The story of one flight (2002)

Newsreel from 1937: the propeller of an airplane is spinning.

Pilot Vodopyanov M.V. at the controls of the airplane.

The propellers of a polar aviation airplane are spinning.

Schmidt O.Yu. in the cockpit next to pilot Babushkin M.S. The navigator plots the course.

Schmidt gets out of the airplane after landing on an ice floe on May 21, 1937. Schmidt with the pilots near the airplane.

The head of the drifting station "North Pole-1" Papanin I.D. holds a red flag in his hands after landing on an ice floe, members of the expedition are standing nearby.

Stalin's portrait on the flag.

The faces of people greeting the returning polar explorers in 1938. Schmidt accepts congratulations and bouquets of flowers.

The polar explorers drive by in open cars, Muscovites greet them.

The faces of Muscovites, the polar explorers respond to the greetings.

Views of Gorky Street during the passage of the polar explorers’ motorcade, leaflets are flying (top).

Photograph of pilot P.G. Golovin in the airplane cockpit before takeoff.

A glider soaring in the sky.

Views of the river and forest (top).

Newsreel: view of the airfield on Rudolf Island in May 1937. A caterpillar tractor skidding in the snow.

Polar aviation aircraft at the airfield during preparation for the flight. P.G. Golovin among the pilots at the airfield.

Refueling the aircraft.

Technicians pour fuel into the aircraft’s tanks.

The pilot puts on his helmet.

Golovin’s face.

The pilot boards the aircraft.

One of the crew members, standing on the wing, puts on warm clothing and a scarf.

The aircraft on ski landing gear begins its takeoff run.

View of the aircraft’s tail.

The aircraft takes the set course.

Participants in the physical education parade on Red Square carry banners in front of the mausoleum.

Faces of the girls participating in the parade.

Motorcyclists passing by.

Faces of marching athletes.

Banners of sports societies above the columns of parade participants.

Takeoff of U-2 aircraft.

Dropping of parachute troops.

Young aircraft modelers during competitions.

Launch of aircraft models.

One of the models in flight.

Face of a pioneer.

Gondola of a stratospheric balloon during ascent.

Face of a schoolboy.

Paratroopers leave the plane during maneuvers.

Parachutist landing on the airfield.

One of the parachutists after landing.

Glider pilot closes the glider cockpit door.

Launching the glider to the start.

Glider takeoff.

Glider in flight, pilot in the glider cockpit during flight.

Wind indicator at the airfield.

Landscapes of Koktebel.

Photographs of Golovin and aircraft designer Sheremetev during a glider rally in Koktebel.

Photo of Golovin in the glider cockpit.

Newsreel: towing gliders to the airfield during the 8th All-Union Glider Rally in Koktebel in 1930. Gliders and rally participants at the airfield.

The face of pilot Sepanchonok.

The glider performs "dead loops".

The launch of one of the gliders.

The glider in flight.

One of the judges watches the flight through binoculars.

The landing of the glider.

The faces of the spectators watching the flights.

The glider performs a "dead loop".

View of the airfield surroundings in Koktebel (from above).

A glider flying under the clouds.

Newsreel from 1937: a polar aviation aircraft in flight on May 5, 1937. Arctic landscapes and ice under the wing of the aircraft, the pilot-observer examines the ice through binoculars.

Panorama of a summer meadow.

Newsreel: a U-2 aircraft taking off from the airfield.

Photo of Golovin during his training at the flight school in the early 1930s.

Training aircraft taking off from the airfield.

The pilot boards the aircraft.

Giving the signal for takeoff with a flag.

An aircraft taking off.

Panorama of the flight school airfield (top).

A biplane in flight.

Northern Siberian summer landscapes under the wing of an aircraft (top).

Newsreel: view of the taiga (top).

The Dnieper Hydroelectric Station dam.

Construction in Moscow in the early 1930s.

Production processes in the foundry of one of the new enterprises.

Construction of the Turksib.

Combines harvesting.

A miner at the coalface.

Hauling rock during the construction of the Moscow metro.

A girl at the controls of an asphalt roller.

A passenger train passes.

Logging.

Construction sites of the First Five-Year Plan.

A train on the way.

Northern ice under the wing of an aircraft (top).

An airplane dropping a package with literature onto a reindeer herders' settlement.

Residents of a village taking a package on a dog sled.

Landscapes of the Arctic under the wing of an airplane.

Polar aviation at work.

Faces of polar pilots, including Levanevsky.

Meeting of polar explorers in Moscow.

Polar bears in the water.

Bear cubs on the shore.

Spring landscape of the Arctic.

Surf of the Arctic Ocean.

Photograph of Golovin reading a magazine.

Text of an article about Golovin published in a newspaper.

Photographs of Golovin.

Newsreel: polar ice under the wing of an airplane.

A radio operator maintains contact.

Panorama of residential barracks at the Yenisei air group airfield.

A truck passes.

A seaplane on the water, a photograph of Golovin instructing the pilot.

The seaplane taking off on the water surface.

Schmidt O. Yu. and participants of the polar expedition at the airfield in 1937. Preparing one of the planes for the flight to the North Pole, loading fuel and expedition equipment, a photo of Golovin among the pilots.

A man buying a newspaper at a kiosk.

A man reading a newspaper while standing on the street, reports of Golovin's flight, people buying newspapers at a kiosk.

Pilots boarding the plane.

Polar aviation plane before takeoff.

Plane taking off.

Plane in flight.

Plane landing on Rudolf Island.

Loading fuel, cargo and preparing the planes for further flight.

Faces of local residents.

Pilots eating.

Removing a landing gear wheel.

Installing skis instead of wheels.

The plane testing the skis.

Faces of local residents.

Snowstorm at the airfield.

Pilots and expedition members during the loading of expedition equipment.

Arctic ice under the plane's wing (top).

Shadow of a flying plane.

Photo of Schmidt among the pilots and expedition members.

Transmitting a telegram.

Schmidt, holding a notebook, speaks to the pilots and expedition members.

Vodopyanov among the pilots.

Newspaper production in a printing house.

People reading newspapers on the street as they walk, bundles of newspapers on a conveyor belt.

Newsreel of the expedition landing at the North Pole on May 21, 1937, against the background of newspaper texts.

Papanin and expedition members with a red flag at the North Pole.

The flight route to the North Pole and portraits of the expedition members published in the newspaper.

Newsreel: the streets of Moscow in the summer of 1938, passers-by and motor transport on the streets.

A tram passes by, a three-car coupling, the passengers hanging on the steps.

Stalin I.V. and Molotov V.M. get out of the car.

The polar explorers' plane is landing, people are watching the plane's flight.

Landing of the first plane.

Vodopyanov and Schmidt after getting off the plane.

Landing of the second plane.

Pilot V.S. Molokov with a bouquet of flowers.

Landing of Alekseev's plane.

Alekseev after exiting the plane.

Landing of Golovin's plane.

Golovin with a bouquet of flowers near the plane.

Stalin and Voroshilov greet the arriving pilots and polar explorers.

Schmidt speaks from the rostrum at a rally.

The face of pilot Vodopyanov.

Voroshilov and Stalin applauding from the rostrum.

Rally participants greet the polar explorers.

Panorama of part of the rally.

Faces of children and adults.

A glider in flight under the clouds.

Photographs of Kalinin presenting an award to Golovin in the Kremlin.

Newsreel: a Catalina seaplane on the water near the Northern River Terminal in 1937-1938. Golovin during conversations with engineers and trips around the country.

Golovin's face.

The speaker speaks at a rally in a workshop of one of the plants on December 1, 1939, on the occasion of the beginning of the war with Finland.

Faces of rally participants.

View of part of the rally.

The crew of a bomber preparing for a combat sortie during the Soviet-Finnish War of 1939-1940. The bomber begins its takeoff run.

Soviet bombers and fighters in flight.

The bomber drops bombs.

Bomb explosions on Finnish positions in the forest.

Soviet planes bomb Finnish positions.

Bomb explosion.

Views of the Baltic Sea coast.

Waves running up the shore.

A photograph of Golovin with his wife during a vacation at their dacha.

Newsreel: flower trade on a Moscow street in 1940, girls' faces.

People on a Moscow street.

Passengers boarding a bus.

Automobile and pedestrian traffic.

Passengers boarding a bus.

Tram traffic, flower trade on Gorky Street.

Typewritten text of the act of Golovin's death during a test flight on April 27, 1940, photographs of the "SPB" plane.

Flight diagram indicating the crash site of Golovin's plane.

Photograph of the plane's wreckage.

Fragment of the text of the report.

Newsreel from 1938: Golovin with a bouquet of flowers near the plane after returning from the North Pole.

Photograph of Golovin in the plane's cockpit.

A glider soaring in the sky.