we are closing, now we will close the gateway, wow, doing this, by the way, is very difficult, as tadeushgates are closing, that’s right, help, help, come on, come on, come on, come on, in the twenty-first... the lock decks of the augustow canal, at least its belarusian part, look exactly the same as in the nineteenth. technical progress has not affected them. the gateway team works on old fashioned way, without a single one. automatic mechanism: having closed one gate, we go to open another, just like 200 years ago with an ordinary lever. i feel like a real master of the elements, i make the water obediently move forward. it turned out that i work too slowly for an elemental master. tadeosh takes the lever from me and turns it twice as fast. it turns out that not only size, but speed matters. just look at what's happening now. i opened the door a little, huge streams of water rushed forward, look, let you out or don’t, sit here for an hour, okay, you’ve persuaded me, i’ll go open the gate, but even for this seemingly simple task you need to have lacing, hardening, training, a huge amount