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a. mother. to. the call of the nation is a land of extreme weather long nights of moscow the tundra stunned sun shine i think impossible forests are the first settlements of the again when tens of thousands of his ago the disparate tribes and ethnic groups blended with a perfectly divine landscape which is in stark contrast to any other place in this country. like in centuries possible today most of the peninsula responsibly population there are no roads to hundreds of kilometers apart most people get to the remote villages by helicopter and see a microphone. for
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. well most of the fall of an inch of the lies on low hills here you also find mountains and valleys covered with thick woodland and desolate tundra and this small region of stopping natural diversity attracts tourists from across the world the bike is the most popular means of transport here for the tourists. roads are few and far between around here an accord is the best bet when it comes to traveling over such turion but if a quad bike will take you to places that no other car can reach or. because looking inside it makes sense. and lies within the arctic circle to the north it's washed by the barents sea but in the south it's met by the white city the region is known as the gateway to the arctic. this is the starting point of most sightseeing groups
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around the collagen into symmetry and goes in has been in the business of taking tourists to movements from nature reserves for many years. from here we will set out from the main lines of the koala peninsula to this readily and about she peninsulas they are the farthest tips in the northwest of our country norway lies beyond them. numerous military bases was stationed in the barents sea during the cold war after the collapse of the iron curtain these places became open for tourists today it's possible to see the maneuvers of the nuclear submarines. and that's where this country's best kept secret is our nuclear undersea fleet is based there. but you can feast your eyes upon all kinds of submarines that regularly surface included via bay that are protected by patrol boats.
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on the other side of the call of an inch of the baazigar river and to ease into the white city. the village of vines ago is situated on both sides of the asteroid fifteen kilometers from the city tides raise the water in the river to heights of up to ten meters and increase its salt content. the high tide makes it impossible to bridge the river so a motor boat serves as the local taxi service. once a week if they don't priest father meant for fun takes a ferry to meet his flock and hold services in a church on the opposite bank. and this is where the first russian settlements appeared on the cooler peninsula to the
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british the regional settlers were coast well as. they made their homes on these banks and mingled with local karelian it's an indigenous laplanders really good here we have a mixture of population and. fishing has always been the main source of income for local people salmon was caught in the river of the rest from the same. small boats manned by three or four fishermen were able to stand up to the heavy seas but in truth back then only half the fishermen survived beyond the age of forty. anyone going to sea in the north must know beforehand that they might never be coming back they might simply vanish into eternity is a strong gust of wind and might bring heavy snow with it with the result that they wouldn't be able to see a thing. in other words they feel that facing the sea is like facing god as the riches of this land used to be the breeding ground of numerous rivalries. in the
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seas fish is of course in great demand. early settlers built seaside humbert's on the collar peninsula before they started making their homes in villages they lived here throughout the year waiting for the summer fishing season to start alexander cohen off skid his son have reconstructed a fisherman settlement typical of the ones that existed in the late nineteenth century on the white sea coast. it here we have put it all awkward used to stand we have been trying to be as historically accurate as we can as for what is left of the old nets we don't even touch them. today alexander takes visitors on a tour of his open and museum guests can stay at his place for several days alexander treats them to fish caught only a short while ago and tells them about the life of the coast well it's one hundred years ago an exact replica of a bone features
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a collection of objects found here and in other settlements that they made with the help of specially treated pine or birch roots. but basically a boat is made of words joined together with birch ropes going through holes in the boards that's what the coast well there is needed birch for. birch bark is used to make backpacks shoes baskets in kitchen where you can boil water in a kettle made of birch bark. the easiest way is to put hot stones from a bonfire in it. a coast well as family had to struggle to survive in the rigors of the country's finals but although they spend half their lives at sea they never learned to swim anyone who ended up in the water even in summer died of exposure within just ten minutes. let me share and i also have the white sea coast is a remarkable area for learning something interesting truly it's
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a magic place the air you can marvel at the infinite diversity of the natural environment. the humble major of the north hides a captivating beauty which never fails to attract tourists. each year many people return to go over the same routes once more. and in spite of the rigorous living conditions there are some who are even willing to move here. everybody who travels with us knows how much i love this house. timothy's dream is to purchase a house and a small plot around it with a high wind swept water side it's always cold here the timothy and his son leo need
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keep coming back. you know but it is a divine place because of the wind the cold weather and the ocean not to mention i renew island over there these lands are amazing. meanwhile sixty kilometers south of the arctic tundra lies a totally different landscape but i didn't since there is or is behind these technical installations. we always have to unlock the gate before answering it. now we open it like this. there is proof that there is there is territories under lock and key and as you can see the gate is quite massive now we can go in this way please. when the reserve was being created in one thousand nine hundred two most of the military installations built soon after world war two had become obsolete or for going into decay what was
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once a border guard tower was renovated and handed over to the reserve now on a fall or just use the form of military installation for scientific purposes of new york it offers a fantastic view of the bands river the entire reserve and the marshes believe they are. reserved visitors and tourists are welcome to see all that and take pictures. most of the reserve territory is covered with marshes there are ideal for bird rookeries in spring and autumn when thousands of migrating birds stop over to rest as it turns out studying the composition of the bugs helps retrace the biological history of the region russian scientists take pete samples for tests. deposits are the best sources of information studying their layers makes it possible to estimate the rate of peat accumulation but this is also important if we
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are to understand the dynamic development of the natural environment because these settlements are a chronicle of nature. the unique feature of the reserve is that it covers the territory of three countries. the natural environment is uniform on both sides of the river russia is on the eastern bank norway in finland and the west russian and finnish scientists spend most of their time collecting biological material which is later studied in norwegian poetry's monitoring and comes away from them for very provocative crossing nature of course doesn't. have contravened of understand nature and. understand important issues for conservation it's of course very important to try to do studies across cross conflicts because they are irrelevant in a biological search. practically speaking and scientists work in the same nature
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reserve but on different sides of a narrow river they need to go through border control just to see one another the joke is that bears are free to cross the border whenever they like without having to undergo checks and even leave knocks on the border posts. touches of so much a lot of intellect theory other than to texting people claim of health as one of the aims of the so-called fact that governments all over the world and throughout history have adopted policies. wealthy british scientists. let. the market. come to. find out what's really happening to the global economy with much stronger no holds barred global financial headlines. reports.
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within the arctic circle it's also the largest ice free pool. in the barents sea the sea itself is sometimes covered with severe winter. always stays ice free. the world's first nuclear powered icebreaker was called lenin and was launched from a man's going one hundred fifty seven today it's a floating museum by a peer of the city's curved with the help of the ice breaker fleet it was possible to explore the russian arctic only around the time spent sailing was limited only by the amount of food a group during winter the crew would stay on the ship for several months the onboard clinic regularly performed surgeries the working meat for that time. no expense was spared on the fines him or interior of the first for nuclear ice breaker hours can be spent wandering around the boat looking inside the cabins of
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the crew who maintains the nuclear reactors the open bridge overlooks the pools and the beautiful day of the mouth of. the deputy. in ancient times all the local nobility used to come here young people first settled them or months thousands of years ago as odd looking man made structure that weighs many tons is of least ten thousand years old it's known as a male if faced with stones along the perimeter it's reminiscent of britain stonehenge once said you thought. they would sit on this stone in front of the structure that was supposed to attract spirits and gods as eyewitnesses here they swore an oath with this initiation ceremony complete their work and they were now fully entitled to rule with such leaders were not respected at all if they never came here or there. in moments there are a total of fifty four megaliths when viewed from above they form
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a regular parabola around the bay ancient people afford to have had a purpose and arranging the structures this way is to leave the local tribes thought these stones have the power to protect them from the sea. here we are in the northern sector of the stone parabola the stones that were supposed to protect more months the people who gets those words didn't know what they were doing they raise their hand against one of the few sacred things that still remain in this land this means that the silent guardians on one month can no longer defend themselves. thousands of years from now archaeologists might well regard the inscriptions as priceless treasures for now though they've yet to decipher the meaning of these mysterious lines discovered in the wilderness one hundred kilometers to the north of them about what we're feeding in caves and shelters that may have been used by ancient people is another point on the tourist
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itinerary not play out by ten a favor goetia scientists call such drawings petroglyphs but what they mean is still a mystery to you. you can petroglyphs found here so far are about five thousand years old on average these ones were discovered by a navy man in one nine hundred forty three he then told scientists about them the scientists then officially recorded them right after world war two was written. to the famous baron and raced on the call of the ninja he knows this area into well at the beginning of the year two thousand timothy a move to moscow today every year as a tour guide he brings visitors to his home. it was a nice little coast weller's have villages here. when you visit them you're surprised by the find even in such a remote god first taken place these people still don't want to leave they prefer living there. wasn't it was the first russian settlement on the common in its first
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mention dating from the early fifteenth century the church of the assumption dating back to the seventeenth century is the oldest structure surviving to this day it was built without a single male over fasteners are made of wood only axes would used to fashion the logs even the ends of the logs were chopped off rather than someone off of course this method affects the structure of the word would use anything that might damage it such as someone's chair or the like it's not allowed to seep into it. the church fell into decay in soviet times and its head father metro fan has made every effort to have it renovated services will eventually resume here until then worshipers use a nearby church that was built a hundred years later. the apocalypse now in the middle of my immediate family has served in the navy my great grandfather and my brother my father was
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a submarine and i served in the navy for twenty six years as a commanding officer i've been a monk for eleven years. twenty kilometers down the wasicka river lines a local anomaly it's the arctic desert. larry because a cult has devoted his life to combat in the invading desert according to his theory the land was originally at the bottom of the sea thousands of years ago the sea receded and grass and trees grew in the form a see that. now for a thin layer of soil the sound is returning and scattered around by the wind forming on village homes and the river and destroying the pine forest and all the bridges haitian. resupplies were ruined by the shifting sand. but some trees managed to escape the onslaught they are in very good condition now
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they are preparing me for the third. or fourth of ordinary in the first year of. one of the most common fairies plays the appearance of the cars the mendez and foaming numerous herds of animals ate the grass away and churned up the ground with the heat overlap made the soil so thin that it allowed the sand to fulfill through the day this is one of the unique trees still standing here. in the upper part of the roots shows the same level of growth that was here when the forest was still around that it was this guy. so when his sons shifted a sand layer of about one and a half meters high towards the river. then he has a call for spend years developing technology to monitor the fronts of the cause a man desert. his work has now yielded positive results the sound advance towards the forest is now in check eighty hectares of sort of thing because it makes it the
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most pressing task now is saving the river and the village only for streets of houses remaining on the riverbank although there were six hundred years ago. this is. the main task is coming up with a way to grow our forests shelter built. the way to prevent c.n.n. from choking up the river. yet the what we have spent five years developing various technologies and introduced one of the best methods in the sector. it involves growing pines together with her bases vegetation and. in spite of the scientists achievements villages continue to abandon their homes because they gradually becoming covered with sand for tourists it's ruining the landscape for the locals it's a disaster. another strange phenomenon here is the wild horses which are not frightened
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of humans trailblazers originally brought common russian horses along with stocky one from. over the years the two bred together resulting in these grey handsome animals with a distinctive strike running down their spines of this new breed ghosts the impressive build of their russian ancestors and the ability to find food under snow thanks to they could heritage. pollution wild horses are another thing that people of heard about it but have never seen them as for the barents sea there's a lot of magic in it. and. the banshee peninsula is tim a favor goes in favor of a tourist destination this time he's accompanied by his fourteen year old son. clearing obstacles is all part of the tour a touch of activity in an otherwise meditative journey. it's rare that you find
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a car out here the terrain around is so rugged even a four by four can't get to some places on the upside this means up the peninsula has so far been spared the rush of people attracted by rich fishing areas and the splendors of the landscape the king and the chaos like a small cliff three kilometers of coming. across commemorating fold in say that sounds good several years ago to a failed his son made it sound a slap on his side. when they think of moss they saw it was covered with inscriptions. it down and this is were made by sailors waiting for storms and. they were to write about how long they waited how many times they returned here and when some of the inscriptions give details of why they came here
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. inscriptions written in dozens of languages were left by russians danes swedes and many others for hundreds of years separate one inscription from another . the call of an inch of the has always attracted attention but surveyed its biggest weather and long winter nights prevented people from discovering its truth into. the rest still many secrets to reveal. it's. cultures it's a much al-amin malarial battling. the same name a cult is one of the aims of the so-called fact governments all over the world and throughout history have adopted policies. wealthy british style.
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