The gulags, a forgotten past? - From Moscow to Magadan
Jelle spends the night in the remains of a Russian Gulag, a camp for forced workers, when it's -25C. He also meets an old couple who survived the Gulag terror.
Original title: Vergeten verleden
What's left of communism? How big are the differences between the poor and the rich? What is the influence of corruption? Is Russia a young democracy (as former Dutch prime minister Jan Peter Balkenende previously said)?Is it a sovereign democracy (according to Putin) or a fascist regime (as read in The Economist)? Jelle Brandt Corstius is looking for the topics that rule the life of ordinary Russians in Russia.
Presented by: Jelle Brandt Corstius
© VPRO February 2010
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Chess in Kalmykia - From Moscow to Magadan
Illumzhinov is the president of Kalmykia and is also the chairman of Fide, the International Chess Association. Chess is his passion. And so, everyone in this republic where poverty and corruption rule, must learn to play chess. Furthermore, Jelle discovers the intriguing story of Nina who was abused in Moscow by two skinheads.
Original title: Van Moskou tot Magadan - Land der blinden
What's left of communism? How big are the differences between the poor and the rich? What is the influence of corruption? Is Russia a young democracy (as former Dutch prime minister Jan Peter Balkenende previously said)?Is it a sovereign democracy (according to Putin) or a fascist regime (as read in The Economist)? Jelle Brandt Corstius is looking for the topics that rule the life of ordinary Russians in Russia.
Presented by: Jelle Brandt Corstius
© VPRO February 2009
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Georgian independence in Abkhazia - From Moscow to Magadan
Every year on 29 September, Abkhazia celebrates the independence of Georgia, acquired after the bloody Georgian Civil War in the early 1990s. This time, the party is even more exuberant because of its recognition as an independent state by Russia. But what is the importance of Russia in Georgian lives? In addition, Jelle visits the dacha (second home) of Joseph Stalin.
Original title: Van Moskou tot Magadan - Abchazië, de lange arm van Rusland
What's left of communism? How big are the differences between the poor and the rich? What is the influence of corruption? Is Russia a young democracy (as former Dutch prime minister Jan Peter Balkenende previously said)?Is it a sovereign democracy (according to Putin) or a fascist regime (as read in The Economist)? Jelle Brandt Corstius is looking for the topics that rule the life of ordinary Russians in Russia.
Presented by: Jelle Brandt Corstius
© VPRO February 2009
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Where Stalin grew up - From Sochi to Yerevan
(2014)
Stalin was born in the town of Gori, in the mountains of Georgia. Stalin spent his young life in various places in the Caucasus. His birth house is still there, complete with a gift shop where you can buy Stalin snow globes. How do the Georgians look back on Stalin? Is it a hero or a villain, or both? Jelle passes by the grave of Stalin's first wife, the prison in Baku where Stalin was once trapped, and then went into the mountains. Even Stalin's hand can be felt even in the most remote villages.
Original title: Achter de bergen van Sotsji
Jelle Brandt Corstius goes looking for answers in The Mountains Behind Sochi. In this six-episode series he travels from Sochi in Russia through the Caucasus. Far from political power games and war intrigues, he visits remote mountain villages and meets proud peoples with a strong desire to be independent.
Directed by: Hans Pool
Presented by: Jelle Brandt Corstius
Sound: Alex Tugushin
Edit: Matthieu Hes, Obbe Verwer
Research: Julia Ochetova, Maya Topuridze
Editor: Karen de Bok
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Discovering Kazakhstan №20. Buried gold in the valley of the kings
Russia - Collection Of Trojan Gold On Display
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The controversial archeological collection, Gold of Troy, will be seen by the public for the first time in over half a century when an exhibition of the most valuable pieces of the so called Schlieman collection opens in Moscow this week. Two hundred and fifty-nine priceless objects in nineteen
bulletproof glass cases will be put on public view in Moscow's Pushkin Museum on Tuesday, April 16. The whole collection consisting of 637 pieces was confiscated in Germany in 1945 at the end of World War Two by the Red Army. The treasures were brought to Moscow and then divided between The
Hermitage Museum in St Petersburg and Moscow's Pushkin Museum. The Pushkin got the most valuable part of the collection, composed of objects made in gold, silver, crystal and precious stones. Since the Middle Ages travellers had tried to find the site of the ancient city of Troy. In 1873, at Hissarlik in Turkey, Heinrich Schlieman, a German amateur archeologist, discovered a unique complex of treasures recognized by archeologists as Trojan artifacts.
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00.00 Pan down Trojan headdress to earrings.
00.10 WS cabinet with gold chains.
00.13 Necklace and bracelets.
00.17 CU necklaces in cabinet.
00.20 Portrait of Heinrich Schlieman
00.24 CU book showing sketch of him on site.
00.27 Gold pots in cabinet.
00.30 CU gold jug.
00.33 Pan of exhibition.
00.38 WS press conference
00.41 Russian minister of culture Evgeny Sidorov addressing
presser in Russian.
00.47 German ambassador to Moscow Ernst-Joerg Von Studnitz
addressing press conference in Russian.
00.56 WS audience
00.59 MS gold head dress and earrings, pan across to man taking
photographs.
01.09 VISION ENDS.
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Krasnoyarsk
Krasnoyarsk (Russian: Красноярск; IPA: [krəsnɐˈjærsk]) is a city and the administrative center of Krasnoyarsk Krai, Russia, located on the Yenisei River. It is the third largest city in Siberia after Novosibirsk and Omsk, with a population of 1,035,528 as of the 2010 Census. Krasnoyarsk is an important junction of the Trans-Siberian Railway and one of Russia's largest producers of aluminium.
The city is notable for its nature landscapes; author Anton Chekhov judged Krasnoyarsk to be the most beautiful city in Siberia.
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The statue of Lenin - From Moscow to Murmansk
St. Petersburg is the city where the Russian Revolution broke out in 1917. Lenin arrived from Switzerland to give his famous speech that brought the revolution. Jelle finds Lenin's statue back in an industrial area just outside St. Petersburg, ready to be restored.
In the first series: From Moscow to Magadan, Jelle Brandt Corstius traveled from West to East, focusing on the endless Russian countryside and the villages. In this second series: From Moscow to Murmansk, he travels from North to South along the largest river of Russia: the Volga River. A trip along the relatively unknown cities like Murmansk, Volgograd, Dzerzhinsk, Nizhny Novgorod, but also to Moscow and Saint Petersburg. Through topics like women in Russia, new censorship, the environmental problem from Russian perspective and the ideological vacuum, a relatively unknown side of Russia is once again exposed.
Presented by: Jelle Brandt Corstius
Final editor: Gert-Jan Hox
Directed by: Hans Pool
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Governor Steve Cowper (1986-1990) visiting Magadan, USSR in 1989.
Alaska’s Governor Steve Cowper (1986-1990) visiting Magadan, USSR in 1989. From the Alaska State Archives collection Agency 1 – Office of the Governor, Record Group 348 - Press Secretary, Series 612 -Public information files, container AS 15541.
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Turgen, Almaty, Kazakhstan.
Turgen - Almaty region. There are Turgen waterfalls, Turgen gorge, trout farm, ostrich farm, gold man and Snow Leopard monuments.
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Traveling the Silk Road Today
A Conversation with Colin Thubron, Travel Writer
Take a magic-carpet ride along the length of the most storied of ancient trade routes, the Silk Road, with Colin Thubron, one of the world's greatest living travel writers. Mr. Thubron describes his journey of some 7000 miles-by local bus, truck, car, donkey cart, camel, and foot-out of the heart of China into the mountains of Central Asia, across northern Afghanistan and the plains of Iran into Kurdish Turkey, which led to his bestselling book, Shadow of the Silk Road.
Colin Thubron is Britain's most distinguished travel writer, an award-winning author whose books cover Asia and Russia. His first books were about the Middle East-Damascus, Lebanon, and Cyprus. In 1982 he traveled in the Soviet Union, pursued by the KGB. From these early experiences developed his great travel books on the landmass that makes up Russia and Asia: Among the Russians (1983); Behind the Wall: A Journey through China (1987), which won the Hawthornden Prize and the Thomas Cook Travel Book Award; The Lost Heart of Asia (1994); In Siberia (1999), Shadow of the Silk Road (2006); and most recently, To a Mountain in Tibet (2011; click here for video of BBC interview with Mr. Thubron.)
Mr. Thubron has also written several novels, including Emperor (1978), set in A.D. 312; A Cruel Madness (1984), winner of the PEN/Macmillan Silver Pen Award; Falling (1989); Turning Back the Sun (1991), a haunting tale of love and exile; Distance (1996); and To the Last City (2002), which tells the story of a group of travellers in Peru.
A Fellow of the Royal Society of Literature since 1969 and currently its president, Colin Thubron is a regular contributor and reviewer for The Times, the Times Literary Supplement, and The Spectator. In 2007, he was appointed a CBE by Queen Elizabeth.
«Просто говорить правду»: Аксенова А.П. (фильм #7, Мой ГУЛАГ)
Музей истории ГУЛАГа представляет седьмой фильм из проекта «Мой ГУЛАГ» – воспоминания Антонины Павловны Аксеновой о своих родителях, брате и детстве в Магадане.
Антонина Аксенова родилась в 1946 году в Магадане. Росла в детском доме. С двухлетнего возраста – приемная дочь бывших заключенных: автора романа «Крутой маршрут» Евгении Гинзбург и доктора Антона Вальтера. Вместе с родителями жила в Магадане до 1957. Закончила ГИТИС, работала актрисой театра и кино. В 90-е годы по приглашению своего брата Василия Аксенова – известного писателя – уехала в Америку, где создала детский оперный театр. В последнее время проживает в Германии во Франкфурте-на-Майне.
Этот фильм был снят в 2014 во время экспедиции Музея истории ГУЛАГа в Магадан.
Воспоминания людей, которых коснулись репрессии, собираются Музеем истории ГУЛАГа с июня 2013 года в рамках проекта Мой ГУЛАГ, целью которого является создание архива интервью, объединенных темой ГУЛАГа, и актуализация памяти о явлении, которое долгое время активно вытеснялось из ментального пространства наших соотечественников и так и осталось неосознанным и не пережитым опытом.
В фильме снимались:
Антонина Аксенова
Марио Дамолин
Иван Паникаров
Александра Феттер
Съемка с воздуха:
Александр Соломин
Виталий Осипов
“Магаданские бульвары”
в исполнении Вадима Козина
Стихи Петра Нефедова
Музыка Вадима Козина
Съемка и монтаж: Антон Андросов
Режиссер: Антон Андросов
Спасибо: Михаил Шибистый
Проект Мой ГУЛАГ
© Студия визуальной антропологии Музея истории ГУЛАГа | 2014-2016 год
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Kolyma (Russian: Колыма́, IPA: [kəɫɨˈma]) is a region located in the Russian Far East. It is bounded by the East Siberian Sea and the Arctic Ocean in the north and the Sea of Okhotsk to the south. The region gets its name from the Kolyma River and mountain range, parts of which were not discovered until 1926. Today the region consists roughly of the Chukotka Autonomous Okrug and the Magadan Oblast.
The area, part of which is within the Arctic Circle, has a subarctic climate with very cold winters lasting up to six months of the year. Permafrost and tundra cover a large part of the region. Average winter temperatures range from −19 °C to −38 °C (even lower in the interior), and average summer temperatures, from +3 °C to +16 °C. There are rich reserves of gold, silver, tin, tungsten, mercury, copper, antimony, coal, oil, and peat. Twenty-nine zones of possible oil and gas accumulation have been identified in the Sea of Okhotsk shelf. Total reserves are estimated at 3.5 billion tons of equivalent fuel, including 1.2 billion tons of oil and 1.5 billion m3 of gas.The principal town Magadan has nearly 100,000 inhabitants and is the largest port in north-eastern Russia. It has a large fishing fleet and remains open year-round thanks to icebreakers. Magadan is served by the nearby Sokol Airport. There are many public and private farming enterprises. Gold mines, pasta and sausage factories, fishing companies, and a distillery form the city's industrial base.
Vladimir & Suzdal, Russia ???? Travel Vlog 11 ???????? History & Culture
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Assumption Cathedral = 1:22 ⛪
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Golden Gate = 3:34 ????
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DAY 2 - SUZDAL
Suzdal Intro = 5:12
Suzdal Kremlin (Cathedral of the Nativity) = 6:04
Monastery of St. Euthymius (Transfiguration Cathedral) = 8:15
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Night Walk = 10:56
Conclusion = 13:05
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EUROPE
Ep1 ???????? ???????? Brussels, Ghent, and Bruges:
Ep2 ???? ???????? Amsterdam:
Ep3 ☠️ ???????? Berlin:
Ep4 ???? ???????? Hamburg:
Ep5 ???? ???????? Aarhus:
Ep6 ????♀️ ???????? Copenhagen:
Ep7 ???? ???????? Stockholm:
Ep8 ???? ???????? Helsinki:
RUSSIA
Ep9 ????️ ???????? Saint Petersburg:
Ep10 ???? ???????? Moscow:
Ep11 ???? ???????? Vladimir and Suzdal:
Ep12 ???? ???????? Nizhny Novgorod: (most fun)
Ep13 ☠️ ???????? Perm:
Ep14 ???? ???????? Yekaterinburg:
Ep15 ???? ???????? Tobolsk and Tyumen:
Ep16 ???? ???????? Novosibirsk:
Ep17 ???? ???????? Irkutsk and Olkhon Island:
Ep18 ???? ???????? Ulan-Ude:
Ep19 ???? ???????? Trans-Siberian Train: (most practically useful)
Ep20 ???? ???????? Khabarovsk:
Ep21 ???? ???????? Vladivostok:
ASIA & AUSTRALIA
Ep22 ???? ???????? Seoul: (most educative)
Ep23 ???? ???????? Osaka:
Ep24 ???? ???????? Kyoto:
Ep25 ???? ???????? Tokyo: (most awesome city)
Ep26 ???? ???????? Melbourne:
Ep27 ???? ???????? Sydney: (most jokes)
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Via Siberia! To Really Experience Russia! (ASL-AV002-0632)
A Travelogue of the 1970 Alaska Airline's inaugural flight from Alaska to Russia and Siberia. Filmmaker-Henry Portin. Color/Sound
Around the world for 2 years Russia#1 Nizhny Novgorod#4
First day of our Hitchhiking tour around the world from Kazan to Nizhny Novgorod.
We meet very cool people and made awesome new friends.
Big thanks to Alexei and Anna and to thousands SWISS Fans of who made our trip unforgettable.
Next destination Moscow.
From Russia with Love.
Far away from perfection but closer than yesterday.
Nizhny Novgorod
Нижний Новгород (Russian)
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Clockwise: The Kremlin, Chkalov Stairs, Minin and Pozharsky Square, the State Bank in Bolshaya Pokrovskaya Street, the Fair, Saint Alexander Nevsky cathedral.
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Location of Nizhny Novgorod Oblast in Russia
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Coordinates: 56°19′37″N 44°00′27″ECoordinates: 56°19′37″N 44°00′27″E
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City Day June 12[2]
Administrative status (as of November 2011)
Country Russia
Federal subject Nizhny Novgorod Oblast[1]
Administratively subordinated to city of oblast significance of Nizhny Novgorod[1]
Administrative center of Nizhny Novgorod Oblast,[1] city of oblast significance of Nizhny Novgorod[1]
Municipal status
Urban okrug Nizhny Novgorod Urban Okrug[3]
Administrative center of Nizhny Novgorod Urban Okrug[3]
Mayor[5] Vladimir Panov[4]
Representative body City Duma[6]
Statistics
Area 460 km2 (180 sq mi)[7]
Population (2010 Census) 1,250,619 inhabitants[8]
- Rank in 2010 5th
Density 2,719/km2 (7,040/sq mi)[9]
Time zone MSK (UTC+03:00)[10]
Founded 1221[11]
City status since 1221[11]
Previous names Nizhny Novgorod (until 1932),[12]
Gorky (until 1990)[12]
Postal code(s)[13] 603000-603999
Dialing code(s) +7 831[14]
Website adm.nnov.ru/en/
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Historic city center
Nizhny Novgorod (Russian: Ни́жний Но́вгород, IPA: [ˈnʲiʐnʲɪj ˈnovɡərət]), colloquially shortened to Nizhny, is a city in Russia and the administrative center (capital[15]) of Volga Federal District and Nizhny Novgorod Oblast. From 1932 to 1990, it was known as Gorky (Го́рький, IPA: [ˈɡorʲkʲɪj]),[16] after the writer Maxim Gorky, who was born there.
The city is an important economic, transportation, scientific, educational and cultural center in Russia and the vast Volga-Vyatka economic region, and is the main center of river tourism in Russia. In the historic part of the city there is a large number of universities, theaters, museums and churches. Nizhny Novgorod is located about 400 km (250 mi) east of Moscow, where the Oka River empties into the Volga. Population: 1,250,619 (2010 Census);[8] 1,311,252 (2002 Census);[17] 1,438,133 (1989 Census).[18]
The city was founded in 4 February 1221[19] by Prince Yuri II of Vladimir. In 1612 Kuzma Minin and Prince Dmitry Pozharsky organized an army for the liberation of Moscow from the Poles. In 1817 Nizhny Novgorod became a great trade center of the Russian Empire. In 1896 at a fair, an All-Russia Exhibition was organized.
Don't visit Russia! And don't travel to Russia either.
Well, it doesn't mean coming to Russia is dangerous, or a bad idea in any other sense. Learning words from a dictionary is not enough! Here is why you should use translation method for speaking a foreign language with caution: in different languages different words can be used to convey the same meaning. Like, you take an exam in English and you give it (sort of) in Russian, like you hopefully learned from one of our recent videos. In this new video Stanislav continues to talk about the verbs that are less common in Russian than in many other European languages, and explains how you can avoid using them too often. The verbs discussed in this video are to visit and to travel, so you can imagine how often you use them in your mother tongue. And if you want to visit Russia and travel in Russia, you will discover and enjoy much more if to speak Russian. Here is where you can learn the language: learnrussian.ru
Russian Crafts - Palekh Lacquer Miniature
Artist Anna Kornilova, 21, has been working in the technique of traditional Palekh lacquer minuature for several years. Born in a small Russian city of Palekh, Anna inherited passion for the art from her the artistic family - her parents, grand parents and brother are all painters. In summer 2012 Anna graduated from the Palekh Art College. Now she paints jewelery boxes, earrings, brooches, bracelets, hairpins, eyeglass cases and even computer mouses. Besides beautiful craftworks in the traditional Palekh style Anna creates pieces in her own individual manner.
Anna works from home - like many acclaimed Palekh artists. Previously artists in Palekh used to work in the Artistic Production Workshops, but the workshops were closed in the 1990s. On weekends Anna works as shop assistant in a local souvenir store Kovcheg (The Ark) in the center of Palekh that sells craftworks of local artists including those made by Anna.
The Abandoned Kinloch History Museum
An explore of the abandoned Kinloch history museum. I don't know much about this building. Seems like it has mostly been cleaned out and left to fade away. A ghost of Kinloch.