The sea spreads wide, or Time to gather stones (2005)

The film is a sequel to the 1987 film "The Sea Spreads Wide" about the town of Mologa that was flooded during the construction of the Rybinsk Reservoir.

The current film tells about the former residents of Mologa who live on the shores of the "artificial sea".

Snowmobiles move along the frozen reservoir.

Men make holes in the ice.

The remains of a brick building are visible in the hole.

Former residents of Mologa are sailing on a boat.

The boat sails past the "Mother Volga" monument.

Locks.

Construction of a hydroelectric power station (chronicle).

A scuba diver takes a brick from the bottom of the reservoir and hands it to a woman from the boat.

People throw flowers into the water.

Close-up: the head of the "Mother Volga" monument.

Broken ice on the Rybinsk Reservoir.

The captain of a river vessel at the helm.

Installing buoys.

A sign on the water installed above the central cathedral of Mologa. N. M. Alekseev, Director of the Mologa Region Museum.

A ship on the reservoir.

The central estate of the Darwin State Nature Reserve.

A photographer takes pictures of birds from a shelter.

Still images of birds.

Director of the reserve (synchronously).

The village of Borok-Verkhnevolzhskaya base of the USSR Academy of Sciences.

Papanin Institute of Biology of Inland Waters.

Ships at the pier.

Doctor of Biological Sciences A. Litvinov (synchronously).

The reservoir dam.

The church on the shore.

The water surface of the reservoir.

Priest Anatoly Denisov, the only priest in the area (synchronously).

Rybinsk hydraulic structures.

Lock.

Chronicle of the construction of the Rybinsk hydroelectric power station dam.

The ship passes the lock. N. Bychkov, a hydraulic structures worker (synchronously).

Memorial Day of Maloga.

Former residents of Maloga sail to the site of the flooding on a boat.

Tombstones under water. G. Daniyarova - Director of Operations of the Rybinsk Reservoir (synchronously).

Panorama along the shore of the reservoir.

The village of Zakharyino. V. Krasikov - owner of the fish factory (synchronously).

People collect skulls, bones, and pectoral crosses thrown out by the reservoir).

A coffin with remains.

A priest performs a funeral litiya.

The Leushinskaya icon of the Mother of God and the cross are loaded onto a boat and taken to the site of the flooded Leushinsky Monastery.

The priest blesses the icon and the cross.

The cross on a pedestal with anchors is lowered into the water.

Priest (synchronously).

Kalyazin bell tower.

The Leushinskoye vigil at night.

The surface of the reservoir.

Malog residents on a boat.

People's faces.

A wreath on the water.