in braslava, the azers are blue like the sky in the early days, which is on the right in the racing forest, at the beginning of the golden dawns, washing creatures and light, and the fall of heaven is known , the azers have accumulated charms for fabrics, smiling. suns, you look for yourself, and you will never see the sea, the bottom, which is gilded with gold, they would sing and drink endlessly, on the braslav azers, as if not every year, with pain, so i would like to sustrezza, so that i don’t know, the mountains , pestilence, and azzera has never forgotten them, my dear. patrus brouk.

many people ask what exactly is the augustow canal, not the month of the year, exactly city, a polish city, it was from there that the main work began, in honor of this city, the canal was called augustow. the canal is a unique historical site and tourist attraction. i talked a lot with people from russia, poland, lithuania, they tell me: “it’s like heaven here, it’s quiet, the birds are singing, the water is murmuring.” my

name is boris bakhdanets, i am the deputy general director of the grodno melivotkhoz enterprise. our goal is to preserve the history of hydraulic engineering. segodnya canal is a big huge an object that is on the balance sheet of the regional unitary enterprise grodnomileotkhoz. grodnomeliotkhoz is mainly engaged in the reconstruction, drying and operation of mirioration systems, reservoirs, reservoirs, and ponds.

my working day begins with a visit to the site, which means that we have drawn up schedules, allocate people to each structure, at least two people, so that we can let tourists, boats, kayakers through, let two ships through, give people bicycles, and the most important thing today's ours the task is to maintain the level... this is very important, because we have problems with water on these hot days, well, it’s natural to maintain all hydraulic structures in good, well-maintained condition. we take great care of this, this is our face, everything is mowed, clean, neat, we work from april to october. the rest we

proceed to the technical progress and repair of structures, somewhere to replace something on a bridge, somewhere to replace covering material. today the channel employs 25 people, these are court officials, cashiers, construction workers, engineer, site manager. the augustow canal is a historical and 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 tariffs from 23 to 25. and in order to find a way out of this situation. the druze minister of finance

appealed to tsar alexander ii with a request to bypass these customs duties and exit from the nyoman river into the bed of the vistula river. in 1823 an expedition was sent from the polish side to studying this issue and in the twenty -fourth year it was reported to the russian emperor that there was such a way out, namely a way out through connecting the nyoman and vistula rivers. years to thirty years was produced. the construction of this facility, the connection of lakes, the beds of existing rivers, only 9 km of a canal was artificially dug, the dense

forests were impenetrable swamps, during construction 3,700 workers worked simultaneously, prussia saw that russian and polish goods were passing by prussia and by and the treasury was there no they are not replenished, they will sharply reduce let's go there. and then the channel lost its relevance, but nevertheless it worked, it worked, not in such quantities, of course, but these were internal movements of goods. it operated until the first world war and people had already begun to notice that there were beautifully picturesque places on the canal, it was necessary to build campsites, houses on the canal , kayaking, boating, and

motorboating. they had already begun to develop slowly, but the war of 1914 intervened, very fighting took place here, all conditions were violated. safe navigation. world war ii war, many airlocks were blown up. from 1950 until 2004, the canal did not function as a single link for shipping. in 2004, by presidential decree , the reconstruction of the canal began, which ended in 2006. of course, i couldn’t imagine that we would be entrusted with the execution of this huge, complex hydraulic work , but i was very happy and generally flew on wings when i was informed of the construction and

you would be the general contractor, i accepted this with great joy and hope, then , what we we'll handle it, we'll do it all. and i was not mistaken in this, the canal is 102 km, 80 km is the polish side and 22 is our side, and an additional connecting canal was also dug, today the canal has the highest category of culture. located on our territory. four spillway and three shipping locks, but there are also two locks , one navigable and one spillway, which divides the border, divides it in half, we are

now at the kuzhenets lock, we can roughly designate the polish side and the belarusian side, it is from here. yes from this gateway our 22 km long canal begins. this is where all shipping begins, this is the first lock that we reconstructed at the end of 2004, and as you can see, it still works properly. at this facility there are very close, friendly... economic, technical relations with our border guards, joint work, work on maintenance, work on the level, maintaining input levels, work on establishing blogging, we

have two types of locks, this is a spillway lock and a shipping lock , we are now at the domrovka spillway sluice, powerful in its the ten-span sluice serves to maintain the water level in the upper volume and during floods of various overflows to reduce and maintain the water level in the lower volume; we provide approximately 10 kilometers upstream the water level for boats downstream. if there is a shortage of water,

the gates are 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 pools. on the border of the watershed polish-belarusian from the kuzhenets navigable gateway and to the slightly navigable gateway the level difference is more than 18 m. these are very high heights. the brow lock is one of the most popular locks today and is used to allow passage of 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, our ship drops below normal retaining level at 4 m, when the lower bypass and the lock chamber are balanced, the gate opens, the ship moves on, that’s it, guys, for now , the uniqueness of this structure is that all local materials that are found in the area are used here, 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, while maintaining all the authenticity that was before the reconstruction, a representative of enesco appreciated our work, appreciated our materials and gave a very high rating for subsequent entry into unesco, this is a sliding navigable bridge used to pass ships and for pedestrians and cyclists. the uniqueness of this bridge is that all work, raising and lowering is done manually. all these parts are kept in a chain exactly as it was done about 200 years

ago, the time for lowering or raising the bridge is approximately 10 minutes, people like it, people come with pleasure they look at the whole process, because there is nothing like this happening anywhere in our belarus. we have two ships, today this is the most exciting trip for tourists, a boat trip , i already work in 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 nice that there are a lot of our local belarusians,

some dialects are even better than in the maldives, our calling card on the channel, this is the locking, when the 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 is simply impossible to forget. once upon a time, filoret was our guest, he sat here and asked me, asked me, he said, well, what, i say, you know, that wild nature itself, he speaks to me, my son, is not wild, but original nature, so enjoy the original nature

during construction, reconstruction canal, we treated nature very carefully, at any cost to preserve single trees, we tried to preserve all that greenery on the slopes, all the trees that are actually in their natural state, which adds zest to the beauty of this structure, the bed of black ganch, the river is so called, it it was deepened, expanded and here the water flows all the time, by the way, the water is very interesting, clean, about 30 centimeters, warm,

the rest is cold, cold spring water, very cold water. a project about sports, in which the main factor success is not strength, but knowledge. time to put down the dumbbells and upgrade your knowledge about the sport. participants in our program. will fight in a battle of wits. what sport do the fab five goalkeepers usually talk about? igor was the first. hockey. hockey. they will earn points for correct answers, and lose them for incorrect answers. today we have three games to choose from. what do you prefer? come on, who's cooler? twenty-time olympic champion and multiple

world champion in swimming. denis. mile phelps. mile phelps. absolutely true, as it's called a bicycle race held for more than 100 years in france, tur the france, absolutely true , watch the intellectual and entertaining show , head game on the belarus 24 tv channel, each of the heroes of the new people project chose his own path and achieved his first great success, his first icon cut secretly, we, in principle, should start with a simple one, gradually rise up step by step, and he himself - at home , uh, quietly cut out this icon, brought it to me , showed it to me, talented, brave, always ready to learn something new, he loves work out a detail, he is the kind of person who admires everyone, here is an element of his canvas, he begins to play and you know, like a fakir who hypnotizes a cobra with a pipe, in

the same way lyosha worked wonders with the audience, today they are the pride of the country, in performances i even i didn’t expect him to play like that, energetically, without any embarrassment, everything is clean, about the new generation of belarusians, look at the project on the tv channel belarus 24. here at the dombrovka gate people come with pleasure to relax, there is everything for this, catamarans, boats, vessels, cafes, children's

playground, including taking a bicycle to the park and riding along the bicycle path of the abustovo canal. on one of the cycling routes there is a historical and cultural value, a factional fortification of a pillbox. built in 1939-1941. on our own initiative, during the construction of the canal, we put things in order here, removed branches, took out twigs, removed concrete and destroyed ones. fragments, during the repair of this pillbox we found the relics of our soviet soldier, the documents

were immediately transferred to the prosecutor's office and suspended construction, within 3 months the conclusion was indeed made that this was our fighter, an impostor was found, a boot was found, a reburial took place. over the past year , we received more than 2,400 tourists, this year we are already expecting two or three times more, and according to our calculations, this business will fall within this figure. in my 18 years, i don’t remember a visit like this year. and this does not count those people who are just walking along the canal. i believe that today this is the development of domestic tourism, which goes to the highest rise, we don’t know our homeland

belarus, look, you’re not just a canal, svyatsk, what a wonderful complex they made svyatsk, what churches are all around in the villages? today we are getting to know our homeland, our belarus, and that’s right, we will find out who our ancestors are, who the people who lived before us are, we will go to others besides the canal, we also have caretaker houses, in one of them we made a museum, turned to historians, they found us documents from the first world war, the second world war, built wonderful... wooden constructions on their own, people look with pleasure, visit with pleasure, admire, good afternoon

, hello, boris ivanovich, hello , admond viktorovich, welcome guests, the caretaker’s house was built in 1860, the family of augustovsky’s caretakers lived in it, and this one the house was passed down from generation to generation, the father worked... on this hydraulic power plant, then the son worked, and so on from generation to generation. in order to take care of the canal behind this waterworks, it is necessary for a person to constantly be on his own work place, because this work is very responsible, it was always necessary to measure water levels, maintain a navigable level, the work is so painstaking and necessary. for the entire avgustovsky canal, we have three such waterworks on belarusian

territory, before the 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 to the avgustovsky subcanal, and an apartment was built for her identically in the village of sopotskino . today this house houses a small history museum the avgustovsky canal, the history of this anchor is interesting, when it was necessary to dig a connecting canal from neman to neman, an excavator dug up such an anchor, we can say that in those years long ago, you see, this is forged work, as if done by hand, then large barges were sailing , these are pre-revolutionary, this anchor is about 150 years old, this gearbox was used at the orku lock to lift large valves that hold or

discharge water, this device and gearbox are about 200 years old, since we are next when we celebrate the bicentenary of the augustow canal this year, we can say that it has been well preserved and has served its purpose. paleshuks - this people, who live in harmony with nature, because we were born naked, this is our health, and in may my grandmother was a herd, later she knew a strong herd, and the genes were passed on to me, i began to grow grass when... this oak tree once it grows up, about 20-25 years old, it can be used to make our bandar utensils, which are a lot of things. this is

honey, and an apiary, and a museum, and a village, and my river everything else that surrounds me, this is my life, watch the polish project on the belarus 24 tv channel, we talk about the manufacturing enterprises of our country, the most important quality of our products is that they are made from natural raw materials, we have a large assortment with one common goal, people are capable of much. we share their development history and achievements. everything that is produced today by our enterprise. the score is very high. the maximum monthly production volume can reach up to 25 million cans per month. we want to introduce some additional

capsule lines. so that we can attract a larger number of buyers, as a rule, only the best is said about our products, look in the program, a quality mark on our tv channel. i came here as a hydraulic engineer with a diploma, 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 am actually from polesie, brest region, lunetskogo district, was the head of the pmk, in 2002 the republican leadership transferred

me here as generals. 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, there were immediately excavators and earth-moving equipment located along the entire length of the 22 km canal , since the equipment for leveling the soil, in order to break through the channel, and at the same time people began to work to restore the structures, the object was in a very deplorable condition, it was necessary to find the best option to bring it all into working order, the shipping and culvert locks were faulty,

overgrown with bushes, overgrown with forest, rotten wooden structures, the canal bed was in a swamp, it was not clear where everything was - after all, it’s a real riverbed , it’s so overgrown, the whole region 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 site, so many people, so many discussions, that’s the whole point, after all, 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 left exactly

those fragments, especially in the 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 kind of relief, i perceived it as constant work, necessary technical, hydraulic engineering construction, but then many people told me that you created a unique historical, cultural, tourist site, and now i believe in it, it’s really so, i believe that the august canal is my life’s work, me and my people, who built this canal left a big mark on the construction of this object for many, many years, this is true.