Wings 18.01.2005 (2005)

View from the airplane window onto the ice of Antarctica.

The airplane cockpit.

The airplane's shadow on the snowy plain.

View from the airplane window onto the runway.

Ice floes and icebergs in the sea.

Ice floe fields in Antarctica.

Rocks in Antarctica.

A seal on the shore.

The airplane flies over the coastline.

The cabin of the IL-76 airplane, passengers in their seats.

Ruben Yesayan at the controls of the airplane.

View from the airplane window onto the runway.

The landing signalman indicates the direction to the airplane.

A seagull over the sea.

Ice mountains, coastal cliffs.

Portraits: Russian navigators Bellingshausen F. F. and Lazarev M. P. Caption: South Africa, Cape Town.

The city's outskirts, people on the beach, surf.

Aleksey Turchin talks about the duration of the flight to Antarctica.

The camera moves along the airfield runway markings at night.

People on the beach in South Africa.

The presenter talks about sunny weather.

Sea surf.

View from the pilot's cabin of the runway at night, takeoff over the night city.

Photos: Polar explorers Scott Robert and Amundsen Roald.

B/W chronicle: A sailboat off the coast of Antarctica, a team of horses and ponies, Amundsen Roald with the crew on board the ship, an airplane over the rocks, airplane wreckage, a Norwegian tent in Antarctica, people pulling a sled with luggage, expedition members in a tent, a blizzard, snowstorm.

People near the cargo compartment of the IL-76 airplane.

A tracked all-terrain vehicle goes through the snow.

People in the all-terrain vehicle cabin.

View of the road from the all-terrain vehicle cabin.

Arctic station "Novolazarevskaya".

An all-terrain vehicle passes.

The presenter talks about the Arctic station "Novolazarevskaya".

Houses-buildings of the station.

The station staff are taking pictures.

Residential buildings, radio house, mess hall, all-terrain vehicle park, power building, direction sign with city names.

The presenter talks about the glacier and the ocean.

View of the glacier.

Melting ice.

The presenter tastes water from a glacial lake.

Airplane wing with the word USSR inscribed.

Airplane in the porthole.

Airplane engine propellers.

AN-12 airplane in the air.

IL-18 airplane landing in Antarctica.

Unloading of IL-18 airplane, people and near the airplane.

IL-18 in the air.

Panorama of rocks and snowy plain, wind indicator on the mast.

AN-2 airplane on skis.

Loading cargo onto the airplane.

An all-terrain vehicle tractor passes by.

Men load boxes.

Pilot Nikolai Iapnovich Petrov prepares AN-2 airplane for flight.

AN-2 airplane propeller.

Members of the Norwegian expedition descend the gangway.

A snowmobile pulls a sled with cargo and people.

Men move a metal barrel into an AN-2 airplane.

The AN-2 airplane’s cockpit.

The AN-2 airplane accelerates and takes off.

View of clouds and mountains from the AN-2 airplane’s cockpit.

Antarctica mountains under the wing.

The Dornier 228 airplane.

View of the AN-2 airplane’s wing through the window.

Ruben Yesayan talks about his first impressions of Antarctica.

Ruben Yesayan at the airplane’s controls.

The IL-76 airplane’s crew: V.N. Rogushkin, Evgeny Pushkov.

Ruben Yesayan talks about the AN-2 airplane.

The steering wheel and instruments in the AN-2 airplane’s cockpit.

A seagull over the shore.

A seal lies on the shore.

A baby seal on the shore.

Penguins on the shore.

Viktor Venderovich talks about his work at the station.

A tracked all-terrain vehicle moves through the snow.

The Russian flag flutters in the wind.

View of the building and sign with directions of the Novolazarevskaya station.

Direction sign with city names.

Viktor Venderovich talks about scientific work at the station.

Chronicle: Icebreaker, USSR flag, aerial photography of the station buildings, IL-14 aircraft, bird's eye view of the station.

Viktor Venderovich talks about the operation of equipment at the station.

Panorama of the station infrastructure.

View of the road from the side of the all-terrain vehicle.

The station kitchen, cook Dmitry Ivanovich prepares food.

The station radio house, Aleksey Alekseevich - radio operator.

The station antenna field.

Stationary shortwave radio station.

Flags of the world on the station mess hall building.

Men playing billiards, backgammon.

People in the station canteen.

Cook at the stove.

Man washing dishes.

The presenter talks about drinking water from the tap.

Balayev Yury Sergeevich - station meteorologist, shows his vegetable garden.

Cucumbers and tomatoes are grown on the windowsill.

Weather station instruments.

Power plant of the Novolazarevskaya station.

Diesel engineers - power engineers monitor the operation of diesel units.

Igor Shilnikov talks about his father Vasily Shilnikov, the pilot of the IL-14 aircraft, sends greetings to his father.

Yuri Gavrilov, an employee of the station, sends greetings to his relatives.

Landing of the IL-76 aircraft in Antarctica.

View from the aircraft window onto the runway.

The IL-76 aircraft is taxiing.

The IL-76 aircraft accelerates and takes off.

Ruben Yesayan talks about the AN-32 aircraft.

View of the AN-2 aircraft propeller through the porthole.

The pilot in the aircraft cockpit.

The navigator looks at the GPS device.

The shadow of the aircraft on the snow.

Sergey Belyakov throws out a smoke bomb for orientation.

Landing of the aircraft on an unprepared site.

A snowmobile pulls a sled with cargo.

The AN-2 aircraft is parked.

A snowmobile pulls a sled with cargo.

A snowmobile approaches an IL-76 aircraft.