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The View From Up On High: Nature in the Altai Highlands

The Altai Mountains are famous for dozens of remarkable sacred sites. Each one exudes its own magnetic beauty. It calms you. Protects you from the hustle and bustle of modern life. It gives you the gifts of strength and inspiration. The word altai is from Old Turkic, meaning “golden mountains”. And the mountains are what pulls people here. But to see them up close and personal, you must first brave the steppe and taiga, rockslides and waterfalls. Over thousands of years, numerous ancient ethnicities and cultures have come and gone in the Altai. Here, the movement of peoples reached a high point during what is known as the Migration Period. And the majestic mountains silently watched it all, like giants in a fairytale standing in the blue of the sky. Learn about the natural world of the Altai Highlands, a place where you can still feel like a trailblazer, on RTG TV.

Commercial Fishing for Chir Broad Whitefish on the Ob

Yamalo-Nenets Autonomous Okrug is located in the heart of Northern Russia. It stretches from the cold waters of the Arctic Ocean to the eastern cliffs of the Ural Ridge. The Yamal Peninsula and the adjacent territory are rich in Russian oil and gas, but that’s not all. The area’s many bodies of water are full of highly-valued species of fish. Russian Travel Guide host Igor Maximenko set out in a fishing boat on the Ob River to try his hand at catching whitefish, a species in the salmon family. What does the phrase free floating mean? What is a dan buoy? Learn the answers to these questions as well as how various fishing boats differ from each other in RTG TV’s new programme.