General view of archaeological excavations conducted by the expedition of the Institute of Archaeology of the Academy of Sciences of Ukraine in the area of the city of Ordzhonikidze in the Dnepropetrovsk region.

The ship on the high seas.

Neptune Festival on the boat.

Removes cameraman Shmakov.

Members of the expedition are playing chess, paints a picture of a man floating in the pool.

Open sea.

Scientists determine the weather.

The guests of the program are the USSR Master of Sports in swimming Maxim Arkadyevich Volkov and aircraft engineer Sergei Aleksandrovich Sokolov, organizers and participants of the Everest-97 expedition.

The feelings of climbers from the ascent.

Why do people climb mountains at all. M.A. Volkov about the comprehensive program of studying the behavior of the human body in extreme conditions.

Mountaineering - a sport or a test?

Justified and unjustified risk.

Everest - the killer mountain, ascent statistics.

Buddhist monastery at an altitude of 5000 meters.

Australia-an Australian scientific expedition is studying the behavior of sharks in the Pacific Ocean.

Shark attack on camera and cameraman.

Souvenirs from New Guinea (stones, masks, totems).

On the TV screen are frames from a film about Oleg Aliyev's journey; behind the scenes are O. Aliyev's comments about the expedition.

Interior of the scientist's office.

The scientist makes extracts from old books in the Old Tatar language. M. Usmanov reads handwritten books in Arabic.

Photographs of the scientist on archaeological expeditions.

Books written by the scientist based on the findings of such expeditions are on display. M. Usmanov among scientists at the department.

The Zhien Foundation, which is engaged in the preservation of the Tatar language and culture.

Books published with the help of the foundation.

The scientist with colleagues on the streets of Kazan.

Members of the Soviet-British commemorative expedition to the North Pole, following the route taken by Nansen, pull an inflatable sled loaded with supplies and equipment.

One member of the expedition makes his way through snow hummocks, using ski poles.

The expedition moves through snow hummocks.

Members of the expedition pitch a collapsible tent and assemble a wind shelter made of snowballs.

The tent is pitched.

The sled with equipment is next to the pitched tent.

One member of the expedition climbs out of the tent and zips the entrance.

The expedition members zip the tent from the inside.

The tent and sled with equipment.

The face of an expedition member, covered by a wind mask.

The expedition members pull the sled with equipment, using ski poles.

The expedition members take a rest break.

The expedition members make their way through snow hummocks, blazing a trail.

A meeting of the expedition members.

Supplies delivered by helicopter are loaded onto sleds.

Soviet and British flags are planted on the ice.

The expedition members make their way through snow hummocks, walking away from the helicopter at dusk, illuminated by flares.

Soviet-Canadian expedition at the geographic point of the North Pole.

Among the members of the expedition is its leader - D. Shparo.

The plane in the air.

Flight over the Arctic.

Landing plane.

Members of the ski expedition meet the plane.

Leader of the ski expedition V. Chukov (synchronously).

A group of skiers goes along the route. Expedition camp. V. Chukov (synchronously).

Lunch.

The cook puts food into bowls.

Everyday life of the expedition.

The helicopter lands at the expedition camp.

Evacuation of the body of the deceased member of the expedition.

The remaining members of the expedition continue on their way.

The tent of the expedition at the North Pole with a raised flag.

Participants of the expedition: V. Chukov, F. Konyukhov, S. Pechenegov, V. Loschik, Yu.

Egorov, A. Podryadchikov, A. Vykhristyuk.

Expedition of Soviet mountaineers to the Pamirs.

On one of the peaks, a bust of Stalin is installed.

Type of ice airfield (above).

The plane came in to land.

View the bow plane landed.

Unloading equipment expedition.

Polar mount equipment, install protective tents and stalls.

Staff at the polar station geodetic measurements carried out on the ground.

Employees of the station to take notes.

Face Kotova.

Type of polar ice.

Members of the expedition are discussing improvement camp.

Route map of the polar expeditions of the late 19th to mid 20th century.

Newsreel 1950-1951 years: explorers set a dome tent.

Radio operators establish and equipment of the radio station.

A member of the expedition recorded weather data.

Flying a plane.

Face radioman.

The aircraft sits on an ice floe.

Unloading boxes with the equipment of the expedition.

Somov examines unloaded crates.

Installation of telephone lines based on the location of the drifting station.

Somov telephone checks.

Arrival dog sled with equipment in the camp.

Bales with property expedition.

Gas cylinders for the needs of the expedition, put up the ice.

Delivered to the camp of the expedition equipment and property.

Face Petrova.

Polar explorers visiting the tents left behind by previous expeditions.

Aircraft high-latitude air expedition sit on an ice floe in the spring of 1954.

Unloading on the ice of food, equipment, scientific equipment.

General view of the landed property.

Freight using crawler tractors.

Members of the expedition EK Fedorov, Academician DI Shcherbakov, director of the Arctic Institute Vladimir Frolov talk after landing on an ice floe.

At the head of the expedition landed ice Burhanov VF

Panorama camp station "North Pole-4".

Tents and cabins to accommodate employees station.

From the house out the stationmaster TOLSTIKOV EI TOLSTIKOV goes on inside the camp.

TOLSTIKOV suitable for meteorologists, launching a probe.

Employees of the station carry out scientific research.

Oceanographers lowered the appliance in water.

The helicopter, belonging to the expedition.

A cook prepares lunch in the galley station.

Employees of the station during the holidays playing chess and reading books in the wardroom station.

View of the camp station.

Arctic landscapes.

Panorama camp station "North Pole-3".

The station Treshnikov AF at your desk.

Polar explorer emerges from a residential trailer.

Hydrologist Dmitriev AI It clears space for appliances.

Mechanic Komarov MS at work.

Aerology Kanaks VG conducting scientific observations.

The radioman Kurkov KM during a session of radio communications.

Dr.

Volovich VG in the medical tent, examining one of the polar explorers.

Newsreel 1950-1951 years: the expedition set gradient setting.

View installed on the ice tower with meteorological instruments.

One of the members of the expedition climbs the pole and secures its top wind turbine.

The expedition members are watching friend.

Polar explorer down from the post rotates the propeller engine.

Construction of shelters for magnetic devices of snow and ice blocks.

Hydrologists lay charges in ammonal punched holes.

The head of a dog sled.

Face polar explorer.

Dogs have downloaded in the property from the plane of the expedition.

View of the camp of the expedition.

Powered wind turbine.

Polar farewell to pilots.

The plane takes off from the ice airfield, the expedition members waving goodbye.

Person head of the expedition Somov.

Flying a plane.

General view of the camp of the expedition, working wind turbine.

Panorama camp.

Face MM Somov Face hydrologist Nikitin MM Hydrologist Gudkovich ZM installs equipment.

Face hydrologist Dmitriev AI Hydrophysics GN Yakovlev conducting measurement area.

Type of the gradient of installation.

One of the members of the expedition takes readings recorders to determine the wind speed and direction.

View of a portion of the gradient system.

Text entries in the diary of the expedition on June 1, 1950.

Newsreel 1950: floe dog chasing a bird.

Arctic landscape.

Kind of cracks in the melting ice.

Panorama district camp expedition.

Traces of polar bears in the snow.

White bear with cub.

Text entries in the diary of the expedition on June 3, 1950.

Map of the camp, explorers with guns are at the tents.

Type of ice floes, polar bears can be seen in the distance.

Armed explorers in the camp.

Year of life in Antarctica.

Subtlety of psychological selection of people.

The influence of environmental conditions on the character of a person, the ability to adapt and change.

Two months in the expedition of Tour Heyerdahl on the papyrus boat "Ra-II".

Attitude to the fear and dangers of travel.

Projects for the future with the participation of Yu.A. Senkevich and T. Heyerdahl.

Dreams of Yu.A. Senkevich about Tahiti.

Scientists in the mission control center receive data from the space expedition, the faces of scientists.

Astronauts extract a drill from a soil sample of the lunar surface.

Scientists discuss and process the data obtained.

View of the lunar surface on the monitor screen.

Astronauts Scott and Irwin on foot move on the surface of the moon, one of them stumbles, falls.

Astronauts collect samples of the Moon's bedrock, scientists in the control center observe the astronauts.

View of a part of the Moon's surface from the side of a moving lunar rover.

The deployment of astronauts scientific station, scientists continue to observe from Earth.

Scott drills the lunar soil with electric drill.

Photos of the collected scientific station and fragments of the lunar surface (top).

The view of the Apollo 15 spacecraft from the compartment with scientific equipment.

Photos of the lunar surface.

Scientists and engineers on Earth follow the indications and data transmitted by the space expedition, keep in touch with the astronauts.

The collection of rocks by astronauts on the surface of the Moon, the study of craters on August 1, 1971.

Sea waves.

Newsreel 1970: papyrus boat "Ra-2" during the voyage.

The crew members of the boat wave goodbye.

T. Heyerdahl and the members of the expedition during the voyage.

The boat is under sail, the monkey is sitting on the rigging.

Heyerdahl gives an interview.

Rocks on the seashore.

A group of skiers walks through a snowstorm. Expedition members on the route.

A helicopter flies over the expedition camp.

The helicopter lands at the camp. Expedition members greet the helicopter.

Camera operators film the group of skiers.

A group of skiers walks along the route.

Skiers make a rest stop.

Refueling the plane.

The plane has landed. Expedition leader V. Chukov gives an interview.

Lunch.

The skiers walk along the route, dragging sleds with luggage behind them.

A radio operator transmits a message.

Pilots in the airplane cockpit.

Flying over ice. Expedition members disembark.

Refueling.

A radio operator transmits a message.

Radio room. Expedition members.

The expedition flag flutters. Expedition members drink tea in the airplane cabin.

Tents on the snow. Expedition members eating lunch on the snow.

Faces of the participants. V. Chukov.

The theme of the issue is risky travel.

The conversation is devoted to expeditions to different parts of the world, where sometimes not only scientists, but also the most ordinary people go.

Everyone has their own reasons to one day break away from their usual place and devote the rest of their lives to exploring the amazing corners of our planet in an attempt to solve the innumerable mysteries of nature and history.

Despite the obvious dangers, difficult climatic conditions, hard life, the corresponding physical and psychological stress, travelers are again and again ready to throw themselves into all this with their heads.

They are not deterred by financial difficulties, nor by the understandable fear that everyone periodically experiences, nor by injuries, nor even by the possibility of death in the Arctic ice, African deserts, or somewhere on the high seas.

What makes all these people travel around the world, sometimes climbing into places where literally no human foot has ever set foot?

A simple desire to test yourself?

Lack of adrenaline?

Longing for the times when every expedition turned into a scientific breakthrough and shocked with an abundance of new knowledge about the world in which we live?

Or the opportunity to rethink your life in isolation from civilization?

The host of the program "Travelers ' Club" Yuri Senkevich and polar explorer Vladimir Chukov are guests of the program.

Honorary polar explorer Vitaly Volovich, mountaineer Vladimir Bashkirov, hydronaut Alexander Molodyka, speleologist Alexander Efremov, and Austrian traveler Alexander Schachner also shared their impressions of their travels.

In the preparation of the program, the materials of the program "Travelers ' Club" about the expeditions of Vladimir Chukov, Yuri Lishaev, Thor Heyerdahl, Mikhail Malakhov and Richard Weber were used.

Workers of one of the archaeological expeditions excavate a hillside.

View of an archaeological excavation site during preliminary clearing, removing a layer of soil with bayonet shovels.

Clearing the slope of an archaeological excavation site, removing a vertical layer manually.

Installing a protection made of fabric scraps on a discovered artifact.

Fine clearing of a skeleton discovered in a burial.

Archaeologists use tweezers to extract valuables from the burial.

Clearing the skeleton with brushes.

The process of fine clearing a burial.

Human remains in a discovered burial, part of a preserved burial decoration on the skull, archaeologists extract fragments of bones and decorations.

Archaeologists clearing and examining a discovered burial (top).

The head of the archaeological expedition examines the discovered burial.

Archaeologists conduct a fine clearing of human remains.

Stone tool with a hole in the hands of an archaeologist.

Human figurine discovered during excavations.

Fragments of cutting and chopping ancient tools made of stone and other hard materials on the palm of an archaeologist.

Members of the archaeological expedition climb boulders, determining the location of the future excavation.

View of an archaeological excavation, archaeology students at work.

Interns search for artifacts in the earth poured into stretchers and wooden trays.

Panorama of the excavation on the city street near the ancient building (above).

The face of an archaeologist cleaning a discovered artifact with a brush.

The face of a participant in an archaeological expedition cleaning a human skull with a brush.

The hands of an archaeologist cleaning a discovered artifact.

A participant in the expedition holds a tablet with a plan of the site attached to it.

Determining and recording the sizes of the surviving parts of a wooden structure using a tape measure.

Panorama of the seashore in the North, archaeologists on the shore excavating a burial site of members of one of the expeditions.

An archaeologist with a theodolite during geodetic referencing of the excavation to the area.

Tamping the earth at the base of a memorial wooden cross.

Installing a memorial cross.

View of the installed cross on guy wires.

Excavations on the shore (panorama), archaeologists during the search.

Panorama of the excavation area, archaeologists at work.