reste where echoes of the soviet era makes for traditions that a centuries old stay with. time's. situated just a few from the chinese. exactly a. bunch of you don't mind a bit if you get to enjoy one of the most attractive cities in. the regions ministers have sent 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 the river 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 pull my weight of calls. konstantin trains young sailors and we had a couple of the shipmates along for the riots 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. this is pretty perfect weather beautiful calm water great day just be messing around in boats this is the eleventh longest river in the world but we were heading out to fall just enough to enjoy the water and get some great views. on 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 bars. 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 back in time. one of the things that sets this place apart from most russian museums is that you can interact with the exhibits and 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 still immediately have been taking. sentry village chores. to use it's time to really get into the swing of things. this is a way to learn about the prospect of the dusty museum displays just the right. the kids to carry on and headed down to meet. the museum's director who offered to give me

a personal tool and he has his own theory on why the ecosystem is so diverse. legend has it when god was creating the world he planted the tiger and. 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 them 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 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 and survive being separated from their mothers these babies are just a few moments old. for trophies for china as well as a very close. fortunate behind. but you can see for just about five months old really pretty. 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 here quite. i'm so tempted to try and. he's got my teeth. i. was born here was a baby in the early nineties and he's been here ever since he's the sanctuaries only permanent residents and despite being positively ancient for a tiger there's still plenty of life in him. beyond 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 longer top gets wandering around here to hear also some rather unwilling students of tiger school he's too little there as well. very useful when your learning how to hunt. fortunately for bugs. is in residence at the moment. continues to hold the running away from the a few curious. but there are lots of making sure. to.

reach. back in the city has been invited to see a different sort of conservation projects involving four wheels rather than four legs and 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 automobiles. and it's not just. the direct. his 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 the most repair. c. the one's got a magic touch. can turn on. one of the most. for real russian classic but. the keys down here. post truck drives again. but trucks are just the tip of the iceberg. restoring

classic russian and foreign calls some of the success stories saw it. from vintage vulgus to ukrainian beatles most of these. days will special festivals but i was going to get a chance take a listen to the specials first. for i mean one of these things. because this is. you must have had to hit the gym to keep it under control but only one 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 all communist culp's weren't quite so. this may be the best police ever invented to. be careful

for many people. the good books of this tiny beach it was a lot easier to drive. even pushing it would have made on the bad guys. but. you have the smallest. criminals i'm not sure if it would be a good thing. because either they just sort of. decided to do. a couple of such. it's in my mini most beach would have to suffice but that wasn't going to be my little steam above adventure bonus.

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financial story of a couple of real russian classic cars in the bullets but to me i was ready to return to my desk just yes it was time to walk the reps of it. now join me along and by 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 but some rubber. your aim is to drive carefully. in primarily 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 distance. james. but. it turns out there's a knack to getting into a go carts push. pull some young students but this is a school that takes dedication and money mostly because of italian chef season japanese engines because simple. they can appreciate. races regular more than two hundred. 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 a man with a rather more sedate. looks like these guys over here of going 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 all when it's alive. but the muses reclaimed pieces to repair and refurbish musical instruments and we were going to give an old good song a new lease of life. and my siberian stone pine window sill was going to become a brand new sounding board. to fit together perfectly so that we can make the front of the guitar. and once the planks have been playing down the old sounding board has to be removed. sorting through

it so. it's. q.c. and you destroy your guitar but looking at dean's other instruments the results would be well worth it and also we'd cut out the old boards so i went to work on one of his handmade centerpieces. 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 dog and a couple of friends. i don't even to see one conservation sent to me 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 pecan vo is a valuable delicacy and poaching and overfishing have seen their numbers decline to

such an extent that only two i don't specimens were documented to have been cool in this area in two thousand and nine it's a situation of the dean of ski fish farm is trying to change the team in his work as a breeding young imo sturgeon and kaluga are in captivity and then returning them to the wilds so this is where they keep the food for the fish and loose like two lovely stuff. combination of insects alone. and some tiny crustaceans very delicious. but doesn't. 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 the real shot at survival in the rhythm of me 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 fact that we can then release it into the river later. it's like a quick did it leave 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 had to do a little riverside rescue work. so this is these so to think of. very soon we'll be taking them out on to the boat. and hope they 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 sturgeon 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 what they saw is hopefully he'll survive or 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 they're preparing for some kind

of festival. there are 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. hopefully we will actually need this but just in case it doesn't rain. they should be able to keep everything nice and dry. off without a hitch. everyone pitches in to help from the more mature to the very you. don't know what's your name you know james i'm not. so it's not. over friendly here which is nice. this kind of event gets everyone excited and they don't hold back on the entertainment. today we're going to feed the

spirit of. this spirit is the master of fine his name is put. after that. will have a touch of perception would go where we're going to feed the spirit of water. today there will also be a dragon is the dragons as to have been borrowed from the chinese but it's not true they're an ancient culture to. this. is going to be one of the big sins of pieces of to see. syria can ring it up so it doesn't fall down then we can really see how the nominee celebrate the culture. as soon as we've finished people started to arrive. to watch a game of chalk which looks like

a particularly dangerous splendor volleyball and across. and then it was time for adults to drive. this is what the festival is really all about so it's for the next generation oh no need 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. the burbs may be a long way from us but it's worth the effort to get here this post of russia's forest has a rich history and a community that cares about their city and the future of its environment.

takes fifteen to twenty million years for the planet to recover from a major extinction event but the planet has time we don't. it's been going on for months twenty twenty five years and since there's been a terrorist before there was even islamic fundamentalist terrorist in this country when the nine eleven happened the bush administration could not find any terrorists because the feds couldn't find any real terrorists they decided to take these young people who are accused of property sabotage and label of them as terrorists someone you destroy property. with absolutely zero intention of harming a single human being. in my mind it's not fair it's real people who are green in this country are the housewives who recycle. and the children who play trees on the weekend with their cub scout troops that's the. sound.

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