Hot Arctic (1978)

Arctic landscapes, views of the icy desert.

Landscape of the Yamal Peninsula, a moving tracked snowmobile.

Gas production at Cape Kharasavey on the Yamal Peninsula, drillers at work.

Faces of gas workers.

Views of drilling rigs, the process of drilling wells.

View of one of the drilling rigs at a gas field (top).

Gas flares bursting out of the ground.

The nuclear-powered icebreaker Arktika clears a path through the ice for a caravan of cargo ships traveling along the Kara Sea to Yamal, a view of the bow of the icebreaker breaking the ice (top).

Inside view of the captain's bridge.

Panorama of the ice, a fleeing polar bear (top).

View of the bow of the icebreaker (top).

Breaking ice overboard the icebreaker.

A polar bear fleeing across the ice (top).

The route of the cargo caravan Murmansk-Yamal (animation).

View of a section of the deck superstructure of one of the vessels.

Captain of the icebreaker "Arktika" Kuchiev Yu.S. speaks about the arrival time in Yamal, about the natural conditions affecting the navigation of vessels in the ice (synchronously).

Ice floes overboard the icebreaker.

An old map of the Arctic coast.

Waves running onto the shore, coastal Arctic landscapes.

Portrait of M.V. Lomonosov.

Engraving depicting a sailing vessel.

Newsreel from the 1930s: ships in the Arctic seas.

The bow of the icebreaker.

View of a convoy of ships moving through the ice.

Polar explorers conduct research of the area and topographic referencing.

Polar explorers unload equipment for a research station from lifeboats.

Construction of housing in the Arctic.

Schmidt O.Yu. gets off the plane after landing on an ice floe on June 6, 1937. Schmidt and expedition members near the plane.

Icebreaker captains on the bridges.

A convoy of ships moves through the ice.

The icebreaker Arktika makes a way through the ice of the Kara Sea, views of the bow of the icebreaker (top).

The handle of the engine telegraph is turned.

The icebreaker moves through the ice.

The trace of the bow of the icebreaker after leaving the ice and during the run and impact with the ice floe (top).

The faces of the icebreaker officers.

View of the bow of the icebreaker (top).

The icebreaker makes a way through the ice.

View of the convoy of ships following the icebreaker.

Newsreel from 1934: the steamship Chelyuskin, squeezed by ice, crew members break the ice with crowbars.

An attempt to blow up the ice near the side of the Chelyuskin.

Crew members try to break the ice with crowbars near the side of the steamship.

The steamship Chelyuskin, squeezed in the ice and covered with snow (panorama).

Ships squeezed in the ice of the Arctic.

The shadow of a moving icebreaker on the ice.

Breaking ice floes outside the icebreaker (top).

Officers and specialists of the icebreaker "Arktika" on duty.

Interior views of the engine room, interspersed with newsreel footage of stokers from the era of steamships.

Mechanics of the icebreaker "Arktika" conduct dosimetric radiation monitoring of the power plant.

Flowers and a tomato bush in the rest room.

Interiors of the rest room and canteen.

One of the gangways inside the vessel (top).

Ropaks on the ice outside the icebreaker.

Crew members resting, swimming in the pool, playing volleyball.

Interior view of part of the captain's bridge.

Ships of the convoy, squeezed by ice.

Kuchiye gives commands to the captains of the convoy ships, the icebreaker "Murmansk" reverses during chipping of the ice around the stuck vessel.

An onboard helicopter flies away to reconnoiter the ice situation.

Helicopter cabin.

Panorama of the ice (top).

Pilots in the helicopter cockpit.

Kuchiev maintains radio contact with the helicopter.

The helicopter navigator makes notes on the map.

View of the ice field from the captain's bridge.

The ice escort plane flies over the vessel's masts.

The ice escort captain transmits information while on board the plane.

Kuchiev on the captain's bridge.

One of the plane's propellers is rotating.

The ice escort plane's navigator plots the convoy's course.

Panorama of the ice field (top).

Equipment of the space communications station.

The communications station staff at work.

Specialists at work ensuring the convoy's passage.

Printing out data in the computing center.

Members of the naval operations headquarters discuss matters relating to plotting a course to Yamal and reviewing aerial photographs.

Compiling synoptic and ice charts.

Handing over the charts to the icebreaker captains.

The icebreaker navigator and Captain Kuchiev study the chart received from headquarters.

View of part of the icebreaker (top).

Ice overboard the icebreaker, ships following a path laid in the ice.

Sunset over the Arctic ice.

View of part of the deck superstructure of the icebreaker "Arktika" with the searchlights on.

The icebreaker captain and officers on the captain's bridge during movement at night.

Kuchiyev's face in the captain's bridge window, view of the icebreaker's deck superstructure at night (camera zooms out).

View of a convoy of ships moving through the ice at night (top).

Kuchiyev and the icebreaker's navigator discuss and plot a course.

The ships move through the ice at night with the searchlights on.

Kuchiyev gives orders.

The icebreaker is chipping ice around a stuck ship (top).

Kuchiyev and the senior mate on the captain's bridge.

A convoy of ships during ice chipping (top).

The icebreaker "Arktika" is moving along the side of a ship stuck in the ice.

Movement of a convoy of ships in the ice (top).

Burning gas flare.

View of the ice barrier (top).

Kuchiev holds a meeting before taking the ice barrier, ice floes standing on end.

Icebreakers "Arktika" and "Murmansk" storm the ice barrier.

Cargo ship brought into the fast ice for unloading.

Unloading a ship on the fast ice.

Unloading tracked all-terrain vehicles onto the ice.

Faces of the crew members.

Motor vehicles for transporting cargo alongside the ship.

Loading cargo onto motor vehicles.

Trucks drive away from the ship.

Ships during night unloading.

A truck heads to the ships for another batch of cargo.

Ships during daytime unloading.

Mineral deposits in the Russian North and the route from Murmansk to Yamal, marked on the map (animation).

Extraction of minerals and resources in the North, panorama of port cranes, unloading of equipment (combined photography).

Views of industrial enterprises and power plants built in the North.

The icebreaker "Arktika" goes through the ice.

Participants of the expedition to the North Pole carry out the national flag of the USSR. The flag of the USSR, installed at the North Pole (above).

Icebreakers going through the ice (above).

The nuclear icebreaker "Sibir" makes a way in the ice of the Arctic, Arctic landscape.