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

At a diamond mine in Russia's frozen north, Guy drives one of the world's biggest dumper trucks. He also drives a Dakar Rally truck, visits the Kalashnikov factory and heads east into Siberia.

Guy leaves Russia and visits Chernobyl in Ukraine, where he explores the legacy of the biggest ever nuclear disaster, and the engineering solutions designed to make the area safe.