for hours there are legends that his own serpent gorynych once settled in belarus, his name was smog, such an intricate name comes from the belarusian verb to wet, suck, drain, and

he settled here in the lepel district of the vitebsk region. in honor of him, even a whole festival was organized. we are in the pearl of the belarusian lakeland, the berezinsky biosphere reserve, where the third international festival of slavic mythology is taking place right now. if you love nature and experience, welcome alina is not a war with you and this is a project culture fashion. the berezinsky biosphere reserve is one of the oldest protected areas of the republic of belarus, which has gained worldwide fame as a standard of untouched nature not only in the cis countries but throughout europe, a reserve of pure rare wildlife that began to form here 1,000 years ago. after the secret of glaciers, a feature of the reserve is the neighborhood of four types of ecosystems at once in empty forests, rivers, meadows and marshy

bogs, while the swamp covers the bolshaya part of the territory of the reserve, being part of the invaluable natural wealth of belarus thanks to which our country is called the lungs of europe, the biosphere reserve is famous for its unique fauna flora. and today here you can meet mythological characters of belarusian myths and legends. they came to life right before our eyes here one of the most mysterious and exciting holidays is taking place the third international festival of slavic mythology in the way of smoke belarusian dragon could the headliner of the festival according to legend lives a reservoir, but on occasion it can die with fire , and yet the belarusian dragon is a good-natured and very fair creature .

this sweet and good-natured creature lives in lepel lake , plump like a seal, with a neat, graceful head and tail. guests of the festival, we will find out from the deputy director for tourism state nature security institution. berezinsky biosphere reserve of elena alshevskaya. elena good afternoon. hello alina, how will you surprise the guests of the festival this year, we are holding the festival for the third time on such a large scale, so it is called the third international festival of slavic mythology. way of mocha and, of course, we will surprise the guests. what will we do first? variety of milks. today we also have speeches by scientists of specialists in the field of mythological tourism, other and an exhibition of paintings and, of course, mythological

characters of which today more than 20 work in their areas of sites, which will not only entertain people, entice them, but also talk about who they are, why they are well, and how they are generally connected with belarusian mythology. and why is it important and necessary for us to know what its unique identity is, you know, lina, today there are a lot of cultural historical reenactment festivals in the country, but the mythological festival is so alone on the sidelines and this is its first of all, the uniqueness of the guests they come from all over the place. of course, for the most part. these are our belarusians, who are glad that they still travel, that they find time for this, and for themselves to develop in number, because they are here as part of the festival. we not only entertain people, but also enlighten from the point of view of the nature of mythology, and sciences as well. yes, therefore, they find time to come to see in

addition to the belarusians. these are, of course, russian guests, including ours, and partners from natural russian territories. these are invited guests and ordinary citizens russia because with the opening of borders they travel again and travel en masse to the berezinsky biosphere. reserve. why is this the venue for the festival already? this is the third year that the berezinsky biosphere reserve has been chosen in the work of korotkevich. it is described that he landed in the garden, that he could live in lake lepel, therefore it is documented, well, conditionally documented, yes, it is recorded, and therefore, including installations of a smoke monument on the shores of lake lipetsk, and for many years, the lipetsk regional executive committee held the so-called festival the guests for lepelsky smog in parallel with this festival. and we began to develop e, the mythological theme in the sixteenth year we created e, the center of mythological tourism and began to hold such a small festival of myths in the swamp, but since 2019

these two festivals have merged, rebranded and such a festival was born in berezinsky belarusian biosphere reserve, mythology. it is very, very diverse even before we even started with mythology in the reserve. i personally knew very little about mythology, as i think and the majority of belarusians, because for some reason we know greek mythology well, roman mythology, but belarusians. for us, such a small little white speck. what do you think that we, the inhabitants of the planet, need to do in order to preserve nature, don’t cut down, don’t mindlessly burn fires, where it’s not supposed to. yes, do not burn nature, just think about nature and that this is your and our home, yes, and not a place that we only exploit slavic mythology of many characters. why exactly could, you know, could, yes or in russian a dragon,

and this is a character that catches and interests everyone. yes, the chinese dragon lun , the scandinavian dragon fafnir, the belarusian dragon could dragons. it is something that is internal. yes, a person is interested in , so i was able, first of all, it's good. uh, a marketing ploy in terms of attracting tourists, but our smog and the festival and the place yes, why could you, the berezinsky reserve has a history, and it’s so interesting recorded by local ethnographers, and the legend of belief that they really believed that you could live in the lepel lake, and sails through the canal system. uh, in the territory of the reserve. there is such a village of the gross mountain, and there was a special rite coming to this village along the canals. it was believed that if a young couple was not able to treat, and what were they treated to? and,

of course, moonshine, that if she does not treat, then family life will be bad. and if you treat them, he could favor them and contribute to a good life, so they went out to the gateway, which is on the canal of the gross mountain and treat the evil, so these are really recorded by nugraphs. yes what considered cultural property? yes, not material, but she is a legend. and here she is the connection. the smog reserve and the festival of mythology opened the festival with a colorful carnival procession with mythological characters and the owner of the swamps, the grandfather of the swamp, his unusual wife, the kikimora. werewolf man-werewolf, troublemaker, playful mermaids. and, of course, he is a belarusian dragon. smog holiday guests. we waited, interactive locations - medieval zone,

shaman location and even a real viking city, theatrical performances are bright performances, performances by musical groups, original master classes from the belarusian crafts club. there was also a fair in the format of the city of masters who demonstrated the capabilities of their bodies. the belarusian fakir is an artist of the original genre nikolai shahlevich in his show program of the possibilities of the human body. and everyone could take part in the festival quest and win memorable prizes in the house. of the logical enlightenment during the day , open lectures were held, performances from experts in belarusian mythology, we managed to chat with one of them daria fukost an expert in the field of tourism told which destinations are the most popular in the belarusian tourism market and not only daria good afternoon. hello, you are an expert in the

field of tourism. tell our viewers it will be interesting to know. what destinations are currently popular in tourism. this is what is in demand in the tourism market, but it seems to me that now, uh, belarusians have become more and more interested in eco-tourism, and, that is, some popular trips to wildlife sanctuaries in the national park, respectively, and here berezinsky reserves are visited by tourists, and unusual excursions are becoming popular, for example, in one of the reserves. in the grodno region. there is an unusual trip on a narrow gauge railway. that is, tourists can ride on the mud, or you can swim here. the island melts on the largest island of belarus before it is in wildlife sanctuaries, osveysky also tourists began to travel more often, i don’t know, to watch birds. that is, now there are small belarusian travel agencies that offer excursions related to the bed-watching collection herbs. uh, just walking in the woods. and as

it turned out. this is what the belarusians have been missing for a long time. previously, all the time they went somewhere abroad for this. and now we have tried our own product. also , more and more proposals related to astronomical tourism began to appear. that is, it is a trip to the farm in the game kindergarten would be production. that is, people are interested in, i don’t know, look at the first snails, try raw, try honey, learn more about how honey is made in general. and, of course, a classic. we've got this rest in play estates. this is rural tourism. we now have about 3,000 votes in the country. and what's nice? it's not just accommodation. the homestead, which offers excursions on horseback, tastings, workshops on making souvenirs, quests, rafting. on kayaks. now the third international festival of slavic mythology is taking place in the berezinsky biosphere reserve. way of smoke. what do you think is the reason for this interest? e to mythology. well i think it's interesting here. not

only to mythology in general, to our own culture. that is, in fact, we are not we know a lot. and even when we are talking about mythology. eh, people, first of all, probably, will remember some slavic characters. and at the same time. here in belarusian mythology. there are many unique characters. and of course, here is the lapis smog, which is, after all, probably the most famous character in belarusian mythology. well, mythology. this is a part of the belarusian culture, and it seems to me that it is very important for people to know their roots, and they are probably hidden. they feel it and somehow they study it daria and who are the main tourists? well, the main tourists are, of course, our belarusians, but if we are talking about foreign tourists, most likely, these are, of course, russians. that is, now there are a lot of russian tourists coming and they come not only to minsk, they come to regional cities and to the game of estates and some nature protection

objects. well, also, of course, he flies to us. the foreigners are living lithuanians, when the visa-free regime was announced for the citizens of lithuania and poland became very young too. yes, there are a lot of tourists coming from lithuania and latvia, of course, first of all, probably, they still come to minsk. but for many citizens. here, the neighboring countries, probably, the visa-free regime turned out to be the factor due to which they were able to come to belarus, because, of course, there used to be a visa-free regime through arrival at the airport, but for lithuania and latvia , poland, this is of course. probably not an option. and now, uh. well, here, i’m watching, probably, these tourists, of course, come, tourists still come from germany and from france from poland but they have become a little less. well, but our tourists fill these gaps. now that is also very excited. a busy day was replaced by an equally bright and

eventful evening on the big stage, eminent belarusian groups performed. and after the festival guests, everyone who was not indifferent to belarusian legends and myths was waiting for the colorful fire show, as if they were satisfied. road the festival ended with the majestic smog of his

retinue. i will wait for guests next year to once again remind us that how important it is to take care of nature and how unique the original belarusian mythology is. take care of nature and follow the fashion trends of the cultural life of our country alina was not a war with you and remember to be cultured - it's fashionable to see you in a week before new cultural meetings.

it is easy to explore belarus only from the report of our trip. baranovichi station. central historical place from which similar railway boom began . only make a list of places you want to visit and hit the road the naturalist built more than just a house. he raised not even chekhov's cherry tree, and i'm not ashamed of this word, a real apple garden of eden, landscapes of complete thoughtfulness and sadness enchant even the most fastidious travellers. and if there is no such opportunity, the city of belarus is what you need, but for now the whole world in the photographs does not let

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the fox, an ordinary representative of the canine family and a close relative of both the wolf and the domestic dog, is a typical fox predator. nevertheless, it eats, several dozen species of insect plants, as well as more than 400 species of animals, can serve as an extremely diverse dinner. such a wide gastronomic map helped foxes survive and spread widely on all continents except antarctica. the

distinguishing features of the red cheat are a narrow elongated head and large ears. they will help our heroine get her lunch today. unique hearing. it is easy to hear the mouse rustle through the thickness of the earth and snow, and the narrow muzzle will help. this is how to literally dive into a snowdrift. foxes have to make such dizzying jumps dozens of times a day. this is the main way of hunting leaves, and that of zoologists. it even got its own name - mosquitoes - small rodents form the basis of nutrition. foxes. often redheads, cheats, can be seen in the fields or near villages, but they do not come there to steal chickens to hunt gray houses, which are in abundance and are found near human dwellings in a year, one fox destroys several thousand rodents, and together with foxes, two to three

times more. in general, it turns out that this is an extremely useful animal both for the forest and for humans. a long fluffy tail is a distinctive feature of foxes in winter during sleep, it helps to save a sensitive nose from frostbite, and during hunting it serves as an excellent balancer when you watch the mowing becomes clear. why are fox and squirrel tails so similar that they turn their red-haired owners into real tightrope walkers. while hunting, the fox can reach speeds up to 50 km / h to hear a mouse squeak under the snow at a distance of a hundred meters, the vision of a fox, black and white, adapted for a nocturnal lifestyle, but today hunger drove the predator to hunt. in the light of day, several attempts in a row turned out to be unsuccessful in such cases, the foxes are saved, old stocks, an excellent memory helps to find without mistaken places where the remains of prey were once buried, not

too fresh meat. still, it's better than nothing, so today for the red-haired beauty will be more or less prosperous. usually foxes sprinkle prey with snow, which cannot be eaten at once, for example, zaitsev however, such a trophy comes across to her very rarely. therefore, if a fairy tale plot were given to the fox-sister for a pledge, then they would have deleted it from most of the plots for an eca runaway and would have replaced it with a mouse in the ear. another classic fairy tale about how chanterelle takes away a home from a hare , although it also echoes real forest stories, it is still not entirely accurate. chanterelles really don't mind climbing into someone else's hole and settling down like at home, but since hares do not dig norms. in principle, then, red cheats take away living space from marmots, badgers or other burrowing

animals, there are cases when a fox lives in a hole at the same time as a badger, but in different parts. foxes need a burrow only to breed offspring in winter; females move in and settle down in spring. the cubs appear there and grow up by the middle of the end of summer. many burrows remain empty as the fox flees to a free life in the open air, only to reappear in the most unexpected places to ambush jump cheat and get involved in new forest stories.

what successes have already been achieved in seed production and do all our belarusian farms enjoy the fruits, so to speak, of your work. more than 80 percent of the tower of the republic of belarus is occupied by varieties created by our scientific and practical center . of our state, 38 crops are in the process of selection study by our scientists, and for each of these crops a whole system has been created

varieties of different directions of use of different ripening periods for crops for agricultural enterprises in our regions, both for the whole country and for individual regions. what can be the priority sculpture today, the priority, of course, remains with us for those cultures that occupy the largest area. these are winter crops spring wheat is barley, brewing fodder, etikalik, the main forage crop, of course, winter and rabs, of course, high-protein leguminous crops, this is the direction that is now especially relevant for our state, but do not forget the cultures that do not occupy large areas, but they are needed to feed our population. well, cartilage, for example, so we are breeding almost all crops. uh, and these are selections of the same

degree of intensity. never mind. this is a crop for a million hectares. or is it a crop for 30,000 hectare. we are not limited to our territory, and yet not such large areas are occupied by agricultural crops in our country, so we put our access to market near abroad in the first place. uh, it is more difficult to break through to the west, of course, and other climatic conditions. and so let's say. uh, completely different resources need something to break through, but for our closest neighbor, the russian federation, our varieties are very well suited and they like them very much in the first place. this, of course, is winter wheat, or bakery. this is barley, overcooked fodder, and uh, you can say to a certain degree of slavery, especially spring slavery for the russian federation, it is our variety of neman. for example, the russian federation ranks fifth place in terms of sown area among all

varieties that are grown on the territory of russia people's attitudes towards science have changed, and all because it is necessary to instill a love of knowledge from early childhood. after all, the scientific world is so diverse from bacteria to diamonds, familiar things can become the subject of study at first glance. and how nice it is when there are real professionals in their field who can not only contribute to the development of our science, but also help young talents find their way.

scientists are by no means hermits, which, as was said in one of the famous spring films. yes, scientists are a hermit. no, nothing like a scientist - this is a completely lively interest in which the desire to improve his life and the lives of other people, but leads him to research the world around him and study how a natural phenomenon, how the biological phenomena of a cigarette of our science can help us live better biologist - this is a person who studies life in biology , the science of life, but in fact this concept is very broad, extremely broad, and there are many and many specialists in each in his field is a biologist. but this

is when biology is his professional activity. in fact, every person should be a biologist, because the subject of biology is everything that is directly related to our life, with which we interact with our own body, the subject of biology, and the world around us is the subject of biology. if people were well versed in biology, everyone would be a little bit, at least biologists, at least in that part that concerns directly his body. i think that's these problems in society would be much less and the study of biology at different levels, including the more advanced one provided by the republican center or the easier one, which provides general secondary education. it's a very important role for a biologist teacher, she's colossal, because she, uh, teaches biology. how to live right?

science is such a branch of human activity, a very specific human activity, which in any case leads to the acquisition of new knowledge, whether it is so small or whether it is huge, for which will be awarded the nobel prize. this is already a question of the scale of science, but each of the students, each of them is a discoverer, indeed a discoverer. e new ways are out there, for example, controlling plant diseases or increasing the yield of plants as well, so here on these petri dishes that they work with. well, what, what, they sow something? yes, some microbes are studied, they are reseeded, and their properties are studied. these are absolutely unique organisms that are not found anywhere else. e more elsewhere with unique properties, which then, if suddenly something really very effective is obtained, and not passed on. in

big science and big science it works further with them and turns them into an object. well , quite such a tangible material there, well, for example, in biological preparations for plant protection, when i was 12 years old. i came here to study plant physiology in the sixth grade. i studied and it was straight forward. right here in this very room. he was based. and, of course, biology has captured me since then. that is. so my path in science and in the profession began not just from this center and from this building. that's right directly with this room, where we are now in the laboratory . and one day a boy came to my association. he was in eighth grade. and at the very first lesson after i told. what is genetics, what is biology, what is this science, what does it study? he somehow looked at all our equipment on a jar of cones for a long time. there are some reagents that you have and at the end

you ask a question you always say, are there any questions and he asked me a question. is it possible to do something you have to mix it up so that something like this happens, i understand. i, of course, you can mix, everything will happen. but this is the first indicator. the first sign that this is a child, what is needed, this cognitive interest was born in him naturally , and it is very important for parents not to miss this cognitive interest of the child if they see that the child has an interest in the world around them to the structure of the world around. and if their own possibilities are limited, put the child in additional education, because it is there that he will receive, and the maximum for his development. this is very important.

we always cook tasty from the soul, bro. well , of course, you know what we will cook today. i don’t just know what we will cook, but i also know how we will cook, share recipes, dishes that your whole family will definitely like. today we will have a fish on the table for tomorrow. we have salmon. and in addition to fish, we will have chips. this recipe is easy to prepare and i think it will turn out very tasty. it definitely needs strong men's hands vortan, let's analyze all the subtleties of their preparation of cabbage for steaks. you need to cut the back side of the stalk, so that, uh, you cut into steaks to the stalk, and throw out the stalk and tell. how to choose vegetables and fruits correctly signs of good apples fruit without damage and no traces of parasites on apples no dark spots aroma.

you can feel it even through the skin, watch culinary shows on our tv channel. chiroptera yes, this is indeed an extremely interesting group of animals. this is a unique group of mammals. they probably have more differences than some similarities with other mammals with other animals. in addition, they are very little studied in belarus for a long time it was believed that they were such useless animals. that is, they are of no value to hunters, for example, they do not represent any obvious value at first glance for

agriculture for forestry, and therefore , for a long time, bats were commonplace with the attention of researchers. but as they began to be studied more, uh, seriously more closely, it turned out that they play an extremely important role. in ecosystems. and they're extremely important to us. the ecosystem role of, uh, bats is mainly that they're predators of the last order. they eat insects. well, at least the european species of bats feed exclusively on insects, and besides, bats are very voracious. they have to eat a lot. in one night, one animal can eat insects. well, under 50% of your own body weight, a huge number of nocturnal insects. these are pests of forestry agriculture. e, park and others, so bats are extremely

are important to us, but in such a utilitarian way as regulators of the number of insect pests, animals that we call bats. in fact, not quite a mouse, their wing is a leathery membrane, which is simply stretched between the phalanges of the fingers. and now we can see for ourselves. any contact with wild animals must be carried out with gloves. and so here we have one of the most common belarusian urban species of bats, the so-called late kozhan. and one of the largest belarusian species bats here. this animal was delivered to us

yesterday. unfortunately, a little bit. stained with foam so we all know very well, probably from a school biology course, that bats use echolocation in flight, that is, they emit sounds that are inaudible to humans, sounds that are beyond human perception. well, and, accordingly, it orients itself in flight with the help of a reflected echo. how does rehabilitation work in animals that come to us, uh, are processed, that is, we must make sure that the animal is healthy. we usually we examine the animal, we take the main morphometric indicators. such as forearm length body weight and so on. uh, very

often we take samples of genetic material. that is, these are absolutely small, absolutely small pieces. wing skin. this is necessary to study the genetic structure of the bat population. we deal with these in our laboratory. if everything is in order with the animal, then the animal is placed in such a bag and sent for the winter. here, in an ordinary chamber of an ordinary household refrigerator, with temperature plus five hibernate those animals whose thoughts need to be sent into hibernation. they overwinter with us in individual bags. the bags were once sewn for us by volunteers. each

bag is numbered. we monitor each animal individually, that is, periodically every few weeks. we extract the animals very quickly, weigh them, examine them and put them back into hibernation. this species. was also considered migratory, moreover, it was such a classic migrant, only at the beginning it can even be said in the middle of the zero years we started to find it on wintering grounds in belarus. in belarus, so far, it is found only a few percent of the total number of animals, but it must be said that its wintering real hibernal is expanding to the north. and we must be ready for this, because this is a nice view. this is a redhead party. they usually hibernate in huge flocks of bats. the wing is simply elongated skin

stretched between the elongated phalanges of the fingers, that is, what we see is the phalanges fingers. by the way, here is the first finger. all the animal, we put back to sleep. our first discovery of a colony of precisely a large cluster occurred just at the beginning of this year. it was borisov, that is, already a rather northern point for our country, during repairs, a colony of about 20 individuals was removed from under the floor. of course, our work is not limited to work in the laboratory, since it is in the laboratory

that we receive data and a significant part of our work is precisely the analysis of the data of the data that we received, their analysis of their their interpretation, correlation with already published materials and, accordingly, one of the indicators of the effectiveness of the work of a scientist is, of course, a scientific article. the fact is that a few years ago the first one was opened in belarus. uh rescue center, bat rescue center and rehabilitation. we called it a leather policy in the spring, we release them, well, organizing, as a rule, at the same time a small, small festival, that is, people come who, in fact, come . chile is animals to us and these people have the opportunity to release conditionally their pets, those animals that they actually saved, to release them back into the wild, except for purely scientific ones.