Non-permafrost (1988)

Old books and maps on the table.

Old engravings depicting the nature of the North.

A map showing the permafrost region.

Panorama of the Yakut tundra.

Rocks along the banks of the Lena.

Tundra vegetation.

Permafrost.

Fyodor Shergin mine.

Cracked earth.

A swollen mound with ice in its core.

Relief of Yakutia.

Tundra from a helicopter.

Residential area of Yakutsk.

House on stilts.

Cracks in a residential building.

Cracked asphalt on the street.

Extraction of soil for the road surface.

Building of the Permafrost Institute.

Underground laboratory.

Archaeologists at an excavation site.

Roadside soil extraction.

Exposed permafrost.

All-terrain vehicle driving across tundra.

Vehicle tracks in tundra.

Landfill.

Tiksi village.

Yakut taiga.

Swamp in taiga.

Logging.

Loading timber onto vehicles.

Trees felled in taiga.

Permafrost survey work.

Hilly terrain.

Reclamation system near Yakutsk.

Ruined field.

Fields with proper land management.

Picking cucumbers and tomatoes.

Haystacks.

Tundra from a helicopter.