Stories from the History of Soviet Science. Film One. "Dreamers". (from the series "People of Science") (1987)

Inkwell, pen, stack of newspapers on desk, study interior, professor, doctor of physical and mathematical sciences Kapitsa S.P. is standing by the window and leafing through a magazine.

Introduction by Kapitsa S.P. to the film (synchronously), study interiors, book spines on shelves, photographs of K.E. Tsiolkovsky and V.I. Vernadsky on shelves behind glass.

Fragments of the film: a train with a steam locomotive passes by.

Passengers in a third-class carriage.

Portraits of scientists against the background of the carriage window, among them - A.F. Ioffe, V.I. Vernadsky, N.S. Kurnakov, P.P. Lazarev, S.A. Chaplygin, V.M. Bekhterev, G.M. Krzhizhanovsky, D.N. Pryanishnikov, N.I. Vavilov, N.K. Koltsov, D.S. Rozhdestvensky, V.G. Khlopin, N.N. Semenov, P.L. Kapitsa, L.A. Artsimovich, A.P. Alexandrov, I.V. Kurchatov, O.Yu.

Schmidt, I.P. Pavlov, alternates with shots of a railway track and telegraph poles and landscapes rushing past the window.

Newsreel: Russian army soldiers at an open-air camp during World War I in 1915 (panorama).

A speaker giving a speech at a soldier's rally in 1917. German and Russian soldiers fraternizing on the front line.

Soldiers in the frontline zone go to a revolutionary rally with red banners in their hands.

Soldiers' demonstration on Nevsky Prospekt.

The arrival of the Soviet delegation in Brest for peace talks in November 1917. German and Austrian representatives go to the talks.

Delegations of the RSFSR, Germany, and Austria-Hungary during a session of the peace conference in Brest.

Entry of German troops into Kyiv in the summer of 1918. German soldiers marching along the streets of Kyiv.

View of the frozen Neva in Petrograd and the building of the Academy of Sciences.

Session of the Academy of Sciences.

President of the Academy of Sciences A.P. Karpinsky during the session.

Pages of the transcript of the emergency session of the Academy of Sciences in February 1918. Newsreel: signing of the Brest Peace Treaty in March 1918. Representatives of the delegations signing documents.

Seal of the copies of the treaty with a wax seal.

Lunacharsky A.V. at his desk, text of A.V. Lunacharsky's letter to A.P. Karpinsky and Karpinsky's reply.

Photographs of scientists, A.V. Lunacharsky, V.I. Train movement through stations and stops in the early 1920s.

Views of the Anichkov Bridge, Anichkov Palace, and Kazan Cathedral in Leningrad.

View of part of the Hermitage building.

The Academy of Sciences building.

View of the main staircase.

Photographs and portraits of scientists - members of the Academy of Sciences.

A film projector from the 1920s.

Newsreel: a projectionist showing a film to a peasant.

People entering a cinema in 1929. A projectionist loading a film.

Loading a film, view of a cinema before the start of a show.

The chandelier under the ceiling goes out.

The projectionist's face.

The building of the Roentgenological Institute in Leningrad.

People in the courtyard of the institute before the opening ceremony of the Roentgen monument on February 17, 1928. A. V. Lunacharsky giving a speech.

Removing the veil from the monument.

View of the unveiled monument to Roentgen. K. E. Tsiolkovsky at his desk in his home in Kaluga.

Tsiolkovsky riding a bicycle along the path past his house.

Tsiolkovsky at a table in the garden working on an airship project.

Self-taught inventor Stepan Ignatchenko working on his fortieth invention.

Diggers loading a cart with soil.

Quickly unloading soil from the dump carts invented by diggers.

Academician A. N. Bakh talking on the phone, sitting at his desk after returning to Russia in 1917. Bach giving an interview.

Bach during an experiment in the Central Chemical Laboratory.

View of the Central Chemical Laboratory building.

Photographs of A. M. Gorky at his desk, lines from Gorky's statement about men of science appear on the paper (animation).

Text of the announcement of the Council of People's Commissars on the size of the bread ration.

Newsreel from 1918-1920: unloading baked bread from a railway car.

Distribution of bread to children.

Map of the RSFSR during the civil war and foreign intervention in 1918 (animation).

Photograph of V. I. Lenin with A. V. Lunacharsky on May 1, 1920. Texts of messages and articles in the "Bulletin of Public Education of the Union of Communes of the Northern Region".

Memorial plaques on the walls of the house where Academicians I.P. Pavlov, V.I. Vernadsky, A.P. Karpinsky, V.A. Steklov, S.F. Oldenburg lived and worked.

View of the central part of the building with columns.

Photographs of scientists and manuscripts of their works.

Photograph of Gorky A.M. Cover of the archival file.

Text of Gorky's report on improving the living conditions of scientists.

List of food prices in 1918. Text of the document on the clothing supply of scientists.

The building of the Academy of Sciences on the Neva embankment.

Views of the main staircase.

Photographs of Gorky with members of the Academy of Sciences.

Interior of the winter garden.

Interiors of the palace premises.

Photographs of Academicians Karpinsky A.P., Pavlov I.P. and other scientists who stood at the origins of Soviet science.

Newsreel: a scientist at the blackboard in the lecture hall.

Academician Bakh A.N. conducts an experiment in a chemical laboratory.

Academician Ioffe A.F. conducts an experiment in a laboratory.

Scientists conducting experiments and during scientific debates.

Students at a lecture by Karpinsky.

An icebreaker moves through the ice.

A camel caravan moves through the desert during a sandstorm.

A dog sled moves.

A meeting of the Academic Council of the Academy of Sciences, Karpinsky during the meeting.

The face of Academician N.I. Vavilov.

Ioffe A.F. conducts another experiment.

Scientists give reports on various disciplines, including Academician Koltsov N.K. Conducting an experiment in a laboratory.

Photos of employees of scientific institutes conducting laboratory experiments.

Newsreel from the early 1920s: peat extraction using water jets using the method of engineer Klasson.

Softening a peat layer with a water jet.

A line for transporting peat fuel to a thermal power plant.

A drawing of a jet aircraft created by N. Kibalchich, preserved in the archives of the tsarist secret police.

Portrait of N. Kibalchich.

Resolution of a gendarme officer on Kibalchich’s project.

Newsreel: senior students in a chemistry class.

Schoolchildren being taught how to work on factory machines.

Building of the Mining Academy.

A student conducting experiments in a chemistry lab.

Young engineers at work.

A lesson at a course for workers of village mobile film trailers.

The first female projectionist turns the handle of a film projector.

Academician V.M. Bekhterev conducts a hypnosis session at the Institute of the Human Brain.

Interview with Professor S.P. Kapitsa.

Books on the shelves, a portrait of Academician V.I. Vernadsky behind glass.

Photographs on the walls of the room, the interior of Vernadsky's study, books and writing materials on the table.

Photographs of Vernadsky.

Mountain landscapes.

Flora of the semi-desert.

Forest and mountain landscapes.

Photograph of Vernadsky among colleagues.

Newsreel from the 1920s: taiga landscapes.

Members of a geological expedition leave a tent.

Geologists study a found sample.

Work of a geological expedition.

Photograph of expedition members.

Development of a discovered mineral deposit, workers extracting samples.

Workers going to construction.

Panorama of the construction of an industrial plant.

Removal of mined minerals using trolleys and horse-drawn transport.

Removal of minerals by rail and road.

View of an industrial enterprise in Siberia.

Photograph of Vernadsky.

Newsreel from the 1920s: exploration work at an oil field.

Oil fountains spurt from the ground.

Work at a newly discovered oil field.

Faces of oil workers.

View of a wooden oil rig.

Newsreel and photographs of drilling operations.

An excavator loads coal into a dump truck in a coal quarry.

Unloading a dump truck, panorama of a part of a coal quarry, excavator at work.

View of a part of a moving train with coal.

Photograph of Vernadsky, books and a telephone on a desk.

Fountain pen on a manuscript page, title page and pages of Vernadsky's book "Biosphere".

Photograph of Vernadsky.

Panorama of the taiga and coastal cliffs (top), geologist standing on a cliff.

Newsreel from 1928: mountain landscapes of the Pamirs.

A caravan of pack animals of the joint expedition of Glavnauka and Sovkino fords a river.

The movement of the expedition caravan in the mountains.

The expedition members chop ice.

Cameraman Belyaev prepares a movie camera for filming.

Testing a snowmobile on screw wheels.

The snowmobile tows a combination of two sleds with cargo.

An employee of the Moscow Planetarium, which opened in November 1929, gives a lecture to visitors.

Faces of visitors.

View of the lecture hall of the planetarium.

Academician Karpinsky presides over a meeting devoted to the election of new members of the Academy of Sciences.

Faces of the members of the Academy of Sciences, A.V. Lunacharsky is present at the meeting.

Counting of votes.

Academician A.N. Bakh speaks on the telephone, sitting at his desk.

Faces of academicians S.A. Chaplygin, D.N. Pryanishnikov.

Portrait of Academician N.I. Vavilov.

Photographs of scientists and staff of the Institute of Plant Growing.

Newsreel from the 1920s: a peasant mows grain.

A woman ties sheaves.

Stacking sheaves.

Threshing on a grain threshing floor by hand with flails.

Cracked earth.

Photograph of N.I. Vavilov.

Staff of the Institute of Plant Growing select samples of cereal crop seeds.

Conducting research on seed samples.

Inspection of samples of sprouted cereal crops at the experimental site of the Institute of Plant Growing.

Map of Iran, with newsreel footage of the expedition’s movement in the background.

A telegraph apparatus in operation.

Text on a telegraph tape.

The building of the Institute of Plant Growing.

Photograph of N.I. Vavilov among his colleagues.

Interior view of a lecture hall.

A scientist, sitting in the lecture hall, looks through documents.

Photograph of N.I. Vavilov.

Newsreel: Plant breeders - employees of the Institute of Plant Growing collect samples of cereal seeds in 1930. Portrait of N. I. Vavilov.

Covers of issues of a popular science foreign magazine.

Photograph of N. I. Vavilov at his desk.

Newsreel footage of the plant breeders' expedition against the background of a map of Egypt (combined shooting).

Newsreel footage of one of the expeditions against the background of a map of South America.

An employee of the Institute of Plant Growing places samples of cereal seeds in card index drawers.

Cereal seedlings on experimental plots with designations of varieties and places of origin.

Card index of cereal seed samples, sorted by country of origin.

Photograph of N. I. Vavilov at his desk.

Newsreel: American troops disembarking from ships.

Trams and horse-drawn transport moving along the streets of Moscow in 1927 (top).

Group photographs of scientists - specialists in the field of plant growing and agriculture, among them - Koltsov N.K.

Equipment for conducting the experiment.

Scientists in the laboratory recording the results of the study, laboratory equipment (panorama).

The course of the experiment and recording the results.

Scientists discuss the results of the study.

Newsreel from the early 1920s: a military brass band playing.

Parade of the Red Army units, photo of Koltsov N.K. in the laboratory.

Chicherin G.V. speaking from the rostrum at the opening of the First All-Russian Agricultural Exhibition in Moscow on August 19, 1923. Panorama of the ceremonial meeting.

Faces of foreign guests and delegates from the union republics.

Animals brought to the exhibition.

Faces of guests in national costumes.

Visitors examining chickens in a closed enclosure.

Chickens in a cage.

Photo of a scientist at a microscope, living cells under a microscope.

Scientists processing samples of cereal seeds in the storage facility of the Research Institute of Plant Growing, panorama of the seed card index.

Newsreel: view of the meeting on the occasion of the unveiling of the monument to K.A. Timiryazev on November 4, 1923. Removing the veil from the monument.

Koltsov N.K. speaking at the unveiling of the monument to Timiryazev.

Guests arriving at the ceremonial meeting to mark the 200th anniversary of the Academy of Sciences in 1925, guests disembarking from the ship, faces of scientists invited to the meeting.

Koltsov among the participants of the ceremonial meeting climbing the stairs.

The participants of the meeting talking to each other.

Views of the presidium and the hall of the ceremonial meeting.

Lunacharsky A.V. speaking from the rostrum.

Participants of the meeting during the ceremonial banquet.

Participants of the expedition of the Academy of Sciences moving to the site of the Tunguska meteorite fall in April 1927. The head of the expedition L.A. Kulik conducts geodetic measurements.

Remains of the forest at the site of the Tunguska meteorite fall.

An experiment to obtain artificial crystals of silicon zincate.

Crystals under a microscope.

View of London Bridge.

Parade of the Royal Guard.

Traffic at a London intersection (top), covers of British publications about Soviet Russia.

Decoration of the Bolshoi Theatre during the VIII Congress of Soviets on December 22-29, 1920 in Moscow.

Congress delegates in the hall.

Faces of the delegates.

Pages of the GOELRO plan.

Map of the electrification of Russia.

Krzhizhanovsky G.M. speaks at a session of the congress.

Photographs of V.I. Lenin and Krzhizhanovsky G.M. in his youth.

Photo portrait of Krzhizhanovsky.

Newsreel: views of the construction of a power plant.

Views of a dam under construction.

Covers of foreign publications with publications about Soviet Russia.

Interior view of the archive storage.

Photo album presented to Academician D.S. Rozhdestvensky.

Photograph of Rozhdestvensky.

Reports of Rozhdestvensky's discoveries published in newspapers.

Photograph of Rozhdestvensky among colleagues.

Texts of letters.

Photographs of laboratory equipment at the State Optical Institute.

Panorama of the Kama River bank overgrown with forest.

Photograph of a radium manufacturing plant.

Photograph of a scientist.

Photograph of A.F. Ioffe among colleagues.

Faces of young scientists in photographs from the 1920s.

Portraits and photographs of P.L. Kapitsa with colleagues.

Photographs of experiments in nuclear power engineering.

Newsreel: K.E. Voroshilov presents an award to one of the academicians in the Column Hall of the House of Unions.

Ceremonial meeting to mark the opening of the power plant in Kashino. A.D. Tsyurupa speaks from the rostrum.

Public celebration on the square in front of the plant.

View of the meeting hall of the 19th All-Union Party Conference in the Grand Kremlin Palace in 1928 during the adoption of the first five-year plan.

Delegates in the hall.

View of the hall with applauding delegates.

Participants of the Soviet-German Alai-Pamir Expedition set off on their journey in 1928. The expedition members conduct scientific research.

The expedition members ride horseback across a bridge over a mountain river.

Expedition leader N.P. Gorbunov among expedition participants.

Engineer A.F. Shorin demonstrates the operation of the apparatus he invented for recording sound in film in 1931. Film projector for showing sound films.

Panorama of the building and grounds of the Institute of Physiology in Koltushi, Leningrad Region, in 1934. Academician I.P. Pavlov, English writer G. Wells and their entourage exit one of the institute’s buildings.

Pavlov gives Wells a tour of the institute’s grounds.

Wells observes an experiment with a monkey.

Pavlov’s face.

View of the institute’s buildings and grounds.

Pavlov and Wells near one of the buildings.

Photographs of academicians Ioffe and Rozhdestvensky.

Photograph of V.I. Lenin talking with Wells.

Group photograph of young scientists.