The video explores Smolensk as a strategic defender city of Russia, talks about its role in repelling invasions and shows how the fortress wall remains a part of everyday life. The sights of the region are also highlighted: lakes, Przewalski's horses, wooden estates and abandoned objects of the Soviet era.
- Duration
- 1 h 1 min
- Start
- Smolensk
- End
- Belarus Border
- Stops
- 3
- Channel author
- Андрей Василисков
Timestamps and places
- — Smolensk (Smolensk and its historical role)
- — Belarus Border (Reasons for rare visits from St. Petersburg)
- — Smolensk: a city of alternative realities
- — Smolensk Fortress Wall
- — Geography and accessibility of Smolensk
- — Route from Moscow and the border with Belarus
- — Moscow-Smolensk train
- — The way from St. Petersburg through the Pskov region
- — Toll roads in the Pskov region
- — Free route through Velikiye Luki
- — Smolensk Lakeland National Park
- — The village of Prizhevalskaya and wooden architecture
- — Nikolay Prizhevalsky and his history
- — Prizhevalsky's estate
- — Prizhewalski's horses
- — Characteristics of wild horses
- — History of the species
- — Distribution in the wild
- — Difference from domestic horses
- — National Park Tickets
- — Lakes and landscape of the Smolensk Lake District
- — Ecological trails
- — Routes through forests and swamps