American Mormons Buy Russian Dead Souls for Afterlife Polygamy - Russian TV News
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It has turned out that MORMON POLYGAMISTS have been buying Russian dead souls since the early 90s. They literally buy them, for 7 cents per 5 names. The rumor has it, 15 to 20 million Russians have become Mormons postmortem. Why do Mormons need that? Zinaida Kurbatova tried to find the answer. Zinaida, good evening! Hello! Looks like a Gogol's story, doesn't it? It does. A short answer is that polygamy is widespread among Mormons. I will explain. Everyone remembers Dead Souls by Nikolai Gogol: Chichikov was planning to get a loan against serfs, purportedly alive, who were actually dead. Later, the fraud was exposed. So, why do American Mormons need Russian dead souls, when the sect's representatives claim not to be interested in money? It turns out that their faith recommends that Mormon men have more than one wife. Even if the woman passed away a long time ago, she could become a Mormon spouse. Roman Silantyev, religious expert: The Mormon elite, who get their own planets after death, constitute about 15% of the congregation. I mean, those who have gone through all the necessary ceremonies. So, the elite intends to solve the problem with polygamy somehow. They couldn't find any other way to do that but to marry the dead. They buy data in archives. Vitaly Semyonov, genealogist: Every church member is obliged to conduct personal and community genealogical research. In short, Mormons took Chichikov's wrong way, and they did it long ago. Since the early 90s, the visitors from Utah have tried to get the personal data of Russians who were born before the October Revolution, and they did that many times. Mormons requested many archives for scanned birth certificates of Russian Empire subjects, in exchange for electronic equipment. In Yekaterinburg, their request was denied. Mormons were told that the relatives of the departed might be against that. What is more, the archive specialists found that the contract was no more than an audacious fraud. Alexander Kapustin, chief archivist: When we read the contract, which we were supposed to sign, we found out that they were going to grant us the equipment only for the time to scan the papers. As soon as the scanning would have finished, they would have taken both data and equipment, and that's it. It's a fact, that Mormons requested all Russian archives back then, but we don't know if all the archives denied the requests. Maybe, some of them finally acquired the equipment and provided the data. Anyhow, Mormons were turned away in Arkhangelsk, too. They requested 7,000 files dating from the 1780s to 1917. Nikolai Shumilov, chief archivist: That insulted the feelings of the followers of the Russian Orthodox faith. They didn't want Mormons to proselytize all their ancestors, going back to 18th century. Russians show great interest in their ancestry, in the history of their families. Some visit archives themselves, others hire specialists, private genealogy experts. Archives are mostly under-funded, they are left to self-sustainment. How can an archive earn money? Exactly, by drawing up genealogical trees. But in this case, archives will have to monopolize this market, keeping both amateurs and professionals away from the files. Vitaly Semyonov, genealogist: That story about malicious Mormons has been around since 2005. It comes up every time when someone demands that certain archives should start working properly, that they should open the access to personal files for everyone, like other Russian archives have done at last. Some say, that Mormons haven't become more active than usual, but regional archives want us to believe they have, for they can deny personal access to files on that ground, saying they doubt you came to work for yourself, and suspect you of working for the Mormons. Since 2002, in Arkhangelsk, visitors have no other choice but to order the files and, at some point they get a printout, but not an original document. Some time ago, the court ruled that, starting from 2020, the Arkhangelsk regional archive must start to operate like all other archives around the country. It's not clear whether they will adapt to the new rules. So, genealogists assume that archives may benefit from Mormon attacks. Zinaida Kurbatova on Mormons and dead souls.
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Awarding Valery Kustov the Medal of the Russian Orthodox Church
In attention to the labors pro bono of the Russian Orthodox Church and Arkhangelsk-Kholmogory
eparchy, specialist of conventional medicine Valery Kustov is awarded the medal of the
Russian Orthodox Church of saint blessed prince Daniil of Moscow. Alexey II, Patriarch of Moscow and all Russia.
Valery Kustov: This award provides me with a capability and confidence in that I am still needed by you. I will always be near you and will help you which I have done for thirty years before.
HISTORICAL PLACES OF RUSSIA IN GOOGLE EARTH PART SEVEN ( 7/9 )
TEMPLE GREGORY NEOKESARIYSKOGO,MOSCOW 55°44'15.35N 37°37'9.45E
ARMENIAN CHURH,VLADIKAVKAZ 43° 1'20.54N 44°40'53.35E
PAVILION HERMITAGE, PUSHKIN 59°42'48.65N 30°24'12.29E
RIVERSKY BRIDGE, SOCHI 43°35'13.31N 39°42'58.76E
VOLOGDA, RUSSIA 59°15'44.04N 39°53'22.90E
MOSCOW STATE UNIVERSITY 55°42'10.95N 37°31'51.77E
SAMARA MOSQUE, SAMARA 53°13'47.87N 50°12'26.00E
WINDMILL,VORONIY OSTROV,KIZHI ISLAND 62° 4'56.09N 35°13'11.70E
CASTLE ST. MICHAEL'S,ST.PETERSBURG 59°56'25.38N 30°20'16.35E
SPASSKY CATHEDRAL,NIZHNY NOVGOROD 56°19'47.42N 43°59'53.26E
TEMPLE OF RESURRECTION,MOSCOW 55°44'16.67N 37°40'11.46E
SOFIA CATHEDRAL,PUSHKIN 59°42'18.96N 30°23'37.08E
CONQUERORS OF SPACE,MOSCOW 55°49'21.85N 37°38'22.57E
CHURCH OF NERLI,VLADIMIR 56°11'45.20N 40°33'41.63E
WORKER & COLLECTIVE FARM,MOSCOW 55°49'41.78N 37°38'48.10E
CHESME COLUMN, PUSHKIN 59°42'36.10N 30°23'37.15E
THE ARCHANGEL MICHAEL CHAPEL,KISHI ISLAND 62° 3'48.42N 35°13'32.98E
THE WINTER PALACE,ST.PETERSBURG 59°56'25.30N 30°18'49.30E
TURKISH BATH, PUSHKIN 59°42'34.20N 30°23'26.89E
ANCIENT CATHEDRALS, MOSCOW 55°45'2.68N 37°37'2.62E
Tour: The military museums of Moscow
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We would like to bring to your attention the winner tour in the nomination “The Best Military-Historical Route of Russia 2018”: Moscow Military Museums.
The idea of development of this route occurred due to the increased interest in Russia and the Russian army.
For this tour we have chosen the most interesting interactive objects, museums and exhibitions, where tourists can touch, hear and try what the Russian army of different eras is.
Group tours from 10 tourists.
The tour is in English, on request we can arrange a tour in other European languages.
The tour includes:
Transfer from and to the airport
Accommodation in double rooms in 4 star hotels. (on request we can offer 5 stars) with breakfast.
Arrival day: Arrival to Moscow, check-in at the hotel
Day 1: A short tour of the Moscow Metro
Excursion to the Bunker-42. A stronghold of resistance in the Cold War. The Bunker is 65 meters underground. You can see an imitation of a nuclear attack, as well as feel the anxiety and tension of a nuclear confrontation. We will visit Stalin’s office where you can take a picture.
Lunch. There is the most underground restaurant in Moscow in the Bunker-42, where tourists can try dishes from the menu of the Politburo of the USSR (lunch is not included in the price of the excursion and is paid separately $10-30)
The “Submarine” Museum
We will visit a real submarine, which was recently in service with the Northern fleet. A huge nine-meter submarine “Novosibirsky Komsomolets” was converted into a museum of the Russian submarine fleet and reveals all the secrets of the life of brave submariners. In addition to the submarine, the tour includes a visit to the landing boat.
Day 2:
The Memorial Museum on Poklonnaya Hill.
The world’s largest memorial complex dedicated to 26 million Soviet citizens who died in World War II.
Lunch at a fish restaurant (lunch is not included in the price of the excursion and is paid separately $20-30)
Exhibition of military equipment in the open air: a unique collection of all types of equipment from World War II. You can touch and climb many of the exhibits.
If you wish, you can visit the Church of Saint George, Memorial Mosque, Memorial Synagogue and Holocaust Museum
Day 3:
The Central Armed Forces Museum of the Russian Federation is the world’s largest military museum. More than 800,000 exhibits, banners, trophies, animation, prototypes.
Open-air exhibition
Return to the hotel and packing
We move from Moscow to Moscow Region.
Sightseeing tour of the Moscow Night Lights
Day 4:
Patriot Park. Exhibition of the Russian Aerospace Forces, the exhibition of Russian troops’ activities in Syria. Interactive military classes and games at your discretion.
For lunch we offer field kitchen or Russian shashlik
Day 5:
Borodino Field: the world’s largest museum on the battlefield. The battlefield of two wars (the War with Napoleon of 1812 and World War II).
Presentation of souvenirs
Transfer to the airport
Bulgaria: Bulgaria mourns victims of St. Pete metro blast at Russian Orthodox Church
A mass to commemorate the victims of Monday's deadly metro blast in St. Petersburg was held at the Saint Nikolay Russian orthodox church in Sofia, Tuesday. Russian Ambassador Anatoly Makarov was in attendance during the service.
Anatoly Makarov, Russian Ambassador to Bulgaria (Russian): For what it concerns Bulgaria, I sincerely thank all who expressed their condolences to our embassy, for all the flowers put on the embassy's fence - it affects us. It shows us that you, Bulgarians are with us. And a great cordial thank you for that.
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Russia: Five Moscow cemeteries launch free electric car service for visitors
A free transport service has been launched at five cemeteries in and around Moscow where electric cars carry attendees to plot areas of their choosing. Users tried out the service at Nikolo-Arkhangelsk cemetery in Balashikha on Sunday.
SOT Nina Vasilievna, Veteran (Russian): They take us there on these micro buses. It's wonderful because I'm a disabled second group and always when I come, this car takes me there and brings me back.
SOT Valentina Novikova, Pensioner (Russian): I want to thank our Mayor of Moscow, (Sergei) Sobyanin, for the good organisation of our trip to the cemetery. It is also very good. We are very satisfied that these cars were allowed here. It is difficult to walk [and] we are already old people. We can sit down and drive up to our site. It is very good. So, thank you very much for that.
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The life os Saint JOHN OF KRONSTADT part 2 out of 4
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Saint John of Krosntadt
Saint John of Kronstadt (Russian: Иоанн Кронштадтский) (October 19, 1829, Sura, Arkhangelsk--December 20, 1908, Kronstadt) was a Russian Orthodox Christian presbyter and a member of the synod of the Russian Orthodox Church. He was a striking, unconventional personality, deeply pious and immensely energetic. He was one of the most internationally famous and beloved Orthodox Christian leaders of his time.
He was born as Ivan Ilyich Sergiyev (Russian: Иван Ильич Сергиев) on 19 October 1829 at Sura, near the White Sea, in Russia.
From 1855 he worked as a priest in Saint Andrew's Cathedral, Kronstadt, the naval base on the outskirts of St Petersburg. Here he committed himself to charity, especially to those who were remote from the Church, and travelled extensively throughout the Russian empire. He was a member of the conservative Union of the Russian People, but did not commit himself politically.
In the early 1890s Father John became well known, and people from all over Russia came to him every day in thousands.[1] The bishops treated him with high respect.[2] He was already greatly venerated at the time he died, on 20 December 1908.
In 1909 Nicholas II wrote an order [3] to establish commemoration of St John in the Church. Following it the Holy Synod issued an edict to commemorate Father John annually at the day of his death.
He was canonized by the Russian Orthodox Church Outside Russia in 1964, and by the Russian Orthodox Church in 1990. Archbishop John Maximovitch of Shanghai and San Francisco (later glorified as a Saint, as well) played an active role in preparation of St. John's canonization.[4] His life and work are commemorated on the feast days of December 20[5][6] and October 19.[7]
Many churches around the world and Ioannovsky Convent, the second largest monastic community in St Petersburg are dedicated to John of Kronstadt.
Religion in Russia
Religion in Russia is diverse, with a 1997 law naming Christianity, Islam, Buddhism, and Judaism as important in Russian history. Orthodox Christianity (Russian: Православие Pravoslaviye) is Russia's traditional and largest religion, deemed a part of Russia's historical heritage in a law passed in 1997. Russian Orthodoxy is the dominant religion in Russia. About 95% of the registered Orthodox parishes belong to the Russian Orthodox Church while there are a number of smaller Orthodox Churches. However, the vast majority of Orthodox believers do not attend church on a regular basis.
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Russia: Bodies of the deceased to be returned 'in next few days' - St. Petersburg ViceGov
Vice Governor of St. Petersburg Igor Albin informed the press of the latest developments in the Kogalymavia plane crash, in St. Petersburg, Saturday
SOT, Igor Albin, Vice Governor of St. Petersburg (Russian): 224 people have died including seven crew members. The geography affected 13 regions of Russia and two neighbouring states, Belarus and Ukraine. In particular, 174 people from the St. Petersburg region have died. Among the deceased are also citizens of Novgorod, the Republic of Udmurtia, Karelia, Altai region, Smolensk region, Sverlovsk region, Arkhangelsk region, from the Krasnoyarsk, Tyumen and Volgograd regions. Unfortunately, 25 children are also among the dead. *JUMP CUT AT SOURCE*
cSOT, Igor Albin, Vice Governor of St. Petersburg (Russian): We expect that four EMERCOM planes, which are being used to dispatch experts and for delivering the remains of victims, will deliver all bodies of the deceased within the next few days. *JUMP CUT AT SOURCE*
SOT, Igor Albin, Vice Governor of St. Petersburg (Russian): The main thing is that we managed to establish all places of residence of all victims of the crash thanks to the joint work of EMERCOM and the Federal Migration Service. We are in contact with all those subjects of the Federation, where the victims resided. *JUMP CUT AT SOURCE*
SOT, Igor Albin, Vice Governor of St. Petersburg (Russian): 106 genetic samples were extracted. These are samples of 126 passengers of the unsuccessful plane and the deceased people. This is connected to the fact that multiple family members of the same families were on the crashed plane. The work is in progress. Today, relatives of the victims from other regions are arriving in St. Petersburg. They are hosted in the Crowne Plaza hotel. We have reserved around 100 suites and the extraction of genetic data will continue throughout the night and tomorrow in the morning in accordance with the arrivals of the relatives of the victims. *JUMP CUT AT SOURCE*
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The life os Saint JOHN OF KRONSTADT part 3 out of 4
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Saint John of Krosntadt
Saint John of Kronstadt (Russian: Иоанн Кронштадтский) (October 19, 1829, Sura, Arkhangelsk--December 20, 1908, Kronstadt) was a Russian Orthodox Christian presbyter and a member of the synod of the Russian Orthodox Church. He was a striking, unconventional personality, deeply pious and immensely energetic. He was one of the most internationally famous and beloved Orthodox Christian leaders of his time.
He was born as Ivan Ilyich Sergiyev (Russian: Иван Ильич Сергиев) on 19 October 1829 at Sura, near the White Sea, in Russia.
From 1855 he worked as a priest in Saint Andrew's Cathedral, Kronstadt, the naval base on the outskirts of St Petersburg. Here he committed himself to charity, especially to those who were remote from the Church, and travelled extensively throughout the Russian empire. He was a member of the conservative Union of the Russian People, but did not commit himself politically.
In the early 1890s Father John became well known, and people from all over Russia came to him every day in thousands.[1] The bishops treated him with high respect.[2] He was already greatly venerated at the time he died, on 20 December 1908.
In 1909 Nicholas II wrote an order [3] to establish commemoration of St John in the Church. Following it the Holy Synod issued an edict to commemorate Father John annually at the day of his death.
He was canonized by the Russian Orthodox Church Outside Russia in 1964, and by the Russian Orthodox Church in 1990. Archbishop John Maximovitch of Shanghai and San Francisco (later glorified as a Saint, as well) played an active role in preparation of St. John's canonization.[4] His life and work are commemorated on the feast days of December 20[5][6] and October 19.[7]
Many churches around the world and Ioannovsky Convent, the second largest monastic community in St Petersburg are dedicated to John of Kronstadt.
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Tourism in Saint Petersburg Russia
Tourism in Saint Petersburg Russia - Best Tourist Attractions
Saint Petersburg is Russia's second-largest city after Moscow, with 5 million inhabitants in 2012, part of the Saint Petersburg agglomeration with a population of 6.2 million (2015). An important Russian port on the Baltic Sea, it has a status of a federal subject (a federal city).
Situated on the Neva River, at the head of the Gulf of Finland on the Baltic Sea, it was founded by Tsar Peter the Great on 27 May [O.S. 16 May] 1703. On 1 September 1914, the name was changed from Saint Petersburg to Petrograd, on 26 January 1924 to Leningrad, and on 1 October 1991 back to its original name. During the periods 1713–1728 and 1732–1918, Saint Petersburg was the capital of Imperial Russia. In 1918, the central government bodies moved to Moscow, which is about 625 km (388 miles) to the south-east.
Saint Petersburg is one of the most modern cities of Russia, as well as its cultural capital. The Historic Centre of Saint Petersburg and Related Groups of Monuments constitute a UNESCO World Heritage Site. Saint Petersburg is home to the Hermitage, one of the largest art museums in the world. Many foreign consulates, international corporations, banks and businesses have offices in Saint Petersburg.
Saint Petersburg has a significant historical and cultural heritage.
The 18th and 19th-century architectural ensemble of the city and its environs is preserved in virtually unchanged form. For various reasons (including large-scale destruction during World War II and construction of modern buildings during the postwar period in the largest historical centers of Europe), Saint Petersburg has become a unique reserve of European architectural styles of the past three centuries. Saint Petersburg's loss of capital city status helped the city to retain many of its pre-revolutionary buildings, as modern architectural 'prestige projects' tended to be built in Moscow; this largely prevented the rise of mid-to-late-20th-century architecture and helped maintain the architectural appearance of the historic city center.
Saint Petersburg is inscribed on the UNESCO World Heritage list as an area with 36 historical architectural complexes and around 4000 outstanding individual monuments of architecture, history and culture. New tourist programs and sightseeing tours have been developed for those wishing to see Saint Petersburg's cultural heritage.
The city has 221 museums, 2000 libraries, more than 80 theaters, 100 concert organizations, 45 galleries and exhibition halls, 62 cinemas and around 80 other cultural establishments. Every year the city hosts around 100 festivals and various competitions of art and culture, including more than 50 international ones.
Despite the economic instability of the 1990s, not a single major theatre or museum was closed in Saint Petersburg; on the contrary many new ones opened, for example a private museum of puppets (opened in 1999) is the third museum of its kind in Russia, where collections of more than 2000 dolls are presented including 'The multinational Saint Petersburg' and 'Pushkin's Petersburg'. The museum world of Saint Petersburg is incredibly diverse. The city is not only home to the world-famous Hermitage Museum and the Russian Museum with its rich collection of Russian art, but also the palaces of Saint Petersburg and its suburbs, so-called small town museums and others like the museum of famous Russian writer Dostoyevsky; Museum of Musical Instruments, the museum of decorative arts and the museum of professional orientation.
The musical life of Saint Petersburg is rich and diverse, with the city now playing host to a number of annual carnivals.
Ballet performances occupy a special place in the cultural life of Saint Petersburg. The Petersburg School of Ballet is named as one of the best in the world. Traditions of the Russian classical school have been passed down from generation to generation among outstanding educators. The art of famous and prominent Saint Petersburg dancers like Rudolf Nureyev, Natalia Makarova, Mikhail Baryshnikov was, and is, admired throughout the world. Contemporary Petersburg ballet is made up not only of traditional Russian classical school, but also ballets by those like Boris Eifman, who expanded the scope of strict classical Russian ballet to almost unimaginable limits. Remaining faithful to the classical basis (he was a choreographer at the Vaganova Academy of Russian Ballet), he combined classical ballet with the avant-garde style, and then, in turn, with acrobatics, rhythmic gymnastics, dramatic expressiveness, cinema, color, light, and finally with spoken word.
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Christmas flash mob at Mall RIO, St. Petersburg, Russia 12/22/2012
A Christmas flash mob at the Mall RIO, Saint-Petersburg, Russia on 12/22/2012. Performed by people from different churches of Saint-Petersburg to bring the precious message of Christmas to Mall RIO shoppers. Рождественский флешмоб, проходивший в Санкт-Петербурге 22.12.2012 в ТРК РИО, Во флешмобе принимали участие люди из разных церквей Санкт-Петербурга, чтобы донести чудесное послание о Рождестве до покупателей, бывших в ТРК РИО.
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The life os Saint JOHN OF KRONSTADT part 1 out of 4
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Saint John of Krosntadt
Saint John of Kronstadt (Russian: Иоанн Кронштадтский) (October 19, 1829, Sura, Arkhangelsk--December 20, 1908, Kronstadt) was a Russian Orthodox Christian presbyter and a member of the synod of the Russian Orthodox Church. He was a striking, unconventional personality, deeply pious and immensely energetic. He was one of the most internationally famous and beloved Orthodox Christian leaders of his time.
He was born as Ivan Ilyich Sergiyev (Russian: Иван Ильич Сергиев) on 19 October 1829 at Sura, near the White Sea, in Russia.
From 1855 he worked as a priest in Saint Andrew's Cathedral, Kronstadt, the naval base on the outskirts of St Petersburg. Here he committed himself to charity, especially to those who were remote from the Church, and travelled extensively throughout the Russian empire. He was a member of the conservative Union of the Russian People, but did not commit himself politically.
In the early 1890s Father John became well known, and people from all over Russia came to him every day in thousands.[1] The bishops treated him with high respect.[2] He was already greatly venerated at the time he died, on 20 December 1908.
In 1909 Nicholas II wrote an order [3] to establish commemoration of St John in the Church. Following it the Holy Synod issued an edict to commemorate Father John annually at the day of his death.
He was canonized by the Russian Orthodox Church Outside Russia in 1964, and by the Russian Orthodox Church in 1990. Archbishop John Maximovitch of Shanghai and San Francisco (later glorified as a Saint, as well) played an active role in preparation of St. John's canonization.[4] His life and work are commemorated on the feast days of December 20[5][6] and October 19.[7]
Many churches around the world and Ioannovsky Convent, the second largest monastic community in St Petersburg are dedicated to John of Kronstadt.
The Youth of Peter the Great (1980) movie
The movie tells about youth of Peter the Great, about formation of his nature and about the immediate circle. The tsar resolutely refuses a number of patriarchal values and aims to propel the country he loves and to which he is devoted with all his youthful ardour, to the most educated ones.
The Youth of Peter the Great (1980) movie
Genres: Biography, Drama, History
Production Co: Gorky Film Studio
Directed by Sergey Gerasimov
Writing Credits: Sergey Gerasimov, Yuri Kavtaradze, Aleksei Tolstoy (novel)
Music by Vladimir Martynov
Cinematography by Sergey Filippov, Horst Hardt
Production Design by Boris Dulenkov, Jochen Keller, Aleksandr Popov
Costume Design by Ella Maklakova
Cast:
Dmitriy Zolotukhin as Peter the Great
Tamara Makarova as Natalya Kirillovna Naryshkina
Natalya Bondarchuk as Sophya
Nikolay Eryomenko as Aleksandr Menshikov
Oleg Strizhenov as Vassily Golitzyn
Vadim Spiridonov as Fedor Shaklovityi
Mikhail Nozhkin as Boris Golitzin
Peter Reusse as Franz Lefort
Ulrike Mai as Anna Mons
Yuriy Moroz as Aleksey Brovkin
Eduard Bocharov as Ivan Brovkin
Lyubov Polekhina as Aleksandra Brovkina
Lyubov Germanova as Yevdokia Lopukhina
Roman Filippov as Fedor Romodanovskyi
Lidiya Fedoseeva-Shukshina
Olegar Fedoro as Monk
Pyotr Glebov
Nikolay Grinko as Nektaryi
Hannjo Hasse
Rolf Hoppe
Vladimir Kashpur
Aleksandr Komarov as Brovkin
Marina Levtova
Vitaliy Matveev as Iuda
Klaus-Peter Pleßow
Helmut Schreiber
Yekaterina Vasilyeva
75th Anniversary of the arrival in Murmansk - Commander AJ ‘Nat’ Gould, Royal - Short
75 years ago, on August 31, 1941, in Arkhangelsk moored transports the first allied convoy received the code name Dervish, with military supplies for fighting with Nazi Germany, the Soviet Union.August 12, 1941 Dervish, which consisted of six British and one Danish ship, secretly left the English Liverpool. The holds were mines, bombs, small arms, food, medicine, wool and much needed in our industry rubber. In addition, transports were carrying trucks and 16 Hurricane fighters disassembled. All this is equally distributed to the courts, to the loss of any of them did not lead to the complete destruction of any kind of cargo. Escorts were air defense ship, the destroyer, and five armed trawlers. The caravan went to Iceland. After a brief parking in hawala Fjord, where the escort trawlers replaced destroyers and minesweepers, 21 August Dervish headed for Archangel. Out in the ocean, and a cover unit, which accounted for an aircraft carrier, two cruisers and three destroyers.Going first allied convoys in the Soviet port took ten days and ended safely. Arkhangelsk, in spite of the alarming situation on the Soviet-German front, the Allies organized an enthusiastic meeting.Reverse allied convoy, joined by eight Soviet ships, left our port on 29 September. On the same day from Iceland came next, to get to Arkhangelsk on 11 October. Prior to January 1942 and Arkhangelsk Molotovsk (now Severodvinsk) took seven convoys composed of 56 transports. In the future, the main place of their unloading became Murmansk.All the years of the Great Patriotic War in the northern ports of the Soviet Union went 41 Allied convoy of 811 ships, of which achieved the goal of 720, 58 were killed during the transition and 33 for various reasons, we have returned to the departure ports. The 37 reverse convoys of 715 courts in England and Iceland profits 680. 29 enemy transports sunk, eight were forced to turn back. The bulk of the lost transports owned by the United States and England, only nine went under the Soviet flag.Total Arctic convoys delivered to our country of about 4 million tons of cargo, which accounted for 22.7% of the total supply of the Western allies.
RUSSIA: ORPHANAGE 26 ONE OF THE BEST HOMES IN RUSSIA
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The number of abandoned children in Russia is on the rise.
But while the statistics are up, funding is down, meaning most of Russia's parentless children languish in government homes in the most terrible of conditions.
But one orphanage in Moscow has done an amazing job in creating a suitable home for the unwanted.
Orphanage Number 26 is doing its best to change the way Russian homes are run and make a difference in the lives of the little ones they care for.
Abandoned by their parents, these little children don't know how lucky they are to be enjoying the comforts of Moscow's Orphanage Number 26.
Definitely one of the capital's best institution for the parentless, Orphanage Number 26 may even be one of the best homes in all of Russia.
A recent report released by Human Rights Watch put the number of abandoned children in Russia at more than 200,000 - a good percentage of which reside in crumbling and under funded institutions that encourage little learning.
But here at Number 26, teachers and administrators have created a cosy and near ideal environment for their young charges.
With the children living in groups of between 5 and 8 - and an active and varied programme to stimulate both mind and body - orphanage No. 26 is setting the example all across Russia.
Official statistics show that the number of children put in state custody has doubled over the past five years and with the Russian economy in a downward spiral experts expect that number to keep rising.
Unlike orphans in the US or Europe, most of the children in Russia's orphanages do actually have parents still alive - but who are unfit to care for them -- the majority of them victims of alcohol abuse, violence and sheer poverty.
An overwhelming number of children at Orphanage No. 26 spent many unhappy years with abusive parents before they were either seized by the state or abandoned on the street by their parents.
Ten year old Alexei Babkov was finally committed to an orphanage at the age of eight after his parents drank themselves into oblivion.
For Alexei, as for the rest of Russia's orphans, there is almost no chance that his parents will ever reclaim him.
SOUNDBITE: (Russian)
My parents were drunkards and they abandoned me when I was nine, no actually when I was eight, they drank vodka too much and just left me. Eventually a woman came and told them that their son will be taken away.
SUPER CAPTION: Alexei Babkov, 10 year old orphan
While the conditions at this orphanage are commendable, the majority of Russian children's' institutions are infamous for their poverty and inefficiency.
Human Rights Watch found tens of thousands of Russian children confined in brutal conditions, deprived of rights as fundamental and basic as food and free movement.
Many of Russia's abandoned children are wrongly classified as mentally or physically disabled - thus ensuring they enter the virtually inescapable cycle of medication, abuse and confinement.
While lack of finances is definitely at the root of the problem, some child experts in Russia say that many orphanages could be run more effectively -- even on the meagre funds they are allotted.
SOUNDBITE: (Russian)
Our orphanage is perhaps better than others not so much because the economic situation but because of our personnel -- its the correct choice of people working with the kids. I wouldn't say that for instance we get more funding than another orphanage, it is just what we do with them.
SUPER CAPTION: Marina Nikinova, Director of Orphanage, No. 26
Russia's political and economic turmoil have taken a heavy toll on families.
Officials now say that more than 100,000 Russian children are abandoned each year.
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