Mstislav Keldysh.

Mstislav Keldysh. , 1980 (1:25)

Annotation: The film reconstructs the character of the greatest organizer of the Soviet science, conspicuous statesman, brilliant theorist Mstislav Keldysh. The figure of the scientist is created by reminiscences if the people who knew him and worked with him, newsreel scenes.

Film description: The film tells the Academician, President of the USSR MV Keldysh. The film features cinematography, including: testing models of aircraft in the Central Aero-Hydrodynamic Institute (TsAGI), the presence of MV Keldysh of trials, MV Keldysh in the group of designers. Election of the President of the USSR Academy of Sciences in 1961, meeting of the Presidium of the USSR with the participation of the President of the Academy of Sciences MV Keldysh, Keldysh among the scholars of one of the institutions, the Keldysh with Academician Kapitsa. Training a dog Laika to fly into space, performance of the Keldysh at a press conference in connection with the flight of Yuri Gagarin into space on board the Vostok-1 "(synchronous) and Titov in the ship" East - 2, MV Keldysh congratulated the astronauts, MV Keldysh and Sergei Korolev in a spaceship in a science lab. Types of Kiev, the Dnieper. Stay MV Keldysh in the Magadan region in the basin of the Kolyma River valley Berelekh, visit mine "Pilot", Keldysh conversation with the workers at the mine, a visit to Kamchatka Keldysh, Keldysh at the launch site, at a press conference on the occasion of the landing to the moon automatic station "Luna-9", the statement Keldysh at 23 Congress, at the Symposium on Solar Terrestrial Physics (synchronously), awarding the MV Keldysh Gold Star of Hero of Socialist Labor, awarded the diploma of honorary Academician Keldysh, Keldysh meeting with Dr. . Jawaharlal Nehru, the signing of an agreement with the Cuban Academy of Sciences. His memories of the Keldysh divided his family, friends (in sync), academicians Yu.N.Parijskij, AM Petrosyants, GI Marchuk, AP Aleksandrov. Paton and his colleagues (all simultaneously).

Source description 1: A picture: the portrait of M.V. Keldysh.
Newsreel of 1961: 10.04 – meeting of the State Commission. At the Commission are present S.P. Korolev, M.V. Keldysh and others. The meeting is open by comrade K.N. Rudnev, the first deputy of the Chairman of the Council of Ministers of the USSR. S. Korolev is speaking. At the table are the cosmonauts, among them G. Titov. Rudnev is speaking, Kamanin is speaking, the Hero of the Soviet Union, pilot, Lieutenant General, the chief of the cosmonaut training center. Yuri Gagarin, German Titov, rise from the table, the cosmonauts are sitting. S. Korolev is speaking. The astronauts are applauding. Gagarin’s passage in the car after the flight, the people greet Gagarin, the cars are accompanied by escort of motorcyclist.
A picture: Keldysh at the Red Square. Keldysh with the group of scientists, academician Petrov.
Academician G.I. Petrov is speaking.
Newsreel: a regulator-man with flag at the airdrome, a plane gets off the ground, a pilot in the cabin, the pilot’s face in the mirror.
Gallai is speaking about Keldysh.
Newsreel: take-off the plane, a part of a plane.
A picture: Keldysh, when he was young.
Newsreel: the gate grating of the Central gate of the Aerodynamic Institute moves. Workers transport a plane. Parade at the Red square, aircrafts fly. Space. An aircraft turns over in the air, falls to pieces on earth. The aircraft breaks. At the airdrome works a fire crew.
The books of M. Gallai. Published works of M.V. Keldysh, L.S. Popov.
L. Popov, professor of the Central Aerohydrodynamic Instituteis speaking.
A picture: the portraits of S.Chaplygin, academician, director of the Central Aerohydrodynamic The University. Keldysh at the blackboard, on the bank of the pond.
Newsreel: Keldysh. Testing of model of aircraft tail in the air tunnel. Testing of aircraft model. Keldysh in the plant, at the observation site. Aircrafts in the air. Aircraft model falls to pieces.
Aircraft model. Testing of chassis of the aircraft for elimination of vibration.
Works of Keldysh. A picture: scientific council of Central Aerohydrodynamic Institute, Keldysh at the advisory council.
Newsreel: Keldysh with designers enters the plant. The General Designers: Ilyushin, Lavochkin, Polikarpov, Jakovlev. Aircrafts on the shop floor.
Newsreel of 1943: Keldysh is awarded an order.

Source description 2: Newsreel: scenes from the film magazine "Day News" # 21 of 1961: the polls of Academy of Sciences of the USSR, people put bulletins into the ballot-box. By secret voting M. Keldysh is selected the President of the Academy. People are applauding in the hall. Keldysh is entering the presidium, people are greeting him. Keldysh’s face.
Widow of Keldysh is speaking.
A picture: Keldysh is at home.
Moscow, Leningradsky avenue, driving over the territory of the Academy of Sciences of the USSR. The building of the Academy of Sciences, staircase, chandelier, hall, the ticker of a clock.
Newsreel: academicians are going upstairs. Academicians are talking.
Presidium convention hall.
Newsreel: academicians are talking, smiling, academician Lavrentyev.
A picture: academicians at the meeting, Keldysh.
Newsreel: academicians at the meeting, Keldysh at the meeting.
A picture: various pictures of Keldysh at the Academy meetings.
Sessions shorthand records.
Newsreel: Keldysh and other scientists are passing by, Keldysh and a group of scientists at the instrument, a panorama of the workshop.
Institute in Noginsk, "Academy of Sciences of the USSR". Work in the shop, aggregate, welding of structures, work in the laboratory. Zelenchug observatory, evening view.
A picture: Keldysh, Parijsky.
Observatory. Radar telescope RATAN - 600, which helped to discover radio emission of Jupiter's moons, Galileo’s moons. Sunset. Construction of radar telescope. Artwork: space, space views change via dissolve. Yu.N. Pariysky is speaking – an associate member of the Academy of Sciences of the USSR, research supervisor of the Zelenchug observatory, astrophysicist.
Newsreel: Keldysh at the construction site.
Artwork: multi-image screen - industrial theme. Yakunin, Director of the observatory construction is speaking at the construction site.
Newsreel: Keldysh.
A picture: Keldysh at the construction site, Keldysh’s father – Vsevolod Mikhailovich. Picture of Keldysh’s grandfather.
Keldysh’s sister and brother are speaking.
A picture of another grandfather of Keldysh, father of Keldysh with a group of people, pictures of the Keldyshes family.

Source description 3: Pictures of brothers and sisters of M. Keldyshа. Pictures of M. Keldysh at different years.
Newsreel: published work of Keldysh in the 30-ies.
Newsreel: a plane sits on water.
A rocket with underwater wings goes along the river.
Pictures of Keldysh, Kurchatov, Korolev. A. M. Petrosyants, the Chairman of the State Committee of the USSR on use of nuclear energy.
Petrosyants is speaking.
A picture of Keldysh.
Atomic bomb explosion. Computer, hands are typing, apparatus is plotting lines, computer display, calculator. The book of academician G. Marchuk. Marchuk is speaking.
A picture of Keldysh, A.P. Aleksandrov.
Aleksandrov is speaking.
A picture of Keldysh and Korolev.
D.E. Okhotsimsky, corresponding member of Academy of Sciences of the USSR, is speaking. Published work of V.A. Egorov, Egorov is speaking. T. M. Eneev, corresponding member of Academy of Sciences of the USSR, mathematician, is speaking. A panorama from Saryschev to Egorov.
Pictures: various pictures of Keldysh, published work of Egorov.
Newsreel: Keldysh and P.L. Kapitsa at the meeting on earth satellites in the institute of institute applied mathematics in the middle of February of 1954. S. Korolev is present.
A picture of Keldysh at the table, Keldysh smiles.
The model of the first earth satellite. Communications control center, cabinet.

Source description 4: A picture of Keldysh.
Okhotsimsky is speaking. Satellite in the space. G.I. Petrov is speaking.
Newsreel: the dog Laika in the cabin of the space vehicle.
A picture of Keldysh at home.
Newsreel of 1961: Keldysh is speaking at the press conference. The correspondents are in the hall.
G. Titov, pilot-cosmonaut, is speaking.
Newsreel: Korolev and Keldysh are greeting the cosmonauts. Keldysh is speaking at the conference . Applauding people. Tereshkova and Nikolayev are dancing at the wedding, Keldysh is greeting Tereshkova and awarding her. The correspondents in the hall at the press conference. Korolev. Assembling of a space vehicle. Work at the plant. Rocket start. Korolev goes up stairs in the shop.
Eneev is speaking. The house at the cosmodrome, where Keldysh and Korolev lived.
Newsreel: Keldysh and Korolev are passing, at the space vehicle.
A picture of Keldysh with B. Paton, academician, the president of the Academy of Sciences of the Ukrainian Soviet Socialist Republic.
B.Paton is speaking.
Newsreel: people at the plant, Keldysh in the laboratory, looks through the enlarging lens, star field of the model.
A picture of Keldysh. Keldysh in Kiev at the celebration of the 50-th anniversary of the Academy of Sciences of the Ukrainian Soviet Socialist Republic, he is presented with bread and salt, Keldysh is smiling. Keldysh with flowers, with Paton, with mine workers, at the table, in a plane, looks through microscope.
Satellite flight. Deep-space radio centre.

Source description 5: Kiev. Blooming pink chestnut planted in 1964 by Keldysh and Paton. Park. The Square of B. Khmelnitsky, a street cleaner in the street, dawn at the Dnieper river, the Dnieper river.
A picture: Keldysh passing around the institutes in Kiev.
Paton is speaking.
A picture: Keldysh near the car, in the wood, is reading in the wood, having a bathe; with his son, with children, at home, with his papers.
Newsreel: Keldysh is speaking.
A living cell.
A picture: the earth, the earth from space, Keldysh is in the Far East, Keldysh is in the group of people, N.A. Shilo.
N. Shilo is speaking, the Far East landscape.
Newsreel: Keldysh in Magadan is going down the ramp, shaking hands with the welcomes. Keldysh at the meeting, with the group of people, he is talking. A speaker, a hand writing in a notebook. Keldysh is entering a plane, cabin. Keldysh at the developments of the placer deposit in the north-east of the Susumansk region of the Bereleh river-valley. Keldysh is passing over the bridge, talking.
Landscape with minerals deposits in the permafrost, icicle, a panorama of minerals.
Newsreel: a mine "Eksperementalny" [“Experimental”] of the Susumsk Regiomal Mine Department. A tray for rock washing. Keldysh near the tray, at the developments, talking with the workers. Keldysh is seen off, the people are waving. A plane is flying along.
Sea landscape. Geyser.
Newsreel: Keldysh at the Kamchatka, passing with group of people, during mountaineer, near the active volcano.
Greenhouses. Greenhouse – inside view, helicopter by the smoking mountain.
A picture: volcanic explosion.
device, Keldysh is talking with the employees.
A picture: the volcano “Tolbachik” eruption.
N.A. Shilo, academician, the Chairman of Far East centre of science of the Academy of Sciences of the USSR is speaking. Winter - a town, a building by the sea.
A picture: Keldysh in the laboratory.
G.I. Petrov is speaking.
Picture: Korolev and Keldysh at the table during the meeting.
Newsreel: a group of cosmonauts in the shop. The rocket doors are opening. Work in the shop. Keldysh is passing around the cosmodrome with the group of persons.
Egorov is speaking, Mission Control Centre.
A picture: the surface of the moon, Keldysh and a group of people with wineglasses.
Newsreel: Keldysh at the press conference , people in the hall are laughing and applauding.
Satellite model.
A picture: a surface of the moon.

Source description 6: Newsreel: Keldysh is speaking at the press conference. A man is listening and making records.
A picture: the surface of the moon.
Laser, work at the instrument.
Newsreel: Keldysh is speaking at the XXIII Congress of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union. Keldysh at the tribune, in the background. Keldysh is awarding Lenin and State prizes. Keldysh is speaking.
A picture: Keldysh in the presidium, among the scientists.
Work at the instrument. Laser. Satellite in flight. Model of the satellite. Laboratory assistant at work, apparatus.
Newsreel: Keldysh.
A picture: panorama of the device and Keldysh with the other scientists.
Newsreel: Keldysh is at the tribune. Keldysh is speaking at the 13th session of the International Committee on space research and at the symposium on solar-terrestrial physics in the hall of the Tavrichesky dvorets [the Taurida Palace].
The listeners in the hall. The building of the Tavrichesky dvorets [the Taurida Palace], a bus passing by.
Leningrad – the monument to Peter the First at the Isaak Square. Halls of the Hermitage, pictures. The pictorial art books from Keldysh’s personal library. Keldysh’s wife is speaking. Keldysh’s awards.
Newsreel: Brezhnev is awarding Keldysh with the Gold Star.
Picture – the same.
Newsreel: Keldysh is coming out of the car and going gowned. Keldysh is awarded the diploma of honorary academician.
A picture: Keldysh wearing the top hat with a group of people.
Newsreel: visit of D. Neru to the USSR. Neru in the Academy of Sciences of the USSR, Neru and Keldysh in the laboratory.
A picture: Keldysh and Neru.
Newsreel: signing an agreement with the Cuban Academy of Sciences.
A picture: Keldysh with the representatives of the Academy of Sciences of Cuba, with the scientists of the USA. Keldysh with the scientists at the device. Keldysh with the academician I.N. Vinogradov. N.E. Zhukovsky. Various portraits of Keldysh. Rocket start. Pictures of astronauts. The surface of the earth.
Cabinet of M. Keldysh, books, portaits, clocks, writing desk. Works of Keldysh, journals, letters.

Directors: Raspopov G.

Operators: Myakishev G.

Script writers: Raspopov G., Krasilschikov A.

Composers: Botyarov E.

Announcer: Konsovskiy A.