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The northwest of the Novgorod region is wild forests and endless swamps. Many have only caught a glimpse of them, rushing from St. Petersburg to Moscow on a high-speed train or along the highway connecting the two largest Russian cities. But few know that it was in these dense forests that heat was extracted until recently for residential buildings and businesses in St. Petersburg, extracting millions of tons of peat from local swamps over the course of decades. Peat was delivered from impenetrable thickets in small cars of the local narrow-gauge railway, of which only one short branch remains today. It is about to be cut up for scrap metal if the last enthusiasts fail to defend it. The film was made by the OstWest TV channel ****************** The opinions of the authors and heroes of the programs may not coincide with the opinion of the editors.