Russian Travel Guide

Tour of Yeysk

Yeysk is the most northern town in the Krasnodar Krai, with the widest street in the world. This city, on the shores of the Sea of Azov, is a real monument under the open sky – here, even the stones on the bridge have a history behind them. Host Stanislav Salnikov goes on an excursion into the history of Yeysk and introduces viewers to this dozy seaside town.

Father Yevgeny — mission to the edge of the Earth

Some might dismiss the four rocky islands in the northern Pacific Ocean known as the Commander Archipelago to be a far-off land forgotten by God himself. They would be quite mistaken. There the joyful sound of church bells ringing carries on for miles and the onion dome of Russia's most eastern Orthodox church shines. On one of these islands, the country's first prayer of the day is led by a young priest by the name of Evgeniy Tsukalo, a graduate of the Moscow Seminary who chose the remote island on the edge of the country as his first place of service. Being new to the island is no easy feat — it's difficult to adapt to living in such a natural environment and to such isolation. This is a perfect place for a church as living under such conditions seems impossible without faith. Father Evgeniy was given a difficult mission: Not to simply adapt to island life, but to change it — to teac...

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