[000:00:00;00] his own yelnya belarus has been stewing, for 14 years now his work begins when the sun sets, a few hours of sleep at dawn it continues again, every evening without holidays, weekends and vacations, he doesn’t think that they are also being stewed. and they ask: do you fill them with water in the morning? he is the only representative of the ancient profession in belarus. in the archives they found what the uniform of a lamplighter was like more than 100 years ago, this is what an ordinary electrician in the past looked like, who at one point turned into a tourist symbol of the city, in order to see how he does its job, people travel

thousands of kilometers on purpose. once upon a time, people of that age had golden hearts and wooden crosses, but now, unfortunately , everything has gone the other way around, wooden hearts and golden crosses, he is often compared to a character from andersen’s fairy tales, and it’s not just about the authentic costume vintage staircase. victor kiressek, a lamplighter from the city of bresto, is a man who not only lights large lanterns on the streets of the city. but also small lanterns in people’s souls.

mid-hot summer day: before the start. the evening shifts are still far away and viktor petrovich and his wife natalya are going to the dacha, here is a place of attraction for them, they can rest their souls , although it’s unlikely for their bodies, judging by the ideally planted vegetable and berry plantations, a lot of work has been invested here, we hardly see each other, when we arrive, we don’t talk, someone strokes the roses, talks with the roses, someone does their own thing, we cope because we must love the earth, then, communication with microorganisms, with the earth, you don’t feel tired, you seem to be tired, you're going home, well such fatigue is pleasant, looking at podzharov, the fit and constantly smiling viktor petrovich, you wouldn’t say that he is 66 years old, however, he himself says about his age

like this, divide it by half, well, by... ask, but i figured it half, 15 , still in adolescence, viktor petrovich always had an easy and positive attitude towards life, but the most amazing thing is that with age this trait in him not only did not disappear, but manifested itself even more, the motto is such a life one, smile more often and in general a person lives as long as he wants, we don’t have any problems, we solve all the problems, there’s no need to get hung up on some small details , we just often create problems for ourselves, and they go around whining about something, either there’s not enough money, or that not enough, there is an old parable , a grandmother went to the sage and said, i don’t have any gold, there’s no car, there’s no house, there’s no cottage, but he

listened... says: you don’t have a lot of things , you have neither sick people nor colleagues alive, you have hands, you have eyes, be glad that you woke up, because many this is not given. perhaps it was precisely this attitude towards life, oneself and people that played a decisive role 14 years ago, when viktor kirisyuk, among a huge competition of applicants, was chosen to become the main and only lamplighter not only of the city of brest, but of the whole of belarus. then he worked in brest-gorsvet, as an ordinary electrician; at first he treated the unexpected position simply as new responsibilities. then it would have been uncomfortable, such a drastic change, this is the profession, what does it mean to walk quietly with a screwdriver or pliers, and when there are a lot of people, and you are alone, so all the attention

is on you, so it’s exciting. but over time, the excitement passed, and viktor petrovich got used to the role so successfully that, imperceptibly for himself, he became a symbol of brest, and the tradition of lighting lanterns in the evenings turned into a calling card of the city, even without a costume of a vintage staircase, everyone knows the famous lamplighter on the pedestrian sovetskaya street , artists, craftsmen, street actors , good evening, yulia, for example, comes here very often, she is an actress in the theater of living sculptors, i saw him every evening, every morning, i knew that he was lighting the lanterns, then we got to know each other better, somewhere after work i met him without the image of a lamplighter, he... chocolates, sweets, and somehow we met, i already know him well, as a person, indistinguishable , here is a lantern man - it’s one person, it’s just that viktor petrovich without an image in an image is the same, just as kind, just as humorous,

just as cheerful, just as responsive, it’s just wonderful, the very idea of ​​​​reviving the former tradition of lighting lanterns came to the management cities in 2009 on the eve of the next anniversary of brest, especially for the main pedestrian street sovetsky. we ordered 17 lanterns with kerosene lamps, stylized in the 19th century, delved into the archives, found information about what a lamplighter looked like from peter’s times, ordered a uniform and cap based on ancient sketches, this is the lamplighter’s costume, found in the archives what the uniform was like for more than 100 years back to the lamplighter, that's what, the streets were torn apart, but there were spare ones. but they are now beautifully screwed on the wires. in fact , many buttons were torn off over so many years of work, but viktor petrovich never got angry, he only laughed it off. well, some people pull at the public,

even strongly, but i ask them. more tenderly, girls, more tenderly, there are only a few minutes left before the appointed time for lighting the lanterns. warm summer twilight is slowly falling on brest, from where. an old waltz sounds from afar and a lamplighter in a frock coat with shiny buttons emerges from a small closet. the fairy tale comes to life before our eyes, people come and say: you ’re like from anderson’s fairy tale, adults, yes, i’m even somehow surprised, oh, how am i, i’m still like got into a fairy tale or got there, a fairy tale, you give a fairy tale, and indeed, looking at how sincerely, like a child, adults react to the brez lamplighter, how they smile from ear to ear, rush to reach the button

to make a wish, it becomes clear what is meant says victor petrovich. i wish you health , happiness, of course, any, well, everyone is happy, people who have achieved success often seem ideal to us, but what is in their souls? do they know the feeling of devotion, gratitude, the feeling of homeland in the end, or is it something else? and they decided that the homeland was bought and sold. i lost everything, yes i was rich.

and now we are performing, all the money goes towards housing and food. but this is a trauma: immigration, this is a serious trauma, friends, there are graves there, parents, work. well, that's all. if latvia's economy is heading towards one, who would want to live in such a country? in a country where there is nowhere to work. and in belarus, without visas, belarus welcomes guests with love and friendliness. more and more people from the european union are coming to us and want to stay with us. author's project of ksenia lebedeva - this is different. watch new episodes on the belarus 24 tv channel. it happened. the most tragic thing in the history of our civilization in general, the soviet union collapsed. condoning evil leads to evil growing in full bloom. they were going to build anti-russia out of us, according to the ukrainian scenario , arming belarus with nato weapons,

instructors, bases. probably, only through the unity of these three countries will we have a very strong future, the west simply does not want to let us unite, three nations or one whole. we always live in state... of war, informational, yes, it exists, it is a very strong, zombifying war, because any physical war must be prepared ideologically, our opponents were too naive that the departure of coca-cola from tv screens would collapse state television broadcasts in an independent sovereign country with a strong-willed president with a fairly developed economy, no matter what they say about the project, don’t be silent, don’t miss new episodes on the

belarus 24 tv channel . the legend that if you rub a button a lamplighter makes a wish, it will certainly come true, a very old wish, but for adults, this fairy tale game turns into something more. good evening, hello, someone really makes a wish for half-shat, someone relates to this ritual. much more seriously, asking for something important and sincerely believing that the magic buttons of the bresse lamplighter will definitely help, but people are already looking for salvation everywhere , some of their parents are sick, some have had no children for a long time, make a wish, they come in a year or two, in their arms with the child, they say we wished for it, one time recently he was driving, he was carrying strollers, he came up

, thank you, this is... we made a wish, our wish came true, well, thank god, a person should probably believe, if you believe and wish, it will always come true, i always tell little children , you have to make a wish, i want, i can do it, i have all the problems , it takes viktor petrovich about half an hour to light all 17 lanterns, but even closer to the end of this action, the crowd of tourists does not disperse, and people want to take pictures with the famous brest character , no less becomes. in order to see how the lights are lit, from wherever they come, we came on an advertising and information tour, we are travel agents from the tyumen region, we came to get to know belarus, we arrived today from minsk to brest and the first thing we did was come here, the guide said

that it’s always like a fairy tale and we were also waiting for his release, so the atmosphere was conveyed by the fact that people follow him, it’s not like someone looked at one lantern and dispersed, this is exactly the unity of all people in one place for observations of such an unusual action. anastasia and her daughter lisa came from the city of bolokovo, saratov region, and learned about the lamplighter from the intellectual game quiz. we arrived in brest this morning, visited the brest fortress, stayed here overnight in a hostel in order to go visit in the evening, it’s very unusual, very impressive, and the child doesn’t really understand yet, but for me i didn’t see those times when the lanterns were lit manually and see this, how it was, very interesting, very educational and something new, but like any fairy tale, the ritual of lighting the lantern comes to an end. on the soviet side, there are fewer people. and viktor petrovich takes pictures with the last

tourists for today. during these half an hour, he not only did his job, he withstood the noise and din of the crowd, the touch of dozens of hands, the hug of strangers, but he talked to everyone, smiled at everyone, refused no one, not a hint of fatigue or irritation. in general, i am for peace in the whole world, and for people to be kinder to each other, smile more often, and enjoy life. and so that money, money, money were not in the foreground, once upon a time in those days people of that age had golden hearts and wooden crosses, but now, unfortunately, everything has gone the other way around, wooden hearts and golden crosses have been dropped into the soviet twilight, the lanterns are burning, the show is over, but for our hero... the work continues, in just a few hours, when it begins to get light,

he will come here again to put out the lanterns, they don’t think that they are also extinguishing them, they ask, and you do you fill it with water in the morning? in fact, i’m getting up, i’m raising the window, in just 24 hours he will have to climb up and down the stairs no less. so, 14 years, without days off, holidays and vacations, in any weather, winter and summer. although this profession is from earlier times, it is not simple even today. there are very few lamplighters left in european cities and there they are worth their weight in gold. to the question: have you ever wanted to work somewhere in another country, viktor petrovich answers without even thinking: i didn’t even think about it and wouldn’t

go, well, i’m somehow a patriot, one might say, of my brest, my roots are here, here. your own nature, your everything, everything familiar, everything dear, it’s as if you are needed here, feel needed, in demand, and your everything, and who, if not me, will turn on the light on the dark streets, viktor petrovich laughs it off , without even suspecting that he doesn’t just refill kerosene lamps, he lights up ancient lanterns, for those who... have been coming to see this ritual for 14 years, it gives another light, if it’s dark in the soul, sometimes one small light is enough to give a person hope, to make him to believe that everything will be fine, problems leaving tomorrow will be better than yesterday, because

adults are mere children in this, the brez lamplighter knows this for sure. we live our lives, according to our own laws, with our own traditions, but why should anyone interfere in the internal affairs of our country ? they believed that they could enslave russia,

seize its resources, a huge market, huge natural wealth, and for another 300 years. 400 they will live, to drive a european into a multinational russian, it is necessary to deprive him of the memory of what all his previous experiences led to, the cossacks in paris, and that’s why these monuments must be removed, because these are the conditions for a future war, today a huge number of people come to us from different countries, how much they fall in love with our native belarus, they leave with the kindest thoughts about our country, so who wants to live and work.

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episode, we welcome everyone who is with us now, almost a month into the military confrontation in the middle east, or rather the hot phase that we are observing. we are discussing now, what we have at this moment is that israeli prime minister netanyahu is preparing for a long and difficult war. bloomberg reports: the israeli army's ground operation in the gaza strip could last from 6 weeks to 6 months. the ex-head of masada zaarti also said that the war will be a very long one, and those who think that it will end with a ground operation are mistaken. meanwhile , there is a humanitarian tragedy in the gas sector. overcrowded hospitals without medicine, electricity or staff. lack of water and food and, most importantly, hopelessness. on at a meeting of the un council, permanent representative of russia ne benzi outlined it this way on the west bank of the jordan river in the gas sector. a humanitarian catastrophe of biblical proportions is unfolding. so we see what the realities are now, uh, alex