A story about the Siberian region, touching on various aspects of life from the development of heavy industry and science to the preservation of culture, traditions and natural resources.
Winter Zhiguli races on Lake Baikal.
Traffic on the overpass across the river.
A truck passes.
Workers walk along the plant grounds.
Industrial landscape.
Power lines come out.
Hydroelectric power station dam.
A man looks into the distance from under his arm.
People on the deck.
A woman with a camera.
A man puts on a helmet.
A group of workers.
Novosibirsk.
Lenin Square, fragments of the monument.
Flowers near the monument.
City transport traffic.
A man sorts through photographs on a table.
Photos from the construction of the Kuznetsk Iron and Steel Works.
Smelting shop.
Hot strips of metal come out onto the conveyors.
Molten metal pours.
Plant buildings.
A diesel locomotive enters the shop.
Molten metal is poured into a bowl.
Panoramas: mountains, swamps, forests, rivers (view from above).
View of the Ust-Ilimsk Hydroelectric Power Station dam from under an airplane wing.
Ust-Ilimsk Hydroelectric Power Station.
Construction of the dam.
Bratsk Hydroelectric Power Station.
Krasnoyarsk Hydroelectric Power Station.
Machine room.
A welder works on the dam.
Sayano-Shushenskaya hydroelectric power station.
View of the construction from above.
A dump truck passes by.
Construction work.
Water flows into the drains.
People on the territory of the hydroelectric power station.
Machine room.
View of the dam from the shore.
Power transmission towers.
Timber on a conveyor.
Factory buildings.
A worker in a workshop.
Molten metal.
Siberia Novosibirsk Altai Krai Irkutsk Region Krasnoyarsk Krai
Winter Spring
A festively decorated troika.
Fairy tale characters riding horses.
A reindeer team.
A man in a national costume riding a reindeer.
People riding in troikas.
A man leading a reindeer.
A driver next to the team.
A laughing girl.
Reindeer with decorations on their heads.
Sled races.
A girl’s face.
A man with a child.
People dancing and playing folk instruments.
The riders on horses are pelted with snow.
A girl’s face.
Russian troikas.
People dressed as knights galloping across a field.
Troika races.
Ruins of ancient settlements.
Stone idols.
Archaeological finds in a workshop.
An archaeologist assembles a vessel from shards.
Fragments of painted vessels.
Rock painting.
Tomsk State University.
People leaving the university.
People climbing the steps and entering one of the university buildings.
Residents on the streets of the city.
An old wooden house.
A modern street.
People on the main university alley.
Old houses, wooden architecture.
A girl's face.
Wooden architecture.
A folklore ensemble of Transbaikal Russian Cossacks is singing.
Women are doing their hair.
A man is combing his beard.
Folk crafts: figurines and jewelry.
A fragment of a performance by the Buryat State Opera and Ballet Theater.
A fragment of the ballet "The Beauty Angara", L.P. Sakhyanova and P. Abasheev are dancing. L.P. Sakhyanova in the classroom with her students.
Girls at the piano. L.P. Sakhyanova is teaching a lesson.
A student at the mirror.
Younger students on a bench.
The girls are warming up at the piano.
The older students are dancing.
The younger group is watching the lesson.
Sakhyanova L.P. - People's Artist of the USSR
ballerina
teacher Abasheev P. - Honored Artist of the RSFSR
People's Artist of the RSFSR.
Siberia Tomsk Republic of Buryatia
Winter Spring
Panorama of the West Siberian swamps.
Panorama of Lake Samotlor.
Oil industrial complex.
Helicopters on the platform.
The helicopter rises above the forest.
Swampy area.
The helicopter lifts the derrick.
Yu.A.Redkin.
The helicopter takes off.
Yu.A.Redkin in the cockpit.
A worker jumps off the suspended load.
The helicopter lifts the load.
The helicopter with the load flies above the swamps.
Yu.A.Redkin looks out of the cockpit.
The emergency load release button.
Close-up of Yu.A.Redkin's face.
The helicopter with the load.
The pilot's hand on the lever.
Panorama of the swamps.
Yu.A.Redkin.
View from below of the helicopter's belly.
The sling with the load.
View of the drilling rig, a torch is burning next to the derrick.
A team of workers on the drilling rig. G.M.Levin and his colleague are descending the stairs. G.M.Levin is working with the team.
Representatives of US oil companies visit a drilling rig.
A multi-story building.
A freight transport is driving along the road.
People are crowding at the bus station.
Buses are taking workers to their factories.
Yu.A.Redkin is talking to his colleagues.
A helicopter is lifting a load.
A helicopter with a load is flying over the taiga.
Pilots in the cockpit.
Panorama of swamps.
Panorama of drilling rigs on Samotlor.
Snowdrifts.
Gold mining in the North.
A worker at the control panel.
A mining rig is operating.
Buckets are moving along a conveyor.
Washing the rock.
Weighing the gold.
Gold sand is poured into a bag.
The bag is placed in a wooden box.
A scientist is cleaning a nugget.
Samples of large nuggets.
Redkin Yu.A. - commander of the aviation squadron of the Tyumen Civil Aviation Administration
Hero of the Order of Lenin. Levin G.M. - Hero of Socialist Labor
Deputy Chairman of the Supreme Council of the RSFSR.
Siberia Khanty-Mansiysk Autonomous Okrug - Yugra
Winter Spring
Siberian diamonds.
Workers sorting stones.
Diamond cutting.
Large diamonds.
Weighing stones.
USSR State Diamond Fund, vase with diamonds.
Samples of large diamonds.
Gold mining equipment.
Panorama of a city under construction.
A dump truck driving down the street.
Multi-story buildings.
People walking down the street.
People coming out of a wooden building.
Applause from the audience.
Performance of the Krasnoyarsk State Siberian Dance Ensemble on the square.
Applause from the audience.
The audience gives flowers to the artists.
A worker walking along the sleepers.
Construction of a railway (one of the stages of the BAM construction).
Trucks crossing a river.
Trucks on a dirt road in the taiga.
Construction of multi-story buildings.
Visit of the Scientific Council on Construction Problems of the USSR Academy of Sciences to the railway.
Council members talking to workers.
Panoramas of Lake Baikal.
Frost falling from the trees.
Ice drift.
A bear looking for food under the snow.
A bear cub playing under a bush.
Houses of the researchers of the Barguzinsky Nature Reserve.
A reserve employee checks the weather station.
Mechanics start a snowmobile.
People riding a snowmobile.
Snowshoes.
The keeper of the reserve, Yu.
Frolov, goes through the forest on skis.
Female deer (Siberian stag) run across the snow.
Yu.
Frolov takes pictures.
A male Siberian stag.
Yu.
Frolov returns home.
A herd of deer in the forest.
Bear cubs run across the snow.
Yu.
Frolov watches a bear cub and a puppy play.
A man strokes a bear cub.
A puppy found a toy in the firewood.
Pasqueflower.
Yu.
Frolov feeds a puppy and a bear cub milk from a bottle.
Siberia Krasnoyarsk Irkutsk region Republic of Buryatia Transbaikal Territory
Spring
Y. Frolov feeds the bear cubs with milk from a bottle.
The bear cub is rolling in the snow. Y. Frolov looks through binoculars.
A Baikal seal cub on the ice. Y. Frolov strokes the seal. Y. Frolov writes in a notebook, the bear cub licks his hand.
The bear cub and the puppy are trying to play with the seal. Y. Frolov takes his pets home.
Huge icicles.
The sun is shining through the clouds.
A long-eared owl.
Sunset over the lake.
Birds are flying across the sky.
Public transport on the streets of Novosibirsk.
Multi-storey buildings, view from the bridge.
People on the streets of the city.
Multi-storey buildings, view from the park.
Panorama of the Novosibirsk Academic City.
A man is walking along a path.
People in the courtyards.
Electronic scoreboard.
People are working in the halls with research equipment.
Children in labor lessons.
The teacher is explaining the material at the blackboard.
Schoolboy A. Melchuk talks about his project.
Classes at Novosibirsk University.
Student.
Teacher writes on the board.
Students' faces.
Students in the classroom.
Round table at the Institute of Nuclear Physics.
Scientists go down to the lab. A. Rzhannikov closes the door, the emergency signal goes on.
Interview with A. Rzhannikov.
The alarm flashes.
Scientists start up the equipment.
Research is being conducted in the field of thermonuclear fusion.
An ancient image of the sun on a stone.
A motor ship is sailing along the river.
The motor ship goes under the bridge, cars are driving along the bridge.
The motor ship is on the water.
A cargo ship and seaplanes are at the pier.
An airplane is taking off from the airfield.
Panorama of the river, a flock of birds is taking off from a rocky island.
Timber rafting down the river, view from above.
Hydroelectric power station dam.
A highway among fields.
Cultivated fields.
Siberia Republic of Buryatia Trans-Baikal Territory Novosibirsk
Spring