A film about the research of scientists who assessed the damage caused by the construction of large hydroelectric power plants, with a huge area of flooded land.
Burning hut.
Caption: "Dam".
Rapid current of the river, cranes on the other bank.
A boulder that has fallen into the water.
Explosion.
Mark on the cliff: "The Bratsk Hydroelectric Power Station will be built here".
Foreman of fitters of "SPETSGIDROENERGOMONTAZH" A.P. Basov.
Panorama of the hydroelectric power station under construction from a bird's eye view.
Rapid current of the river.
Panorama of the construction.
Landslide of stones in the river.
Several trucks with raised bodies (dumping boulders into the water).
Female traffic controller.
Movement of trucks.
The driver reverses.
Traffic controller.
The driver looks back from the cab.
Piles of stones fall into the river from the body.
Electrical tower.
Wooden house.
Panorama of the valley.
Boguchanskoye Reservoir.
Children splash in the water.
Cows in the water near the shore.
Milk pours from a bucket into a canister.
Wildflowers tremble in the wind.
Valley, forest.
Explosion.
Burning of a wooden house.
Chief Engineer of the Boguchanskaya HPP project - A.M. Martinos.
Panorama of construction.
Welders.
Unloading cement from a truck.
Builder in a helmet.
Construction bucket is raised upward.
Forest.
Felled trees.
View of the construction site.
Scientist F.Ya.
Shipunov about losses from the construction of a hydroelectric power station.
Horses by the river.
Horses at the watering place.
Horses in the field.
Water surface, sunset.
Movement of a KamAZ. A crane, the sun is setting.
Movement of trucks.
Evening twilight.
Boarded up house.
Scientist F.Ya.
Shipunov about Siberian power plants and their harm to the environment.
Construction of a hydroelectric power station.
Excavator in action.
Workers with a rope.
Worker on a truck.
Panorama of the construction of a hydroelectric power station.
Workers in helmets.
Unloading concrete.
Crane in action.
Worker at the construction site.
Welders.
Chief Engineer of the Boguchanskaya Hydroelectric Power Station Project - A.M. Martinos.
Excavators.
Trucks at the quarry.
Unloading construction ore.
The rapid flow of the river.
Workers rejoice, tossing the winner in their arms.
The Krasnoyarsk Worker newspaper, lightning on the front page.
Jubilant workers with newspaper stripes.
A woman's face, she is smiling, clapping her hands.
A crowd of people behind the scarlet ribbon.
Panorama of the hydroelectric power station dam.
A villager mows the grass.
A woman with a scythe near a haystack.
A young man, a mower.
A villager on a cart with a horse.
A woman with a scythe and a girl.
Young men with scythes and a boy.
A tractor in the field.
Panorama of the reservoir.
Scientist F.Ya.
Shipunov on the damage and harm from the construction of a hydroelectric power station.
The hydroelectric power station dam.
Construction, concrete, dam, reservoir, workers, truck, overhead crane
A.M. Martinos
Chief Engineer of the Boguchanskaya Hydroelectric Power Station Project. F.Ya. Shipunov
Head of the Laboratory of Biosphere Research at the USSR Academy of Sciences. A.P. Basov
foreman of fitters "SPETSHIDROENERGOMONTAZH".
Krasnoyarsk Krai
Summer
Panorama of the river.
Wooden house.
Doorway.
Old stove. F.Ya.
Shipunov about flooded villages and hamlets on the Volga.
Wooden house.
Wild flowers, grass.
Burning of an old house.
Herd of horses.
Beams are falling from the roof of the burning house.
Villagers.
A man throws water from a bucket on the fire.
A boy's face.
House on fire.
An elderly woman is sitting on a log.
A wooden log house in smoke.
A boy's face.
Remains of burnt buildings. A.M. Martinos, chief engineer of the Boguchanskaya hydroelectric power station project, talks about achievements in construction.
Logging. A.M. Martinos.
Falling pine.
Workers felling timber.
Tree trunks are floated into the river using a caterpillar tractor.
View of the forest and the river from a helicopter.
Timber rafting.
A timber rafting worker.
Flooded tree trunks in the river.
Construction.
Panorama of timber rafting.
The wind ruffles the grass in the field.
Timber rafting workers with boat hooks.
Timber rafting panorama. A.P. Basov, foreman of fitters of "SPETSHYDROENERGOMONTAZH".
Felled trees at the river's edge. F.Ya.
Shipunov on the harm of dam construction to the environment.
Panorama of mountainous terrain.
Panorama of a hydroelectric power station.
Raging river.
Windmill.
A hydroelectric power station worker descends along metal beams.
Welders. F.Ya.
Shipunov on nature conservation.
Panorama of a hydroelectric power station.
Newsreel 1935-1940, construction of the Rybinsk hydroelectric power station.
Construction of the Krasnoyarsk hydroelectric power station.
Flooded land.
Construction.
Raging river.
Timber rafting panorama from a hill.
Construction, logging, timber rafting, dam
A.M. Martinos
Chief Engineer of the Boguchanskaya Hydroelectric Power Station Project. F.Ya. Shipunov
Head of the Laboratory of Biosphere Research at the USSR Academy of Sciences. A.P. Basov
foreman of fitters "SPETSHIDROENERGOMONTAZH"
Krasnoyarsk Krai
Summer