The film tells about the factors that determined the rapid development of Siberia by the Russian people.
Photos of the program participants.
Bell tower.
Old tree (view from below).
Ancient Russian churches.
Icon.
Puffs of smoke in the clouds.
Reflection of domes in the water.
Natural landscapes.
Remains of ancient settlements.
Graves and monuments to pioneers.
Tundra grasses.
The Indigirka River, a man sailing in a boat.
A man in a motorboat.
Men sawing logs.
Women cleaning and gutting fish.
Fish being hung out to dry.
A cliff, water dripping from the wall.
Permafrost, a food storage facility in a cave.
A motorboat rushing along the river.
The sun behind the clouds.
People mending fishing nets.
Ice drift.
A village on the banks of the river.
Wooden crosses.
Men launching a boat.
People carrying firewood on a sled.
A fire is burning.
A woman kneading dough.
People walking through the village.
Alternation: a man making a boat in the attic, village children.
Tree branches in the snow.
Houses and boats under the snow. E.A. Yevtushenko reads poetry against the backdrop of northern landscapes.
Stone idols.
Traces of the first northern settlements.
View of the river.
Archaeological excavations.
Institute of History, Philology and Philosophy of the Siberian Branch of the USSR Academy of Sciences, people pass through the hall with the remains of a mammoth. A.P. Derevyanko.
Book pages. A.P. Derevyanko at a meeting with colleagues.
Yevtushenko E.A. -- poet
prose writer
director
screenwriter
actor
publicist. Derevyanko A.P. -- Doctor of Historical Sciences
professor
Academician of the USSR Academy of Sciences
Academician of the Russian Academy of Sciences.
Siberia Republic of Sakha (Yakutia)
Winter Spring
Nests in the trees.
Veliky Novgorod, view of the Kremlin wall.
Buildings on the territory of the Kremlin.
Illustrations in old books.
View of the Kremlin from the opposite bank of the river.
Stones overgrown with grass.
Watchtower.
Cannon.
View from the loophole.
Fortress wall.
Illustrations.
Narrated by L.N. Gumilyov.
Alternation: drawings and photographs.
View of the church through the trees.
Drawing.
Map.
Ice near the shore.
View from the church window.
Alternation: old drawings, narrated by L.N. Gumilyov.
Cliffs.
The Chusovaya River.
Sculptural group.
Taiga on the mountain slopes.
Icon.
Alternation: drawings, river at sunset.
Cliffs.
Natural landscapes.
Veliky Ustyug, view of the Kremlin.
Church with a bell tower.
Monuments to pioneers.
Sunset, fog in the foreground.
Fragment of a painting.
Engravings.
Storm waves.
Wooden fortress. E.A. Yevtushenko reading poetry.
Broken boat on the coast.
Wooden fortifications.
Painting.
Fortification plan.
Influx: storm waves, drawing of a ship.
Fog at sunset.
Khabarovsk, monument to E.P. Khabarovsk.
View of the Amur, a ship sailing along the river.
Other monuments to pioneers in Khabarovsk.
Ancient banner of the conquerors of Siberia.
Remains of a wooden hut.
Evtushenko E.A. Gumilev L.N. - Doctor of Historical Sciences
historian-ethnologist
archaeologist
orientalist
writer
translator.
Novgorod region Urals Udmurt Republic Perm region Vologda region Khabarovsk region
Autumn Winter Spring
Cartoon: drawings and coats of arms of cities.
Engravings.
Painting.
St.
Petersburg, Peter and Paul Cathedral.
Sculpture.
Sea waves.
Portrait of V.I. Bering.
Palace of Peter I. Engraving depicting the death of Peter I. Candlesticks with candle ends.
Inner courtyard of the Peter and Paul Cathedral.
Dissolve: drawing, storm waves.
Map.
Watch logs on a table in a museum.
Top view of coastal waves.
Fur seal rookery.
Sea, islands visible in the fog on the horizon.
Cartoon: route on a map.
Drawings.
Panorama of the coast.
Book pages.
Bust of Admiral G.I. Nevelskoy.
View of the forest from the water, a man in a boat.
Old atlas.
Alternation: K.V. Chistov narrates, old agricultural implements.
Natural landscapes.
Books.
Alternation: K.V. Chistov, natural landscapes, old stone and wooden buildings, illustrations.
Village in winter.
A woman getting water from a well.
A village house.
Wood carving.
Icons.
An old book.
Monastery buildings.
Metal engraving.
Drawing.
Alternation: fortress buildings and churches, museum exhibits. N.N.Pokrovsky tells the story; old books on the table.
Pokrovsky N.N. - Doctor of Historical Sciences
professor
Corresponding Member of the USSR Academy of Sciences
Academician of the Russian Academy of Sciences. Chistov K.V. -- Doctor of Historical Sciences
folklorist
ethnographer
Corresponding Member of the Russian Academy of Sciences.
Saint Petersburg Siberia
Autumn Winter
N.N.Pokrovsky talks about peasant writing, pages of books.
The Lena River.
Local History Museum, Yakut Fortress, Gate Tower.
Pages of a music book.
A book and a candle on the table.
Old folios.
Photos from expeditions.
The professor closes the book.
A windmill.
A village on the river bank.
People enter the yard.
Men talk with the mistress of the house.
People examine the house.
Restoration of a wooden church.
A man sketches a window ornament.
A peasant farmstead.
People on the bank.
Sunset over the river.
A wooden church in the field.
A cross.
A road paved with planks to the church.
Reindeer herders cross the river with a team.
Adults and children around a campfire.
A herd of deer.
Reindeer herders in the tundra. E.A.Yevtushenko reads poetry.
Mountain peaks.
A bird of prey in the clouds.
Drifting snow.
A hunter in the forest.
Dog sled.
Herd of Yakut horses.
People riding through the forest.
View of mountains, snow-covered trees.
Sunset, children running across the field.
Books.
Adults and children in the reading room.
People climbing the stairs.
Theater foyer.
Ballet fragment.
Mountain meadows.
Sunset behind the mountain. L. N. Gumilyov narrates.
Photographs.
Illustrations.
Cartoon: passionary theory of ethnogenesis in drawings.
Evtushenko E.A. Gumilev L.N. Pokrovsky N.N.
Republic of Sakha (Yakutia)
Autumn Winter
A tugboat on the waves.
A fishing vessel.
Border guard training.
Drivers on a winter road at night.
A pilot at the helm.
A village on the river bank.
A cargo barge.
Gold nuggets.
Animal skins.
Sable.
Fox.
Wooden architecture (fragments of old house ornaments).
The seashore.
River fish.
A colony of seagulls rises above the rocks.
Fishermen with their catch.
A seagull soars in the sky.
Story by Yu.S.Rytkheu.
A reindeer team in the tundra.
Reindeer herders next to a helicopter.
Fishermen mending nets.
Geologists in the mountains.
A man putting the caught fish in a box.
Story by Yu.S.Rytkheu.
Reindeer teams in the village.
Story by Yu.S.Rytkheu.
Photographs.
Bone figurines.
Books in the languages of the northern peoples.
Paintings.
Sea waves.
Waves crashing against the rocks.
Sea, clouds on the horizon.
Border patrol on the coast.
Cannon.
Children sitting on the cannon.
Old maps.
Tyumen Kremlin.
Century-old trees.
Passenger ship.
Trail behind the stern of an icebreaker.
Icebreakers in the ocean.
A plane taking off.
Rytkheu Yu.S. -- Soviet
Russian and Chukchi writer
prose writer
Honored Worker of Culture of Poland.
Siberia Republic of Sakha (Yakutia) Tyumen region
Summer Autumn