Russia presentation to Elementary school children
Brief presentation on the highlights in Russian history, art, geography, science, sports and entertainment to the elementary school children in Claremont, NC.
Novosibirsk State University
Three fellow members of the USSR Academy of Sciences Lavrentiev, Sobolev, and Khristianovich, decided to bring international level research over the Urals from Moscow to the vast territories of Siberia. Siberia possessed copious natural resources, but lacked large research institutions which would promote economic development and growth in the region. The idea was implemented with the establishment of the Siberian Division of the USSR Academy of Sciences in 1958 near the large industrial city of Novosibirsk. A new academic town (Akademgorodok) started to grow rapidly and half a year later a new university was founded to train young researchers for the newly born science center.
-56°C (-69°F) from Yakutsk to Oymyakon in winter - THE MOVIE [HD] 2015
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Crazy Russian Winter: What happens to boiling water at -41C?
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A large crowd gathers to watch May Day Parade in Moscow, Russia. HD Stock Footage
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A large crowd gathers to watch May Day Parade in Moscow, Russia.
A film titled 'May Day' on May Day Parade in Moscow, Russia. Aerial view of Moscow. Troops of the Moscow garrison fill the Red Square. Parked mechanized vehicles. The troops stand in formation. Buildings along street sides. Dignitaries and officials on a reviewing stand. Delegates from many countries arrive for the parade. A large crowd gathers to watch the parade. Leaders of the Communist Party and Soviet Government at the reviewing stand. A church bell rings. Aerial view of the parade ground. The parade begins. Students of military academies, sailors, Moscow infantry school and young students from various military schools parade. Military units march in formation. Officials and dignitaries salute. The crowd watch the parade and applaud. Soldiers march holding rifles. Location: Moscow Russia Soviet Union. Date: May 1954.
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The «Ural-Siberian Fire-Fighting and Technological Company» Holding
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The «Ural-Siberian Fire-Fighting and Technological Company» Holding is a group of industrial enterprises which specialize for 20 years in engineering design, manufacture, sales and repairing of fire-fighting and other special vehicles for fire agencies, production and sales of specialized municipal road equipment, as well as the engineering design and manufacture of fire pumps. The Holding includes:
-Two vehicle-building plants:
1) «USPTK-RMZ» Ltd., Chelyabinsk region
2) «Posevninsky Engineering Works» Ltd., Novosibirsk region
- «USPTK-NTC» Ltd. is Science and Technology Centre which specializes in engineering and implementation of new samples of fire-fighting equipment.
-The manufacturing enterprise «USPTK-Fire Hydraulics» CJSC, is a leader in manufacture of fire and power pumps in Russia.
- «USPTK» Ltd. is a commercial enterprise which specializes in sales of production made by the Holding enterprises.
- TD-RMZLtd. is the manufacturing enterprise
which specializes in
production and sales of specialized municipal road equipment
USPTK production meets the international standard requirements of
GOST R ISO 9001-2008.
Nowadays the «Ural-Siberian Fire-Technical Company» is the leading manufacturer and supplier of fire-fighting equipment in the Russian Federation for the needs of EMERCOM, the Ministry of Defense, FFA, Rosenergoatom, fuel and energy facilities, oil and gas companies.
The vehicles manufactured by «USPTK-Holding» enterprises are the modern and reliable complexes for extinguishing fires of varying complexity. The vehicles passed the tests of time and severe conditions of our regions.
Today we may proudly say that we produce modern and reliable vehicles
1,Voroshilova str.,Chelyabinsk,454014,Russia.
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e-mail: lider@usptk.ru
Putin is Focused on AI! Russian Scientists Working Overtime to Create Terminator Type Intellect!
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President Putin: “Dear colleagues! We see that the global competition is shifting towards science, technology, and education. Recently, it seemed incredible that Russia might make not just a breakthrough but a hi-tech breakthrough in defense. It was hard and challenging. We had to restore many things or even create them from scratch, blaze a new trail, and find daring and unique solutions.
Ciudad de Ekaterimburgo - Rusia 2018
Ekaterimburgo es un lugar místico. Creció de la nada a partir de un pueblo de mineros para convertirse en la tercera ciudad más importante de Rusia. Ekaterimburgo fue un territorio cerrado durante varias décadas, pero hoy en día se ha transformado en una metrópoli llena de misterios que parece vivir en varias dimensiones a la vez. Edificios ultramodernos junto a edificios de los siglos XVIII y XIX, así como de la época soviética. Si das unos cuantos pasos en una dirección distinta, en lugar de un barrio de una ciudad moderna, puedes encontrarte a principios del siglo XX, paseando por una antigua calle llena de edificios prerrevolucionarios.
La ciudad es un importante centro industrial y una estación principal del Transiberiano. El primer emperador de Rusia, Pedro I, fundó la ciudad en 1723 como una fábrica-fortaleza situada junto al río Iset y esta acabó siendo el último lugar en el que vivió el último emperador, Nicolás II. Durante la Segunda Guerra Mundial, más de 50 empresas fueron evacuadas a Ekaterimburgo, así como la colección del Museo Estatal del Hermitage y el Teatro del Arte Chéjov de Moscú. En este periodo, el radiotransmisor más potente del país se encontraba en Ekaterimburgo.
Ekaterimburgo, Екатеринбург, es una ciudad ubicada en el centro-oeste de Rusia, capital del óblast de Sverdlovsk y del distrito federal del Ural. Con 1 650 136 habs. en 2010 es la cuarta más poblada del país, por detrás de Moscú, San Petersburgo y Novosibirsk. Se encuentra situada en la parte oriental de la cordillera de los Urales, por lo tanto, en el sector asiático de Rusia.
Es el centro administrativo, industrial, cultural, científico y educativo de la región. La Academia de las Ciencias de Rusia tiene en Ekaterimburgo la sede de su rama de los Urales y cuenta con varias instituciones científicas y educativas como la Universidad Técnica Estatal de los Urales. La ciudad dispone del Aeropuerto Internacional de Ekaterimburgo-Koltsovo y un sistema de metro inaugurado en 1991. También es una importante parada del ferrocarril Transiberiano. En Ekaterimburgo se encuentra la Comandancia del Distrito Militar Volga-Urales de las Fuerzas Terrestres de Rusia.
Rehab centre in Russia says hard work is the best cure for addicts
St Petersburg, Russia, September 14th September 2008
1. Peter and Paul Fortress from across the Neva river
2. People walking on Winter Palace Square
3. People dressed in tsarist costumes
St Petersburg, Russia, September 15th 2008
4. Inmates eating in hall
5. Cook ladles soup into bowl
6. Varios inmates eating
7. Set up Alexei Fomichev
8. SOUNDBITE: (Russian) Alexei Fomichev, Deputy Director New Life:
It's the rehabilitation and renewal of their personality. When a person is cut off from their habits for a year and put in a closed space where they can rethink their life, how they lived before and how they will live from now on, that year will change them. Their behaviour will change, their mentality will change, their life will change and that's why we call this place A New Life.
9. Gates at entrance to site
10. Barracks
11. Windows
12. Pull up bunk beds in room
13. Bed
14. Building
15. Workers mix cement
16. Cement mixer
17. Set up Alexander Kruglov at cement mixer
18. SOUNDBITE: (Russian) Alexander Kruglov, Patient:
Everything happened quickly and I ended up here, although I really didn't want to come, but I ended up here because of various circumstances and I don't now regret it.
19. Puts sand into mixer
20. SOUNDBITE: (Russian) Alexander Kruglov, Patient:
I don't need any of that any more. I'm a new person now. I'm thinking properly again, my head is clear and I don't need any of that dirt any more.
21. Set up Yulia Pavlova walks among sheep
22. Sheep in field
23. SOUNDBITE: (Russian) Yulia Pavlova, Volunteer and Former Addict:
At school you can get wine and marijuana and some other stuff, in discos you can get pills. Young people have a lot to choose from these days. And then there's heroin. For the last three years I was a heroin user.
24. Yulia with sheep
25. Sheep moving from field
26. Sheep move towards building
27. SOUNDBITE: (Russian) Yulia Pavlova, Volunteer and Former Addict:
I wanted to help. To show them by my own example - 'Look how I'm living now here. I have a family and work and don't use drugs'. I couldn't just go off and live a quiet life, I wanted to help people get themselves of this evil and terrible addiction.
St Petersburg, Russia, September 14th September 2008
28. Woman enters City Narcological Hospital
29. Close up sign
30. Set up Dr Viktor Grigoriyev
31. Mid-shot set up
32. Medical papers
33. SOUNDBITE: (Russian) Dr Viktor Grigoriyev, Deputy Head, City Narcological Hospital:
You can't launch into labour therapy with a person who is sick, who hasn't recovered his basic health. He can't even get out of bed let alone start labour therapy. To force a person into work when he's in such a condition is, at the very least, inhumane.
St Petersburg, Russia, September 15th 2008
34. Set up Kirill Tarasov
35. Piglets feeding
36. Pig and piglets
37. Set up Kirill
38. SOUNDBITE: (Russian) Kirill Tarasov, Patient:
In her last letter my mum wrote that she's proud of me. I was in shock. I haven't heard her say that for 7 years. I've been taking drugs for 10 years and have said no more to her than hi and see you later. To hear such words from my mum was a real joy.
39. Pull out Kirill with pig
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Drug addiction was almost unheard of in Russia before the fall of the Soviet Union.
But as borders opened and the Russian economy collapsed, the country was flooded with illicit drugs.
Now Russia has as many as 6 million drug addicts. The government has tried a variety of programmes to cure them, but with little success.
But in St Petersburg one clinic claims it has come up with the answer - simple, honest labour.
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Industrial Soviet cities
Harvard Professor Ed Glaeser outlines the industrial development of the Soviet Union, comparing the results to the patterns we see in U.S. industrial cities.
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National University Of Science And Technology 'MİSİS'.
The National University of Science and Technology MISiS has a proud and distinguished history, having celebrated its 80th anniversary in June 2010. It originated as the Department of Metallurgy in the Moscow Academy of Mines, which the Soviet government established in 1918, and in the following decades it went through several transformations before achieving its current designation.
In the 20th century, the Moscow Academy of Mines and then the Moscow Steel Institute (founded in 1930) each played a prominent role in the industrialization of Soviet Russia. Today the National University of Science and Technology MISiS is at the forefront in the development of Russia's innovative, knowledge-based economy, supporting the nation's ability to successfully compete with other advanced economies as well as to fully integrate into the international community.
Academy of Sciences of USSR | Wikipedia audio article
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00:01:00 1 Membership
00:02:58 2 Present structure
00:03:25 2.1 Territorial branches
00:05:21 2.2 Regional centers
00:06:21 3 Institutions
00:08:07 4 Awards
00:08:22 5 History
00:08:31 5.1 The Academy of Sciences of the Russian Empire
00:11:23 5.2 The Academy of Sciences of the USSR
00:15:44 5.3 Post-Soviet period of the Academy
00:17:08 5.3.1 Reforms (2013—2018)
00:20:48 6 Presidents
00:21:26 7 Nobel Prize laureates affiliated with the Academy
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I cannot teach anybody anything, I can only make them think.
- Socrates
SUMMARY
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The Russian Academy of Sciences (RAS; Russian: Росси́йская акаде́мия нау́к (РАН) Rossíiskaya akadémiya naúk) consists of the national academy of Russia; a network of scientific research institutes from across the Russian Federation; and additional scientific and social units such as libraries, publishing units, and hospitals.
Headquartered in Moscow, the Academy (RAS) is considered a civil, self-governed, non-commercial organization chartered by the Government of Russia. It combines the members of RAS (see below) and scientists employed by institutions. Near the central academy building there is a monument to Yuri Gagarin in the square bearing his name.
As of November 2017, the Academy included 1008 institutions and other units; in total about 125,000 people were employed of whom 47,000 were scientific researchers.
Academy of Sciences of the USSR | Wikipedia audio article
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00:00:57 1 Membership
00:02:46 2 Present structure
00:03:12 2.1 Territorial branches
00:04:59 2.2 Regional centers
00:05:55 3 Institutions
00:07:36 4 Awards
00:07:50 5 History
00:07:59 5.1 Foundation. The Russian Empire times
00:10:42 5.2 The Academy of Sciences of the USSR
00:14:50 5.3 Post-Soviet period of the Academy
00:16:10 5.3.1 Reforms (2013—2018)
00:19:39 6 Presidents
00:20:14 7 Nobel Prize laureates affiliated with the Academy
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Voice name: en-US-Wavenet-E
I cannot teach anybody anything, I can only make them think.
- Socrates
SUMMARY
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The Russian Academy of Sciences (RAS; Russian: Росси́йская акаде́мия нау́к (РАН) Rossíiskaya akadémiya naúk) consists of the national academy of Russia; a network of scientific research institutes from across the Russian Federation; and additional scientific and social units such as libraries, publishing units, and hospitals.
Headquartered in Moscow, the Academy (RAS) is considered a civil, self-governed, non-commercial organization chartered by the Government of Russia. It combines the members of RAS (see below) and scientists employed by institutions. Near the central academy building there is a monument to Yuri Gagarin in the square bearing his name.
As of November 2017, the Academy included 1008 institutions and other units; in total about 125,000 people were employed of whom 47,000 were scientific researchers.
Meteorite crash in Russia: Video of meteor explosion that stirred panic in Urals region
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Meteorite explosions in the skies of Russia's Urals region has sparked panic in three major cities. Witnesses said that houses shuddered, windows were blown out and cellphones stopped working.
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Putin’s Great Initiative to Prevent Brain Drain From Russia
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The collapse of the USSR with its outstanding talant searching infrastructure, economic crisises of 1998 and 2008, recent sanctions…All these events provoked serious brain draining from Russia - scientists, artists and other professionals left the country searching for better life somewhere abroad.
To mend up, in 2015 Vladimir Putin initiated to open an education center for gifted children in Sochi. The main idea is to create favorable conditions for developing young talents in Russia. It’s been a year since the center started its work - Vladimir Putin came to Sochi to measure the results of his initiative and was quite impressed with young talents and their projects.
Why Russia gets more nationalistic under Putin | VPRO Documentary
Why does Russia get more nationalistic under Putin? Why is nationalism in Russia a big topic? And what is modern Russia under Putin pursuing for a strategy? Dutch journalist and Russia expert Jelle Brandt Corstius tries to find out who is pushing the forces behind Putin's desire for expansion and why people in Russia are again embracing nationalism.
In this eight-part travel series, Jelle Brandt Corstius travels through Russia and visits the neighbor countries Latvia, Moldova, Ukraine, Belarus, and Kazakhstan. How do the the Russians look at their neighbors and vice versa? What are the relations between the powerful Russia and the other former Soviet republics? And how do the countries around Russia treat their Russian inhabitants? A series about propaganda and identity.
Since Crimea is seized by Russia something has changed. The kindness and spontaneity are gone and the old mistrust of the West has come up again. Jelle Brandt Corstius talks to people on the street, in a shop where Putin T-shirts are sold, visits Siberian separatists, and meets Putin's philosopher and advisor Aleksandr Dugin, who rewrote the idea of Eurasia.
For the first time since World War II, a European country invaded another. The Crimea was again part of Russia, as it should be. And for the first time since the fall of the Berlin Wall, they could be proud of something. A patriot law passed by the Duma is intended to make the Russians even more patriotic. The law comes into effect in schools, in the media and also in singing choirs. A conservative, traditional life is promoted. Brandt visits a military choir that performs patriotic songs and speaks to people who feel strengthened thanks to Putin.
Original title: Grensland: Beleefde mensen (2/8)
Director: Alexander Oey and Jelle Brandt Corstius
September 2015
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Soviet Academy of Sciences | Wikipedia audio article
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00:00:56 1 Membership
00:02:43 2 Present structure
00:03:09 2.1 Territorial branches
00:04:55 2.2 Regional centers
00:05:53 3 Institutions
00:07:34 4 Awards
00:07:49 5 History
00:07:58 5.1 Foundation. The Russian Empire times
00:10:35 5.2 The Academy of Sciences of the USSR
00:14:40 5.3 Post-Soviet period of the Academy
00:15:59 5.3.1 Reforms (2013—2018)
00:19:26 6 Presidents
00:20:01 7 Nobel Prize laureates affiliated with the Academy
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I cannot teach anybody anything, I can only make them think.
- Socrates
SUMMARY
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The Russian Academy of Sciences (RAS; Russian: Росси́йская акаде́мия нау́к (РАН) Rossíiskaya akadémiya naúk) consists of the national academy of Russia; a network of scientific research institutes from across the Russian Federation; and additional scientific and social units such as libraries, publishing units, and hospitals.
Headquartered in Moscow, the Academy (RAS) is considered a civil, self-governed, non-commercial organization chartered by the Government of Russia. It combines the members of RAS (see below) and scientists employed by institutions. Near the central academy building there is a monument to Yuri Gagarin in the square bearing his name.
As of November 2017, the Academy included 1008 institutions and other units; in total about 125,000 people were employed of whom 47,000 were scientific researchers.
USSR Academy of Sciences | Wikipedia audio article
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00:01:06 1 Membership
00:03:13 2 Present structure
00:03:42 2.1 Territorial branches
00:05:49 2.2 Regional centers
00:06:55 3 Institutions
00:08:52 4 Awards
00:09:08 5 History
00:09:17 5.1 Foundation. The Russian Empire times
00:12:23 5.2 The Academy of Sciences of the USSR
00:17:11 5.3 Post-Soviet period of the Academy
00:18:44 5.3.1 Reforms (2013—2018)
00:22:48 6 Presidents
00:23:28 7 Nobel Prize laureates affiliated with the Academy
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Voice name: en-GB-Wavenet-B
I cannot teach anybody anything, I can only make them think.
- Socrates
SUMMARY
=======
The Russian Academy of Sciences (RAS; Russian: Росси́йская акаде́мия нау́к (РАН) Rossíiskaya akadémiya naúk) consists of the national academy of Russia; a network of scientific research institutes from across the Russian Federation; and additional scientific and social units such as libraries, publishing units, and hospitals.
Headquartered in Moscow, the Academy (RAS) is considered a civil, self-governed, non-commercial organization chartered by the Government of Russia. It combines the members of RAS (see below) and scientists employed by institutions. Near the central academy building there is a monument to Yuri Gagarin in the square bearing his name.
As of November 2017, the Academy included 1008 institutions and other units; in total about 125,000 people were employed of whom 47,000 were scientific researchers.
Explosion and fire break out at Russian lab known for housing deadly smallpox virus
An explosion has caused a fire at a Russian biological research facility that's one of only two centers in the world known for housing samples of the smallpox virus.
The blast occurred Monday during repair work of a sanitary inspection room at the Russian State Centre for Research on Virology and Biotechnology, known as Vector, near the Russian city of Novosibirsk in Siberia, the center said in a statement.
One worker was injured in the incident and is being treated in intensive care for burns, Russia's TASS news agency reported.
In its statement, Vector said that no biohazard material was being stored in the room where the explosion took place. The city's mayor also insisted that the incident does not pose any biological or any other threat to the local population, according to TASS.
The fire broke out when a gas cylinder exploded on the fifth floor of the six-story laboratory building in the city of Koltsovo. The blast caused windows to smash but there was no structural damage to the building, TASS reported.
Founded in 1974, the Center for Virology and Biotechnology was once known for developing biological weapons research during the Cold War Soviet era. It is now one of the world's largest research centers developing vaccines and tools for diagnosing and treating infectious diseases.
The head of the Koltsovo science city, where Vector is located, told Russian state news agency RIA-Novosti that there was no biological threat.
Scientists at the center are developing vaccines for swine flu, HIV, and Ebola. In February, scientists there wrapped up clinical trials of an Ebola vaccine, according to TASS.
The US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention is the only other center in the world approved and known to have live samples of the deadly smallpox virus.
Last year, the US Food and Drug Administration announced its approval of the first drug to treat smallpox. The contagious disease was eradicated in 1980 thanks to vaccination efforts, but there are concerns that it could be used in a bioterror attack.
Could viruses survive a blast?
Dr. Joseph Kam, Honorary Clinical Associate Professor at the Stanley Ho Centre for Emerging Infectious Diseases (CEID) told CNN that rules for storing viruses are very strict and highly dangerous diseases such as Ebola and smallpox would be stored in the highest Level 4 laboratory.
Access to the samples would be limited, special containers are used and the storage mechanism is different from other laboratories, Kam said.
He added that while fire would be hot enough to destroy viruses, an explosion could risk spreading the virus and there would be a danger of infecting those in the room or contaminating the immediate area.
Viruses are fragile and more than 100 degrees or more will kill them, Kam said. He added that under certain circumstances, an explosion could spread the virus.
Part of the wave of the force of the explosion would carry it away from the site when it was first stored, he said. That contamination zone could be 10 to a few hundred meters depending on the size of the blast and other factors such as wind speed and direction, and whether it was an airborne virus.
The incident comes just weeks after an explosion near the site of a suspected failed missile test in northern Russia that killed at least five nuclear specialists and caused radiation levels to spike.
Conflicting official accounts regarding the incident heightened concerns of a potential cover-up.
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