[000:00:00;00] everything, but i believe that this is always the right place, because director or art, it doesn’t matter, like where i graduated from the academy, where i graduated, what academy i graduated from, the main thing is what happens inside the frame and what people will then see everything, belarus is just one word for me, but a very important opportunity, as here i am as an artist and as an artist and a businessman, i can realize my idea, which is related to art here and i can find it everywhere, but in the end, i need a result , it’s like for us, it doesn’t matter what it happened, it is important that in the end, in the end everything is fine, because i know that everything will be fine, having lived for so many years in belarus, i already understood the belarusian mentality, the belarusian people, they are very kind people, even the belarusian anthem begins, we

are peaceful people in belarus, very peaceful people, very peaceful people, very calm people, friendly, hardworking, i immediately found a common language with them, why? because i myself am such a person, i myself am a peaceful person, i myself love to work, so i can immediately join them a common language, we immediately found each other, belarus gave me education first of all, i came here for education, i received an education, then belarus gave me bread. fed me all this time, gave me a job and most importantly a family, i started a family here,

belarus, now this is my homeland. good morning everyone, listen to the weather information, the air temperature at the moment is -3°, the snow has stopped falling, the average wind speed is 15 m per second, gusts

are 20-22 m per second. the weather is improving, i inform the expedition members about the cancellation stormy situation, i worry about those who remained here on the mainland, for their loved ones, relatives, for family, children, grandchildren, there, because there is such a gap, long at a distance, it will not allow you to intervene in the situation, if you don’t let god, something will go wrong here, as they say in such cases , so of course, the experience... has been taking place throughout my profession, my entire life, and so on, but this is not something that should stop me, because i said, this is the job first

. here is the main headquarters of polar expeditions republican center for polar research, please welcome, and good kolya, how is the process going, here are the prepared papers for customs on equipment at the moment, here are our videos, photo equipment, briefly, nikolay is a specialist in communications, primarily satellite communications , hf communications , information processing systems, well, his responsibilities include preparing all the equipment, communications, computer, and so on, for the upcoming expedition, so

now the re-checking process is underway, configuration, checking equipment, instruments, devices, recharging them, if necessary, compiling inventories appropriate for customs, and so on and so forth, encoding information and so on, that is, a very... not a responsible moment, but in general guys, of course , they always look into his eyes on expeditions, because the thread of connection with the mainland largely depends on him. i am a system administrator, in simple words, so, i am responsible for the software at the station for communication, namely satellite internet, communication between people at the station, that is, radios, stations, setting them up, maintaining their working condition, well, at the moment, in order to send our expedition, it is necessary to prepare all

the equipment for sending this year by plane, i learned about antarctica in 2020, a friend tells me , you know that there is such an antarctic expedition, that there is a whole center that deals with this, they then had a question about setting up internet satellites, and since i graduated from bntu, the faculty of information technology, i have ideas about all these things, and i decided to try, i came for an interview with alexy alexandrovich, and he invited me to the thirteenth expedition, for 2 years in a row i went. come on, come on, i would like to say a few words about our national pride about the belarusian antarctic station. in

fact, the presence of a station in antarctica is not only a geopolitical indicator. i will give you the following statistics. there are currently 54 countries in the antarctic treaty system, only 28 of them have their stations in antarctica, seasonal or year-round. including the republic of belarus of small countries that have stations in antarctica, this is literally a single unit, bulgaria, the republic of belarus, well, perhaps everything, so we have something to be proud of, research began in 2006, we first landed on... enderby in east antarctica on sea ​​coast astronauts. there was a dilapidated infrastructure there, organized back in soviet times, such a field airfield base, consisting of several cabins, so

-called bunks. by that time, of course, in the seventies, this base was being built. by 2006 year, this infrastructure had already fallen into disrepair, but nevertheless, in the first years, the first 7-8 years, we were based there and did not give up plans for the hope that a belarusian antarctic station would appear in this region. the fundamental decision to build it was made in 2013. the initiator was the national academy of sciences. this initiative was supported by the government, the ministry of natural resources, funding was agreed upon , and construction of the station began in 2015. in fact, it was an experience that i did not have, or rather, this was a construction procedure, experience

that we had not had until now, this was the construction of a station, and if i may say , from the wheels, the assembly of the ship , structures were delivered by helicopter, they had to be immediately mounted on rocky ledges, rare in these places, and so on and believe the first object of the belarusian antarctic station , a three-section communication and navigation control module, was installed by four people in total, the composition of the belarusian antarctic expedition was four people, and this is a serious, one of the main complexes that is now constitutes, well, our infrastructure, we needed to pick up the structures from the ship as quickly as possible. install them so that the ship leaves faster, so that, naturally, the costs of the belarusian antarctic program are minimal or minimized in terms of transportation costs. we completed it in 36

hours. during these years, from 2015 to 2021 , the creation of the first stage of the belarusian antarctic station was completed, designed for the simultaneous stay and work of up to 14 staff members. this is scientific employees, medical workers, technical workers specializing in life support systems and so on, but the station was initially built with an eye to year-round operation, we made this a priority, that is, i already said this phrase, even if it seems hackneyed to some, we do not so rich to buy or build cheap things or structures, we need to do such objects once and for all seriously, the safety of personnel is a priority, and we cannot take risks, the antarctic continent 8 months finds in a year... neither

air transport nor sea transport can get there , so in fact, it is easier to evacuate an astronaut from orbit than to evacuate a person from antarctica within 8 months, so everything must be reliable. the questions of why antarctica is called the white continent can give several ambiguous answers. the first is that the continent has not been studied, even today, despite the sixty-year history of active study of its development, that is, in the mid-fifties of the last century, the most active phase of the study of this continent began along with the international polar year, when 12 countries came to antarctica with their national expeditions, in general, since 1955, it has been mastered and studied in the first

place, but remains a blank spot as before, this is one of the answer options or versions, the second option is because the continent is 90 4% covered with an ice cap, there are scientific hypotheses and versions that, in general, this is not even a continent, but an archipelago, that is, these are islands covered by a single one. hat, and this one the hypothesis has real confirmation, thanks to the modern capabilities of satellite imaging from space, various spectra, and so on, well, the third option, probably the answer, is the white continent, i would say untouched, that is, it is actually untouched today, reserved,

remaining . natives and immigrants from belarus have participated in antarctic research since the first years of its active exploration, that is, even as part of the first comprehensive soviet antarctic expedition, which was assembled in 1955, 11 specialists from the republic of belarus. these were mostly workers. in 1956, over this station, this is the mirny station, the soviet flag, the flag of the soviet union, was raised above it, that is, the soviet union then declared that the first soviet research station had appeared on this continent, the participation of belarusians in antarctic research continued throughout the period of

soviet antarctic expeditions. the native menchan had the good fortune to appear in the world 63 years ago, exactly. i love walking in this place, it has a special aura, i was born here house under the spire on the third floor, so i love to come here, to be here, my mother served in the headquarters of the belarusian military district , my father was in the ministry of internal affairs at that time, then life changed, parents changed, let

’s say, according to their activities, my mother taught , german, graduated from narkhoz, worked all his life at the minsk automobile plant, both were war veterans, so in our family, this understanding of the honor of the fatherland and its defense is special, like any boy, yes, he dreamed of being a pilot, a driver and a sailor, and so on further, but in any case, i didn’t imagine any quiet chamber professions , that is, there, relatively speaking, as a doctor, or there , as a researcher sitting in a laboratory, etc., that is, i imagined my future activity would still be active phase of constant work, well, the most frequent entries in the diary from the class teacher, i just had notes , read books, in such and such a lesson, read books, in such and such a lesson, you know, there

used to be very comfortable desks, and wooden with a hinged lid, with this compartment, very nice it was, but using this folding compartment. put an interesting book on your knees about someone's travels, adventures, and so on, and read it in class, it so happened that they suggested doing all-around, which is just the key, basic part of these sports, the process went great, that is, i was member of the national team of the republic, member of the national team of the union, took prizes several times, won the championship. i’ll say this, i still didn’t plan to connect my future with, let’s say, continuing to serve a professional sports, however, when leaving school i had a decent choice, like a good athlete, a master of sports, that is, i

could actually consider any university for admission, however, i chose the faculty of geography, the belarusian state. having connected my, well, some kind of youthful hopes and dreams about work that was still active, not related to being in one point and so on, but it turned out that way in life, when i graduated from the walls of the university on placement, well, let’s say, for me made an offer at the time, from which, as they say in such cases not... it was impossible to refuse. as a result, in 2005-2006, i was still at a more mature age, i came to what i dreamed of in my youth, in childhood, this is my favorite job associated with research, expeditions, the family

was formed when i was finishing my studies at the belarusian state university. well, well, my soul mate also became the daughter of my parents, a military family, so it’s not surprising our circle of friends, nevertheless, today, well, i want to say that we’re probably happy, despite the fact that, according to statistics, we thought so for a little while, about 14 years. probably, due to the specifics of my work, we were not together, although in fact, the length of our life together began to be calculated from 1908, so count, 14 of them, yes, we were not together, nevertheless , this does not affect

feelings on relationships in the family. the first expedition to antarctica took place quite unexpectedly. that is , the leader came to me and said: “gaidashov, get ready for a business trip to the south.” i say, as again, i began to list several countries to the south located, he said: no, i didn’t guess, even further south. as a result, yes, through the ministry of defense, i was sent on a business trip to the leningradskaya station, located on the coast. a difficult station from the point of view of the geographical location of the weather climate the strongest winds in antarctica are just our expedition when i was there to register the maximum gust of a bucket in

antarctica 78 m per second this is the wind at which cubic containers are torn from their place like toys, multi-ton objects, equipment, heavy, and so on , here, well, nevertheless, it was a baptism of fire, and let’s just say, for myself i realized that that work, that service that took place far from well, separation from the mainland, for a year and a half, i felt that it was needed, you know, i’m not afraid of these loud words , someone will take them loudly, the country needed it, the country needed it, it was, it was felt, it was felt, because for a reason, all these things, therefore... there was satisfaction in this work and let’s say, it coincided , what i dreamed of at one

time. our conversation and meeting continues in a unique location, for minsk - this is not the meaning of this object at all, it is called the center.

oceanography, the open ocean, well, the significance of this object from an educational point of view for children, youth, and even adults, is difficult to overestimate, and we must bow and pay tribute to its director of this center, alexei azarov, who, despite many years, is collecting such a unique collection, including underwater marine organisms. historical stands on the history of the navy, the russian empire, the soviet union, the present, the present time and so on, including illuminated, there are exhibitions of belarusians, submariners, military sailors and so on, well, we are friends with this center, it’s here from time to time, it’s a tradition to gather for, among other things, well, as a rule, this is at the end of the expedition, or often

we are gathering at the start of a new regular expedition, i think that this year we will not change traditions either, i think that this is not only the pride of those who created the station directly, with their own hands, those who designed it, and this must be given must be an exclusively belarusian development, manufactured. belarus was assembled by the hands of belarusians, equipment, filling, technological systems, and so on, everything was made in the republic of belarus. the beer guard, as i call them, often, sitting in front of the tv there or on benches somewhere, often make fun of what is belarusian, serve them there,

you know, something imported, foreign. once tested and so on on oneself, no one would risk the life, health, or safety of people if there were any doubts, therefore the best, reviews impressions of what has been put together in belarus, in our case, i think that in other areas all these issues are being resolved no worse, that’s why for our country this is a kind of litmus test, we can do this, we say, we can do this, we can’t we’re just proving to the skeptics, and we’re doing the job, for real, the station is compact, built. it’s quite modest, not on a large scale, but it has everything necessary for efficient work and safety, and

it was built for year-round use, those who visited our station, our doctors from the expeditions, for example, the surgical module, the operating module, the outpatient module, are equipped with the most modern requirements for medical institutions there, the doctors who work on our expedition say: yes , sometimes we don’t see such equipment in regional hospitals, what is here, but this does not mean that it is, well, it’s just all there, it ’s a reserve just in case, but at the same time we can provide medical assistance not only to belarusian polar explorers, if necessary, but if necessary, russian or nearby ones located within a reachable zone of several hundred kilometers, japan, india, the russian federation and so on, that is... questions will be provided, so in fact there is something to be proud of, what is unique, unique animal world

antarctica, the fact that there are no natural predators in it, at least for humans, well, the understanding that the animal world of antarctica is personified by penguins, seals, whales, killer whales, in fact , is a little wrong, a little wrong, because what we understand, or rather, are accustomed to understanding , the animal world is that which mainly moves on the ground. just penguins, seals, of course, whales, killer whales - these are sea inhabitants, that is, they are inhabitants of the coastal antarctic, and the largest animal or living organism of the antarctic , the size of 3 belgian moss, is named after the scientist who at one time at the beginning xx century, during a scientific expedition,

well, as it were, i determined in the first... this is a small wingless thing that doesn’t fly, it’s found, it’s like a little thing in moss or bushes antarctic, penguins organize colonies in permanent places in order to continue their offspring, organize families, seals in the coastal zone on fast ice, raise their own young offspring, all this... is researched, observed by our biologists, scientists, and so on , but as for penguins, i would especially like to dwell on this, to note that birds are very collective, very family-oriented, in fact, which, in some cases, a person can

take as an example, even regarding raising children , their... protection there and so on, relationships in a couple, penguins choose a soul mate permanently, that is, they do not have such polygamy , that is, a couple, if chosen, means it’s for life, then the mother lays the egg, passes it on her paws, rolls it over dad, dad has a special fur on his belly... lobe, he hides this egg there, and for more than a month it, uh, sits, you can’t even say, hatches it, and at that time mom goes, uh, into the open sea, feeds, krill , there, a fish, back and forth, here it appears in the colony,

where this poor dad stands, exactly on that day, almost at the time when he comes from uh , arrives there with a craw full of half-digested seafood, feeds the hatched chick, feeds the dad, takes custody of this chick and lets the dad go , to restore strength, then they, that means, organize it already, when the babies, the chicks grow up, they start menstruating. and so on, they organize nurseries on the territory of the penguin colony, that is, some of the adult penguins go to sea, some to feed, some the adult penguins remain, they surround them, which means the chicks are surrounded by a kind of wall from the birds of prey that are there, the skuas, who, so to speak, are not averse to feasting on the chicks, so they post guards and so on, that is, everything

is for real, everything is as it should be, that’s why ... then they change in strong muzzles, in strong snowstorms, in bad weather, they organize groups, drive the chicks inside, cover them with their bodies, only one remains outside, as if the outer contour of the penguins, which, having stood for some time, changes them from internal circuit, adult penguins, this is all organized, everything is a team effort, this is what i demand from my guys, the same... work , the same interaction, the same mutual understanding without further ado. i said and i’m not afraid to repeat myself that a person who remains in this profession, but if not for life, but decides to stay for himself, at least for a long time, he already clearly understands that he, willy-nilly, must sacrifice a lot here on the mainland,

including in personal life, and a deep bow. to our loved ones, i’m not just talking about mine family, i’m talking about families and loved ones, those guys who have been going on expeditions year after year for 15 years, even if not every year, every other year and so on, low bow to their relatives, who are not only understanding, relate to this, but are, well, probably the incentive to which we need to return, that strong rear and most importantly the incentive, we can abstractly talk about: even in soviet times there was a category, to be honest, of polar explorers who, well, actually from society those who dropped out were

completely, these are people who are 20, 30 years old every year, with a six-month break, they worked either beyond the arctic circle or beyond the southern circle, that is, either in the antarctic or arctic. but this is wrong, these are people with an already changed, i would call it, psychology , they could not survive here in society on the mainland, they had to return there, they could only live there in that situation in that environment, with us there is an incentive to return, we are returning, we strive to return home, because we know that we have a strong rear, they are waiting for us, they love us, and no

who to talk to yes. wow, good health everyone. travel is from the region, probably, let tourists do it, here it is a job for us, and work with which all life’s professional activities are connected, that is, a person who comes to this topic for the first time in some time, young, having visited once on a polar expedition, even after the first winter, he must make a further conclusion for himself and make a decision whether he remains in this topic, or for some

reason, the topic will not accept him, or he himself will not accept it and he will move away to the side, therefore, in fact, you can count on one hand, there are dozens, maybe hundreds of people in russia and belarus, who have been engaged professionally throughout their lives, well, they have a profession, and one of the polar professions is polar explorer, because in general this is not a profession, it is rather a way of life , this is the way of life of a polar explorer, because a polar explorer is a cook, he is a doctor, he is a mechanic, he is a researcher and so on, this is also a polar explorer, that ’s why to talk about how i feel, this is work, i come back: every year, in soviet times, these were winter quarters, a year and a half work in antarka, return home, then, now it’s 6, 7, 8 months, in some cases, months return home to prepare for the next

expedition, this mode of work has been for 15 years now, this is normal, there are no happy people in the family, but there are no dissatisfied ones either, because that this is my job, i have always said, i stand on this position, i will never change it, that is... no matter what trained professional in his field is here on the mainland, it doesn’t matter, a researcher, a mechanic, a cook-doctor, there, uh, having arrived in antarctica, it still becomes, well, i don’t know, the nursery group begins, because everything is different there, there is a work schedule, a way of life, and even thinking, psychology, relationships with each other, relationships and the profession is completely different, you have to radically change a lot of habits, break in some cases and so on, therefore, the full-time professional composition

of those who have experience in modern expeditions has been developed over many years, that is, for 15 years, in fact, now we have a good bench of reserves, both in scientific specialties, and in technical, life support and so on, but the first years are... a problem , imagine, the expedition stays for six months and consists of one, at best two people with experience in polar conditions, newcomers 3, 5, 8 people, about a month old, one and a half to two, you will still lead by the hand, as they say, shepherd, protect, teach, and so on, this takes a lot of time, effort, nerve, and so on and not all, practice shows, statistics show that only 30 -40% of those who have been to the polar ice once, polar expeditions, return or

express a desire to work further, it’s just impossible to find a person... to complete a scientific task, this is a specialized organization, a specialized laboratory, a person who deals with this topic, has deep knowledge, and so on, only in this case can we talk about effectiveness scientific research, so there were problems with this in the first years, but now this situation is leveling out, there are a lot of young people from the scientific field, from scientific backgrounds. organization, first of all, of the national academy of sciences, of course, comes to the topic, is interested, expresses a desire to work as part of belarusian antarctic expeditions. when candidates come, applicants for work as part of a polar expedition, i always ask them the first question, for what purpose did you come, what do you see, well, as who and what do you see yourself as part of the expedition.

if they immediately answer me: i have dreamed of visiting antarctica all my life, i immediately make a note for myself that it is unlikely that this person will be suitable for long and hard work in antarctica, because visiting antarctica - he was the one who got the wrong door, you have to pay serious money to the travel agency, several tens of thousands of dollars, please visit antarctica, see it, the first years of formation... the expedition, yes, it was a concept like most, we imagine what expeditions are, well, it’s almost a hike, yes, they took a backpack, cereals, stews, pasta there , took clothes, boots went, yes, then there was some kind of fire there, or some kind of camp stove, they lit it , uh, we cooked porridge with stew there, good, great, that’s

good great, one, two, day, three. well, a week, then it’s already here, it’s already impossible to eat, you can’t look at it anymore, this is the first thing, but for the body, excuse me, this doesn’t do anything at all, because well, this is actually such a regime and lifestyle and diet, the body cannot withstand any person for so long, the strongest, as for certain symbols, with an antarctic theme, well, as a rule, this is timed for some events, for some dates, even a wristwatch do not assume that every expedition, every an employee will be awarded such a watch, this one was, a small batch of these watches was made for the tenth anniversary of the beginning of belarusian research in the antarctic, that is, 2016. if we are talking about the fact that in

2006 the first state program, the first expedition took place, then these watches were, this small batch was made for the tenth anniversary , this year marks 15 years, of belarusian research in antarctica and we will probably try, because we understand that we have government funding, budgetary funding, nothing there we don’t consider help there or anything else, we work within the framework of government funding, so when the question arises of buying good, high-quality safety glasses to save your eyes, or a watch, then of course, i ’ll say, we’ll buy glasses, well, we have to balance, well, however, some memorable small souvenirs, things we

try. expedition, of course, there are such products, especially since they are needed not only to mark some milestones in certain activities of ours and so on, but they are also needed for promotion and recognition in general, our activities, the brand as a whole, in the global antarctic community, we are in antarctica on the way there, back in antarctica itself, we meet with numerous foreign... colleagues and it’s very wonderful when there is always a souvenir, a badge, a chevron, something else... then, some kind of keychain with symbols. symbols of the belarusian antarctic expedition, which you can present, donate, this is not just a rule of good manners, this is precisely the promotion of our polar brand, the national

polar brand. experience in family life since 1980, when my wife gave her consent to marry me, in principle , she had to imagine, because you... are a geographer, a senior student at that time, so purely theoretically she could imagine what awaited her, but uh, before

we knew each other for quite a long time, and i think that the character and lifestyle of each of us for each other should have been predictable to some extent, so... i think that my subsequent service , work, long departures, business trips, and so on, well, not became some kind of unpleasant surprise for her, of course, this is a heavy burden, i now perhaps understand this after many years, we have grown, grown, three sons, two national... third son, but he is native, but he is formally consider adopted, because this is the son of my close friend, who , as circumstances have developed, was left alone in this world, his time, and became a full

member of our family, so they all grew up, independent guys, they have their own families, they give me already... my wife and i were given five grandchildren and bows and one granddaughter, there is harmony and peace in the families, thank god, everyone is busy in their own serious direction, one serves in the ministry of emergency situations, one is engaged in serious business here in belarus, that is, he has his own production and so on, this is not, not buy sell, which i approve, i mean i approve , that this is a production, this is a serious approach, so to speak, one son works and lives in russia, with his family, well, activities

related to providing work, filming, show business there and so on, well, it’s also serious work, i’m... happy with mine boys, in our family one thing is sacred, this is reverence, even i would say, respect for the older generation, uh, observance of family traditions, ancient ones and so on, because it just so happens that our family, well , partly has noble roots, here are some such glorious traditions, russian, russian from previous eras of times, they are preserved in the family, remember, just those times when, well, really national heroes, in the soviet union there were polar explorers, from drifting stations there and so on, yes, that

is not because they are like that on their own wonderful, because they were the first, they were the first, the astronaut, remember. yes, then it all leveled off, and the same thing with the polar explorers who worked in antarctica, the soviet years, so i even returned from the expedition, i’ll tell you honestly, as they show in the movies, an orchestra, a military one, air caps, pioneers, bouquets and so on further, the ship arrived at the best port at that time, the seaport of st. petersburg and so on, with honor, dignity, with honor , then after the collapse of the union, all this was, well, unfortunately, abandoned, leveled off and so on, our task now is... to improve this attitude in every country, every city, every village, every

locality has its own hero in its own way, and people just need to be able to see them, appreciate them, and so on , and one of our, well, forms, probably, or areas of work is working with young people, we meet very often, organizing exhibitions, public lectures there and so on, that is , some informal ones for and so that it is interesting and reaches the youth and so that they strive engage in or had a desire to join this polar , let’s say work and so on, we have already talked about this, personnel decides everything, but personnel are worth their weight in gold, especially polar ones, this is my calling, i consider myself a happy

person, because... probably , not everyone manages to put together a favorite job in life, which brings satisfaction with the understanding that this work is primarily important for society, for the country, that is, not only for one’s own ego and self-satisfaction or obtaining some then there may be material... dividends from this work, from the point of view of usefulness of social significance, also including, first of all, probably, the work here is craft work, hard work, and if we speak frankly, work that, like 50 and 100 years ago, requires very a lot of fizuha, as we say, there is no

place for the weak here. there are simply no weaknesses here. non-standard, well, let's wait for the hooks

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