The film is dedicated to Academician Vavilov. The film tells about how the world's largest gene pool of cultivated plants and their wild relatives was created in our country, about how closely the fate of man and plants are connected.
Wild fields of the foothills.
A scientist collects wild plants and cereal seeds in the fields.
Large, wild cereals growing in a field.
Sprouts of wild wheat in the fields of the Ararat Valley.
Panorama of the Ararat Valley, view of the mountains.
An ancient building on a stone cliff.
Wheat in the field of a modern farm.
Photograph of a young N.I. Vavilov.
Chronicle of 1920. Saratov.
Different ears of soft wheat.
Exactly the same forms are repeated in all other types of cereals.
Varieties form homologous series corresponding to each other.
The law of homologous series, like the periodic table, allows us to predict in advance what other unknown forms of plants can be found in nature.
Photograph by N.I. Vavilov.
Streets of Leningrad, taken from a car.
All-Union Research Institute of Plant Growing.
Director of the Institute V.F. Dorofeev tells the story.
Seed fund storage.
Wheat ears.
Accelerated shooting of seed germination.
Wheat genes under a microscope.
Alternating frames with wild wheat species.
A scientist collects seeds from an ear of wild wheat.
Pedigree of the Bezostaya 1 wheat variety.
Chronicle of 1930. Wheat harvest in Kuban.
View of the seed storage facility of the All-Union Research Institute of Plant Growing.
World map.
Photograph of N.I. Vavilov at his desk.
The world map shows the centers of concentration of wild wheat varieties discovered by N.I. Vavilov where ancient agricultural civilizations existed.
Photographs by N.I. Vavilov.
Places where Vavilov's expeditions were directed.
Academician of VASKhNIL S.M. Bukasov tells the story.
The route of S.M. Bukasov's expedition to Central South America.
Wild potato sprouts.
Fruits of wild potatoes from the Andes.
Wild potato plantations of VASKhNIL. Plants affected by late blight.
Genetics, Homologous series, Wheat, Potato
N.I. Vavilov
scientist breeder. V.F. Dorofeev
Director of the Institute of All-Russian Research Institute of Plant Growing. CM. Bukasov
academician.
1920 1930
Leningrad Moscow Kuban
An employee of VASKhNIL harvests wild potatoes in the institute's greenhouse.
Wild varieties on the institute's plots.
Urban buildings on the site where wild varieties of potatoes and other crops grew.
Thickets of wild sunflower.
Transformation of sunflower from a wild species to a modern one, alternating shots.
Oil sunflower.
Fields with blooming sunflowers.
Chronicle of 1941-1944. Fields are burning, explosions.
Smoke from fires.
Siege of Leningrad.
Slicing bread for rations.
Residents of Leningrad receive pieces of bread.
A searchlight catches fascist planes with its beam.
A child of besieged Leningrad rides with his mother on a sled.
St.
Isaac's Cathedral, an anti-aircraft gun in the foreground. V.S. Lekhnovich, Doctor of Agricultural Sciences, narrates.
Vegetable gardens on the streets of besieged Leningrad.
A woman with a small child planting potatoes.
Streets of modern Leningrad.
Transport on the street.
Farmland fields under the wing of an airplane.
Krasnodar Region, Botanika settlement.
National repository of global plant resources.
Interior of the building.
Scientists working with seeds.
Plots with different grain crops.
Grapes.
Corn.
Cotton.
Pumpkin in the field.
Cabbage.
Workers sort seeds. D.D. Brezhnev, academician of VASKhNIL, tells the story.
A map showing gene banks of plant resources.
Underground repository of the gene bank in Krasnodar Region.
Genetics, War, Gene bank
V.S. Lekhnovich
Doctor of Agricultural Sciences D.D. Brezhnev
Academician of VASKhNIL.
1941-1944
Leningrad Krasnodar region
National repository of global plant resources.