Our best years (1983)

Panorama of mountains, airport runway in the foreground.

The plane takes off.

Alternating frames with passengers descending from planes.

Magadan Airport.

Alternating frames with pictures of life in the Arctic.

Meeting of veterans who worked in Kolyma and Chukotka.

Views of Kolyma from the plane.

Mountains.

There is a memorial sign in the mountains about the landing of the first Kolyma expedition on July 4, 1928.

Photo by Yu.A.Bilibin.

Photo by V.A. Tsaregradsky.

Chronicle of 1928:

There is a caravan with pack horses.

Members of the expedition dig trenches.

Felling the forest.

The expedition members are building a mine.

Workers wash gold.

Tells the Hero of socialist labor D.E. Ustinov.

Photo by V.F. Strukov.

Tells V.F. Strukov.

Photo by M.V. Grusha.

Tells the chief engineer of Dalstroy MV Grusha.

Panoramas of northern cities.

Schoolchildren go to school on September 1.

Library.

Computer center.

An exhibition of products in a store in the northern city.

Greenhouses.

Swimming pool.

Ice fishing.

A dump truck is driving along the Kolyma road.

Construction of the Kolyma hydroelectric dam.

Icy power lines.

Arkalinskaya GRES.

Turbine hall of the Bilibino nuclear power plant.

Hardware BAES.

Explosion at the Dukat mine.

Gold mines.

Loading of gold-bearing rock into dump trucks.

The equipment works at a gold-bearing landfill.

Dredges for washing gold-bearing rock.

Gold extraction factory.

Extracted gold.

Meeting of veterans who worked in Kolyma and Chukotka.

The helicopter is flying over the expanses of the north.

Truck drivers are driving on northern roads.

Cars are driving on a winter road, on a snowy virgin land, along riverbeds.

A sign on the side of the road in memory of the deceased driver.

View of the mountain road from the helicopter.

Says A.P. Shkapenko, knight of the Order of the Red Banner, brigadier.

Says A.A.Grozin, Hero of Socialist Labor, foreman.

Says O.H. Tsopanov, State Prize laureate, General Director of the North-Eastern Geological Territorial Administration.

Veterans' meeting.

Alternating frames of passengers exiting various planes at Magadan airport.

Panorama of the mountains and valleys of Kolyma and Chukotka.