trees are some of the world's largest lakes in russia and below. at first glance this isn't in conspicuous lake in kazakhstan 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 here's 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 right across it mushroom as you see in 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 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 was then the kazakh republic the aim was to create a reservoir. is about to be set on. they count down to detonation has begun is five seconds levied four three two one zero. the power of the one hundred forty killer tongue 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 nine

hundred sixty five a special channel was made to flood the crater with. scientists hopes that spring floodwater 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 have 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. just move that but we have no answer

do ball upon test side of the law here underground nuclear explosions were cured in burra well so the only idea that it was. 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 soulchild isn't too worried he wears a simple breathing mask and holding boots his workmate the diem's the heart of his here for the first time he's a radiation supervisor today vadim tusk is to test the soil to see if it was contaminated by the explosion. would. here in this place background radiation that is say gamma radiation is comparable to radiation aboard an airplane . you someone stays here for ten to fifteen hours they will get

a doze matching the one that people get their 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. it's two point three mike receive it. so it's like at the top yes. well badly off shore water is warm you can you and wave here especially at lunch time when he is particularly not here to be salty but i've got no other concerns about it. scientists say the level of radionuclide 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 now it's just more good we have just seen a young fishes off shore which it would watch answers are the fish population will get back to what it used to be certainly during a warm summer. or. locals expect an influx of tourists efficient return to the new clear lake for the time being though travelers prefer to steer clear of check down. 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 seeing three hundred grams per liter. or is it about this contract lake is left over from an ocean that once covered the earth and that the three hundred million years ago the ocean began to recede but it's radio but this is pretty the evaporation of seawater

around let a fractional salt crystallizations you as a result then challenged all structures here to consist of a mass of table salt. in this order. historian say salt was first minded like bascom took fifteen hundred years ago today the mining is done industrially. monarch know the bias has been working in salt mining for more than twenty years has watched methods develop. in the old days in spades we used to chip away at salt crystals now special equipment is used. this is a new generation of soul 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 as you seem to move rails it weighs about one hundred eighty tons

. tracks laid on a seam of souls in the middle of the lake allow the device to move to and from. the sleep isn't 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 on the pressure. of the crystals a separated from the water flushed and loaded into rail comes. in takes the same console 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 souls is extracted a. huge mounds of salt rise up around. a

bulldozer moves the souls into which we cool. and then take it to. the lake. to be inexhaustible with stocks naturally replenishing. that's sort of the the fact of the matter is that when mine salton proportion team common in amounts and all to million tons a year. this means there is a state of which is good for the it system.

become 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. income or just cold is all account there again the term comes from the spanish word caldera which means cauldron and refers to its gigantic crater being caused by a massive explosion. was on is part of 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. ok martin young there is health and skin on their paws so while their mothers can walk on the harder it is really the young one started to feel it and one as it's called 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 here which was formed by one of. it's the only lake in the county there that has cold clear water it's about a mile wide and it's 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. there's an island in the middle of the lake and sego is use it 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 must have developed differently possibly because of poor nutrition. this lake is known as a chloride mineral lake within it a species of bacteria which produce self your account which mixes with the water and streams out of the lake. the holsten 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 it photo 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 as a monk unesco's world heritage sites giving it special protection. wealthy british style stock. markets why not come to. find out what's really happening to the global economy

with max cons or for a no holds barred look at the global financial headlines tune in to kaiser report on our. clothes a team to speak to the times. where rich academic life gives birth to innovative ideas. no argy goes to the area which together with boosting industrial development. offers to make a journey into russia's history. and to enjoy a person a vivid cultural life. welcome to the param region in russia close up on our cheek. if. soon which brightened. soon from

phones to freshen some. new screens down totty dot com. download the official auntie application to your i phone on i pod touch from the i choose apps to. watch all teach life on the go if. video on demand atienza live broadcasts and already set feeds now in the palm of your. question on the ati dot com. one lake in the chelyabinsk region has renowned medicinal properties. it's called slug k.-a which means sweet lake because of the way the water seems to taste the farmers are doing it 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 alkalinity. 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 act as each day ranges make the rounds looking for trance passes on thing and fishing here off a bit. sweet lake is one of twenty and the reserve of which is the largest swans and other birds nestle here. came here three years ago. visited here as the only town to fly over the sea. and prove that it really was.

and is considered to be one of the cleanest. it's. power. 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 watch the fire and would never leave garbage here. could 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. because she wants to prepare herself. and to treat. who has allergies. skin diseases. 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. the 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 in the dumps. thrown up by the explosion. today poses no threat to health even so the villages anyway. makeshift. alexander has tended cattle in these parts for several he knows how the lake was formed but has no worries about living so close to it. home and. people have come here to measure radiation levels but nothing. each year water samples from to gun a carefully analyzed that this laboratory tests here have shown that the nuclear

water is far from saying. it's just cesium is what we find most of all. we also find strontium and sometimes the 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 sort of has the opportunity he goes fishing in the river he knows from his own experience what fishing in nuclear lake 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 charge of to sell which other people were happy to buy the 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 at 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 has a different idea. so that i think we need to create several langmore examine the

territory of the test range and award them this status of unesco world heritage sites. and the new clear lake would be one of them. 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 offshore area is a best about one metre deep but in the middle of the lake where soldiers mind it can be as deep as eighteen or nita's. the water is in fact concentrated brine it's nearly impossible to seem can bask in shock. 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 with knight 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 tanks 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 only 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 yet the procedure is still to help cure many diseases of the lungs bones and muscles the skin and the detest of system so and when they don't suddenly take the salt from the salt lake

about grind and dry it is and he isn't dozing unit before putting it in here. is this is where it's atomized disease and then the atomizers sends it into the room where the tiny particles are inhaled by patients and this the soul to mind the boss can check accounts for four fifths of thrushes so production its properties make it among the world's best. the we have to watch our intake sold is the minimal no animals can live without so it's little wonder that medics minus and spot tourists to. the salt cellar that never runs dry.

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