today's episode is packed with rusher facts we will taste some russian food try to spot a siberian yeti discover why big macs in russia became worldwide political news and we'll even take a trip into space will you get any of the questions right in the quiz at the end get comfortable and watch closely because it's time for professor propellers trip to russia let's fly [Music] russia the biggest country in the world look at it it's huge our world is made up of the sea and seven areas of land call
ed continents russia is so big that it crosses over two continents europe and asia can you believe that russia is bigger than the whole of the planet pluto russia has all kinds of geographical features snowy mountains huge forests wide winding rivers like the river vulgar busy cities like saint petersburg and incredible buildings like saint basil's cathedral even the biggest fresh water lake in the world is in russia lake baikal [Music] i have landed in moscow which is the big capital city of ru
ssia this place behind me is called the kremlin there are some special treasures kept at the kremlin including some faberge eggs these are model eggs covered in jewels made by a man called peter carl faberge and his expert team they are very rare and expensive just in case anybody tries to steal them they're locked away safely in the armory here but surely nobody would ever be silly enough to try and steal these faberge eggs faberge eggs you say now there's an omelet i'd love to eat i guess i'll
have to fly to the kremlin in moscow it looks like steven the evil jewel thief is off to steal the faberge eggs will the professor be able to stop him stay tuned [Music] [Applause] [Music] expert chef russia edition today the expert chef judge will taste a special russian delicacy one of the most expensive foods in the world caviar caviar is fish eggs the eggs come from a large fish called a sturgeon today it is being served on bellinis these are traditional mini russian pancakes what will the
expert chef judge think [Music] it's very salty next time the expert chef judge will try borsch a very traditional russian soup made from beetroot oh yes that's scrummy oh nice now let's take a look at some of the animals that live in russia [Music] i wildlife russia has vast varied and naturally rich land so it provides the perfect home for all kinds of animals some friendly some dangerous and some very rare you can find whales and walruses in the sea on land you can spot walls as well as persi
an leopards brown bears and even polar bears russia is home to around four million reindeer and also climbing in the trees you could get lucky and see this adorable little creature called a sable in siberia in russia lives the largest species of cat in the world the siberian tiger this beautiful animal can grow to three meters long some people in russia believe a very unique animal lives in the caves of siberia the yeti this beast is supposed to be half ape and half man no one knows for sure if
yetis are real some people claim to have seen them but i think these people are telling fibs there's no such thing as a yeti [Music] joke time knock knock i see i see a yeti coming towards me quick open up let me in [Music] why are you laughing meanwhile at the kremlin armory steamer had arrived and was sneaking about [Music] grabbed some faberge eggs [Applause] and flew back to hide out in siberia will professor propeller be able to save the day keep watching to find out now it's time to learn
about some russian inventions but first let's sit and watch an advert together [Music] [Applause] ingenious inventions russia and the ussr has proven time and time again to be pioneers and innovators in so many ways from trains to space flight from wooden toys to computer games the longest train line in the world runs across russia it is called the trans-siberian railway it stretches almost all the way across the country to travel from one end to the other takes nearly a whole week a week there
are some lovely traditional russian toys like these russian dolls called matrushka dolls these beautiful wooden toys have a surprise inside them another little doll then inside that another little doll then inside that another little doll then inside that another little doll if you prefer computers to dolls then you might be interested to know that one of the most successful video games ever was created by a soviet man called alexi pagitnov tetris it had a great theme tuned you can hear it now i
t's based on a russian traditional song called carabiniki to play tetris different shape blocks would fall down and he had to try and stack them into lines one of the most significant scientific achievements from this part of the world is that during communist times the ussr was the first country to put a human in space that's right the first man in space was russian see i promised you a trip to space i forgot my space helmet oh yuri gagarin was the world's first cosmonaut a cosmonaut is a russi
an or soviet version of an astronaut it was on the 12th of april 1961 he did one orbit of the earth which took him 108 minutes and then you see excuse me i must just check that oh dear some breaking news [Music] we interrupt the scheduled programming to bring you this breaking news someone has stolen some faberge eggs from the kremlin in moscow police do not know who but they're keeping a lookout for a man in that'll be goggles right i'd better go get those faberge eggs back but how we will brin
g you more of this breaking story as soon as we can but now for the weather with paula may i say how beautiful you're looking today paula [Music] oh hello what i i said you're looking very beautiful today um okay hello to you at home russia is huge so the weather can vary lots depending on where you are in the country they get most types of weather here at some time of the year the majority of russia has long cold winters and short summers a place called oymyakon in siberia in russia is the cold
est place on earth that you can live it gets so cold here that there's a phenomena called whisper of the stars this is a little sound you can hear which is made by the hot breath leaving your body and instantly freezing turning into little icicles because the air around it is so cold now over to mick donovan for sports thank you paula i love your new shoes by the way oh thank you mick how sweet of you to notice they bring out the color of your beautiful eyes come and have a chat in my dressing r
oom after the show if you want i look forward to it russian sports fans let's do this the most popular sports in russia are football also known as soccer volleyball and the incredible ice hockey what an incredible game huh so russia always do fantastic in the olympics every time they win loads of medals and some of the greatest sports stars in the entire world were born in russia an amazing place for sports let's watch some more anyway over to you david thanks mick have i ever told you that i th
ink you're a complete and utas hey hey hey welcome that's right tonight's questions are all about russia russia okay question one what is the capital city of russia moscow is the capital of russia that's right professor one point yay i was just about to say that it was just literally question two is russia [Music] a the smallest country in the world b the largest country in the world or c type of hamburger hamburger moscow uh no derek that was the answer to the last question professor would you
like to have a go b russia is the largest country in the world the largest country in the world another point come on now for the star prize the final question quiet please what type of eggs are caviar i don't know okay derek don't don't press it unless you know professor a yeti fancy dress costume it's modeled here by the multi-talented paulo wow this gives me an idea i know just what to do with that yeti costume congratulations professor propeller we'll be back after this short break [Applause
] [Music] olden days with why the fly for nearly 400 years russia was ruled by sars what is this is like having a king or an emperor this ended in 1917 and just a few years later russia joined up with 11 other countries to make one giant land called the soviet union or ussr initially led by vladimir lenin the ussr wanted to be a communist country what is a communist country right kids buckle up and listen carefully because you are about to get your first lesson in politics most of the world's co
untries today are what is called capitalist this means anyone can start a business and make as much money as they want this sounds great well unfortunately it allows some people to get greedy and take too much so other people end up poor without any money the ussr was different it wanted to be a communist country communists believe people should share everything more fairly between them so no rich people and no poor people everyone would be the same this sounds great as well but to make sure eve
ryone had a job and money the ussr had to keep close control on everything they owned all the businesses most people lived in very similar homes you couldn't really go on holiday to other countries and they didn't allow other countries to go and sell things in the ussr but despite all these controls on businesses in foreign countries in 1990 an american restaurant chain was allowed to open up you might have heard of this restaurant in 1988 the ussr gave permission to mcdonald's to open up a rest
aurant in moscow this unusual step of the ussr allowing a big capitalist foreign restaurant to open up was seen by many across the world as a sign of change soon after this the ussr broke up and russia went back to being a single country once again with more freedoms and a chance for people to become rich again but unfortunately this meant lots of people became very poor so it can be argued that big macs played an important role in the breakup of the communist state on the ussr we'll be back wit
h more after these short adverts [Music] home sweet home [Music] what's that noise [Music] it's only me i'd better get these faberge eggs back to the kremlin in moscow but i'll see you on another invention very soon [Music] you
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