From Neva to Amur (1991)

Landscapes of Russian regions: lakes in the forest.

Seagulls on the seashore.

Views of one of the Siberian rivers (above).

View of part of Lake Baikal (above).

Panorama of the taiga (above).

Loading coal into mine cars in a coal quarry.

Panorama of urban residential areas (above).

Panorama of a birch grove.

Village children sitting in a cart.

Monument to Sergei Yesenin.

Orthodox church service.

Buddhists during prayer.

Panorama of part of the Moskva River, view of St.

Basil's Cathedral and the Spasskaya Tower of the Moscow Kremlin.

Performance of a folk choir.

The face of a Muslim girl.

Young people at the entrance to a mosque.

The face of a boy.

A boy sits astride a donkey.

People on a city street in winter.

View of the streets and bridges of Leningrad on a white night, a ship passes under the bridge.

Panorama of part of the Griboyedov Canal, bridges and the building of the Church of the Savior on Spilled Blood (above).

Panorama of a part of Palace Square, statues on the Hermitage building.

Young people sitting on the grass by the water in the park.

Statue in the Summer Garden.

View of a part of Nevsky Prospect (above).

Tourists walk past souvenir kiosks, souvenir trade on Nevsky Prospect, view of the Alexandrinsky Theater building.

Panorama of iron roofs (above).

Views of Lake Ladoga and Valaam Island (above).

Panorama of the Valaam Monastery (above).

Nature and landscapes of Valaam Island, Orthodox churches on the island.

Construction of a new building on the territory of the monastery.

Stone in the church, under which the founders of the monastery, Saints Sergius and Herman, rest.

Religious procession in honor of the feast of Saints Sergius and Herman.

Views of the islands adjacent to Valaam.

Circular panorama of Kizhi Island, view of the Transfiguration Cathedral (above).

Panorama of some examples of wooden architecture on Kizhi Island.

Performances by participants in the festival of lovers of old folklore.

Faces of festival participants.

Panorama of part of the island, wooden churches and festival participants performing songs (above).

Panorama of Veliky Ustyug in winter.

Orthodox churches of Veliky Ustyug.

Parishioners feeding pigeons.

Interior view of a folk crafts workshop in Veliky Ustyug (panorama).

The process of creating gold embroidery using a sewing machine.

Examples of Veliky Ustyug gold embroidery.

The process of machine church embroidery.

A nun craftswoman at work.

Niello craftsmen at work, artistic nielloing of products.

Examples of Veliky Ustyug niello and gold embroidery.

An Orthodox church at sunset.

Panorama of the Volga bank, pier, ships on the river.

The helmsman at the helm of the ship.

View of the boat through the porthole.

Cranes of the cargo port.

View of the Kazan Kremlin.

View of a part of the historical center of Kazan.

A girl in a taxi, panorama of the city outskirts with a private residential sector.

Gates and doors of the house, decorated with national Tatar wood carving, carved window frames (panorama).

Carved patterns on wood decorating the house (panorama).

The face of the mistress of the house standing by the fence.

The owner of one of the houses by the carved gate.

Two elderly men are talking by the gate of the house.

Gate with carved multi-colored decorations.

View of one of the new quarters of Saratov.

A passenger ship is moored at the city river terminal.

Panorama of a part of the coastal city quarter and the bridge across the Volga (from above).

A prayer meeting of Volga Germans in one of the suburbs of Saratov, faces of elderly women (panorama).

The interior of one of the rooms of a private house where Volga Germans live, a photograph of a paratrooper on the wall.

Participants in the prayer meeting sing a psalm in German.

View of one of the auls in the mountains of North Ossetia (above), mountain landscape.

A man with a child rides along a stone wall.

View of one of the courtyards.

A man with a child rides.

Grandmother Lyuba from the aul of Argaz tells the recipe for making Ossetian cheese.

The process of making cheese, view of the rocks towering above the aul.

The face of a grandson watching the cheese making from behind the doorframe.

View of the aul, mountain landscape of North Ossetia.

Mountain peaks.

Grandmother Lyuba at a table with wheels of cheese.

A boat goes along the Ob River.

Fishing boats on the river.

Khanty fishermen unfold and untangle their nets.

The son helps his father roll up the net.

A woman scoops water from the river with a bucket.

A girl stacks firewood for a fire.

A woman sharpens a knife.

Making a fire.

Cooking fish.

Faces of girls.

A grazing young deer.

A woman in a Khanty national costume embroiders a pattern, the face of an embroiderer.

One of the craftswomen stands by the wall with samples of her embroidery.

View of a part of a city block in Tomsk.

Students of one of the vocational schools in Tomsk are engaged in wood carving.

The process of creating carved items, a carved clothes hanger behind the young people, photographs with examples of Tomsk carving hanging on the wall.

Carved decorations of one of the wooden houses in Tomsk painted in different colors - a door frame, a frontal board (panorama).

Panorama of a part of the wall of an old wooden house with carved window frames and a part of a city street.

A young master carver at work.

Panorama of the wall of a wooden house with carved decorations.

Views of the Lamaist datsan in Buryatia, a building of oriental architecture.

Buddhist monks during prayer.

The interior of the datsan.

Local residents during Buddhist prayer.

Statue of Buddha.

Panorama of the Buddhist temple from the inside.

Lamas drink tea from bowls.

One of the lamas talks about the opening of a Buddhist spiritual educational institution (synchronously and off-screen).

Panorama of the territory and buildings of the Buddhist monastery.

Amur landscape.

Schoolchildren from one of the Nanai villages play an ancient sport game they have restored - chakpan.

View of part of the Amur at sunset.

Schoolchildren during a sporting competition.

A multi-oared Nanai boat sails along the Amur.

Teenagers rowing.

A girl sails in a Nanai boat - orochka.

View of part of the Amur.

Panorama of the airport building in Khabarovsk, passengers boarding a plane to Leningrad.

Far Eastern landscape (top).