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RUSSIA: MUSEUM CALLED A VODKA LIBRARY OPENS
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A new brand of tourist is taking Russia by storm this summer as lovers of Russia's national drink pour into the first ever specialist museum of vodka to be opened in the country.
The museum, called a vodka library has opened in the tiny medieval town of Uglich, on the banks of the Volga river.
Authorities hope hordes of vodka lovers will boost the town's flagging tourist industry, famous for its monasteries and the murder of the son of Ivan the Terrible.
All is quiet on the banks of Russia's ancient Volga river.
In Uglich, 250 kilometres northeast of Moscow, time stands still and history is all around.
Boats like the Karl Marx have seen better times, bringing in total around 200-thousand tourists to Uglich every year in Soviet times.
Now the numbers are dwindling to as little as 80-thousand annually in a town of just under 40-thousand.
But history is giving the town a helping hand again.
Passengers disembarking at Uglich can now visit Russia's first ever vodka museum.
As they knock back the region's own brand of vodka, visitors to the library are told how vodka courses through the veins of the ancient town.
Grirgory Smirnov, uncle of the founder of the famous vodka brand, was born and raised in Uglich, opening his first vodka tavern in the town in 1835.
Monks at the local monastery made bread wine from the late seventeenth century.
Now the museum houses around 500 brands of vodka from 60 distilleries spread all over Russia.
The aim, says museum founder Viktor Minyaev, is to teach Russians the pleasure of drinking vodka in a cultured manner after years of little choice and limited supplies during Soviet times.
SOUNDBITE: (Russian)
Just because you have sex doesn't mean you get venereal disease. It's an essential part of human life. If we have such a culture, it doesn't have to lead to illness. It's the same with the cultural consumption of this drink (vodka) - it won't necessarily lead to drunkenness.
SUPER CAPTION: Viktor Minyaev, museum founder
As drinkers down the shots in the museum, they are watched over by an icon of St Boniface - the patron saint of drinkers they say at the vodka museum.
All over the world religious foundations were often centres of alcohol production.
And Uglich was no exception.
In the Alekseyevsky monastery, monks made bread wine from 1639 say the history books.
The present inhabitants of the now dilapidated monastery are nuns.
They need all the financial help they can get to restore their church - it was turned into an apartment block for several families in the 1920's.
Now, the nuns are thinking of how to make money.
Some people may be making money out of Uglich's alcohol history, but not them says mother superior Miropiya.
SOUNDBITE: (Russian)
I've heard about it (the vodka museum). But I don't think it's something for women, it's men's business. So I don't think we'll be doing anything like that here. We have to do more church things, nearer to the church.
SUPER CAPTION: Mother Superior Miropiya, Alekseyevsky monastery
Back at the vodka museum there are no such qualms.
The sound of clinking glasses is heard all day as tourists like Valery Kostyev from Moscow enjoy what is a unique institution in Russia.
SOUNDBITE: (Russian)
There isn't even anything like this in Moscow. Not everybody wants to visit churches, or old sights. So we need new, modern, unusual things.
SUPER CAPTION: Valery Kostyev, visitor
The churches have stood in Uglich for over six hundred years.
The vodka museum has some catching up to do, but, so far, there is no shortage of visitors looking for a different kind lesson in Russian history.
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Coldest Place On Earth - Oymyakon, Russia
Coldest Place On Earth - Oymyakon Russia
Oymyakon is a rural locality in Oymyakonsky District of the Sakha Republic, Russia, located along the Indigirka River, 30 kilometers (19 mi) northwest of Tomtor on the Kolyma Highway.
On February 6, 1933, a temperature of −67.7 °C (−90 °F) was recorded at Oymyakon's weather station. the lowest recorded temperature for any permanently inhabited location on Earth.
Only Antarctica has recorded lower official temperatures (the lowest being −89.2 °C (−128.6 °F), recorded at Vostok Station on 21 July 1983.
Russian village of Oymyakon has lowest recorded temperature for any permanently inhabited location
Nothing grows so locals live off diet of reindeer meat and horse meat but never suffer malnourishment
Locals keep their cars running all day for fear of them not starting again if turned off
Digging graves for a funeral can take up to three days as ground has to be thawed with hot coals
Just a few hundred miles from the Arctic Circle and reaching record lows of -96.16 degrees Fahrenheit, one is forced to ponder not only why, but also how the villagers of this remotest of remote locations survive.
With a day that varies from 3 hours in the winter to 21 hours in the summer and permanently frozen ground due to the extreme subarctic climate, the roughly 500 residents of Oymyakon are mostly unable to grow crops, therefore their diet basically consists of reindeer and horse meat. While spoiled kids to the south get out of school for snow days, the children of Oymyakon are stuck in class unless the temperature falls below –52C. If you were to go outside naked on an average day, it would take approximately one minute for you to freeze to death.
Besides the obvious issues of remoteness, the cold itself forces this village to be a simple place with few conveniences. Cars are hard to start with frozen axle grease and fuel tanks, unused pipes can freeze within 5 hours, batteries lose life at an alarming speed. Pen ink freezes, anything less than fur fails at keeping the chill off, and electronics are all but useless.
Perhaps one of the most difficult challenges facing these rugged people existing within Stalin's Death Ring is the burial of their dead. With the ground in a state of permafrost, it takes several days to dig a grave, a strenuous task of lighting a bonfire for a few hours, then pushing the coals aside to dig a few inches, then starting another fire, and so on and so forth, until the hole is big enough to hold a coffin.
While its appeal may be mostly due to the novelty of being in such a bizarre climate as there is very little to do in Oymyakon, it has a relatively successful tourism market. Area-specific activities such as reindeer hunts, ice fishing and the juxtaposition of enjoying the hot springs when the temperatures are in the minus-fiftes are available to those who would like to experience this opposite of a tropical vacation spot.
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
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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
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Nikolay Grinko as Nektaryi
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Vladimir Kashpur
Aleksandr Komarov as Brovkin
Marina Levtova
Vitaliy Matveev as Iuda
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Чего здесь только нет! И святой источник, и швейная мастерская, и чайная. Здесь пишут и реставрируют иконы, умеют делать сладкие десерты и, конечно, возвращают святой обители ее былую дореволюционную красоту. Мы увидим точный список Тихвинского образа Пресвятой Богородицы, а также посмотрим, как на волгоградской земле растет виноград.
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Свято-Вознесенский женский монастырь расположен в 3 км. от г. Дубовка Волгоградской области. Монастырь основан в 1865 г. протоиереем Иоанном Алексеевичем Покровским по благословению старцев Адриана Югского и Петра Угличского. В 1892 г. монастырь из общины был возведен в статус общежительного. К 1913 г. в обители было 369 насельниц. После 1917 г. обитель подверглась осквернению и разорению, около 1920 г. были расстреляны несколько монахинь во главе с настоятельницей мон. Антонией. В 1991 г. в разоренной обители вновь началась монашеская жизнь. В настоящее время в обители под руководством игумении Анны (Ерофеевой) подвизаются 30 насельниц.
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