Will Babylon stand? (1995)

Leningrad, view of St.

Isaac's Cathedral, panorama of St.

Isaac's Square and the monument to Nicholas I on horseback.

The building of the All-Russian Institute of Plant Growing named after N. I. Vavilov.

The director of the institute, Viktor Aleksandrovich Dragavtsev, is speaking.

Panorama of the card index with samples in a special room of the institute, an employee takes samples and sits down to work at the table.

Panorama of shelves with samples.

An employee in a white coat pours seeds from a bag onto a glass table.

Panorama of the storage facility - in the frame are shelves, racks with samples, employees working at the tables, etc.

Photographs of the Soviet scientist-geneticist, breeder Nikolai Ivanovich Vavilov - Vavilov in his office, in the laboratory at a microscope, on scientific expeditions, with local residents, etc.

Leningrad, embankment - in the frame is the building of the institute.

Various photographs with Vavilov - the scientist in his office, working in the laboratory with colleagues.

The photographs show the institute's experimental stations.

A group photograph of Vavilov with his fellow scientists.

A photograph of the institute's employees working at the experimental station, with baskets of harvest in the frame and scales and other equipment on the table.

Various group photographs of the team of scientists from the "Babylon" community.

A panorama of the shelves with a card index of seeds at the Institute of Plant Growing.

A view of the storage room - huge cabinets, shelves, card indexes, etc.

A panorama of the shelves with boxes containing samples of various seeds.

The storage room, shelves with boxes, a view from the window.

Close-up - a sign on the door saying "Referent for Protection", the door opens, the camera moves along the corridor of the institute, turns and stops near the room.

A woman is sitting at a table with her back to her, working with documents.

Close-up - the woman is holding photographs of scientists who worked with the institute's unique collection in the 1930s.

Tatyana Lassan is speaking.

Close-up - Lassan is holding various photographs of scientists, Vavilov's colleagues.

A full-face profile photograph of Vavilov from the case for which he was arrested in 1940. Tatyana Lassan speaking.

Chronicle of 1941-1943 - Leningrad under siege, a man slowly walking along the embankment.

Photographs of the storage facility during the siege - packets of seeds are lying on the table.

Tatyana Lassan speaking.

Chronicle of 1948 - a session of the Lenin All-Union Academy of Agricultural Sciences, scientists speaking, a view of the hall, the presidium, Beria, various scientists, etc. in the frame.

Trofim Lysenko, Vavilov's opponent, speaking, people in the hall stand up and applaud.

Beria, Malenkov and other government officials are on the podium.

St Isaac's Square - a view of the cathedral and the building of the Vavilov Institute of Plant Growing.

The institute's storage facility - an employee takes a box from the shelf and leaves.

Panorama of the storage facility's racks and shelves.

The frame shows different types of corn.

A view of the leaking ceiling in the storage facility.

A panorama of the laboratory at the institute - employees are working at their desks.

The frame shows new refrigeration units for storing samples.

A panorama of the office - employees are working at computers, monitor screens are glowing.

The director of the institute, Viktor Aleksandrovich Dragavtsev, is speaking.

Close-up - a device.

An employee in the laboratory, working with plants, test tubes, flasks, etc. are on the table.

A panorama of the storage facility - a view of the racks and shelves with samples, employees are working at their desks.

Racks with samples, a panorama of the window, through which the monument to Nicholas I on St Isaac's Square is visible.