Sasha, an American with Russian roots, heads beyond the Arctic Circle to Murmansk and the tiny village of Teriberka on the shore of the Barents Sea.
In Murmansk, Sasha is welcomed aboard Lenin, the world’s first nuclear-powered icebreaker, where the turbines are started up right in front of her. At an Arctic food truck, she tries fried cod tongues!
She also tries flounder and the famous Kamchatka crab — a species once introduced to the Barents Sea as an experiment, only to end up taking over the entire Arctic coast!
In the Sámi village of Loparskaya, Sasha meets reindeer herders who have lived alongside these animals for centuries, tastes the meat cooked over coals with lingonberries, and samples…moss?!
At the end — scallops and sea urchins straight from the Barents Sea. You won’t taste anything this fresh in any Moscow restaurant.
Watch and discover what the Arctic really holds: a harsh frontier, or the most welcoming place in Russia?
