Newsreel: Diesel electric ship "Mikhail Somov", ice-covered in March 1985 in Antarctica, a bonfire on the ice at the side, a kind of part of the ship's cutting house.

Landing of the first Soviet Antarctic expedition in 1955.

The head of the expedition Mikhail Somov speaks to the polar explorers.

Cameraman Kochetkov is filming.

"Mikhail Somov", blocked by ice in the Ross Sea in 1985.

The icebreaker "Vladivostok", going to the aid of "Mikhail Somov", during the storm in July 1985, exhausted crew members.

Pilots of a helicopter detachment of a rescue expedition during the search for "Mikhail Somov."

Polar pilot Valery Gamov speaks about the difficulties of rescuing polar explorers and the crew with the help of aviation.

The head of the rescue expedition Artur Chilingarov speaks about its preparation, plans to save the crew of the vessel, about the naval situation in those latitudes, about the possibilities the icebreaker "Vladivostok" and the difficulties of navigation in the ice, the search and rescue of "Mikhail Somov", the existing dangers in swimming, the meeting of "Vladivostok" And "Mikhail Somov" in New Zealand after returning from the expedition, about the measures taken to improve the work of the Antarctic station "Russian".

The participant of the rescue expedition Andrey Provorkin demonstrates the photographs of meteorological satellites, about the determination of the thickness of ice with their help.

The commander of the helicopter detachment of the rescue expedition Boris Lyalin talks about the actions of the pilots during the search for "Mikhail Somov", the weather conditions in which he had to work.

The religious procession in honor of the expedition headed by Sedov G. Ya. heading to the Cathedral Wharf in Arkhangelsk, with banner-bearers and clergy in ceremonial vestments walking in front.

The rector of the cathedral passes with hierodeacons.

Sedov G. Ya. says goodbye to those seeing off on the deck of the ship "St.

Foka".

Sedov is among the participants in the expedition's farewell.

The rector of the Arkhangelsk Cathedral holds a solemn service on the deck of the ship "St.

Foka", with Sedov and the expedition members standing behind them.

Sedov climbs aboard the ship via the gangway.

A view of the embankment during the reconstruction.

Shoppers at the market in Arkhangelsk.

The head of the polar expedition, Sedov G. Ya., works at his desk on maps, plotting a proposed course.

Sedov determines the altitude of the sun using a sextant.

Sedov inspects the sleds on the deck of the ship "St.

Foka".

Doctor Kushakov P. G. inspects a device for determining the water temperature at great depths.

Oceanographer V. Yu.

Vize on board the ship "St.

Foka".

Dogs intended for the expedition, in a temporary kennel in Arkhangelsk.

Sedov and his wife inspect and feed the dogs in the kennel.

Checking the dog team and sleds.

Dogs in a team.

The expedition members try on clothes made from skins worn by the peoples of the North and try to wrestle with each other for fun.

The steam schooner "St.

The Arkhangelsk clergy, at the head of the religious procession, go to the ship "St.

Foka" for a ceremonial prayer service on the occasion of the expedition's departure.

Sedov, on deck, says goodbye to the city council representatives who are seeing him off.

Sedov and the expedition members wave goodbye from the schooner "St.

Foka".

The people seeing them off are on the pier (panorama), the cameraman is filming.

5. City of Moscow.

Visit T. Heyerdahl (Norway). T. Heyerdahl at Moscow State University, among the participants of the International Congress of Anthropology and Ethnography.

Chronicle.

Sailing raft "Kon-Tiki Heyerdahl T. scientific expedition in the Pacific Ocean. T. Heyerdahl and members of the expedition on the raft.

6. Krasnoyarsk Territory.

Landscapes of the taiga.

Meteoroligicheskaya station "Pillars".

Polar expedition members breaking ice with crowbars.

Sled dogs on the territory of the polar expedition camp.

Dogs playing with polar bear cubs.

Polar bear cubs and dogs in the snow.

Unloading a stretcher with a sick expedition member from a ship.

Panorama of a ship frozen into the ice (possibly the "St.

Phocas" of G. Sedov's expedition).

A man collecting bird eggs on the rocks, breaking one of the eggs and drinking it.

View of a part of a rock, birds landing on the rock and taking off from it.

Arctic landscape, a ship near the shore (panorama). Expedition members breaking ice with crowbars.

Feeding sled dogs.

One of the expedition members collecting bird eggs among the stones on the rock, begins to descend from the rock with a box in his hands.

View of a part of a steep rock (from the bottom up).

Panorama of the rocks.

Participants of the Chukotka Flight Expedition break ice with crowbars near the side of an ice-blocked vessel.

Breaking a path through the ice (top).

Participants of the expedition on an ice floe.

Lifting a spare propeller blade from the deck using a crane and winches.

Lowering the blade overboard for replacement.

The navigator determines the coordinates of the vessel.

Views of a festive demonstration beyond the Arctic Circle.

A team of mechanics prepares the aircraft engines for flight.

Mechanics on the wing near one of the engines.

Participants of the expedition walk along the airfield.

Pilots and members of the expedition near the aircraft preparing for takeoff.

Members of the aircraft crew carry warm clothes.

Transporting cargo to the aircraft on a horse-drawn sleigh.

Panorama of part of the ice airfield, planes on the airfield.

Storing warm clothes on the sled.

Mechanics lift the tail of the plane using a jack.

Views and panoramas of the expedition participants’ meeting, a brass band playing.

The expedition leaders speaking.

A polar aviation plane in flight.

A plane landing on an ice airfield.

Panorama of part of the airfield.

An expedition participant near a plane in a blizzard.

Tents pitched near the plane.

A polar bear walking across a snow field.

Clearing snow and chopping ice by the crews of ships trapped in the ice.

Crew members who took part in clearing the fairway in the ice (panorama).

Ships trapped in the ice, panorama of the ice field.

Panorama and views of ice-bound ships.

Seaplane of the Chukotka Flight Expedition "USSR N-1" near the shore.

The plane's engine, the pilot attaches a hook of a lifting crane to the upper plane to extract the plane from the water.

Lifting the plane with the help of a lifting crane.

Placing the plane on the deck of the vessel.

Loading provisions onto the vessel.

The captain of the vessel talks to the first mate.

Polar bears on ice floes.

Captain of the icebreaker "Sibiryakov" Voronin V.I. with the expedition leader on the captain's bridge.

One of the expedition leaders looks through binoculars. Expedition leader Schmidt O.Yu., captain Voronini V.I., deputy expedition leader Vize V.Yu. and expedition members in the icebreaker's wardroom (panorama).

The icebreaker's amateur orchestra plays musical instruments in the wardroom.

Scientists participating in the expedition conduct scientific research in the laboratory cabins.

Loading gas cylinders onto the vessel (top).

A bundle of gas cylinders is lowered into the hold.

Lifting cargo onto the vessel.

Panorama of part of the ceremonial meeting on the occasion of the expedition reaching the North Pole.

Laying of the commemorative capsule.

Head of the expedition Chilingarov A.N., members of the expedition headquarters, captain of the icebreaker "Sibir" Z.A. Vibach on the rostrum of the ceremonial meeting (panorama). Expedition participants taking photos. Expedition participants and icebreaker crew members tread a circular path at the site of the future laying of the commemorative capsule.

One of the expedition members makes a hole in the ice for laying the commemorative capsule.

Laying of the commemorative capsule in the base of the flagpole.

Faces of the expedition headquarters members standing on the rostrum of the ceremonial rally, among them - Chilingarov A.N. (panorama).

View of part of the ceremonial rally at the North Pole. Expedition participants at the flagpole before the raising of the USSR national flag at the North Pole.

Faces of the expedition participants.

View of part of the icebreaker "Sibir", a helicopter and a rally on an ice floe (panorama). Expedition participants walk to the icebreaker after the ceremonial rally, view of part of the icebreaker's side.

Icebreaker "Sibir" at the North Pole, expedition participants at the flagpole.

View of part of the icebreaker, a helicopter landing on the stern landing pad, panorama of the icebreaker "Sibir". Expedition participants play football in the snow (panorama).

Members of the expedition to the North Pole install and adjust one of the automatic radio and weather instruments on the deck of the icebreaker Lenin.

View of the bow of the icebreaker.

Radio antenna installed on an ice floe.

Installation of automatic weather equipment in polar night conditions.

One of the expedition members measures wind speed.

Drilling a hole for an automatic weather instrument in a blizzard and polar night.

Members of the expedition led by Vladimir Moroz install radio masts on an ice floe in polar night conditions.

View of the deployed antenna.

The national flag of the USSR on the icebreaker Lenin.

The icebreaker Lenin while parked in the ice, in the polar night, with a searchlight shining in all directions.

The face of Schmidt O. Yu.

Schmidt talks to the expedition members after the aircraft landed on the ice floe.

The expedition members listen to Schmidt's instructions.

Schmidt speaks to the expedition members, gives instructions on setting up the camp, among the winterers is Papanin I. D. The pilots stand by the aircraft, among them is Vodopyanov M. V. Raising the national flag of the USSR. The expedition members salute with rifles and revolvers.

Schmidt passes by the aircraft.

Schmidt and Vodopyanov in the aircraft cabin.

Panorama of the Arctic ice (above).

Polar aviation aircraft.

The expedition members wave their hands and hats after the departing aircraft.

View of the territory of the polar station.

Schmidt and the captain of the icebreaker "Sibiryakov" Voronin V.I. during the expedition of 1932. Ice overboard the icebreaker.

The icebreaker "Sibiryakov" goes through the ice, breaking ice.

Schmidt and Voronin on the captain's bridge. "Sibiryakov" goes through the ice.

The radio operator on the captain's bridge hands Schmidt the text of the radiogram, Schmidt reads it.

Papanin I.D. among the expedition members at the airfield near the plane before the flight to the North Pole in March 1937. Cameraman Troyanovsky M. turns the camera handle.

Schmidt O.Yu. says goodbye to colleagues before the flight.

Pilot Vodopyanov M.V. goes to the plane.

Vodopyanov M.V. and his crew members are standing near the plane.

The face of Schmidt O.Yu.

The faces of pilots Vodopyanov M.V., Molokov V.S., Alekseev A.D., Pilot Mazuruk I.P. stands next to Schmidt.

The faces of the expedition navigator Spirin I.T. and pilot Golovin P.G. The face of the head of the wintering Papanin I.D. Vodopyanov and the crew members take their seats in the plane.

The polar aviation plane takes off for the flight to the North Pole on March 22, 1937. The planes taxi to the runway.

The plane takes off and heads for the North Pole.

View of the plane in flight (bottom).

The expedition planes in flight.

Arrival of a new scientific archaeological expedition.

Expedition tents in the mountains.

Members of the expedition.

Interview with one of the participants of the expedition.

Winter mountain landscape.

Ascent to Ararat.

Difficult conditions of recovery (snowfall and blizzard).

Satellite photos of Mount Ararat.

Participants of the expedition "Ararat-Nakhichevan".

Mountain landscape.

Exhibits of the local museum of local lore: an open exposition.

Museum of carpets.

Mausoleum.

Cave city.

Captain Kuchiev, officers of the Arktika and members of the expedition headquarters congratulate each other on reaching the North Pole.

The national flag of the USSR raised over the North Pole on August 17, 1977. A commemorative capsule is carried to be laid at the North Pole.

Panorama of the ceremonial rally on the occasion of reaching the North Pole, rally participants applauding. Expedition participants and icebreaker crew members walk to the site of the ceremonial rally.

Four expedition participants carry the national flag of the USSR to the North Pole.

View of the rally site, a chain of people on an ice floe (top).

Raising the national flag of the USSR at the North Pole.

Faces of the expedition headquarters members.

The icebreaker "Arktika" at the North Pole, the USSR flag on the flagpole.

Members of the expedition give a gun salute in honor of reaching the North Pole.

The icebreaker "Arktika" leaves the North Pole, the USSR national flag installed at the North Pole (top).

Breaking ice floes outside the icebreaker.

The ship "Lena" is moving through the ice.

The icebreaker "Sibiryakov" is breaking a path in the ice for the ships following it.

The head of the Soviet Antarctic expedition Mikhail Somov on the observation bridge.

The icebreaker "Mikhail Somov" during the ice drift in the Gulf of Ballen in 1977. The icebreaker is breaking a path in the ice (top).

View of the bow of the icebreaker (top).

The captain of the icebreaker on the bridge.

Panorama of the Kopet-Dag Mountains.

Members of the astronomical expedition at telescopes installed on tripods.

Scientists are preparing to conduct observations.

Preparing the telescope for work.

Installing light filters.

Scientists conduct experiments on the ground.

Scientists insert a photographic plate into the telescope. Expedition equipment.

Members of the expedition and local residents, having climbed into the back and onto the fenders of trucks, are preparing to observe a solar eclipse through dark glass.

Filming of a solar eclipse.

A telegraph operator at a field telegraph apparatus.

A telescope aimed at the sky.

A girl looks into the eyepiece of the telescope, the sun covered by the Earth.

Local residents look at the sky through glass. Expedition members at work.

Observing a solar eclipse through telescopes.

View of the expedition camp.

The mushroom cloud of a nuclear explosion.

An astronomer at the observatory observes stars through a telescope and explains how the telescope works.

A family at the table near the radio.

Landscapes of Yakutia.

Members of a geological exploration expedition are searching for a diamond deposit in a river, one of them shows the results of washing to the expedition members.

Washing the rock by hand.

Faces of the expedition members washing the rock.

Rock on the palm of a geologist.

Members of the expedition with a map walk to the bank of a forest stream.

The head of the expedition makes notes on the map. V. M. Kucherov and his companions during an inspection of one of the mineral deposits.

Inspection of a rock sample brought by Kucherov.

A map showing the boundaries of the geological parties' areas.

Kucherov and his interlocutors over the map.

The geological expedition is wading across a river.

The members of the geological party are crossing the river on foot and on horseback.

The geologists are coming ashore.

One of the geologists is wringing out his wet clothes.

The steamship Chelyuskin goes to the bottom, crushed by ice in February 1934. Newspaper report on the loss of the steamship and the landing of the crew on the ice.

View of part of the Chelyuskin camp.

Head of the expedition Schmidt O. Yu. gets out of the tent, washes himself with snow.

Melting snow on a fire to get drinking water, distributing water.

Life in the Chelyuskin camp.

View of the camp.

The plane flies to the Chelyuskin camp.

View of a bomb crater in one of the squares of Madrid.

Soviet planes flying.

Pilot Vodopyanov at the controls.

Schmidt O. Yu. next to the navigator, the planes of the Schmidt and Vodopyanov expedition fly to the North Pole.

The pilot at the controls.

The propeller of the plane is turning.

Arctic landscape.

The navigator marks the landing point on the map.

Schmidt and the expedition members land at the North Pole.

Landing of another expedition plane.

The pilots and expedition members congratulate each other.

Raising the USSR national flag over the North Pole.

The expedition members fire rifles and revolvers and sing "The Internationale".

The expedition planes landed at the North Pole, Arctic landscape (panorama).

The flag with Stalin's profile and the USSR national flag flutter on the flagpoles.

Schmidt and the expedition members sing "The Internationale" after raising the flag, the faces of the expedition members.

The expedition tent.

The flags flutter in the wind.

Schmidt O. Yu. near the plane.

Schmidt walks along the platform, people on the platform greet him. Expedition members climb onto the platform.

The leaders of the party and the state greet the expedition members, Voroshilov embraces Schmidt.

Voroshilov, Stalin, Kaganovich L. M. shake hands with the expedition members, embrace them.

Faces of people greeting Schmidt and his comrades.

Schmidt with bouquets of flowers in his hands gets into the car, responds to greetings.

Voroshilov, Stalin, Chubar V. Ya. on the platform.

Cars with expedition members leave the airfield.

People greet the expedition members driving in cars.

Chkalov with his wife and son drive in a car along the streets of Moscow after returning from the USA. Cars with participants of the expedition and the flight over the North Pole drive along the streets of Moscow, leaflets are continuously falling.

View of part of Gorky Street (from above) during the heroes' drive.

Cars enter the Kremlin gates.

Views of Moscow buildings and streets before the start of the Aviation Day celebration.

A traffic controller at the intersection near Okhotny Ryad.

Steamer "Petropavlovsk" in the Okhotsk Sea.

Fishermen on the deck of a floating base during the holidays.

Ship at sea in the fog.

Scientific staff of the expedition at work.

Herring near the shore with boats.

Driftnet herring.

Fishermen salted and packed sardines.

A cameraman in a diving suit during a dive.

A cameraman underwater.

Preparing for filming in the Far North in 1937. A cameraman films.

View of one of the tents of the drifting expedition of the Main Directorate of the Northern Sea Route, polar explorers improving the territory.

A cameraman turns the handle of a movie camera while standing on the tribune of the mausoleum.

The Soyuzkinohroniki truck, an Abyssinian soldier stands next to it.

A cameraman in a pith helmet.

The use of cleaning equipment krupnogruppovym method.

Grain pours into a truck.

Machines with a grain of passing on the highway.

6. Return to the Odessa port ships a scientific expedition, which provided flight space complex "Salyut-4 and Soyuz-18" and a joint flight of Soyuz-19 "and" Apollo. "

Atmosphere - the mother's first cosmonaut Yuri Gagarin Anna Timofeevna Gagarin.

Captain turbohoda "Yuri Gagarin" gives a report.

7. Recital of People's Artist of USSR singer L. Zykina.