The film tells about the heroic development of the Siberian land, about the search for new oil fields.
Western Siberia, Tyumen Oblast - flying over a plain, lakes, rivers and swamps.
Winter, a snowy plain, a snowstorm, a blizzard - in the distance a sled with a dog sled is driving.
In the sky - the northern lights.
Explosions are heard in the field.
A prospector presses the detonator button.
Footage is shown of different explosions - in the water, on the shore.
Geologists near a helicopter, watching the explosion from a distance.
Winter, night, all-terrain vehicles and other equipment in the field, people with torches, working at a geological exploration station.
An oil rig is visible through the snowstorm and blizzard.
All-terrain vehicles are driving, transporting the station-rig to another place, prospector geologists are walking along the road nearby.
Oil rig.
Oil geologists are working.
A fountain of oil is gushing from the well.
A group of oil workers is happy - celebrating the discovery of a new field.
Close-up - oil in palms.
A fountain of oil is gushing out of the well.
In the frame - oil geologists Ervie Raul-Yuri Georgievich and Salmanov Farman Kurbanovich.
The oil workers are celebrating, rocking each other in their arms, hugging, smearing their faces with oil, etc.
A fountain of oil is gushing out of the well.
Panorama of the port, cranes, ships.
Panorama of new cities in Siberia (shot from above) - new modern houses, etc. are visible.
Driving along the streets, past new apartment buildings (shot from the movement).
Children's playground in the courtyard of an apartment building.
Oil rig.
Evening, a neon sign on the building "Geologist".
Panorama of the restaurant hall, people at the tables, the bar counter.
People with glasses near the bar counter.
Close-up - the face of a girl, a young man in the frame.
A waitress serves visitors at tables in a restaurant.
Various shots with the interior of the restaurant, panels on the walls.
Oil rig.
Close-up - oil gusher.
Oil workers at work.
Top view - drill at work.
Oil workers near drilling rig.
Various shots of work, drill, pump at station.
Panorama of rows of industrial greenhouses.
Close-up - hands harvesting vegetables in greenhouse.
View of greenhouse from inside.
Poultry farm - employee looking after birds.
Rows of chicken cages - eggs laid below.
Close-up - cows.
Panorama of cowshed, cows.
Close-up - cows.
Grocery store, saleswoman behind counter.
Panorama of grocery store hall - display cases, shelves with products, saleswomen, customers.
Close-up - foreman Grigory Petrov in frame.
Work in progress on oil rig.
Oil workers at drilling station shown.
Kindergarten, children in playroom.
Little girl dressed as doctor treating doll.
Panorama of wall in kindergarten, small fountain.
Bedroom, nap time, children sleeping in their cribs, a kindergarten worker in a white coat walking past the cribs, straightening blankets, etc.
Children's town - there are wooden fortress-houses.
Children playing on the playground of the town.
A boy's face in the window of the fortress-house.
The work of oil workers at a drilling station is shown.
Foreman Grigory Petrov is going down the stairs.
View of a school building under construction.
Near the wall of the building there is a sign with the school number.
Finishing work is underway in the school premises.
An artist is painting a panel on the wall.
Panorama of the panel.
A group of artists at the wall, looking at their work.
Panorama of the panel.
General plan - view of the panel on one of the walls in the school (camera zoom in, zooming in on individual details of the panel).
Northern lights, geologists, oil derrick, geological exploration station, field, oil, restaurant, drilling station, poultry farm, cowshed, grocery store, kindergarten
Siberia Tyumen region Surgut
Winter
The ship captain looks through binoculars.
A barge with cargo is floating down the river.
Close-up - a view through pipes onto the river.
Panorama of the river, barges, ships (shot from above).
Cranes are working in the port, loading is underway.
Various equipment, tractors, and all-terrain vehicles are being loaded.
Port workers manage the loading.
The frame shows a crane operator in the crane cabin.
A helicopter takes off.
A helicopter is in the air, transporting cargo.
A helicopter is transporting part of a tower.
A pilot is in the helicopter cabin.
A helicopter is in the air, view of the ground (shot from above).
Winter forest, tree branches in the snow.
Close-up - a bear cub in the snow, playing with a dog.
A man with a bear cub on a leash and a dog are walking in the forest.
A bear cub is playing with a dog.
Streets of a Siberian city - new houses, traffic, pedestrians.
A bus is driving down the street, a view of new five-story residential buildings.
Orbita station (reception and transmission of radio signals).
View of a multi-story residential building.
Panorama of a new microdistrict, residential buildings under construction, forest.
Winter forest, panorama of trees in ice, a fiery torch is visible in the distance.
Winter port on the Ob River, cranes and ships moored at the shore are visible.
Siberian landscape - plains in the snow (shot from above).
An all-terrain vehicle is driving across a snow field.
The driver is in the cabin, behind the wheel of the all-terrain vehicle.
A sign on the road - "dangerous turn".
Close-up - car wheels on a snowy road.
A column of trucks with tanks and logs.
Close-up - a special air cushion is inflated.
A man gives the command to start.
A tractor pulls a station with an oil rig through the snow, which is on an air cushion.
A top view of the transportation of a drilling rig through the snow.
Spring, the ice on the river is melting, ice floes are floating downstream.
View of marshy ground, small trees.
Birds in the sky, panorama of trees, river - a flock of birds is landing on the water.
Swans on the river.
Tractor stuck in the mud, oil geologists are towing.
Tractor clears a field, rakes, removes soil.
View of soggy soil, washed-out road, rig in the distance and working tractor.
Oil workers on the road, towing a drilling rig with a rig.
View of washed-out road, marshy ground (shot from motion).
Siberian spring landscape - panorama of the river, banks, remnants of ice (shot from above).
Panorama of the monument - "Give Samotlor".
Geological exploration station in the area of Lake Samotlor - geologists are settling in, carrying things, bales, etc.
Men near a tent, washing themselves from a bucket.
A man approaches a table near a tent, takes water from a bucket, and drinks.
A woman hugs a teddy bear.
Men at the construction site of wooden barracks.
Close-up - buckets of special equipment scoop out swampy slush.
Close-up - wet soil is raked.
Special equipment is working, soil is tamped.
Close-up - the driver in the cabin, controlling the levers.
A welder is working.
Various works on the development of the territory of the new Samotlor oil field are shown.
Special equipment uproots trees in the forest.
View of the stand-panel "We will conquer you, Samotlor!" The driver in the cabin, behind the wheel of a truck.
View of the asphalt road along which trucks are driving.
An all-terrain truck is driving along the road along the river.
Barge, port, helicopter, tractor, drilling station, oil, oil derrick, petroleum geologists, Samotlor
Siberia Surgut
Summer Winter Spring
View of a forking road on Lake Samotlor, a drilling station, and a derrick (shot from above).
Panorama of the road, small lakes, and swamps (shot from above).
Panorama of a bridge under construction, ships on the river.
View of the river, forest, lakes, drilling station, and derrick.
Panorama of an oil drilling rig.
Various equipment on the territory of a drilling station.
Close-up - the instrument needle is moving.
Panorama of the equipment at the station - pipes, valves, etc.
An employee in an office at the intercom - talking on the phone.
Close-up - a hand is pressing buttons on the control panel.
Close-up - the employee's face.
Oil refinery - various equipment, tanks, pipes, etc. are in the frame.
An employee climbs the stairs, walks along the equipment.
Panorama of the territory of the refinery.
Panorama of the automated control center, a woman sitting at a table and talking on the phone.
The female dispatcher is talking on the phone, taking notes, monitors are visible in the background.
Panorama of pipes, sluices and gates at the station.
Map of Siberia - Surgut, Lake Samotlor, Ust-Balyk are marked, a red line goes to Tobolsk, Tyumen, Chelyabinsk, Ufa and Almetyevsk.
Large - details of a panel depicting an oil rig, Siberian nature, etc.
Large - the wheels of an all-terrain vehicle are moving.
The all-terrain vehicle is driving off the bank into the river.
Large - oil workers in helmets.
A pilot at the controls of a helicopter.
An all-terrain vehicle.
An airplane in the sky.
Laying rails.
A crane is lifting a truck.
Oil refinery equipment.
A power transmission tower.
Evening, trucks are driving along the road.
Sunset, view of the drilling rig.
Panorama of the river, the setting sun.
The river, a ship is floating, the sun is setting over the horizon.
Panorama of the port, cranes.
Drilling station, oil derrick, Samotlor, oil refinery
Siberia Nizhnevartovsk
Summer