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Snail Farm in Primorsko-Akhtarsk
They were used in food in Ancient Rome, there's more protein in them than in a chicken egg and they are a big problem gardeners. These are HELIX ASPERSA MAXIMA, or garden snails, and they are cultivated on one farm in southern Russia. These mollusks don't like high temperatures and prefer to spend most of the day in the shade, which the farmers themselves have created for them. Gastropods in general tend to be more active at night; therefore the farmers feed them closer to the evening. RTG TV host Denis Golovko found out what grape snails eat, how they reproduce and how fast grown gastropods can move.
Patchwork embroidery in Yuryevets
The city of Yuravets on the Upper Volga is almost 800 years old. People in the area have always cultivated flax and local seamstresses were known all over for their skills. In the 21st century seamstresses don’t weave, but make multi-coloured patchwork quilts from scraps of material. Although quilting is a craft done all over the world, different peoples began doing it at different points in time and for varying reasons. In Russia, for example, there is manual of rules, advice and instructions from the 16th century called “Domostroy,” which includes detailed descriptions of different cuts of dresses, how to best sort and save scraps of fabric and how to repair ready-made clothing. In the 20th century, patchwork became a kind of art – it served as a type of welcome for avant-garde and futuristic artists and has nowadays become a popular hobby.
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Patchwork embroidery in Yuryevets
Master welder Yekaterina Shtayunda
Metalwork is not a job for the weak. Men armed with arc welders fight against millions of atoms of iron, aluminium and brass, forcing them into submission, transforming separate pieces into one homogeneous whole that is fused and forever bound together. This is the everyday task of a welder. It is not an easy profession and is predominantly male, however, as history has shown many times before, there will always be a woman brave enough to take on such a task and not just hang with the boys, but do their job better than them. Katya Shtayunda is one such girl and currently holds the highest-skilled position a welder can reach.
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