as a shining example of what a worker should be toilets ready to sacrifice himself for his country and the hardest workers of old 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 on the 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 basin and the first. 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 even if you have smoke. and.

i have my briefing and it's time to head down. coming up to ten o'clock in the morning to join the day shift. to 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 feet. and it's this multimillion dollar cutting tool that allows them to extract the fowls and tons of coal every forty minutes. machines operated by two men being choosing control panels one of the right one of the left just. 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 old miners to learn how to do the job. doesn't mean the mine isn't just thrown in the deep end the man operating literally has a lot of his colleagues in his. nice new recruits needs up to a year of training. with a 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. 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. and it's a long. speech. in this heat. will be just keep coming and i was starting to feel a little dizzy. and 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 growing. by

this. day three hundred if that. little bit but now. fortunately convey isn't heavy machinery to take most of the weights in today's pits but the next day or so for myself they can also break.

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 in 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. you'll hammer a slice finally. there's

no doubt that the mind has lost his better than he used to be the men work less hours for more pay and the times when you had to put in a full day of back breaking labor along. some of the problems they face now are as real as they were more than a century ago. now back when these calling is 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 when 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 worry 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 where to go tolerate and carrying a lid to watch it literally come up suck it into the gas fill tunnel and. loop a couple who were from up explosion you've just seen was the result of safety regulations being violated there would have to be the supports weren't in line with safety regulations. a mass of coal caved in and hit the cable and ripped open the insulation with you 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 not 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 so 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. become small it also has technology that tells them whether miners at any time. it was so now there are two guys down in the pit 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 boy it will be cool shit because you never know exactly when an accident. oh i was worried about a story you knew three judy go ahead with. six or six would you call it ok even understood. you know how sometimes you see a story and it seems so you think you understand it and then you glimpse something else you hear or see some other part of it and realize everything you thought you

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a lot of them are for number one to maintain contact with banks number two months ago levels number three set up communications and fall take temperature readings every five minutes if you find anyone else.

everybody can still. stand by. would like to get into our task today concerns both tactical and technical training and 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 when we are duty bound to give it to me the first number of. americans there will meet. me here this search unit is currently moving along route one want to. leave you know injured people have been found so far. if it turns out if there is gas

and too much smoke then the man will never get further with the help of ropes tethering them together in a line with this method will assist them in the operation. nothing. nobody. will. read. understood. yourself. as an internet. or man of the planks. of wood plants you heard paul says ok this very thing he's going to see he's bringing. more in you don't see any obvious injuries. there's legs broken. well. gary he's bringing. all this will help him very. low pressure is ok bring the stretcher here.

it's going to spill into him it's a sad facts that 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 paul says. 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. with the injured men have then taken to hospital. you know that it's a trading exercise but when the dust flood of the smoke comes in it's actually very

frightening a cut imagine what it would be like have to go through the for real. thank god there are guys like this the do the job that they do. because most region has some of the best trained rescue rangers in the country and they're ready to go at a moment's notice the job can be trying but it has its rewards. well thought she. was live once they called us in to search up central mine shaft. and caved in. your bits of the most spent about twelve hours digging the man out joe biden to begin with we had drilled a small hole to give them food and water and the whole story 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. with lear. the whole thing collapsed and

was closed off moments after we pulled them all l.t. oh. 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 a better more wave had a 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 didn't please call signs you're in forty years

and i name and says coal like a big black screen chs big because as million tons of black because this kind of coal and swings because we don't know full well what is it. will you're researching in order to eat out of the rock coal is ever present in the cosmos region and if you've not had enough of it at work you can even grab a bite to eat in a restaurant that's devoted to it. the that evening for your safety please take this hard had you'll 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 johnny 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 eat here more and. 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 monthly things for a reason ice cream. let's say it's a dessert that's was doing a shift in the pit full. day we'd be fancy a drink oh well right then to smile money and. our bars special cocktail to

cave in. i was. born early. generous the words of. my pulse the punishment of been in no hurry to get back to the pit but i have a date with one of the most experienced miners in the entire comes from all it's company. james let's go over the past two decades me high heels has seen and done 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 now have 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. there are very few out of every ten to a hired only two or three will stay and those who do a 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 by job. 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 sir again seems destined for the family business. what's your favorite toy. that one. would know look good in 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 when you're playing with that hard hat now he likes that. there is no escaping the coal mine. because 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 paul i love cold has just been purefoy of the coming out of the pits and now it's ready for it to long journey to the still far trace. most of the regions like most soulful picture most cold ends up in its messy plugs where it's transformed. into this stuff and any more clues it hot. gets heated up to over a thousand pieces more than twenty hours and turned into. the fluently 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 really easy recipe so make your own soup bust the holes in the field some stuff. then pour it in some quantity got. out a quick list. phil ochs it's been set up the hoops. that gather. much of. the final fight night manageable from.

just a few i was already two of the finishing touches. but not all of the cars buses fuel ends up on the final this. has a far more creative use for us. because the cosmos is only cold sculptor. when you cover a piece of coal sometimes it gives you a clue about what it's meant to be. it's a very beautiful material. when i go to exhibitions coal miners sometimes come up to me at the they've been working in pits for ages and 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 is no hole just destined for the furnace when i cut it with the new that this is the product of a coal mine is hard work and maybe even of lives lost that's why people appreciate

it. coats the coal with a special solvent and uses a razor to prevent it from shattering and the results are quite astounding. the bet 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 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. mission free cretaceous three guns for charges free. range mentioned free risk free stooge tied free.

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