Volga lights № 6 Where the fish floats away (1993)

The people on the embankment of Astrakhan during the January thaw.

Children skate on the ice.

The view from the Windows of the house.

View of the assumption Cathedral of the Astrakhan Kremlin.

The types of residential areas of Astrakhan (above).

The streets of Astrakhan during the winter thaw, people walk round puddles on roads and sidewalks.

Men come into the store "Live fish", moored to the pier.

The fishermen on the ice during ice fishing.

Fish shop on a street of Astrakhan.

Panorama of empty shelves fish Department, buyers on the trading floor.

Canned fish on the shelves, the faces of the buyers and the seller.

Interior view of one of the covered pavilions, fish market, shoppers walk along empty shelves.

One of the saleswomen puts the fish on the counter.

Weighing fish scale is a spring balance.

Fish on the counter.

View of one of the Astrakhan streets.

The entrance to one of the fish shops.

Empty pool for fish on the trading floor store.

Store Manager L. V. Panina tells about the reasons for the lack of fish in the sale, the reluctance of the fishing collective farms to establish relationships with government stores, about the lack of shopping funds for payment, about the high price of fish, the willingness to cooperate with the fisheries and multidisciplinary collective in the field realizing their products (synchronously).

Fish on the shelves with price tags.

Buyers on the trading floor of the store.

The entrance to the fish shop.

Dried fish in the shop Tumakskoe fish factory.

Plant Manager O. E. Suslov interviewed.

The process of processing fish by hand in the factory floor.

Pile of fish on the shop floor.

Stringing fish on wire for further processing.

Packing fish into boxes manually, the panorama of the packing house.

Processing fish by hand.

Operation of automatic equipment for vacuum packing fillet of pike-perch and pike.

Stacking of packages in boxes.

Fishing vessels in winter at the pier.

Of the store "Golden fish".

Types of streets and courtyards of the village Cuff, dogs on the streets.

The types of neighborhoods of the village with one-storey wooden houses (above).

View of the station building in Astrakhan.

Young shoeshine boys in front of the station.

Transport boxes of fish to the car.

Passengers with boxes sit in the cars.

Street vendors at the foot of the monument to Lenin at the railway station.

The panorama of the platform, people are carrying boxes of fish.