Sight №148 05.12.1997 (1997)

News of the explosion in the Zyryanovskaya mine on December 2, 1997. A miner gives details of the accident to Alexei Kosulnikov by telephone.

Funeral of the dead miners.

Video letter from Ryazan: 300 parachutists, a free-fall hitch, a new Guinness Book record.

What does the future hold for army sports?

Appeal by members of the Central Sports and Parachute Club (CSPC): Alexander Beloglazov, Sergei Shkuropat and Zinaida Kuritsyna talk about the government's decision to privatize and sell club buildings.

Excerpt from the Vzglyad program on December 27, 1996: miners trade at the market.

Filming on December 3, 1997: interview with residents of Kireyevsk about how nothing has changed in the past year.

New method of combating non-payment of wages: miners go to court.

Filming at the Vladimir mine on December 10, 1996: miners gather for a rally.

A rally in the center of Tula.

The head of the strike committee Nikolai Afanasyevich Bunyakin and other miners talk about layoffs, non-payment of wages, and people leaving for work in the capital.

The guest of the program is the director of the Yasnaya Polyana museum Vladimir Tolstoy.

A conversation about the state of culture in the country.

Lack of state funding.

Removal of security from cultural institutions.

Prospects for closing a number of museums and libraries.

Filming in Yasnaya Polyana on November 16, 1993: Boris Yeltsin's visit. V.I. Tolstoy talks about the continuity of generations.

Excerpts from programs with the participation of the people's janitor Bukashkin and the Chaif group.

A meeting of musicians with Bukashkin in November: recollections of joint tea parties and rock festivals.

Discussion of the topic of burying the remains of the imperial family.

The group rehearsal.

Bukashkin continues to paint garages. V. I. Tolstoy talks about the revival of the traditions of Yasnaya Polyana.

Writers' Congress on Leo Tolstoy's birthday.

The creation of the "Provincial Museums" association.

Announcement of Oksana Pushkina's "Women's Stories" program with Laima Vaikule. V. I. Tolstoy talks about the pros and cons of life in the provinces and in the capital.

The museum director answers questions from viewers.

A polygamist from the Sverdlovsk region: a story about the family of collective farmer Vladimir Maryin.

Two wives and 14 children - is this a lot or a little, from a modern point of view. V. I. Tolstoy talks about his family.