Текст 1 About Myself

One of the biggest industries the chemical industry as the region has large deposits of gas and oil. According to the latest researches Astrakhan region possesses the fifth world largest oil deposit. The most important national economy branch in the region is shipbuilding and ship maintenance, which meet the needs of fish, gas and oil industries. Astrakhan plants produce cargo-ships, oil platforms and different kind of ship equipment. One of the oldest industries is fish industry. Astrakhan is a large world exporter of black caviar and various kinds of fish. Agriculture is also worth speaking of. Astrakhan is famous for its tomatoes and water-melons exported all over the country.

Astrakhan is a cultural center, too. There are several universities and more than 30 branches of different institutes and universities. In Astrakhan you can find five theatres, several museums presenting local flora and fauna and native traditions, and a picture gallery.

But one of the first that people associate with Astrakhan is lotus, the most beautiful wonder-flower growing in the Volga delta and its lowlands. The delta of the great Russian river Volga is the most northern place of location of lotus in the world. Lotus always attracted people's attention. Some of them admired the beauty of lotus flowers making legends about them. Others decorated their dwellings and altars with lotus. Other people used it like a medicine. It is impossible to describe all the beauty of the fields of blooming lotus. Enormous, about one meter in diameter, round leather-like dark-green with Wax thin coating leaves cover the surface of the water. Delicate fragrance of flowers resembles the smell of almond. Lotus is the relic plant. You can see its pictures on the walls of ancient Egyptian temples. It is a very unusual and mysterious flower. Lotus blooms only three days changing its color from bright pink to absolutely white. Not long ago the fields of lotus were investigated by a scientist, and he came to the conclusion that, leaves of lotus absorb an enormous quantity of cosmic energy. The plant accumulates this energy and returns it to the environment. Lotus fields are the places with the strong positive energy. Just because of this fact it is very healthy to visit lotus fields.