when chideya starts training at 10 o'clock in the morning in st petersburg. it's 3 in the afternoon where the above lives some 4500 kilometers further east only by can. both live in russia the largest country in the world. but russia's true greatness it is said lies not in its area but in its people there are more than $146000000.00 russians each with a story to tell stories full of hope and joy of sadness and anger. cut. it was. a hit on our trip through this vast country we need 6 people from 6 different generations right now in the middle east each has much to tell about childhood and youth about working and growing old about life in big cities and in tiny villages about having children and about dying in russia. thank. our journey begins close to the ural mountains then we go to central siberia and on to northwestern russia. chelyabinsk is an industrial city halfway between moscow and novosibirsk. yelena is heading to a storage room to collect some things for the children in her care. nationally we have died is for all of them it can be good for mariska m