Pilot of Pamir (1974)

Pamir landscape (top).

Faces of the pilots turning the aircraft's propeller blades.

Interior view of the aircraft, the crew taking their seats.

Crew commander V. A. Piontkovsky introduces the crew members - second pilot Nikolai Turovets, flight engineer Evgeniy Silin, talks about the flight route and the features of the air route running along the state border of the USSR (synchronously and off-screen).

Navigator Stanislav Kashkin, together with the commander, inspects the equipment and the engine.

The face of flight radio operator Nikolai Chekulaev.

View of a part of the aircraft's instrument panel.

The aircraft flies along the state border of the USSR over the Pamirs.

The flight radio operator maintains contact with the ground.

The crew in the aircraft cockpit.

The propeller is turning.

The aircraft flies over the Pamirs.

Faces of commander Piontkovsky and the second pilot.

The propeller is turning at low speed.

A boy watches the aircraft, sitting on a mountain slope.

The aircraft flies over the valley.

Mountain landscape (top).

Piontkovsky at the controls.

View of mountain gorges (top), Piontkovsky narrates in the background about his service as a pilot.

The crew during the flight.

View of one of the passes of the Pamir ridge (top).

Piontkovsky at the controls.

A circus tightrope walker performs a forward somersault while standing on a rope.

Piontkovsky at the controls.

Passengers look out the window.

View of the mountains from the airplane cabin.

Circus tightrope walkers performing a trick.

Passengers look out the window.

Piontkovsky and his colleagues in the circus watch the tightrope walkers perform.

Mountain landscape from the airplane cabin.

Piontkovsky during the flight.

Panorama of a mountain valley, an airplane flies through the valley.

The landing gear comes out.

The crew in the airplane cabin.

The cameraman and his assistant during filming.

The airplane landing at the airfield.

View of a pedestrian bridge across a river, Piontkovsky talking about the bridge off-camera.

Piontkovsky's crew standing on the bridge.

The pilots are talking to schoolchildren on the bridge.

The flight mechanic is checking the fuel level in the tanks.

Piontkovsky is talking about the evacuation of a seriously ill woman by plane (synchronously and off-camera).

The plane is flying over the edge of the sea coast.

The face of a border guard watching the plane flying by.

The plane is making a turn, the border guard with a dog continues patrolling the coast.

A border guard officer in the mountains is drinking water flowing over a stone.

View of part of a mountain river and a pedestrian bridge near the airfield.

Border guards boarding the plane.

Piontkovsky with the navigator at the propeller blades.

A boy, sitting on a stone, waves his hand to the plane taking off.

The crew in the cockpit of the plane during the flight, Piontkovsky gives instructions to the second pilot.

Pamir mountain landscape (panorama, from above).

The crew during the flight.

View of a mountain gorge (from above).

Passengers looking out the window.

The crew in the cockpit during the flight.

Border guards, discharged to the reserve, at the window.

The plane flies over the mountains.

Piontkovsky's face against the background of mountains (combined photography).

Mountain landscapes (from above).

Pilot Galina Smagina at the controls of the plane.

Smagina's face.

Interior view of part of the cockpit, Smagina at the controls, the propeller is turning.

Landing of the Yak-40 passenger plane.

Smagina exits the plane, Piontkovsky's crew members greet her.

Smagina talks to military pilots.

View of part of the mountain highway.

Loading a patient into the plane.

The crew prepares for takeoff, the propeller is turning.

The plane is gaining altitude.

The crew during the flight.

Providing assistance to a sick child on board an airplane during his/her delivery to the hospital.

The airplane flies over the mountains, the commander and the co-pilot during the flight, Piontkovsky’s story about the evacuation of a sick girl is heard in the background.

Mountain landscape (panorama, from above).

The propeller is rotating.

Faces of the crew members.

Views of the Pamirs (from above).

A girl combs her hair in front of a mirror.

Piontkovsky helps a girl decorate a New Year’s tree, the pilot’s hands holding the control column.

A toy airplane on the tree.

Piontkovsky’s face against the background of mountains (combined shooting).

The airplane flies over the seashore.

A border patrol with a dog patrols the coast.

The airplane flies past the border boats.

The face of the boat commander, speaking into the radio microphone.

The airplane flies over the border boats in the Baltic Sea.

View of a part of one of the Kaunas quarters (from above).

Piontkovsky among people looking at the clock tower.

Lithuanian composer Kuprevičius plays a melody on the bells, Piontkovsky stands next to him, view of the bell tower.

View of the clock tower, people on the square (panorama).

Faces of people listening to the ringing of bells on the square.

Kuprevičius continues to play a melody on the bells, Piontkovsky stands next to him, ringing bells.

Panorama of the Pamir Mountains (from above).

Piontkovsky in the cockpit at the controls.

A boy, sitting on a rock, waves after the departing plane.