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the british embassy in tehran in response to fresh sanctions and the u.k. expanding iranian diplomats in retaliation. and the u.n. human rights commission a call for international intervention in syria to protect civilians from the government's forces and russia and china voted against the resolution condemning the violation saying foreign meddling will only cause more bloodshed. and of course we'll continue with our coverage of the parliamentary election here in russia in about half an hour from now in the meantime we take you to the edge of russia's arctic circle where we experience the white nights this summer and the days of winter darkness on the peninsula. the call of the ninja is a land of extreme weather long nights in a mosque of

a tundra stand side by side they think impossible forests the first settlements of the of him within ten thousand years ago and 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 past today most of the peninsula responsibly populated there are no roads for hundreds of kilometers. most people get to the remote villages by helicopter by sea all by cool. most of the color peninsula lies on low hills here you also find mountains and valleys covered with thick woodland and death of the tundra this small region of stark natural diversity attracts tourists from across the world the form bike is

the most popular means of transport here for the tourists. at the roads are few and far between around here an accord is the best bet when it comes to traveling over such terrain but if it were quad bike will take you to places that no other car can reach. the color peninsula makes up the movements and lies within the arctic circle to the north it's washed by the barents sea while in the south it's met by the white c. the region is known as the gateway to the arctic. this is the starting point of most sightseeing routes around the collar peninsula tim a favorite goes in has been in the business of taking tourists to more lands nature reserves for many years. if from here we will set out from the main lines of the cola peninsula to this red knee and red back 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 island curtain these places became open for tourists today it's possible to see the maneuvers of the nuclear submarines. bats were 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 in kuta via bay that are protected by patrol boats. on the other side of the color peninsula the baazigar river empties into the white city. the village of vance ago is situated on both sides of the asteroid fifteen

kilometers from the same tides raise the water in the river to a height 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 orthodox priest father mitra fun takes a ferry to meet his flock and hold services in a church on the opposite bank. this is where the first russian settlements appeared on the color peninsula through the british the original settlers were coast well as. they made their homes on these banks and mingled with local karelian and indigenous laplanders early here we have a mixture of populations. 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 two people anyone going to sea in the north must know before hand that they might never be coming back they might simply vanish into eternity a strong gust of wind 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 the riches of this land used to be the breeding ground of numerous rivalries. in the seas fish is of course in great demand. the settlers built seaside hamlets 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 and his son have reconstructed a fisherman's settlement typical of the ones that existed in the late nineteenth century on the white sea coast. we have put it all up where it 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 a collection of objects found here and in of a settlement. they made with the help of specially treated pine or birch roots. but basically a boat is made of boards 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 to 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 learn to swim anyone who ended up in the water even in summer died of exposure within just ten minutes. let me share when i was in the white sea coast is a remarkable area for learning something interesting truly it's a magic place. here you can marvel at the infinite diversity of the natural environment.

the humble nature 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. because everybody who travels with us knows how much i love this heart. 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 but timothy and his son leo need keep coming back. you know what it is a divine place because of the wind because 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 the body since there is or is it behind these technical installations. we always have to unlock the gate before answering it but get around that now we'll open it like this. there's a boy 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 and become obsolete or fallen into decay what was once a border guard tower was renovated and handed over to the reserve now on the phone or just use the former military installation for scientific purposes if you're going with her she told first of untasted view of the plans rebore the entire

reserve and the marshes we've. 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 are to understand the dynamic development of the natural environment because these settlements are 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 and finland of the west russian and finnish scientists spend most of their time collecting biological material which is later studied in norwegian the burra trees monitoring and conservation fencers very important because for the nature of course stuff you. have contravened folk understand nature and are going to stand important issues for conservation it's of course very important to to do started across the cross complements because they are irrelevant in a biological threat. practically speaking the scientists work in the same nature 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 marks on the border posts.

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it's the largest city within the optics circle it's also the largest ice free port in the north. get situated around a bend in the barents sea the sea itself is sometimes covered with thin ice during severe winters but the bay always stays ice free. the world's first nuclear powered icebreaker was called lennon and was launched from movements in one nine hundred fifty seven today it's a floating museum by a pier at the city's perth with the help of the icebreaker fleet it was possible to explore the russian arctic early around the time spent sailing was limited only by the amount of food aboard. during winter the crew would stay on the ship for

several months the onboard clinic regularly performed surgeries the unique for that time. no expense was spared on the fine timber interior of the first nuclear icebreaker. hours can be spent wandering around the boat looking inside the cabins of the crew who maintains the nuclear reactors the open bridge overlooks the course and the beautiful bay of motor mount. so that. in ancient times all the local nobility used to come here young people first settled them amongst fountains of years ago this odd looking man made structure that weighs many tons is at least ten thousand years old it's known as a megalith faced with stones along the perimeter it's reminiscent of britain's stonehenge once ideal thought at the time and 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 walking about with this initiation ceremony complete and they were now fully entitled to rule with such leaders were not respected at all if they never came here. in one month there are a total of fifty four megaliths when viewed from above they form a regular parabola around the back eight ancient people afford to have had a purpose and arranging these structures this way it's believed that local tribes thought these stones have the power to protect them from the sea. we are in the northern sector of the stone parabola stones that were supposed to protect more months than the people who etched those words didn't know what they were doing the way they raise their hand against one of the few sacred things that still remain in this land this means that the silent guardians of more months can no longer defend themselves. thousands of years from now just 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 with more bombs. graffiti in caves and shelters that may have been used by ancient people is another point on the tourist itinerary mapped out by tim a favorite ocean scientist calls such drawings petroglyphs but what they mean is still a mystery you've. got the 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. to the slaves born and raised on the call up and ensure that he knows this area too well at the beginning of the year two thousand to move a move to moscow today every year as a tour guide he brings visitors to his home. as have

villages here. that when you visit them you're surprised by the fact that even in such a remote god for second place these people still don't want to leave you know a professor living there who you. know was the first russian settlement on the common peninsula it's first mentioned in records dating from the early fifteenth century the church of the assumption dating back to the seventeenth century is the oldest structures of vibing 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 sawn off the course will show you this method affects the structure of the wood with anything that might damage it such as or the like is not allowed to seep into it from. 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 worshippers use a nearby church that was built a hundred years later. they were in the mode all of my immediate family has served in the navy my great grandfather and my brother my father was 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 lies a local anomaly it's the arctic desert. larry cuz a cult has devoted his life to combat in the invading desert according to his theory the land was originally at the bottom of a seed thousands of years ago the sea receded and grass and trees grew on the form a sea bed. but now through a thin layer of soil the sand is returning it scattered around by the wind falling

on village homes and the river and destroying the pine forest and other vegetation . for who would raise pines were ruined by the shifting sand on your part but some trees manage to escape the onslaught of coral and they are in very good condition now they are crippled immune for the new or three or fourth of february in the third period. one of the most common theories claims the appearance of the cause a man desert on farming numerous herds of animals ate the grass away and churned up the ground with the hooves all that made the soil so thin that it allowed the sand to filter through with a day this is one of the unique trees still standing here. in the upper part of the roots shows the sand level that was here when the forest was still around it was this high so. the wind has since shifted a sand layer of about one and a half meters high towards the river store and we came from.

there because a call for spent years developing technology to monitor the advance of the cause and desert his work has now yielded positive results the sand advance towards the forest is now in check eighty hectares of soil have been recounted vacated the most pressing task now is saving the river and the village only four streets of houses remain on the riverbank although there were six hundred years ago. this is back to the main task is coming up with a way to grow a forest shelter belt. is the way to prevent sand from choking up the river. but we have spent five years developing various technologies and introduced one of the best methods in the sector was a huge involves growing pines together with her bases vegetation and. in spite of

the scientists achievements villages continue to abandon their homes because they're 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 of humans trailblazers originally brought common russian horses along with stocky want from. over the years the two bred together resulting in these grey handsome animals with a distinctive stripe running down their spines. this new breed boasts the impressive build of their russian ancestors and the ability to find food on the snow thanks to their you could heritage. 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.

the banshee peninsula is tim a photo goes ins favor 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 a car odd 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. and. a small cliff three kilometers off shore covered with grass and malls across commemorating ford and say that stands here several years ago. and is some land it found a slab on the side. when they cleaned off the moss they saw or it was covered with

inscriptions. on the messages 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 . inscriptions written in dozens of languages were left by russians danes swedes and many others hundreds of years separate one inscription from another. the call of peninsula has always attracted attention but to date its fierce weather and long winter nights the prevented people from discovering its true beauty the rest still many secrets to reveal.

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