The film tells what significance the forest has in the life of the Mari region, how it is connected with the culture and history of the republic. What misfortune a careless attitude to the forest and nature brings.




Forest.
View of the forest from above.
Loggers harvesting timber.
Loggers clearing trunks of branches.
Timber trucks carrying cleared logs.
Panorama of a timber yard.
Preparing timber for processing.
Paper produced at Europe's largest pulp and paper mill.
Paper rolls in a warehouse.
Furniture assembly shop at the Volzhsk furniture factory.
Samples of the company's products.
Woodworking lathe.
Artists painting wooden utensils at folk crafts.
Samples of the products.
Lake.
Girls playing the kusle.
Young people on an excursion to memorable places in the Mari region.
National park in the republic.
Tourist houses.
Tourists playing volleyball.
Boats on the lake.
Garbage at tourist camps.
A forest fire caused by a discarded cigarette.
A helicopter flies over the fire.
Firefighters leave to put out the fire.
Forestry workers disassemble firefighting equipment and run to put out the fire.
A helicopter drops off firefighters at the site of the fire.
Chronicle of 1972. Putting out the largest fire in the history of the republic.
A forest destroyed by fire.
The Minister of Forestry of the Mari ASSR B.I. Tresov tells the story.
Clearing the forest, preparing the land for planting seedlings.
Plantations of seedlings for planting in place of burnt trees.
Planting seedlings in prepared soil.
Birch grove.
Nature of the Mari ASSR at sunset.
Forest, Logging, Paper, Furniture, Folk crafts, Reserve, Tourists, Fire, Forest plantations
B.I. Treszcov
1972
Republic of Mari El
Summer