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The View From Up On High. The Mystery Of The Baikal Rift
Baikal – the most ancient, deepest lake on Earth. And the most perplexing. Scientists continue to attempt to resolve its mysteries to this day. One of them, is how it was formed. The leading theory is that it’s the result of a rift – the lake formed as the result of a deep fissure in the Earth’s crust. Is that the case? And is it true that Baikal may one day become an ocean? Answers in this RTG TV film.
Shooting sports — the science of hitting targets
They're not manufactured for war or for hunting. First-class weapons, pistols and rifles, have been used by sportsmen for almost a century and a half — that's how long marksmanship has been an Olympic sport. RTG host Stanislav Salnikov tries his hand at the sport, assessing his abilities at an in-door range and in clay-pigeon shooting. He also learns how the sport is developing through the use of psychologists and physiologists who work to create champions.
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Shooting sports — the science of hitting targets
Yasnaya Polyana museum-estate of Lev Tolstoi
He wrote War and Peace, Anna Karenina, Sunday and many other narratives, stories and articles. He is also one of the most famous Russian writers and thinkers of all time. All of Lev Tolstoy’s works are examples of moral and spiritual purity that cause readers themselves to reflect on the meaning of life, an individual’s search for spirituality and its meaning. Lev Tolstoy can be called the face of Russia in the eyes of the rest of the world, and rightly so. Yasnaya Polyana is one of the largest memorial museums in the world and was created almost 100 years ago. It is the Tolstoy family estate and the place where the great writer was born, wrote and lived. Almost everything at the museum has remained as it was during Tolstoy’s life and it is this atmosphere that helps visitors to better understand the essence and quest of Tolstoy’s genius and gain a different view of the life and creative...
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