With a movie camera through the taiga and tundra (1958)

General view of the village on Cape Chelyuskin.

Fuel barrels are covered with snow.

A tracked tractor is moving.

An icebreaker is moving through the ice.

Hydrologists are making a map of ice movement.

People are boarding an airplane.

A dog on the ice.

An airplane taking off.

Pilots in the airplane cockpit.

The second pilot’s face.

Icebreakers are moving through the ice.

An airplane crew radio operator is transmitting a radiogram.

Ice under the airplane wing.

A radio operator is transmitting a radiogram.

Radar on the icebreaker’s mast.

The ship is moving through broken ice.

A radio operator in the radio room.

The navigator is plotting a course.

A ship traveling from Murmansk to Vladivostok.

The ship’s captain on the bridge is looking through binoculars.

Ocean waves are splashing.

View of the ship’s upper deck.

Ships in the port of Tiksi.

Delivery of cargo to ships in the port of Tiksi.

Loading of one of the ships.

A boat is moving through the waves.

View of a part of Providence Bay in Chukotka.

Panorama of part of the port facilities in Providence Bay.

Ships in the port.

People on the pier greet an ocean liner.

Faces of those meeting and seeing off.

People wave goodbye to the passengers of the ship.

View of part of a passenger ship.

Ships in the port.

A passenger liner goes to sea.

Map of mineral resources in the eastern part of the USSR - coal, iron ore, gold, diamonds, oil and gas.

Mountain landscape in Siberia.

Crawler tractors overcome a water obstacle.

A party of geologists is walking.

A herd of deer is moving.

Exploration of oil fields.

People are sailing on a motorboat.

An airplane is flying.

A helicopter is flying.

A cameraman is filming from a helicopter.

The face of the helicopter pilot.

Mountain landscapes under the wing of an airplane.

A film crew on the bank of the Lena.

Coastal landscapes.

Members of the film crew at a rest stop by a campfire.

Map of the route of the film crew from Tiksi to Irkutsk.

A flying airplane.

Mountain landscapes under the wing of an airplane.

Members of a film crew walk through the taiga.

View of a geological party camp.

The face of the geologist's guide, P.V. Maksimov.

A female geologist talks to Maksimov.

Coastal landscapes.

Construction of new houses in a Chukchi village.

Carpenters at work.

People carry things from a yaranga to a new house.

A woman with small children stands on the shore.

People carry things into a new house.

People dismantle an old yaranga.

The face of a female geologist talking to Maksimov.

Maksimov's face.

Children from a Yakut village are getting ready for school, loading things and books onto a reindeer.

A caravan of reindeer with cargo is moving.

The caravan approaches the plane.

Yakut schoolchildren dismount from the reindeer and board the plane.

The schoolchildren are sitting in the plane.

The plane takes off and takes off.

Parents at the airfield wave goodbye.

The plane gains altitude.

A passenger ship at the pier in the port of Tiksi.

The captain's mate in the wheelhouse and the helmsman at the helm.

Lunch in the ship's dining room.

Children having lunch.

A sailing ship.

Seascape.

General view of a part of the village of Kusyur.

Children entering the school.

Children in the locker room.

Schoolchildren putting on their school uniform caps.

A ceremonial assembly dedicated to the beginning of a new academic year.

The secretary of the district committee of the CPSU speaks to the students.

The boys at the assembly listen to the speech of the secretary of the district committee.

Faces of the members of the district committee bureau.

A schoolgirl rings the bell.

The students sit down at their desks.

The class teacher T. T. Barmina congratulates the children on the beginning of the new academic year.

A lesson in the classroom.

The face of a student.

Students at their desks.

The face of the geologists' guide Maksimov.

View of the monument to Ordzhonikidze G. K., who served his exile in Yakutia before the revolution.

Faces of children and adults examining the monument.

Landscapes of Lake Baikal.

Head of the Baikal Port Rylsky A.I. Faces of the port administration employees.

Rylsky on board the boat talking to the film crew.

Coastal landscape.

The face of Rylsky giving an interview.

View of part of Lake Baikal (from above).

Coastal landscape.

Views of the river beds flowing into Baikal.

Views of river sections.

Siberian landscapes.

The steamship Komsomolets is sailing along Lake Baikal.

A sailor is descending from the mast.

The captain of the steamship is on the bridge.

The steamship is sailing along Lake Baikal.

People on the deck of the steamship.

Faces of children sailing on the steamship.

View of one of the islands on Lake Baikal.

Faces of passengers.

People are standing at the side of the steamship.

A boat with a film crew is sailing along Lake Baikal to Lovetsky Stan.

Coastal landscape.

The face of the captain of a fishing seiner.

A flotilla of a fishing collective farm during fishing.

A motorboat tows boats with people.

Women's faces.

Rocks on the lake shore.

Fishermen cast their nets.

Standing fishing nets.

Fishermen in boats at sunset.

Fishermen pull out nets with the morning catch of Baikal omul.

Fish in the nets.

People fry fish over a fire.

Members of the film crew on board the motorboat wave goodbye to the fishermen.

Fishermen on the shore wave back.

View of the side of the motorboat.

Wave overboard the motorboat.

Coastal landscapes of Lake Baikal.

A house on the shore of Baikal.

Trees with exposed roots.

A little boy walks under the roots of a tree.

A woman on the shore mending nets.

A girl's face.

A boy sits on the sand.

A boy launches a homemade boat.

Rocks on the shores of Lake Baikal.

The owner of the house, G.V. Belozertsev, leaves the house and heads to work.

Belozertsev walks through the forest.

Belozertsev climbs the wooden stairs to the lighthouse.

Belozertsev checks the operation of the lighthouse.

View of Lake Baikal from a ship.

Lighthouse on a cliff is burning.

Coastal landscapes of Lake Baikal.

Film crew walks through the taiga.

Bear sits on a tree.

Cameraman and geologists walk through the taiga.

Taiga landscape.

Film crew members talk to geologists.

Film crew members and a geological party move through the taiga.

Reindeer herder by the fire.

Faces of women and children.

Reindeer resting after the trek.

One of the geologists makes notes in a notebook.

Geologists go to explore the area.

Geologists walk through the taiga.

Panorama of part of the taiga (from above).

Bear in a clearing.

Geologists walk through the taiga.

Sable on a tree.

Sable head.

Geologists mark out the area.

Bear stands on its hind legs by the tree.

Geologists explore the area with a metal detector.

Geologist Kravchenko R. examines the found rock sample.

Kravchenko shows the found sample to his colleagues.

Kravchenko's face.

Taiga landscapes.

The geologists who have returned from their search enter the tent.

A girl is washing clothes on the bank of a stream.

A geologist is changing his shoes, sitting by the tent, and pouring water out of his boot.

Drying foot wraps on a tent guy line.

Evening landscapes.

A fire is burning in the geologists' camp.

Geologists are sitting by the fire.

A burning fire.

The faces of geologists.

A dying fire.

Taiga landscapes.

Geological prospectors are walking through the taiga.

A running fawn.

Geologists are walking through a swamp.

The head of the geological party, A. I. Pukharev, is searching for samples of useful minerals.

Pukharev's face.

Pukharev is working on his PhD thesis at a table in a small house at the base.

Colleagues approach Pukharev and show him a map.

Pukharev discusses the map with the geologists.

Samples of minerals on the shelves of the laboratory.

General view of the laboratory.

Laboratory employees conduct a chemical analysis of mineral samples.

General view of a taiga village.

A team of drillers on motorcycles passes through the village.

General view of the future drilling site.

A motorcycle near a drilling rig.

General view of the rig.

A driller at work.

The face of a driller.

Drillers extract ore samples.

Ore samples in the hands of a driller.

Open-pit coal mining.

General view of a phlogopite deposit.

Blasting operations at the deposit.

Phlogopite samples.

Phlogopite mining, general view of a part of the development (top).

Excavator operator in the cabin.

Loading phlogopite into the back of a dump truck.

Mica mining.

Loading mica into the back of a truck.

Removal of mined mica.

Taiga under the wing of an airplane.

Flying airplane.

Taiga under the wing of an airplane.

General view of Aldan (top).

Deer and buses on the street of Aldan.

People playing dominoes.

People on the streets of Aldan.

Cars and buses driving along the streets.

People at the bus stop.

People getting on buses leaving for the gold mines.

Buses driving by.

The road outside the bus window.

A taxi driving along the road.

View of part of the gold mine.

Prospectors washing rock.

Faces of female prospectors.

A prospector with a dog sitting by a fire.

Gold mining with a dredge.

A dredge operator at work.

Gold washed out during a shift by a dredge, gold mined by prospectors lies nearby.

General view of developed gold mines (from above).

An airplane is flying.

Forest and mountain landscapes under the wing of the airplane.

Views of the Indigirka River.

People riding through the taiga on horses, a tractor pulling a trailer.

People riding on horseback.

A tractor pulling a trailer on runners.

The tractor is slipping in the mud.

People riding on horseback.

Coniferous trees.

General view of a logging enterprise.

Sawmill workers at a sawing machine.

Workers stack sawn boards.

Worker Spirin A. gives an interview to the film crew.

View of Gorky Street in Moscow.

St.

Basil's Cathedral on Red Square.

Spirin talks to a member of the film crew.

Construction of new wooden houses in a taiga miners' settlement.

Construction of houses on the river bank.

People move into new wooden houses.

View of taiga trees.

People on the streets of Magadan in winter.

Views of Magadan.

People skating.

Street in Magadan.

Welder at the construction of a power plant.

Crane operator in the cabin of a tower crane.

View of part of the port in the evening.

People walk along the river bank at the edge of the forest.

Fishermen stand with fishing rods.

House in a forest clearing.

Horses graze in a clearing.

Trees in the forest.

Bird on a branch.

Flowers in a forest clearing.

Trees in the forest.

View of part of a taiga river.

Forest landscape.

Geological parties set out to explore for minerals.

A caravan of reindeer moves across the tundra.

Coastal landscape at sunrise.

The sea at sunrise.