The film tells about the problems of developing the North, about the prospects and achievements in developing the region.
Arctic landscapes, a dog sled among hummocks.
View of the weather station on Ayon Island.
Station chief V.S. Eroshkin at his desk.
The radio operator receives and transmits radiograms.
A weather station employee takes instrument readings.
Launching a weather balloon.
Antenna on the roof of one of the station houses.
The radio operator at work.
Eroshkin at his desk.
Northern landscapes, a truck driving along the road.
The driver behind the wheel of a truck.
The road disappearing in the rearview mirror.
Trucks driving along the Kolyma highway.
Warning road sign.
Trucks negotiating a sharp turn.
The driver behind the wheel lights a cigarette.
Views of hills and the highway through the windshield.
Tanker trucks with fuel driving along the highway.
The face of one of the drivers, a story about the Kolyma region is heard in the background.
Tanker trucks and trucks on the Kolyma highway, Kolyma landscapes.
The driver in the truck cabin.
Transportation of goods by road along the Kolyma highway.
Bulldozers laying a temporary road on ice.
Laying a winter road with bulldozers.
A convoy of vehicles with fuel and various cargo moves along a winter road laid on ice.
A truck wheel.
The driver in the truck cabin.
Movement of vehicles along a winter road at night, the light from the lit headlights.
Trucks overcome road irregularities.
Views of a dredge at one of the gold mines.
The process of gold mining with a dredge, rock in the conveyor buckets.
The face of a dredge driver examining a nugget.
Arrival of a shift at the mine.
The face of the driver.
View of a dredge during operation.
The process of gold mining with a dredge.
Rock and pieces of ice in the conveyor buckets, mined gold.
Participants of the May Day demonstration pass by.
Frozen giant icicles on the cornice of one of the houses.
A girl with a bunch of balloons.
A column of representatives of the seaport workforce passes by.
Flags are being decorated on ship rigging, ships are in the port.
Opening of a gas valve at a new deposit in the Tyumen Region on the Yamal Peninsula.
Faces of participants in a ceremonial rally.
The process of gold mining.
Fishing vessels that have returned with a catch, near the shore.
Unloading the catch.
Transporting a pipe by helicopter.
Construction of an oil pipeline, welders at work.
Automatic wrapping of pipes with insulation.
1972
Magadan region Tyumen region
Winter Spring
Sorting furs obtained at one of the fur farms in the Arctic.
Storing pelts in a warehouse.
Timber rafting on the northern Siberian rivers.
Reindeer at one of the farms.
Coal mining in one of the mines in the Arctic, a miner’s face.
Transporting coal using a conveyor.
Views of city streets decorated for May 1, it is snowing.
A ground snowdrift is blowing.
A tanker truck is driving along a winter road.
The sun is shining through the clouds.
The face of a girl sunbathing in the snow.
Skiers in swimming trunks are riding along a track.
A truck is driving along a melting winter road.
Winter northern landscape.
Cranes of one of the river ports ready for work.
Ice drift on the river, ice floes advancing on each other.
Spring river landscape with ice drift.
Raising the anchor of one of the ships.
The boatswain gives a command by radio.
View of one of the river ports.
The captain of a cargo ship on the bridge.
Cargo on the deck of one of the ships.
The captain on the bridge.
A Siberian river landscape.
The captain lights a cigarette.
Crawler tractors on the deck of a cargo ship.
An icebreaker is clearing a path in the ice of the Northern Sea Route.
Broken ice overboard the icebreaker.
A helicopter on the deck before takeoff.
A view of part of the ship's superstructures.
An interior view of the icebreaker's control room.
An icebreaker is clearing a path in the ice at night.
The helmsman in the wheelhouse.
A ship following the icebreaker.
Icebreaker crew members during lunch.
The captain looks through binoculars.
The captain in the wheelhouse.
Crew members are swimming in the pool.
A helicopter covered in snow on the icebreaker's deck.
Lifeboats on board the icebreaker.
The captain in the wheelhouse during a voyage.
Radar screen.
A cargo ship trapped in ice.
The icebreaker crew is carrying out preparatory work to free the ship from the ice that has trapped it.
Towing the freed ship.
The captain in the wheelhouse.
The captain of a cargo ship on the bridge.
A view of a part of the icebreaker.
Breaking ice.
Free water astern of the ship.
Bundles of pipes on the deck of a cargo ship (panorama).
Cars on the decks of cargo ships.
Ships arriving at one of the northern river ports.
Writer Yuri Rytkheu types on a typewriter; a voice-over is played of his story about the industrial development of the North and its influence on the indigenous peoples of the North.
Rytkheu rereads the typed text.
Rytkheu continues typing.
A student during a practical lesson.
A lesson in an art studio.
Faces of young men and women, students, artists, engineers - representatives of the indigenous peoples of the North.
The manager of the "Red Yaranga" creates patterns on walrus ivory; a voice-over is played of his story about the influence of the Chukchi culture on his works.
Examples of bone products, drawings on bone.
Rytkheu Yuri Sergeevich - Chukchi writer
translator
1972
Siberia Chukotka Autonomous Okrug
Spring
Views of Magadan streets.
Street flower trade.
People walk past a shop window.
Selling grapes at the entrance to the city park of culture, weighing grapes on scales, a woman's face.
Head of the population laboratory of the SVKNII V.V. Yanovsky walks down the street, his story about the formation of the population of the Northern regions, the generation that grew up in the North is heard in the background.
Newlyweds leave the registry office and get into a taxi.
Letters received by the management of Northern enterprises from people wishing to get a job in Magadan.
The head of the Magadan employment bureau reads the letters, his story about the influx of labor to the region, about people wishing to work in the North, about the number of applications per year is heard in the background.
Yanovsky leaves the airport building.
Airplanes at the Magadan airport.
The landed plane finishes taxiing.
Passengers get off the plane, walk to the airport building.
People stand by the buses waiting to board.
View of part of the Magadan airport building.
A tracked all-terrain vehicle with people in the back moves through soggy mud.
A bulldozer doing excavation work.
Tracked tractors stuck in the mud at one of the gas fields.
Transporting a drilling rig using tracked tractors getting stuck in the mud.
The foreman of the towing trucks signals the drivers.
Tractors tow a drilling rig.
Evening landscape.
Distance sign to Kharkov.
View of part of the camp of students of the construction team from the Ukrainian SSR, students leave the tent for morning washing in the fresh air.
Panorama of the camp of builders of the city of Nadym, consisting of trailers.
Everyday life of builders and their families.
Builders go to work.
Members of the construction team climb into the back of the truck. "Lightning" on the notice board.
The truck with students goes to the construction site.
Panorama of part of the city block under construction (above).
Sign of the Komsomol-youth construction trust.
The head of the trust is looking over the working documentation at the table, while his story about the tasks and work of the trust, the deadlines and plans for the construction of the city of Nadym is heard in the background.
Schemes and sketches of new city blocks.
Panoramas and views of construction sites in Nadym.
A team of masons from the student construction brigade is laying bricks.
Loading concrete slabs into the back of an all-terrain truck.
The driver is watching the loading.
Transportation of concrete slabs by an all-terrain truck to the construction site of the settlement of Pangody.
Takeoff of a cargo helicopter.
The pilot in the helicopter cockpit, the pilot's face, his story about working in the North is heard in the background.
The cargo is under the bottom of the helicopter.
View of the swampy tundra area (from above).
The helicopter navigator is monitoring the course.
The helicopter with the cargo is descending, unhooking the cargo.
Views of the settlement of Pangody, a tracked all-terrain vehicle is passing by.
The head of the settlement administration is inspecting the construction of wooden residential buildings for shift workers.
Construction of one of the wooden houses, carpentry work at the construction site.
A team of finishers on scaffolding.
Female plasterers reading a letter from home.
A helicopter flying away.
1972
Magadan Region Tyumen Region Yamalo-Nenets Autonomous Okrug
Spring Summer
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