How it was 01/30/1999 (1999)

Telecast №73826, 1 part, duration: 0:36:41
Production: VID
Director:Mihail Barkan, Tatjyana Dmitrakova
Anchor:Oleg Shklovskij
Camera operators:Aleksandr Kolesnikov, Yurij Vazhnov, Dmitrij Popov, Aleksej Osaulenko, Iljya Papernov, Aleksandr Zhukovskij, Kirill Kornilov, Konstantin Kryakov, Vladimir Saulyak, Konstantin Fedorov, Vadim Novickij

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Newsreel: Diesel electric ship "Mikhail Somov", ice-covered in March 1985 in Antarctica, a bonfire on the ice at the side, a kind of part of the ship's cutting house.

Landing of the first Soviet Antarctic expedition in 1955.

The head of the expedition Mikhail Somov speaks to the polar explorers.

Cameraman Kochetkov is filming.

"Mikhail Somov", blocked by ice in the Ross Sea in 1985.

The icebreaker "Vladivostok", going to the aid of "Mikhail Somov", during the storm in July 1985, exhausted crew members.

Pilots of a helicopter detachment of a rescue expedition during the search for "Mikhail Somov."

The icebreaker "Vladivostok" goes through the ice.

The first group of rescuers from the icebreaker "Vladivostok" in place of the drift "Mikhail Somov."

The icebreaker "Vladivostok" and "Mikhail Somov" come out of the ice, the crews of the ships greet each other.

Meeting of the crew of Mikhail Somov in Leningrad.

Captain Valentin Rodchenko talks about the tasks of navigation in March 1985, on proposals for the optimal performance of the task of evacuating the Antarctic station, About the difficulties of navigation in the ice, about the impossibility of saving with the help of aviation, about the impossibility of setting up a camp on the ice.

Director and cameraman Alexander Kochetkov, Jr. speaks about the course of the flight to Antarctica in 1985, the climatic features of Antarctica.

Polar pilot Valery Gamov speaks about the difficulties of rescuing polar explorers and the crew with the help of aviation.

The head of the rescue expedition Artur Chilingarov speaks about its preparation, plans to save the crew of the vessel, about the naval situation in those latitudes, about the possibilities the icebreaker "Vladivostok" and the difficulties of navigation in the ice, the search and rescue of "Mikhail Somov", the existing dangers in swimming, the meeting of "Vladivostok" And "Mikhail Somov" in New Zealand after returning from the expedition, about the measures taken to improve the work of the Antarctic station "Russian".

The participant of the rescue expedition Andrey Provorkin demonstrates the photographs of meteorological satellites, about the determination of the thickness of ice with their help.

The commander of the helicopter detachment of the rescue expedition Boris Lyalin talks about the actions of the pilots during the search for "Mikhail Somov", the weather conditions in which he had to work.

Personnel:

Chilingarov Arthur Nikolayevich - researcher of the Arctic and Antarctica, statesman and politician

Calendar: 01/30/1999

Locations: Moscow [820]

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