The Plans and Life [Episode 7. "Parallel 69"]

The Plans and Life [Episode 7. "Parallel 69"] , 1979 (28:10)

Annotation: The film about the Norilsk Mining and Processing Integrated Works, about relationship between science and production.

Source description 1: The Arctic landscape: ices in the ocean, the sea above ices, it is snowing. An icebreaker in ices, the icebreaker’s side – shot from the plane. The icebreaker “Sibir” [“Siberia”] in ices. The ships caravan is sailing. The USSR map, zooming-in the Taimyr peninsula. Tundra (cold desert). A pilot in the helicopter’s cabin. Deer are running – shot from the helicopter. Birds are flying. The sunset. The monument to the pioneer of Taimyr, the seaman Afanasy Begichev.
The Dixon city – shot from the bird's eye view. The sea, ships are moored. A port. A city. The sunset. Ships in the Dudinka port. A map of the North. The Norilsk city, new buildings of the city. The first dwelling house in the city – the izba of the geologist Urvantsev.
Sightseers in the house – museum. The portrait of N. Urvantsev. The exhibits of the house-museum – books, maps and others. A stream. A lake, an outboard motorboat is going by. The Lama lake. The forest on the lakeside.
The mountain.
Workers of the mine “Oktyabrsky” (near Norilsk) are descending to the mine in the high-speed cage.
A girl-controller is speaking on the phone. Miners are coming out of the elevator cage, going about the mine, getting in wagons, wagons are moving. Miner in the mine, machines are working in the mine. A miner is smiling. The miner is going up. Builders are chatting in the mine, looking at the working drawings. A rock. A hand is putting explosives into the rock, the explosions. The hand is turning the key.
The rock in hands. A scientist of the mining institute in Norilsk is speaking. Equipments.
The scientists at work.

Source description 2: The scientists of the institute of mines in Novosibirsk are carrying the research of the rock in the mine.
The placing of the device sensor, the scientists are watching the devices. A machine is working in the mine.
The ore loading, the ore in wagons. The controller at the control panel. A train with the ore is moving and going out.
A heat station. A hydro power station in Ust-Hantaysk inside and outside. Illiminated Norilsk.
A control panel of the hydro power station. The night city in winter. Icicles. A greenhouse: cucumbers, flowers in the greenhouse. The night city, shop windows glow. The café for children “from 2 to 5”: a woman with a child is entering the café, the service in the café. A girl is selling flowers.
The “Flowers” shop inside. A supermarket: a cashier at work, a shop assistant is packing the goods, customers in the supermarket sections, the supermarket hall, customer and shop assistants in the ready-made section.
An industrial landscape. The red-hot metal is flowing (in the ore-dressing and processing enterprise in Norilsk). A flow process. Copper plates are moving, moving up.

The Krasnoyarsk scientists (Medvedev and others) are listening, making notes at the blackboard with calculations. A computation center, the remote direct communication session Norilsk- Krasnoyarsk: a recorder is working. The control panel, employees at work.
I.P. Grishko the smelter of the plant in Norilsk at a furnace. The building of the after-work sanatorium (winter).
Grishko with his wife in the after-work sanatorium, taking treatments. A pool of the after-work sanatorium, a dining room.
A reportage from the Norilsk streets. The meeting of the town council, the model of the city.
A speaker at the map. The general director of the Norilsk plant B.I. Kolesnikov is speaking about the development of Norilsk. The plan of the plant development.

Source description 3: The building of the pool in Norilsk (winter). Teenagers in the pool. A coach, children are bathing and playing in the pool. Children in the gym of the kindergarten. The kindergarten, children in the garden. Girls are skating along the skating-rink of the Palace of Sport “The Arctic”, a coach is attending to children.
Hockey-players train themselves. Amateur skaters. A man is bathing in the ice hole, wiping himself on a snow. Doctors are examining patients-winter swimmers using the equipment.
A laboratory.
The construction of a new metallurgical complex “Nadezhda” [“Hope”]. A welder at work.
A Congress on the polar medicine in Novosibirsk: speakers, the presidium, the symbol а the congress. The president of the Siberian Department of the Academy of Sciences of the USSR Academician Kaznacheev is speaking. The construction of the plant “Nadezhda”. A helicopter is flying over the construction. Workers with flags. The helicopter is lowering the load, flying away. The plant project, a draftsman at the project. The workshop of the plant.
The sun over the ices. People are drilling the ice. A helicopter is taking off and flying over the sea. An icebreaker is going along the North seaway. The icebreaker side, the ships caravan. A reportage from winter Norilsk. Miners are going and working, lifting the copper plates. The landscape beyond the Arctic Circle, a train is passing.

Directors: Sofronov V.

Operators: Rusanov A., Levitan A.

Script writers: Melik-Pashaeva A.

Announcer: Kolychev U.