missions that are centuries old. situated just a few from the chinese. to enjoy one of. the region's ministries of. a million people and a place that really sparkles in the summer. locals come to enjoy the city's wine and picturesque. and. there are plenty of places to work. and for the nature. 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. 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'd offered to take me out on his yacht pull my weight of calls. helping out. trains young sailors and we had a couple of other shipmates along for the riots. so . it wasn't long before we were doing it. and as the. fixed up

the rigging i took the rudder. i see 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. of the best way to get snow this river i can't think of one that said. it was trying to head back to dry land and for me to really start discovering the 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. one hundred thousand people step into this building every year and they get to enjoy

a huge collection of exhibits from live 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 a day with 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. century 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. for kids to carry on and headed down to meet me the museum's director who offered 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 it includes one of the most famous and rare animals in russia. is one of the main reasons why the more tiger 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 doesn't. 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 and. 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 only just a few months old. rescued. trophies for china as well as a very close. of the unfortunate 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. quite a. i'm so tempted to try and. he's got my teeth. i was born here is a baby in the early nineties 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 threat 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 hairs in the forests around here would be the tigers natural prey and there are a few launch a top it's wandering around here to hear also some rather unwilling students of tiger school these two little there as well. very useful when you're learning how to hunt. fortunately for bugs. is in residence at the moment so it continues to hold the running away from will be a few curious. but there are lots of making sure. we.

are. back in the city had been invited to see a different sort of conservation projects involving four wheels rather than four legs. seeing cars like this is enough to bring back a few bad memories of frustrated instructors and the old mind of 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 vintage automobiles. back out on. the direct zero 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 foreign makes and military vehicles and one of those military models

was waiting for us in the garridge down. this old truck delivered letters during the second war and the mechanics have been trying to get it back on the road. i think this one is where most most repair. c. runs but a magic touch. can turn on. one of the most. real russian classic buttons. ok so the keys down here. truck drives again. but trucks are just the tip of the iceberg.

some of the success stories saw it. from. two ukrainian. most of these. special festivals but i was going to get a chance take a listen to the specials. for any 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 back in the one nine hundred sixty s. . but it seems that communist culp's one point. this may be the best police cut ever invented. for many people.

of this tiny beach it was a lot easier to drive. even push and it would have made all the bad guys. have the smallest. criminals i'm not sure if it would be a good thing. because either they. decided to. it's in my mid beach would have to suffice but that wasn't going to be my last century. it can hit dr swan's policeman's wives minister's wife and i just prayed that if you couldn't find me if i could just live through the night that i would get my

kids out of here because i knew that what was going to happen was that he was going to kill me many victims don't understand that domestic violence includes verbal abuse psychological abuse physical abuse and sexual abuse at least four million women are affected by abuse every year those are two options that i saw at that moment either i'm going to kill him or me in jail or he's going it killing me. 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 about twenty twenty five years and since it's been moved to eco 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 them as terrorists someone you destroy property. with absolutely zero intention of harming a single human being. in my mind is not a terrorist real people work 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. that's.

the out. with the. shoes. six. six six. six six. the fact that chills to drop a couple of russian classic calls in a. gym is ready to eat that's just gets. the reps of it. going along all the rules is all well and good but sometimes you just feel

a need for speed and there's a place in a bar is where you really can come and but some. your aim is to drive carefully first to serve. in primary concerns you. pavel has 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 stand up a little bit but. it turns out there's a knack to getting into a go carts push. pull in some young students but this is a sport that takes dedication and money mostly because of italian chef season japanese engines because simple. they can really shift.

races regularly move into. serious adrenaline rush. are you ok. i'll tell you what is or some fun but is a little bit difficult when you're eating. dust here. 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 into some double glazing in one of the old buildings but. i know someone is going to be able to make good use of an old window sill like this. 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. so these are good to fit together perfectly so that we can make the front of. them once the planks have been playing down the old sounding board has to be removed. sorting through. its. q.c. and you destroying a guitar but looking about diem's other instruments the results would be well worth it and also would 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 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 adults specimens were documented to have been cool in this area in two thousand and nine it's a situation that have led to miss the fish mom 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 particularly lovely stuff. combination of insects alone. and some tiny crustaceans are 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 time. as 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 him a real shot at survival in the river i think i can probably safely say that this may be the only time in my life i'm ever going to see a fish vacuum cleaner and this is what is transporting our kaluga at all sturgeon into the bag so 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 writing style here because we're just about to head off to the river and hopefully give the special new lease of life releasing hundreds of liters of water it can be a bit tricky and we have to do

a little river solid rescue work. so this is they so slow to think of. very soon we'll be taking them out on to the boats. 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 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 the 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 nine i 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. they're 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 party of music. but it does take quite a bit of organizing. 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 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 fine. this spirit is the master of find his name but. after that. we'll have a torch perception where we're going to feed the spirit of. the day there will also be a drag of the dragons as 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. cereal

can bring it up so it doesn't fall down and 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 blender volleyball in the crops. and then it was time for adults think. 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 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 worst may be a long way from us but it's worth the effort to get here this outpost of russia's

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