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Three short stories about the inventions of amazing people who at first glance are far from science, but nevertheless connected their lives with it - a former party worker who makes violins out of plastic, a worker who created a fundamentally new type of heating boiler, an actor who invented and designed an innovative rabbit mini-farm.
Vasily Filippovich Mukhin plays the violin.
Photo of Mukhin.
Says Basalaev Vasily Petrovich.
Photo - yard, welding work, there is a man.
Says Basalaev.
Mikhailov Igor Nikolaevich is sitting near the cages, talking.
Photo of Mikhailov from the newspaper.
Mikhailov speaks.
A musical quartet is playing in the hall.
Leningrad, view of St.
Isaac's Cathedral.
Neva embankment, view of the building of the museum "Kunstkamera".
Passers-by on the streets of the city.
Mikhailov and his wife are walking through the courtyard.
People in the Mikhailovs' apartment.
The TV is working, Mikhailov is telling something.
Mikhailov speaks.
The room, Mikhailov is working at a desk at a computer, books about rabbits are on the shelves.
Large - cover "Leningrad Maly Drama Theater".
Photos of Mikhailov in various roles, from films and performances.
Poster from the stand shooting competitions, pennant with badges.
Mikhailov's photo on the table, a layout of multi-tiered cages for rabbits, books and magazines on rabbit breeding, where Mikhailov is the author.
Mikhailov is working at the computer.
Mini rabbit breeding farm - a panorama of the cages.
Rabbits in cages.
Mikhailov speaks.
Different shots of rabbits in cages, Mikhailov checks the cages.
Mikhailov shows a special machine he invented and designed for feeding rabbits.
Pages from Mikhailov's book with illustrations, photos of a machine for feeding food into cages.
Mikhailov speaks.
Mikhailov demonstrates the design of a rabbit farm.
Little rabbits in a box.
People near the cages, Mikhailov demonstrates the design of a rabbit farm.
Panorama of the rabbit farm.
A rabbit in a cage.
A rabbit in a basket.
Mikhailov speaks.
Rabbit farm - different frames.
Little rabbits in a box.
Mikhailov speaks.
Mikhailov walks through the farm, a panorama of the farm (top view).
Mikhailov near the cages with rabbits.
View of the mini-farm from above.
The city of Luga, the river, the station building.
River, village houses.
Basalaev's house.
The boy clears the snow at the house, the door opens, Basalaev comes out.
Basalaev with a boy and a dog on the street.
Building, panorama of the boiler room.
Says Basalaev.
Boiler house building, large brick chimney.
Says Basalaev.
The building of the Boiler Turbine Institute in Leningrad.
A sign on the building.
An iron fence along the territory of the Institute.
Says Basalaev.
The train station, the platform, the train arrives.
Basalaev is walking down the street.
Basalaev is in the boiler room, throwing coal into the furnace.
Large - drawings, diagrams.
Photo of the heating boiler.
Basalaev throws coal into the boiler furnace.
Large - a certificate for a rational offer in the name of Basalaev.
Basalaev throws coal into the boiler furnace.
In the photo - Basalaev with colleagues.
Large - an article from the newspaper.
Says Basalaev.
City Meadows, people on the street.
Says Basalaev.
Basalaev near the boiler room, walking down the street.
On the table - various certificates, certificates, a photo of Basalaev.
Says Basalaev.
Large - description of the invention to the patent.
Articles in newspapers about Basalaev.
Basalaev in the boiler room.
Panorama of the boilers in the boiler room.
Cherepovets trust "Energometallurgmontazh" is working on the production of modular heating boilers "Luga" (according to Basalaev's patent).
In the frame - welding work in the shop.
Basalaev stands near modular boiler designs.
Leningrad, Neva, melted ice on the river.
Prospekt Bolshevikov metro station, tents and kiosks near the metro.
Panorama of new houses near the metro.
The violin is lying on a chair, on the table there is a small decorative violin in a transparent glass flask.
Says the violin master Vasily Filippovich Mukhin.
Shots of violins in the workshop.
Says Mukhin.
The violin form is on the table.
Mukhin cuts out a violin.
Mihin works at a desk in a workshop in his apartment.
Violins on the wall.
Mukhina at work, making a violin out of plastic.
In Mukhin's workshop, People's Artist, violinist Vladimir Ovcharek.
Says the Shepherd.
Photos - Mukhin shows his plastic instruments to the musicians of the Taneyev Quartet.
Large - an article in the magazine about Mukhin's unique instruments, about how the musicians of the Taneyev quartet played on them.
Says the Shepherd.
Photo - Mukhin with a plastic violin.
Says the Shepherd.
Ovcharek plays Mukhina's violin, a panorama of Mukhina.
A letter to Mukhin from representatives of the company from the USA. Mukhin's face, a panorama of violins.
The Taneyev Quartet is playing in the hall.
Key words
Rabbits, mini-farm, train station, boiler room, heating boiler, subway, violin, workshop
Locations: Leningrad [848] Meadows
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