Although Prime Minister Vladimir Putin did not manage to go on vacation, he got many impressions over the summer.
Although Prime Minister Vladimir Putin did not manage to go on vacation, he got many impressions over the summer. On June 5, Putin visited Losiny National Park (Elk Island) ahead of World Environment Day.
Putin came to the park together with schoolchildren from Moscow. First the guests fed a cow elk named Lusha and later fed the elk calves milk.
On June 17, Putin arrived in Zhukovsky, Moscow Region, to observe the test flight of a Russian fifth-generation fighter.
From the Zhukovsky airfield Putin went to Yaroslavl. The next day he took a look at the production of the Autodiesel engine plant in the city.
On July 24, he arrived at a bike show in the Ukrainian port of Sevastopol, riding a three-wheeled Harley Davidson, or as he called it a "tricked out piece of iron."
The prime minister’s Harley Davidson-Lehman trike was decorated with Russian and Ukrainian flags.
Putin wished a long life in Ukrainian to the bikers and their iron horses.
A week later, on July 30, Putin visited the village of Verkhnyaya Vereya in the Nizhny Novgorod Region. Wildfires destroyed about 1,000 buildings in one week there.
August 4 was another hot day in the prime minister’s schedule. Together with Voronezh Region Governor Aleksei Gordeyev he observed the territories affected by the recent wildfires.
On Tuesday, August 10, the prime minister extinguished forest fires in the Ryazan Region himself. He was a copilot aboard a Be-200 amphibious airplane.
On August 23, Putin went to the Siberian and Far Eastern districts of Russia. After his arrival at the settlement of Tiksi in Yakutia he set off to Samoilovsky Island and visited a Russian-German research expedition Lena 2010. The scientists showed the prime minister how they do research. He also took part in extracting samples of permafrost.
On August 24, the prime minister arrived to the South Kamchatsky Wildlife Reserve which surrounds Kuril Lake, the world's biggest salmon spawning area.
Plenty of fish attract bears to the lake’s shores.
On August 25, the prime minister tagged grey whales with a crossbow in Russia’s Primorye territory. The scientists found grey whales, which are registered in the Red Book, near the Pacific coast of the Kamchatka Peninsula. Together with the specialists Putin set out in search of them.
On August 27, Putin set off down the new highway from Chita to Khabarovsk driving a yellow Lada Kalina Sport car. He decided to see what life was like in the Far Eastern federal district with his own eyes.
On August 30, Putin finished his trip along the Amur Highway. The Lada Kalina Sport car which he drove over 2,000 km will go to the AvtoVAZ museum. Before donating the car, he autographed it. “The car looks like a chicken but it flies like a swallow,” Putin said.
