Storm

The film tells about a natural disaster - a storm on the Volga in the Ulyanovsk region on May 11-12, 1991, which resulted in a difficult situation on the construction of a new bridge across the Volga. View of blooming apple trees. Mother-and-stepmother flowers in the grass. Two men are sitting on a park bench. The movement of cars on the highway. A large passenger motor ship and a hydrofoil ship sail along the Volga. A telephone operator receives a report on the upcoming weather in Ulyanovsk. General view of the construction of a new bridge across the Volga in Ulyanovsk and a storm that has begun on the river. High waves crash into machinery at the construction site. Floating cranes, platforms with equipment, floating equipment that could not be taken into shelter are swinging. One of the brave souls, risking his life, tries to save a floating crane, attaches it with a cable to the pier on the right bank. View of the old operating bridge across the Volga, on which there is a convoy of cars. The boat is carried to the old bridge. View of a sinking craft A group of people, being on the bank, observe the situation on the river and at the construction site of the bridge. View of the damaged and sunken platform, where the drilling rig, power station and other equipment were located. View of one of the floating cranes. General view of the barge brought to the embankment and destroyed it. Deputy Minister of Transport Construction of the USSR Vladimir Vasilyevich Alekseev at the construction site of the bridge after the effects of the storm, talking with construction managers, getting into the car, driving away. Type of consequences of a devastating storm: equipment damaged by a natural disaster.

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sound engineer V. Shubin, editor B. Kozhin