strong winds for a cotton cultivation that devastated the once rift region cos of the soon to disappear. and up next we explore the wonders a mystery so some of the world's a unique lakes in russia and beyond. at first glance this isn't in conspicuous lake in cassocks dumb but it didn't form under natural circumstances it's called the nuclear lake and it owes its appearance to the energy of the atom there is a long running argument about whether it's dangerous to swim in it is this radiation cheeriest twenty times as hot as it can be according to safety regulations. most of the surface of lake basking jack in russia's south is as hot as ice so much so that even trains can ride across it much in those who seem the machine moves on rails it weighs about one hundred eighty tunnels. to kamchatka peninsula in the russian far east is known for its distinctive flora and fauna but you can also find some strange bodies of water lake del mia was born from

a volcanic eruption there's also a lake of sulfuric acid here there are quite a few such lakes across russia and the c.i.s. countries to this day people still haven't done ravel that many mysteries. the shots were taken on january the fifteenth one thousand nine hundred sixty five . on that day the first soviet underground nuclear explosion for peaceful purposes was carried out and will cost them the kazakh republic the aim was to create a reservoir. is about to be set on. they count down to detonation has begun five seconds left feet four three two one one zero. the power of the one hundred forty killer ton nuclear charge was nine times stronger than the bomb that was detonated at hiroshima the blast tore

a hole in the landscape. after it had settled the crater left behind it was four hundred thirty meters in diameter and one hundred meters deep. in april nineteenth sixty five a special channel was made to flood the crater with. scientists hopes that spring flood water would fill the giant basins they also hope the craters would provide enough water for irrigation and cattle breeding because they didn't expect much of operation from the relatively small surface area. in the one nine hundred sixty s. the soviet union carried out one hundred twenty four nuclear explosions under the atoms for peace program most had the aim of facilitating the mining of minerals forty five years on scientists at kazakhstan's institute of radiation safety and ecology still regularly monitor radiation levels in the nuclear lake today a group under the direction of yuri still joke is heading that yuri moved to

kazakstan from ukraine in the early one nine hundred ninety s. he knows these parts better than anyone else. they just move the no answer do ball upon test site of people here underground nuclear explosions work in burra wells. the. gun lies in the midst of a vast plain reservoirs are few and far between here it's one of the largest lakes in eastern cassocks down the landscape is breathtaking but at the same time having it's still unknown whether the area is fraught with health risks but duty still job isn't too worried he wears a simple breathing mask and army top hole in boots his workmate the diem's of all of his here for the first time he's a radiation supervisor today vadim task is to test the soil to see if it was contaminated by the explosion. here in this place the background

radiation that is say gamma radiation is comparable to radiation aboard an airplane but someone stays here for ten to fifteen hours they will get a doze matching the one that people had during an air flight. in one thousand nine hundred one yuri was an army serviceman at a nearby military test range he often came here to base even then he was not afraid of the radiation. or was there. it's two point three my chris. so it's like at the top yes. the off shore water is warm you can you and wave here especially at lunchtime when he is particularly hot here to be salty but i've got no other concerns about it scientists say the level of radiation you klyde contamination in the lake poses no

health threat even though the water's chemical properties and salty taste make it unsuitable for drinking life can still be found we need some tiny fish thrive on the lake bed and what they just wanted we have just seen young fishes off shore which at. the fish population will get back to what it used to be certainly during a warm summer. for. locals expect an influx of tourists efficient return to the nuclear lake for the time being though travel is preferred to steer clear of check on. by contrast people from all over the world flock to lake basking shark which is located four hundred kilometers from the city of astrakhan in russia's south. baskin jack is a unique reservoir there's about as much sold here as in the dead sea three hundred grams per liter. or is it was this contract lake is left over from an ocean that

once covered the earth and that three hundred million years ago the ocean began to recede but it is but these aberration of seawater around lead to fractional salt crystallisation is you as a result the challenged structures here consist of a mass of table salt. in the. historian say salt was first minded like baskin took fifteen hundred years ago today the mining is done industrially. the bias has been working in salt mining for mold and twenty years has watched methods develop. in the old days crowbars in spades we used to chip away at salt crystals now special equipment is used to them is just to just let it go. because this is a new generation of so mining machine and such machines have been in operation here

for only a decade they're made locally and you won't find such powerful machines anywhere else in the world much in it as you seem to moves on rails it weighs about one hundred eighty tons to be used to form. tracks laid on a seam and sold in the middle of the lake allow the device to move to and fro. the sleepers and made of wood because other materials would be destroyed by the sun's powerful blades he used to cut off and loosen the seam of hard crystals. the salt is then mixed with water and sent to a special chamber under pressure. here the crystals are separated from the water flushed and loaded into rail cars. it takes the so-called soul chip one alan to mine some three hundred tons of salt. as a rule the mining season begins in march and lasts until november both white and industrial

salt is extracted at lake basking chunks. huge mounds of salt rise up around the. builders and moves the souls into which we cool the. belts and then take it to. where it's grown. the lake is thought to be inexhaustible with stocks naturally replenishing. the fact of the matter is that we mine salt in proportion to income and in amounts

and all to million tons a year. this means there is a state of which is good for the ecology of the system in. the camp chunk of an inch in the russian far east using volcano as a plateau roughly twelve kilometers wide and is dissected by a network of mud pulleys and hot springs. unique lakes hot steam jets and little rivers in make up the complicated hydrothermal system of the terrain. it can all just schools all account day at the time comes from the spanish word which means cauldron and refers to its gigantic crater being caused by a massive explosion. was on is part of the crew not the natural reserve. lives and works here during the summer season he makes sure visitors don't enter

the geothermal field without special permission and the company's excursions to protect tourists from the beds which live in the area. brown bears enjoy both the cool grass and the hot earth of the caldera making trails among the hot springs but it takes practice to master them. welcome martin young bears have found skin on their paws so while their mothers can walk on the harder it easily the young ones start to feel it and one is a skull to them the mother was walking ok while her little one just ran away to the shore and washer from there but the couple remember what the mother did and will be able to find food. the bed trail goes north and reaches lake down the air which was formed by one of her up sions it's the only lake in the county there that has cold clear water it's about a mile wide and is surrounded by siberian pine the bank is quite steep and there's

hardly any shoreline around the lake just a narrow black ring of ash and volcanic rock the surface of lake down the is never choppy researches haven't found a single living organism in the lake until now but there's an island in the middle of the lake and siegel is used for nesting they must have brought some impregnated fish eggs or some baby fish and this must have started a new species we recently found one fish ashore and a look quite a bit different from one of the salmon breeds the arctic char it must have developed differently possibly because of poor nutrition. this lake is known as a chloride mineral lake within it's a species of bacteria which produce self your account which mixes with the water and streams out of the lake. the halston warm lakes of the use on caldera hostile

to any advanced life forms they've been taken over by blue green algae. the process of oxygen exposure synthesis makes the water's surface bubble and also prevents me thing and carbon dioxide beneath the lake bed from breaking out and into the atmosphere. that this area has a unique composition of both earth and water. you can find bacteria here with completely different biochemistry and belonging to different groups and that's very interesting. each lake in the use on caldera is an isolated ecosystem with its own chemistry and indigenous organisms and is among unesco's world heritage sites giving it special protection. a close a team has been to the times. where rich academic life gives birth to innovative ideas. now archie goes to the area which together with boosting

industrial development. offers to make a journey into russia's history. and to enjoy burgers and vivid cultural life. welcome to the region if russia goes on archie. won't come to the scots t.v. experiments when nobel prizes. for the next time printed a. massive structures to get a microscopic make over and in tiny chip can take us a long way to think of nato comes into focus. on technology update here on our q we've got the future covered. seventy six hours of intense fighting. six thousand dead in.

front battlefields several kilometers long. and now there is only one person who cares. you see we are surrounded by garbage everywhere but also there are. on this beach which of course is the way most appropriate signification a symbol of everything that's wrong with our goddamn government allowing. to accumulate where so many guys died. a new battle is going on. will the history be protected. return to terra one million cooper story on our t.v. . one lake in the chelyabinsk region has renowned medicinal properties. it's called slant k.-a which means sweet lake because of the way the water seems to taste the

farmers are in fact the water is not sweet. it has a salty taste because it contains sodium chloride and carbonate. where the water is soapy there is a lot of alcohol in it. any clothing no matter how dirty. it can be easily washed here without using any soap. the lake is in the nature reserve a protected area totaling eighteen thousand hectares each day rangers make the rounds looking for trance passes hunting and fishing here off a bit. sweet lake is one of twenty in the reserve of which is the largest swans and other birds nestle here. came here three years ago.

very unlikely visitor here as they only tend to fly over the sea they took pictures of it and prove that it really was. the best. and is considered to be one of the cleanest. it's also. several hundred people. each day. headed to make it. because it's a flammable period and the forest is near. yes we know about it when we watch the fire and we'll never leave garbage here. we have to move on thank you. tests. and various.

this makes a good remedy for the immune system it also helps fight diseases affecting the joints and. who has allergies. and diseases. well. every little scratch there's a good deal silver in the lake. the writing that goes away without a trace. in the evening. of sweet like. may reach as high as one hundred celsius or two hundred twelve degrees fahrenheit.

was the first manmade reservoir to be created by an experimental explosion. it's been scientifically demonstrated that most of the radiation was concentrated dumps. thrown up by the explosion. today. even. villages anyway. makeshift welling's. alexander has tended cattle in these parts. but has no worries about living so close to it. people have come here to measure radiation levels but so far nothing.

each year water samples from to ghana carefully analyzed that this laboratory tests here have shown that the nuclear water is far from sas it's just down the cesium is what we find most of all. we also find strontium and sometimes plutonium they're not in heavy concentrations but it's better to keep away from them. an experiment was set up inch again in the late one nine hundred sixty s. thirty six types of fish including purana were released into the lake over several years only koppen tend to manage to adapt to the new habitat. whenever so the case of boston has the opportunity he goes fishing in the river he knows from his own experience what fishing in is all about he worked there in the early one nine hundred eighty s. . there was even

a fishing cooperative here they caught fish and took it to court charged of to sell which other people were happy to buy to fish according to tests on the whole the radionuclide concentration did not exceed safety levels so people were allowed to eat the fish. start again so bolton was a hydrologist of the time. his job was monitoring the amount of incoming water nets were used to catch the fish one basket deal did some five hundred kilos. i saw several unusual fish one of them had only one eye others had a tail looking like an airplane fin this is what it looked like but i didn't see the specimens very often. today the test range territory including lakes again is rarely used in agriculture the future of the lake and surrounding area is an

open question some suggest that fish should be bred here again yuri still took as a different idea. so that i think we need to create several langmore eggs on the territory of the test range in award them this status of unesco world heritage sites. and the new clear lake would be one of them there we are. on weekends hundreds of people visit like boston chacon the astros and region to bathe and have a good time. actually there's very little water in the lake the off shore area is a best about one metre deep but in the middle of the lake where salt is mind it can be as deep as eight hundred metres. the water is in fact concentrated brine it's nearly impossible to seem can bask in china. but because of all you don't have any support in the water the water itself the port feel like it doesn't float yours and unusual sensation and just. looks like the dead sea but the water investing his

words were as the water of bounce contract helps initiate a natural healing process was knighted as he knew all living creatures on the earth originated from the ancient ocean and a long time ago is that people's blood plasma has the same condition as ancient oceanic water and the composition of the brain of lake is very similar to that of the blood plasma of humans only the concentrations are different. doctors advise people against staying in baskin shots water for more than fifteen minutes just to be on the safe side. ovo the lakes water the sultan mud have healing properties treatment should be conducted under medical supervision. various procedures are administered at this nearby sanatorium. the room is like a salt cave patients here breathe in specially made salty air the procedure is

thought to help cure many diseases of the lungs bones and muscles the skin and the detest of system are thawing when they don't suddenly take the salt from the salt lake grind and dry it is and he isn't dozing unit before putting it in here. the this is where it's atomized and then the atomizers sends it into the room where the tiny particles are inhaled by patients and they should the song to mind the bass can chalk accounts for four fifths of thrushes so production its properties make it among the world's best. the we have to watch our intake salt is the minimal no animal can live without so it's little wonder that medics minus and spar tourists turn to bask in check the salt cellar that never runs dry.

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