[000:00:00;00] a project about sports, in which the main factor of success is not strength, but knowledge, time to put aside the dumbbells and upgrade your knowledge about sports, in our program, participants will fight in a battle of the mind, what sport do the fab five usually talk about and goalkeeper igor was the first hockey hockey, for correct answers they will get points, and for incorrect ones, they will lose them, today we have three games to choose from, whichever you like best, come on, who is cooler, twenty-time olympic champion and multiple world champion in swimming, denis, mile phelps, mile phelps, that's absolutely correct, the name of the cycling race that has been held for over

100 years in france, the tour de franc. absolutely right, watch the intellectual and entertaining show: playing with your head on the tv channel belarus 244. many people ask why exactly the augustow canal, not the month of the year, exactly the city, polish gorodlov, it was from there that the main work began, in honor of this city, the channel was so named, augustow, the canal is a unique historical

site, a tourist site, i am very... i talked a lot with people from russia, poland, lithuania, they tell me: “it’s like in paradise here, it’s quiet, the birds are singing, the water is murmuring, my name is boris vagdanets, i am the deputy general director of the grodnaya smelting enterprise. our goal is to preserve history of hydraulic engineering". today the guuslovsky canal is a large huge object, which is on the balance sheet

of the regional unitary enterprise of systems, reservoirs, reservoirs, ponds. my working day begins with a site visit, which means we have schedules drawn up and people are assigned there are at least two people for each structure so that tourists can pass through. on boats, kayakers, let two vessels through, give bicycles to people, and our most important task today is maintaining the level of groundwater, this is very important, because we have problems with water on these hot days, well, naturally, keep it in good condition all

hydraulic structures are in good condition, we really look at this, this is our face, everything is mowed, clean, neat, we work with april to october of the year, the rest, we begin the technical progress and repair of structures, somewhere to replace a bridge, somewhere to replace covering material, today there are 25 people working on the canal. these are shipkeepers, cashiers, construction workers, engineer, section manager, the augustow canal is a historical cultural value with a two-hundred-year history; in the second quarter of the 21st century, the kingdom of poland was part of

the russian empire. at this time, prussia established very high customs duties on twenty to 25 years. and in order to find a way out of this. situation, the druze minister of finance kolebetsky turned to tsar alexander i with a request to bypass these customs duties and leave the nyoman river into the bed of the vistula river. in 1823, an expedition was sent from the polish side to study this issue, and in 24 it was reported to the russian emperor that there was such a way out . to the exit through connecting the nyoman and vistula rivers. and from the twenty-fourth year to the thirty-ninth year

, the construction of this facility was carried out, connecting the lakes, beds of existing rivers, only 9 km of canals were artificially dug. in the dense forests there were impenetrable swamps. during construction, 3,700 workers worked simultaneously. prussia, seeing that russian and polish goods were going past prussia and by and by and the treasury there was not replenished, went down sharply. and then the canal was relevant, but nevertheless it worked, it worked, not in such quantities, of course, but these were internal movements of goods,

it operated before the first world war, and people already began to take a closer look at what was on the canal beautiful picturesque places, on the canal it is necessary to build campsites, houses, and go rafting. on boats, on motorboats, they had already begun to develop slowly, but the war of 1914 interfered, all the conditions for safe navigation were violated very heavily here, the second world war , many locks were blown up, from 1950 to 2004, the canal did not function as a single link... but shipping. in 2004, by presidential decree , reconstruction of the canal began, which ended in 2006. of course i couldn't

imagine that we will be entrusted with the execution of this enormous, complex hydraulic work. but he was very happy and generally flew with wings. when i was told about the construction and you will be the general contractor, i accepted it with great joy and hope that we will cope with all this , we will do it all, and i was not mistaken in that, the canal is 102 km, 80 km is the poplar side and 22 is our country, and the connecting channel was also cut out. today the channel has the highest category of history. on our territory there is

four spillway and three navigation locks. but there are also two locks, one navigable and one gateway, which divides the borders, divides them in half. we are now at the kuzhenets lock, we can roughly designate the watershed between the polish side and the belarusian side, it is from here, from this lock, that our 22 km long canal begins. it is from here that all shipping begins, this is the first lock that we reconstructed, in 2004 and still, as you can see, it works properly; people at this facility are very close, friendly, economic, technical relations with our

border guards, joint work, work on content, work on maintaining input levels, work on guiding devices. we have two types of locks, a spillway lock and a shipping lock. we are now at the domrovka spillway sluice; a ten-span sluice, powerful in its properties, serves to maintain the water level in the upper volume and during floods, various overflows, to reduce and maintain

the water level in the lower vent. we give approximately 10 kilometers upstream the water level for boats and downstream. if there is a shortage of water, the shutter is immediately opened to supply additional water needed for navigation. this is one of the most important tasks of our team. maintaining the water levels of the lower and upper ephah. on the border of the polish-belarusian watershed , from the navigable kuzhenets lock to the slightly navigable lock, the difference in water levels and surface levels is more than 18 m. these are very high altitudes. overhead gateway - one of the most popular gateways

today. serves to pass ships, boats, kayaks, catamarans, downstream, the ship approaches the lock gate, the lock gate opens, the ship enters the lock chamber, the upper gate closes and the lower gate opens, within 7-8 minutes the ship. ours drops below the normal retaining level by 4 m, when the lower bypass and the airlock chamber are balanced, the airlock gates open, the ship moves on, that's it guys, bye.

the uniqueness of this building that is here all local materials that are found in the area were used , that is, it is rubble stone, the path is made of rubble stone, sandstone, granite blocks, wooden structures, rock beams, all the materials that the builders tried to use are located not far from these places. at the same time, it retained all the authenticity that it had before the reconstruction, the representative of neneska appreciated our work, appreciated our materials and gave a very high rating for subsequent entry into unesco, this is a sliding navigable bridge used for passage ships and for pedestrians and bicycles.

the uniqueness of this bridge is that all the work, raising, lowering, is done manually, all the details, the chain, are preserved , exactly as it was done about 200 years ago, the time for lowering or raising the bridge is approximately... 10 minutes, people i like it, people are happy to come and watch the whole process, because there is nothing like this happening anywhere in belarus, we have two ships, today this is the most exciting

trip for tourists, a trip on a ship. i’m already working on navigation on the neman motor ship, there are a lot of tourists, this year there are more than ever, people are happy, everyone likes everything, a lot of people come from russia, and it’s good that there are a lot of our local belarusians, some of the dialects are even better, than in the maldives. our calling card on the canal is locking , when a ship enters the lock it rises 4 m up, when this stream of water foam comes at you, this water dust flies and falls on the faces of tourists, it’s simply impossible to forget.

once upon a time, filorrette was our guest, here he is he sat here asking me, asking me , he said, well, what, i say, you know, that wild nature itself, he speaks to me, my son, is not wild, but primeval nature, so enjoy primeval nature during construction during the reconstruction of the canal, we were very careful about nature. to preserve single trees at any cost , we tried to preserve all that greenery on the slopes, all the trees that are actually in their natural state, which adds

a highlight to the beauty of this structure. bed black gancha, that’s what the river is called, it was deepened, widened and here there is a constant flow of... water, by the way, the water is very interesting, clean, about 30 centimeters, warm, the rest is cold, cold, spring water, very cold water. here, at the dombrovka sluice, people come with pleasure to relax, there is everything for this, catamarans, boats, ships, cafes, a children's playground, including taking

a bicycle to the park and riding along the bicycle path along the abustovo canal. on one of the cycling routes there is a historical and cultural value, fractification fortification dot, built in 1939-1941. we, on our own initiative, brought order here during the construction of the canal, removed the branches, took out the branches, removed the destroyed concrete fragments, while repairing this pillbox we found the relics of our soviet soldier, the documents were immediately transferred to the prosecutor's office and the construction was suspended for 3 after months

, the conclusion was indeed made that this was our fighter, a stupendous man was found, a boot was found, and a reburial took place. for the last year we received more than 2,400 tourists, this year we are already expecting two to three times more, and according to our estimates, this case is close to exactly this figure. in my 18 years, i don’t remember a visit like this year. and this. considers those people who just walk along the canal, relax on it, sunbathe, i believe that today this is the development of domestic tourism, which is on the rise, we don’t know our homeland belarus,

look, you’re not only channel, svyats, what a wonderful complex they made svyatsk, what churches are everywhere around... in the villages, today we get to know our homeland, our belarus, and that’s right, we’ll find out who our ancestors are, who the people who lived before us are, we’ll go to others besides the canal, we also have there are caretaker houses, in one of them we made a museum, we turned to historians, they found us documents from the first world war, the second world war. we built a wonderful wooden structure with our own efforts, people look at it with pleasure, visit it with pleasure, and admire it. good afternoon,

hello, boris ivanovich, hello, viktorovich, welcome guests, the caretaker’s house was built in 1860, the family of the caretaker of the avgustovsky canal lived in it, and this house was passed down from generation to generation, the father worked at this hydroelectric school, then the son worked, and so on from generation to generation. behind the canal behind this waterworks , it is necessary for a person to always be in his place of work, because this work is very responsible, it was necessary to always measure water levels, maintain a navigable level, the work is so painstaking and necessary for of the entire avgustovsky canal, we have three such hydroelectric complexes on belarusian territory.

before reconstruction, the grandmother of the last caretakers lived in this house, who was more than 80 years old, she kindly agreed to give this house for the augustowsky canal, and an apartment was built identically for her in the village of sopotskino, today in this house there is a small museum from the history of the augustowsky canal, history : this anchor is interesting, when it was necessary to dig a connecting canal from little to the neman, the excavator dug up such an anchor, you can to say that in those early years, you see, this is forged work, as if hand-made, then there were large barges, these are pre-revolutionary, this anchor is about 150 years old, this gearbox was used on the lock, a trigger for lifting large valves, which. .. hold or release water, this device and gearbox are about 200 years old, since next

year we will celebrate the bicentenary of the augustow canal, we can say that it is well preserved and has served its purpose. i graduated here as a hydraulic engineer, i consider myself an ameliorator, my father is an ameliorator, i am an ameliorator, my son is an ameliorator, so we will consider this a tradition, and i am proud, i have always been proud of my profession. i’m actually from polesie

, brest region, lunetsk district, i was the head of the pmk, in 2002 the republican leadership transferred me here as general director, well, probably god himself sent us this object, an object valuable to us, exactly 2 years later we began to take part in this construction, in 2004, when reconstruction began, immediately along the entire length of channel 22 km, excavators, earth-moving equipment, equipment for leveling the soil, in order to break through the riverbed were placed, and at the same time people began to work on restoring the structures, the object was in a very poor condition, it was necessary to find the best option to bring it all back into working order . the shipping

and culvert locks were faulty , blocks had fallen off, overgrown with bushes, overgrown with forests, rotten wooden structures, the rustication of the canal was in a swamp, it was not clear where it was it is a real riverbed, everything is so overgrown, the whole area worked for us. i had 83 contractors, during this time we worked with over 90 excavators , over 300 pieces of equipment, it was a huge construction project , so many people, so many discussions, that’s it, because the whole thing, some issues were solved simply on the fly, there was no practical solution, we gathered , decided, made decisions, worked , in general, your eyes light up when you start

telling what happened, we argued, left, exactly those fragments, especially lock chambers, which were built 200, 150 years ago, that is, they tried to preserve everything, we lived by this canal, when the time came for the canal to be commissioned, there was some relief, but i perceived it as constant work, necessary technical hydraulic engineering construction, but then i many people said that you created the most unique... historical, cultural, tourist site, and now i believe in it, it’s really so, i believe that the augustow canal is the work of my whole life, me and my people who built this channel, left a big mark construction of this facility for many, many years, this is really the basis that

you can be proud of and really can be happy to serve as the next leader, the next generation, i think that the descendants will be very grateful to us for this facility. this is a story about a difficult time in the life of the belarusian people. the church is the property of the polish republic. what do we need your document for, you give us pubs. your mother

was taken away by the border guards. she feels bad. who did it? you are the one to blame. a story about the struggle for belarusian culture, language and faith, a person without faith, son, not a man, you know the city well, okay, then go ahead , both here and there is our land, a history that will not leave anyone indifferent, before the cold, go for water, you need to wash your body, but why do people live if the end is still the same, and without which a person cannot live, without faith, without love. therefore, this is what we live for, and if there is none of this, it means you didn’t find it at all, forget about me, understand? i understand, but i don’t promise to forget, the premiere of the belarus film on the other side, watch on

october 3 on the belarus 24 tv channel. the president reviewed personnel issues on the list for the appointment of 14 people. the vacancy for assistant to the president, inspector for the gomel region has been filled. yuri gorlov, already the ex-chairman of the molodechno regional executive committee, was appointed to this position. castlings took place in the local vertical of power, the mayor in vitebsk has changed, the new head of today is in the miory, seninsky, ivatsevichi, gantsevichi, karmyansky and dribensky districts, discipline has been organized. balanced personnel policy and the upcoming election campaign, cornerstone issues for local authorities. i emphasize once again: there is no communist party, everything is in your hands. there is a major electoral campaign ahead, where the ideological component is of paramount importance.

work, think about who will represent you in the parliament, the belarusian people's assembly, we absolutely do not hide the fact that we will support someone, this is natural, if we now, you know, imagined ourselves to be so chaste, not untouched, we i would just laugh, in not a single state, even the most democratic, well , take us, the americans taught us all the time, you you see how the election campaign was and is going on there, god forbid we should conduct it this way, by mail, especially, and if we had carried it out like this, we would have, well, not now, before the slits, the land removals, so we have our own tasks, we have our own goals, identify worthy, patriotic people, professionals and support them in the parliamentary elections and the belarusian people's assembly. new managers at large industrial enterprises, headed by bobruisk gromash, now oleg korsak, previously he held the position of first deputy general director amkador agedelel, general