he's an industrial and cultural center with more than one point three million people this is a twenty first century town that's proud of its history where you can find cutting edge technology and people that still follow traditions that date back centuries this area is an agricultural jewel covered with rich fertile soil and blessed with a mild climate it's the second most productive region in the country but if you want to appreciate it properly you really need somebody to give you a lift. before. maybe the best way to see the sights and. the weather was perfect and soon i was getting a comic view of the nearby family although it can be a little hard to concentrate with all the gadgets on display. i was with one of the best major surrogate has been flying for over twenty years and for against the mujahideen in afghanistan i could've been in safer hands we had a blow to the ground for a closer look. and

offer a quick tour across the river i was ready to head back to work to see some of the crops for myself. i was visiting one of the region's largest agricultural firms thomas who just finished raking in a huge harvest some flowers roisin grain will flourish it but before they can be sold they have to be checked for quality. the lab bills take samples of the crop and run a series of tests to check the moisture protein and gluten content. if they pass then they're ready to be loaded on to the trucks although in some cases that process can be pretty labor intensive. so the feel like if i see a losing battle there are over four thousand tons of this warehouse alone waiting to be shipped off clients around the rust a freezer and there's one company. that takes in

a particularly big order. because rust old is home to the largest sunflower oil producer in the whole of your. uterus here produces thirty million bottles of oil every month from two hundred thousand hectares of some plants if you seed survive another quality control check there unloaded into the factory to be processed. displaced. this is. a man that this is about is a. yes a yes you are right just two guys controlling the whole. three have these pipes and funnel shell and divide the seeds of different categories which has been pummeled and prints to various grades of oil. pulling the bottles in this form saves a significant amount of space and then attach to the production line for the grand

finale. so upset i shall cross the factory and refine the sunflower seeds end up in one of almost one million both of the boil the factory sets out everything full day for you to sit down for a burger and fries it process pretty likely it was good for me. when dealing with industrial scale you need some pretty serious equipment for most of them don't cost my company to. grow so much as the largest supplier of agricultural machinery in russia and sells to almost fifty countries around the world. they build bales and trucks his with wheels bigger than me but they're particularly proud of that combine harvesters. and the second said this is the end of the production. not seek to be here without a helmet ok. safety first people. each machine has state of builds and is checked

over hundreds of times just to make sure my competition is what keeps me. here this is it would bring a machine a profit to divert both prosecco would see every single hour you're sucking twenty times the price. props this. bunch of kooks with every new combine really needs is a good test of. business to come have a go at the. line. yes steph. hold the phone off of that. she says and russian made machine these machines certainly don't lack for creature comforts this is a transmission here's a steering wheel and this moves you for a cigarette. a legend in your fridge. the serializer in the fridge you can live in the state i think so here i was i had

a brand new combine all of this stuff and they were about to give me. a break it. was a little late in the year to go out to the fields but luckily they've got pretty wide roads around here and there weren't any police around to observe my highly illegal u. turns. mine may be massive but it's surprisingly easy to drive and i arrived back at the depo with everything and everyone still intact. the people overall still may be surrounded by the latest technology but they're also still in touch with the past and new moves side of the me areas cossack population. the don't call sites will run away serfs who said a little inside the river here hundreds of years ago baseball neurons society and gained a reputation as super horsemen fierce fighters playing significant roles in russia's

military campaigns up until the twentieth century. they also adopted traditions from the countries they visited and i've been invited to the village of star each of them to coffee ceremony. if you sit down for coffee every day of eleven o'clock it's a tradition that dates back to the turkish wars of the seventeenth century where the cossacks brought back turkish habits along with the new turkish wives and it's been a big social occasion ever since. you could see was not simply me. but you which will get together over coffee they want to discuss matters of interest because it's never drank on their own they're always invited to send out the friendship. and you don't just drink plain coffee it's always served with whipped milk it's called kind mark. extremely nice whatever it is because i'm going to get some kind of.

things to come from around ten am as delicious pancakes i was ready to see what else was going on in the village i didn't have to look phone. and his friends a dr who perform all around russia but they're all so happy to train new students providing my wearing the proper gear of course. we don't write i don't like a ready all i'm missing now is the beard so we don't have time for that but i had a few writing lessons by now and i was confident that nothing could possibly go wrong assuming that only wasn't going to make me copy his protege as i'm told he was once in the presidential guard and he's following in the footsteps of a proud line of course like horsemen. but these guys were the best in the whole of the world and if he had had them he could have called the boulder they were an inspiring sight and moments later i was ready to get into the saddle. so this is

tomahawk tomahawk i don't mean a racing horse and he's going to be the horse that i'm training on today quite as one of. the time on a horse. wish me luck. on your. but eventually but tommy was happy to let me without him holding the reins. third lesson think i'm getting a little bit more competent in these guys. now than then. maybe i'll make a horseman one day for running around in traditional costume was most enough for my trainer. in the real x. have to be on. this weapon is very sure it's going to kill people just so handled with care let's put it on your shoulder and shoot straight. with those encouraging words in my is i began to practice. among a large powerful animal with

a really quite dangerous weapon. i'm safe. this this is a good day. this is definitely a good day i don't want to move at all i really. should leave the plates my more experienced colleagues who were just getting started and things were about to heat up. would get involved in the fall and jumping. in general was never really got involved in the battles did they . that's to stand here direct. is very good. if not one dramatic enough about a few schumann fence posts. i'm willing to was risking far more on just his duties his wife was writing the. well it seemed safe enough and they did give me to make me feel better this may be the most stupid thing i have ever done.

but alright it's. this is what real. and they tell me that these are a bit of a crazy bunch. of me by some distance. i have my eyes closed to take me to notice. my stripes and for sure the troops have a special reward for that i. don't want to go there and i think i have down. my legs get the feeling you know your concepts. that i wasn't crazy well he could have read the long lines to you. here oh i think i need a stiff drink. to the cossacks. it was definitely time for a well deserved break and luckily roast old house just the place to get away from middle. of. the don't feel i'm the cossacks.

polishers that so much of the taxpayers' money i mean when i says you're a real mystery why are they undocumented immigrants or even legal aliens a label to protect or punish as an end to immigration.

doesn't inspire love of horses and nothing will. one of the few places in russia where you can see them in the wilds. just a few hundred kilometers away from the city is the. almost sixty years ago some domestic. violence and began to breed hundreds of foals. is home to the. horses in the world. amazing science and get used to heads. of cow even camels i've seen in russia never anything like this great. of wild horses. wonder if we can get a little bit closer. in fact the horses are used to humans members of the public

a frequent visitors along with the park rangers who come to study the horses behavior numbers and foliage levels on the island and if you approach them with a tempting treat you might get closer than you dad hopeful. one thing about spending a day on a freezing oil and his you tend to work up an appetite but with no restaurants for more than a hundred kilometers in any direction if you want to eat out here you'd better catch it yourself. or your scenario which is jamieson when you are approaching the point of time. the biggest and most of your approaching the crayfish station. right before she. remarked you are a fish a real looking a delicacy in the clear water here provides perfect conditions to find them. so apparently this is the best spots on the river to see if we can find some fresh crayfish so we've got to go check the nets and hopefully. have enough for

a bit of the crayfish are a local delicacy fisherman like me share regularly lay traps to catch them i'm not can be a bit of a messy affair. ok but. you need to bait the traps first of all the more fishy and fresh and generally unpleasant bath is the more likely the crayfish will come looking. so hopefully. although you can't expect to get lucky. from a good. lost a big one and sometimes you get the old one just want to accept the inevitable. let go absolutely. we have

a few more hits and misses but eventually the trade was full. of. a feast fit for a king. any question is. was the best way to cook them. but . too many things. i needed a bit of help if i was going to prepare these guys properly and finance i needed to make a speedy trip back into the city. there's very little i like more in this world than fresh shellfish and you don't really get much fresh seafood. so i've heard there's one place in the city that they really know how to cook this is rostrums best seafood restaurant appropriately enough fish.

stores which. my friends very well thank you i have some wonderful fresh crayfish and that you all the gentleman to show me how to do a proper crayfish boil yes well you know. i'm really looking forward to this. rich guy who's been working in real stall for almost ten years and cooking for more than thirty he's passionate about fresh fish and an expert when it comes to the local cross station and we were going to make a favorite. there now is. cream go from there also because the. ways the nice award. delay's the border and is the clean water he says the space and this is a round from the right is. yes and this is the video nice be sure it's him he's not the problem you are making in the home when you're ok with i found i was stretched it was busy at the stove i was put to work chopping vegetables for the.

older we had to keep an eye on the old crayfish trying to launch a daring escape. look at it it's a very very nice and once everything was boiling away it was time to add the main ingredients. of all russian crayfish protection needs doing this which is too graphic for network television. set back soon with the regular program. check things out for us cookies. local crayfish now. obviously i'm going to diggin him but you've got to do these things properly so according to local concerts edition. i must wash everything down with a cold beer so when i think very hot sometimes.

i decided to take a stroll to walk off my meal but it seems to be quite difficult to do so i was relaxing in rostov on don even if you're a kid. this is not a scene you see every day children cause. because you're deadly weapon i assume it's going. to kill us he's still going to be. just as a school to police so what do you guys doing. the agency ethics you drink studio is preparing for the shootings stunt school for kids the children here old buddy doesn't dare devils to leave their. as have trained more than three hundred children in the past two years some pretty serious skills behind the wheel even if they do need to sit on a cushion. i didn't get my. twenty three. you can barely reach the pedals. and now we're going to be.

honest with. the with the head trainer how exciting on the radio is in full control of the car and she's going to movie star to. you know my fondest. since i'm a student she told me that i could already drive a little bit each national and it started to teach me at the police town. so i could take on an eleven year old with my driving skills and the stump lesson. for the school is teach. let's do this. the brake pedal and switch to rebar. first break.

stephanie and drive back. and then just to do that. you have to be very quick. because. there are a couple of less than perfect attempts but i was confident of becoming a qualified getaway driver. ruled with such an expert instructor how could i not succeed. dr.

thank you teacher a very lesson ladies and gentlemen coming soon to a cinema you. watch out for this one but not every girl grows up wants to be a racing driver here i mean restaurants future trade business is also put. into lead to have been based here for twenty years and they've got nearly three hundred models on the books in the past ten years they've produced one miss universe three miss rushes and in two thousand and nine one misses world. victoria wrote a transcoder won the title in toyland on the phones not stop bringing since she's married with an eight year old son and it seems that all this new attention has been keeping her away for too long from the men in her life. and my husband understands me but he has told me i should take a rest from the people who have been displaying so much interest. i think.

he just wants me how mick and. tori is husband's losses image elites gain and when she's not waiting for close ups she's inspiring the next generation of models. victoria says the agency doubles as a finishing school and the girls are told to kids acting in performance skills twin homes spend tons on the catwalk which definitely helps if you address ways melba do to. the girls who pairing fashion friday i think four months of the local hotel where they show up some of the latest designs it's a chance to gain experience on a real stage and each one took the capital by storm time to finish they were joined by a couple of local celebrities including the boring old are scrambling you to the end of cool stick toward the self. make a living what he does best. for you go away to. a much redefines the phrase yummy

mummy. let's congratulate once again pretty woman victoria. my son restored was all my stuff but there was one place i have to see before i left and it's time to move one of the most important periods in the region's history. so. this is our most valuable item it's eighty six tiger germans first used it in fighting here at. it weighs six tons two hundred this tank right in our soldiers very much. their mom is the owner of rough storms museum of military history and he's collected a huge selection of world war two memorabilia i'm vehicles it's a real labor of love for him and a group of dedicated friends. will still play the huge pulse in the second world war there was oki point twice and was the scene of some intense fighting the second

time it took the defenders seven months to force the germans out. machine the old these machines are assembled by military enthusiastic. guys put together the two. thanks mr parts that have been found discarded on the battlefields that they come here to do the job on their days off they restored tanks to their original using drawings that suit those needs are very painstaking work. almost all of the vehicles are in working order and they used in film and television recreate. it belongs to the division of them fought near rostov people wrote some inscriptions here with them. and here's the number and some stars i should explain it. but then this is a soviet like tank and it may be easy to maneuver but it's definitely not easy to get into.

because they are what it was like my way around the sun. someone still crammed inside to get my dear how terrifying it would have been to have to drive this towards the enemy. but you shot yourself in one of these and it's almost like you can world war two. with some in the thick of the action but fortunately i wasn't taking on the much of the german army unloaded we even had cyclists fighting for us on the battlefield. and even though we lost a few brave men along the way the enemy never stood a chops. i can honestly say i don't think i've ever had such an adrenaline fuelled week in my life. as a city that's going places a town with a thriving business and i got a cultural climate and people that like to live life at high speed.

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