and as people boast a unique mix of cultures that is coming right now here are not saying. just a few from the chinese. to enjoy one of the most. of the region's ministries of home to more than half a million people and a place that really sparkles in the summer. locals come out to enjoy the city's. picturesque. and. there are plenty of places to work.

and for the nature. very close to a botanical. now apparently this is one of two places in the whole of russia. in the wild now in eastern tradition the opening of the lotus flower petals a spokes to signify the expansion of the soul so i'm hoping that my trip to her is going to be as well and i was going to start my journey down on the riverbank just over one hundred fifty years ago. alongside. it links russia with china and. it's a great way to see the city and. constantine is a lifelong sailor and resident and he offered to take me out on his yacht pulled my weight of course. helping out. trains young sailors and we had a couple of other shipmates along for the ride which so it's not just. so

. it wasn't long before we were doing it. and as the. fixed up the rigging i took the rudder. i should be this is pretty. beautiful. great day just to be messing around and. this is the eleventh longest river in the world but we were heading out to for just enough to enjoy the water and get some great views. the best way to get to know this river by car. it was trying to head back to dry land and for me to really start discovering. if you want to find out about history there's one place that you have to visit this is the museum of regional law and it's the biggest and the most visited museum in the whole of the country's far east. step into this building every year

and they get to enjoy a huge collection of exhibits from local river residents to. one of the things that sets this place apart from most russians. is that you can interact with the exhibits today we've got some guests who come from even further east to see what life used to be like here in the far east of russia these schoolchildren a visiting from japan and the museum store immediately have been taking. sentry village chores and. it's time to really get into the swing of things you know this this is a way to learn about the prospect of the dusty museum display just the right. to carry on and headed down to meet me the museum's director to give me a personal. and he has his own theory on why the region's ecosystem is so diverse.

legend has it that when god was creating the world he planted the tiger and tropics but when he arrived here he only had a handful of seeds to toss around but he did have a bit of everything so we have a wide variety of plants in these parts from plane trees to grapes and the same can be said about our fauna. this collection of local wildlife is a very popular exhibits and includes one of the most famous and rare animals in russia. is one of the main reasons why the target here is so terribly endangered but there is a place not too far from a bar which is doing its bit trying make sure the species. is about an hour's drive from the city and it's a refuge for injured. from the local region.

it roland. has been taking in lost souls for the best part of twenty years and he took me to meet some of the park's most recent arrivals. these are himalayan bears hopefully we'll be able to release them next spring but we need to feed them up first. everyone has looked after more than two hundred beds over the years and despite a lack of funds most of us in survived being separated from their mothers these babies are just a few months old. trophies for china as well so it's a very close. fortunate behind. but you can see for just about five months old really pretty big doing rather well. but this is most famous resident is considerably bigger. as one of the rarest

cats left on the entire planet and i'm more tiger. twenty years old. and still. coming to say. hello. quite. i'm so tempted to try and. he's got my teeth. was born here was a baby in the early ninety's and he's been here ever since he's the sanctuaries only permanent residence and despite being positively ancient for a tiger there's still plenty of life in him. the animal tiger is the biggest cats on the planet and can weigh more than three hundred kilos but their numbers are under serious threats and it's estimated there are only around four hundred fifty left in russia's wilderness. and one is doing his best to improve the chances he's raised and released almost

a dozen young cubs but before he does they need special training. this well unfortunately the lure of the. jungle being what it is these little guys are actually used when they have wild tigers here to train them how to hunt because this would be where the has in the forests around here would be the tigers natural prey and there are a few launch of talk it's wandering around here to here also some rather unwilling students of tiger school these two little there as well. when your learning how to hunt. bugs. is in residence at the moment. continues to hold the running away from will be a few curious. but there are lots of making sure the. team.

back in the city has been invited to see a different sort of conservation projects involving four wheels for legs. seeing cars like this is enough to bring back a few bad memories of frustrated instructors the old mine a fault because this is where people come to take their driving tests but the ministry of transport here isn't just concerned with getting new drivers started they're also responsible for getting some of the city's been to. the direct zero is passionate about he's got one of the largest collections of models in eastern russia. very true here i've got cars of all makes including those that were made in the one nine hundred thirty s.

here you see four makes and military vehicles and one of those military models was waiting for us in the carriage down. this old truck delivered letters during the second world war and the mechanics have been trying to get it back on the road. i think this one is almost almost repair. see the runs go to magic touch. one of the most. for real russian classic back in. the keys down here. post's truck rides again. but trucks are just the tip of the iceberg. restoring.

some of the success stories. to ukrainian. most of these. special festivals but i was going to get a chance to take a listen to the specials the first. one of these things. because this is. you must have had to hit the gym to keep it under control. of these big powerful this was just a dream for most of us citizens back in the one nine hundred sixty s. . but it seems that communist culp's weren't quite so. this may be the best police.

for many people. of this trying to reach it was a lot easier to drive. even push and it would have made guys. but. you have the smallest. criminals i'm not sure if it would be a good thing. because either they. it's in my mini most beach would have to suffice but that wasn't going to be my last job on adventure bones.

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financial institution of a couple of real russian classic cars in a bonus that to them is ready to return to months of protests just yes it was time to let the reps of it. now join me along to play all the rules is all well and good but sometimes you just feel a need for speed and there's a place in a bars where you really can come and burn some rubber. your aim is to drive carefully first to serve. in primary concerns you. have always been involved with racing for twenty five years and then runs the stream. which takes part in competitions all over the russian far east he's already trained several local champions including his son who offered to show me the ropes assuming i could fit

in the car. more birds too big for the. james sent up a little bit but that it turns out there's an act of getting into a go carts push. people who some young students but this is a sport that takes dedication and money mostly because of italian chefs seasoned japanese engines because simple. they can appreciate. races regular more than two hundred kilometers and it's a serious adrenaline rush. are you ok. i'll tell you. but it is a little bit difficult when you're eating. dust. it was time to take things

a little easier and i went off to find with a rather more sedate. looks like these guys over here have gone in for some double glazing in one of the old buildings but. i know someone is going to be able to make good use of it. but the muses reclaimed pieces to repair and refurbish musical instruments and we were going to give an old gets a new lease of life. and my siberian stone pine window sill was going to become a brand new sounding. fit together perfectly make the front of. the planks have been playing down the old sound has to be removed. sorting through. q.c. destroying it but looking at deems other instruments the results would be well

worth. and also we've cut out the old bolts i went to work on one of his handmade center pieces. unfortunately putting everything together can take up to the team wanted to show me exactly what one of his creations had to offer. never thought that an old couple with friends. i don't even to see one conservation sense and me a bar of soap but it's not just land mammals that are getting a helping hand here. around fifteen years ago there were hundreds of tonnes of sturgeon and kalugin in the animal river but the fish is now critically endangered they can be or is a valuable delicacy and poaching and overfishing have seen their numbers decline to such an extent that only two adult specimens were documented to have been cool in

this area in two thousand and nine it's a situation that of the team of ski fish mom is trying to change the team in his work as a breeding young hamel sturgeon colluder in captivity and then returning them to the wilds so this is where they keep the food for the fish loose like that lovely stuff. combination of insects alone. and some tiny crustaceans very delicious. but. the fish in these tanks are only a few months old but a full grown kaluga can live as long as a human to a town. is easy fishing boy about two thousand of these babies been in here and you can see the pretty lively. now there anyway about thirty to forty grams but that's the perfect science to give them a real shot at survival in the river i think i can probably safely say that this

may be the only thought in my life i'm ever going to see a fish vacuum cleaner this is what is transporting our kaluga at all stages into the tag so that we can then release it into the river later. it's like a quick death it leaves a months we've reached our quota it was time to drop them so the water so i'm riding in style here because we're just about to head off to the river and hopefully give the space new lease of life releasing hundreds of liters of water at once can be a bit tricky and we have to do a little riverside rescue work. so this is they so slow i have to think of this very soon we'll be taking them out on to the boats. and hopefully will find the right spot in the river so they can begin. the phones only been operating since two thousand and eight but they plan to breed up to three million fish a year which should give the kaluga and the edge and

a good chance of swimming in these waters in the decades to come. it's amazing to think that just a few years this little guy could be a few metres wide it's a few hundred kilos in weight and hopefully we've given him the best chance of making it because if they saw it hopefully he'll survive for amazing good luck. it really did feel that we were helping to regenerate a river that's been supporting the people of this region since time immemorial. before i left a bar of school i was going to meet some people whose ancestors had lived this way for millennia. but. area has been home to the indigenous nano which in their language means people for thousands of years and by the sounds of it. i think there is some kind of festival . there around twelve thousand living in russia and they're the largest of

the indigenous tribes it's a widespread community but every year people come back for a summer music. but it does take quite a bit of. hopefully we will really need this but just in case it doesn't rain. they should be able to keep. everything nice and dry so the festival goes off without a hitch. everyone pitches in to help from the more mature to the very. top of the what's your name you know. i'm not. over friendly. this kind of gets everyone excited. today we're going to feed the spirit of fine. this spirit is the master of

finance his name is point but. after that. we'll have a twenty percent where we're going to feel the spirit of. today there will also be a dragon and the dragons are sent to have been borrowed from the chinese but it's not true they're an ancient culture too. this. is going to be one of the big pieces of. syria. where we can really see. how the nani celebrate the culture. as soon as we've finished people still to arrive. to watch a game of chalk which looks like a particularly dangerous blender volleyball in the crops. and then it was time for

don't sing the drugs. this is what the festival is really all about so it's for the next generation of money to get together and practice those traditions that their ancestors have been carrying on for centuries it's a village celebration and i knew all the everyone in the community to get together and really celebrate their culture. of smi be a long way from us but it's worth the effort to get here is a post of russia's far east has a rich history and a community that cares about this city and the future of its environment. download the official location. i pod touch from the top story.

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