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Understanding 9/11tv Taini sledstviya-9 RUSSIA1 November 30, 2023 1:55am-2:45am MSK
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[000:00:00;00] over the summer, we were able to complete this site, on the territory of the municipality, this is not the only such site that needs updating, at the beginning of the year there were more than fifty of them, four were put in order, work is planned for next year at four more addresses. let's find out the weather forecast for tomorrow and continue. hello, petrov from mediaprognosomy. but weather forecasters in the st. petersburg region on thursday promise not a strong one. according to the hydra data of the center of st. petersburg, on november 30 it will be cloudy in the leningrad region, about 7° below zero is expected during the day in the rook field. thermometers will show -4-6 in tikhin boksitogorsk, the same should be in volkhov and kirishi, and also no cooler than -5 in gadchin in iborg. with snow and at -4
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reward. a day must pass in st. petersburg. towards evening the precipitation will become friends with the wind, so snowstorms are possible in places. on friday night the wind will subside and become only a degree cooler. have a nice day , whatever the weather. three centuries of history and 20 years since its rebirth. in tsarskoye selo there is an exhibition dedicated to the amber room. part the exhibition tells about the feat of restorers who, after the war, managed to recreate unique interiors. in addition, among the exhibits, there is a casket from the city. board for board games from koeniksberg, small high relief of empress elizabeth petrovna. these objects came from the same stone-cutting workshop where the creators of the amber room once worked. this was the st. petersburg
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kalinonbek, where life is. into a fairy tale. the most beautiful thing we can experience is a sense of mystery. she is the source of all true art of science, albert einstein. this. the story took place in january 1909 in tsaritsin, modern volgograd, stalingrad in the soviet era. the largest timber merchant, owner of salt and fisheries, semyon goldobin, was unable to pay off his bills and declared himself bankrupt. the creditors were not upset; after all, goldobin was the owner of a large company, property that, as they believed, would be enough to pay off
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the debts, but in reality. kama and volga 300,000. it is clear that the creditors wrote a statement on the basis of which an investigation was launched. but the district court meeting has no malicious intent in the actions i didn’t see goldobin. he was even left free. formally, there was nothing to complain about, but everyone around was perplexed. where did the money go? various versions have been put forward , including mystical ones, especially since... goldobin had a unique reputation. he was even called the tsaritsensky tesla. they said that in his basement he was conducting experiments with magnetic fields, trying to understand, no less, the secret of time travel. what if,
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the townspeople whispered. goldobin actually managed to create a time portal, move with all the money into the future and there, put it in an account in a foreign bank. it sounds fantastic, of course, but 30.5 years later goldobin reasserted himself. the summer of '44 turned out to be hot in stalingrad. and while the adults were rebuilding the city, building barracks, bridges, opening bakeries and schools, the children were living their own interests, going to the volga in the area of the old cargo piers to play hide and seek. and then one day, while playing, a twelve-year-old teenager decided to hide in the ruins of an ancient mansion, which before the revolution belonged to the merchant goldobin. i went down to the basement, walked along the corridor and saw the light, and saw a hole overgrown with bushes. the boy parted the branches with his hands and was dumbfounded. in place of the destroyed piers
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there were intact ones, and steamships that had not been here for a long time were moored near them. the boy got out and couldn’t believe his eyes. all around, no craters. shells , not bombed buildings, on the sand , two people are having lunch peacefully, a man and a woman, seeing the hungry look of the teenager, the lady handed him dried fish, and the man put a coin in his hand. the frightened boy rushed back to the hole and a couple of minutes later he again found himself in stalingrad on the forty-fourth. unclenching his fingers , he saw a brand new penny of 1903 in his palm . agree, it’s an absolutely incredible story, is there really still a time portal somewhere in volgograd created...
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let’s try to figure it out. it is no coincidence that tsaritsin, stalingrad, and volgograd are called cities of special energy. first of all, from the zamaego mound, which, according to legends, was a sacred place for the sarmatians, where they performed their rituals and sacraments. it is believed that both the persian king darius and the famous conqueror tamerlane visited kurgan. so, it is not surprising that the most incredible things could happen here, including time travel. but hundreds of thousands of people on earth believed and still believe that such travel is possible, among them outstanding minds of the 20th century, such as physicist albert einstein and inventor nikola tesla. the first proved the theory of relativity and stated that time can flow at different
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speed in different conditions, and tesla at all assured that he managed to create a time machine and even plunge into an intertemporal portal, where he simultaneously saw the past and present. and the future. albert einstein and nikola tesla are scientists recognized throughout the world. and who was the tsaritsky industrialist semyon savelevich goldobin? is it really an unknown genius who, despite all the ideas of physicists, managed to break into the future, or is he just a clever swindler who fooled his creditors? or maybe both? but do the residents of volgograd remember? at least something about it person? do they know about his financial scams and time travel? we asked local historians this question. it turned out that the merchant semyon goldobin is still well
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remembered in volgograd. he was such a rather shady man, despite his extraordinary wealth, he was a co-industrialist, a real estate owner, he was a member of the stock exchange committee, a member of the bank. committees, merchant headman, held a lot of positions, but nevertheless was able to plunge the entire tsaristen into the abyss of bankruptcy, this is... this is bankruptcy, which is already more than 100 years old, it is still somehow displayed in our volgograd ; if there are any scams going on, they say: it’s like goldobin’s, which is surprising, but the tsaritsyn entrepreneur himself not only managed to get away with it, without paying any of the creditors, but also to keep his property, but how is this possible, maybe he actually invented a time machine and
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traveled on it... to find out his assets, the assets turn out to be 1.3000, the modern way is just a multi-billionaire, he begins to find out, he says , but there is no money, he starts check, it turns out he had his time, he transferred all these assets to the third. sokol , the defrauded creditors sued goldobino and established a bankruptcy administration, which was supposed to deal with economic liquidation, but the entrepreneur did everything possible to ensure that the administration was headed by a person loyal to him. however, it was not difficult to pull this off, because goldobin, despite his tarnished reputation, had connections of influence in the city, even the fact that he
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ended up in prison in september 1909 only played to his advantage on hand, but he was sent to prison, of course, not for this scam, but he was the owner of the steamships, a boiler exploded on the steamship, and one person died, and he was sent to prison for 3 months right next to the train with a ticket in his pocket , but these 3 months gave him such a wagon, while all these committees were figuring out how to get money from him, uh-huh, but he says, but the debtor is absent, uh-huh, so imprisonment did him good, in this murky scam case, upon being released, the resourceful goldobin not only continued to manage his enterprise, but also he himself somehow became part of the liquidation administration; of course, the matter ended in nothing for the creditors. and the entrepreneur stayed in tsaritsino together with
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his brother and continued to develop one of his businesses - timber processing. in 1914, the annual production of the brothers' timber mill in goldobinykh at the biketovskaya station, which employed 150 workers, amounted to 550,000 rubles. nothing, he was prosperous, despite this kind of bankruptcy, he lived happily until he was seventeen years old in a luxurious mansion, although there were legends that he was arranging something there, some kind of spiritualistic seances, some kind of otherworldly forces going there, but these were legends, because the basements were huge, but because the passages approached, they immediately unloaded, here he had everything, well, as it should be in a large enterprise, but if most of goldobin’s commercial undertakings are pure fraud, then where
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does skoda come from, one of the most famous regions of volgograd. where do you think this aura of mystery came from, that supposedly goldobin was engaged in some kind of experiments in his house, it seems even somehow physical relatively speaking. well, it’s always difficult to trace the history of the emergence of such things; first of all , the house stood. the personality was famous, not only in the city at that time, but there it all somehow became a legend. the gloomy appearance of the mansion also played an important role in the emergence of the legend; there were rumors that it was built on the site of an old cemetery and extensive red brick cellars. after the revolution , goldobino’s mansion was confiscated and
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the local security office was housed in it. the rooms were held. the goldobinsky house stood until the seventies, you could even see it, visit it, but alas, it was not preserved, and why did they decide to demolish it, it was in some kind of disrepair, what happened to it after the war? not here at all, it was restored, after the war it was a residential building, people lived in it, there were even some photographs flashing of a house, just like a house, but here, the floodplain of the tsarina river already begins, a large project was planned for this floodplain and apparently in preparation for construction they demolished, cleaned out the entire site in quotes, demolished all the houses that were here stood historically, yeah, well, it seems like they say that the basements were preserved for some time, but the basements were preserved, i personally am a living witness, i was in childhood, in
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the place where the high-rise now stands, you could accidentally fall somewhere , that is, tall grass, then some kind of gap, you look, and there is a brick. some kind of descent lined with bricks, well, not a descent but a cliff, there is a room below , and even the wiring, the pipes were preserved, that is , such a good, solid red brick, you look in, there is a room, there is a room, then there were basement parts that remained literally until the beginning of the 21st century, they were filled up in connection with the construction of a high-rise building, and so it was possible to even touch goldovin a little more, but there was nothing unusual in the basements of goldobin’s house, roman skoda then. today, on the site of the mansion, stands the modern volga sails complex , whose residents do not complain about anomalies, rather, on the contrary, they are completely delighted, they say, it’s comfortable to live here, and the view is stunning, right on
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the volga. a temporary portal emerges. there wasn't, but the entrepreneur himself is a local swindler who was more interested in financial scams than science, but then how can one explain the story of the stalingrad boy, who in 1944, playing hide and seek in the house of an industrialist, suddenly found himself in 1903? is this story really nothing more than fiction, as it turned out ? , not really, we turned to the skoda council to the staff of the volgograd regional library named after maxim gorkov and they told us that the case with the teenager was unearthed by the most famous ufologist of the volgograd region, researcher anomalous phenomena, writer and journalist, gennady belimov, who lived and worked in
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volzhsky. he became interested in the topic of ufology, he was already in adulthood, he was more than 40 years old, when in 1900 he visited an expedition to the site of the fall of the tunguska meteorite, and the incredible energy that he felt there inspired him to study this topic, and returning to volzhsky , he began to collect so-called urban legends about encounters with mysterious ones, which were recognized as a region with an increased concentration of unidentified objects and various unexplained phenomena, which is associated largely with the theory that... a so-called tectonic fault runs from the territory of our region, from which some kind of energy supposedly emanates, the focus of mysterious phenomena along the medvedetskaya ridge is the so-called blue mountain tract, not only unidentified flying objects were observed there, but and more than once local residents witnessed ball lightning;
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there was also evidence of the actual presence of this inexplicable natural phenomenon, because on the territory of the blue mountain there is a very large number of strangely curved burnt trees. belimov read a story about the mystical adventure of a teenager from stalingrad in a st. petersburg magazine, where in 2000 the niece of that same boy, larisa solomintseva, wrote. but we will never know whether gennady belimov managed to find larisa to talk to her. unfortunately, after a long illness at the age of 76, last year. he died last march. for many years, belimov headed the volzhsky az kosmopoeska, a research group for the study of anomalous phenomena, which was formed in 2006 in volzhsky, a satellite city of volgograd. in this
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case, it’s worth talking to belimov’s colleagues. for this we went to volzhsky. and then an unpleasant surprise awaited us. it turned out that volga ufologists had gone on an urgent business trip, and a new anomalous place had been discovered. however, thanks to modern technology, we still managed to talk to them. have you heard the story about a teenager from stalingrad, who in 1944, somewhere not far from the house of the merchant goldobin, ended up in, as he said, 1903, and even brought a coin from there as souvenir. in principle , such stories do occur, you have such an interesting detail that he learned something from this chronomirage, but please tell us in general about this phenomenon, chronomirage, what is it? it's derivative. from the word mirage, so to speak, with the prefix crown, that is, a mirage is an optical atmospheric phenomenon when, due to reflections, people
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see objects that are very far from them, which physically they cannot see either with their eyes or with the help binoculars, chronomirage, about the same thing, only it has not yet been established that this is precisely an atmospheric phenomenon, but this is when people see objects transported not only... in space, but also in time, that is, usually it differs in that people see - other people, groups people, in ancient clothes, and some cities, clearly ancient , non-modern buildings, as a rule, people see these pictures, well , just like a mirage, that is, they do not come into contact with those people or with those objects that they they see, they just see them in the distance, for example, there is some kind of battle in... in the sky, or there is some kind of castle in the sky, or , well, on the horizon, some events are happening
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quite brightly. it is not yet possible to explain the nature of chronomirage or refraction of time from a scientific point of view, but this phenomenon is encountered all over the world, people see scenes of war, natural disasters, this happens under certain circumstances, the person was relaxed, was in a borderline state from knowledge at night to dawn after sleep. but it has still not been possible to document the chronomirage, even if the observer in i had a camera in my hands at that moment, there is nothing left in the pictures. please tell me, after all, how to distinguish chronomirage , this is a phenomenon from a banal hallucination that can happen to a person from stress, for example, there are cases when chronomirages are seen... well, a significant number of people, that is, the mass introduction of chronomirages is
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this phenomenon is quite common, that is , there are even legends about some places that supposedly there on a certain day you can see some event there from ancient history there let’s say, or from medieval history, that is, this is a mass phenomenon, people, independently of each other, describe the same event with the same details. here is my beloved grandmother natasha, let’s try to help people help each other, somehow be on the same wavelength , it will work out all the time, well, i don’t know, that’s love, it ’s in general, it’s a very unusual genre of figure skating on roller skates, i’m seeing it for the first time on our stage, when the film carnival appeared, i did a lot of this, i knocked out all my knees, almost 40 have passed years, when you said how much you want to cuddle, it seems to me that all the mothers, all the grandmothers
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then the person walks a few more meters returns to the familiar modern... city, and most importantly, the man himself is sure that he was absent from his usual world for no more than 10 minutes, in fact 4 hours passed. perhaps a twelve-year-old teenager from military stalingrad really became a victim of an optical anomaly, but where did the 1903 penny come from in his hand? it’s not clear what if, let’s venture to guess, he had ordinary hallucinations. somehow, summer, heat, ruins of a house, a dark basement where there is not enough air. looks like it might be worth consulting doctors. we went to the department of neurology and psychiatry of the volgograd state medical university, where we met with professor alexander evgenievich barulin and asked the question: under
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what circumstances could a twelve-year-old teenager have spectators. let's start with a definition, yes, so that people understand everything, a hallucination is a certain image that arises regardless of an external stimulus, that is , there is no external stimulus, then these are the illusory phenomena that appear that a person can perceive some objects as absolutely real for him, a person may experience hallucinations if he is in some pathological state of the nervous system, these are mental illnesses, or when a person is in some kind of stressful situation, this may be acute stress , or some kind of condition associated with a significant stressful situation, this could also be, but this guy had plenty of reasons for stress, we don’t know
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what he had to go through, maybe he his parents remained in the city. during the battle of stalingrad. back then, adults went crazy, but here we have a fragile child’s psyche. but if we consider the puberty period, the teenage period, then of course, in view of the still immaturity of the endocrine system, many aspects of restructuring, metabolic... processes, the structure of the brain, of course, the situation here will be more malleable. however, according to the specialist, there could be other reasons for the hallucination. for infectious diseases, if there is a period of intoxication, and powerful intoxication, an altered consciousness of a person may occur, and hallucinations may occur. most often this occurs after
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suffering from typhus or cholera. the most famous case of mass vision occurred in italy in 1885. many residents of a small village near naples, where cholera was raging at that time, saw the madonna in black praying at a chapel on a hill. it was possible to get rid of the mass hallucination only when the government moved the chapel to another place and a military garrison was placed on the hill. in order for mass a hallucination has occurred, and very strict conditions are required under which such a state can arise, and well, for example, a person or a group of people must be characterized by the fact that they have some specific perceptual attitude, a perceptual attitude is a person’s ability, readiness to
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vision of what he wants to see, so it is quite possible that stalingrad... the teenager wanted to see the better, well-fed life that was before the war, he painted such a picture in his imagination, but like a penny in 1903, it turned out to be in his hand. we asked this question to alexander barulin. and the doctor of medical sciences suggested that the boy picked her up there in the basement of goldobin’s house. so what conclusions can we draw at this point? goldobin is simply a swindler who cleverly deceived his creditors. the story of a teenager who, from the age of forty-four, went into an even more distant past, either the result of his wild imagination, or a hallucination caused by illness or stress. but. where did the story come from about a local entrepreneur so passionate about science that he was nicknamed tsaritsensky tesla, and was there even a person among the prominent townspeople worthy to stand on a par with the great serb? let's try to find out
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something in the local archive. the state archive of the volgograd region was founded in 1923. its holdings number more than a million items. at first, it even seemed to us that it was simply impossible to find the necessary information, but after looking through many documents and pre-revolutionary newspapers, we immediately found two potential candidates for the role of tsaritsyn’s tesla. our first candidate is alexander alexandrovich repnikov, merchant of the first guild, philanthropist and honorary citizen of the city of tsaritsyn. it was he and his wife who, in 1913, initiated the construction of a house of sciences and arts in the city. and he allocated 50,000 rubles for this. considerable money, by the way, for those times. but here in front of me is the protocol of the meeting of the tsarita city council dated may 13, 1914 . and here the issue of
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accepting an additional gift from orepnikov in the amount of 50,000 rubles is being considered. apparently those 50,000 were not enough. by the way, they said that for this donations repnikov sold one of his houses. obviously he wanted to complete the construction . be that as it may , the second candidate is no less interesting, grigory grigorievich serebryakov, director and manager of the serebryakov brothers nail factory, the son of one of the brothers, grigory nesterovich. grigory grigorievich serebryakov is fully worthy of the title of the tsar’s tesla, for this reason, firstly, he thoroughly understood his business and studied it even in germany, and secondly, it was precisely on his... initiative in 1905 at the family plant steam engines were replaced by a diesel generator; this was a truly advanced solution for that time. so, we have two candidates - repnikov and serebryakov. so
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which one of them is the real tsaritan tesla? perhaps we will consult on this issue with the staff of the local history museum. the volgograd regional regional museum is located in the very... center of the city, occupying two buildings at once: the former tsaritsa zemstvo council and the volga-kama commercial bank, once the largest in the empire, which, however, did not prevent it due to bankruptcy goldobina, lose more than 100,000 rubles. by the way, the luxurious staircase of the 19th century, along which our hero once climbed, has survived to this day. hello, hello, nikolay. we are coming to you for advice; we would really like to find a resident of tsaritsyn who was so passionate about science that he could earn the reputation of the local nikola tesla. we have a hypothesis that such a person could be alexander
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repnikov. what do you think of it? well, everything is possible, but rather this man was a philanthropist, this man was very close to education. according to the museum's researchers, the merchant alexander repnikov was not attracted to the exact ones. but he was known as a music lover and theatergoer, so he decided to build a house of science and art. our queens created a society, the tsaritsyn branch of the russian musical society of irmo. alexander alexandrovich was its chairman. after 2 years, the queen will not be created in our country. such a complicated abbreviation. this is the tsaritsyn society for the promotion of out-of-school education. alexandrovich him. chairman, the house became the materialization of these ideas, which was built for these
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societies to find their home. in the house of science and arts, according to repnikov's plan, there should have been a reading room, a library, a meteorological station , a people's university, music classes of the tsaritsyn branch of the imperial russian musical society and a museum of the local region, this house was also preserved in a heavily rebuilt form and you and i can come up to him, he is in close proximity to the very center of the city, it was. for many years, one might say, such an architectural curiosity, because it was a certain kind of cultural dominant of our city, the construction was difficult, there was not enough finance all the time, but repnikov did not give up, as a result he still managed to bring the project to the end, the house of science and arts was opened in the winter of 1915, but unfortunately
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, never became the cultural platform of the city, as intended. in august of the sixteenth year , not having worked for even 9 months, the house was illuminated and beds were placed here and a military hospital was located here, i can say that, by analogy with the winter palace, it’s the same the royal family also did it in their own house, one might say, so this cherished house, unfortunately, went away... for a completely different functionality. well, it seems that the merchant alexander repnikov, although he did a lot for the city, could not possibly be tsaritsen’s tesla, but maybe it is grigory serebryakov. to confirm this assumption, we returned to the museum. but historians have big doubts about this candidate, because grigory grigorievich serebryakov, despite his excellent technical education, nothing
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he didn’t invent it in his life, but he died quite early, at the age of 36, and from banal appendicitis. this death, of course, shocked not only the family, the whole city, because a huge number of workers worked at enterprises - the trading house of the serebryakov brothers, they all came to the funeral, there were a huge number of wreaths, a huge number of workers, there were delegations from workers, so ... thus the dynasty was interrupted, well, let's say, and we also learned that the brothers in silver were in tsaritsino respected and feared. grigory nesterovich had too harsh a disposition. once he even ordered local journalists not to be allowed onto the threshold of the city government and the stock exchange committee when they wrote something
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unpleasant about him in the newspaper. family, took in children and orphans, registered them in their family name and provided them with an excellent education, and were trustees of many educational institutions in the city. we were told about an interesting fact that connects these two famous merchant families. it turns out that the serebryakov plant was located next to his mother’s house repnikova, as well as other neighbors, with enviable regularity sent complaints to the tsaritsyn duma about the noise from steam engines, which did not stop day or night. metal products are made by stamping. the machines that carry out stamping produce enormous noise, and working with metal involves emissions, gases, and acids, which are used to process, in
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general, many cracks appeared in someone’s wall; in repnikova’s house, for example, a stove burst , it is not surprising that a desperate woman, by all legal means to reach out to the city authorities, everyone is on the repnikovs’ side, including this one. a nobleman, he is a doctor, he testifies that the noise in repnikova’s house is noise, which in general, well, has a bad effect on the health of the housewife, the city government decides to close the plant, but it continues to work as if nothing had happened , everything is working, the equipment is being installed, moreover, a ridiculous fine was imposed on them, 10 rubles for failure to comply with the decision of the city government, and 130 rubles. this means that
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this is moral damage to yulia dmitrievna for those the inconvenience she suffered. yes, it seems that the tsaritsa merchants felt like real kings in their hometown, but if not goldobin and repnikov and serebryakov, then which of the tsaritsa entrepreneurs could have earned the fame of nikola tesla, or was it not a merchant at all? maybe the museum staff have their own opinion on this matter? and they, quite unexpectedly, advised us to look for the so -called tesla in the old sorepta. but what is old saretta? as it turned out, the museum-reserve, created at the end of the 20th century on the site of a colony settlement, which in the distant it was founded in 1765 by german preachers from
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the gerngur religious brotherhood. today sorepto is one of the districts of volgograd, and 250 years ago it was located 25 miles from the center of tsaritsyn. unexpected turn. but what can german settlers and the legend of tsaritsen tesla have in common? we'll find out on the spot. on the way to old sarepta, we decided to find out who these gerngurs are? it turned out to be followers of the protestant movement associated with the hussites and moravian brothers. born. it is in the saxon lands at the beginning of the 16th century, in russia gerngurov invited by catherine the great herself. in sorept the gerngurs lived in a community consisting of so -called corporations.
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married people, single guys, unmarried girls united into a separate community, and there was a separate community of widows, life was subject to a strict schedule, pray. again according to the schedule, hard work, usually agricultural, and no night walks, this was monitored by special patrols, even marriages among the gerngurs were concluded by lot, that is, the bride and groom were forced, like in a lottery, to rely on will chance, well, or by the will of god, however, having arrived in sorepta, we were pleasantly surprised, as if in a time machine... transported to an island of the past, neat houses of the 16th century in the saxon borocca style, kirho, the pharmacist's house, the shop. but when we shared our impressions with the employees of old sarepta,
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they said that in the 16th century, travelers, having got here, had no doubt that they were in the future. the settlement looked like an oasis among the kalmyk steppes. catherine ii, when she let the gerngurs here, she understood what they were are going to engage in, they were allowed to carry out their missionary activities where there are no orthodox priests, and this is on the border, in fact, the choice ultimately fell on this very place, the very southern border, on the border with the kalmyks, that’s why they came here, but in in the end, they at least succeeded in something, or it was really an absolutely failed mission, of course, no one in our country... knew that the kolmyaks had long been buddhists in advance, this mission was a failure, but they tried very hard, almost 200 years this colony existed they achieved something, something they didn’t, well, such a settlement was created here on the bare steppe, and where are the preachers, missionaries, scientists are very common there, can
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we say that some really learned people came as part of gerngur communities here, at that time, the gerngurs, already considering themselves secular people, also believed that scientists... were necessary for the development of some territories, therefore, with the first colonists, more scientists arrived here, many interesting things about our region were discovered by them, because at that time scientists were encyclopedists, that is, they studied everything at once, starting with ethnography, archeology, just ordinary knowledge about this region, everything was eventually researched by them, and this was actually some of the very first knowledge about this region obtained, but there were also enough inventors in the colony. it was here, at the end of the 16th century, that the first elevator was created, the first domestic water supply system in the history of russia was built, one of the first resorts in the country with mineral and mud baths, called ekaterinsky, was opened , a new variety of mustard was developed, which from the beginning
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xix century was served at the royal table. local doctors and pharmacists were considered the best in the region, but perhaps only... only one person from sarepta could compare in genius with nikola tesla, and his name was joseph hamel, a very wide range of his works, so it’s easier to go a little chronologically, that is initially he just lived here like everyone else, but he already had an inclination towards the same medicine, since it was quite prestigious in those days, so after school he worked here for some time as a student in pharmacy, then went to the medical academy, the military surgical academy in st. petersburg. at the age of 22, while a student at the medical academy, joseph hamel invented a cheap electric machine. for which he was awarded a gold watch by the emperor himself,
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alexander ii. and they decided to send him to european countries in order to study the experience of advanced european countries in the field of science, and so on, and his expeditions began, the very first lasted 7 years, he was in england, in france, in all countries he studied advanced methods production, technology, was a member of all possible societies, read different books, communicated with different people and sent all his reports to russia. in the same england, gamel descended to the seabed in a diving machine and was the first to draw attention to the effect of air pressure on the human eardrum. there he studied the method of mutual teaching according to the bell and lancaster system and wrote a book about this method. and that is not all. returning from abroad, gamel began studying in earnest. in russia in order to improve it. in
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1834, already being an ordinary academician in terms of technology, he helped the austrian engineer gerstner obtain permission to build the tsarsko-selo railway, the first in russia. joseph hamel had an undoubted talent, he sensed what inventions were. will bring practical benefits to humanity. in 1839, he went to england and there he met with william henry talbot, one of the inventors of photographs, thoroughly studied the principle of obtaining photographs, wrote everything down in detail and sent it to st. petersburg, then sent another pack of photographs and another apparatus, already invented by the frenchman, louis daguerre. thus, thanks to the tsarist tesla, russia became acquainted with photography, literally in the year of its invention. but joseph hamel really
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could be equal in importance to nikola tesla. he not only experimented and invented, but also spent his time and energy on manufacturing russian and foreign exhibitions that glorified the country, studied the history of telegraph communication, was fond of mountaineering, and was the first of the russian academicians to visit. but when did he manage to do everything and where did such a wide range of scientific knowledge, here you can’t help but think about a time portal through which hamel could be transported in time and draw his knowledge from the future. joseph hamel died long before nikola tesla’s star set, and even more so before the name of the great scientist was completely undeservedly given to a dishonest merchant. goldobina, well, it looks like we have exposed another urban legend, well, there has never been
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any time portal in tsaritsan, stalingrad or volgograd, although of course it’s a pity, but we found a local scientist who really knew how to look into the future, this scientist was joseph hamel, the real nikola tesla
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