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00:00:54It's 3:00 AM in Moscow, you're watching the 24-hour news channel
00:00:58Russia 24. We are live. Today is
00:01:01the Day of the Agricultural and
00:01:04Processing Industry Worker. The agricultural sector is one of the most
00:01:07dynamic sectors of the modern economy. Russia has become
00:01:10a leading grain power. Our
00:01:13producers practically fully supply the domestic
00:01:16market. Vladimir Putin congratulated agricultural
00:01:20workers on their professional holiday.
00:01:24Thanks to your energy and dedication to your
00:01:27work, Russia firmly holds its position
00:01:31as one of the leading producers of agricultural
00:01:34products in the world. Even in difficult current conditions,
00:01:38the domestic agro-industrial complex operates sustainably and
00:01:41stably. You carry out your tasks conscientiously,
00:01:45with full dedication.
00:01:48You reliably guarantee the food security
00:01:51of the country. Recently, large agricultural businesses,
00:01:54and especially medium-sized companies and farms,
00:01:57have had to face a whole series of difficulties.
00:02:01These are caused by sanctions, infrastructural and export
00:02:04barriers, and rising costs.
00:02:08The state will certainly continue to provide agricultural
00:02:12producers with the necessary assistance, promoting
00:02:15both the resolution of operational issues related to fuel,
00:02:19transportation, product sales, and the provision
00:02:23of seed material, and in general, we will continue
00:02:26to systematically support the agro-industrial sector,
00:02:30which faces large-scale tasks.
00:02:33The Russian Embassy in Saudi Arabia is clarifying
00:02:36whether there are citizens of our country among those affected by the
00:02:40missile strikes on Riyadh International
00:02:42Airport. According to the Civil Aviation Authority
00:02:46of the Kingdom, 12 people died and more than 300 were injured.
00:02:49The airport suspended operations. Passengers and staff were urgently
00:02:53evacuated. The Yemeni Houthis claimed responsibility for
00:02:56the attack. In response, the Arab coalition stated that it would not
00:03:00leave the attack on Riyadh airport unanswered. This
00:03:03missile strike was the second in 3 days. The Houthis call their
00:03:07actions a response to Saudi bombardments of Yemeni
00:03:10territory. The phone conversation between the presidents of Russia
00:03:14and the USA is the main news of the last day. Vladimir Putin and
00:03:17Donald Trump discussed by phone the prospects
00:03:20for resolving the Ukrainian crisis, the situation around
00:03:24Iran and challenges for global energy. Moscow confirmed
00:03:28its readiness to supply oil, petroleum products to the American and
00:03:31world markets. Vladimir Putin noted that this would positively
00:03:35affect the entire global economy. The leaders
00:03:38confirmed agreements on continuing personal contacts,
00:03:42as well as cooperation between presidential administrations,
00:03:45special services and other agencies.
00:03:48The US President called Zelensky the main obstacle to
00:03:52resolving the Ukrainian conflict. According to Trump, Zelensky
00:03:55had many opportunities to end
00:03:58the war, but he did not wish
00:05:00to. with Russia has increased pressure on Ukraine. According to several
00:05:04American and British publications, Washington
00:05:06threatened to stop providing Kyiv with intelligence
00:05:10if Ukraine does not stop strikes on
00:05:14Russian oil refineries. More details from Anna
00:05:16Voronina. There will be no second day of hysteria
00:05:20in Kyiv. The conversation in Miami between the Ukrainian-European delegation
00:05:24and Trump's representatives ended prematurely.
00:05:27The Ukrainians were told that Trump is lifting sanctions on Russian
00:05:31diesel fuel, because Kyiv ignored
00:05:34six requests from Washington: not to strike Russian oil refineries.
00:05:38Zelensky was enraged and furiously reacted to Trump's statement about
00:05:41the deal.
00:05:52weakness, to which he received a response from Donald
00:05:54Trump.
00:05:56Zelensky stated that the diesel fuel deal is a weak
00:06:00step from a strong partner that will only prolong the war. We
00:06:04are a very strong partner, what do we need for the whole world.
00:06:07Diesel is what we need, so we are very happy to conclude
00:06:10it. In Kyiv, the deal is not satisfactory. If strikes on
00:06:14Russian oil refineries continue, then Zelensky's regime may lose
00:06:18a significant part of its support. A Ukrainian official stated that during
00:06:22the negotiations, Witkov and Kushner threatened that Trump could cut off
00:06:25Ukraine from American intelligence data if it continued
00:06:29to ignore Washington's requests. A US official stated that
00:06:32Witkov and Kushner informed the Ukrainians that the US is
00:06:36a strong partner providing ammunition and intelligence
00:06:39data. Therefore, Ukraine should not undertake.
00:07:12very, very upset. American journalists and bloggers
00:07:16explain the conclusion of the deal by the need to lower fuel
00:07:19prices before the elections.
00:07:22According to preliminary estimates, the price of diesel fuel will now drop by about
00:07:26a dollar. In 2 hours, it has already decreased by about 25
00:07:29cents. Representatives of the Alternative for Germany party note that Merz
00:07:33is needlessly ruining the country with anti-Russian sanctions and expensive LNG,
00:07:37the reality has already changed. In the foreseeable future, the US
00:07:40will ban Ukrainian attacks on the Russian oil industry, the war is effectively
00:07:44over, Germany and the EU are completely
00:07:47isolated. London's reaction was more than
00:07:51predictable. In response to the news of the diesel deal, they
00:07:54stated that they would continue to pressure Russia and strengthen support
00:07:58for Ukraine. The cunning thing is that the main supplier of diesel to
00:08:01Britain is the USA. Anna Voronina, Matvey Popov,
00:08:05news. In Berlin, thousands of people took to
00:08:08an anti-government demonstration, demanding resignations.
00:08:24Germany, as well as posters with the inscription "Peace with Russia."
00:08:28Merz's rating dropped to a record low level, including
00:08:31due to the Chancellor's desire to finance military aid to
00:08:35Ukraine instead of solving socio-economic problems in Germany
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00:15:51Grey, this is madness, say, yes, just
00:15:55a little bit, yes, they're here, there he is,
00:15:58tran-tan-tan, in Russia, bears walk in the
00:16:02streets. This smile-provoking Western cliché became
00:16:05a frightening reality in the autumn of
00:16:082026.
00:16:13Yes, this is concrete madness.
00:16:15The clubfoots continue to attack residents of the Irkutsk region,
00:16:19Krasnoyarsk, Altai Krai, and
00:16:21Khakassia. It's something else
00:16:24entirely. Bears have also become increasingly common to come out to
00:16:28people in the Urals, in the area of Ivdel, Sverdlovsk
00:16:31region. A furious predator wandered into a parking lot and damaged
00:16:35about ten cars. tried to push
00:16:38everywhere. According to the Ministry of Natural
00:16:42Resources of our country, over the past 36 years, the number of
00:16:46brown predators in Russia has increased almost 2.5
00:16:49times.
00:16:54If in 1990 the State Committee for Nature
00:16:57of the Soviet Union registered 130,000
00:17:01bears, then in 2026 there are already almost
00:17:05308,000. And this is the case when it's not
00:17:09chickens, but bears that are counted in autumn. Currently, in
00:17:12Khakassia, there are 2,246
00:17:16clumsy predators. Since 2022,
00:17:19their numbers have increased by 609 individuals.
00:17:23These are official data from the Ministry of Natural Resources of the Republic;
00:17:26unofficial ones are not known to anyone. Hunters say that in
00:17:30reality, this figure is higher, at least by 20 percent.
00:17:33Bears come out onto the main road.
00:17:43Footage of chance encounters, filmed on mobile phones, filled
00:17:46the internet. There's another car now, it's going to stop and
00:17:50film him, it's going to throw
00:17:52him food.
00:17:56Some are ready to feed the teddy bears from their hands, others
00:18:00warn of mortal danger. You feed him, you
00:18:03feed him, damn it, and then he comes to people, you have to throw
00:18:07him a candy. Another piece of bread, where are people's brains, damn it? And then he
00:18:10goes into villages, starts walking through
00:18:13garbage dumps like this and tearing up dogs and
00:18:17weaker people. The bear is reclaiming new
00:18:20territories from people.
00:18:27The struggle for living space is most active in
00:18:31Siberia and the Far
00:18:32East.
00:18:39In the Republic of Khakassia, the bears have completely lost their minds. In
00:18:43the town of Obaza, they are not just roaming the streets, they have
00:18:46literally besieged the town. You know, probably
00:18:50to put it simply, there are just too many bears in the taiga.
00:18:53The demographic growth occurred against the backdrop of a poor harvest of cedar
00:18:57nuts. Well, the bear's main food source is
00:19:00nuts, that's how it builds up fat, it turns out, but this year with the nuts
00:19:04it's a disaster, there are no nuts. The bear
00:19:07is hungry, it won't gain much fat on grass, it turns
00:19:11out,
00:19:12so
00:19:15they visit, the quality of life in the taiga has fallen below
00:19:19rock bottom, hungry predators descend from the
00:19:22mountains to populated areas, looking out the window, he stopped right
00:19:26here, right here, he looked
00:19:29left, he looked right, I hid
00:19:33behind the blanket,
00:19:36ran away to the children's room, my little one wasn't sleeping
00:19:39anymore, the older one was sleeping, bears are messing around in the yards
00:19:43of local residents and farm gardens, he broke the fence there and
00:19:47he broke it there too, so almost every night, raids on
00:19:51the city are still going on without casualties, in Obazene
00:19:54not a single case of animal attack on
00:19:57a person has been recorded, but this is not because bears behave like
00:20:00well-behaved guests, but because local volunteer hunters
00:20:04stop the animal at the approaches to the settlement.
00:20:07point, bears have been eliminated here many times,
00:20:11about seven individuals were eliminated here in this
00:20:14garden. The liquidation operation began in August
00:20:17and will end with the onset of cold weather, when the bear
00:20:20goes into hibernation, or rather, if
00:20:23it does. I would not want a bear to eat our
00:20:27children who are going to school, so I am doing
00:20:30this. At night, hunting in the morning to
00:20:33work, how the volunteer squad lives,
00:20:36which stood up for the opposite.
00:20:41What birds hunt
00:20:43bears?
00:20:47Together with the hunters, we walked 160 km.
00:21:27In a besieged city, this is what the fortress wall looks like. This
00:21:31week, the bear broke through the fence,
00:21:34it was at night, and went for a walk here on
00:21:38the territory. The broken wooden fence, hastily boarded
00:21:41up with planks, the bear has taken to the apple orchard
00:21:45like a dining room, on an all-inclusive program. The bear
00:21:48broke through the fence, well,
00:21:52and apparently decided to feast on apples here,
00:21:55that is, this happened again, it was
00:21:59before, well, there are still traces here on the fence, I think,
00:22:02from claws, from the world of wild nature, the farm
00:22:06is protected only by a flimsy fence, which a
00:22:09two-hundred-kilogram bear breaks through without noticing. Well, most
00:22:12likely it was a big bear, because before that there were
00:22:16cases where smaller bears came out, they usually either
00:22:19dig under, or break one or two planks, here a whole
00:22:23section is broken out, most likely it was a large bear, he just knocked
00:22:27down the section and passed through. Denis Valchuk, the chief rescuer
00:22:30of the city, whom the locals pray to as a savior
00:22:34from the hungry beast, we call each other, if you notice
00:22:36something, we call immediately, there were cases when we called, that
00:22:40the bear, I'm telling you, was walking in the field, that's when
00:22:44it happened, Denis and his team
00:22:47of hunters - starting in August, the bears began to come out,
00:22:57began to break the fence,
00:22:59eat apples, so, well,
00:23:02citizens turned to
00:23:05us, this situation is repeating itself, as
00:23:09last year. The difference from last year in the number of
00:23:12bears coming to Obaza for prey, last
00:23:15year only eight individuals were eliminated
00:23:19in the city this year, here alone there are
00:23:22seven.
00:23:38From a five-meter watchtower, the apple orchard is visible as if on a platter. In the optics
00:23:42of the carbine, 30 hectares and approaches to the farm.
00:23:45The
00:23:50bear will not immediately go to the garden from afar, it will feed
00:23:54somewhere, then go away, rest
00:23:58during the day, digest, then come back to the garden in the evening,
00:24:01and continue to feed. This is a hunting
00:24:04ambush over a watering barrel, a convenient observation
00:24:07post and firing line, from which wild taiga predators
00:24:11are hunted. Well, in August we mostly
00:24:13guarded almost every night since
00:24:17the bears started coming out into the garden. In September
00:24:20we also guarded, so this ambush is personally
00:24:24inhabited by you, yes, of course, and personally by me,
00:24:27hunters, everyone has been there
00:24:29on it.
00:24:34Speaking about the bear invasion, the guard of the apple orchard
00:24:37Valera speaks frankly. The fact that they came to the city,
00:24:40after all, their number is increasing, well, a bear is
00:24:44an animal that is territorial, that is,
00:24:48they have their own territory. And apparently there was no more
00:24:51room for them in the forest, and they crawled here, but out of
00:24:54desperation. Sipping bitter coffee,
00:24:57Valera speculates about the economic reasons for
00:25:00the bear invasion, it's unprofitable, I think, it has become
00:25:03for hunters to do this, I heard that
00:25:07a permit for 15,000 costs
00:25:09exactly for one bear, it is given for
00:25:13one month, if you don't even
00:25:16kill this bear, this permit expires for you. At the farm... Valera
00:25:20works in shifts with his father, two days on, two days off. The working day is from
00:25:24eight to eight, then he and his wife lock themselves in
00:25:27the guardhouse from the bears. Well, he says, well, the animal is still
00:25:31dangerous, that is, we don't know what's in his head,
00:25:34anything can happen. Self-defense
00:25:37means are always at hand.
00:25:41This is, it turns out, it also repels with a sound
00:25:44signal, a loud one. This is our
00:25:48flare gun, so... We load it, shoot it into the
00:25:51sky, it also emits a loud
00:25:55bang. When night falls in the city,
00:25:58the bears wake up, and the hunters go out to
00:26:01ambush. And... at night, when you go out, what do you take with
00:26:04you, tea, coffee, any sandwiches? Well,
00:26:08usually you don't get carried away with heavy food at night, because
00:26:11it's noise, all these unnecessary movements, here you take coffee, yes, or tea
00:26:15or coffee, so that you can drink tea there,
00:26:19when you might get a little cold at night, well, otherwise
00:26:22hunting equipment is with you, everything, weapons,
00:26:25ammunition, night vision
00:26:28device, well, and the scope, respectively
00:26:31also on... the hunters' arsenal in August of this year, when the city
00:26:35was besieged by bears, a quadcopter appeared. When we
00:26:39have the opportunity to use
00:26:42a quadcopter, accordingly we
00:26:45make flights over the gardens here and the adjacent
00:26:48territory, well, and accordingly then
00:26:51we don't put a hunter on ambush. A bird with a
00:26:55thermal imager in Obaza is more valuable than any red-listed
00:26:59one. There is only one drone for the entire city, whose flight is monitored by...
00:27:19And why did we say that we need it not only because of the bear, but also because of the fact that we can do a flyby, check if there is anything nearby, it is clear that they go fast,
00:27:22but still, we can organize ourselves so that we will
00:27:25fly over the borders of Obaza at some interval. That's it, the borders are
00:27:29locked. Volunteer hunters keep guard day and night. The head
00:27:33of the city and the chief rescuer of Obaza are always in touch,
00:27:36with each other and with law enforcement agencies. He calls me
00:27:39at night, we work like this, he finishes at night, sends me
00:27:43a report, I write to the residents at 4 am, they all say: "When do
00:27:47you all sleep?" I say, "Almost never." And in the morning we all
00:27:50go in to see where the bear is. Reports
00:27:53of eliminated wild predators are updated daily. Within
00:27:57a day, before our eyes, four animals were destroyed
00:28:00in the city. The time was 4:30.
00:28:04He stopped right here. Alyona was woken up by her
00:28:07inner voice and the barking of dogs. She heard the dogs barking,
00:28:10it turns out, where the cars are parked, the dogs barked very loudly
00:28:14there, but they barked not as usual, but completely
00:28:17differently. Pushing back the curtain, the young mother saw
00:28:21complete savagery. He stopped right here, literally
00:28:24right here, looked left, looked
00:28:28right, I hid behind
00:28:32the...
00:29:03This year they live with an adjustment for the bear threat. Well, I go
00:29:06out with them, I don't go out with the little one at all. I let
00:29:10the older one out when I go to feed the dogs or the farm,
00:29:14that's it, otherwise no, we're at home. So you don't let them out on the street?
00:29:17No, no, it's scary, what street can
00:29:20there be? At home, Alyona and the children are guarded by
00:29:24an East European Shepherd, Chara,
00:29:26and a mutt, Betty. As a self-defense weapon,
00:29:30the woman bought firecrackers. We already with...
00:30:32services of the city of Obaza, communal accidents, broken
00:30:35wires, fires, floods, bears on the street, this is for
00:30:39him.
00:30:43A specialist in problem solving, along with local
00:30:46men, goes out on a night
00:30:48hunt.
00:30:54Warning signs flash past the window, gravel
00:30:57throw,
00:31:00dangerous roadside.
00:31:03The sign "Caution, bears" is not there for some reason.
00:31:07A very dangerous animal, which is not
00:31:10comparable to human strength, much stronger
00:31:13than a human, who...
00:31:16if you don't have a firearm or any other means
00:31:20to destroy it, you won't cope with it, it's very dangerous. About
00:31:23what is dangerous and what is not, Sergey Emayakov knows firsthand:
00:31:2624 years in the Ministry of Internal Affairs, he retired
00:31:30with the rank of major. For a long
00:31:33time, the population of brown bears
00:31:37was not properly regulated
00:31:39in
00:31:41our country,
00:31:43apparently, or in Siberia. The big boss
00:31:47fights the bear invasion not in his office, drawing up schedules
00:31:50and reports, but with a carbine in his hands on a night hunt. If
00:31:54he is wounded, he, well, probably on
00:31:57adrenaline, he doesn't feel pain,
00:32:00he is in a state
00:32:03of affect, he can
00:32:06run for another dozen
00:32:09meters with bullet wounds to his internal organs,
00:32:13and at the same time... breaking everything in its path,
00:32:17destroying, that is, there have been repeated such cases
00:32:21already, when he ran up to him, they approached him, when he was dying, he already had a shot heart,
00:32:24internal organs, well, not to mention
00:32:28the body, while the drone with a thermal imager circles over
00:32:31the city in search of a bear, the retired major tells how he
00:32:35neutralized a particularly dangerous criminal,
00:32:38the guys were coming from that side, Denis Olegovich, he
00:32:41was watching us from the quadcopter, well,
00:32:45the bear, where it was heading, on the radio,
00:32:49he coordinated our actions,
00:32:52fly to the left, so that they could be seen
00:32:55and the apple tree, we stood without
00:32:58light, that is, in pitch darkness,
00:33:02so as not to scare the bear, and he on the radio
00:33:05says, you light up, that is, it means, ignitable underbarrel
00:33:09flashlights, that is, we produce shots,
00:33:13outright we... failed to destroy
00:33:16the bear, the wounded animal rushed at the hunters,
00:33:19the bear turns around and runs towards us, that
00:33:23is, understanding that we pose a danger to it,
00:33:27that with the goal, well, as
00:33:30they say, that it is 3-4 m,
00:33:34well, probably something to kill, an instant, everything
00:33:37was over, it was a male,
00:33:41a large male,
00:33:43which was already wounded by some other
00:33:47hunter before us, that is, we extracted
00:33:50a bullet
00:33:52from its shoulder blade, a 16-gauge bullet it was, which
00:33:56was in the meat, which had already rotted his
00:34:00shoulder blade. The wounded animal perceived
00:34:03a human as a threat and as prey. My personal
00:34:07opinion, if it once tasted
00:34:10human, it will never stop, as long as it's alive, it
00:34:13will try. again to taste this
00:34:16flesh, and what makes a bear
00:34:19attack a human for the first time? Well, it's
00:34:22a predator's instinct, hunger, well, I think
00:34:26these are some main factors that,
00:34:30well, it perceives a human as
00:34:33prey, it's absolutely not afraid of humans, so that
00:34:36the city residents don't become prey, Sergey does what
00:34:40he has to, they have nowhere to go, there are too many of them, they want to take our
00:34:43territory.
00:35:15who got the bear, he takes
00:35:19the bear for himself
00:35:22and disposes of it at his discretion, and have
00:35:26you tasted bear meat, what's it like? I
00:35:29have tasted it, well,
00:35:33meat is meat, at home from the hunt, Sergey is awaited by three
00:35:37children and a wife, whose heart is not at peace every time he goes
00:35:41after an animal, she is of course worried about this.
00:35:45Asks not to take
00:35:47unnecessary risks,
00:35:50well, she worries.
00:38:18When trouble knocked on their door with a heavy bear paw,
00:38:21the men started acting on the principle, who if not
00:38:24us, safety in Obaza is determined. The number
00:38:28of bears that go to the city, and the ability of local authorities
00:38:31and hunters to stop them in time, for this
00:38:34every day a group of volunteers
00:38:38about 10-15 people, those who have a hunting
00:38:41license and a heart that aches for the common
00:38:44cause. The wives of the city's defenders say it's easier
00:38:47to meet a bear on the street than to find her husband
00:38:51at home.
00:39:09It seems this is the case when their wives, with loaded rifles,
00:39:23what's up with you, hi, hi.
00:39:28The head of the family is met at the doorstep by his sons David, Denis and wife
00:39:32Anna.
00:39:39We rarely see my husband at home, practically
00:39:42never, rare, rare, rare meetings on
00:39:46weekends, because the children are home,
00:39:48on weekends, they only see dad on weekends. In the moment
00:39:52of meeting, her eyes say more than any words, he sleeps
00:39:56very little, of course. I don't know how he endures it,
00:40:00the situation is difficult and tense with
00:40:02the bears,
00:40:04keeps our city completely
00:40:07safe, from night hunting Anna meets her husband
00:40:10as if from a combat mission, I worry, I still worry
00:40:14about the fact that bears are still dangerous
00:40:17animals, yes, it's when everything is under control, everyone
00:40:21sleeps, the whole city sleeps peacefully, it's
00:40:24certainly a big deal, yes, but...
00:40:57rough work, second floor, uh-huh, well, in general, everything is in
00:41:01process, our dad is constantly working, so everything
00:41:04we manage to do, we do,
00:41:07we only managed to do the second floor, a good house,
00:41:10a loving wife, healthy children, and a plate of hot
00:41:14rich cabbage soup with sour cream after night hunting, what else
00:41:18is needed for happiness, what are the plans for tonight,
00:41:21everything as usual,
00:41:246 PM briefing, deployment.
00:41:28Flew to work with hunters until
00:41:31morning, well, as it goes, not
00:41:35before two, I think, mom feeds youngest son Denis
00:41:39attentively.
00:42:10this is more of a service than a job, we are, in general, military
00:42:13personnel, our whole life has always passed in such a rhythm,
00:42:17yes, Anna, an active sergeant
00:42:19of the National Guard, Denis, a retired captain, served in
00:42:23the Caucasus, St. Petersburg Military Institute, then
00:42:27Krasnoyarsk and Tomsk, worked as chief of staff of a battalion
00:42:30of the National Guard troops, in November 2018
00:42:34he returned to Obaza, to save the city from emergencies.
00:42:38Our dad always transferred.
00:42:40he left, and we caught up with the kids, it wasn't easy,
00:42:44but we coped with our difficulties, yes, maybe someone won't
00:42:47understand us, but nevertheless, probably the most important thing is
00:42:51our great, strong love for each other, for
00:42:55our children, therefore, thanks to this, we cope with everything,
00:42:58we coped, we are coping and we will cope, so we decided
00:43:02to take a walk after David,
00:43:05snowboarding, in all senses, the whole family
00:43:09is in the same boat. Well, generally
00:43:11lifelong always for
00:43:15children, for children, for family, well,
00:43:18naturally, since I live in this
00:43:22city, yes, Obaza, it's my hometown, naturally I also
00:43:26worry about it, about the citizens, you worry about everyone,
00:43:29you still think, like, that everything should be
00:43:32fine for everyone, well, you understand that
00:43:36everyone has a family, everyone has children,
00:44:28such a situation, but we are home here, this is our home, their own home,
00:44:32Denis and his team will defend until the last, as long as
00:44:35they have strength, but if it is twice as much as
00:44:39now, then we...
00:45:13The Master of the Taiga changes his residence, moving from the forest
00:45:16wilderness to cities, we decided to make a risky journey along
00:45:20the Abakan River to find out how the invasion
00:45:23of brown predators affected the tourism business of
00:45:27Siberia.
00:45:3143 km/h on a boat with a headwind at zero
00:45:35feels like -20, the windproof
00:45:38winter uniforms of the Ministry of Emergency Situations save us. and a wool hat over
00:45:42the balaclava,
00:45:45ignoring the icy wind that hits our eyes,
00:45:49we enjoy the views of pristine Siberian
00:45:51nature,
00:45:57the mountains have put on autumn camouflage, the Abakan River
00:46:00has become shallow and more dangerous, foaming rapids
00:46:04hide warts, as they call stones sticking out of the water in these places, which
00:46:07upon... collision can
00:46:11become fatal.
00:46:12грубными.
00:46:17160 km upstream we cover in
00:46:204.5 hours, half the way in complete
00:46:24darkness.
00:46:31A quad bike meets us
00:46:32on the shore.
00:46:38In the hunting lodge, the frozen film crew from Moscow is awaited by
00:46:41the owner of the tourist base and hot tea made from taiga
00:46:44herbs.
00:46:48Alright guys, welcome to the soup.
00:47:52where food is easier to get, there are all sorts of rowanberries, sea buckthorn, there are these
00:47:56fruit trees, they climb
00:47:58there, the master of the taiga, out of hunger, forgot his pride, started
00:48:02behaving like a mongrel, well, it turns out,
00:48:06like they climb
00:48:08closer to populated areas, maybe
00:48:12kill a dog, maybe something else there, rummage in the trash,
00:48:15dig in the trash
00:48:19cans, they already dig like dogs, experience.
00:48:22The hunter says, on an empty stomach a bear will not
00:48:26sleep all winter, here what do they have
00:48:29grass, on grass you won't gain much fat,
00:48:32it's already autumn, they need to eat
00:48:36some fat so that they go into hibernation fed
00:48:40with fat, they
00:48:42cannot do that, emergency news that
00:48:46the browns are coming, for a commercial hunter it's the
00:48:49same news as a change in weather, he...
00:49:53just something came to my mind,
00:49:55everyone has a base, we don't, yes,
00:49:59it's beautiful here, such
00:50:03amazing places, the bare peaks are nearby, everything is like that,
00:50:07the river is so winding, like a snake, it
00:50:10goes like this, well, the places here are beautiful, good,
00:50:14cheerful, rumors about hunting lodges,
00:50:17lost on the picturesque banks of the Abaza, spread like
00:50:21an echo,
00:50:24well, we mostly invest, well, gradually people
00:50:26come, like, there's a little
00:50:30movement, and where do they come from? Well,
00:50:33from different places, from Kemerovo,
00:50:36from Moscow they sometimes come,
00:50:39from all over Russia they gradually come and
00:50:42come.
00:50:46Morning in the pine forest begins with an excursion, tourists
00:50:50are awaited by cedar hunting lodges. two
00:50:52stories high,
00:50:57fire in the stove,
00:51:00Russian banya, and also extreme quad bike rides.
00:51:15Sergey Becker brought us to the base in the protected forests,
00:51:18with whom we met by chance on a hunt. Right there.
00:51:22I just climbed the hill,
00:51:25I see a silhouette, looks like a bear, I looked through the scope,
00:51:28it's a bear, the first shot was accurate to
00:51:32the head, a hunter, entrepreneur, local
00:51:35deputy, who, along with all concerned citizens, went on the warpath
00:51:39with the bear, well, at the moment it's about protecting the city,
00:51:42protecting his children, well, and
00:51:46so it's a hobby, the people's chosen one is preparing a trap
00:51:49for the bear in the form of a legislative initiative. I think,
00:51:53allow hunting it all year
00:51:55for free, that's the best
00:51:58help. The official does not fight the bear with other people's
00:52:01hands, but takes a carbine and goes to protect the city.
00:52:06I think we will conquer this problem together with
00:52:09the state, if they allow us to hunt
00:52:13bears, at least just like with wolves,
00:52:16so that there is regulation for bears. For him,
00:52:20the taiga is not scenery in which a documentary
00:52:24drama with bears unfolds, but a living participant, perhaps even
00:52:27the main character. A real hunter's
00:52:30attitude towards nature is to
00:52:34use it. and exactly as much as you
00:52:38need for
00:52:40life, that is, as a true
00:52:42man, I
00:52:44believe that a man should go and get himself a piece
00:52:48of meat, when the meat runs
00:52:51out, go and get more,
00:52:54naturally at the time when hunting is allowed,
00:52:57to open the season for hunting animals, Sergey is awaited at
00:53:01home by six children, his wife, three children.
00:53:05Dad and
00:53:05Mom.
00:53:09The whole family of Siberians makes pelmeni with maral meat
00:53:13filling. You're going to sculpt now,
00:53:16thank you. Looking at her eldest daughter Velina, the
00:53:20others don't fall behind. Seven-year-old Milana and three-year-old Sasha.
00:53:23As they say, you can't smudge genes
00:53:26with your finger. Fascinated by family history, he drew
00:53:30a tree, going back
00:53:32300 years. So.
00:53:36Ancestors came from Germany, from Lower
00:53:40Saxony,
00:53:44to the Volga, to the city of Engels,
00:53:47Golovolobovka, in forty-one
00:53:51all were exiled to
00:53:54Siberia, to the village
00:53:56Son,
00:53:59from there they moved to Malyye Arbaty, Republic of Khakassia. In
00:54:031766
00:54:14there were no 338
00:54:16people, they were engaged in agriculture,
00:54:20farming, do you consider yourself Russian or
00:54:22German? Of course Russian, for 260 years
00:54:26the family tree of Russian Germans grew roots in Siberian
00:54:30soil, because all my roots are here,
00:54:33my parents. were born here, children
00:54:37were born, I have three children, two daughters and
00:54:40a son, well, and I think
00:54:44they will also stay here, I will pass on all
00:54:47my art, everything I know, hunting,
00:54:50fishing, a hereditary hunter sacredly honors the laws
00:54:54of nature, naturally, and you go hunting with
00:54:58a certain goal, that is, if I have a permit for
00:55:01a male goat over a year old, then
00:55:05I only hunt males,
00:55:09we don't touch females, for real hunters
00:55:11the bear is not an enemy, but a part of nature, the invasion
00:55:15of wild beasts they take seriously, but without panic,
00:55:18like forest fires in summer and floods in spring, my eldest
00:55:22daughter Evelina, has gone with
00:55:24me hunting for bears twice, really? And what were
00:55:28her impressions? Tremendous, twice, well,
00:55:31I really went, well, of course, the bears... we didn't
00:55:35get them, as a good
00:55:38father, I took her a little further away from the bears, well,
00:55:42and we sat in the car, we just needed the effect itself,
00:55:46that while the child wants and strives, you need to do everything they want,
00:55:49so that they love nature and their
00:55:53parents, in these parts a word is dearer than gold,
00:55:56stronger than metal, so Siberians speak little, but from
00:56:00the heart, if they invite tourists, it's not out of formal
00:56:03politeness, of course, we're waiting, because
00:56:06not many people know about our Khakassia, and the nature here
00:56:10is excellent, clean rivers, many
00:56:13lakes, alpine meadows,
00:56:17all berries, herbs, all animals, you can
00:56:21see everything, we
00:56:24have something to see, you don't need to, well, as for me, I haven't been to many places here,
00:56:27why go to Turkey or not
00:56:31Turkey, that is, I feel comfortable here, how to say,
00:56:35where I was born, I like it there. Sergey Medvedev
00:56:38lives in Obaza, he went to the taiga at the tourist base, 160
00:56:41km from the city, to close his maral
00:56:45license, and most importantly - to rest his soul. Well, I periodically come
00:56:48here just, well, with my family, to relax, well,
00:56:52it's a great place, we've known the guys for a long time,
00:56:56now, well, the hunting season for maral and bear
00:56:59has opened, so, well, it's hunting season in Siberia. They say
00:57:03about such people, born with a gun. They have been hunting for as long as they can remember,
00:57:07it's not a livelihood and not a hobby, but part
00:57:09of their character, Siberian character is
00:57:11endurance, perseverance,
00:57:14like resilience to... to
00:57:17all, so to speak, life moments.
00:57:21Sergey is a hereditary Cossack, one of those who
00:57:24conquered Siberia. The bear invasion for him is not an emergency,
00:57:28but another challenge of the endless taiga, which
00:57:31Siberians will certainly cope with. And happiness,
00:57:34it's not far off, it's here, in these mountains.
00:57:38Happiness, it's when everything is peaceful in your soul,
00:57:41happiness, happiness.
00:57:45Are you happy now? At this moment yes.