A film about the role of space research in the development of the national economy and science.
Artificial satellite in flight.
General view of ground tracking antennas.
View of the Earth from a great height.
Clouds in the sky.
Panorama of forest and lake landscape.
Girl in a boat.
View of part of a lake.
Silhouettes of people against the background of a lake.
Man in a rubber boat on a lake.
Young man and girl on the shore of a lake.
Young man and girl walking along the shore during sunset.
Young man and girl sitting on the shore of a lake, looking at the sky, talking to each other.
Satellite in space.
Views of a river and fields (top).
Panorama of a cornfield.
Tractor plowing a field.
Satellite in space.
Mountain landscapes, view of dam construction (top).
Builder signals to the crane operator.
Satellite flies by.
Coastal landscape (top).
View of part of the bow deck of a ship (top).
Captain in the wheelhouse.
Passengers relaxing on the deck by the pool.
People swimming in the pool, relaxing in sun loungers (a storm warning sounds synchronously).
View of the bow of a ship.
The dispatcher is transmitting a storm warning (synchronously).
A passenger ship is sailing.
The captain is listening to the message in the wheelhouse.
The shore control radio operators are receiving messages.
The dispatcher is studying a weather chart.
The dispatcher is dictating a storm message to the radio operator for transmission to one of the ships.
The dispatcher takes out a printed chart.
The passenger ship officer is reporting satellite data about an approaching storm to the navigator.
Weather chart with satellite data.
The captain and navigator are studying the data on the chart, the captain gives the command to change course.
The helmsman turns the wheel.
Space technology
Radar on the mast of a ship.
Radar screen.
The sea during a storm.
View of a section of a river.
A boat near the river bank, a man walking on the footbridge.
A barge pushed by a tugboat floats along the bank.
A woman on the river bank.
Ducks swim near the bank.
A woman's face.
An announcer reads a message about the rising water level in one of the sections of the Mukhavets River near Brest (synchronously).
View of a section of the flooded area (from above).
Newsreel from November 1974: people float in a boat past houses in the Brest region.
A woman walks through a flooded house.
A tugboat pulls a barge with evacuees and cattle.
A woman's face.
Newsreel from 1974: people save harvested hay from flooding.
People take root crops out of the water and save them from the flood.
Rescue helicopters fly.
People unload boxes of canned goods from a helicopter.
Loading boxes into a motorboat.
An all-terrain vehicle approaches a flooded store.
A local government official instructs people.
A woman talks about the flood (synchronously).
Clouds in the sky.
Panorama of a mountain landscape.
An employee of a mountain weather station takes readings from her instruments.
Mountain landscape.
View of part of a weather station.
A meteorologist takes readings from her instruments.
A meteorologist’s face.
The sky during sunset.
Newsreel from the 1930s and 1940s: view of part of a weather station.
The rise of a weather balloon.
The faces of meteorologists watching the balloon take off.
The balloon takes off into the sky.
Meteorologists assemble the radiosonde receiver.
General view of the receiver.
Packing the receiver into a case.
The radiosonde takes off.
A meteorologist at the device.
An airplane with a weather balloon in its nose takes off.
Meteorologists on board an airplane laboratory.
A weather balloon in the nose of an airplane.
View of the Osoaviakhim-1 stratospheric balloon takeoff pad in 1934. Faces of stratospheric balloonists Fedoseenko P.F., Vasenko A.B., and Usyskin I.D. The stratospheric balloonists board the gondola.
Face of Eideman R.P. The stratospheric balloonists board the gondola.
The stratospheric balloon rises into the sky.
Face of a military man.
Cameraman films the flight of the stratospheric balloon.
People watch the flight of the stratospheric balloon.
Newspaper report on the accident of the Osoaviakhim-1 stratospheric balloon.
Snowstorm.
Newsreel from 1937-1938: Papanin I.D. at the North Pole drifting station.
Rocket with weather balloon moves to the launch pad.
Meteorologists check the rocket's readiness for flight.
Launch of the weather rocket.
View of the Earth's surface from a space satellite.
Papanin Ivan Dmitrievich - polar explorer Eideman Robert Petrovich - military leader Fedoseenko Pavel Fedorovich - stratospheric navigator Vasenko Andrei Bogdanovich - engineer
stratospheric navigator Ilya Davydovich Usyskin -- physicist
stratospheric balloonist
1930s 1934 1937-1938 1940s
Moscow Arctic USSR
Winter
A satellite flying in outer space.
View of a part of a receiving space weather antenna.
A satellite is flying.
Employees of one of the regional centers receive information from satellites.
View of the building of the USSR Hydrometeorological Center.
Employees of the center monitor instrument readings.
Clouds are running across the sky.
View of a part of a satellite.
Cloud panorama transmitted by a satellite.
Lenses installed on the satellite.
Pictures of the earth's surface taken in infrared rays.
An employee of the Hydrometeorological Center studies the received pictures.
Employees of the center analyze the received pictures and data.
Weather map.
People make weather maps.
View of a part of an electronic computer.
Making a weather map using a computer.
Transmission of weather reports from the Hydrometeorological Center.
A television announcer reads out the weather forecast, shows pictures from artificial Earth satellites.
Passenger planes at the airfield.
People at the airport.
Airplanes before takeoff.
A satellite flies in outer space.
Geologists in the mountains collect samples.
Geologists at work.
Geologists' faces.
Mountain landscape.
A geologist surveys the area.
Mountain landscape.
Geologists plot mineral deposits on a map.
A geological party's plane flies by.
Geologists wave to the plane.
A pilot at the controls.
Geologists look out the plane's window.
View of part of the Fergana Valley (top).
Geologists compare the view of the area with photographs taken by a satellite.
Compilation of geological maps using photographs from space.
Part of a geological map compiled using photographs from space.
A photograph of the earth's surface taken from a satellite.
View of part of a flat landscape (top).
View of agricultural land (top).
Study
A flying plane of the Space Research Institute.
The institute's employees monitor the readings of the instruments on board the plane.
Pictures taken from a satellite.
Scientists conduct spectral analysis using the pictures and instruments on board the plane.
Forest landscape (top).
A scientist observes the terrain using instruments on board the plane.
Mountain landscape (top).
View of part of a flying satellite.
An astronaut moves from one compartment of the orbital station to another and begins photographing the Earth's surface.
Caucasian mountain landscape, the foot of Elbrus.
View of the station of the Geography Department of Moscow University.
The station's employees study and analyze the characteristics of the earth's surface.
People are standing by the open window.
A group of researchers climbs one of the Elbrus glaciers.
View of part of the glacier.
A scientist takes a water sample from the glacier.
The scientist takes an instrument out of the tent and turns it on.
The researchers climb to the glacier.
Carrying out geodetic measurements on the ground.
People climb the glacier.
A picture of the glacier from space.
People walk along one of the sections of the glacier.
Taking ice samples.
A scientist descends into a glacier.
Colleagues belay their comrade.
Taking ice samples from the wall of a glacier.
Ice melting in the sun.
A stream flowing over ice.
View of a mountain stream.
Views of a part of a mountain river.
A cable car in the vicinity of Almaty.
Newsreel from 1973: a mudflow in the Zailiyskiy Alatau mountains.
A blasting machine in the hands of a demolition man.
Explosions in the Medeo tract in 1967 to create a barrier to mudflows.
A dam in the Medeo tract.
A photo of a mountainous region taken from space.
View of a part of a flying satellite.
1967 1973
Kazakhstan
Summer
Cosmonauts Grechko G.M. and Gubarev A.A. during their space flight.
View of a part of the Moscow State University building.
Students sitting and preparing for classes on street benches.
Students of the Geography Department of Moscow State University going to classes.
The face of student Kuzina T.B. Kuzina is giving a report on her diploma project (synchronously).
Photographs of the Earth's surface taken from space.
Kuzina continues her report, demonstrating photographs (synchronously).
Faces of teachers and committee members.
View of a part of the Earth's landscape (from above).
Kuzina is giving a report.
Professor Savishchev A.K. is giving the final word on the diploma (synchronously).
A student and committee members are listening to Professor Savishchev.
A lab assistant is holding space maps up to the light.
Types of maps made based on photographs from space.
Savishchev continues his speech (synchronously).
The device is drawing a map.
View of the Earth from space.
Animation illustrating the creation of a geographic map from a space image.
Punched tape with information is fed into the computer.
Panorama of the computing machine room.
The machine draws a map.
The face of an employee observing the machine in operation.
The machine draws a map.
Map of groundwater of the Mangyshlak Peninsula.
A cosmonaut checks the operation of instruments on the orbital station.
Forest landscape (top).
Cosmonauts Gubarev and Grechko on board the Salyut-4 orbital station.
Surveyors at one of the construction sites of the Baikal-Amur Mainline study the terrain patterns.
Earthworks during the construction of the highway.
Removal of soil by dump trucks.
View of a section of the BAM construction (top).
Laying the track.
View of the BAM construction site (top).
View of one of the stations of the Orbita system (top).
An employee of one of the stations at the broadcasting console.
Satellite antennas on the roof of the station.
An employee of the Molniya communications station at the console.
Grechko Georgy Mikhailovich - pilot-cosmonaut Gubarev Aleksey Aleksandrovich - pilot-cosmonaut
An employee of the Molniya communications station at the control panel in front of television screens during a television program.
Announcer I. L. Kirillov reads the voice-over text in the studio (synchronously).
A communications satellite in space.
Announcer Kirillov in the studio talks about the role of space technology in television.
Foreign guests descend the steps of an airplane.
Meeting guests at the airport.
Meeting Soviet and foreign scientists as part of the Intercosmos program.
The face of a foreign scientist.
Foreign scientists listen to the explanations of their Soviet colleague.
Faces of scientists.
An American scientist asks a question.
Docking of a Soviet and American spacecraft in orbit.
The Soviet-American crew on board the Soyuz-Apollo orbital station.
Part of the station's solar battery.
The station in flight.
The crew conducts scientific research while in a state of weightlessness.
View of the Earth from space.
View of part of the observatory's telescope.
An employee of the observatory at work.
Interior view of part of the observatory, employees at the control panels monitoring the instrument readings.
The face of an observatory employee.
Scientists monitor the readings of the instruments.
General view of part of the observatory after sunset.
People walk along the seashore at sunset.