four hours away from there, they headed to an abandon russian city from the soviet era known as pyramirdinit was at one time a coal mining town that was completely abandoned in 1998. they meet this guy, his name is vladimir. vladimir is one of five people whose job it is to kind of monitor this town. he was given this rifle and he was sent to pyramidin. he spends long periods of time there and heads back home. >> wow, what a weird job and what a spooky job but cool. >> we've got vladimir, via skype, "right this minute" to talk to us about pyramidin. tell us about your job, how did you get this job, who are you working for and what do you do? >> this job, i found quite by accident. i saw the anaunsment on the internet that one russian company was looking for an english-speaking person to be a tourist guide in pyrymidin. i thought for fun to write a letter. on the next morning, at 9:00, i got the telephone call, started to talk with the boss. he told me, okay, i think you can go there and try to be a tourist guide there. i was given the rifle there. >> if you go grocery shopping four hours o