The Blue Fire of the Arctic Gas Pipeline

A film about the construction of the Messoyakha-Norilsk gas pipeline. The film uses footage from 1968-1970. The city of Norilsk. January 1968. Meeting AN Kosygin at the airport. AN Kosygin visits the Norilsk Metallurgical Combine, speaks to the party and economic activists (synchronously). Employees of the research institute "Vostokgiprogaz" at work. Discussion of the Messoyakha-Norilsk gas pipeline project at one of the meetings. Construction Department "Zapolyaryegaz". Employees at work. Meeting with the head of the department F. T. Fondar. Streets of the city in winter. Transport and pedestrian traffic. December 1969. City streets, lighted windows, lanterns, advertisements, illumination on buildings, a New Year tree in the square. Passers-by on the streets of the city. Schoolchildren are downhill. Gas distribution station. The torch of the Messoyakha-Norilsk gas pipeline is burning. Meeting. Smelting metal at the Norilsk Metallurgical Combine. Prospecting, geodetic and construction works on the gas pipeline route. Discussion of the project in the Dudinsk branch of the Vostokgiprogaz Institute. The settlement of the Fakel-1 gas pipeline builders on the Bolshaya Kheta River. Head of the expedition of the Institute "Vostokgiprogaz" A. I. Karaev at work. Helicopters with bulky cargo in the air, unloading cargo for helicopters. Ice drift on the river. Gasmen by the fire. Motor ship with cargo on the river. A floating crane unloads cargo. Reindeer herders' camp. An old musher is watching the unloading. Post office. Dining room. Road construction. Laying a gas pipeline along the river bed. Imploding works. Sunrise in the tundra. Reindeer team movement. A family of reindeer herders in sledges. Reindeer breeders' holiday. Round dance dedicated to the return of the sun. The movement of trucks with pipes, bulldozers. Blizzard. A delegation of party and economic workers of the Taimyr Autonomous Okrug and the city of Norilsk on construction, including: FT Bondar, VI Dolgikh. A musher with a dog sled on the gas pipeline route. Siphon stretching through the Yenisei. Cameramen are filming. Assembly of the last joint. Gas Industry Minister A. K. Kortunov on the gas pipeline route. Tests. Krasnoyarsk city. Yenisei embankment. The Yenisei River. Movement of ships. Loading works in the port. Head of the Yenisei Shipping Company I. Ye. Nazarov oversees the loading.

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F. Bondar (technical consultant).