A continent without borders (1986)

Ocean Waves.

Letter entitled "Instructions of His Imperial Majesty" Portraits of Admirals F.F. Bellingshausen and M.P. Lazarev.

Seagull over the waves.

Map with the South Pole in the center.

Penguin on an ice floe.

Portrait of English navigator James Cook.

Landscape with ice in the sea and the setting sun.

The globe is rotating.

Flight over a snow-covered plain and an icebreaker, which is paving a waterway.

People in the snow at night in the light of searchlights.

Scientists at a table with maps discuss the problem of rescuing the drifting ship Mikhail Somov.

Pilots in the helicopter cockpit.

A text about the ice situation in the area of the Mikhail Somov is being typed on a typewriter.

A ship trapped in ice.

People on the deck under the light of lanterns.

The ship's laboratory, a scientist is processing the results.

Walking along the corridors of the ship.

A framed photo portrait of M. Somov on the wall.

Ice in the North Pole area.

Newsreel from the 1950s: the polar station "North Pole - 2".

A car drives toward an airplane.

Head of the drifting station "SP-2" M.M. Somov.

Expedition members fire into the air, salute in honor of raising the USSR flag.

Shadow on the sea surface from a flying airplane.

Tents in the snow.

A mother bear with two cubs on an ice floe.

Academician Alexey Treshnikov gives an interview (synchronously) about why people go to the polar regions.

Newsreel from 1955: an airplane flies by.

A crowd of people with flowers at the airfield.

Drifting expedition members descend the steps from the airplane.

Heads of the stations "SP-3" and "SP-4": Alexey Treshnikov and Evgeny Tolstikov.

View of the airfield from above.

The interview is given by Evgeny Tolstikov (synchronously), talking about the meeting at which the question of the expedition to Antarctica under the leadership of M. Somov was decided.

Newsreel from 1955: a ship sails out to sea.

On board the ship are the participants of the expedition to Antarctica.

The leader M. Somov shows a tent assembled on the deck.

Newsreel from 1955: a sheer ice cliff.

The captain in the wheelhouse, looking through binoculars.

The mechanism for transmitting a command to the engine room.

The shadow of people on the ship's deck on the ice.

A conventional map of the world, the dotted line shows the ship's route to Antarctica.

Zoom in on the map, the end point of the route: Depot Bay.

A man plays with a penguin, trying to put a hat on it.

Three researchers go on skis to reconnoiter.

A man shoots into the air from a flare gun.

Newsreel from February 13, 1956: the red flag of the USSR flutters.

A view of the ice of Antarctica from the air.

A typewriter is typing a text about the work to organize a base camp.

An airplane taking off from the icy surface.

A man is digging a car out of the snow with a shovel.

The Antarctic station "Mirny".

People are doing various things indoors.

A panorama of the dining room.

Food is being cooked in a saucepan.

A seismologist is working at the table, a cat is lying on the table.

A group photo of the expedition members (composed of individual portraits).

The helicopter is on the ground, the rotor is spinning, suitcases and bags are in the foreground.

A group of polar explorers near an all-terrain vehicle on caterpillar tracks.

Those leaving say goodbye.

People climb into the helicopter.

A view of the Antarctic observatory from the helicopter taking off.

A passenger with a camera in his hands is sitting by the window.

Filming from the 1950s: expedition members dig snow, set up a base station.

An airplane is being unloaded from a ship onto the ice.

A view of a ship with the inscription "Ob" on board.

The Danish flag over the ship "KISTA DAN" The Danes get out of the boat and visit "Mirny".

The cameraman is filming, the all-terrain vehicle is driving.

Close-up: a hand is making notes with a pencil in a notebook. A. Treshnikov looks at his watch.

Close-up: the clock face, the hands show 24:00. Metal barrels are burning.

An all-terrain vehicle moves through the snow. A. Treshnikov inside the vehicle.

A shot into the sky from a flare gun.

Participants of a polar expedition at the planet's southern magnetic pole.

Organization of the Vostok base, raising of the USSR flag.

An all-terrain vehicle installed on a pedestal.

A meteorologist takes instrument readings.

The plane lands.

Pilots and navigator at their work stations.

The inscription on the IL-14 plane "Aeroflot.

Polar aviation".

A group of people.

An all-terrain vehicle is driving.

An airplane is being unloaded.

A hand is turning the radio frequency search knob.

A radio operator is working at the expedition's communications center.

A teletype machine is printing a text about the construction of a Uruguayan polar station.

A pole with arrows indicating the distance from Vostok to other stations and cities (15,621 km to Moscow).

A local movie theater.

Drillers at work.

The youngest member of the expedition, Alexey Rakhmanov, is speaking.

A French scientist is working at the Soviet Vostok station.

Snow blocks are cut out and stored for water storage.

The polar explorer's face is covered in icicles.

Flags of the USSR, France, etc.

An all-terrain vehicle is carrying a platform with snow blocks.

After a bath, a man is drying himself with a towel.

Naked men are sitting at a table in the changing room.

Indoor work, readings from various devices.

A French scientist is giving an interview (synchronously) about his work in Antarctica.

A panorama from an airplane taking off to the "Vostok USSR" sign.

A view from an airplane of its shadow moving across the snow.

People on the ground and on the deck of the ship wave to each other.

The flags of the USSR, France, and Norway flutter in the wind above the building.

A map of Antarctica with flags indicating the locations of the polar stations, Mirny and Vostok.

Penguins on the ice.

A panorama of the station buildings.

The sign of the Antarctic Meteorological Center (AMC) "Molodezhnaya. 1962".

Flying over the buildings of one of the polar stations.

The computing center, reels of magnetic film spinning.

Preparing to launch a meteorological rocket.

Scientists and technicians working with instruments.

A crane unloading a bulldozer from a ship.

Flags of different countries flutter in the wind.

A German scientist gives an interview (synchronously) about his work at Soviet polar stations studying solar radiation.

A memorial plaque in honour of the scientists who died in the fire in 1960.

Newsreel from 1957: people working in a snowstorm, rolling barrels of fuel.

A ship near the shore.

A helicopter with a spinning propeller stands on the deck of the ship.

A funeral ceremony in honor of the deceased polar explorers.

A memorial plaque with the names of the deceased.

A penguin colony.

A building, a warehouse of the English Antarctic expedition of Robert Scott.

Newsreel from the early 20th century: members of the polar expedition settling down for the night.

Photo: the tent in which the members of R. Scott's expedition died.

A wooden cross with the names of the English polar explorers.

Tractors move through the blizzard.

Andrei Kapitsa gives an interview (synchronously and off-screen) about his stay at the South Pole of the Earth.

Newsreel from 1959: an American flag at the Amundsen-Scott base in the South Pole area.

A panorama of a group of polar explorers.

Raising the Soviet flag.

Masts with flags of the USSR and the USA are standing nearby.

All-terrain vehicles. A. Kapitsa's diploma as a participant in a "round-the-world trip." A pilot at the controls of an airplane, a navigator at his work station.

Passengers in the airplane cabin.

View of the ice of Antarctica from an airplane.

Newsreel from 1962: an airplane flies across an ice field.

Polar explorers greet those who have arrived.

A meeting, a speaker with a microphone, participants in the meeting applauding.

Distribution of letters from home, expedition members reading newspapers.

A postcard in hands with a portrait of the first cosmonaut Yuri Gagarin.

Map of Antarctica.

Articles in the newspaper "Towards the Homeland," "The Native Shores Are Getting Closer." Filming from 1985: a view from a helicopter of an icebreaker sailing among the ice and the ship "Mikhail Somov," freed from ice captivity.

Meeting of the returning polar explorers.

Posters "Hurray to the Somovites!", "Glory to the Soviet polar explorers" and others.

The ship "Mikhail Somov" approaches the pier.

The sailors' orchestra.

Artur Chilingarov speaks at the microphones (synchronously and off-screen) about the authority of the Soviet country in the development of Antarctica.

A panorama of the name on board the ship: "Mikhail Somov" Aerial view of the ice.