The film is dedicated to the 250th anniversary of Petropavlovsk-Kamchatsky and tells about its history and the defense of the city during the Crimean War.
The film's creative team in front of the TV screen.
Video chronicle: events as part of Remembrance Day on September 3, 1989. Carrying out the banner of the USSR Navy and the St.
Andrew's flag to the memorial to the city's defenders during the Crimean War.
A priest holds a service.
Faces of the worshipers.
Engravings and paintings depicting court life in the mid-1850s in St.
Petersburg.
Portraits of Nicholas I, paintings with his image.
Engravings and drawings depicting historical events of 1829-1852. Fragments of F. Roubaud's panorama "Defense of Sevastopol".
Kamchatka summer landscape, a flock of seagulls flying.
Panorama and views of Petropavlovsk-Kamchatsky.
Views of city streets and buildings.
People on the city streets.
Models of sailing ships on pedestals at the entrance to the city.
Old guns on the coastal battery that took part in the defense of the city in 1854, teenagers playing on one of the guns.
Children's faces standing by the gun and looking at the sea.
View of part of the city and adjacent bays and gulfs.
Drawings and engravings depicting Petropavlovsk-Kamchatsky in the 1850s.
Portrait of the Governor of Eastern Siberia N.N. Muravyov.
Portrait of the Governor-General of Kamchatka Admiral V.S. Zavoiko.
Engravings and drawings depicting the outskirts of the city and fortifications being erected.
Color engraving depicting the frigate of the Russian fleet "Aurora".
Portrait of the frigate commander, Captain-Lieutenant I.N. Izylmetyev.
A sailboat in the bay near the village of Paratunka (animation, combined shooting).
Kamchatka landscapes, waves running up to the shore.
A photograph of the house where Admiral Zavoiko's family lived, with lines from letters from Admiral Zavoiko's wife Yulia heard in the background.
A cascade of spring water.
The Bering monument in Petropavlovsk-Kamchatsky, fragments of the monument.
A grandfather clock and a desk in Zavoiko's office.
A book and knitting on the table.
Open books with texts of Gogol's comedy "The Government Inspector" on the table.
Views of Avacha Bay.
Seascapes.
A drawing of a paddle steamer.
A view of part of a coastal cliff.
The ship enters the bay.
1989
Kamchatka Krai
Summer
Waves crash onto the shore, the texts of Admiral Zavoiko's memoirs about the defense of Petropavlovsk-Kamchatsky from the English fleet are heard in the background.
Views and panorama of Avacha Bay (top).
View of the coastal battery (top).
Military maps and books on a desk.
Smoking pipe and harbor plan on the table.
Sea surf.
Portrait of Admiral Zavoiko, commander of the city's defense.
View of part of Avacha Bay (top).
Paintings and engravings reflecting episodes of the defense of Petropavlovsk-Kamchatsky from the English.
Views of the inner harbor of the port with cargo ships moored in it (top).
Portrait of the commander of the Aurora, Izylmetyev.
The frigate Aurora fires, smoke on the shore (staging).
View of the shore covered in clouds of smoke.
Fragments of paintings depicting episodes of the city's defense against the British, the frigate "Aurora" in gunpowder smoke (staging).
Panorama of Avacha Bay.
Seascapes and views of the bay (top).
Portrait of Admiral Zavoiko.
Books and knitting on a desk.
View of the seashore.
Bonfire on the seashore, seascape.
Panorama of part of the coast.
Portrait of Zavoiko.
Coastal battery guns in smoke.
Painting depicting a steamship towing English sailing ships.
Panorama of the coast in the area of Nikolskaya Sopka.
View of the port in the area of the hill (top).
Painting depicting a coastal battery firing.
Portrait of the commander of the "Deadly" battery, Lieutenant Prince A. Maksutov.
Old guns in smoke.
Painting depicting enemy ships firing at the city.
Panorama of the bay in the area of Nikolskaya Sopka.
View of part of Petropavlovsk-Kamchatsky (top).
Panorama of Nikolskaya Sopka.
Panorama of the rocky stone slope of the hill.
Portrait of Admiral Zavoiko.
Panorama of the site of the battle with the enemy landing force on Nikolskaya Hill, tree trunks in gunpowder smoke.
Panorama of the descent from Nikolskaya Hill and its crest.
Fragments of paintings depicting the battle on Nikolskaya Hill and the retreat of the enemy landing force back to the ships.
View of the crest of Nikolskaya Hill.
1989
Kamchatka Krai
Summer
An empty boat on the water.
A chapel in honor of the defenders of Petropavlovsk-Kamchatsky.
Crosses on the graves of the city's defenders.
An inscription on a gravestone.
A view of the stairs leading to the chapel.
An inscription on a gravestone.
Video footage: a priest serves a memorial service for the city's defenders on Remembrance Day, September 3, 1989. Faces of the service participants, children holding burning candles.
An honor guard of naval sailors carries a wreath to the grave of the city's defenders.
View of the chapel and the memorial event (above).
A monument to the defenders of Petropavlovsk-Kamchatsky on the slope of a hill.
A path leading to the monument on Nikolskaya Hill.
Schoolchildren stand by the monument.
Panorama of the bay, ships at the berths.
Seascape.
Portrait of Admiral Zavoiko, the text of Zavoiko's report is heard in the background.
Seascape.
Part of the text of Zavoiko's report on the defense of the city and the defeat of the Anglo-French landing.
Seascape, view of part of the coast.
Panorama of the bay and the coast in the area of Nikolskaya Sopka (top).
The banner of the British Gibraltar Regiment, taken as a trophy.
Views of Avacha Bay, seascapes.
1989
Kamchatka Krai
Summer Autumn