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Tour of Goryachy Klyuch
The Caucasian Mountains are known not only for their picturesque beauty, but also for their natural healing centres. The history of Goryachiy Klyuch as a resort city is more than 150 years old. Every year hundreds of thousands of tourists travel to the area’s local mineral waters in hopes of improving their health with the help of the area’s fresh air and natural environment. So what is so magical about these natural waters and the air of these foothills? RTG host Rumiya Niyazova took an eye-opening stroll around the resort city of Goryachiy Klyuch in search of an answer to these oh-so-intriguing questions.
MAKING VOLOGDA BUTTER. A HISTORY OF SUCCESS
Butter has long been a familiar product on everyone's table. As for Vologda, it has become a real business card. It is here, in the Russian North, that a product with a special flavour has been created for many years. Vologda butter is almost a century and a half old. And its history is a difficult path for many years of improvements. The happy idea of using pasteurisation to obtain a nutty flavour, which once captured one single person, created a miracle. Every second person wanted to try such butter, every third person wanted to produce it and sell it profitably. The recipe seemed simple. But it turned out that other ingredients were also needed - the northern climate and the Vologda plains, special herbs fed to thoroughbred cows, and a technology that had been clearly constructed by man.
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MAKING VOLOGDA BUTTER. A HISTORY OF SUCCESS
Tour of Staraya Russa
In the small town of Staraya Russa in Novgorod Oblast legends and stories have become intertwined with real history, helping to immerse inhabitants and visitors into an atmosphere of years past. There was a time when Staraya Russa received great attention from rulers such as Ivan the Terrible and Peter the First however nowadays much of the town’s fame is due to one author. It was in this town that Fyodor Dostoyevsky wrote one of his famed classics and where tourists can visit a museum in his name. There the House on the Embankment has become known as the place where Dostoyevsky lived between 1872 and 1880 while working on his novel The Brothers Karmazov. Staraya Russa is also recognised for the Starorussky Resort with its natural salt-water mineral springs which shoot up to ten metres in height in some places. RTG TV’s Olga Degtyareva spent a few fantastic days in this diverse town and ...
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