To the heavenly world (1989)

View and panorama of the mountain river bed, a view of the river valley opens up.

Mountain rescuers stop for a rest and take off their mountaineering gear.

View of a tourist camp in the Siberian foothills, tourists and mountain rescuers sitting by the fire, faces of the mountain rescuers.

Mountain landscape (panorama, from above).

Icons in the red corner of the house, a man with a rosary on his wrist sits at the table and talks about his comprehension of God (synchronously).

River landscape.

The shore covered with pebbles.

Fishermen walk along the shallows.

The religious procession leaves the Orthodox church in Omsk, parishioners follow the icon of the Abalak Mother of God.

Carrying out the icon to the pier to the motor ship, panorama of the pier, part of the beach and the deck of the motor ship.

View of part of the beach, people sunbathing and swimming.

Fishermen pull nets out of the water.

Rusty and leaky hulls of ships lying on the shore.

A fisherman in a longboat on the river.

Orthodox priests conduct a service on the bow of the motor ship "Mikhail Kalashnikov".

The icon of Our Lady of Abalak, fixed on a stand on the deck of the motor ship.

Evening landscape, the sun is hiding behind the trees on the shore (panorama).

Pilgrims pray in front of the icon on the deck of the motor ship during sunset.

A monk stands, leaning on the rail and looks into the waters of the river.

A priest stands at the side.

An icon on a stand on the stern deck of the motor ship.

View of a part of a mountain stream in Siberia.

Siberian flora.

Siberian river landscape, transparent water near the shore, stones on the bottom are visible.

View of a part of the river bottom near the shore.

Local residents greet pilgrims with bread and salt and flowers.

The face of an elderly woman.

The priest blesses those who meet them, congratulates them on the holiday, accepts bread and salt.

View of an Orthodox church.

The metropolitan serves on the steps of the church, blesses the pilgrims and parishioners standing on the street with the sign of the cross, enters the church, pilgrims sitting on long benches in front of the entrance to the church.

Panorama of a part of the church building.

Faces of pilgrims and local parishioners.

Pilgrims having lunch in the fresh air at a common table, panorama of the table.

Siberian landscape, panorama of a lake.

The face of a girl.

A rolled up fishing net on the river bank, the skeletons of fishing boats and tugboats on the shore (panorama).

A woman at the pier, the face of one of the pilgrims.

Relatives at the pier see off the pilgrims who have joined the group, view of the pier moving away.

Water overboard the ship.

One of the pilgrims, sitting next to the priests, discusses the concept of God, talks about his conversion to God, talks about the monastic path (synchronously and off-screen).

A hat on the pilgrim's lap, the pilgrim's hands.

Water overboard the ship.

Pilgrims are resting on the deck of the ship during the trip, reading religious literature.

An Orthodox priest with his wife and child are walking along the deck of the ship.

Women talking.

The ship is sailing along the river, a river tram is coming towards them.

One of the mine rescuers, sitting by the fire, discusses secular and monastic life, talks about his daily work and life (synchronously), water in a mountain stream.

Logs burning in the fire.

The mine rescuers' equipment lies on the grass (panorama).

Mountain landscape, mountain peaks in the snow (panorama, from above).

River landscapes at sunset, pilgrims on the deck of a motor ship, an announcement about the evening prayer for pilgrims is heard over the intercom in the background.

Pilgrims during the evening prayer on the deck of a motor ship, a priest serves a funeral litiya (panorama).

An icon on the stern deck of a motor ship.

Evening shore outside the motor ship.

Portrait of Ermak Timofeevich.

The priest makes an announcement to the pilgrims about tomorrow's arrival in Tobolsk (synchronously).

View of the monastery in Tobolsk.

Fishermen pull their nets out of the water.

Fishing nets and a motorboat lying on the river bank.

Panorama of a dump and rusty ship hulls on the shore.

View of the monastery in Tobolsk.

Icon depicting John, Metropolitan of Tobolsk and All Siberia.

View of a part of the monastery wall and chain fence.

Views of a festive service on the monastery grounds, parishioners on the square in front of the church, view of the church building.

The rite of tonsure into monks.

Faces of children in festive church vestments.

Icon of Christ the Savior on the wall of the church.

Parishioners on the square in front of the church during the rite of tonsure.

Tonsure into monks, the priest cuts strands of hair from a novice with scissors.

Faces of children, censers in the children's hands.

The priest reads a prayer, placing his hand on the head of a newly converted monk.

An lectern taken out of the church for the festive service.

Faces of parishioners.

A newly converted monk reads a canon.

A nun places candles on a candlestick.

A boy's face.

The monk finishes reading and kneels.

A panorama of one of the walls, the outskirts of the monastery and part of Tobolsk.

A panorama of part of Tobolsk and a view of one of the monastery towers.

Faces of parishioners during the service.

The priest finishes the service.

A view of a narrow passage between old brick walls.

Pilgrims and parishioners on the monastery square (above).

A religious procession with the icon of the Abalak Mother of God.

A panorama of the outskirts of Tobolsk, the monastery is visible in the distance.

Meltwater flows from the mountains.

A panorama of the Siberian taiga, a view of a hermitage on the edge of the forest, a monk comes out of a log house with a bucket in his hand.

A view of an unfrozen stream, the monk begins to collect water in a bucket, scooping it up with a ladle.

Water in the stream.

A monk with a bucket of water goes up the mountain to the hermitage, a panorama of part of the taiga.

River landscape (panorama, from above).

Mountain rescuers wash themselves in a mountain stream.

Mountain landscape (from above).

Transparent river waters, pebbles in the shallows are visible.

A girl in a church, a girl's face.

Fishermen pull a net with a catch out of the water.

Seaweed on a rocky bottom in shallow water.

Nuns stand by the icon of the Abalak Mother of God on the deck of a motor ship late in the evening.

A girl's face in a headscarf.