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and russia the u.s. while the anniversary of the first joint space flight on the floor and cold look full of it on this day thirty five years ago two spacecraft one soviet one american blasted off and later. in the apollo mission. there were headlines from r.t. up next the mystery of a train loaded with the russian gold reserves which disappeared almost a century ago the legend surrounding the story are alive to this day and it is the subject of our special report next. russia's celebrated deep sea submersibles have uncovered quite a few secrets hidden under water. on one occasion a scientific expedition found traces of the so-called gold train which crashed into lake baikal in the early twentieth century. according to the scientists part of the

russian empire as gold reserves is called to be still on the lake bed amidst which is left of old railway cause. some claim it law is a siberian ministry. others say it is hidden away in case in the country's far east even smell the czech republic. what happened to the bulk of the russian empire as gold reserves. team is one of the most ensuring myths of russian history. by cal is not the only place linked to the mystery of the russian empire as gold was foreclosed on the bed of the world's deepest lake will you be the tip of the iceberg in the process treat trainloads of gold went missing across the country the

precious payloads travelled from with east leaving a multitude of secrets and room is in their wake. because it is a city eight hundred kilometers east of moscow. most of the russian empire as gold was set out on a moment journey from this old city nearly a hundred years ago. the bolsheviks had seized power in russia often by nine hundred seventeen revolution the civil war was still raging and at that time there was fighting on the streets between the morning just wants movement and the bolshevik read all the power in the city changed hands many times this photo was taken in early nine hundred eighteen. the red army corps cavalry is moshing victoriously along the streets of. the bolsheviks seize this building as a matter of priority at the time it was the cause of the national bank.

nearly ninety years have passed since then but today too there is a bank behind the stores according to the banks accounts there was some one thousand two hundred eighty tons of valuables here in the one nine hundred eighteen including gold platinum and silver today the gold alone would be worth more than twenty six billion dollars. but they're not addressing that russian gold reserves was one of the world's largest if not the largest u.s. a had not yet accumulated the cost will gold reserves it has now. transporting some. a bulky and heavy call go was quite a problem most weeks wasted no time laying tram tracks leading to the building the idea was to use trams to take the gold to the river pier this old picture. street the cars keep on the footpath because the rest of the pavement is occupied

by tracks the could of least directly to the banks main entrance to the gold was to have been removed from the bike on the fifth most hundred eighty. one prevented people palatial dion's to the question is contained in the archive of all to live in professor of history at university he is drawn of witness reports to reconstruct that day's events almost in full could they be attributed to. one of the eyewitnesses who writes that outrageous brought team self workman to the basement cell because on the bank only in the evening of august the fifth they were about to start removing valuables from the bank when the city was shelled by the enemy. when four trucks and shipped them and fifty armed red army men back to the bank they started moving gold out despite the shelling but they could take out only a hundred crates with gold worth six million roubles and ninety five million rubles

worth of my bank notes for. the want of me and units of the so-called czechoslovak legion entered. with the seventh nine hundred eighteen the. capital center telegrams only headquarters of the he visited the bank said the trophies beyond all calculation we have seized russia's gold of the whites were to repeat the bolsheviks mistake they made swift arrangements for the valuables to be taken out of to a safe distance from the front line. here in this yard they brought a card to this backyard and then as. anybody capable of lifting heavy weights help shift those enormous loads. the gold was taken to the pool by trams and translate by the bolsheviks but they never have the opportunity to use them because it was guarded by the russian soldiers

although legionnaires from the czech and slovak cool with the first seize the bank . puzzle could have is a military historian as well as the president of the czechoslovak legion as memorial society but this is the standard uniform of the russian army worn cheering world war one this one is the uniform of the service men of the chant brigade as can be seen from the accrington shorter strips the czech brigade was formed in the summer of nine hundred fourteen and we came to the basis for the. russian school. during world war one russian emperor nicholas the second bets the idea of forming a military brigade consisting of czechs and slovaks living in russia the legion is what to fight on the side of the russian army against a straight hungary and germany immediately after the nine hundred seventeen revolution the czech slovak legion gave support to the white movement in russia

against the bolsheviks but equally jeanette's wanted was to get back to their home country these pictures from the colors of the military institute in prague they tell the story of the czechoslovak legions journey by rail from samoa to volleyball stuck in the country's east the gold train foliage the same route. she koslow x. fought in a special sector of the front porch when admiral cole chuck seized power they took a neutral position and now they wanted to achieve their initial goal the aim was to get to have lady talk with the intention of returning to europe this means that nobody but me and roll call charke had access to the gold reserve. the n.t. based should be government formed in siberia in live aid but now it's made team named alexander culture russia's head of state and supreme commander in chief of the home

force of the whites movement culture took control of most of the gold the whites had seems to cause. the bullshit culture offensive in the summer of ninety nine team forced culture expo me to retreat eastwards. with the train load of gold so telcel the little journey through siberia called check this in its own personal courage next to the steam locomotive units of the chancellor but legion made sure the train had free passage through the route of the troy they were in control of the entire lake to translate period railway. professor of history prologues military institute has traced the route of the gold train based on military reports and accounts by officers of the czech slovak legion blocks in one thousand twenty officials from the ministry of finance a former sars to russia were constantly with the russian gold reserve travelling

from cause to or could. this means they were in control of the gold in one way or another you know of course there is much speculation about whether or not some of it was stolen from. the golden train called the long distance by nine hundred twenty the gold was taken from his a to some lower this. was placed on the train and then sent from homes to go train to give cooks in the east of the country so we needed to train station it was discovered that a huge amount of the gold was missing by that time and culture exporters to go on to the golden trade was handed over to the czechoslovakia generis. tin it is a small station the train loaded with gold came here nearly ninety years ago so the team crates of bullion were found to be missing on january the twelfth months

hundred twenty eight days of the legionnaires began guarding the train. this theft was reported by nature koslow x. because the russian guards had disappeared so there was no one else who could report their theft some of the treasures had also disappeared it was discovered early in the morning by the chief khosla max standing guard. when they approached the carriage to find out what had happened they saw that the doors had been broken and that something was missing inside. this document refutes what historian pavel cutrone claims the report states a russian by the name of hsu called in a beijing official by the name of keselowski discovered the absence of two seals on one of the carriages they also discovered that thirteen crates of gold were missing the report stresses that the carriages were in good order both inside and outside

the document ricin the all close approach institute of military history. prague ligia bank was in this building. it was founded by the mayor of the czech slovak cool off to their return from russia in the one nine hundred twenty it was the first bank of the newly independent czech state. and its menu i'm sure thirteen creates wouldn't have made much difference today to cost the american economy what's really helped it was the fact that issued its own currency . the train with what was left of the russian interest gold continued on its way to east to goods from to its station. crates which disappeared without a trace the next stop on the gold trains route would prove fatal for culture.

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station is called it quits too but in general no one hundred twenty it bore the name. it was here that the offices of the czechoslovak legion arrested their russian and i had a real cool check on this unremarkable platform he and his colleagues were locked up in the small house and were then handed over to the revolutionaries in this way they were given safe passage to a port of blood of all stock so they could sail home. to. slovak's surrendered culture to centrist revolutionaries in their coats they wanted to have them put on trial. with the arrival of the bolsheviks they deposed the centrists arrested culture and executed him. for. having played their role to execution of every creature the chief slave at the gym is resumed the journey in the direction of the folder flooded. now the question is

where did the gold go and while they looking for it in the lake like. this story and alexander to the link and right to events. i lived in the baikal area holroyd they are sure the quite a sizable part kolchak's gold ended up in the lake off to one of the trains creche tale that eastbound train was moving along the crew by call railway what soldier train was it and where was it carrying that. to according to an exalted theory the all says lowly in a contract made between the chicks live like an engine is and the bolsheviks cutin agreement. with their boarding to the kilted agreement half of russia's gold reserve villagers seized from culture shock was to be handed over to the bolsheviks

while the legionnaires kept the other half as a result russia acquired thirteen carriages and the czechoslovak struck seventeen. the chick historian disagrees with the theory of his russian counterpart to the truce agreement was signed at crewe to station as a result of the truce the russian gold reserve was handed over to the government led by lenin she who sponsored the treasure was in the state that it had been while in call chocks custody with the exception of the thirteen crete's that are disappearing and station. to the link to an event called the distance several times before one hundred twenty kilometers it's a flight. locomotive they are looking for evidence that the golden train controlled by the. did indeed crash was after the agreement had been signed the check was love

x. headed on eastwards with the gold quite a common pita however it turned out lennon had sent a telegram ahead to local followers. at the last moment and you know his message was blunt blow up the tunnels and bridges and care of the cracks not a single gram of the gold was to be allowed to go any further east. to prove my cold will waive the world's most dangerous routes. there was sheer cliffs. lake baikal is on the other. there are frequent rock slides here this enormous piece of rock sticking out of the lake being what caused the crash. the driver of that steam locomotive told event about it when he was still young. according to the driver of the road fragment crashed into the train just when the

locomotive that entered the tunnel. just some of the train cars serino on the tracks like others fell in the direction of by call. one of the carriages was on the bank after being ripped apart crates were taken out of it. in the summer of two thousand and two the linker and other scientists still said that ascent to the bed of lake baikal on board amid deep sea submersible from here as it did one thousand four hundred meters they found a great carriages and a host of objects resembling crates this picture shows them in great detail charles is all of those crates were filled with gold. yes don their stores both under the foreign reports indicate that several trains carry the goal the location of the carriages the middle creates that were so heavy that they couldn't be moved coincides with

a crash site because. people in submersibles for only been able to examine the lake bed dragging up heavy objects with an altogether different vessel yes abbas thought of it if the search for gold charts gold is put on a strictly scientific basis success may be achieved. in the east bound train carrying the gold reserve by pulse the siberian city however is in this building that a trace of the so-called siberian share of culture x. gold was found in one thousand nine hundred one. the building used to house the local branch of the soviet k.g.b. today belongs to russia's federal security service. alexander patrician of the k.g.b. he was looking through secret stating from the civil war when he came across a document pertaining to the nine hundred twenty s.

it contained a description of the medal stand before culture came to power the new medals the inscription liberation of siberia. knew the medals had already been stamped more than maps got so they were made of precious metals he orders them to be added to his gold reserves although most of that is to say the russians called reserve. he said it should be kept in church basements in tumble schools other additions included church on a month and possibly valuables belonging to the family a former russian emperor. there are two places between moscow and to balls to what is a historical russian city it was founded in the sixteenth century and it used to be the capital of siberia with the with siberian portion of culture x. gold kept away did it end. there are many streets

and churches around to poles according to alexander patricians theory the siberian potion of culture gold was hidden in one of them the street is several kilometers from topolski during the civil war. of tobolsk one of his residence is here. new spiritual force some of the charge valuables and valuables and belonging to the siberian white movement were kept here in the monastery and is now being restored what it feels like you just don't see. you know i do find a lot of metal yes we have lots of but. i find this quite intriguing and there is a lot of metal here because insurgents taking part in the one nine hundred twenty one peasant revolt were executed here by this wall one finds gold jam and human bones here all in one place which was. cool alexander protrusion of the federal security service now retired has spent

a good deal of time in search of culture. his job gave him access to secret transcripts of interrogations relating to. of tobolsk according to his testimony when the rebel army was approaching. one hundred nineteen culture kind of ordered siberian gold be evacuated immediately. in october one thousand nine hundred. and there was alton cold weather compelled the convoy to hold on near the village of turner no close to sir good. unload of the valuable credits and deep in the woods it is not known where the cargo was left those treasures including the prices liberation of siberia metals have not yet been found.

for the golden train which is still the translight period railway truthdig quids or russia's railways converge at the pole to the full stop in the country's east situated no one thousand promise a way from. the translight well wait a minute see the city one theory has it the russians gold is a city called tracks execution. this picture shows chicken slow. back legionnaires waiting for that turn to him and ships in the pool to flood a full stop. to transport ships took some seventy thousand officers and men of the czech slew back to teaching your. members of the koslow act army corps where caring norms as they remarked on ships must go to my only personal belongings. even they were not allowed to exceed a certain weight limit there seems to suggest that there was very little room in

those ships therefore i cannot honestly believe that the concept of secure itself on a railway course would have been accommodated dear. this picture from the all cause of the military institution prologue shows legion is sitting on crates as they prepare for embarkation. and another photo shows large packages on the ships by what's in them the old like to be found. is easiest to treasure hunters and got it full stop all along the route of the gold train believe the part of culture x. was a is hit in some way here. see a game at the in co-founder of the motor club began looking for the gold in two thousand and five after he met vic to show a local bristol shim of promise to take sergei to a cave where he said he had found gold bullion with the codes of poems of the

russian empire impulse only. soon gave his friends received official people's interest in them to do its completion work of the sort of the following so gave then made arrangements for the expedition to go to. put up with that there was a hillside waste at the signing off of. this knowledge to later to dig up a stone after stone. and they excavator reached a flat surface made of stone it was easy to see that had been made by hand. well. it seems we can get in there we could find gold. only she. told me that he had seen stacks of guild billion go to uni and paintings in teams and even some flags. here seemed those were paintings because the tubes were quite on. the ruler but he touched nothing for fear of triggering

a blast. team found nothing after two months of work later other treasure hunters literally collapse the cave to the ground vic to shoot more of the man who found the cave from the first place died under mysterious circumstances this raises the suggestion that he may indeed have found something valuable but whether that was part of the russian empire as gold reserve is still unknown. well most appear through looking for gold charts gold is something of a hobby for moral club members some evidence suggests that it is here in the premarket territory although screech in our nature. we're going to know more excavation work in the near future. in nineteen twenty the bolsheviks but some of the gold whites have taken from the state banks broach. in that system with the with when all is said and it is

a significant fact that the gold returned to this building after its siberian journey so it took several days to bring it here by trams and motivate comes in october at nine hundred twenty the gold reserve. depriving musk. in the early twentieth century trains carrying crosses the goal of the russian empire which would show you the country. every now and then the fascination with treasure. to fire up again with. many living along the gulf and many other parts of russia claimed they know where the gold bullion is to. sit back. these treasure hunts is a term to go on with the. the mystery of the girl's disappearance has remained unsold in media hundred years.