The film shows the basics of learning skiing and introduces the viewer to outstanding Soviet athletes.




Mountain peaks and slopes.
Skiers at the foot of the mountains.
Skiers in the forest.
Group with an instructor.
Beginning of training, the instructor demonstrates a stepping step without poles.
Practicing a stepping step with a group.
Teaching a sliding step without poles on the site.
Group with an instructor in the forest.
Walking with poles, alternating stroke.
Rules for alternating stroke (slow motion).
The group is walking along a ski track.
The instructor demonstrates how to climb a gentle slope using alternating stroke.
Students are climbing the slope.
The instructor demonstrates body position during the descent.
The instructor is sliding down.
Students are sliding down one by one.
Example of falls.
A fall in slow motion.
Skiers are sliding down.
A group on a course.
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A. Novikov at the start. A. Novikov on the ski track. V. P. Smirnov waxes his skis before the start. V. P. Smirnov on the ski track. V. P. Smirnov stops and looks at the mountains. D. M. Vasiliev. D. M. Vasiliev on the course.
Features of the course (slow motion). D. M. Vasiliev on the course.
Course with simultaneous push with two poles.
The athlete skis along the river bank.
Ski jumping.
Large ski jump.
The athlete jumps.
At the start, the 1938 Moscow Champion M. Kapustin. M. Kapustin's jump.
View from the ski jump down.
Jump technique (slow motion).
The athlete stands on his skis.
At the start, Master of Sports V. Andreev. V. Andreev's jump.
At the start, Master of Sports M. Lebedev. M. Lebedev's jump.
At the start, the 1938 Leningrad champion P. Alekseev. P. Alekseev's jump.
Fall after the jump. P. Alekseev's jump in slow motion.
Athletes with skis in their hands.
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Smirnov V.P. - Soviet skier
record holder and multiple USSR champion in cross-country skiing
coach of the USSR national team. Vasiliev D.M. -- Soviet skier
Honored Master of Sports of the USSR
16-time USSR champion in cross-country skiing
Honored coach of the USSR
Chief Coach of the USSR Armed Forces in Skiing
coach of the USSR national team.
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