(19 Sep 2025)
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Moscow – 19 September 2025
1. Various of crane carrying a giant pumpkin to scales
2. Pan left of giant pumpkin
3. Tilt from phone filming pumpkin to scales showing weight of pumpkin: "969.0 kg" UPSOUND (Russian): "3, 2, 1"
4. Farmer Alexander Chusov holding banner with the weight of his pumpkin
5. SOUNDBITE (Russian) Alexander Chusov, farmer:
"It’s scientific work. It starts with choosing the right seeds. Seeds for giant pumpkins come from giant pumpkins. They won’t grow from regular seeds. Then it comes to the proper agrotechnology and care throughout the whole process. I had a large greenhouse of 160 square meters (1720 sq ft), soil and air heating, proper watering and nutrition when each ingredient is carefully measured."
6. Crane carrying giant watermelon
7. Various of people putting watermelon on scales
8. Farmer Maskim Lebedev holding banner with the weight of his pumpkin reading (Russian): "Lebedev Maskim 144 kg, 800 gr."
9. SOUNDBITE (Russian) Daria Yermilova, contest organiser:
"It’s like sport. You can say why are you timing your swim when you can just swim for pleasure. Growing vegetables is a true long-term sport where you remain tense for half a year staying constantly in the process."
10. Men carrying courgette
11. Close of courgette, zoom out
12. Various of courgettes and watermelon
13. Mid of giant pumpkins
STORYLINE:
A Russian farmer broke the country’s record of heaviest ever pumpkin, weighing almost one metric ton.
It took more than 6 months for Alexander Chusov, a farmer from the Moscow region, to grow a 969kg (2130lb) pumpkin, breaking his own record for the heaviest pumpkin grown in Russia.
"It’s scientific work," Chusov told The Associated Press.
He explained that he had carefully chosen the seeds for his champion pumpkin, as well as building a special greenhouse with soil and air heating, calibrating with high precision the pumpkin’s nutritional and watering needs.
"It’s like sport," Daria Yermilova, who organised the contest of giant vegetables in Moscow, told the AP.
"Growing vegetables is a true long-term sport where you remain tense for half a year staying constantly in the process," she said.
More than 3,000 people competed in the giant vegetable growing competition – the vegetables grown included a 144kg (317lb) watermelon and a 73kg (160lb) courgette.
The champion vegetables will now be displayed at the Apothecary Garden in Moscow.
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