nikolai varfolomeev is a border guard and today he with his subordinates, he must go to the foot of theeluga whale due to the specifics of the location along its inclined border between russia and kazakhstan, the mountain is under constant control of the military. they change each other at the post, monitor the border area and catch offenders, but before that, captain varfolomeev looked into the sergievsky skete near the village of katanda for a blessing. i want to ask you to come in. in the life of the public all sorts of bad things save the beatitudes. the beluga whale has always attracted people for the great russian artist nicholas roerich, she became one of the goals of a trip to central asia that he undertook with his family in 1923, the memory of this event is kept in the altai village up huyn in the house that now houses the museum nikolai konstantinovich and his family spent 12 days during his expedition . lika visited altai and these are photographs taken in 1926, as he writes on august 17, they saw a beluga whale, it was so clear from the call, right in zvenigorod for 5 years