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An exciting train excursion from Berlin, across Siberia to Vladivostok offers a travel adventure that you're sure to enjoy. Filmed by famed Disney photographer Stuart Jewell. this video offers a look at Siberia's people as well as its sights. Traveling by train is a splendid way to cover the vast expanse of this country and also interact with its people. And travel in style we do - with fine meals, Russian champagne and caviar too!
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It takes a set of brass balls to drive over this thing. 570 meter (1870 feet) long Vitim River bridge. The bridge is 15 meters above the water and has no railings.
Special thanks to Campus Adventure Team
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Tim Cope and Chris Hatherly spent 14 months cycling recumbent bicycles from Moscow to Beijing across Siberia....frostbitten toes, vodka, and hospitality were just some of the things they encountered along the way living their dream. A 52 Minute film was made and broadcast in Australia about this journey, and the DVD was sold out but will soon be available. TO BUY THE BOOK PUBLISHED BY PENGUIN ABOUT THIS JOURNEY CALLED 'OFF THE RAILS' GO TO WWW.TIMCOPEJOURNEYS,COM
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After decades of repression Buddhism is flowering again in South Eastern Siberia.
Produced by ABC Australia
Distributed by Journeyman Pictures
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Siberia: Ray Mears
Season 1, Episode 3, part 2
Ray meets the Evenk people who live in the Taiga forest of Siberia.
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Remains of extinct Ice Age mammals, such as woolly mammoths, that have been held in Siberia's vast permafrost are thawing.
Several well-preserved carcasses are now offering a new fortune to scientists and traders.
Al Jazeera's Jonah Hull reports.
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The trip we made by Trans Siberia Express from Moskow to Beijing.
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The beautiful city of Zheleznogorsk, the Jewel of Siberia, is home to Maya, a bright teen-aged girl. The city is enclosed with a fence, to secure its underground nuclear plant and its sputnik factory. As Mayas mom harvests veggies and as Maya picks berries in the summer garden (dacha), their history is revealed.
The Soviet government recruited the brightest university students to work in the weapons complex, and Mayas parents were among them. These are the chocolate eaters, people who did patriotic work under the communists, and received privileges that they are no longer getting. The day at the garden culminates with Maya and her family enjoying tea together, with cake from Mayas berries.
Maya loves the outdoors and her parents take her camping in summer and skiing in winter. She competes on a cross-country ski team, and Maya comes up the final hill to her coachs cheering. Shes not a winner, but her mother congratulates her for completing the rigorous course.
Because the city is closed there is no mafia presence to speak of. The streets are safe for old and young, and Maya has always felt secure. However, the nuclear complex is changing, and there are limited job opportunities for Mayas generation.
Maya is an excellent student, but as she looks ahead, she becomes interested in Moscow University. She and her mother make a special trip by train to Moscow, and Maya applies. She wins a place at the university and studies World Economy with a Japanese specialty. She is eager to help innovate the Russian economy upon graduation.
The big city is strange at first, but when her mother comes to visit in the summer, she is happy to find Maya has adapted well. No longer a child of privilege, Maya must now make it on her own at a time of great growth and change in Russia. The lessons of trust, security and love of nature she learned in her unique Siberian hometown, serve Maya well in her new life.
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Social Siberias song fromthe debut album Waterworks. And since people think it's a cv song read the comments! Both jocke aka social siberia who plays guitar in cv and pierre the singer in cv says that it's social siberias song.
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With the very intitiation of NAWAPA in North America, politically and economically, the land connection of the continents of America and Eurasia is placed on the agenda. The connection via the Bering Strait, a project that was first proposed in the middle of the 19th century, would lead highways and rail track through a tunnel underneath the icy ocean waters, and would include a gas pipeline, as well as power transmission and communications lines.
Construction of the Bering Strait Tunnel is an active agenda of many of the most important nations in that region.
One of the international specialists on planning and constructing infrastructure projects of this scale and kind, is Dr. Hal Cooper. Dr. Cooper has inspired and performed extensive feasibility studies on the rail and tunnel project for the Bering Strait, the rail connections within Alaska and Canada, as well as numerous other projects.
Dr. Sergei Cherkasov is a further international specialist for such projects. Cherkasov works at the State Geological Vernadsky Museum in Moscow, which is part of the Russian Academy of Sciences. He is a leading expert on questions of raw materials in the scientific tradition of Vladimir Vernadsky and Dmitri Mendeleyev, and is active in several international working groups on surveying undiscovered mineral deposits.
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Steve Vai in Siberia
Here is an example of a presentation that we ask our students to give, including some practice of pronunciation --- Katia talks about Alaska. It is important to practice listening to a wide variety of accents.
One day with Yakut horses and breeders in Yakutia, Siberia/Russia
If anyone doesn't know what to do after museum visits in Russia's Siberian city of Yakutsk, to spend one day with woolly stocky Yakut horses and try horse trekking in real Siberian taiga is a great option.
Waters of life and death flow from same source in Russian Siberia
Russia's Southern Siberian republic of Khakassia is home to more than 300 rivers, including one of the world's largest - the Yenisei. It has been a source of life for locals for centuries, and Khakassians still rely on what they call their "Father Yenisei". But they know its unpredictable anger can always put them on the edge. Last year's tragedy at the local Hydro Electric plant proved how risky it can be.