Forest North-West

Educational film about the nature of the north-west of Russia - a vast region stretching for a thousand kilometers from the southern shores of Lake Ladoga, through Karelia and the Kola Peninsula, to the coast of the Barents Sea. In Karelia, which is rich in forests, felling occurs selectively, the forest is floated along numerous rivers. The first in Karelia Kondopozhskaya hydroelectric power station operates on the Suna River (1929). Mink is bred in fur farms. Cows graze in the pastures. Nadvoitsy aluminum smelter operates in the village of Nadvoitsy, Segezha region of Karelia. The Savior Transfiguration Monastery is located in Lake Ladoga on Valaam Island. On the island of Kizhi in Lake Onega there is the Kizhi State Historical, Architectural and Ethnographic Museum: the summer church of the Transfiguration of the Lord (1714), the winter church of the Intercession of the Virgin (1764), the tent-roofed bell tower (1863), the chapel of Michael the Archangel (early 19th century) and the house of the peasant Elizarov. North of Karelia is the Kola Peninsula, in the center of which there is a mountain range - the Khibiny. Apatite and nepheline, iron, copper and nickel ores are mined in the mines. This ore is used by the Kandalaksha aluminum and Monchegorsk copper-nickel plants. Everything that is produced on the peninsula is sent through the Murmansk port to different parts of the country and abroad.

B&W

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1972