belarus is experiencing snowfalls; due to strong winds and heavy rainfall, an orange danger level has been declared; tomorrow they will stop in most parts of the country, and the thermometers will gradually go down; weather forecasters promise frosty weather with snowfalls over the weekend. the public skating season opened with a mobile skating rink near the sports palace. visitors are welcome every day from 10:00 am, the last session is at 23: skates for children and adults can be rented. for beginners, the instructor can give figure skating lessons. there are also storage rooms and seating areas with hot baked goods. drinks. every year visitors are offered interactive entertainment. for example, this year a game of stick throwing for accuracy will be organized for children, and the public skating season will last at least until april. the heroes of this program chose to live outside the city. this is something ancestral, all of our... uncles and great-grandfathers

lived in their houses, falvarkas, moved here from the forest to here, here it is more formal, there is peace of mind, there they see more opportunities and use them to the maximum. there was an idea to stage an opera to the music of manyushka, verbum nobel, i am starting to create a theater, and there’s all this fire here, lauks, everything was in the eye of the beholder, we opened a farm, we rented 150 hectares of land, we will continue to plow and re-cultivate in the future. the presenter’s task is to find out why rural life is still better than city life and complete several household tasks. once upon a time, you have found the birthplace of the bulb, and you need to get there. judging by the sweaty helmet, it might seem that yesterday i celebrated some kind of birthday or anniversary, but this is not so. well, there’s a little red tractor, why didn’t we load into it? watch the project "i'm from

villages" on tv channel belarus 24. ready for an exciting adventure through the cities of belarus on the banks of one of the cleanest rivers in europe and in the second honorable city of belarus, gomelechiv, the borders of the lands closed: the lands of drigovichai, razimichay and krivichay, and then the principalities of smalensky, chernigov and turvopinsky principalities . unique architectural monuments await you. famous russian art-vegetarian.

there are only four known in the world. watch in the program of the city of belarus on the belarus 24 tv channel.

in exactly a minute a hero will come out to us who will answer all the questions: children, are you ready to meet our hero? but first , according to tradition, our questions. guest, alexander, why do you think the children chose you to talk to? they are probably interested in hearing stories from the olympic champion. are you ready for children to sometimes ask tough questions? i was preparing, honestly. let's see how you cope now, promise to be honest? i promise. good luck then. dear participants of the program, today our guest is the chairman of the belarusian hockey federation. olympic champion pogreblinoy, alexander bogdanovich.

alexander, i want to warn you that according to the rules of our program, if for some reason you cannot or do not want to answer, you have the right to refuse the question three times and be attentive to the questions, at the end of the program you will have to choose the best one, and now you have one minute to briefly tell about yourself, time has passed, well, i’m a simple belarusian, i was born in the urban village of elizova, in a small family, i have a brother, mom, dad, that’s all... my childhood was active, we didn’t have gadgets, didn’t have the internet, didn’t have social networks, we spent our entire childhood in the yard, played with friends, so i was involved in various sports, but my life was connected by fate with rowing, at the age of 14 i entered the olympic reserve school,

i had two coaches, pyotr fedorovich yanovsky, three times master of sports of the soviet union and nikolai nikolaevich banko, with whom we came to the olympic medals, i graduated from three higher ones... now i head the hockey federation of the republic of belarus, i am also the chairman association of student sports and deputy chairman of the belarusian sports and physical culture society dynamo. you have a very interesting, rich life, of course it’s impossible to fit it into a minute. we have a very interesting dialogue ahead of us today. we have 100 participants in our studio, each with their own question. let's see how fast you can answer. you are ready? ready then let's begin, who's ready to ask a question? alexander, hello, please describe your personal attitude towards sports in three words, probably, sport is life, how do you feel about yourself? personality in three adjectives, if you describe it, you can, fair, purposeful

, probably kind, wonderful, then questions from the black sector, curious eyes and the desire to ask a question. hello, alexander viktorovich, you have undressed. surely you can explain to me what a provincial complex is, and is it true that it never ends? i won’t say that there is some kind of complex, i lived in an apartment, but in an urban village, as for the village, i know almost everyone, and when i won, i i know that everyone was happy and my entire village always supported me, so i can say that the provincial has much more. hello, my name is ulyana, how are you like your mom and how are you like your dad? well, you know, i love my parents very much, and i think that i took a little bit of everything good from each of them, now even being a parent,

i understand how kindly they treated me, well, probably my mother i am more active, more sociable, and my father... a little, a little, well, one might say so closed, but a very, very fair person , then a question from the black sector, to your left, please ask what you were like at school, which group did you belong to: nerds or punks? good question, you know, i can divide this a little bit into two parts. because when we were in elementary school, we were all street kids who didn’t understand studying, we probably didn’t understand that we needed it , when i entered the olympic reserve school already at an established age, and lived

this sports life when we were at 7 o’clock got up, 7:15 breakfast, 7:45 lesson, two lessons, we studied, then went to training, ran back to class again, had lunch, two or three more lessons, back to training, only after 8 o’clock we had somewhere the free time that we were given to do our homework, we probably came to the realization that we all need to understand why we need this, that is, that we need to study, because in the future we will need this knowledge in order to understand, what we have to overcome in life, since the ninth grade i didn’t have a single c grade and i understood that i needed to study, that studying in life is the most important thing that will be useful to me later, you will have to turn around to the red sector service, why did you choose

rowing, it’s not the most popular sport ? my mother was constantly involved in sports activities, played volleyball and i went with her to various competitions , which she would attend, i constantly saw sports people around me, but what did they tell me, i was tall, thin, and they said either volleyball or rowing, and somehow... by chance, my father-friend, the son was rowing in babruisk, he saw me, he said, listen, to my father, he said, let me take your son rowing in bobruisk, i say, daddy, mommy, dear, give it to me, i i want to play sports, please, it was the ninety-fifth year, right away of course, i didn’t understand where i had come, honestly, i came to babruisk for rowing, it was an ordinary house where boats were stored, i... i remember the first coach now, he runs out all so smart little with glasses, he has a panama hat, and

he’s like that, it’s you, yes, he says, how tall is daddy? i say, well, like that, and mom says, okay, well, turn around, what is the size of your feet , i tapped on the hips like that, she says , that’s it, quickly took the boat, ran, i think something is wrong here somehow , but i obeyed, took the boat, tried it, didn’t like it at all, i’ll tell you honestly, it’s a very difficult look, but when the older guys came, they came so muscular as i am now, somewhere maybe he’s still getting healthier, i say, okay, no matter how heavy he is i wasn't, but i want to be like them and just like that, it gradually attracted me, later on you already know it, like sports anger, which you see who came with you, you wanted to overtake him, then you set yourself a new opponent and compete with him again, gradually like this i...

the yellow sector began rowing to your right and the question came from there, please tell me, what should i do if i’m tired of my sport, i already said that my sport is not very comfortable, but every fall i had these are the moments that it’s so hard, we’re in we trained in weather like now, but then we didn’t have any uniforms, or these rowers, as we say now, yes, we had nothing, and we trained in grandma’s tunics, grandma’s sleeveless vests, wherever we found something , when things get hard for you, you must understand why you are doing this, when things get bad for you, you must understand that you want to be better, so you need. find strength in yourself, i think no one will do it for you, but you, if you want to become

the best, you must defeat yourself, but tell me please, do you visit your small homeland? yes, of course, i happen , you know, this is for me, as our president says, this is a place of power for me, and i grew up in a family where they loved to work, my grandparents brought me to work , they lived in a separate house , i went with them, mowed with my grandfather, weeded potatoes with my grandmother somewhere, i have very, very positive and vivid memories of this time, even when my grandparents passed away, my brother and i built an old house, well, already more modern, so that there is an opportunity to live there, to my parents, for me now this is a place of power. because we shouldn’t forget where we come from, what our

place is, where we lived, where we grew up, we should each do something good, because we came from there, it’s true that thanks to your successes, it opened a full-fledged burial section, however, i saw that the village lacked precisely this kind of activity, because we have sports guys there, and there are many examples - who in their youth began to look at us like a brother, they wanted to do it, but there was no opportunity, so i i left my boats with young guys, they came, just took them, trained, then the guy who brought me to rowing, he opened a rowing section at boydarki ekonoe and now there is an opportunity to train any child there, please tell me, how did it happen, that did you start playing sports with your brother?

my brother and i are 5 years apart, and when i came to the sport, he came up to me like this at competitions, there was such a wonderful case when i had already been training for 3 years, we had a test in two distances, that is a short 100 m and 5 km, i remember this , we went in circles and the weather was bad, i understand... that i have a lot of water in the boat, the wave is constantly rising, filling the boat with water, it’s very difficult to row, well, how - well, well, well, it’s not going at all, i decide to go ashore, pour out the water and - thereby angering the coach, i see the coach running there, screaming, i pour water, well, without water, of course, it was easier for me, i overtook everyone, he won, he was so impressed, he said: that’s it, i’ll do rowing, the coach heard these words, says: you must sit down and row on the left side, because you know, a canoe has a right side and a left, that is , we row on one side, this

coaching wisdom played a very big role in the future, then, the black sector, let's turn around. at 180°. i know that you have two sons and you would like them to become athletes like you, and do you think your qualities were passed on to them? i have thought about this more than once, i understand that it will be very difficult for the sons of an olympic champion sports, because they will always be compared there by dad, uncle, i give my sons the opportunity to try... different sports, starting from swimming, gymnastics, when i was older i actually started playing hockey, but now basketball, i put this into their concept, that they should be people with a capital letter, no matter what they do, so i don’t insist on sports, but i will do everything possible for them to try, well

, of course, genetics is always passed on, what’s wrong here, don’t tell it like it is, but you probably have a lot you are working on yourself, you probably have little time left for your children, do you think you devote enough time to them and do you consider yourself a good father? yes, you are right, of course, i try to spend more time with my sons , because for me this is the most enjoyable time in the family, because i like how they grow, i never thought that i could love like that. until i had my own children, whom i simply dote on and i want to pay as much attention to them as possible. if you hadn't become an athlete, who were you? what profession did you dream of as a child? as children, we always competed with each other, some faster, some slower, and this rivalry was

constantly going on in some kind of sports competitions, cossacks-robbers, klyklyuts. there were all sorts of moments in life, i can’t even imagine what would have changed who i would have been if i had not gone into sports, because i always wanted to be in such a dynamic environment, so your question is very good, but when you have already gone through life and come to a certain point, then it is difficult to answer it, and another question, who did your parents want you to be, in what profession, what? profession, i don’t know, but my father always told me that he says, the most important thing is, be fair, never deceive, everything will be fine with you, because he also said this, son, remember, money is evil, he says, always remain a good person, excellent advice , let's move on to the red sector, who is ready to ask a question, hello, my name is anya, have you ever commented against your

parents, and how was this expressed, and of course, in anything can happen in life. i remember one case, when i was already somewhere at that age, courting girls, there when i didn’t come on time, when my parents were waiting for me at home, i remember my mother scolded me a little there, go to where you were, what are you my nerves are shaking, to which my dad says: so, son, he says, remember, this is your home and you can come here at any time, so... probably some bright incident that has stuck with me in memory.

hello, what were you thinking when you stood there? on the olympic pedestal, about what a great fellow you are, or about your homeland, about your mother, you know, when you go to the start, you, especially at the olympic games, you think about what your parents will think if you lose, and what will the belarusians, your fans, think if you lose, and what will your people from... the village think if you lose, so when you stand on the pedestal, you think about what the belarusians think about you, what does your mother think about you, oh homeland? and i’ll also tell you a secret that an olympic medal won somewhere in border, you get a pleasant moment when you stand on the pedestal, it’s all great

, we dream about this moment, so that our belarusian anthem will sound, because this is the first step, this is a gold medal, you understand the price of this medal when you come to your country, when you come to your homeland, when you are received at home , when my brother and i arrived, after winning the gold medal at 5:00 in the morning, half of the village stood waiting for us near our house, it is very expensive when you come to receive the president you understand that this is a symbolic medal, that you are valuable in this state, this is very pleasant , so i’m telling you, without fellow countrymen, without belarusians , this medal is practically worth nothing, alexander, to your right, purple sector, the question is from there, thank you. hello, my name is lisa, and it is mandatory for an athlete who engages in rowing to be able to swim, there is a life jacket, this is one of

the basic rules that a rower should be able to do, i’ll tell you one such case, i had one in my life when i was doing the second year, i remember one of the days when bad weather threw me right out of the boat, and i just saw the boats coming... above me, i was shackled, a thousand needles pierced me, i couldn’t do anything, i was just so petrified, i guess i was wearing a vest, everything was fine, but something tugged at me, so i swam out, if i didn’t know how to swim, i probably wouldn’t be sitting in front of you, that’s of course, i ’m not scaring you , but believe me, swimming is very necessary and necessary for rowers, turn 180°, yellow sector, question from there? hello, my name is zakhar, i have the following question for you: when you went to the olympics, did you take your horse with you, or does it make no difference to you what kind of rowing?

this is a good question, in fact, because you get used to a certain model of boat, and for my brother and i this was very important, and since we had already performed well before the olympic games, we immediately took two sets in order to make identical boats , identical stops, pillows and so on, similar, in order to send one boat, because it left long before the start of the competition, we had to have identical boats, because the olympics were in beijing, in london and it was impossible to deliver the boats there in a few days, another question from the yellow sector, you have a huge number of awards , and not only in the sports field, tell me which is your favorite and why , grapes, you know, for me , you’re asking a question, i have... immediately an award, an award, value there, something else, i have right away the question arises, i don’t know family, for me the most precious thing is family, this is mine

the award that is my wife, children, mother, father, brother, this is probably my most, most valuable award, which is here in my soul, how much does olympic gold weigh and under what conditions would you be willing to give it up, olympic gold weighs, well , about 200 g, probably the weight of a medal, what about giving it up? my father made a certain wall where to hang medals, when i started winning medals, he made a certain one there somewhere from fangs, there somewhere from some of his crafts, i have there was a wall covered in medals, it still exists, i didn’t even touch it, well, not one bit, when i won olympic gold i started traveling around cities to show the children there and so on, so i put it in a box somewhere there you carry it there in your pocket, you put it, i took out this medal, put it at home, and i think, probably, this is somehow wrong, because this is a medal, well, this medal was won, as i

say again, for the people, for the belarusians, so that they saw it so the children could see it, it's lying somewhere on my shelf, and i made a decision for myself that i would give all my medals to the nog, so i gave all my medals, they are now in the national olympic committee. and anyone who visits the national sand committee can see all the medals , touch them, look, so i have already given away my gold, thank you very much, children often ask awkward questions that cannot be answered truthfully, have

you ever had questions? well, it’s probably a slightly different psychology to communicate with children, it’s annoying, what color is the sky, and why is it blue? probably, such questions from children do not exist , because you are touched when they ask you something, i love children very much, so for me, probably, there were no annoying ones as such, when a child is born, love is born at the same time and fear for him. which of these is blue anyway? oh, interesting, interesting question, when i put you to bed, i always think, god forbid something happens to him, yes, i always have such thoughts, i always say something good in his ear, yes , but probably without fear there will be no love, probably it’s all mutual, uh, a person is designed in such a way that he should be afraid of losing something, then he

understands that it is dear to him, therefore... probably everything here should be mutual, the fear that something will happen to him, this is the love and care that you should give to him, it’s probably like, probably it’s 50x50, hello, my name is matvey, it’s a common opinion that athletes don’t have bad habits, but what about you, well , bad habits, probably everyone has them, but this should probably all be in to the best of my ability, when i was an athlete, i didn’t allow myself practically anything, but i can’t say that there are no bad habits, we are all, as it were, all living people, we experience the world by trying this or that, so we must determine and not make these mistakes that make us worse, we must always strive to be

better for ourselves, for our loved ones. for those around you, tell me, have you ever doped? that’s what doping is in our opinion, right? doping, as for me, is the drug that increases your performance, during the competitive period and competitions. now we see that the world has changed and such banal vitamins as melanandrone are being doped. that is, if i answer your question truthfully, then i took it until the moment it was banned, and now it is doping, so this is all relative, but i have never taken any prohibited drugs that increase the performance of an athlete in competitions used, purple sector to your left, hello,

my name is anastasia, tell us what it is like... the olympic village is a residential area that is surrounded by a fence, and there are checkpoints that can only get there with accreditation, anyone can’t go there, they live in this village all the athletes who are the best today, and you can walk, let’s say i’m a rower, i can walk, see how the most elite weightlifter eats. next to us are the famous basketball players, and volleyball players, that is, this is such a big olympic family, which allows you to communicate with any sport on any topic, it’s very cool, and the olympics are different in that by participating in it, you can be imbued with this olympic spirit, which is present in the olympic villages at the olympic distances, thank you, and you

devoted so much time rowing, now you are the chairman of the belarusian hockey federation, what is the logic? well, the logic is that you don’t have to be a great athlete in a certain sport to head a federation, because leading a federation does not mean playing in hockey, this means we need to create conditions for hockey players in order to prepare them for the most important start, that is, the chairman of the federation is not great...