Russian Travel Guide

Tour of Gatchina

Gatchina, one of the most beautiful and mysterious suburbs of St. Petersburg, was the favourite residence of Russia’s Peter the First and Alexandra the Third. Here the royal palace looks like a secluded castle that towers over the calm, quiet waters of the neighbouring lake. RTG TV host Nadezhda Lebedeva got to visit the picturesque town’s most famous sites and immerse herself in the enchanting atmosphere of the local parks. Tune in to discover why Gatchina is considered the home of the Russian Air Force and to see the place where the first Russian submarines were tested.

The Tyumen cryobank — cold in the service of science

Nowadays medicine and the biological sciences would be nothing without cryogenic technologies – what is known among specialists as the freezing of cellular and genetic material. Such specimens are then preserved in cryobanks – low-temperature refrigerators which maintain these chilly temperatures with the help of liquid nitrogen. A cryobank is not merely a negative 200-degree refrigerator – it is an advanced piece of equipment developed with the help of complex high technologies. There are only about 200 of them in the whole world and one of them is in the Russian city of Tyumen. There the cryobank is used not only to store biomaterial, but as the basis for scientific research in the field of biotechnology – and scientists in Tyumen have already succeeded in making significant discoveries.

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