In Montana, there is no future ... The future - in Russian!

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Four lumberjacks from the United States came to Siberia to earn a living

"In Montana, there is no future ... The future - in Russian!" This phrase sounded not at the rally patriotic Russians. She said in front of his countrymen American lumberjack Sean Van in one of the bars of the very Montana - one of the few states of the USA, which is undergoing industrial logging. And politics has nothing to do with it: just Sean decided to put his own team and go to Siberia to work. That came out of it, says the program Discovery Channel «Siberian roulette."

What he seeks in the distant edge?

Sean hereditary woodcutter, and every year the quota for deforestation in the United States reduced: even if they turn out to find a job, it is unlikely that it will bring a lot of money. Therefore, Shawn 17 years ago first went to work in Siberia, sitting in a large Swedish logging company. When the contract ended, he returned to Siberia, and then come again and again. Three months lumberjack spent in Russia, then returned for a month in Montana to the family, but then again - taiga, cold and heavy, but well-paid work.

For 17 years Sean well studied Russian language, local realities and peculiarities of the national character. This experience he considered sufficient to start their own business. During a routine visit to Montana woodcutter decided to form his own team and get a booking for felling of Siberian forest not as a hired worker, and directly, without intermediaries. And such a proposal has turned up: an old friend of Sean, Colonel Panciuc offered to cut down a good-sized logging site near the village of Novochernorechensky, which is located 150 kilometers west of Krasnoyarsk. True, the first loggers waiting "test job" - the section of small size. Team cope with glowing terms - will receive order, not - goodbye: Panciuc once headed the prison guards, the ceremony was not used.
Welcome to Russia

In Montana, Sean was able to convince the four proven American loggers to go with him to Siberia. All of them were in a deadlock situation and hoped that the money earned in Siberia, to help them get out of it. Brandon Woodworth - a professional-class, but because of problems with the law, he could not find work, and he had to feed his family. Josiah Heyzer too professional and too unemployed - due to strict quotas woodcutters have to rely not only on skills, but also for good luck in your job search. Zach Sheets only 22 years old, and he went to Siberia to help his father, who suffers from severe liver disease. Do Jerada Fitchett have your own business in Montana, but the company pursued damages, so he hoped that the Siberian earnings will be saving for his case.

All of them were prepared for difficulties, but hoped for the best, but their optimism evaporated after the first hours of stay in Russia. The guys at the airport of Krasnoyarsk is not met Sean, as they had hoped, and the stranger stern man with a sign in his hand, does not understand a word in English. The guys on the "loaf" in the middle of the night he was taken to an unknown direction and dropped off at any of the hut, where they would settle. Woodcutters to the spartan conditions are no strangers, but what they saw made ​​them shudder. Old house with furnace heating was completely overwhelmed by some trash - the impression that here lived a few brigades, one after another, and no one did not occur to clean up the mess. Strewn everywhere cans, bottles, cigarette butts, besides standing hellish cold - the street was below 30 degrees, and the stove to heat in advance and no one thought.

This adventure of Americans in Russia did not end - they do not have time to move away from the first shock, as immediately came second. At the door someone started pounding insistently repeating a drunken voice, "Valerie! Valera! ". Open loggers and not think - you never know what could mean that strange Russian word, maybe a threat, maybe a curse, and maybe worse. After some time, the intruder left, saying at last: "Valerie, you're wrong!". Americans spent the rest of the night, not closed their eyes, trembling whether from cold or fear.

Peculiarities of the National Work

The language barrier, cold, unsettled life were a trifle compared with the techniques which were quite familiar to the Russians, but strange to Americans. Incidentally, the very presence of Russian brigade turned unpleasant surprise - only in Siberia guys know that Sean only they had hired three more local loggers. Local did not believe that the Americans will stand the difficulties overseas workers do not trust these suspicious Russian who - horror of horrors - could go to work without a helmet on his head.

So that there is a helmet! When Sheets felled his first tree, as the youngest member of the team, he tried very hard: just half an hour of preparatory work, and the trunk fell strictly along the path, which he conceived. Imagine his surprise and disappointment when, instead of praise Sheets heard the selective Russian mat - half an hour on the tree were a luxury. Had to adopt a local approach: a life-threatening, but fast. First, Americans have been scared, but then they used to. But Russian and learned some things, for example, wear a helmet.

Had to risk their lives not only in the plot. A lot of guys have experienced the thrill during delivery harvester - forestry harvester - to the workplace. It was required to carry through the rails at the same time he was so high that only a few centimeters it is separated from the high-voltage wires. At the same time the train went at intervals of 2-3 minutes: you will go quickly - harvester bounce on the rails and hits the wire with all the consequences. Will you go slowly - there is a chance that the car and the driver will carry the train. Fortunately, all went well, but the bill was literally seconds - with the train managed to miss only a miracle.

Warmer for the camera

During the filming of the "Siberian Roulette" to fight colds and to adapt to life aright not only had to loggers. When the crew was recruited to work on the program, was considered not only professional expertise, but also endurance bidders. By the way, work on the transmission engaged in the same production company that filmed the famous show Discovery Channel «Gold Rush" - it tells the story of the gold miners seeking fortune in Alaska.

After working on the "Gold Rush" operators to low temperatures was no stranger, but the technique is not possessed of human endurance - when the thermometer was approaching the level of minus 50 degrees, the camera starts to freeze. Had to stop warming up the equipment, and then continue shooting - but that's work on deforestation could not wait: software program, and loggers came in the first place to work, and not to show off on the screen. One has only to wonder skill of the operator, which, even in the cold did not miss one exciting frame.

Just worked on a program about a hundred people - one in the harsh Siberian taiga, the other in the studio by mounting captured. Now the program will see the audience not only Russia, but also more than two hundred-plus countries - although, no doubt, anywhere premiere, which took place on August 28 did not wait so eagerly, as in our country.