is the is of the soviet union the time of massive change stalin dreams of a modem industrial nation and he wants to fast but to do it he needs to. blend in ones coal is the bread industry and during the soviet union the miner was held up as a shining example of what a worker should be tireless ready to sacrifice himself for his country and the hardest workers of all were here in siberia is whose boss region taking the coal that would make everything from steel. to record. more than seven hundred billion tons of coal mines and

a hundred thousand people i want to meet these men and find out just what it takes to work in russia's coal based on the first lesson. is how to keep themselves safe from. the six six seven m. life support system is designed to protect the lungs from gases in the event of an explosion. take the cap off and drop it. with. my briefing it was time to head down. to ten o'clock in the morning to join the day shift at the pits. should be six

in the. country where they take out almost two hundred thousand tons of coal every month. the machine carrying us was like something out of a science fiction movie a massive metal snake suspended. and slithering its way three hundred meters beneath us. and the piece itself is equally. black was covered with a child. in white dust. the ceiling is held in place with hydraulic beams and each minus shuffles beneath them as they get into position behind the massive cost. and it's this multimillion dollar cutting tool that allows them to extract the

fowls and tonnes of coal every forty minutes. or machines operated by two men will be in choosing control panels one of the right one of the left. quite frankly. don't produce good professionals the safety precautions described in the books and regulations really aren't helpful you only get experience by working as a team with a newcomer as they watch the. numbers mean the mine isn't just thrown in at the deep end the man operating to literally has a lot of his colleagues in his. nice new recruits needs up to a year of training. with local youth made a mistake. you have to adjust the support leg before you can start extracting my

cold. if you don't make the grade it's back to the drawing board but there's much more than just classroom training involved each miner needs to show they know what to do if an emergency really does happen. you've got to be physically fit enough to get others out under the toughest of circumstances. each new recruits has to undergo a grueling workouts in a special sauna is ridiculous legal. speak. in this he. believes just keep coming and i was starting to feel a little dizzy. this was

a real situation i might be expected to put out before so you have to be able to stomach humidity but once one hundred fifty i was told to take a break from doctor's orders. cooled down a bit it was back to the girl. today three hundred if that.

little bit now. fortunately convey isn't heavy machinery take most of the weights in today's modern pits but the next day. they can also break. in the snow ok. next time we'll drop everything and do as you say we're going to everything needs to be in order. the power's out ok let me check a tradition is all we did and the circuits are open for five minutes i'll get the power to you. get to it. but it doesn't take long to get things going again that makes everyone happy.

except me perhaps. this is a pretty tacky job with the best of times but the thing about being. busy gets here everything that no one else wants to do is well. glamorous life i lead. there's no doubt the mind is lot is better than he used to be the men work less hours for more paid and the times when you had to put in a full day of back breaking labor and long gone but some of the problems they face now are as real as they were more than a century ago. now back when these colonists first arrived here you couldn't imagine

a more difficult or dangerous profession than mining as well as having to dig out all the coal by hand there was always the ever present threat that the roof might just collapse on your head and that's where these planes supports came in they would actually start to squeak if the pressure became too much so at least there was a chance that the miners would hear and be able to get out. if that. isn't bad enough. they also had to warry about the build up of methane gas because of the poor ventilation and then along would come the man with possibly the worst job in the entire world dressed head to toe in went to go toilet and carrying a lid to watch it literally come up suck it into the gas fill tunnel and.

loop a couple who would put them up explosion you've just seen was the result of safety regulations being violated in your little bit. of the supports weren't in line with safety regulations. a mass of coal caved in at the cable and ripped open the insulation with it but. the explosion was caused by an electrical impulse from a faulty ventilator. the electrical equipment in the shaft was also faulty but that's how it happened. the same build up has to be constantly monitored and mine is now the way to do it on the ground. so this little gadgets is a very important piece of safety equipment that everyone has one because it measures three different gases that are present in the amount of oxygen the amount of carbon monoxide i mean amounts of methane. if the amount of methane for instance

reaches more than one percent then lights off last a long full sound and ever oh no. they're out. also has technology that tells them where the miners at any time. it was so now there are two guys down in the pits and ninety above ground with a simple click of a mouse you can see the name of everyone on shift today and i'm sure they all are right now. it's another michael precaution because you never know exactly when an accident. oh israel obviously you knew three judy manager go ahead with. six or six would you call it ok even understood.

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a little. number one to maintain contact with banks number two the c.e.o. levels number three set of communications and take temperature readings every five minutes if you find anyone else. would like to get our tasks today concerns both tactical and technical training it will involve two units our unit is up the underground base as well but we are to keep in touch with the second unit if the second unit of needs help with we are

duty bound to give it you mean official numbers. with me. this search unit is currently moving along the route. you know injured people have been found so far. if it turns out there is gas and too much smoke then the men will navigate further with the help of ropes tethering them together in a line but this method will assist them in the operation. understood be careful. there. is an internet.

planks. of wood plants. breathing these. children see any obvious injuries. as legs broken. or is not a moment too soon. carry his breathing. this will help them doreen. blood pressure is ok. bring the stretcher here. let's get a splint on him it's a sound fine it's the coal mining is still one of the world's most dangerous professions every million tonnes of christmas coal is estimated to cost three to four life's. work this paul says he's breathing. we must be responsible not only for the people we are searching for but also for ourselves but there have been cases when the rescuers didn't come

back. the injured man is then taken to hospital. you know. but when the dust of the smoke comes in it's actually very frightening i can't imagine what it would be like have to go through that for real. thank god there are guys like this the do the job that they do. some of the best trained rescue rangers in the country and they're ready to go at a moment's notice and can be trying but it has its rewards. well thought she. was live once they called us in to search up central mine shaft.

but caved in. your bits of the and we spent about twelve hours digging the man out . to begin with we had drilled a small holes to give them food and water. but all three of them survived to be above well as it turned out they were my former colleagues used to work together in the mine for years before they were lucky it was here. the whole thing collapsed and was closed off moments after we pulled the oil to. my boys we will only be just in time. but tragedies like the response to mine explosion which killed sixty six people back in two thousand and ten is still very fresh in the memory. powell feels there are still certain private companies who put money before safety. and as

a girl i was on a different career the most normal safety procedures were ignored then even tied rags over the census to disable them better more way ahead on many investigations but there's no money in the senate i know who is going to invest money here. i went to see some of the processes that they're working on a camera is new clean coal or a tree but the man in charge says they still have a long way to go. i do inquiries of course lines during forty years and i name into this coal like a big black screen chs big because as million tons black because this kind of coal and swings because we don't know what is it. will be researching into or digging it out of the rock coal is ever present in the christmas region not had enough of it at work you can even grab a bite to eat in

a restaurant that's devoted to it. the bit that evening for your safety please take this hard had you know get a sense of the atmosphere in the cold my and let me take you to your table. surprisingly this local eatery has a very minor friendly menu. sorry your beef tongue salad with coal dust. every spare the coal mine is a real treat for me. but be warned the regulars can be pretty toolkits of progress i'm sure that's all fascinating stuff but you know i am trying to hit mine. still there are a few house specialties which probably didn't make it into the lunch boxes of the

mine as a bowls. of hard working. well mostly the reason ice cream. let's say it's a dessert that's was doing a shift in the fall. we'd be friends you drink oh well rather than to smile on. our bars special cocktail to cave in. to. the rules. orderly. generous the words of.

my pulse to punch might have been in no hurry to get back to the pitch but i have a date with one of the most experienced miners in the entire come some moments company. james let's go over the past two decades me high heels has seen and done it all but he's been joined by his son alexander a pattern that's been repeated in these mines for generations i've been working here for twenty three years one of the unions that we know of modern equipment and people have changed a lot to live better bosses have become very demanding border safety measures are much more strictly enforced all that's resulted in increased production. but fewer and fewer men seem to regard it as a job for life. the other two out of every ten to a hired only two or three will stay and those who do are very hard working if the

bosses see anyone being lazy one bell be forced out one you would up with another down here you have to love your job and you have to work hard because if that's not your attitude then you really can't work as a team you buy your. and alexander is not mikhail's only son preparing for life down the pit his brother alexei will be graduating from mining vocational college next year. and even six year old son again seems destined for the family business. what's your favorite toy. that one. would know look good deeds show. he says it is a right now but let's feel when he grows up. he's too little now.

and doesn't really know what he's talking about. here playing with that hard hat now he likes that. there is no escaping the coal mine. you can't get away. the only thing we have here are mine. if he does go into the mines so gay will help keep the coal coming and the convey is rolling twenty four hours a day production here never stops. so behind me you can finally see the fruits of our labors this year poil of cold has just been purefoy of the coming out of the pit and now it's ready for its the long journey to the still far trish. most of the regions like most soulful bitchiness cold ends up in its messy plugs

where it's transformed. into this stuff and. more clues are what. gets heated up to a profound decrease more than twenty hours. into. the finally it's been paid guy and much tell you what you really do not to want to be getting this close to it. now i just want to give you a quick and easy recipe to make your own soup bust the holes to my stumps. then. do some quantity got. out a quick list. killer oxygen set up the hoops. that gather. much

of. the final fight in the fight manageable. just. as you're ready to add the finishing touches. but not all of the cars buses fuel ends up on the final this. has a far more creative use for this. is because mass is only cold sculptor. are there you when you cover a piece of coal some saw it was it gives you a clue about what it's meant to be one of it's

a very beautiful material. when i go to exhibitions coal miners sometimes come up to me they've been working in pits for ages they look at one of my pieces and i can almost see tears in their eyes when they see what can be made from a lump of coal and there's no dole just destined for the furnace when i cut it for do i know that this is the product of a coal mine is hard work and maybe even of lives lost that's why people appreciated . the coal with a special solvent and uses a razor to prevent it from shattering and the results a point to standing. for the better it is finished you wouldn't believe it's possible to make such a beautiful thing out of something so brittle and difficult but apparently in the beginning know that any. go it was here he started working with coal and his friend

bet him that he couldn't make freestanding sculpture out of it. and i hope you didn't put too much money on that. there's no getting away from the facts that coal and money will always go hand in hand in the cause of us region and this multi-billion dollar business will always be dangerous but it's the glue which binds the people together it's the heart of the community and with new technologies being developed to make life safer for the miners and more productive for their employees to sell a pioneering spirit in this cold color of siberia and still light down in the darkness.

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