Angarsk City Museum

Museum houses over 2,000 clocks from around the world

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A museum in the eastern Russian city of Angarsk holds an impressive collection of clocks and watches from around the world.
Among its exhibits is a clock that once journeyed to outer space.

STORY-LINE:
The Angarsk Clock Museum holds a collection of timepieces from across the world.
This year the clock museum celebrates its 50th anniversary.
It is filled with the ticking of hands, the sound of bells, the movement of pendulums and memories of times past.
Looking at every clock, you understand that there is a story behind each clock, somebody's destiny, a generation, and I wanted to say that this is our history, the history of Russia, and it's great, says Ivan Svyachenko, who is visiting the museum.
It houses a unique collection of about two thousand exhibits - clocks and watches -  from a range of eras.
I understand what a concentration of history it is here, it is very impressive, says visitor Yulia Tretyakova.
The collection includes exhibits from the 18th and 19th centuries, considered the heyday of European clockmaking.
Richly decorated clocks were then an indispensable part of any interior.
The museum curator Bairma Bartanova is looking at an exhibit that is typical of that era.
This clock is made of such materials as rosewood, bronze, enamel, and tortoise-shell. The clock itself is quite massive, in various literature this kind of clock is named religieuse, she says.  
Such clocks were used for decorating mansions and palaces, and they appeared during the reign of Louis XIV, when he was building Versailles.
Other exhibits come from Western Europe, Russia and Japan, in cases made of bronze and marble, porcelain and wood.
The museum was opened in 1969, by founder, Pavel Kurdyukov, who had been building his own private collection for 50 years, before donating it to the museum.
Kurdyukov was interested in clock mechanisms.
He repaired clocks and built his own creations.
He sometimes added watches to different objects, such as replacing the mirror this girl figurine was holding with a miniature watch.
The museum's first 200 items were donated by Kurdyukov, after he suggested the opening of a clock museum to the city authorities.
The collection has grown considerably since then.
A clock used in space was donated to the museum by a cosmonaut Georgy Grechko.
He presented the clock to the museum in 1976 following a flight at the Soviet orbital station Salyut-6 .
You can't buy such a clock in a store, it was developed in the design office taking into account all the difficult conditions, Bartanova explains.
Visitors often donate their own clocks after visiting the museum.
This year a German collector gave the museum his private collection of over 170 watches of Soviet origin, made between 1930s and 1960s.
According to the museum, Johannes Altmeppen's collection is very valuable because the watches were made in the early years of production by the Soviet Union's first watch enterprises.
Altmeppen's collection is being documented and opened to the public October 25, 2019.

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Russia/Irkuts (Babr:Symbol of Irkutsk-130th Quarter) Part 25

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A monument to the Babr is located exactly in the beginning of 130th District (a Siberian tiger on coat of arms of Irkutsk).
Bronze figure of a mythical beast Babr (Siberian Tiger), carrying the sable in his mouth The Personage of the Coat of Arms of Irkutsk. A monument symbol of Irkutsk.The Coat of Arms.
The coat of arms of Irkutsk features an old symbol of Dauria: a Siberian tiger with a sable in his mouth. When the coat of arms was devised in 1690, the animal was described as a tiger (Babr, a bookish word of Persian derivation) with a sable in his mouth.
This image had been used by the Yakutsk customs office from about 1642. It has its origin in a seal of the Siberia Khanate representing a sable and showcasing the fact that Siberia (or rather Yugra) was the main source of sable fur throughout the Middle Ages. (Actually, the English word sable is derived from the Russian sobol).
By the mid-19th century, the word babr had fallen out of common usage, but it was still recorded in the Armorial of the Russian Empire.
Furthermore, the tigers became extinct in this part of Siberia. In the 1870s, a high-placed French heraldist with a limited command of Russian assumed that Babr was a misspelling of bobr, the Russian word for beaver, and changed the wording accordingly.
This modification engendered a long dispute between the local authorities, who were so confused by the revised description that they started to depict the Babr as a fabulous animal, half-tiger and half-beaver.The Soviets abolished the image altogether, but it was restored following the dissolution of the Soviet Union.
Coats of arms came into general use by feudal lords and knights in battle in the 12th Century. By the 13th Century arms had spread beyond their initial battlefield use to become a kind of flag or logo for families in the higher social classes of Europe, inherited from one generation to the next.
Exactly who had a right to use arms, by law or social convention, varied to some degree between countries. In the German-speaking region both the aristocracy and burghers (non-noble free citizens) used arms, while in most of the rest of Europe they were limited to the aristocracy.
The use of arms spread to Church clergy, and to towns as civic identifiers, and to royally-chartered organizations such as universities and trading companies. Flags developed from coats of arms, and the arts of vexillology and heraldry are closely related. The coats of arms granted to commercial companies are a major source of the modern logo.
130th District:
On the territory of what is now the 130th District Irkutsk people began to build houses in the early XVIII century. At that time, the land was out of Irkutsk and developed by rural type. All the buildings were made of wood, the area remained unimproved, so by the beginning of the XX century houses among the stone buildings adjacent areas consist of small villages than monuments. In 2008, for the 350th anniversary of Irkutsk it was decided on the basis of the 130th District to create a special historical area. The project to create the Irkutsk Sloboda (the modern name of the quarter) was approved at the level of the regional government. In late March 2010 began the resettlement of residents of old and dilapidated houses, rapidly underwent restoration of cultural heritage quarter and construction lost monuments. In September 2011 - in the anniversary of Irkutsk - Sloboda took its first guests. At the site of the old barracks of poorly with sloppy brownfield sites in the center of the capital appeared Priangarye noteworthy quarter with neat cobblestone promenade, beautiful historic mansions, museums, restaurants and infrastructure.

WRAP Chinese President meets Putin, plus war memorial

1. Pan from Russian Orthodox church to museum complex on Poklonnaya Hill
2. Pan from statue to group of people inside museum
3. Wide shot of Hu Jintao and wife with officials
4. Cutaway of bronze bust
5. Mid shot of museum guide with Hu Jintao and translator
6. Cutaway of sculpture
7. Various Kremlin exteriors
8. Security officer opening doors and President Vladimir Putin and Chairman Hu taking seats in chairs
9. Cameramen
10. Vladimir Putin addressing Hu
11. Putin and Hu
12. Chairman Hu addressing Putin
13. Vladimir Putin and Russian Foreign minister listening
14. Chairman Hu
15. Pan of Vladimir Putin and Hu Jintao entering ceremony hall
16. Cameramen
17. Putin and Hu signing document
18. SOUNDBITE (Chinese) Hu Jintao, Chinese President:
We have just agreed with Vladimir Putin that we will continue to develop and strengthen the historic Sino-Russian relations in all spheres of life by adjusting ourselves to the changes and developments that are happening in the world.
19. SOUNDBITE (Russian) Vladimir Putin, Russian President:
Last year we provided China with three million tons of oil. We are eager to increase this amount. We are considering a draft for the construction of oil and gas pipelines from Russian territory to the People's Republic of China.
20. Camerawoman
21. Chinese and Russian leaders thanking audience and leaving hall

STORYLINE:

Chinese President Hu Jintao and Russian President Vladimir Putin reaffirmed the so-called strategic partnership between their nations on Tuesday and called for a central role for the United Nations in rebuilding Iraq.

Hu arrived in the Russian capital on Monday and met with Putin at the Russian leader's Novo-Ogaryovo residence outside Moscow - an informal setting Putin said emphasised their personal relationship.

Putin has already had several meetings with Hu - the last in December - shortly after he replaced Jiang as the Communist Party chief.

China has pushed strongly for an oil pipeline to bring crude from Angarsk in eastern Siberia to the Chinese city of Daqing.

However Russia has dragged its feet on the issue, also considering a rival, Japanese-backed proposal to lay the pipeline to the Russian port of Nakhodka on the Sea of Japan.

The Russian government has sought to satisfy both China and Japan by offering a compromise that envisions building the pipeline to Nakhodka with an extension built first to Daqing.

The pipeline would eventually pump 1.6 (m) million barrels of oil a day.

Putin was noncommittal on Tuesday, saying pipeline routes need to be discussed by experts.

Later this week, the two leaders will take part in a Moscow summit of the Shanghai Cooperation Organization, a six-nation group that also includes four ex-Soviet Central Asian republics.

Hu is also scheduled to attend weekend festivities marking the 300th anniversary of St. Petersburg, Russia's former imperial capital.


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Russia/Irkuts (Walking tour-Kirov Square) Part 21

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Irkutsk
Irkutsk (Russian: Иркутск; IPA: [ɪrˈkutsk]) is a city and the administrative center of Irkutsk Oblast, Russia, and one of the largest cities in Siberia. Population:650.000
The city proper lies on the Angara River, a tributary of the Yenisei, 72 kilometers (45 mi) below its outflow from Lake Baikal and on the bank opposite the suburb of Glaskovsk. The river, 580-meter (1,900 ft) wide, is crossed by the Irkutsk Hydroelectric Dam and three other bridges downstream.
The Irkut River, from which the town takes its name, is a smaller river that joins the Angara directly opposite the city. The main portion of the city is separated from several landmarks—the monastery, the fort and the port, as well as its suburbs—by another tributary, the Ida (or Ushakovka) River. The two main parts of Irkutsk are customarily referred to as the left bank and the right bank, with respect to the flow of the Angara River.Irkutsk is situated in a landscape of rolling hills within the thick taiga that is typical in Eastern Siberia.
According to the regional plan, Irkutsk city will be combined with its neighboring industrial towns of Shelekhov and Angarsk to form a metropolitan area with a total population of over a million.
Irkutsk is the administrative center of the oblast and, within the framework of administrative divisions, it also serves as the administrative center of Irkutsky District, even though it is not a part of it. As an administrative division, it is incorporated separately as the City of Irkutsk an administrative unit with the status equal to that of the districts.[citation needed] As a municipal division, the City of Irkutsk is incorporated as Irkutsk Urban Okrug.
The coat of arms of Irkutsk features an old symbol of Dauria: a Siberian tiger with a sable in his mouth. When the coat of arms was devised in 1690, the animal was described as a tiger (babr, a bookish word of Persian derivation) with a sable in his mouth. This image had been used by the Yakutsk customs office from about 1642. It has its origin in a seal of the Siberia Khanate representing a sable and showcasing the fact that Siberia (or rather Yugra) was the main source of sable fur throughout the Middle Ages. (Actually, the English word sable is derived from the Russian sobol).
By the mid-19th century, the word babr had fallen out of common usage, but it was still recorded in the Armorial of the Russian Empire. Furthermore, the tigers became extinct in this part of Siberia. In the 1870s, a high-placed French heraldist with a limited command of Russian assumed that babr was a misspelling of bobr, the Russian word for beaver, and changed the wording accordingly. This modification engendered a long dispute between the local authorities, who were so confused by the revised description that they started to depict the babr as a fabulous animal, half-tiger and half-beaver.The Soviets abolished the image altogether, but it was restored following the dissolution of the Soviet Union.
Important roads and railways like the Trans-Siberian Highway (Federal M53 and M55 Highways) and Trans-Siberian Railway connect Irkutsk to other regions in Russia and Mongolia. The city is also served by the Irkutsk International Airport and the smaller Irkutsk Northwest Airport.
The Federal road and railway to Moscow and Vladivostok pass through the other side of the Angara River from central Irkutsk.
Trams are one major mode of public transit in Irkutsk. Other modes are trolleybus, bus, and fixed-route taxi, cycling (marshrutka). Irkutsk is characterized by an extreme variation of temperatures between seasons. It can be very warm in the summer, and very cold in the winter. However, Lake Baikal has a tempering effect thanks to which temperatures in Irkutsk are not as extreme as elsewhere in Siberia. The warmest month of the year is July, when the average temperature is +18 °C (64 °F), the highest temperature recorded being +37.2 °C (99.0 °F). The coldest month of the year is January, when the average temperature is −18 °C (0 °F), and record low of −49.7 °C (−57.5 °F). Precipitation also varies widely throughout the year, with July also being the wettest month, when precipitation averages 113 millimeters (4.4 in). The driest month is February, when precipitation averages only 7.6 millimeters (0.30 in). Almost all precipitation during the Siberian winter falls as flurry, dry snow.Wikipedia

RUSSIA: MOSCOW: 8TH INTERNATIONAL COMPUTER FORUM

Russian/Eng/Nat

The world's leading computer manufacturers have been in Moscow this week for the 8th International Computer Forum.

Until the collapse of communism, only the chosen few were allowed access to what was considered in the West a basic tool of business.

Under the Soviets you even needed a special licence to own a Xerox machine.

But now Russia is catching up rapidly with the rest of the world.

For companies like I-B-M, Russia could soon become one of their largest markets.

During the Soviet era, strict government control over information meant few Russians even knew what a computer looked like. But in large cities like Moscow and St Petersburg, one in five computers now sold is being used in the home.

At this week's international computer exhibition, it was the young as ever who queued for hours to get a look at the latest in computer technology.

In a short period of time, Russia and Russians have become user-friendly.

Even Boris Yeltsin has got in on the act - his own website opened this week giving information about his family and salary.

While internationally known computer brands remain the most sought after, local Russian companies can now offer similar machines at affordable prices.

But major computer manufacturers say the market is big enough for everyone.

SOUNDBITE: (English)
I think it is a very educated market. The typical user has a better education than in almost any other market in the world. And therefore there is an appreciation for the technology.
SUPER CAPTION: Jonathan F. Crull, Micron Electronics

Russians have also started going on-line in a big way.

The Internet has become as much a way of life for young Russians as for their Western counterparts.

Since it opened at the end of last year, Russia's first Internet cafe has attracted scores of young computer addicts. The combination of good coffee plus an hour's free time on the Net has proved a powerful attraction.

Whereas some just come to chat on-line with friends in other cities, for others the Internet has become a source of income.

SOUNDBITE: (Russian)
Constant development of the computers is becoming a fixture in our life. The computer is gradually replacing more common toys for the kids. And for me as for quite a few others it became a source of income.
SUPER CAPTION: Kostya Tsoi, High School Student

But it's not just young kids who are getting to grips with computer technology.

Zoya Zevina runs a small company which specialises in researching the history of the numerous old buildings in Moscow which are being purchased and redeveloped by large corporations.

Working from home, Zoya and her small staff used to spend hours drawing the layouts of the buildings by hand. But that has all changed with the purchase of a powerful Pentium P-C, although she still admits to being a little intimidated

SOUNDBITE: (Russian)
In the beginning the machine seemed so smart to me, I felt so inferior to its capacities. So I had to overcome my fears and to be really honest I still don't feel myself perfectly at ease with a computer.
SUPER CAPTION: Zoya Zevina, Reconstruction Workshop

What used to take hours of drawing by hand now takes just a fraction of that time. With the use of a scanner, Zoya can transfer pictures and text into her P-C within a matter of minutes

SOUNDBITE: (Russian)
Working on the computer we saved hours of necessary but painstaking work. Now I can see that it's an anachronism to use qualified architects for doing such a mechanical job, which can be done on a computer in no time.
SUPER CAPTION: Zoya Zevina, Reconstruction Workshop


They are also providing employment for some of the country's thousands of out-of-work programmers.



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Russia/Irkuts Angara River Part 23

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Angara River:
The Angara River (Buryat: Ангар, Angar, lit. Cleft; Russian: Ангара́, Angará) is a 1,779-kilometer-long (1,105 mi) river in Siberia, which traces a course through Russia's Irkutsk Oblast and Krasnoyarsk Krai. It is the river that drains Lake Baikal and is the headwater tributary of the Yenisei River. It was formerly known as the Lower or Nizhnyaya Angara (distinguishing it from the Upper Angara). Below its junction with the Ilim, it was formerly known as the Upper Tunguska (Russian: Верхняя Тунгуска, Verkhnyaya Tunguska, distinguishing it from the Lower Tunguska) and, with the names reversed, as the Lower Tunguska.
Leaving Lake Baikal near the settlement of Listvyanka (at 51.867°N 104.818°E), the Angara flows north past the Irkutsk Oblast cities of Irkutsk, Angarsk, Bratsk, and Ust-Ilimsk. It then turns west, enters the Krasnoyarsk Krai, and falls into the Yenisei near Strelka (at 58.102°N 92.991°E, 40 kilometres (25 mi) south-east of Lesosibirsk).
The Angara is navigable by modern watercraft on several isolated sections:
from Lake Baikal to Irkutsk;
from Irkutsk to Bratsk;
on the Ust-Ilimsk Reservoir;
from the Boguchany Dam (Kodinsk) to the river's fall into the Yenisei.
The section between the Ust-Ilimsk Dam and the Boguchany Dam has not been navigable due to rapids. However, with the completion of the Boguchany Dam, and filling of its reservoir, at least part of this section of the river will become navigable as well. Nonetheless, this will not enable through navigation from Lake Baikal to the Yenisei, as none of the existing three dams has been provided with a ship lock or a boat lift, nor will the Boguchany Dam have one.
Despite the absence of a continuous navigable waterway, the Angara and its tributary the Ilim were of considerable importance for Russian colonization of Siberia since ca. 1630, when they (and the necessary portages) formed important water routes connecting the Yenisey with Lake Baikal and the Lena River. The river lost its transportation significance after the construction of an overland route between Krasnoyarsk and Irkutsk and, later, the Trans-Siberian Railway.
A number of villages along the Angara and its tributaries (including the historic fort of Ilimsk on the Ilim), as well as numerous agricultural areas in the river valley, were flooded by these reservoirs. Due to its effects on the way of life of the rural residents of the Angara valley, dam construction has been criticized by a number of Soviet intellectuals, in particular the Irkutsk writer Valentin Rasputin both in his novel Farewell to Matyora and in his non-fiction book, Siberia, Siberia.Wikipedia

WRAP Chinese President meets Putin, plus war memorial

1. Pan from Russian Orthodox church to museum complex on Poklonnaya Hill
2. Pan from statue to group of people inside museum
3. Wide shot of Hu Jintao and wife with officials
4. Cutaway of bronze bust
5. Mid shot of museum guide with Hu Jintao and translator
6. Cutaway of sculpture
7. Various Kremlin exteriors
8. Security officer opening doors and President Vladimir Putin and Chairman Hu taking seats in chairs
9. Cameramen
10. Vladimir Putin addressing Hu
11. Putin and Hu
12. Chairman Hu addressing Putin
13. Vladimir Putin and Russian Foreign minister listening
14. Chairman Hu
15. Pan of Vladimir Putin and Hu Jintao entering ceremony hall
16. Cameramen
17. Putin and Hu signing document
18. SOUNDBITE (Chinese) Hu Jintao, Chinese President:
We have just agreed with Vladimir Putin that we will continue to develop and strengthen the historic Sino-Russian relations in all spheres of life by adjusting ourselves to the changes and developments that are happening in the world.
19. SOUNDBITE (Russian) Vladimir Putin, Russian President:
Last year we provided China with three million tons of oil. We are eager to increase this amount. We are considering a draft for the construction of oil and gas pipelines from Russian territory to the People's Republic of China.
20. Camerawoman
21. Chinese and Russian leaders thanking audience and leaving hall

STORYLINE:

Chinese President Hu Jintao and Russian President Vladimir Putin reaffirmed the so-called strategic partnership between their nations on Tuesday and called for a central role for the United Nations in rebuilding Iraq.

Hu arrived in the Russian capital on Monday and met with Putin at the Russian leader's Novo-Ogaryovo residence outside Moscow - an informal setting Putin said emphasised their personal relationship.

Putin has already had several meetings with Hu - the last in December - shortly after he replaced Jiang as the Communist Party chief.

China has pushed strongly for an oil pipeline to bring crude from Angarsk in eastern Siberia to the Chinese city of Daqing.

However Russia has dragged its feet on the issue, also considering a rival, Japanese-backed proposal to lay the pipeline to the Russian port of Nakhodka on the Sea of Japan.

The Russian government has sought to satisfy both China and Japan by offering a compromise that envisions building the pipeline to Nakhodka with an extension built first to Daqing.

The pipeline would eventually pump 1.6 (m) million barrels of oil a day.

Putin was noncommittal on Tuesday, saying pipeline routes need to be discussed by experts.

Later this week, the two leaders will take part in a Moscow summit of the Shanghai Cooperation Organization, a six-nation group that also includes four ex-Soviet Central Asian republics.

Hu is also scheduled to attend weekend festivities marking the 300th anniversary of St. Petersburg, Russia's former imperial capital.


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Our visit to Moscow was all about Russian architecture. The city was especially decorated like a Christmas tree to welcome FIFA 2018.

We flew from Oslo to Moscow via Riga by Air Baltic, a pretty decent carrier (no meals included though). Our stay at Arbat Street made it easy to visit the Kremlin at any point of the day. And thanks to Google translator for our communications, or else one is definitely doomed in the Cyrillic world.

Irkutsk mei 2007

Bezoek aan Irkutsk en het Baikalmeer in Siberië. Dit was een onderdeel van mijn reis van Moskou naar Bejing.

Irkutsk

Irkutsk (Russian: Иркутск; IPA: [ɪrˈkutsk]) is a city and the administrative center of Irkutsk Oblast, Russia, and one of the largest cities in Siberia. Population: 587,891 (2010 Census); 593,604 (2002 Census); 622,301 (1989 Census).


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