yes lakes in russia and beyond a few surprises for you in this documentary so stay with us. at first glance this isn't in conspicuous lake in cassocks stone but it didn't form under natural circumstances it's called the nucleus lake and it owes its appearance to the energy of the atom there is a long running onto the end about whether it's dangerous to swim in it does radiation hereis twenty times as high 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 this you've seen 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 near was born from a volcanic eruption that'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 in what 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 left four three two one one zero. the power of the one hundred forty killer tongue nuclear charge was nine times stronger than the bomb that was detonated 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 atom 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 work in burra wells like the only. 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 top hole in boots his workmate the diem's the heart of his here for the first time he's a radiation supervisor to david dean's tosk is to test the soil to see if it was contaminated by the explosion. here in this place or background radiation that is to 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. air flight. in one thousand nine hundred one yuri was an army serviceman at a nearby military test range he often came here to based even then he was not afraid of the radiation. it's two point three micro civet. so it's like at the top yes. well betty all the shore water is warm you can you and wave here especially at lunch time 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'd seen tiny fish thrive on the

lake bed and what we have just seen in young fishes off shore which it. 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 new clear 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 bascom jack which is located four hundred kilometers from the city of astrakhan in russia's south. asking 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 a. chuck lake is left over from an ocean that once covered the earth and that of the three hundred million he has ago the ocean began to recede but it is but these

aberration of sea water outlet to fractional salt crystallisation is used as a result the structures here consist of a mass of table salt. historian say salt was first minded like bascom took fifteen hundred years ago today the mining is done industrially. the bias has been working in salt mining for most of them 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 salt 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 and as you seen it moves on rails it weighs about one

hundred eighty tons to be used to form. tracks laid on a seam of souls in the middle of the lake allow the device to move to and fro. the sleep isn't made of wood because other materials will be destroyed by the soles 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. 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.

but it will wish it would do is it up a builders a move to the souls into which we cool. and then take it to. where it's grown and packed. the lakes. 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 the system.

the camp chant companionship in the russian far east new song volcano has 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. welcome or just called the count 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 kornacki 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 bears 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 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 bad trail goes north and reaches lake down here which was formed by one of whose owns or options 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 volcanic rock the surface of lake down the is never

choppy research is haven't found a single living organism in the lake until now with you know 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 it 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. 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. wealthy british style.

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one lake in the region has renowned medicinal properties. it's called. which means sweet lake because of the way the water seems to taste. in fact the water is not sweet. because it contains chloride and carbonate. where the water is so. there is a lot of. any clothing no matter how dirty. it can be easily washed here without using any soap. the lake is in. a protected area eighteen thousand.

each day ranges make the rounds looking for trance passes hunting and fishing here . sweet lake is one of twenty and the reserve of which is the largest. and other. scientists who 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 a. sweet lake is the best known locally and is considered to be one of the cleanest in the u.s. . it's also thought to possess powerful healing properties several hundred people come here at weekends. each day ranges make checks to tell.

because it's a flammable period for. yes we know about it watch the fire and we'll never leave garbage here. we have to move thank you. tests. and various. this makes it a good remedy for the immune system it also helps by diseases affecting the joints and. because she wants to prepare. them to treat. who has allergies. diseases. every little scratch there's a good deal silver in the lake. the readiness goes away without a trace. in the.

sweet like. the. one hundred. 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 dumps. thrown up by the explosion. being near them today poses no threat to health even so there are no towns or villages anywhere near the lake only shepherd's makeshift welling's.

alexander has tended cattle in these parts for several years he knows how the lake was formed but has no worries about living so close to it. there are only four kilometers between my home and the lake. 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 that when the cesium is what we find most of all. we also find strontium and sometimes plutonium. there not in heavy concentrations but it's made it 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 adapt to their new habitat.

whenever sun again has the opportunity he goes fishing in the fish 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 the fish according to tests on the whole the radionuclide concentration did not exceed safety levels so people were allowed to eat the fish. sort against 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 wielded 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 you're still took as a different idea. so that i think we need to create several learn more excel in the territorial test range in 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 baskin 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 salt is mind it can

be as deep as eighteen or metres. the water is in fact concentrated brine it's nearly impossible to seem can bask in chalk. but because of all you don't have any support in the water the water itself the port feels like it doesn't float yours and unusual sensation and its. looks like the dead sea but the water investing his words were as the water of baskin chakra helps initiate a natural healing process as night as he knew all living creatures on 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 chalk is very similar to that of the blood plasma of humans only the concentrations are different. doctors advise people against staying in baskin jacks water for more than fifteen minutes just to be on the safe side. although 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 air the procedure is thought to help cure many diseases of the lungs bones and muscles the skin and the detest of system. and we don't suddenly take the salt from the salt lake of grind and dry it is and use an dozing unit before putting it in here. so 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 a baskin check accounts for four fifths of russia so production its properties make it among the world's best. though we have to watch our intake salt is the mineral

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