Two steps from the pole (1986)

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Men are transporting a rocket on a special cart.

The automatic hatch of the bunker opens.

A rocket is launched at the testing ground.

A radio operator in headphones sits near the instruments, listening to signals.

Franz Josef Land Archipelago, Heiss Island, snow, snowdrifts, a small village of a research station is in the frame.

A man is checking meteorological equipment outside.

Men are stretching a cable, installing it on special wooden spacers.

A man is walking through snowdrifts, along houses.

A snowstorm, a group of men are walking.

The frame shows a snowstorm, a cable on spacers.

A research group is equipping a scuba diver for an underwater dive.

The frame shows scuba divers in wetsuits before diving, putting on air tanks, checking equipment, etc.

A scuba diver puts on a mask.

Air tanks are being checked before diving.

The frame shows a large ice hole, scuba divers enter the water, listen to the final instructions, and begin to dive.

Underwater filming - scuba divers dive to depth, holding on to a rope.

Scuba divers at depth, examining an iceberg located under the station.

Winter arctic landscape, sunset, snow, ice, rocks.

Scuba divers explore an iceberg underwater.

Underwater filming of an iceberg from different angles.

One of the expedition members in the house, near the ice hole, calls the scuba divers on the radio, tries to contact them, gives instructions.

Scuba divers underwater, swim along the iceberg, shine a flashlight, examine the iceberg for cracks and chips.

View from the depths of the glowing hole in the ice hole above.

Expedition members pull the scuba divers out of the water with ropes.

Scuba divers in the water, hold on to the sides of the hole, rest after diving, drink hot tea, answer questions from colleagues.

A group of men with equipment, air tanks, etc. walk along a snowy road from a meteorological station to a diving site.

The men open a wooden shed with an ice hole and go inside.

Underwater filming - scuba divers dive to depth, hold on to a rope, and shine a flashlight.

The scuba divers inspect the bottom, iceberg, etc.

The scuba divers rise to the top, to the ice hole.

A man folds the rope and hangs it on the wall.

After diving, a scuba diver drinks hot tea, his colleague inspects the scuba gear and air tanks.

Large - chunks of ice on the scuba gear.

The man clears the ice from the scuba gear and pours boiling water from a kettle over it.

The scuba diver jumps into the water again, takes the device with him, his colleague unwinds the safety rope.

The scuba diver at depth attaches the lighting device to the surface of the iceberg.

The scuba divers surface again, take their equipment, and then dive again.

A scuba diver at depth, with a flashlight, swims holding a frame in his hands, followed by another scuba diver.

Underwater filming - the frame shows various plants, algae, stones, etc.

A scuba diver with a large device in his hands lights the way and films.

The frame shows sea spiders (Colossendeis).

Close-up - a shrimp on a stone at depth.

Various animals of the underwater world of the Arctic.

A scuba diver with a large device (a camera for deep-sea filming).

Panorama of the seabed, plants, protozoa, etc.

A scuba diver films the inhabitants of the deep sea.

The frame shows various underwater plants, algae, etc.

A scuba diver films underwater plants.

Close-up - a single-celled organism, a comb jelly.

The frame shows a scuba diver at the bottom.

Various shots with a comb jelly.

A scuba diver at depth, filming the underwater world.

In the frame - a polar bear with cubs, dogs running and barking nearby.

A scuba diver at depth, holding a frame in his hands.

Scuba divers collect samples of plants and animals from the depths for research, put them in a special container.

Scuba divers emerge, holding on to the rope.

Colleagues on the surface help the scuba divers emerge, pull the safety rope, after emerging, the scuba divers give back the container with samples of flora and fauna.

Scuba divers rise from the ice-hole to the surface.

Close-up - a hand takes samples out of the container, puts them in a special aquarium.

Colleagues help the scuba divers take off their scuba gear, equipment, rub their hands, etc.

Scuba divers near the ice-hole, change clothes, rub themselves, try to warm up.

A radio operator in headphones near the devices, sends an audio message.

Close-up - a hand presses a button, sends a message.

The frame shows an arctic landscape, snow, snowdrifts, etc., an all-terrain vehicle is driving, clearing the road.

Pilots in the helicopter cabin.

A group of expedition members is standing, men are shooting flare pistols into the air.

Close-up - a man is looking out the window, taking a photo.

View from the helicopter cabin onto a snowy plain.

Close-up - the pilot's face.

A helicopter is flying over an archipelago, in the frame there are endless ice, snow, etc. (shot from above).