How it was 12/20/1997 (1997)

Newsreel 1960: soldiers Askhat Ziganshin, Anatoly Kryuchkovsky, Philip Poplavsky and Ivan Fedotov, 49 days drifted on a barge after returning home.

Coastal landscape of the Kuril Islands.

A self-propelled barge during a storm in the Pacific Ocean.

Search helicopter in the air.

Ivan Fedotov's wife and mother are at home, his wife is reading a letter from Ivan.

Saved from the barge Soviet soldiers during a press conference in the United States.

Meeting rescued soldiers with employees of the Soviet Embassy.

Meeting soldiers returning to their homeland at the Vnukovo airport on March 29, 1960.

Ziganshin from the rostrum gives a welcome speech.

Pictures of rescued soldiers aboard the US aircraft carrier.

Guests of the program - Askhat Ziganshin and Anatoly Kryuchkovsky talk about the course of events on January 17, 1960, and during the drift, the distribution of products between during the drift, about eating soldier's boots and harmonies, solving further problems with food, about living conditions and swimming on drifting barge, unsuccessful attempts to fish, about celebrating Kryuchkovsky's birthday on January 27, 1960, about passing ships, about their salvation by services the US Coast Guard on March 7, 1960, to return to their homeland, the end of the seaworthy school.

Expert on Survival in Extreme Situations Vitaliy Volovich speaks of the common causes of the death of shipwrecked people.

Ivan Fedotov at home remembers the birthday of Kryuchkovsky on the barge (synchronously).

Irina Fedotova talks about the birth of Sasha's son, about receiving news about the death of her husband (synchronously).

Writer and poet Valentin Berastau in the studio talks about meeting the rescued soldiers at the airport and the creation of poetic reportage on this theme.