Eastern Siberia

The film almanac combines ten scenes filmed in the republics: Sakha (Yakutia), Buryatia, Tuva; in the regions: Chita and Irkutsk. 1 part. Views of the city of Mirny. Diamond mining at the International mine. Sorting diamonds. Type of jewelry with diamonds. Types of the city of Yakutsk. Yakut craftswomen for making decorative items from beads, horsehair, sewing national costumes. Yakut bone carvers for making figurines from mammoth bones. Part 2. Construction of the Chita-Khabarovsk highway on the Chita section of the route. Views of the city of Chita. Interview with the head of the Department of Normal Physiology of the Chita Medical Academy, Professor BI Kuznik (sinhr.). BI Kuznik at a lecture in the audience. Academy students in the classroom in the laboratory. Meeting in the assembly hall of the academy. Part 3. Assembly of aircraft and helicopters at the Ulan-Ude Aviation Plant. Interview with the director of the plant L.Ya.Belykh (sinhr.). Helicopters and airplanes on the airfield. General view of a Buddhist temple in the city of Ulan-Ude. Parishioners pray in the temple. Part 4. Winter landscape of the Irkutsk region. Deforestation in the Irkutsk taiga. Wood sawing. Forestry patrols by forest police to counter massive illegal logging. Gas production works at the Kovykta gas-condensate field. General view of the village of gas workers. Life of gas workers. Medical care for the workers of the gas condensate field. Part 5. Landscapes of Tuva. Life of the indigenous population inhabiting the steppes of Tuva. Grazing camels.

Color

5

2005