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The avalanche rescue service in Krasnaya Polyana
Rosa Khutor in southern Russia’s Krasnaya Polyana is one of the world’s newest ski resorts and the site of the 2014 Winter Olympics. Skiers and snowboarders from all over come here to carve up the slopes, but wherever there is snow and mountains, there is always the possibility of an avalanche. One of the main responsibilities of any ski resort is to prevent the chances of an uncontrolled avalanche. Nevertheless, there are some times when an avalanche is simply unavoidable, and that’s where Krasnaya Polyana’s avalanche control team comes in.
The Russian women's curling team
Regardless of the fact that the sport of curling is more than six centuries old, Russian athletes believe it to be a 21st-century game. Members of the Russian women’s curling team dream of ruling the sport on a global level, and are making large strides toward achieving this goal. No one can argue with the fact that women are the face of curling in Russia. Ekaterina Galkina, Kira Ezekh, Liudmila Privivkova and Anna Sidorova, the women of the Russian curling team, are a high-spirited, beautiful and determined bunch. They may not look alike, but as science shows, opposites attract and this may be just the thing that feeds the groups strength, success and popularity. Having joined the world’s curling elite, these Russian athletes now stand among the sport’s most favoured and talented curlers.
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The Russian women's curling team
Cossack Lunch in Medvedovskaya Village
Two-hundred years ago Tsarina Catherine II granted the land in southern Russia to the Cossacks. In day to day life, these people were faced with one difficult task – defending the State’s Azov-Black Sea borders. To this very day, the traditions of the Kuban Cossacks are kept in these Krasnodar villages. During his journey around the south of Russia, RTG TV host Stanislav Salnikov learned how to prepare Cossack-style carp, got the recipe for makovnik (a sweet poppy seed cake) and found out what zavivanets is. He then tried all of these dishes in a traditional Cossack house, a structure that helps illustrate perfectly how Cossacks lived on these lands 200 years ago.
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