Videos tagged with "symbol"

Saint Petrsburg OpenCity (Russian Version) [09:18]
Saint-Petersburg. The Northern capital of Russia. Being uniquely beautiful, always versatile, but harmonious, this city fascinates, mesmerizes and evokes creativity. Early 21** century Saint-Petersburg can be portrayed as a combination of the heavenly and earthly, history and contemporaneity, tradition and innovation. Preserved in the soul of anyone who has visited Saint-Petersburg at least once and guarded by the golden angel, keeping a bird's eye sight over Peter the Great's creation, Saint-Petersburg was and still is a city one loves to visit again and again. This city has a unique cultural, industrial and investment potential, symbolizing the European Russia.
Tags: Saint, Petrsburg, Russia (Country)

The diamond way [25:08]
Since ancient times people have been trying to find them. They have dug up huge pits in the soil and deep mines beneath it. It is born in the darkness, but when there is light, it radiates every part of the spectrum as a rainbow. Its adamant firmness and purity attracts millions of people. Men admire it. Women worship it. It is the symbol of prestige, wealth and beauty. What is it? Find out in our new XL Report - only on Russia Today.
Tags: Russia, Russian, diamond, Yakutia, gem-cutting

Scarlet sails 2011 part-1 [12:00]
Part-1 of Scarlet sails 2011. St.-Petersburg has a phenomenal romantic holiday of the graduates of the students and schoolboys, or cadets (show of celebrating the end of school year). Yes, only ship of dream can have Scarlet sails. But to understand character of holiday it is necessary to read the book of most romantic and very much the Petersburg's Russian writer Alexander Grin the "Scarlet Sails"! This tradition began in town survivor after a Siege and the end of WWII, when graduating students of several schools united to celebrate the ending of a school year in connection with symbolism of the popular before WWII children's book Scarlet Sails by Alexander Grin. Therefore a "Ship of dream" with scarlet sails was sailing along the English Embankment and the Admiralty Embankment towards the Winter Palace. So the "Scarlet Sails" tradition eventually evolved into a massive demonstration of freedom from "schools and rules" and became the most popular public event ever since, celebrating the ending of school year annually. The Scarlet Sails is a celebration in St-Petersburg, Russia is the most massive and famous public event during the White Nights Festival.
Tags: Scarlet sails, Petersburg, Show, Symphony, Orchestra, Russia, Carnival, Saint Petersburg, White Nights, Festival, Sailing, Tourism, Boat, Ship of dream, Romantic

Scarlet sails 2011 part-2 [11:33]
Part-2 of Scarlet sails 2011. St.-Petersburg has a phenomenal romantic holiday of the graduates of the students and schoolboys, or cadets (show of celebrating the end of school year). Yes, only ship of dream can have Scarlet sails. But to understand character of holiday it is necessary to read the book of most romantic and very much the Petersburg's Russian writer Alexander Grin the "Scarlet Sails"! This tradition began in town survivor after a Siege and the end of WWII, when graduating students of several schools united to celebrate the ending of a school year in connection with symbolism of the popular before WWII children's book Scarlet Sails by Alexander Grin. Therefore a "Ship of dream" with scarlet sails was sailing along the English Embankment and the Admiralty Embankment towards the Winter Palace. So the "Scarlet Sails" tradition eventually evolved into a massive demonstration of freedom from "schools and rules" and became the most popular public event ever since, celebrating the ending of school year annually. The Scarlet Sails is a celebration in St-Petersburg, Russia is the most massive and famous public event during the White Nights Festival.
Tags: Scarlet sails, Petersburg, Show, Symphony, Orchestra, Russia, Carnival, Saint Petersburg, White Nights, Festival, Sailing, Tourism, Boat, Ship of dream, Romantic

Epiphany (Siberia - Tomsk) - 19 January 2012 [01:26]
Filmed in Tomsk - at -23°C !! ********* 19/01 : The Epiphany, celebrated in Russia and Ukraine on January 19, marks the baptism of Jesus in the Orthodox Church. Believing that on this day water becomes holy and is imbued with special powers, Russians and Ukrainians cut holes in the ice of lakes and rivers, often in the shape of the cross, to bathe in the freezing water. Participants in the ritual may dip themselves three times under the water, honoring the Holy Trinity, to symbolically wash away their sins from the past year, and to experience a sense of spiritual rebirth.
Tags: Epiphany (holiday), Russia, Siberia