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[00:00:43] 24, discover Belarus.
[00:03:43] Who would have thought, friends, that Belarus has its own
[00:03:46] Rome, yes, without coliseums and gladiators, but with five
[00:03:50] hills, its own history and legends that have lived
[00:03:53] here for more than a century, these are Gorki,
[00:03:56] friends, and my journey begins.
[00:04:01] Getting to Gorki is not an easy task, but I know
[00:04:04] three successful ways to get here from the capital.
[00:04:08] The first is by minibus, they don't run often, so
[00:04:12] my advice to you is to plan your
[00:04:14] trip in advance. There is also a railway route,
[00:04:17] although you can't avoid a transfer. Depart from
[00:04:21] Minsk-Passenger station to Orsha, from there an electric train
[00:04:24] will take you to Pogodina station. In total, the journey
[00:04:27] will take the same 4 hours. For motorists,
[00:04:31] almost the entire route runs along the E30 highway,
[00:04:34] and then along the R15, just 3 hours behind the wheel
[00:04:38] and you are in Gorki.
[00:04:56] This is a place without which it is difficult to imagine Gorki.
[00:05:14] And here, more than ever, the phrase known to all
[00:05:17] local residents and students is appropriate. Let's meet at the revolving
[00:05:21] gates. The question immediately arises, where do they revolve? Well,
[00:05:25] nowhere now, but more than 100 years ago,
[00:05:29] a guard's house with a revolving gate stood in its
[00:05:32] place, the godmother of this place. These gates
[00:05:36] will forever tie our hearts to the smell
[00:05:39] of grass, rye, and also the taste of apples to the earth. Its
[00:05:42] secrets and riches, so I invite you to go through these
[00:05:46] gates to fall in love completely, let's
[00:05:49] go,
[00:05:51] going deeper, you immediately notice a well-maintained
[00:05:54] plot that has been associated with science and
[00:05:58] experiments for over 100 years. This is Rytov's
[00:06:02] garden, a place where, at one time, Professor Mikhail
[00:06:05] Rytov, together with students, conducted
[00:06:08] research, grew an abundance of agricultural
[00:06:11] crops and tested new methods in beekeeping,
[00:06:15] but most importantly, this plot has not
[00:06:17] lost its purpose today, it
[00:06:20] continues to teach and conduct research, right now
[00:06:24] the land is occupied by the implementation of a large-scale
[00:06:27] scientific and educational project. You can see at what stage
[00:06:30] this construction is, we have started the installation
[00:06:34] of fifth-generation greenhouses, there are no such greenhouses
[00:06:37] in Belarus, these are innovative greenhouses that
[00:06:41] allow year-round maintenance of
[00:06:45] the microclimate inside the greenhouse in accordance
[00:06:48] with the parameters that plants require.
[00:06:52] It turns out that even greenhouses have their own modern
[00:06:55] technologies, one of them is interplanting. I'll explain
[00:06:59] it in simple words, plants here literally pass
[00:07:03] the baton, while the old ones are still yielding a harvest,
[00:07:06] new ones are already growing next to them, when
[00:07:09] the young ones begin to bear fruit, the old ones are replaced.
[00:07:42] and technologists of the Republic of Belarus and the Russian
[00:07:45] Federation,
[00:07:48] with whom we have agreements, and colleagues from Central
[00:07:51] Asian countries have shown great
[00:07:54] interest. We plan to develop such complexes in the Brest
[00:07:58] and Vitebsk regions. While many
[00:08:00] enterprises are only looking at new solutions,
[00:08:04] the technology is gradually coming to Belarus. Those who are at
[00:08:07] least a little bit in the know understand the potential it
[00:08:11] carries. It's really cool that such innovative projects are appearing,
[00:08:15] in general, good luck with the implementation of your, let's
[00:08:18] say, ambitious plans. Thank you, we are waiting for
[00:08:22] you at the academy next year, when our facility will be
[00:08:25] fully operational, come,
[00:08:28] bring applicants, whom we will gladly teach.
[00:08:32] Thank you! And our hilly path is already leading
[00:08:35] us to an equally important historical place,
[00:08:38] the academic library named after Demyan Romanovich. Maria,
[00:08:54] please pay attention to the floor, we are in the library's
[00:08:57] collection, look, nothing surprises
[00:08:59] you, well, it's just some strange
[00:09:02] tiles, but it wasn't so simple, once the
[00:09:06] library's archive contained 650,000
[00:09:09] books, during the Great Patriotic War, fascist
[00:09:13] invaders massively took away books of interest to the Third
[00:09:17] Reich, the rest was ruthlessly burned, this is
[00:09:20] evidenced by traces on the floor of one of the book halls,
[00:09:23] the memory of books that burned for 3 days
[00:09:26] and three nights.
[00:09:36] Now we are in the oldest park of the Academy,
[00:09:39] this is a favorite place for citizens, teachers, and well...
[00:09:42] students, but here there is a very interesting
[00:09:45] feature: please pay attention to the fountain,
[00:09:49] it seems like a fountain like any other, but during the Great
[00:09:52] Patriotic War and before the years of the Great Patriotic
[00:09:56] War, a statue of a sportswoman stood
[00:09:59] in the center of the fountain, it was very stunning, reflecting
[00:10:02] love for physical culture, for sports, and here the story
[00:10:05] turned out to be sad, nearby in one of the buildings
[00:10:09] German officers set up a restaurant, it turned out that...
[00:10:12] it was very convenient to aim from its windows to shoot
[00:10:16] the unfortunate statue, so today a fountain stands
[00:10:19] in its place, but that's not all, there is another
[00:10:23] legend, in general: this entire territory until
[00:10:26] 1829 was part of Count
[00:10:30] Gusov's estate, and there is a legend that somewhere near this
[00:10:33] library he hid a treasure, in the 1920s
[00:10:37] his grandson came, excavations were carried out for 3
[00:10:40] days, but it is unknown if they found the treasure or not,
[00:10:44] they dug for 3 days and that's it, so we have a chance,
[00:10:48] theoretically, to leave here very rich,
[00:10:50] theoretically yes, I haven't seen any
[00:10:54] gold mountains yet, but summer Gorki definitely
[00:10:57] inspire, well-maintained paths, rustling trees and
[00:11:01] picturesque areas, this is all wonderful, but
[00:11:05] to fully enjoy nature in the academy area, every
[00:11:08] local tourist knows for sure, you need to go to
[00:11:12] I'm all for it!
[00:11:28] The medical garden of the Belarusian State Agricultural Academy is the oldest in the Republic of Belarus, as you saw
[00:11:31] at the entrance, the year of establishment was 1847.
[00:11:35] Well, the garden's collection includes about 3,000 species
[00:11:38] of varieties, the main directions of the garden are
[00:11:42] the preservation of biodiversity, replenishment,
[00:11:45] reproduction, introduction into production and sale
[00:11:48] of products. Well, the botanical garden can proudly boast
[00:11:52] of its collection, rare trees from all over
[00:11:56] the world grow here. Ginkgo Biloba, tulip
[00:11:59] tree and Paulownia. This is our
[00:12:02] relict tree Ginkgo Biloba,
[00:12:05] which, one might
[00:12:07] say, is widespread,
[00:12:09] medicinal. And the year of planting was before the war,
[00:12:13] during the Great Patriotic War
[00:12:16] the Germans did not take away this tree. Here it
[00:12:19] still lives, exists and delights us.
[00:12:22] And why is it considered medicinal? Very
[00:12:25] good for memory, for blood circulation. Ginkgo
[00:12:28] Biloba or Ginkgo bilobed. Two
[00:12:31] lobes. You can try it by taste.
[00:12:34] Really, just tear off a piece
[00:12:37] of a leaf.
[00:12:41] Try it. It's sour-bitter.
[00:12:44] Uh-huh.
[00:12:47] Cool. Well, that's it, after tasting, you can say that
[00:12:51] the initiation into botany is complete. But seriously,
[00:12:54] the botanical garden is a true pride of the academy, on 6
[00:12:58] hectares it has collected more than
[00:12:59] 1,350
[00:13:02] types, forms of varieties of plants, the garden itself has
[00:13:05] had the status of a historical and cultural value
[00:13:09] of Belarus for 16 years, so come, and I'll move on.
[00:13:31] The scientific and educational center, digital
[00:13:34] animal husbandry is intended for
[00:13:37] educational,
[00:13:39] scientific and research, scientific and technological,
[00:13:43] expert and analytical activities, training
[00:13:46] a new generation of specialists based on digital
[00:13:50] competencies. Yes, a lot of theory, but for students
[00:13:54] within these walls... it immediately turns into
[00:13:57] practice, in seven classrooms they work with equipment that
[00:14:01] is already used in real livestock
[00:14:04] enterprises of our country, they study how automated
[00:14:08] systems help monitor animal feeding,
[00:14:11] microclimate, their health and the work of the entire
[00:14:14] farm. In general, they do everything to make production
[00:14:18] more efficient and modern
[00:14:20] here are the filters, pay attention. This
[00:14:24] is how we filter milk, that
[00:14:28] is, first we milk the cow, then
[00:14:31] the milk is filtered, of course, of course, but again
[00:14:35] I want to draw your attention to the fact that
[00:14:39] we are not training
[00:14:42] operators, but we are training
[00:14:44] managers of livestock enterprises,
[00:14:47] well, as it should be, so they
[00:14:51] must know
[00:14:54] all these processes. Right, you have to be
[00:14:58] a master in your field. This is exactly what the scientific and educational
[00:15:02] center helps with. Each room is dedicated to a specific
[00:15:05] direction. There are three laboratories where you can clearly study the intricacies
[00:15:09] of pig breeding, beekeeping and fur farming. Here you can
[00:15:13] see samples of compound feeds, technological developments, and even
[00:15:16] models of animals, from cows and goats to pigs. The largest
[00:15:20] audience is allocated to pig breeding, here we are
[00:15:24] in it. The creation
[00:15:27] of digital science and practice of animal husbandry
[00:15:29] is carried out by developing digital
[00:15:33] twins. What is a digital twin?
[00:15:36] Digital twins in animal husbandry
[00:15:39] are highly intelligent
[00:15:42] assistants, agents, researchers,
[00:15:46] assistants, employees, experts
[00:15:50] in zootechnology, hygiene,
[00:15:53] here digital technologies come into
[00:15:55] play, to put it more simply, special programs
[00:15:59] help analyze data, calculate different scenarios
[00:16:02] for the development of the situation and make more accurate
[00:16:06] decisions, in fact...
[00:16:39] Maria, please pay attention to our memorial sign, it was
[00:16:43] unveiled on October 4, 2024,
[00:16:46] and it is dedicated to the centenary of the founding
[00:16:49] of the Land Management Faculty at the Belarusian State Agricultural
[00:16:53] Academy. In 2022, our
[00:16:57] academy held a competition among students, teachers, and also
[00:17:01] schoolchildren to see who could draw the best sketch. So,
[00:17:04] our head of department won this competition. Tatyana
[00:17:12] Vladimirovna wrote the scientific description, and Anna
[00:17:15] drew the sketch of this memorial
[00:17:18] sign. And nearby, current
[00:17:21] students undergo geodesic
[00:17:24] practice, and this is very much in the spirit of Gorki. Here,
[00:17:28] special attention is paid to practice. The memorial
[00:17:30] sign, although it appeared not so long ago, already has its own
[00:17:34] tradition. Graduates come here for an evening meeting,
[00:17:38] take photos, and recall their years of study. Of course,
[00:17:41] I am not a land surveyor, but I will definitely take
[00:17:45] a commemorative photo.
[00:17:53] This memorial sign was unveiled on October
[00:17:56] 3, 2025, exactly on the day of the 185th
[00:17:59] anniversary of the founding of the Belarusian State
[00:18:03] Agricultural Academy. If you get
[00:18:05] closer, it becomes clear. Before us is not just a memorial
[00:18:09] sign, but a whole history of the academy in symbols, and
[00:18:12] metal ears of grain, as if reaching upwards, inspiring
[00:18:16] development and new achievements. On the book you can
[00:18:19] see the coat of arms of the Academy and a mini-copy of the fourth
[00:18:22] building, from which its path
[00:18:25] began. Masha, look, this is our fountain, called
[00:18:28] Friendship of Peoples. Inside there is a statuette of three girls, they
[00:18:32] symbolize the three main races
[00:18:35] of our planet. Caucasian, Mongoloid
[00:18:39] and Negroid, they hold hands, yes, because
[00:18:43] it's the friendship of peoples,
[00:18:45] beautiful, of course, and meaningful, Gorki
[00:18:48] are becoming more and more impressive, and to finally feel
[00:18:52] completely at home here, I will get acquainted with
[00:18:55] the underwater world. Right at the entrance to the city
[00:18:58] is one of the most unusual objects in the region,
[00:19:02] the fish farming industrial complex, the Department of
[00:19:05] Ichthyology and Fish Farming.
[00:19:17] The Department of Ichthyology and Fish Farming is involved in training specialists for
[00:19:21] the country's fisheries industry, not only ours, but also CIS
[00:19:25] countries, this year we have been granted
[00:19:29] the status of a basic organization for training specialists
[00:19:33] for the fisheries industry for CIS
[00:19:35] countries.
[00:19:37] for the third year we have been training specialists in the specialty Aquatic
[00:19:40] Bioresources and Aquaculture, these specialists are quite versatile,
[00:19:44] that is, they can work with everything related to fish, with
[00:19:48] water, it is here that specialists are trained
[00:19:52] without whom the fishing industry cannot develop
[00:19:55] today, graduates become technologists of fish processing
[00:19:59] enterprises, fish farmers for modern complexes,
[00:20:03] environmental protection specialists, they work not only
[00:20:06] in production, but in scientific centers where they are engaged in
[00:20:09] research and the development of new
[00:20:12] technologies. Now we are in our
[00:20:15] aquariums, that is, this is - from the founding
[00:20:19] of the department there was always aquariums, but now it is a
[00:20:22] laboratory that studies biological water purification,
[00:20:25] here the guys study the general hydrochemical
[00:20:29] composition of water, how to purify water, including with the help of
[00:20:32] bacteria, because fish farming industrial complexes are now working
[00:20:35] on a system of closed water supply, which implies
[00:20:39] the use of a biological filter for
[00:20:42] water treatment. Beyond the walls of the complex is a whole world hidden from
[00:20:45] the eyes of an ordinary visitor. Here, a number of laboratories work, where
[00:20:49] future fish farmers study all stages of fish
[00:20:52] farming, from conditions of keeping to the peculiarities of its
[00:20:56] development. I really want to look into some of
[00:20:59] them. We are currently in our training laboratory for new
[00:21:03] aquaculture facilities, here there are educational
[00:21:06] models of closed systems, that is, there are two
[00:21:10] pond-type systems and, as it were,
[00:21:13] channel-type systems. And here we keep our
[00:21:16] educational, as it were, visual aid in the form of fish, that is, here is
[00:21:20] a collection of sturgeons that we keep and work with
[00:21:23] in classes, it would seem, just fish in
[00:21:27] pools, but in fact behind this is a lot
[00:21:30] of work, here a real living collection has been gathered,
[00:21:34] sturgeons, catfish, tilapias, koi carp
[00:21:37] and even turtles, they are
[00:21:40] cared for, grown and all stages of development
[00:21:43] are studied, we go through the entire technology of artificial
[00:21:46] reproduction of sturgeon, since at the moment, perhaps, this is
[00:21:50] the most difficult aquaculture object in terms of reproduction, that is, the guys themselves
[00:21:54] get black caviar, we even have golden caviar, we
[00:21:57] have an albino sterlet, yes, which lives well,
[00:22:01] which gives not black caviar, but because there is no pigment,
[00:22:05] it is whitish in color and it is called golden caviar, on
[00:22:08] the market it is much more expensive than black caviar,
[00:22:12] students can then eat this caviar, they can,
[00:22:15] of course, it's good to be a student of the academy, yes we have a very tasty
[00:22:19] and interesting specialty, it's true, let's go
[00:22:22] further to the fish farming industrial complex, which actively
[00:22:26] cooperates with the academy and for students is a
[00:22:29] practical base.
[00:22:33] Here begins its journey Belarusian trout, this is a
[00:22:36] fish farming industrial complex, put into operation in 2012,
[00:22:39] the complex was created with two goals, this is
[00:22:43] providing Belarus with its own planting
[00:22:46] material of rainbow trout, and also as...
[00:23:20] with some, but not all, but I'll have to deal with that
[00:23:24] next time, now it's time to move
[00:23:27] on,
[00:23:36] at the next stop on my route it will be very
[00:23:39] hot, this is a blacksmith workshop, and there I
[00:23:42] will meet one of the authors of that very
[00:23:45] memorial sign with the ears of corn, which I liked so much at
[00:23:49] the academy.
[00:23:54] Alexey Krovchenya, a local blacksmith, one of the creators
[00:23:57] of the memorial sign, has been working with metal for about
[00:24:00] 12 years, although he never thought of connecting his life
[00:24:04] with it. The first thing that strikes the eye in Kuzmitsa is the
[00:24:08] huge number of hammers, and as it turned out, this is
[00:24:11] not a collection for the sake of collection. Different work requires its own
[00:24:15] tool, and part of the hammers, tongs and other
[00:24:18] tools, Alexey made himself, because
[00:24:22] for a true blacksmith a tool is also part
[00:24:25] of skill, while you are making it with your own hands, you will have time to understand
[00:24:29] the metal, feel it and get the hang of it.
[00:24:32] The production technology was based for a long time
[00:24:36] on forge welding, then already there
[00:24:40] before the beginning of the industrial revolution the Martin brothers took their
[00:24:44] furnace to Europe and let's say steel began to be produced
[00:24:46] en masse, but...
[00:24:50] the criterion for evaluation, the criterion for evaluation was
[00:24:53] the ring, that is, they checked with oh,
[00:24:57] beautiful,
[00:24:59] the ring must be even, clear, by no means dull, that
[00:25:03] is, uh-huh, this is one of the criteria, well,
[00:25:07] not the main one, but one of many, here it is already dull, yes, so with
[00:25:10] the theory everything is clear, the tool, its requirements for work
[00:25:14] are serious, quality is checked not by
[00:25:17] eye, but... Now I want to see the most important things,
[00:25:20] masterpieces created by the master's hand, water, moon,
[00:25:24] stars, fern, flower, well, here, I think, every Belarusian
[00:25:28] will say, this is Kupala and will not be mistaken,
[00:25:32] before us is the image of Kupala's Beregini, a girl
[00:25:35] releasing a wreath on the water. Alexey decided to tell
[00:25:39] this story in his own way: not through fabric, wood or
[00:25:42] straw, but through metal. It turned out to be a large competitive
[00:25:45] work, which even managed to visit ... I perfectly understand