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[00:00:02] to be people who understand it. The educational process is built on real production with the
[00:00:06] support of Komdrak-metal, the largest diamond producer
[00:00:09] in Yakutia. Everything necessary is available: modern
[00:00:12] machines, instruments, raw materials. In the hands of students there is not just an educational
[00:00:16] sample, they work with real diamonds, turning them into
[00:00:20] sparkling diamonds. In training, it is important not only
[00:00:24] to give the mineral many facets, but also to know it down to
[00:00:27] the smallest details. But before starting, the rough
[00:00:30] stone is carefully studied. We determine the habit
[00:00:34] of the diamond, this is the shape of the diamond, so
[00:00:37] our diamond has
[00:00:40] the shape of an octahedron. In
[00:00:43] Yakutia, over 90% of Russian
[00:00:46] diamonds are mined. Interest in this industry extends far beyond the
[00:00:49] region. Students from Cameroon are mastering the Yakut
[00:00:53] diamond school. For them, this is an opportunity to gain unique experience and
[00:00:57] apply it in their homeland. I
[00:01:00] chose this direction because Yakutia is one of the leading
[00:01:03] regions in the diamond
[00:01:05] industry.
[00:01:09] The demand for such specialists will only grow. In Yakutia, by decree
[00:01:12] of the President of Russia, a diamond cutting cluster is being created. It
[00:01:16] will help develop the processing of precious stones within the republic
[00:01:19] and produce more products. Komdrok Metal
[00:01:22] will be the flagship, and the main forge of personnel
[00:01:25] is SVF.
[00:01:29] And the fact that we are in a real... Yakut
[00:01:36] diamonds are valued all over the world, but no less valued is the work of those
[00:01:40] who can reveal their beauty. Students undergo internships at
[00:01:43] large enterprises in the industry, gaining real skills and
[00:01:46] the opportunity to continue working in
[00:01:49] their profession after graduation. Inna Udovkina, Vasily Solovyov, Vesti
[00:01:52] Yakutsk.
[00:01:55] Next, a special report by Anastasia Ovsyuk, about the work of the front-line Creative
[00:01:59] Brigade. In the special operation zone,
[00:02:24] there is no stage, no spotlights, no curtain, only
[00:02:28] music. And you and I, we are
[00:02:31] one, let's turn on our
[00:02:35] heater, warm our feet in a dance with you. Every day, artists
[00:02:39] arrive at a new unit, unpack equipment, tune instruments,
[00:02:43] short breaks to regain strength, back to
[00:02:46] battle. We warmed our cheeks in winter,
[00:02:49] waited for a warm spring, in summer we counted
[00:02:52] stars, someone thanks after the performance,
[00:02:56] someone just silently shakes hands.
[00:03:00] all circus, the front-line creative brigade was gathered from performers,
[00:03:04] actors of spoken genre,
[00:03:09] over the country, each with their own school, their own professional
[00:03:12] experience, in 2022 they
[00:03:15] were just about to become
[00:03:17] one team,
[00:03:25] the artists go through the wards, and then organize a general concert in
[00:03:28] the corridors.
[00:04:00] they even allowed some mothers and wives to be right next to
[00:04:03] the bed, bed by bed, I really
[00:04:06] got lost, how to start, how you won't start, to
[00:04:09] greet you, yes, how are you, when you stand on the training ground, when you see burning eyes
[00:04:13] in the dugout, and here the guys are lying and don't know and are afraid,
[00:04:16] friends, our front-line creative brigade is already in its fourth
[00:04:20] year of touring the fronts of the special operation, the concert is hosted by
[00:04:23] Evgeny Pavlov, a professional actor, served in the Moscow theater
[00:04:27] Sovremennik, starred in TV series, here he had to leave
[00:04:30] big roles, now his stage is
[00:04:33] the training ground, the hospital, the dugout, almost every
[00:04:36] concert he starts the same way, with a smile and
[00:04:40] kind words. Well, yes, we will return with victory, well,
[00:04:43] this must be instilled in our guys, we must talk about
[00:04:46] this, mother is waiting at home, believes, wife is waiting at home, children are waiting at home,
[00:04:50] a person clings to this, to this
[00:04:53] love. Evgeny is sure that after the war new poems,
[00:04:57] plays, performances will appear, as it was during the years of the great.
[00:05:43] he will have bright, burning eyes, and if
[00:05:46] a soldier is not interested, you won't make him show
[00:05:49] emotions, he has combat work, he came to
[00:05:52] the task, he came to a warm club, he came to a warm
[00:05:56] dugout, the first trips were to the Kherson region, there the program
[00:05:59] was actually created from scratch for specific viewers and completely
[00:06:03] new conditions, the repertoire is constantly changing, some numbers
[00:06:06] appear, others disappear, if he is not
[00:06:09] interested, then he gradually begins to... write
[00:06:12] fall asleep, eyes close,
[00:06:15] eyelids become heavy, and we lose
[00:06:18] the audience. Today, the front-line creative brigade of the Song and
[00:06:22] Dance Ensemble of the Leningrad Military District is one whole. Arguments,
[00:06:25] of course, happen, no creative team can do without them, but
[00:06:29] the main thing here is that they have learned to listen to each other, everyone
[00:06:32] understands that on stage he is working not just for
[00:06:35] himself.
[00:06:38] Don't be afraid of me, I won't touch
[00:06:41] you. Don't worry, and
[00:06:45] even familiar songs here at the front sound different,
[00:06:49] especially when the artists face soldiers who have just returned from the front
[00:06:52] line, they gave, as we believe, 100%, right
[00:06:56] up to the last, as they say, up to the last drop of blood, they gave everything,
[00:07:00] in the faces of the guys, well, as if there was emptiness,
[00:07:03] that is, as if you were hitting a wall, like peas against a
[00:07:07] wall, but when the concert ended, the guys came up, shook
[00:07:11] hands, said, guys, thank you, everything was great, everything was
[00:07:14] wonderful, don't pay attention, we are just flying a bit more,
[00:07:17] they hugged, some cried, until February 22, Viktor
[00:07:21] Dolzhenko lived a completely different life, he was born in a small village
[00:07:25] of Krasnodar Krai, worked in the district culture house, organized
[00:07:28] holidays, weddings, corporate events, on September 19 he held
[00:07:32] a banquet, and 3 days later he was at the gathering
[00:07:35] point, when I got mobilized, the first thought that crossed my mind was, do they sing,
[00:07:38] do they make people happy or don't they make them happy? holidays.
[00:07:42] At the front, Viktor served as a machine gunner, pulled out the wounded,
[00:07:46] after a concussion delivered food and
[00:07:49] ammunition to the front line. Lyuboradtsy,
[00:07:51] lyubo, lyubo,
[00:07:54] bratsy,
[00:07:58] ours do not
[00:08:00] have to,
[00:08:04] and he also started writing poems and songs, so he tried to express
[00:08:07] his accumulated feelings, he dedicated them to his division and the people
[00:08:11] with whom he fought. Kherson, when a person
[00:08:14] who was in battle looks at you, and you sing something military-patriotic
[00:08:18] for him, he looks at you and completely
[00:08:22] scans you, you have no chance to lie, to
[00:08:25] deceive somewhere. In November of the twenty-fifth Viktor's father signed a contract and
[00:08:28] went to the front as a volunteer. A few weeks later he
[00:08:32] died. Now at concerts Viktor, together with a comrade-in-arms,
[00:08:35] performs the song, I'm going to my dad. For him, this is not just
[00:08:38] a number in the program, this is a personal story that he has to
[00:08:42] relive anew, I
[00:08:45] will take off my shoes from the pile
[00:08:49] of plastic, across the field along
[00:08:52] the path, I will enter my native
[00:08:56] home, at the native
[00:08:58] doorstep, I will understand, about
[00:09:01] him alive, healthy, thank
[00:09:05] God, God grant him 100 years,
[00:09:08] alive, healthy, thank God,
[00:09:15] Why did he go to war? Well, he went with
[00:09:17] the words: I cannot watch young guys die?
[00:09:34] How old was Dad? 54?
[00:09:36] we need a small
[00:09:45] timeout,
[00:09:46] the artist admits he has to put his pain
[00:09:50] on stage aside, because the task is to give the audience
[00:09:53] emotion, to support him and do his job. When
[00:09:57] I was already serving, he often wrote to me, for the last
[00:10:01] year, I guess, that I cannot sit idle, I cannot sit,
[00:10:04] my son is at war, I am sitting behind your back, I
[00:10:08] am proud of him, because he is one
[00:10:11] of, probably, few people who took
[00:10:15] such a decision, it is difficult, it
[00:10:19] is to find your destiny, your life, to give it
[00:10:22] for the fatherland. My hero,
[00:10:26] I'm sure he was very
[00:10:29] proud of you,
[00:10:30] yes,
[00:10:34] of course, it's difficult, but
[00:10:37] an artist, an artist cannot show his inner pain, he
[00:10:41] must somehow affect the inner
[00:10:44] spiritual world of a person, and his pains, his problems,
[00:10:47] his some worries, sometimes you need to set aside
[00:10:51] and fulfill the task that is currently at hand.
[00:11:55] feed on this, an artist
[00:11:58] is not that simple,
[00:12:01] you have problems, you have something that hurts, you
[00:12:05] have family problems, but when you go on stage, the audience should not
[00:12:09] know this and should not notice it, this is exactly what the
[00:12:12] director says, an artist lives by this,
[00:12:15] army
[00:12:17] break,
[00:12:25] Bigbaev is used to big theatrical stages, he served in different theaters, but
[00:12:28] he especially cherishes the dramatic Komsomolsk-on-Amur, now his
[00:12:32] stage can be just a few square meters, sometimes
[00:12:36] a small dugout, where you have to literally bend over under
[00:12:39] the ceiling. They became
[00:12:42] recognizable, and here we are, some from
[00:12:46] Rostov, some from
[00:12:47] Kolyma,
[00:12:52] in front of them are soldiers of the assault unit, some
[00:12:55] just returned from a mission, some will go back to the front line
[00:12:59] in a few hours, if the audience gives him energy, then he
[00:13:03] begins to give it back like a diffuser, that is,
[00:13:07] he keeps nothing for himself, but we are aware
[00:13:10] that, well, the guys didn't come from
[00:13:14] the park, not from a walk, everyone says, "let's
[00:13:18] recharge the guys," we came to these, recharged them, to these recharged them, to these
[00:13:21] recharged them, who will recharge us? Where
[00:13:25] will we get energy? It's especially hard to perform
[00:13:29] in front of those who are just about to go on their first
[00:13:32] assault, and where do you get your energy from? Where do
[00:13:35] I get it from? Well, of course
[00:13:37] I
[00:13:41] know that my loved ones remember
[00:13:44] me, I look at
[00:13:47] a photograph of my family and I
[00:13:51] kind of gain strength and I kind of...
[00:13:55] exhale and go to work. A few
[00:13:58] months later, Ivan accidentally saw a video from the front line online.
[00:14:01] A severely wounded soldier, almost unconscious from
[00:14:04] blood loss. During the evacuation, he reads his
[00:14:07] own poem to a comrade. Ivan recognized the voice. This
[00:14:11] was the same person he met after
[00:14:14] the concert. No, no, yes, wolf, from 11 o'clock it doesn't bring. Come on,
[00:14:17] brother, read poems, this poem was written by Asan.
[00:14:21] I want it to be covered, it
[00:14:24] remained for centuries and
[00:14:28] that the guys heard it, it's called
[00:14:31] "We won't die", written by
[00:14:32] Alexei Alexeevich,
[00:14:36] we won't die, because we never die, the righteous
[00:14:40] fire in our hearts, we will fan it into a flame, throw those
[00:14:43] enemies into it, where your money is, there are our feats, victories, the soldier
[00:14:47] was saved, later the artists followed his recovery and
[00:14:50] worried about him with all their hearts, handsome, I'll
[00:14:53] get you out. Don't lose consciousness, talk, okay, we'll all go
[00:14:57] home, happy journey, I'm calling home, hi, son, how
[00:15:01] are you doing, everything is fine, everything is calm, don't
[00:15:05] be scared, mom, but there are also difficult moments, returning to
[00:15:08] a familiar unit, artists sometimes see completely different
[00:15:12] faces, fewer and fewer familiar ones, someone got
[00:15:15] wounded, someone was transferred, someone didn't
[00:15:17] come back, we look
[00:15:21] carefully, hey, are you alive, hey,
[00:15:25] okay, really, okay, quiet, quiet,
[00:15:27] look,
[00:15:32] Ivan more often chooses poems about life, home, feelings,
[00:15:36] about what remains beyond...
[00:16:07] which simply
[00:16:08] make people laugh
[00:16:13] contact,
[00:16:16] in addition to concerts, artists train at the
[00:16:19] training ground,
[00:16:28] storm trenches, hone tactical medicine skills,
[00:16:31] because everyone here, first and foremost, remains
[00:16:35] a serviceman.
[00:16:47] for a long time now, the vocal cords are
[00:16:50] tempered, probably like
[00:16:52] steel, so in terms of
[00:16:55] strength,
[00:16:58] nothing complicated,
[00:17:02] emotionally much harder,
[00:17:04] because every concert...
[00:17:09] after a performance, you need time to recover, but most often
[00:17:13] there isn't any, one rehearsal follows another, one concert follows the next,
[00:17:31] in February 2022, the philharmonic quickly gathered the team, two
[00:17:35] volunteers were needed for the front, so that no one felt
[00:17:39] offended, they took a simple
[00:17:41] Kubanka hat, tore up pieces of paper,
[00:17:45] put two pluses, threw them in, well, I drew
[00:17:49] a plus, that's how I ended up in combat,
[00:17:52] war is not exactly rainbows
[00:17:55] and unicorns, it's scary, it's always painful,
[00:17:59] but it means it
[00:18:01] has to be, that is, we stand for our land, we
[00:18:05] stood for our land and we will stand for our land. He is from
[00:18:08] Shakhtyorsk, lived in Donetsk for many years, studied in Lugansk, in the second year
[00:18:12] of the special operation, the commander suggested he audition for a military
[00:18:15] ensemble. Yaroslav then doubted for a long time whether
[00:18:19] a simple guy from Donetsk could join the team, but he
[00:18:22] risked it. Even no matter how tired they were,
[00:18:25] no matter what tasks they faced,
[00:18:29] no matter where they had to move next, we always
[00:18:32] try to inspire them, and we
[00:18:35] still break through that wall in the end. We break through it,
[00:18:39] someone sheds a tear, someone starts clapping, someone smiles, so
[00:18:43] that's what our work is for. Ilya
[00:18:46] Kolesnikov remembers the spring of 2022 particularly well, no one knew then how
[00:18:50] long this journey would be. 15 artists, ballet
[00:18:53] couples, vocalists, a violinist and a guitarist, instead
[00:18:56] of a concert hall - a dugout, instead of wings -
[00:18:59] a forest belt. New artists are selected very
[00:19:02] carefully. Today, when someone comes to me, I tell
[00:19:06] them the whole truth. When someone comes, I even try to scare them
[00:19:09] more than it actually is, I say, it's hell, we don't get out of the training grounds,
[00:19:13] we constantly go to war,
[00:19:16] and, well, of course, that's not the case, but I want to see how a person reacts in
[00:19:20] a stressful situation, if a person says, yes, I'm ready, yes, good, where's the training ground,
[00:19:24] please, where to go in a truck to a concert, yes, please, where to perform in the cold,
[00:19:27] I love it so much, it's my joy, then he's our kind of person,
[00:19:31] it means he'll stick around here, and if I'm all in a tailcoat, I'm
[00:19:35] here at the philharmonic, with the choir, well, no... excuse me, I need
[00:19:38] creamer here, here, here, please, put some water
[00:19:41] for me here, well, go find water somewhere else,
[00:19:44] that is, these are the nuances, this
[00:19:47] is work. One day Ilya Kolesnikov found an old
[00:19:51] poster, a concert of the Song and Dance Ensemble of the Leningrad Military
[00:19:54] District, date April 22, forty
[00:19:57] second year, the same month, only 80
[00:20:01] years ago, a different war, a different
[00:20:04] generation, but still the same music, still the same task,
[00:20:07] to support those who are at the front. Folk song
[00:20:11] is replaced by academic vocals, modern music by
[00:20:14] classics, between them sound humorous numbers and
[00:20:18] poems that touch the soul.
[00:20:19] стихи.
[00:20:23] With all my heart and soul I love
[00:20:26] you, from the western
[00:20:29] borders,
[00:20:32] to the east, your land is famous for
[00:20:35] heroes.
[00:20:38] My homeland,
[00:20:39] my
[00:20:43] homeland, my
[00:20:46] Russia, with all my heart and soul. I
[00:20:50] love you, from
[00:20:52] the western borders and to
[00:20:55] the east your land is famous for
[00:20:58] heroes, second concert of the day,
[00:21:02] the artists once again take the improvised stage with the same
[00:21:05] energy, as if it's their first performance, in that
[00:21:08] cruel battle,
[00:21:11] he stood till the end,
[00:21:15] for his wife, for his family,
[00:21:19] and for freedom.
[00:22:02] Alexander himself studied at a music school, played the trumpet in orchestras,
[00:22:05] and then for the first time heard a real operatic voice
[00:22:09] and, as he recalls, literally felt goosebumps all over
[00:22:12] his body, that is, the subject of voice training appeared, there was
[00:22:16] an excellent teacher, Mikhail Semyonovich, Bogomolny.
[00:22:21] Such an extravagant young man, and
[00:22:25] he kind of showed how an operatic voice sounds, he
[00:22:28] is a baritone, he has such lush
[00:22:31] curls, he just opens his mouth and an
[00:22:35] operatic baritone sounds from him, this was just such a colossal
[00:22:38] impression for me, goosebumps all over my body, down to the bones, I fell in love with
[00:22:42] singing, at the beginning of the brigade's work, everyone demonstrated what
[00:22:45] they did best in peaceful life, today more and more often
[00:22:49] artists perform together, the most important plus
[00:22:52] is that we cheer the guys up, we cheer them up
[00:22:55] very much, we raise their spirits,
[00:22:59] really, as they say, it's already a hackneyed phrase, you could say,
[00:23:02] "combat spirit," yes, but this combat spirit is made up of
[00:23:06] many factors, sometime in summer at
[00:23:09] dawn I looked into the neighbor's
[00:23:13] garden, there a dark-skinned girl,
[00:23:15] a Moldovan girl was picking
[00:23:18] grapes.
[00:23:29] Kirill Ivanilov first appeared on stage at 5 years old, his mother
[00:23:33] is the director of the rural house of culture, his father is an accordionist, everyone
[00:23:36] in the family sang, music was part of his life since
[00:23:40] childhood. I remember the first song we sang in kindergarten, it was something about my Russia having blue eyes,
[00:23:43] and a blonde braid, it all started,
[00:23:47] concerts. sometimes after a performance, it's hard for
[00:24:34] comrades to even hit the next note, so strongly
[00:24:38] does the artist experience what is happening, but
[00:24:40] it cannot be otherwise, when you
[00:24:43] perform some piece, you must
[00:24:46] understand its meaning yourself? In what sense? In general, the
[00:24:50] song and convey this state,
[00:24:53] it's either some tension, or vice versa, and if you don't feel
[00:24:57] it yourself, then the people who are watching you won't feel it, we are all
[00:25:01] guys,
[00:25:03] yes, they are all my, this is my family, we have been together for almost 4 years,
[00:25:06] we recharge each other, if there are two or three
[00:25:10] concerts a day, you have to give your all at the first concert, you also need to get energy
[00:25:14] from somewhere for the next concert, so on the road while
[00:25:17] we are driving, we recharge each other. The program
[00:25:20] increasingly features poems by contemporary authors, including those who were
[00:25:24] on the front lines themselves. One of the strongest is "Call Signs" by Mikhail
[00:25:27] Dyakonov, a poem about fallen
[00:25:30] comrades. We did not manage to get to know them in
[00:25:34] battle, but these
[00:25:37] five became
[00:25:38] our kin.
[00:25:41] May God accept them into his holy
[00:25:44] host. But we only know
[00:25:48] their call signs, and the elder
[00:25:51] handed him a note,
[00:25:55] the old priest came down from the
[00:25:58] pulpit and silently unfolded
[00:26:01] that note. He said:
[00:26:05] I will not violate the
[00:26:08] canon here, in history there are
[00:26:11] many saints, whose names are
[00:26:14] forgotten by generations, but
[00:26:17] we remember their nicknames
[00:26:20] through the ages, which are essentially the
[00:26:24] same call signs, I will perform, of course, the
[00:26:26] rite, such times have come
[00:26:30] again. Who stood against demons
[00:26:34] in a row. Our Lord knows
[00:26:37] all their names. In
[00:26:40] 4 years, the front-line creative brigade traveled thousands
[00:26:44] of kilometers and gave hundreds of concerts. History
[00:26:47] seemed to repeat itself. Once upon a time, artists also went where
[00:26:50] battles were fought, performed in dugouts, at the front, in
[00:26:54] hospitals, sang for those who especially needed
[00:26:57] support. Today the task remains the same,
[00:27:01] to be with the soldiers.
[00:27:52] there's a plan, just awesome, awesome,
[00:27:55] best movie, I think, and generally such an impression, as if you really
[00:27:59] fell into a fairy tale, you are all heroes of Russian fairy tales. I liked
[00:28:03] the frog, I liked the fog with
[00:28:06] the dragon, Alyonushka is cool,
[00:28:09] hello, good fellow, Resa Masha, I am not
[00:28:13] small, small, I am not
[00:28:16] small, oh, cool, milk
[00:28:19] river, stove and
[00:28:22] apple tree, you had a mosquito sitting there, it
[00:28:25] saved the universe, this
[00:28:29] is a multiverse, this is cool,
[00:28:33] just a cool movie from the heart, well, it's
[00:28:36] amazing, you can't even describe it with words, you just have to
[00:28:39] see it, let's get to business, no
[00:28:42] time, how I got into a fairy tale, interesting,
[00:28:45] right, well, you'll see for yourselves, an incredible
[00:28:48] premiere about Russian superheroes, how Ivan got into a fairy tale.