but as for transportation and those famous events that took place on the bridge, here, of course, there is special gratitude to the railway workers, special, i will not go into details, but they showed courage and heroism in the literal sense of the word. russian railways are the largest employer in the country, in total more than 6 million people work in the system, entire dynasties of railway workers, when... it comes to social support for families, putin again returns to the issue of extending the preferential mortgage program. i asked the government think about extending the twenty percent contribution, the initial contribution for families with children, first, for family mortgages and second, think about maintaining this subsidy of 450,000 rubles to repay the loan itself. the president gives awards to the best railway workers. state awards personally of the order of friendship,

medals of the order of merit for the fatherland. this industry employs special people with an unbending will and steely character. the main general development corporate program is called the country of iron expensive it is implemented on the basis of the company’s children’s health camps. the program is aimed at broadening one's horizons and developing new useful skills. when he said, country of railroads, i really wanted to correct it, country of iron men, because. new passenger trains , high-speed trains. this year, several swallows between nizhny novgorod and ivanovo, a direct fast train minsk, samara, double-decker trains, in the ufa emeritinsky resort and yekaterinburg-moscow service were put on the rails at once. an international swallow connected sochi and gagra, innovation at train stations, a capsule for sleeping , the railway is being digitalized, tickets are now in the app, traffic is controlled by...

the country lives, develops, achieves results, successes, and as they said back in soviet times,... there is a feeling

of confidence in the future day, thank you very much for this, as in such cases i say at awards, it is always just a symbol, a symbol of the country’s attention to the railway industry in gratitude for the results of your work. the fourth railway congress brought together more than 1,800 delegates from all testing sites in the country. russian railways are one of the largest.

in addition to all the evidence about the breakdown of the presidential plane, it is still stored near the scene of the incident; members of the commission have repeatedly visited smolensk. polish media note that the decision to liquidate the commission was made almost immediately after the change of power in the country. prime minister tusk, an irreconcilable opponent of the leader of law and justice jaroslaw kaczynski, brother of the deceased president. now tusk believes journalists are using facts of corruption to in order to deprive kaczynski of political influence. $300 million instead of $111 billion for

military support for ukraine. the us house of representatives approved the defense budget for next year, refusing to make amendments about which. the white house, now all the hopes of the kiev regime and biden for the senate, about whether ukraine has a chance to receive american money this year, a report from our staff correspondent in washington. dmitry melnikov. under pressure from the white house and the leadership of the democratic party, the senate is forced to postpone the christmas holidays, and although the battle for money to help ukraine, the war is lost, but the war is not lost, senate democrats say. the house is set to return to work on monday to hold a vote within a week. on additional budgetary allocations , which include money for weapons for kiev, but without the approval of the lower house and the senate decision will not work, despite all the requests of the threat, democrats from the house of representatives have not heard a clear answer to the question of what will happen to southern border, packed

their bags and flew from washington to native states, now the only way out for the white house is by personal decree of the president to seize weapons directly from the us army and transfer them to ukraine. and this means a hole in the combat readiness of our own armed forces, the pentagon warns. we have a little more than $4 billion left to help ukraine and about $1 billion to replenish american supplies. of course, we have the opportunity to fully utilize 4 billion, but this is a difficult choice, since ultimately we have to make decisions about our own combat readiness and the ability continue to support ukraine as much as it needs. but the matter is no longer about ukraine. the struggle for power in america itself has left zelensky without money. the election season will only deepen divisions in washington. our own politics in washington are at an impasse, and the closer we get to the election year, the clearer the trend of disagreement on

issues is becoming more complex. after statements made the day before by vladimir putin that the goals of the special operation are unchanged and will be achieved, the congressmen who fled for the holidays are branded in the white house. psychedelic dances in the decorated interiors of the office of the us president caused a mixed reaction from the audience; the atmosphere of a circus or a madhouse evoked associations with the general degree of strangeness prevailing in...

the us army is increasing its activity, the white house has issued a warning to western forces, as well as the florida alliance. these fears of the collective unconscious of america are felt most subtly in hollywood; the film civil war, which is due to be released next spring, is about the chaos into which the united states plunges immediately after the next presidential elections. an internal split that has been brewing for years leads to separation. 19 states of texas and california are marching on washington, and the president elected for a third term orders the bombing of the seceded territories. american citizens, the so-called western forces of texas and california suffered significant defeats from the armed forces

of the united states. the slogan of the film is "all empires will fall". gloomy predictions from director alex garland. and it is especially symbolic that the author of the picture is british. the biggest threat to the united states, at least at least, according to hollywood, the americans themselves are now. dmitry melnikov and nikolai koskkin, news from washington. in the orenburg region, on the eve of the day, the strategic missile forces completed work on re-equipping another regiment with the avangard silo-based missile system. the intercontinental ballistic missile was loaded into the silo launcher using a special hydraulic

mechanism. the most complex technological operations took several hours, while personnel are currently training on simulators. events in the capital of transbaikalia laureates of the international art forum golden knight have arrived, they will hold concerts, film screenings, performances, master classes, the program includes a performance by the male choir of the danilo monastery, production: the first experimental batch of electric largus

is being assembled at the lada plant in uzhevsk in a family of cars, commercial and passenger five-seaters station wagons, the enterprise plans to launch serial production in may. report by irina kropacheva. a prototype was shown here a year ago, today the first ones are rolling off the assembly line. elargusy. there are 30 electric vehicles in the pilot batch; it didn’t take much time to develop. lithium batteries are located in the engine compartment and. where the gas tank was previously located, experts note that this made it possible to lower the center of gravity, which is important for the stability of the car; as for the trunk and interior, their dimensions were completely preserved. the first electric car in the lada family can travel up to 400 km without recharging; there is a commercial station wagon and a passenger five-seater version, so far in two colors - glacier platinum. today it is the most localized domestic electric vehicle, more than half of the components are made in russia, so that...

people, for the conveyor to work at full capacity, you need to recruit the same amount, here they noted the future belongs to electric transport, additional state support and preferences for russian manufacturers will be very helpful, by the way support depends on how many electric vehicles will roll off the assembly line next year, by spring the company plans to answer another important question: what will be the price of elargus. irina kropacheva, artyom pushin, news from utmurtia. magadan. this is the name of the ice sculpture competition that takes place in the capital of kolyma, masters from different regions of russia, also from

china, compete on how they turn huge blocks of ice into works of art, dimit zhuravlev. the start of the competition begins with cutting the first cube. by tradition, this right is given to the mayor. 11 teams must turn crystal blocks into ice mosaics in 4 days. this square will certainly become like this. new year's business card magadan, we are already accustomed to the fact that it is very beautiful here, a lot of people take pictures, the mass of one cube is from 400 to 900 kg, we get ice from the lake, from the clay, but before we prepare it, it snows there, that’s it here the ice comes, we cut it off with a trample, the boys first drown it, and then so that it becomes more clear and clean... then it freezes, it becomes more transparent and clean like this. lyubov studies in the bone-carving department of the college of arts,

and for the first time tries her hand at craftsmanship or cutting. title of the composition: frozen girl into the ice. it is necessary to look at it as if in 3d, that is , to know in advance where the cut will be, where the depression is, so that the nose, on the contrary, does not happen, so that it looks further. to create a sculpture, participants need many tools, shovels, drawing tools, buckets of water, hacksaws and chisels, but the main subject for... an architect, who devoted most of his life to the sculptural craft of painting, is not participating in the competition for the first time, the whole load is on top goes to the bottom here, so at the bottom there are usually heavy large parts, massive in shape, and the higher you go to the sky, that is, there are openwork, airy ones, 20 people compete for victory, on december 19 the names of the best sculptors will be announced, demi zhuravlev, alexey gilev, magadan news. this concludes our episode, oksana guvaeva was with you. all news is always

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receive the next issue of the magazine popular science, pick up the publication and freeze. bewilderment, readers are shocked by the editorial: it starts right on the cover, where the artists depicted two fantastic vehicles with aircraft propellers, one hanging in the air, the second plowing through a water barrier. the headline read: soviet superproject. the bolshevik government approved a plan for a grandiose construction project in turkestan. there in the country of deserts, salt marshes and mountain ranges. the bolsheviks decided to build a new highway, it would cross deserts and rivers, but the main sensation was that moving along these lines would be a completely new and hitherto unknown form of transport, an air train. aerotrain is a vehicle

which moves along the manorail due to the pushing force of the aircraft engine. a distinctive feature of the air train is its large passenger capacity and carrying capacity, which is combined with high speed and traffic safety. further, the authors of the publication add another portion of sensational details. the air train will be equipped with a diesel-electric power plant, which will accelerate the new vehicle to 180 mph, that is, almost 300 km. and finally, the most amazing thing, the air train will be able to cross the amu darya like a real amphibian. having approached the shore, the device will go down, enter the river, swim across it, on the other bank it will again rise to the monorail and continue moving further. in fact, this is what was depicted on the cover of the magazine. if

the bolsheviks manage to implement this project, then the soviets will be the first. in the world, a country in which a completely revolutionary type of transport will appear, and it was invented by an unknown soviet engineer sebastian waldner. the year was 1931. it was late autumn, the weather made people sad, but engineer sebastian it was easy for waldner to work in a stupor. he was finishing his next project, which, as the author was sure, would make people more mobile, which was what the era actually demanded. he had long been nurturing the idea of ​​creating a high-speed vehicle that would allow a person to move quickly and comfortably to any corner of the world. and finally, waldner succeeded, having made

the final touches to the working drawings, the engineer jumped out into the rain into the street, jumped into the tram and got off it. in the small cherkasy lane, where at that time the committee for affairs of inventions under the council of labor and defense. the committee was already waiting for waldner. it didn’t take long to defend the idea. the commission approved the project, which was called: a high-speed air train proposed by the soviet inventor sebastian sebastianovich waldner. the detailed development of a new vehicle was organized by a group of specialists under the leadership of the inventor. the group was located at the central institute of industrial constructions. so what did waltner propose? for that time his project seemed a real fantasy, and few people believed in it. indeed, the engineer proposed

a vehicle with only one rail, and hanging in the air. will move at a speed of 300 km/h and transport several dozen people, and this is only at the initial stage of the idea’s implementation, and then, as the inventor hoped, the trains will be able to carry several hundred people at a time with maximum comfort for passengers and minimal risk of being in an emergency situations. speed, comfort and safety were the main priority engineer waldner, what he sought to achieve in... after the capture of bastille on july 14, 1789, the waldner family fled france and found shelter in russia, settling

in vyshny volochyok. when sevastyan was 10 years old, his parents sent him to study at the imperial nikolaev tsarsko-selo men's gymnasium. the young high school student studied well, but in 1894 he was caught reading illegal literature. it was then that walda became imbued with revolutionary ideas, but at the same time came under police surveillance, and in 1899 he was even taken into custody. the revolutionary fervor of the future inventor quickly cooled down. in 1915, waldner was drafted into the army and sent to the front, where he was assigned to an automobile company. he became so interested in technology, motors and other mechanisms that together. with his commander named matison, he assembled a real armored matodrizin from various parts of his captured vehicles, without

drawings, purely intuitively. the armored tire was named matval, that is, matison waldner. the prototype was so successful that the inventor applied for serial assembly motorized tires, but to implement the idea of ​​mass production of armored vehicles on rails. it was possible after the revolution, when the brainchild of army auto mechanics was appreciated by the new government. however, waldner was already long overdue. the idea of ​​an air train came to the inventor back in the early twenties. it was then that waldner realized that a new revolutionary state needed a new revolutionary transport. only he will be able to quickly boost the economy and enable soviet people to move quickly and freely. across the vast expanses countries. the summer of 1933 arrived. it was hot, and many muscovites flocked to gorky park for the weekend. however, visitors

were in no hurry to hide from the scorching sun in the shade of trees. they walked to the embankment, where a circular overpass with straight curved sections almost half a kilometer long was built. the overpass could be seen from afar. the monarrail was laid on top of it, then. a structure resembling a peron, below under the peron there was a huge booth, there was a transformer in it, the transformer supplied electricity directly to monarors. come close there was no fence leading to the structure, but it was still clear that a strange apparatus was rushing along this structure at great speed. park visitors described this device as follows: two gondolas connected at the top, which sat on the monarail like a rider sitting on the saddle of a horse. from time to time the device stopped, a person approached it, inspected the gondolas, tightened something, turned something on and off. this was sebastian walder, he famously handled his creation,

that is, the same air train, but only a smaller copy of it. the model was 2.5 in length m, just over a meter wide. for propulsion , two electric motors with propellers were used, installed in the tail section of the side gondolas. accelerated the device to a speed of 120 km/h, which in 1933 was a world record for land transport. electricity was supplied to the rail; the external contours of the prototype body corresponded to the shape of a full-fledged air train. by the way, before the prototype of the aerotrain was launched in gorky park, it was blown into the air dyne several times.

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