometer drive or switch teleportation will take you to one of the area's most populous cities and a genuine industrial powerhouse this place is called solar counts 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 main

translates to salts of the common it's particularly famous for its attacks 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 eighty's and they're the oldest standing salt factory left in russia. all of this is original equipment and this borehole goes down to it that the woman's 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 was of tamed by about ration and once it boiled from this great big basin here it would have been pushed up the top ready for the next batch and then it would all been transported by hands and bags like this this one was supposed to be just for the ladies are concerned about fifty

kilos they made in those days. and this will give you a better idea of what the boy watch 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 to some sort of tonic pennies must be very good for the skin. and the refreshing. but times have most definitely changed. nowadays of course the salt production is a bit more sophisticated so alexander knowing it's all of the past and soul

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 three minutes. away from using. the phone don't tell him. this is rudnick show off number four on a conference 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. it's believed to have a deposits of an ancient siege that flowed through this me. and around two hundred fifty million years ago and they have some seriously heavy equipment to collect them. so this massive drilling machine is the softs workhorse and 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 it is not. like hot. air we get the sea. and once it gets going it needs to be mc pretty quickly. so our transport vehicle is coming up here to see the drilling the c. . and then a second. bottle is going to come down and we should see about the civil war. going into the back here. just as everywhere there's a year now that. there's more of a longshot. the north has forced their into the again.

we have. becomes a threat now. to get into position. a little deal. with the good players transported to the factory or a friday. this point is most are now quote it's believed this mine contains enough salts to last another forty years and there are a story to make sure the production continues around the clock but. alexander and the boys shift was nearly finished i can't get over this saw eason scale of this store room it's about twenty meters high and almost two hundred meters long it's like something out of a hollywood horror movie i keep thinking that something 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 cup of tea. and after the journey back to the capital perm thought i deserved a point to eat to. all of my favorite things about travelling around russia is that it gives me a chance to try out all the different local cuisines and all the chilly winter day like today it's the perfect excuse to eat something hot and fattening. i know this is a city off the my own heart because palm is famous for its poisonous i'm going to learn how to make one. hello oh stillwater can we cook today i can teach you how to cook our the secret you keep it better be great it was very much

you i will. translate as you see pious tiny supposedly to much the short terms of daylight's their winter favorite here in. ok. ok let's see how good i am of the rolling pin. and then the contents so we've got chicken breasts with some with some young ins in there as well and a bit of cream that's going to make up awfully good. each has a generous dollop the edges a sealed and crimped into a shape. that reminded me of what. life west country roots hope here. used to working with the past and it's just it's still you see three each one is handmade and has the reputation of being the best in the city the restaurant serves

them to around fifty guests tonight. gets the best of it now frying them in lots of oil. which makes for taste better. and also just a couple of minutes the ready to replace it all and served with this special sauce . treat it will get the feel of just such and such as a must and a minute. of course the proof of the force of course you can only need to. think i'm going to be packing 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 artistic statements natural highlights and an

industrial center that's still going strong off to six hundred years. for the just in case.