frances, fighting for it because the newest made is equal to france, france, and menu. smart do the same thing. what we're looking for is for it to leave the, for the possible end of the municipal on me. so it's a flow, so use a offer. and so on, so in the distorted bit univision, individually on population for almost 2 in the center of the country to be the city, but more cool money. and so has been rude, larry running and calling the for the end of many small well, a molly and security experts outlined why the such local distrust and the un mission the to the governor's molly, the longer the mission remains often they communicate on immediate withdrawal. the more likely it is, the mission may turn out to be a problem for molly than a solution. at the same time, the government clearly sees the dominance of funds within the framework of this un mission. in molly portman, lines size say from 2013 to date, different emissions or different mandates that have been extended. they have not

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the, this is southern russia and in a relatively small area between the caspian sea and the clock is as mountains you'll find in extreme a variety of climates. and as in nature, this isn't my visions, i'm showing thomas. and together we're going to discover the magic of russians, republic of august on the to help us get a basic understanding of what mixed august. i'm so enticing, we will speak with your e mail, doesn't go to you as

a biologist and the geography person who has dedicated his life to studying the region. very high. thanks for meeting us up here. um. such a beautiful, beautiful environment. that's for sure. if you just look it right into your written books, your biologist right now, so many tourists are coming to douglas done. what can they find here that they can find anywhere else? present bill or some of the other, as tourism has to be picking up here over the last 4 or 5 years after republic gets done. so it's not like anywhere else forever. it's landscapes inhabitants are unique lakes and waterfalls. i don't want attract tourists and what about that's why so many people have been coming lately. i don't know if that's a good thing or a bad thing, diesel and i don't know what we're going to do validated with more doors. so that means more damage to the environment. is that a concern for the people in here and douglas done?

and what is being done to protect this landscape? this little something to arisen, especially the influx we've seen over the last couple of years. and it has an impact on the environment and bio diversity and put the position up even here. as you can see, if there's more traffic now these are the people need to be educated and not to live, to get partial properly dispose of trash and not ruined the natural habitats and all that. we need to preserve this beautiful and diverse nature we have and i guess down to the most that we need to build awareness. maybe that's a concern of course, but it's something for the government to decide for us to use the board. we have the tourism industry, which is directly responsible for it at a level as a researcher and a member of the biggest down division of the russian geographical society that i'm involved to have with them. unless we try to contribute to educate people, to reach out to them via a media cement, we try to explain the importance of, of biodiversity service, then what has to be done to protect it though. so when i saw it, i was not but i do. there is amazing diversity here. it is just so beautiful. how

is all of this created and why here? of numbers? yeah, i guess down is unique for the diversity of its landscapes. is this what is if you look at the map of the cool cuz it's going to the width of the mountain range and i guess down is 200 kilometers. but that's why we have valley is foothills and in a regions around which a very dry and higher areas in the mountains of the great the caucasus, and go to that these diverse conditions have certain implications. going to different plants and animals choose to have attacks where they thrive, where they feel protected and have enough nutrients. few minutes to are used to these mountains a couple of them. so when you look at all history, when snowfall in the mountains was heavy affidavit, people fled to georgia as a bush on north judge. now i get into white house to hush winter's vicious with the golf. it's not like that anymore. people's excitement has changed about there's less smoke, obviously the woman is cause that's a problem. you take knology has made funding more efficiently. so people don't have to leave here really quick. the thing that i love, the mountains of love to climb isn't clean now. so they stay so, so whole,

these factors combined to make all republic so unique to move it apart from that. we are located in the very south of russia and used the southern most the point of the country is near the village of kudos. but we want it done what it is said by the people here. the dog as done, is dangerously beautiful, and the nature here doesn't forgive mistakes. what do they mean by that storm? a person that gets done, what makes that gets done dangerous? is that people are unaware of the good, precious nature of these mountains. i say go and visit the got a ducking gorge, for example, is that which can be flooded in a matter of minutes when it rains. so that's what we put people in serious danger. most of us decide those to come from their own state and cliffs and got all these things every multiple times. think of the risk of being i believe if you do it really is that the guess done is a great place to visit with people of very hospitable to the local nature is beautiful with many gorgeous lakes and waterfalls. so today there's a lot to see that i just done is a piece of heaven here in russia, the sheep there everywhere. in fact,

i've heard that there might even be more sheep and august on then people also there tells on the road how is this a part of the culture? is it important to the economy? and what does she provide for doug as the least? um the what is the one that gets done means land of mountains of the wind in such a land. sheep reading is number one for agriculture. according to data. there are more than 4600000 sheets and that gets done. we have the system where they spend the summers in the alpine meadows and come down to the step for the winter. we use this has made possible a gain by our unique landscape, the quality of our products as well note and recognize both in russia and abroad nicely with a major source of revenue for the republic at the moment of the product of them. so they just don't source that on the other hand, cheap and other domesticated animals in the mountains was of food for wild animals . printed as it can potentially world is what as and rapids channel ram at the same

time sheet to compete with wild hoof to animals for past you. so there's a need to strike the right balance to make sure that both can strive self interest with wild doors and sheep was central for all people here. i guess at diversity in geography must mean diversity in biology as well as biologist. can you tell me what sort of animals that we can find here that we can find anywhere else or what makes this place unique? no, and you can guess this region is unique being in the very south of russia. it gets really warm. and i said, i felt that right further down south close to the ben, skip. it can get very hot, but that's why we have some of the seas that didn't live anywhere else in russia right below. they include the live on to find the give such a large and highly venomous snake. is it called some small visited speech? he's getting the greek told us, i should have to put the money to ro many birds. of course, a great variety of somebody almost like the blue rocks russian did think would charge strike as the roof as tailed scrubber, old in most and many others that you won't find anywhere else in russia as

a senior because there are no other suitable habitats fold them out for the most fearsome species, but i'm just a cool, casey and leopard at that the new so unfortunately poaching still exists, funding the talent to come back to the person you think he still is supposed to. 11 does survive. ok. so boss is even a program now for releasing rapids into the wild some way here in the cold because it's cost give us as someone who is research and this issue for us. okay, so i can now do the dogs down still has its own, extend to population other by way of a small medium but still reproduces itself. so as we're driving through the mountains, something that seems unique to druggist on are these terraces. but they were created thousands of years ago with ancient technology. yet they still stay and tag . how are they created in way? probably more that goes down to perennial problem after the visit. the mountains offer little space for agriculture to the planting body, cooling and running. so i want to in schools, and that's why people have made those terraces using only manual labor, right? the,

they reinforced the slope to prevent erosion due to heavy rain and use them for fun . and can you put out of school and they put in and you know, somebody like to eat the arrival of new technology and equipment makes funding more efficient for them. and those terraces they neglected. caesar salad ace of mine was a monument to terrace families. so reminder of past agriculture will bring decision is good for there are many studies about this phenomenon because the way it was the single they say be people will use them again, some day. who knows? i bought that isn't as much as they go to. so i know that you've been studying this your entire life, specifically focused on your biologist. you are, you've written books, as we've mentioned. what makes this place so interesting for you personally. what is it in the soul of that gets done for you? i think it's funny you gotta do. i was born here. i grew up here. everything in my life is connected to that gets done. i became passionate about biology. doug, as done is, if you essentially go into a unique biological lab, it has high mountains, valleys, lowland forest, stems, deserts the senior and

a great diversity of landscapes and animals which inhabit them. typically the one of the most fascinating things about traveling through august time is the ever changing climate. you just don't know what you're going to see around the next mountain or hills. and it's all just so beautiful and interesting to look canyon. the crown jewel of doug this done field or who signed off is a geographer and officially one of the best teachers in russia. we asked him to help us uncover some of the secrets of his place. builder. thanks for meeting me here. i think we're good. we're the luckiest people to have this view and have this conversation. so you're a teacher, you're a geographer. this is a lot of canyon. lot of people know about grand canyon, but not too many people know about this place. is also the harder digest on. they say that this is it. so what makes this place are unique when the employer and one

of the most popular and most visited places in douglas does, it's a shame and right for the consider it to be the symbol of dug is done in the suicide canyon or it is unique for many reasons on the 1st for its size and depths, and it's often compared to the grand canyon at the you was when you mentioned dance, even though it's important to understand what you take is you'll bench. mom is this, the sewage canyon consists of 3 pods and we've been know number one is the so called the main county. and the deepest one young deal is it's depth is about 2000 meters just at the glove. and this is the deepest point to the pseudo canyon because these ranges very high, all color will be 16 me up right now. we're standing on the middle platform and that so the canyons relative dempsey, areas of mount 700 meters. but what, another thing that makes the suit canyon unique is its trunk chug that it can select as it goes through log itself again. but in ski is a very ancient river, even though. so how did this county in a much of when the river,

the 1st appeared that they weren't any mountains around here. the area was flat to more than 10000000 years ago, but the since then an active mountain formation has taken place and nobody me on the, as the terrain got hire for the real or caught a deep upon it. got the thanks to bottom erosion. and that's how the canyon was formed over millions of years ago. on the 5th, it's my understanding that earthquakes are happening here all the time. so does that mean that this particular canyon is always changing? always growing, even getting deeper. uh, just through to the, at the yes indeed, no, i said, so this area is classified as a high seismic hasn't territory to it because it's most of the biggest. um, if it continues to be canyon is still changing and growing as a result of geological processes or just the by the river, the same time moving, it continues to deep and it's bad. i mean, it says the depth of the canyon is growing. i do is in geology, nothing is that's a seems like an associated thing, is this more like a video's an ongoing process, mostly staging the changes of microscopic those so we can see them the slide with

the minutes mr. can you on glance slide process is also take that tower and so this quarter is in canyon. so there's always the danger of wrote formation is being unstable, which cause lance lies squared. but this is why the canyon goes deep. i'm going to be of the us quakes happen every day here. god says this is a high size make has a territory with the just like most of douglas done looping the can you the magnitude though is quite low and one yellow to 1.5 points that go with a humans con, feel for the use region with this one of the strongest quakes ever to happen here was in may 1970 to us. it's results can be seen on one of the bank so that she had k won't the rest of y plus the squared was followed by a major land slide us on social is got a. it seems to me that we have a sort of geological museum here because you can see the layers of the canyon and that goes back, as you said earlier, tens of millions of years. so what kind of secrets can we find? what does this kenyan tell us about the history of the rest of the drum?

a subordinate canyon. so special and beautiful is the steep slopes up. this way you can trace volcanic ages, the more than uh since this tower dre used to be at the bottom of the world's ocean for a long time before the mounts informing processes began. and they said we mostly see send a zoe akira supplementary wrong. so blood, no middle of a tens of millions of years show it while this land was at the bottom of the ocean rocks. lad of each other to form this sort of cake effects which the bottle and speaking of their rage, the top of the as just 5 to 800 meters us in a, zoe, paleo g new g. and i'm motion the quote 10. every periods missiles always, if we go deeper in this vault, we can trace meiza. zoe and cretaceous are all glass. it's stunningly beautiful from up here. but i want to go down and take a look from the waterside. of the

locals. say that you can actually drink this water here. so why is it so queen wise? and so here are there any health benefits to this one? and this on the glass. and the secret behind this want to is the fact that along the river, so lucky and those that flow into the su logic. but as it would select the using it, there were several hydro electric power plants and they've got the down to slow down their flow. detroit, as they slow the punch holes in the water central, both of the water color becomes bryan to as it gets less monday. nimble. this is how the clarity of water is achieved. mostly i'm going to pick him up as of now you just mentioned the hydro electric power stations. this water is actually a mighty mighty force providing power too much. i just don't talk to me a little bit about that and how much power is actually coming from this rest of the so that indeed is when you look at the river from the mountains. uh, it looks like a tiny blue ribbon and, and it's hard to believe that it's got huge power generating potential when you saw

it. but it's true that the silicon is one of the most powerful rivers in the north of focuses motion, particularly in terms of generating energy. even this is why we have a series of power plants on the silica store and the 2 k hydro electric power plant is among the most powerful. the capacity is 1000 megawatts point, 1000000 kilowatts. guess the salon because huge potential, which is exactly why we have so many power plants built on it. so, this water is a unique color, and people render say that water changes color as of the day moves. what gives it this unique clothing and some dealer with the always because ok, i already talked a bit about how want to hear gets its clear blue color go away. i almost took, was another find to play here is a change in to my thing here is that changes depending on the depth of the water. so you can see different color effects flows and dozens of them. it all depends on

the weather and the depth of the warranty you're looking at to go they see or with you'll see one color on a bright, sunny day. like now i'm chest and a completely different color at sunset at the so it depends on both the weather and the time of day. and you know, you're a teacher. in fact, you are officially recognized as one of the best teachers in russia. so congratulations on that, but what i'm interested in and what you tell your pupils about this area and even about august time in general, what is important for them as opposed to by sure, thank you very much. is to that i love my job to be let up. i enjoy working with children and this place in particular, this canyon is the best part, the kids. and so if i often bring them here, as i believe it's important to give children really experiences when you're teaching things like geography, which to help them see the things you're talking about. if they put the slope in here, they can see the power generating capacity of the river. there's, i'm the gym for example. they do,

they can also see the wrong layers of different geological periods. so i make it a point to show the kids the things that i'm talking about in class and for you personally. not about sense of what do you like most of what brings you joy about the you start your son as part of my so my identity might be i'm what i like about it is it's diversity for someone. so different people with different preferences that you can find a place where they love those somebody they can be on the caspian beaches learn useful, somewhat deep in the mountains being where the emotional anyone can find a correspond for themselves. he asked each other, and that's what i love about is incredibly interesting conversation. thanks very much. i appreciate the the end of course. another microclimate, a sand dune desert. it certainly looks out of place here. but

a content study. cool. a wheel mystery, surrounded by the mountains of august on the is that he puts my going at of a works at the special nature reserve here that about thank you very much for meeting out here. i'm a bona fide do goon. so this is a great experience for me. so let's get right into it. i'm sorry, cool. is known as one of the 8th wonders of the world. and so that has to be some legends as to why this place was created or how is created. can you tell me some of them, the pillow and welcome to signing equipment, your rights in the old times, people would often come up with some story or legend to explain things. they found hard to understand, like how something to your trained change. so people came up with quite a lot of stories about this place, but so i personally prefer the most romantic one. it's a legend, devout an unhappy lover, which is a man called abraham lincoln, his local village, not far from here with his beautiful daughter,

battiata young. the young man wanted to marry her, but she loved laughed as her father, however, refused lots of proposal and wanted to test his level. first, he told him to bill the sand mountains so tall that abraham, whose house would be visible from the top beloved. so ballade started bringing piles of sand to prove his love for various deals. when he finally finished and went to see abraham sabelle, he found a very old woman there. it was his long body at where she lived, he himself had turned into an old man more working. it took him so many years to complete it well, but that's the legend. but it tells us that things like this can also happen in life that are both sad and romantic. and so those are the legends. talk to me about factually. how did this get here? how was it created? scientists believe that studies come itself was formed on ancient marine terraces. we cut surfaces covered with sand. well dates of sands were carried here from the foremost ranges of the caucus as mountains it would be which collapses thousands of years ago. oh,

that's the scientific explanation of that. so we know how it was created. how old is this place? uh no, its num dunham, uh, scientific research indicates that the current a only and land forms we observe data next 5000 years. no other sand itself is about 100000 years old or color start this year. it is considered one of the highest and tallest standalone dunes in the world. is that true? and can you give me an idea of the size and scope of this doing this, but the place a relative height of study come from the base to the top is a 150 meters if and the height above sea level is 244 to 246 meters according to data from the darkest eyes. nature reserve in full, but in terms of the area code is 3 kilometers wide and 4 kilometers long. but that's the measurements of the study come now that the total area of the sam, massive please get started. come parkins is $576.00 heck tar simple ideas, which is part of the diag. it's 10 nature reserve and which is

a protected area. and i feel the strong winds here and sand moves with the wins. um, does this do change over time? and if so, how. and also it's kind of a miracle to me that it stays in one place. that taught me a little bit about that somebody me only present the day started come sheets by winds, blowing continuously along the caucasus mountains. whatever the south west wind brings from the northwest, wind carries away because there was a sort of struggle between the 2. ultimately produces the sand bridges and hip. perhaps this is the secret behind the sided. come do a constantly blowing when shipping the landscape to lose the sand. one, when springs with it for the another carries away with being here, you feel that it is its own climate really like a desert. the temperatures understand can get up to 60 degrees celsius. why is it that this place has its very own micro climate decision of the course? and we have a micro climate here is because there was mountains on one side and steps on the

other forming a distinct micro climate on the can you? the temperature of the sam reaches 30 degrees centigrade is fairly, as mid springs soon can exceed 60 degrees centigrade in the hottest summer months. we have reports of sam temperatures rising to of 80 degrees centigrade events, and that's the climate will be have here with the quick claim with. if this is a real desert climate, does that mean that there are snakes and scorpions and maybe scary animals that i need to be worried about from this teaching the, for a indeed, the plant life of the nature reserve and study comes in doing is very diverse. and red and she's not with wildlife includes many species of scorpions and level camel spiders or various calibrating stakes as well. for example, the blush steak and the trans caucasians, wrapped snake side. there's a great diversity of snakes, species which always sits the only nature reserve in russia, where a relatively small area is inhabited by $21.00 reptile and end fabian species. so i'm using the mediterranean tortoises among them a very rare animal. would it be in order to preserve this diversity in the natural environment of study,

come in at the same time to let visitors enjoy the beauty of this place. we're creating a co trails here of the you've probably seen this broad way paved and expanded the middle mesh, sort of the measures mounted on a pile foundation. in fact, all the constructions and the nature reserve are built on piles is there are no permanent structures. i think unless you step down from the trail and test your lock and you won't encounter any dangerous creatures either, but from the walkway you can safely watch lizard's various colors. on the dune top, there's a remarkable code headed organ last single. it's a very interesting and beautiful lizard, the symbol of the study can reserve cause so you can enjoy all this safely from the trail without risking your health or damaging. the natural environment of this place is shared with lenny trellis not only appeared all the knowing. so in the past couple years, tourism has increased significantly. that has its pluses and it has its minuses. are you concerned about protecting this natural wonder and the ecology of this

place? and if so, what's being done to protect the controls over? i already mentioned we're trying to minimize damage to the nature reserve by making trails and walking routes for visitors in order to avoid having people roaming, sorry, come wherever they liked. a good with walking off for your special roots is not allowed to see. and that's simply to protest a wild life is the number of visitors has significantly grown to look compared to 2019 that year we had 10. well, almost 11000 visitors know in 2018 we had 25000 visitors. and last year we had 220000 tours here. well, that's a large number for us. it's a unique habitat and we're doing our best to preserve it for future generations. 35, thank you very much for an interesting conversation and even more for sharing this beautiful place with us, the having meticulously made our way through the many personalities that make up the natural wonders that is duncan star. it is impossible not to reflect on our

experience with anything but fall and a wonderment, and perhaps a hint of display. the mountains, the rivers, the ever changing climate, the flat lands and desert sand dunes, the people we met along the way all of this is don gustavo and i count myself to be incredibly lucky to shared with you. so where should we go next? the same. i just don't have to shape

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