It takes a lifetime (1971)

Academician S. V. Vonsovsky walking along the paths of the park.

Vonsovsky's face.

Vonsovsky sitting on a bench in the park.

The face of a boy lying on the grass.

Summer countryside landscape (panorama).

View of part of a village.

Firewood stack near the wall of a log barn.

View of part of a city block.

Spiders in a web.

The face of a girl petting a hedgehog.

Hedgehog in the girl's hands.

A plant that has grown through a boulder with notches.

A woman lowers a bucket into a well.

The process of cell division under a microscope.

A wedge of cranes is flying.

A drawing of a part of the Universe.

The face of a girl with sensors on her head during a medical examination.

The work of the chart recorder of diagnostic equipment.

Scientists conducting research.

Academician Vonsovsky in the laboratory.

Panorama of laboratory equipment, scientists at work.

Vonsovsky talks about his childhood passion for steam locomotives (synchronously).

Photographs of Vonsovsky's parents.

Photographs of Vonsovsky in different years.

Vonsovsky at his desk.

Vonsovsky signs documents, Vonsovsky's face.

Vonsovsky discusses the plan of scientific work and current research problems with his colleagues.

Vonsovsky talks about solid state physics, which is being worked on by physicists from the Urals and Sverdlovsk (synchronously).

Graphic images illustrating the discovery of the Danish physicist Oersted of the effect of current on the compass needle.

Demonstration of the effect of a magnetic field created by an electric current on a compass needle.

Demonstration of the properties of a magnetic field and its effect on various substances and objects, changing the magnetic field (animation).

Attraction and repulsion of two magnets suspended on a cord.

Academician Vonsovsky in the laboratory with a colleague during a discussion of a problem of magnetic field research.

Vonsovsky's face.

Rotation of an electron in an orbit around the hydrogen atomic nucleus, creation of magnetic moments in hydrogen and other chemical elements (animation).

Diagram of a magnetic material in the form of a house (animation).

The periodic table with highlighted elements with predetermined magnetic properties.

Desk in Vonsovsky's office.

Newsreel: stratospheric balloonist climbs into gondola of stratospheric balloon "USSR-1" on September 30, 1933. Faces of female cadets of flying club.

Face of flying club instructor.

Cadet and instructor climb into cockpit of training plane.

Female pilot puts on protective glasses, alternates with interiors of Vonsovsky's office.

Angelina P.N. at the wheel of tractor.

Face of shock worker in cotton picking Mamlakat Nakhangova.

Harvesting vegetables.

Stakhanov A.G. works in the coalface.

Miners greet Stakhanov's team, which set record for coal mining in one shift.

Stakhanov with a bouquet of flowers in his hands.

Meeting of Chelyuskinites on the streets of Moscow on June 19, 1934. Car with Chelyuskinites driving along the streets of Moscow, in the back seat - Schmidt O.Yu.

Vonsovsky working at his desk, view of the board with formulas written on it.

Telephones and a radio receiver in Vonsovsky's office.

Director of the Institute of Metal Physics Mikheyev M.N. talks about Vonsovsky's work on magnetic flaw detection during the Great Patriotic War (synchronously).

Corresponding Member of the USSR Academy of Sciences talks about the use of Vonsovsky's method in the manufacture of artillery shells (synchronously).

Photograph of Vonsovsky with colleagues at the end of the Great Patriotic War.

The face of the scientist.

Warning sign on the laboratory door.

Vonsovsky at work in the laboratory, at the control panel of the devices.

Employees of the institute, talking, sitting in the corridor.

Vonsovsky at his desk in his office.

A diagram of the arrangement of electrons in the form of a house (animation).

The faces of Vonsovsky and his colleagues.

One of the employees of the Institute of Metal Physics reports on the conduct of another experiment at a meeting, Vonsovsky makes additions.

A diagram of the decrease in the total magnetic moment during the destruction of the outer shells of atoms, strengthening the outer shells (animation).

Vonsovsky gives a lecture to students of the Ural State University, one of the students takes notes.

One of Vonsovsky's students talks about attracting young scientists to important and topical problems of solid state physics (synchronously).

Doctor of Physical and Mathematical Sciences Yu.

Izyumov talks about the book he co-authored with a Moscow physicist, thanks Vonsovsky for his help in writing the book and for the ideas he suggested to the authors (synchronously).

A photograph of Vonsovsky at work.

Rare earth elements in the Periodic Table.

A diagram of the arrangement of electrons inside the element europium.

Conducting an experiment with europium.

Photograph of Vonsovsky sitting on a sofa in his office.

Continuation of the europium magnetism experiment at the lowest possible temperatures.

Demonstration of high magnetism when europium is combined with gadolinium.

The arrow of the control device showing the magnetism level.

Scientists during the experiment, instrument readings.

A small rare earth magnet lifts a weight 500 times its own weight.

Photograph of Vonsovsky.

Writing formulas on a piece of paper alternates with views of a radiosonde and the Shukhov Tower, equipment from one of the nuclear power plants, and a power transmission line mast.

Physicists talk about Vonsovsky's achievements in the field of solid state physics (synchronously).

Vonsovsky talks about his passion for physics (synchronously).

Izyumov talks about the team of scientists working under Vonsovsky's leadership.

Faces of scientists working at the Institute of Metal Physics.

Views of Sverdlovsk.

Vonsovsky talks about new scientific ideas in the field of magnetism, talks about the possibility of obtaining a monopole magnet, about the theory of a magnetic monopole (synchronously and off-screen).

Diagram of the bipolarity of a magnet (animation).

Birch branches in the wind.

Conducting another experiment in one of the laboratories of the Institute of Metal Physics.

The face of an employee of the institute.

A magnet on a watch chain instead of a weight.

Vonsovsky talks about the development and prospects of research in the field of magnetism, about changing the properties of matter and space in strong magnetic fields, about the problem of obtaining strong magnetic fields (synchronously).

Vonsovsky's face.

Preface and cover of Vonsovsky's book "Magnetism".