Samotlor My Destiny

The plot of the film tells about the oil field at Lake Samotlor in Western Siberia. 1 part. General views of the city of Nizhnevartovsk, the monument to the Conquerors of Samotlor (1978), the oil field on Lake Samotlor (removed from the plane). Oilman E. Bolshagin rides a bus, talks (sync.) About the Samotlor oil field. General types of oil pipelines, oil tanks, operating oil pumps. Drilling foreman V. Lyapin with his wife and son at home in the kitchen, drinking tea. V. Lyapin (off-screen) talks about his work at the drilling rig. View of the old part of the city of Nizhnevartovsk, cemetery. Port view. The ships are at the berths. Men are driving a snowmobile down the street, a Zhiguli car is going by. B / W newsreel footage of the 1960s: A fountain of oil, oil workers are pumping their comrade in the arms. Type of burning associated gas torches. Oil tower panorama. Presentation of certificates to drillers. B / W newsreel footage of the 1970s: Oil drillers who have completed a record 132,000 meters of drilling are swinging in the hands of their master. General view of the place where the exploration well No. 1 is located - the discoverer of the Samotlor field, drilled on May 25, 1965. Oil workers at work: laying a pipeline, working at a drilling rig. Delivery by transport aircraft to the field of special equipment. Oil drillers walk after their shift. Oil workers are riding in a train compartment. The grand opening in 1978 in Nizhnevartovsk of the monument to the Conquerors of Samotlor. People at the rally. Views of Nizhnevartovsk in the winter season: residents on the streets of the city, schoolchildren are walking, a woman is carrying a string bag with food, another woman is carrying a stroller with a child, a fashionably dressed girl is passing by, a woman is driving a child on a sled, boys are riding bicycles. Panorama of residential buildings under construction. There is a group of women who work as finishers on the construction site. Women are painting windows in their new home. Schoolchildren of one of the primary classes are sitting in a drawing lesson, drawing. General view of children's drawings. Part 2. General views of the oil field at Samotlor (removed from the plane), an idle oil pumping station and a dilapidated cabins at the oil field. Monument to the Conquerors of Samotlor in Nizhnevartovsk. General Director of Nizhnevartovskneftegaz VO Paliy talks about the problems in the oil and gas industry (sync. And per frame), that only oil and gas trade is at the forefront. The notable oilman, honorary resident of Nizhnevartovsk E. Bolshagin speaks (sync. And behind the scenes.) About the problems of the industry, that the wells are idle, talking on the phone. General view of the deposit. General types of drilling rig, oil workers working at oil rig, oil pumping station. Drilling foreman V. Zinoviev at the drilling site, talks (sync. And behind the scenes.) About the problems of drilling wells due to the lack of pipes and other equipment. Associated gas flares at the field. Landscapes of the Samotlor deposit: lake, swamps, rare trees. Heavy vehicles are passing along the road. View of the pipeline section. Part 3. Oil pipeline panorama. Pipeline laying. General Director of "Nizhnevartovskneftegaz" VO Paliy says that no one takes into account the oilmen in the government (sinhr.); supplying oil to the regions, the industry receives nothing for development. Production processes at drilling rigs. There is a group of drillers headed by E. Bolshagin. Oil workers in the shed after the shift: wash, change clothes. The movement of heavy dump trucks on the road. The surrounding landscape of the field: trees in the snow, a panorama of the oil rig. General view of oil reservoirs. Oil workers in the cafeteria, riding the bus, playing cards. Oil workers disembark at the bus station. General view of the clothing market: women stand behind counters, sell things, people choose clothes in the market. Drilling foreman V. Zinoviev is walking with his daughter in the yard of the house, the children are playing in the yard. Zinoviev's sons on the balcony, doing sports equipment in the room. General view of the kitchen in Zinoviev's apartment. V. Zinoviev with his daughter and sons in the kitchen, sitting at the table. Part 4. View of one of the courtyards in Nizhnevartovsk. Cows walk in the yard, eat grass on the lawns. Residents of Nizhnevartovsk work on their garden plots: they cultivate the soil with the help of a cultivator and shovels, loosen it, and make spring plantings. View of greenhouses and cows in the farms of the horticultural cooperative. General view of the street and houses in the horticultural cooperative. A group of oil workers in the bath, sitting at the table, talking. One of the men present plays the guitar, sings (sinhr.), Others sing along. General view of the terminal building in Sheremetyevo-2, car parking. A group of oil workers who arrived at the airport get out of the minibus. Airplane in the sky. L. Titov's interview (sinhr.). Nizhnevartovsk oil workers in America (video. February 1992): stand by a palm tree, joke with American police officers, sit in a restaurant, attend a rodeo. Part 5. The movement of special vehicles along the track. Work on the drilling fields. Installation of an oil rig. Panorama of the oil field at Lake Samotlor. The bride and groom enter the building of the Nizhnevartovsk Wedding Palace. The newlyweds leave the palace. The young husband carries his young wife in his arms into the car. General view of the residential areas of Nizhnevartovsk. Residents of the city are walking through the square, sitting on benches. A young man and a girl walk down the street, eat ice cream, sit on a bench. Women carry strollers with children. General view of the city (filmed from an airplane).

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A. Grebeshkov, A. Sineokaya, A. Kornienko, V. Zakharchenko