Life is a cosmic phenomenon (1988)

Interior of the memorial office of academician V. I. Vernadsky (panorama).

Book spines on the shelves.

Glasses, magazines and manuscripts on the desk.

Photographs of V. I. Vernadsky from different years.

Clouds of fog over the forested hills.

Hot spring.

Volcanic lava.

Pieces of solidified lava, crystals, minerals of various types.

View of St.

Isaac's Cathedral from the window.

Collection of minerals.

Old books, microscope on the table.

Staining of minerals, formation of a pattern (combined photography).

Hot spring on rocks near a volcano.

Photograph of V. I. Vernadsky in the mountains.

Sunrise, glare.

Opening of a flower.

Germination of plants through the soil, opening of flowers.

Movement of molecules in cells.

Maple leaves.

Stems of grass in a stream of water.

Insects on plants and in the soil.

Various living organisms living in the soil.

Filming of microorganisms.

Snail on a leaf.

A snake on a tropical tree branch.

Ants crawling on tree trunks.

Taiga landscape.

View of a cliff with perennial deposits.

A herd of horses in the foothills.

A sunflower head, rural landscape.

Water in a wooden bucket near a well.

Water lily leaves on the water.

A flower in a pot, glasses lying on a newspaper.

A photograph of Vernadsky with his wife.

Books, magazines and card index boxes, a typewriter.

A collection of butterflies and beetles collected by Vernadsky (panorama).

A swarm of bees on honeycombs in a hive.

Bees pollinating plants.

Butterflies on grass inflorescences.

Bumblebees and flies on thistle flowers.

Various insects on flowers.

Flying poplar fluff.

The sun shines through the branches of the trees.

A cliff above a ravine, the roots of pushing through plants.

Trees growing through cracks in the rock.

Panorama of a cliff with trees growing through the stone.

Pines growing on a vertical cliff.

Panorama of a forest in the foothills.

Boulders in the water.

A mountain stream flowing under the ice.

Streams of water pouring from stones in the mountains.

Streams of a mountain waterfall, water splashes.

Water splashes flowing down stones.

Streams of water, streams and waterfalls in the mountains.

Panorama of a mountain stream (top).

A river valley in the mountains, flowering trees.

River beds (panoramas, top).

Panorama of the area, forest and winding river bed (top).

Underwater flora and fauna.

Types of underwater living organisms.

Eyes of insects, coloring of butterfly wings (combined shooting, animation).

Caves in bare rocks.

Skull of a fossil animal in the museum exhibition.

Imprint of the skeleton of an ancient animal in stone.

Imprints of ancient ferns on stones in the museum exhibition.

Fossils in the museum exhibition.

Transformation of a cell (animation), structure of cells.

Photographs of the remains of microorganisms found by paleontologists in ancient rocks of the earth's crust.

Ancient rock deposits.

Photographs by V.I. Vernadsky.

Movement and fusion of microorganisms inside a cell, illustration of movement.

Development of the brain and skull, starting from ancient amphibians and ending with humans (animation).

Stone pillars and rocks with holes.

Caves in bare rocks formed by wind blowing.

Burning fire.

Rock paintings in one of the caves.

Solar disk.

Masks and figurines of ancient idols and gods against the background of a water stream (combined shooting).

Image of Nefertiti.

Texts and drawings on ancient Egyptian papyrus.

Examples of ancient art of Assyria, Greece against the background of a water stream (combined shooting).

Antique ruins.

Human skeleton, bracelets in one of the burials.

Examples of ancient Indian sculpture and architecture.

Helmet of an ancient Russian warrior.

Seal carved from stone.

The course of development of science, technology, the emergence of religion (drawings, animation).

Paintings by Renaissance masters.

Schemes of planetary motion in the Universe.

Steamships, locomotives, airplanes, development of technology (animation).

Filming in space.

Astronauts in outer space.

Irrigation of a field using a sprinkler system.

Rainbow after the rain.

Ripening wheat.

Apples on the branches and on the ground.

Production processes in the steelmaking shop of an industrial enterprise.

Finished products of a metallurgical plant.

Automated production process on the conveyor of an automobile plant.

Volga Automobile Plant vehicles at the finished products site (panorama).

Tractors and trucks at the finished products site.

Parts of heavy equipment.

Felling trees using special equipment, without the use of manual labor.

Skidder tracks, removal of felled timber.

Excavator in a quarry, loading rock into a dump truck.

Unloading rock from a dump truck.

Coal on a conveyor belt.

Open-pit coal mining, loading mined coal into wagons.

The process of mining minerals.

Coal on a conveyor belt.

Wagons loaded with coal.

Types of a coal quarry and access railway tracks.

Rows of satellite dishes.

Panorama of solar panels, alternative energy sources (top).

Batteries for generating solar energy, solar power plant body.

The process of generating solar energy.

Plates for absorbing sunlight.

Stars and nebulae in outer space.

Solar flares.

Interior view of part of a computing center.

Data entry into a computer.

Filming a nuclear explosion from space.

Nuclear weapons testing.

Newsreel: the effect of a shock wave and the consequences of a nuclear explosion.

Damaging factors of a nuclear explosion, destruction from a shock wave.

Destruction of cities (staging).

Consequences of a nuclear war (staging).

Barbed wire along the perimeter of one of the Nazi concentration camps, a warning sign on a plate.

Newsreel: victims of the Nazi occupiers.

Columns of German prisoners of war leaving Stalingrad for the steppe in January 1943. Photographs by V.I. Vernadsky.

Action of space weapons to repel an enemy attack (animation).

Photographs of parts of the earth's surface from space.

Astronauts in orbit conduct research and experiments, fossils of skeletons of ancient animals and plants.

Changes in the ecology of the Earth on the monitor screen, the disappearance of the Aral Sea.

View of an oil field, pumping oil from the bowels of the Earth.

Industrial wastewater, pollution of the environment, panorama of a polluted reservoir.

Destruction of the environment due to uncontrolled discharge of industrial waste.

Panorama of a dead forest.

Smoking factory chimneys.

Formation of harmful clouds in the atmosphere.

Smog over a city block.

Emission of harmful substances into the atmosphere.

Abandoned railroad tracks, rusty rails, panorama of a rusty locomotive boiler.

Construction waste dump.

Panorama of a scrap metal dump.

Scrap metal dump along railroad tracks, a train passes by.

Scrap metal dump on the edge of an abandoned quarry.

Views of a quarry.

A chain of explosions in a quarry.

Sandstorm in the steppe, an oil rig.

Rusty parts of mechanisms scattered on the sand.

Consequences of environmental pollution, environmental violations.

Choking fish thrown aground.

Rusty fishing boats on the exposed bottom of the Aral Sea.

Parts of a sunken ship overgrown with algae (underwater footage).

Unexploded ordnance on the seabed.

Panorama of the surf strip contaminated with reinforcement debris, rusting scrap metal on the shore.

Pines with exposed roots on the shore (panorama).

Panorama of a part of a cliff with trees growing on it.

The house where V.I. Vernadsky lived in 1941-1943. Memorial plaque on the wall of the house.

Fragment of a wooden balustrade.

Photos of V.I. Vernadsky in different years.

Clouds running in the sky.

Grass bends under gusts of wind (panorama).

Filming underwater flora.

Panorama of the area (above), a river flowing among forests and fields.