A convoy of ships led by the icebreaker "Dobrynya Nikitich" is sailing along the Sea of Okhotsk to the shores of about. Sakhalin. The crew of the icebreaker "Dobrynya Nikitich" bury the ship's chef Petrov, who died of pneumonia: Petrov's body sinks into the sea. Icebreaker "Dobrynya Nikitich" at the moment of a stormy wind; icing of the vessel. The sailors are clearing the icebreaker deck of snow and ice. Northern landscape: snow, ice; seal on ice; seal on the surface of the sea.