Contemporary Number 48

A special issue of Sovremennik No. 47 magazine tells about the only woman on the Volga - the captain, the commander of the Krasnovidovo container ship Elza Alekseevna Merkulova. Volga landscapes: the shores taken from a passing ship, the barge is sailing along the Volga, the sun is in the fog over the river, the river at sunset, seagulls over the water. Captain E.A. Merkulova looks through binoculars on the captain's bridge, square meter. - her face. E.A. Merkulova reads a book in the rest room on the ship, talks with river workers in the wheelhouse, tears daisies on the shore, runs with flowers to the ship. River workers play chess in the cockpit. The Krasnovidovo container ship is sailing along the Volga. The high-speed passenger hydrofoil ship "Meteor" sails along the Volga, sails past the rocky coast. The motor ship "Alyosha Popovich" is sailing along the river. The Volga-Don container ship is sailing along the Volga. River station in Yaroslavl at night. Port, container unloading, crane is working, barge "Nikolay Bauman" is on the quay. The son of EA Merkulova, student of the Kuibyshev Polytechnic Institute, Oleg Merkulov, stands on the deck of the Krasnovidovo container ship in the port, talking with his mother. The work of the engine room of the container ship.

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Editor A. Nedoluzhko, sound engineer V. Shubin, animator E. Amosova