Russia with Simon Reeve - Season 1
Season 1
Episodes
Episode 1
On the first leg of his journey Simon travels across Russia's far east, from the rugged snow covered mountains of Kamchatka to Yakutia, the coldest inhabited region in the world.
Episode 2
Simon Reeve's spectacular journey through Russia with a host of extraordinary characters continues. In this second leg, Simon begins in south-east Siberia and it takes him to Russia's far south west and the majestic Caucasus Mountains.
Simon's first stop is Lake Baikal, the oldest and deepest lake on earth, and the nearby city of Irkutsk where he witnesses the emotional outpouring of Russia's annual commemoration of World War Two.
Episode 3
The third and final leg of Simon's Russian journey takes him from the illegally annexed peninsula of Crimea to the historic Baltic city of St Petersburg.
Travelling across Russia's vast western plains Simon discovers depopulated villages and a rural community clinging on to existence and feeling abandoned by central government; at a small cottage hospital he meets an inspiring doctor trying to protect his clinic from closure. Arriving in Moscow he meets a victim of Russia's strict laws around protests, who was arrested for protesting against her flat being demolished.
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