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The Tbilisi tragedy, 1989.

On April 4, 1989, before the government's house in Tbilisi, a ten-thousand meeting demanded Georgia's withdrawal from the USSR. Among the organizers of the rally were Such bright figures of the Georgian opposition as Zviad Gamsakhurdia, Merab Kostava, Irakli Tsereteli, George Chanturia, Irina Sarishvili.

To stop the speeches in the city were introduced troops.

The confrontation lasted 5 days.

The peak of dramatic situation reached on the night of April 9, when the troops moved to decisive action.

For many protesters, this day was the last.

To investigate the events in Tbilisi, the Joint Commission of the Supreme Soviet of the USSR and the Military Prosecutor's Office was established.

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Newsreel December 1979: the entry of Soviet troops into Afghanistan.

Soviet Afghan soldiers in one of their villages.

Doctor of Physical and Mathematical Sciences Boris Bolotovsky speaks about the negative reaction of Soviet physicists to the proposal to exclude Sakharov A.D. From the Academy of Sciences of the USSR, about Sakharov's scientific work in Gorky, his impressions of his meeting with Sakharov in exile, about Sakharov's support by his colleagues On the institute, the refusal of Soviet physicists to sign a letter condemning Sakharov, about Sakharov's character.

Head of the archive A.D. Sakharova Bella Koval explains the reasons for the absence of the protest of human rights defenders against Sakharov's expulsion, the trip to Gorky and the meeting with Sakharov and Bonner in 1981, and subsequent questioning by her KGB officers.

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"The Cholera Epidemic, 1970".

For many centuries, an easily transmitted and rapidly developing disease has claimed millions of lives.

On the territory of the USSR, cholera was officially defeated in 1938.

All subsequent outbreaks of this terrible disease in the summer of 1942, 1943, 1965 and 1970 were strictly classified.

All employees of the epidemiological service had a second degree of secrecy.

Participants in the fight against the epidemic have given signings of non-disclosure.

The outbreak of cholera in the south of the country at the height of the holiday season in 1970 threatened to absorb virtually the entire territory of the USSR. To fight the epidemic was created The Extraordinary Commission, which included members of the KGB. The troops cordoned off the resort areas, traffic ceased completely, the movement of trains And the planes were extremely limited, only those who had successfully passed the triple observing could leave or fly home.

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Leningrad, February 23, 1991.

At 8 o'clock in the morning on the 7th floor of the hotel "Leningrad" a fire broke out.

At that time the famous French actress Marina Vladi, journalist Ogonyok Mark Grigoriev and several groups of foreign filmmakers lived in the hotel.

After a while after the fire report, almost all the fire brigades of the city were pulled to the hotel.

The main difficulty was that the stairs of the fire trucks did not reach the seventh (actually the tenth) floor, maximum to the fourth.

In addition, the firefighters did not have not only ancillary equipment in sufficient quantities, but even suitable clothing.

People were saved at the cost of incredible efforts and sixteen victims, 9 of which are firefighters.

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Catastrophe on the Haymarket Square in St.

Petersburg, 1999.

June 10, 1999 in St.

Petersburg there was an accident, standing in the same row with the crash in the Minsk metro in the summer of the same year: the canopy of the building of Sennaya Ploshchad metro station collapsed, resulting in the death of 7 people.

Within a month, the State Technical Commission conducted an investigation into the tragedy.

Eyewitnesses and rescuers together talk about how people behaved at the first moment after the collapse, how the wounded were rescued and taken to hospitals.

Technical experts discuss design deficiencies and poor quality of construction in 1962.

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Newsreel: Diesel electric ship "Mikhail Somov", ice-covered in March 1985 in Antarctica, a bonfire on the ice at the side, a kind of part of the ship's cutting house.

Landing of the first Soviet Antarctic expedition in 1955.

The head of the expedition Mikhail Somov speaks to the polar explorers.

Cameraman Kochetkov is filming.

"Mikhail Somov", blocked by ice in the Ross Sea in 1985.

The icebreaker "Vladivostok", going to the aid of "Mikhail Somov", during the storm in July 1985, exhausted crew members.

Pilots of a helicopter detachment of a rescue expedition during the search for "Mikhail Somov."

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Theme of the program - The mysterious epidemic in the village of Oblivska near Rostov in 1999.

The video is an epidemic in the village of Oblivska, doctors and policemen wearing medical masks on their faces.

Residents of the village Skidan Viktor, Sobinin Alexander, Glushkova Nina, nurse Lyubov Popova talk about the events taking place in the village of Oblivska.

Documentary shooting - empty streets of the village, the hospital, the inscription "Quarantine", women with children.

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Theme - Gold of the cruiser Edinburgh 1981.

Newsreel - Murmansk, April 1942, loading of the cruiser Edinburgh, warships on the roadstead.

Anatoly Zlobin talks about how the issue of raising sunken gold in the USSR, negotiations between the USSR and Great Britain was being prepared and raised.

Krymtsev Oleg talks about his work in negotiations with the British side on raising the sunken gold of the cruiser Edinburgh.

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The true story of the gang "Black Cat".

Mass uprising of political prisoners in Norilleg in 1953.