Habitats (1986)

Dragging a tent through snowdrifts.

Panorama of a snowy desert (top).

Sunset.

View of a snowdrift from a window, men shoveling snow outside.

Equipment laying a section of a pipeline (top), a welder at work.

Heavy construction equipment moving along a pipeline (top).

A welder at work.

Winter landscape, a blizzard is blowing.

Equipment building a pipeline (top).

A builder throws a snowball aside and runs away through snowdrifts.

Faces of pipeline builders (panorama).

An all-terrain vehicle with people on the roof is moving through snowdrifts.

A kettle of boiling water and tea mugs on the table.

A builder is washing himself in a bathhouse.

The hands of the builders take mugs of tea, pour boiling water, sort out pieces of refined sugar, the builders are talking off-screen.

Members of the construction team enter the door of the trailer.

Two tracked tractors towing a barrel-shaped construction trailer along a pipeline.

Builders inside the towed trailer, a light bulb burning under the ceiling.

A reindeer team travels through a snow field.

Builders inside the trailer during a move to a new section of the pipeline.

View of a part of the tractor from the open door of the trailer.

Panorama of the construction equipment parking lot, a snowstorm is blowing.

Builders at work.

Snowdrifts caused by the snowstorm.

One of the builders is walking along a path trodden in the snow, a tracked tractor with special devices is transporting the trailer in a suspended state.

An icebreaker is moving along the shore.

Assembling a bridge for a car trailer in difficult natural conditions.

Builders inside the trailer.

One of the workers is pulling a cable.

View of the construction workers' town, a crane hook is hanging.

Panorama of part of the pipeline construction site, the shadow of a flying away helicopter (above).

A tracked all-terrain vehicle is moving.

All-terrain vehicle rollers.

The drill is lowered into the well.

View of the drilling rig (top), the process of drilling a well.

One of the drillers plays the accordion while resting in a construction trailer.

View of the construction trailer.

Panorama of part of the oil field territory.

Burning oil puddle.

Drillers during rest.

Drilling a well.

Panorama of part of the pipeline construction territory (top).

A herd of reindeer runs across a snowy plain (top).

View of a reindeer herder's yurt (top).

Faces of reindeer herders.

A helicopter landing at a reindeer herders' camp, reindeer herders watching the helicopter.

One of the reindeer herders next to a reindeer.

A view of the reindeer herders' camp in the middle of a snowy plain (from above).

Transportation of a construction trailer using special equipment, a blizzard is blowing.

A builder throws a snowball and runs to the road.

A truck with a glass body for transporting people drives along the road in a blizzard.

A trailer covered in snow.

Barrel-shaped trailers for workers, standing in a row, a builder enters one of the trailers.

Drillers inside the trailer sit around a table, talking about everyday problems and the possibility of getting fresh vegetables.

One of the drillers runs to the toilet cubicle.

Yamal winter landscape, a heavy wheeled tractor drives by.

Workers inside the trailer talk about the local climate, sitting on their bunks.

Views of a drilling town, children swinging on a swing.

A worker walking towards the trailers.

Everyday life and daily routine of drilling workers, views of snow-covered trailers.

Workers sitting on bunks inside a trailer.

A tracked tractor driver in the cabin.

Drillers inside a trailer during its towing to a new location.

A burning oil puddle, oil workers at work.

Drillers at work.

Panorama of a snowy plain in the Yamal tundra (above).

A hole in a metal wall.

Views of an oil and gas processing plant.

Machinery moving across the tundra in a blizzard.

The remains of a tractor covered in snow up to the roof.

Panorama of a town of oil and gas workers along a railway line, a gas flare burning in the distance.

Views of the city outskirts.

A team of drilling workers in a bus.

Panorama of a part of the tundra from one of the reindeer herders' camps (above).

Assembling a trailer axle in a snowstorm.

Panorama of a part of an oil and gas field and an oil workers' town (top).

Faces of oil and gas workers (panorama).

A shift team that arrived to work at an oil and gas field (top).

Workers who have just finished their shift in a helicopter.

Two workers are talking to each other.

The shift workers who arrived are watching the helicopter take off (top).

View of a drilling rig (top).

A worker throws a snowball and runs to the road.

Wheels of a passing truck, a winter Yamal landscape at sunset.

All-terrain vehicles drive across the tundra at night.

View of a road in the tundra at night.

Workers inside a towed trailer.

A locomotive covered in snow.

A rusty piece of rail sticking out of the snow, view of the front of an old rusty locomotive.

Panorama of an abandoned railway station (top).

Abandoned steam locomotives on railroad tracks covered in snow.

Panorama of a part of the tundra (top).

Wheels and cabin of a locomotive sunk into the ground.

An all-terrain vehicle moves across the tundra, people on the roof of the all-terrain vehicle.

The nuclear icebreaker "Rossiya" moves through the ice.

Transportation of a trailer in a suspended state using special equipment.

Workers and engineers of one of the gas fields, polar aviation pilots on the territory of the field (panorama).

Passengers in the cabin of a helicopter, faces of passengers.

View of a part of a burning oil puddle.

A view of part of the tundra (above) and the front landing gear of a helicopter.

A worker with a diving helmet in his hand walks along the road.

One of the workers carries a frame with a stretched tarpaulin through the snowdrifts, a snowstorm is sweeping.