North Caucasus Number 34

A special issue of the newsreel tells about the activities of the team of scientists of the High Mountain Geophysical Institute in Nalchik (Kabardino-Balkarian Autonomous Soviet Socialist Republic), about the work of its stationary and mobile laboratories, about the scientific problems facing scientists. Snow-capped mountain peaks. The cable car goes up the mountains. Tourists queue up at the funicular station. The institute's mobile laboratory in the mountains, scientists are observing instrument readings. Geophysicists are conducting research in the mountains. Serpentine road in the mountains. Bridge over a mountain river, an unfinished part of the bridge. Frozen avalanche. The laboratory of engineering glaciology in the mountains, scientists are studying the problem of active influence on the avalanche process. Installation of measuring instruments in the snow. There is an avalanche in the mountains. The truck is driving on a mountain road cleared of snow. The excavator works in the mountains, clears the road from stones. A group of scientists headed by the head of the laboratory V.R.Bolov studies the microstructure of snow, installs special equipment in avalanche-prone areas in the areas of mountain road construction. Installation of geophysical equipment under the wing of the aircraft. The pilot in the cockpit, dashboard. Employees of the aerial laboratory of microphysics of clouds in the cabin of the aircraft observe the readings of the instruments, study the nature of hail formation. Employees of the laboratory of high-mountain geoecology of the Institute are monitoring the mountains of the Elbrus region. The head of the laboratory, Candidate of Geographical Sciences, E.G. Kolomyts, and his staff are conducting a study of the soil in the mountains. Scientists with safety ropes are walking in the snow in the mountains. One of the researchers descends the rope into the depths of the crevice. Geophysicists' location installation in the mountains, in the foreground - mountain flowers. The radar installation is working. Polygon of the laboratory of thunderstorm electricity in Baksan. The head of the laboratory, candidate of physical and mathematical sciences A.Kh. Khadzhiev observes the operation of the instruments. A.Kh. Khadzhiev is awarded a diploma at the symposium of geophysicists in Nalchik. Scientists - participants of the symposium at the hotel "Nalchik", among them - A. Khadzhiev. The plane "IL-14" on the airfield, the plane takes off, flies in the sky.

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1982