Roots

Tundra landscape. Sparse vegetation. A stove in an old tent where the first miners lived. Mine view. Shelf with tunneling lamps. Descent into the mine. Lights flicker. The city of Norilsk. Streets of the evening city. Blizzard sweeps. Transport is moving. Passers-by are walking. The shaft of the mine. Gallery. A miner crushes ore with a jackhammer. Artistic dressing room. Boys and girls are rehearsing ballet numbers. The teacher gives explanations. Site mechanic V. Kishinsky, drifter V. Chernyavsky in a working dispensary. Passer B. Bushuev plays billiards. Houses of the workers' village. People are walking among the snowdrifts. The guys are playing on top of a snowdrift. Geologists are traveling in an all-terrain vehicle. The geologist walks along the tundra.

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Text by S. Ioffe