The film is devoted to the activities of a Russian scientist and traveller Grigory Potanin, an explorer of North-West Mongolia and China.
Film about GN Potanin (1835-1920) - Russian geographer, ethnographer, writer, folklorist.
Part 1.
Petreburge Saint Peter and Paul Fortress, Neva river, St.
Isaac's Cathedral, Kazan Cathedral, a monument to Peter 1 ("The Bronze Horseman"), a monument to Mikhail Lomonosov on the University Embankment, internal view Trubeckogo bastion fortress.
Omsk: through the streets passing vehicles; building of the cathedral.
Townscape Nikolsk Vologda region.
Children bathe horse in a river.
Wedding ceremony in church.
K / T plans: February-March 1917 - a crowd of people on the streets years.
Moscow and Petrograd welcome the February revolution.
Part 2.
Altai Mountains.
Mountain rivers (among them - Katun River).
Exhibits one of ethnographic museums, illustrating the life of the peoples of the Altai.
Mountain Lake.
Petreburge Saint Peter and Paul Fortress, Schlossplatz.
Types of
Gorno-Altai.
Types of
Byisk.
Tomsk: University building, a greenhouse.
Shaman performs the rite.
Obelisk "Center of Asia" in
Kyzyl.
K / T plans: 1910s. - The audience goes through the bridge, the Anichkov
Petrograd.
Key words
geography
Territory.
Population.
Flora.
Wildlife.
Landscapes.
City transport.
City.
Rural settlements.
Geography.
Ethnography.
Higher obrazvanie.
National life.
Shamanism.
Architecture.
Christianity.
Museums.
Personnel:
Potanin
Locations: Gorno-Altaysk Omsk