Our Guy in Russia

In Moscow, Guy rides with Vladimir Putin's biker gang, persuades a mysterious man to let him drive his Zil limousine through Red Square, and performs an aerobatic display in a Soviet air force jet.

Guy Martin continues his 10,000-mile adventure around Russia, setting off from Archangelsk, a remote city in the north that is home to Europe's only diamond mine. He then visits the home of Russia's biggest automotive manufacturer Kamaz and drives one of their famous Dakar Rally-winning trucks, before heading to a Kalashnikov factory to see how the AK47 machine gun is made. He ends his journey on the shores of Lake Baikal, taking part in a shamanic ceremony held by indigenous tribe the Buryats.

Guy Martin leaves Russia for the site of the 1986 Chernobyl disaster in Ukraine to explore the record-breaking engineering solutions designed to make the area safe. After receiving specialist training about how to avoid contamination, he is allowed into the most radioactive place on earth, a restricted exclusion zone of 1,000 sq miles. He heads straight for the breached reactor, which is now entombed within a 36,000-ton shelter, and climbs to the top of the structure to carry out a radiation survey.