The film tells about the problems of modern energy, the difficulties of further development of the coal industry and the difficult living conditions of miners.
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Workers in a coal mine. N.S. Surgay narrates.
Excerpt from an interview with miners during a break, on the surface.
Flowering tree. N.S. Surgay narrates.
View of the city (shot from a helicopter). N.S. Surgay.
A closed mine.
A tractor harrows a field.
View of abandoned buildings and mine equipment.
Excerpts from an interview with miners at the coalface.
Chapter Two - Despite the Stagnation.
Winter landscape.
Mining settlement.
People on the roof of a house shoveling snow.
A dog barks.
Men throw snow off the roof.
A man with skis walks down the street.
Rural houses, modern buildings are visible in the distance. M.I. Naidov talks to residents of the settlement.
A man walks between the houses.
View of the mining production from the settlement. M.I. Naidov narrates.
A two-story house.
People on the streets of a city under construction.
Continuation of the interview with M.I. Naidov in the office.
The Raspadskaya mine, workers get off the bus and head to the building.
Conversation with miners in the locker room, workers talk about technical problems.
Surgay N.S. -- mining engineer
Ukraine Siberia
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The mined coal is burning.
View of the mine. V.A. Sychev is talking on the phone.
The operator is making entries in the log.
Coal mountains.
Open-pit equipment.
A man is climbing an iron ladder, view from below. V.A. Sychev is talking to workers.
General view of the site.
Open-pit wall. V.A. Sychev is talking about the Kansk-Achinsk brown coal.
Panoramas of the Berezovsky-1 open-pit mine. V.A. Sychev at the abandoned industrial site of the ST-75 coal processing unit.
A worker is giving a signal.
Mining equipment is working.
View of the quarry from above.
An excavator operator is talking.
An excavator bucket.
A freight transport is driving across the site.
Workers are talking about the advantages and disadvantages of domestic and foreign equipment.
The driver is talking about the quality of tires for BelAZ quarry dump trucks.
Panoramas of quarries of open coal deposits.
Ekibastuz, Vostochny open-pit mine.
Mining equipment is working.
Workers talk about current problems.
Panorama of the city under construction.
Sychev V.A. - Honored Miner of the Russian Federation
Krasnoyarsk region Kazakhstan
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