Off the coast of Antarctica (1956)

Antarctica.

Panorama of coastal ice and rocks.

Snowstorm.

Old geographical maps.

Portrait of D. Cook by N. Dance-Holland from the London National Maritime Museum.

Pages from the atlas of F.F.Bellingshausen.

Portrait of F.F.Bellingshausen.

Portrait of M.P.Lazarev from the engraving by I.Thomson.

Page of a document.

Cartoon: the passage of the expedition around Antarctica.

Photographs of expeditions of the early twentieth century. R.Amundsen on skis.

Portrait of R.Scott.

Portrait of D.Mawson.

Portrait of R.Baird.

Cartoon: the route of the USSR expedition of 1955-1956. Meeting of the Lena and the Ob in Antarctic waters.

Icebreaker Lena at the ice barrier.

Icy rigging and structures.

Sailors throw snow off the deck.

Unloading the icebreaker.

People pull an all-terrain vehicle onto the shore.

A tractor carries a load.

Huskies in a net with a load.

Puppies in the snow.

An Adelie penguin studies puppies.

A puppy cuddles up to a penguin.

Construction of a scientific town.

Glaciologists study snow and ice.

Ice and icicles.

The Antarctic plateau.

The sun behind the clouds.

Snowstorm.

Penguins escape the hurricane in the water.

View of the scientific town.

Members of the expedition walk through the snowstorm and continue their work.

Buildings are covered with snow.

The grand opening of the Mirny observatory town on February 13, 1956.

Cartoon: location of research stations of different countries on the continent.

Icebreaker "Kista Dan".

Visit of Australian scientists to Mirny.

People exiting a wooden building.

People walking along the platform past an airplane and a helicopter.

Head of the Australian expedition Philip Lowe.

Australians talking with members of the Soviet expedition.

The helicopter is coming in to land.

People meeting the helicopter.

The helicopter is on the platform.

Head of the Soviet expedition M.M.Somov exits the helicopter.

People board the icebreaker.

Motorboat at sea.

Diesel-electric ship "Ob".

People on the deck. M.M.Somov and V.D.Golubev say goodbye to the ship's crew.

USSR flag on the mast.

Motorboat heading for the shore.

The ship's crew waving from the side.

Captain I.A.Man plots the route on the map.

Cartoon: route of the "Ob".

View of the ocean from the side of the ship. I.A. Man looks through binoculars.

Shackleton Ice Shelf.

Ice blubber.

Iceberg.

Sailor at the helm.

The ship moves through a field of ice "pancakes".

Lookout.

The ship moves through pack ice.

Seals on ice floes.

Panorama of the ice. I.A. Man controls the ship's passage through a difficult section.

A strip of open water behind the ship's tail.

The signalman types a radiogram.

Cartoon: Macquarie Island on a map.

People walk along the road.

Australian scientific station.

Waves run up the shore.

Sailors right an overturned boat.

Water is bailed out of the boat.

People free the rope from serpentine algae.

The second boat is pulled to the shore.

Station master Jean Adams.

Grass thickets on the hills of Macquarie Island.

Southern elephant seals.

A cub crawls back.

A photographer takes a picture of a group of adult animals.

Elephant seals growl at the photographer.

Young elephant seals on the shore.

An elephant seal in shallow water.

The head of an adult elephant seal.

Penguins dive into the water.

Farewell of Soviet and Australian researchers.

Cartoon: route from Macquarie Island to New Zealand.

Panorama of Wellington port.

Diesel-electric ship "Ob" at the pier.

The crew goes ashore.

Soviet scientists talk with New Zealanders.

Monument on the square.

Landscapes in the vicinity of Wellington.

A group of scientists descends the steps of the Royal Museum.

Doctor of Geographical Sciences V.G.Kort.

Scientists in front of the museum.

Cartoon: route from New Zealand to Australia.

View of the ocean from the ship.

Seagull over the waves.

A flock of dolphins.

Panorama of Adelaide port.

Landscape in the vicinity of Adelaide.

Pineapple trees along the road. "Ob" at the pier.

Scientists board. D. Mawson talks with Australian and Soviet colleagues. F. Lowe. D. Mawson enters the cabin.

Australian scientists, V.G.Kort and the head of the geological detachment A.P.Lisitsyn discuss the work program.

University of Adelaide (Adelaide University of Geology).

Mawson Laboratories.

A group of scientists walking down the street.

Radiograms.

A meteorologist making a map.

Ship rigging.

A meteorological instrument on the mast.

Launching a sounding balloon from the deck.

A meteorologist with a transmitter.

The balloon rises.

The meteorologist records the results of observations in a log.

Raising a bathometer from the depths.

A hydrologist unhooks the bathometer from the rope.

Hydrologists on deck.

Comparing the temperatures of different layers of water.

A scientist lowers the bathometer into the water.

Chemists working with water samples.

Scientists in a ship's laboratory.

Determining the oxygen content of water.

Determining the degree of salinity of water.

Scientists at the control panel of an echo sounder.

Graphs are the basis for compiling maps of the sea depths.

Geologists raise geological tubes from the bottom.

Extracting soil from the tubes.

A column of soil is cut off and wrapped in paper.

View of the water from the deck.

Islands on the horizon.

People in a boat.

View of the Ob from the boat.

Landing on the rocky shores of the island.

A penguin runs through the snow.

View of the plateau from above.

View of the Ob from the shore.

Scientists with equipment climb the rocks.

Taking rock samples.

View of the sea from the island.

View of the water from the deck.

Balleny Islands.

Scientists in a lifeboat off the coast of Young Island.

The steep cliffs of the island.

The lifeboat in the water, the wind throws spray into people's faces.

Panoramas of glaciers (shot from an airplane).

Glaciers at the water's edge.

Coastal boulders.

Icebergs.

Geologists lift stones from the bottom of the icebergs. V.M. Basov. A.V. Zhivago.

The bottom grab opens. A.V. Zhivago takes stones out of the trawl.

The scientist sorts out stones and dirt on the deck.

Rock samples on the table in the laboratory. V.M. Basov studies rocks with a microscope.

Models of ancient forests.

Rocky shores of the islands.

Moss and lichens on the rocks.

Biologists lift the trawl onto the deck.

The catch is washed with a hose.

Fish and starfish are shaken out of the net.

Fish in the hands of the scientist.

Snaketails (ofeura).

Jellyfish.

Holothurians in the fingers of a scientist. P.V.Ushakov and G.M.Belyaev study a sea cockroach (stavnitsa).

Biologists close jars with samples. G.M.Belyaev lights a cigarette.

Scientists collect plankton.

Plankton under a microscope. K.A.Brodsky looks through a microscope. K.A.Brodsky and M.E.Vinogradov. M.E.Vinogradov conducts experiments with shrimps.

A strip of open water behind the tail of the icebreaker.

Ice field.

Crustaceans in the water.

Birds hunt crustaceans near the surface of the water.

Nests of blue petrels on rocks.

Petrel egg.

The female sits on the egg.

The chick hides under the mother.

Blue petrels on the rocks.

Seals crawl on the ice.

Spotted seal (largha).

The seal dives into a crack between ice floes.

Whales in the water.

Penguins on the rocks.

Adelie penguins.

The male penguin carries stones for the nest to the female.

Penguins climb down the rocks.

Penguins dive.

Adults guard the chicks.

Sleeping penguin chicks.

Nurse penguins do not allow the chicks to run away.

A flock of hunting penguins returns to the shore.

The chicks run after the adults and demand food.

Penguins climb up the slope.

Feeding the chicks.

Colony of emperor penguins.

A penguin holds an egg on its paws and covers it with its belly.

Grown chicks among adults.

People approach the penguins.

Scientists catch and ring the chicks.

The colony moves to another place.

A flock of skuas.

Penguin chicks walk in the snow.

Skuas threaten each other.

An adult penguin watches a chick that has fallen behind.

The deck of a ship.

Sailors heading for emperor penguins.

Catching penguins.

Penguins slithering away on their bellies.

Photographer taking pictures.

Penguin walking on deck.

Scientists teasing birds.

Ocean roughness, birds flying over water.

Sailors throwing snow off deck.

Beginning of storm.

Scientists working on deck.

Lookout.

Sun behind clouds.

Ocean waves.

Ship sailing through storm.

Scientists covering equipment.

List to port.

People securing tarpaulin.

Waves washing over ship's bow.

Snow petrel soaring in sky.

Birds above ship.

USSR flag on mast.