Chasing Seals Into the Polar Ice

1h - Seaport in Murmansk, loading and unloading operations. Panorama of the city, a pharmacy building, a museum of local lore, a bazaar. Coast of the Kola Bay. Port-Aleksandrovsk. Biological station building; station workers at work in the laboratory; exhibits of the station museum. The Rusanov icebreaker is approaching Cape Voronov. Landing trappers on the icebreaker. Morzhovets Island. The dwelling of the participants of the hunting expedition. Meteorological station on the island. Hypericum hunting. The icebreaker Sibiryakov makes its way through the ice. St. John's wort move from the Rusanov icebreaker to the Sibiryakov icebreaker. 2h - The plane is ready to take off from Morzhovets Island to explore the seal rookeries. Airplane over the Arctic plain. Seal rookery. Hypericum hunting. 3h - The hunters are returning from the fishery to the Sibiryakov icebreaker with their spoils. Transfer of seal skins from icebreakers to the Albatross sailing ship. Cutting fat from skins, weighing and salting seal skins. Seal oil tanks.

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