A symbol of a return to our historical roots and that the future of belarus will be built on this very powerful solid, but Historical Foundation of our state. Exclusive living rooms of belarus with a long history of the defense valley, we can become younger orthodox architecture and near this period jasu round polite characteristic formation of economical centers of ukraine and live increasingly inflated people. Some place glasses. They were significant. Uh, lunges, rings, the race is almost far away. Walked their meaning. This was the assembled revolution of the chagunka. Changed it. Cultural project, architecture of belarus and intercourse during the soviet period. As if in soul, what is this on our tv channel. Belarus is not obsessive foxes , blockaded rivers and lakes, necrotic nature from how can maxim not be torn from his neck . And belarus is people. We open them for you. We bring traditions to peace and at the same time change our views on sound. And robinga is the light of the yakmahal. Belarusians are so formidable ali their poison one love of the peoples earth belarus 20 hello on the air program say, dont be silent in the studio victoria popova and svetlana smolonskaya. And today our guest is the director of the berezinsky biosphere reserve. Andrey prokoshin. Good afternoon. Hello andrey mikhailovich, im very glad that you came to us. Now they are making a track, finally the longawaited one. Yes, vitebsk , minsk, uh, and how did you get there . Tell us what you saw is good, they are already doing it there. Well , of course, we are waiting for repairs. Not only from the point of view that we will have a good , smooth road, but this repair involves a number of special structures throughout the reserve, which will be aimed at preserving the lives of animals that, by their nature, migrate across the highway. Today we have some minimal structures there, and for the design, as far as i know, there are several ecospirits. A special crossing for animals on the territory of berezinsky right on the territory of berezinsky right. Russia m3, so to speak, probably the three main areas of activity are science. These are ecotourism and Green Tourism. Which of these activities . Ecotourism and Green Tourism bring you the greatest moral satisfaction. Eh, i ll make this remark right away. Uh, in accordance with the law on tourism, in general, if we classify tourism. As a type of activity, all types of tourism that are carried out in the territory, specially protected natural areas are ecological tourism and fall into this category, no matter what we do , it will be business tourism, like astronomical any other its all ecotourism, because, well, we are a specially protected natural territory and plot. Our main activity is eco education and so on. Everything else is some kind of adjectives. Well, in accordance with our charter and our institution, of course. Science is a priority area of activity for the institution. Heres the way to implement this scientific activity. We have such a serious Scientific Department with serious personnel potential. We have two candidates of sciences in it and they are solving the problems that the state has set for us today in close collaboration with embiosis with various institutes and institutions of the academy of sciences of belarus Andrei Mikhailovich but we talked before the recording, and i suggested, thats your job. Your position is a dream job, but you categorically disagreed. Why i didnt quite categorically disagree, but here dream job my grandfather worked as a carpenter and worked at his job until he was almost 90 years old. And we liked him so much. Eh, in particular, for me to come to work at this carpentry shop, this place was called. So, every day he came there at 9 00, at 6 00 he left for lunch, the smell of shavings, and he calmly made some products there, and so it was like the sunrise and sunset. Its like this all the time. He went there all his life. This is the job. Dreams, and my work is such a dynamic tangle of events. This is the second time. This is working with people, working with people is always, but she is so uh with increased danger and harmfulness, yes, just like i am a director administrator, but uh on the other hand. I graduated from the Belarusian Technological University named after kirov in 1993 and got a degree in engineering. And since that very time i have never changed my specialty. And now ive been working for 30 years. Afterwards, there are specialties. And that means im happy with the choice and my choice is right, right, right, which means that its basically the same for you as it was for your grandfather. Lets talk about yours already the wellpromoted festival in shlyakh smoka and watch a short story from our colleagues, belarusian myths and legends. They lived right before our eyes. One of the most mysterious and exciting holidays , the third, takes place here. Folk festival of slavic mythology in shlyakh smoka, the belarusian dragon was able to headline the festival according to legend, lives in a reservoir, but on occasion can also die with fire , and yet the belarusian dragon is a goodnatured and very fair creature. He could give treasures to the kind poor and deprive the unjust rich of their fortune. U with a wellfed body like a seal, with a neat, graceful head and tail, this sweet and goodnatured creature lives in lake lepel. And in 2013 , a sculpture was installed in the city on which that same belarusian dragon could. Well, heres how we managed to make this festival happen in such a short period of time. Eh, the nobleman promoted by such, lets say, well, with his exchange chip. Uh, why did tourists come to you and, moreover, we know that there are minsk residents who specially go there at night to go on an interactive excursion for this holiday. This some kind of magic. Well, magic may be present, because , of course, the festival is mythological, and myths are associated with magic, associated with a fairy tale associated with some kind of magic and with what we believe in, what we can be, something we would like for it to happen, but it didnt happen. Therefore, we give some kind of justification for this, so maybe magic is present, but the main reasons, as they say, are the success of this festival. The first is the friendly , coordinated work of the creative team. This time. Second this is, well, a new topic, not hackneyed. The theme of mythology is a theme that can be interpreted in different ways, and it can be presented to people from an interesting side. It can be served either way, and it is directly intertwined with nature. Eh, this is what our ancestors believed in the middle ages. What did they worship . There are many legends and stories and fairy tales that are very emotional and you can play with it. This can be shown here somehow. And, of course, the fact that the reserve, where today still remains a mythological character only in the reserve. Only there this is why god himself sat down for us to promote this topic. Here are your answers, and i was fascinated by everything. Here is the very idea of what can be done, of course, if we talk about selfdeeds, it was actually born in the diploma project of our employee, who came to us as young specialists. Name is lizaveta. Yes, she worked. Weve had it for several years now. They dont work. So alexey and lisa came to us , they became a family chita, they worked for several years and the topic of lisas graduation project was mythological tourism, a topic we read, looked at, the idea pushed us, and we began to actively work in Different Directions with this topic. Well, magic, what can you say . I was born curious that you have to compete as an administrator. Yes with private business. There is such a thing that ecological trails are offered not only to you, but today there is competition in the country to some extent, of course, there is mostly competition. We have this series, for example, Hotel Accommodation facilities comfort kitchen, that is, what is generally accepted and offered to many, but the tourist product itself is a journey to nature, which only we do, our unique trails, our kayaking trip, you can have different categories of difficulty , even more than 100 km. And not a single settlement. We have no competition. Here, in fact, the only competition is the professionalism of our guides , who must lead the excursion with such interest so that people get carried away by it, so that they walk along the forest path and there is no art , it is impossible to set up and make fires. Go swimming and swimming in a tent on the territory of the reserve. It seemed to me that all this is prohibited there and now uhhuh, but i saw a campsite in shlyakh. That is, these are not tent cities, which are in a specially designated place, not in a reserve, it is absolutely legitimate, but on the territory of a reserve. Indeed, the most stringent regime for the protection of natural territories is our reserve; if, as i often say, all of our specially protected natural territories are placed in the form of a pyramid in terms of safety by security, then at the top of the pyramid is the berezinsky biosphere reserve. Ill stand a little Lower National parks, then nature reserves of various significance, and so on. If i start this interactive excursion with you, i want to come to the festival, where i can stay in a hotel. You can stay in a house. Can you stay at the campground, can you stay . I see. That is , the housing issue has already been resolved. But if you want to visit us in 2024, you can already start booking hotels because they are booking up a long, long time ago. Yeah, thats exactly what this festival means here, that with my tent i dont i cant come there, i cant in that place, which is reserved for forest paths, not only for people. Yes, as you write on your website , camera traps, we looked at recording a variety of beautiful beauties, and there are five, oh, which they often say, bears and wolves and lynxes and bison and moose. Naturally. This is the largest mammal. Yes , the questions we have today concern the bears this year on vit , its not the same; summer residents have more than once recorded a family in dangerous proximity. Bear this is a mother and her children. They were coming right up. It was very, very close that it was possible that there were more of them, there were more bears. Yes, and this is the result. E the work of many e, specialists from various industries and again the economy and scientists who developed a whole range of measures for the conservation and e. Mmm, the establishment of a sustainable number of brown bears in belarus, and we also played a major role in this matter, because the largest bear population in belarus is in the berzinsky nature reserve and somewhere else, maybe 15 years ago. Uh, it was believed that there would be a third bear population in belarus living specifically in the berezinsky nature reserve, generally individualists, and it has, uh, a territorial division. Yes . That is, they cannot live very densely on one unit of area. They inevitably disperse and squeeze each other out. This is why settlement is taking place throughout the entire territory. Today, in the southern regions of belarus, too, bears are observed. Not in large numbers yet. They appear there sporadically somewhere in transit somewhere, but nevertheless. The bear becomes more stable. Uh, well, dangerous is it true or not . At the moment, for example, in our area, where we will introduce surveillance over the whole of belarus, i say. I wont, i dont have this information, but with our maximum density, we havent had a single case of conflict between a person and a bear in the entire history of observations; there have not been any slight pranks of a bear recorded. If there, and someone takes the apiary somewhere into the forest and puts it in the forest, then he can come and try the mark there, but it is an attack on a person. God forbid another injury nothing like that happens. Medvedev has a very, well, highly developed instinct of fear of combat not in front of a person. He always tries to avoid contacts unless the person himself, of course, provokes this meeting and attracts the bear with some of his illconsidered actions. But this is a good sign for the nature of belarus that the bear is getting bigger. How to count, of course . Yes , of course, a good sign. This is normal. The bear is the indigenous species of these territories, if it is returning or has already returned this word. This is good for scientists. Well then it is said that during all these contacts, as you already said during the contacts between bears and humans, not a single bear was harmed, but a little higher. We have already talked about competition between private owners. Lets also talk about partnerships in the media in due course. We were just talking about interaction and partnership between the state and private individuals, have you had successful experience in interacting with uh investors, often investors are one topic and interaction with private business is another topic. This is how i would differentiate it. We are very actively cooperating with tourist, for example, organizations of various forms of ownership and state and private and with pleasure, and we provide Tourism Services to groups that bring us, uh, completely different travel companies from belarus and russia, both private and state and industry, so here is an example of cooperation. This feeling is, uh, investing private companies in our some kind of production cycle, or tourism, well, we havent had such cases, we only cooperate, well, in the service sector, we find in this a mutually beneficial component of the desire for an investor to come and help you build something. Well, of course, why not we opened it if ours are the founders of the president ial administration. They lead in the policy of Investment Management and make the right decisions when needed, one mikhailovich is certainly a participant in holidays and festivals and his beloved children. Bolotnik does everything, possible and impossible, to ensure that the treat is in a good mood, and you called your guide viktor ditch. Yes, the pearl of the team, if he has followers among young tour guides. I want to tell you my opinion. I am convinced of its correctness, in general, in any business and in any direction there must be followers and replenishment of young personnel. This also applies to science, we have young employees who today breathe in the back of the head of the master and naturally. Eat. Uh, we have , uh, in the field of tourism, there are decent employees who, well, can replace karagenadievich, even in the guise of a swamp. And of course, when we have uh, well, about 20 groups there a day, and someday, even more with the swamp, this person may become physically tired and we can replace him, or the person may also hit on vacation. He might get sick. God forbid anything else happens. And children, we are somehow our brand swamper, so there must be someone else, but viktor gennadievich, of course, he is the author of this image, he breathed the soul into it and for the audience to say, he has already communicated with the press before. He ruined himself with ours. Yes in this manner with our previous institution. He is our brand, he is registered with us, as a brand reserve this is exactly the image of victor gennadievich. Lets just listen. What did viktor gennadievich himself say, why did he leave the city . Why is he now on a reserve, how does he formulate his mission . More and more belarusians are discovering that there is a reserve, and those who have already become hooked have fallen into what is called psychological addiction. Sorry , they come several times, but in tourism, when a tourist comes not once, but two or three times, this is an indicator. We are trying our best to create a new project for our guests and come here to experience nature. Heres to relaxation. Well, he looks at the soulful one and wants to go already. Well, of course, he is a sincere person and treats his work with all his heart, thats why he is successful and we love Andrei Mikhailovich , you can list them, and we named the most ones shlyakh smog. What other proven tours do you have . You know quite a lot and they are all presented practically on our website. But if we single out such particularly successful and already traditional ones. For example, we have a veles tour at night, this is also a theme related to mythology. So it is also connected with the night excursion with gatherings around bonfires along a mythological trail with legends and animation. Eh, our tour is interesting. Eh, for example, the traditional thaw tour, dedicated to the eighth of march, is an interesting tour for us. Uh, lovers hearts dedicated to the example of february 14th. Good night Merry Christmas yes on your website, but it was just interesting here are the numbers that attract our tourists most and the kupala dream attracts and christmas candles are always a full house and uh hearts of love attract and veles night they, well, for the capacity that we are planning they work. We literally had a few tours that we tried to do, but there was some kind of rock hanging over them, and they didnt work out. For example, we had a very interesting idea, and the turkamo is also traveling from kamaz this is an ancient slavic holiday dedicated to awakening. The bear celebrated the awakening of the bear and it is believed that this tradition was born in begoml. Eh, not far from us this is such an interesting ritual event to wake up the bear. We cooked it three times. We tried to trick him, but he was unable to do so. By for some reason or other. Tell us why our president voiced this. No need to wake up the bear, thats the whole point. Let us therefore understand that there is something here somewhere and they stopped these attempts. Lets take a break while i remind you for a moment, we have a telegram channel. Tell me, dont be silent. Subscribe, ask questions and suggest guests. We are in touch and our guest is the director of the berezinsky biosphere reserve. Andrey prokoshin wanted to. Andrey mikhailovich show the Scientific Department. Yours too, we found this photo on the site today, like you, there were two candidates talking, and only 16, so far i personally know the person. Igor bashneva. He has been collaborating with all the writing media for a very long time. He described all his observations. He is also an assistant professor. Uh, and uh, i recently found a film online that hes probably making for the anniversary of the berezinsky nature reserve this is the trailer for this film. Eh, he lives in your swamps and continues his observations. Maybe there are some impressive recent discoveries that you would like to tell us about. I would say a little about the constitution. Hes been uh for years, probably more ten nature reserves are closed. He lives on his territory here, he is our partner very much. He is so good and defended his ph. D. Th