The Earth Is in Trouble

First film Problems of ecological catastrophe as a result of flooding of fertile lands during the construction of reservoirs. A village on the bank of a river, a church, a bell tower, wheat fields, peasants in the field. River, forest, road. The tractor and harvesters are working in the field. Rybinsk reservoir map. Flooded forest, meadows, swamp. Photos of the flooded town of Mologa: houses, a church; the town of Vesyechonsk: streets, the Leushinskaya monastery, the house of the artist V.V. Vereshchagin, the church, the Kalyazinsky Trinity monastery. Map of the Gorky Reservoir. Church in the water. Cyril-Belozersky Monastery. Dam of the Cheboksary reservoir. The village of Sredny Maza, sinking under water. Motor ship on the river. The coast of the Surskaya floodplain, cut off by a dam, is flooded with water, turning into a swamp. View of the Volga River near the city of Gorky. Dam. Map of the Ivankovskoye reservoir, which flooded villages and towns. Maps of the Cheboksary, Kuibyshev and Saratov reservoirs. Photos of the dead fish near the Volzhskaya hydroelectric power station. Dam construction. Wind power plant. Windmills. Ruins of a water mill near the city of Kashira. Map and text of the project for the transfer of northern rivers. View of Kubenskoye lake, settlement on the shore, church, Spaso-Kamenny monastery on the island. View of the city of Kargopol. The village of Semenskaya, the village of Krasnoe, the village of Medvedevo. The Raketa is sailing along the river. Wastewater discharge flows into the Sukhona River by the pulp and paper industries in Sokol. Treatment facilities. Salt-covered fields with contaminated water. Villages of the Vologda region: abandoned houses, peasants working in the field. Lost fertile lands in the Central Chernozem regions, in the Kuban and others: fields covered with sand, pastures, ravines, mining. Village: well, peasants, meadows, flowers, cemeteries, ears of corn in the field.

Color

6

1986