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Double-glazing — production technology
Glass architecture helps to create the unforgettable image of the modern city. Its originality, lightness and transparency combined with high heat and sound insulation properties have made glass structures and styles popular among architects and designers all over the world. Using modern construction technology professionals can create a project of any shape or size; however they will all undoubtedly be constructed using insulated glass units. Tune in to RTG TV and find out just how the glass panels that make up the face of modern buildings are made.
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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The Tyumen cryobank — cold in the service of science
Voyaging by kayak in the Avachinskaya bay
Kamchatka is a krai known for its fire-breathing volcanoes, hot springs, endless tundra, impassable forests, wild rivers and boundless ocean. For many centuries indigenous tribes in the region set up their camps on the coast where they had easy access to the ocean and could hunt and fish. In order to do this, they used small fishing boats - kayaks. Nowadays there is no need to catch food by kayak in the sea and these small boats are used for other purposes such as extreme sport. RTG TV host Igor Maximenko set off for the far-off peninsula to admire Kamchatka’s unique landscape (and seascape!) and to try his luck at paddling a kayak — a modern sport boat which allows kayakers to take a fascinating and scenic trip along the Kamchatkan coast.
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