Discovered in 1596 by Willem Barents, the Svalbard archipelago, which appeared on Russian maps almost at the same time under the name "Holy Russian Islands", was assigned to Norway in 1920. At the same time, 46 states under the agreement have the right to carry out commercial and research activities there, but at the moment only Russia enjoys this privilege. The Russians even have a settlement on the island, the village of Barenburg, called by tourists the "Island of Communism". It is inhabited by shift workers who come here to work.

A story of environmental disaster, a disappearing people, and one strong-willed woman. The once lush Nogai steppe in northern Dagestan is rapidly turning into an endless desert. Gulfira, a humble village woman, is leading the fight against the environmental catastrophe threatening her homeland. Each autumn, the team she leads ventures deep into the new desert for months at a time. Walking kilometers each day, they plant thin rods in the dry sand, hoping the bushes will take root and halt the spread of the dunes. Will Gulfira prevail in this battle against the elements? Can the Nogai people and their land survive?

Wukwukai is 72 years. For 72 years he has been living in the depths of Chukotka. This is a powerful and wise old man, a man of the Tundra, his life is inseparable from a deer. The Wukvukai clan herds a huge herd, more than 14 thousand heads. The life of the clan is a constant struggle for survival and well-being in the most difficult conditions of Chaun-Chukotka. These people deeply believe in the power of tradition and therefore are successful in their struggle. They are kept by the ancient culture of the Chukchi reindeer herders, they live by it and preserve it. As long as this is so, their world is unshakable. This is the truth of old Wukwukai.

“Kapustin Yar, the place where Alyosha lives, an autistic boy, is a rocket testing ground. I don’t believe that there are places forgotten by God. And I’m trying to guess the plan that combines human strength and apparent weakness at the same time in one place,” says directed by Arkady Kogan.

The film crew goes to the small town of Arvay on the edge of the Gobi Desert. In 1986, there was a Soviet military base here. And very close to this base, on the mountain, the military laid out the date from slate. It can still be seen on the map.

The Nenets live in three worlds. The lower world is where the north is, the upper world is where the south is, the middle world is the road. Yaptik-Khese is the spirit of the Yaptik family. He is carried on sacred sledges and is not shown to anyone. His home is the road. While Yaptik-Khese roams, there will always be deer, dogs, Nenets on the ground.

In 1790, Alexander Radishchev published the book "Journey from St. Petersburg to Moscow", in which he fearlessly exposed the vices of his time, more precisely despotism, corruption, poverty and lawlessness of the people. For his freethinking, the writer was sentenced to death, which, by the monarch's mercy, was replaced by a 10-year exile to Siberia. The film crew decided to repeat Radishchev's route and see how people live today on the side of the federal highway M10 "Russia", which connects the two capitals. How has Russian life changed over the past two hundred years? Have we started to live better? Richer? Freer? The answer is in the documentary road-movie "Travel from St. Petersburg to Moscow: a special way". Chapter 4 (which we bring to your attention) is devoted to the city of Torzhok.

About 3 thousand years ago, apparently due to climate change, musk oxen in Eurasia became completely extinct. They remained only in hard-to-reach places in North America and Greenland. To return the musk oxen to their historical homeland, scientists decided to conduct an experiment and brought 30 musk oxen to Taimyr. To find out how the experiment went, 35 years later we set off on a long trip to Taimyr and there we try to meet musk oxen.

The traditional way of hunting and fishing of the people living on the Yenisei, namely, Russians, Keto (Yenisei Ostyaks), herrings. Their history and present. The inseparable connection of man with the river and taiga as a model of traditional nature management. Four series, each of which reflects the life of the Yenisei in one of the seasons.

The film is about two twins who spent their childhood in the forest on the cordon and saw other children only at the age of seven. They know everything about nature and birds, but have a poor understanding of people and society.

A film about the work of Russian microbiologists, discoveries, research expeditions. The film also raises the question of how ideas appear, theories and hypotheses are built.

White winter blizzard covers everything. We can rely now only on saints, on our prayers. The future has sailed away, with us left behind. Astray, we did not board the magic ship. The task at hand is simple — not to perish in the fog, not to die from the cold, not to get trapped under the ice. Not to fall in our own snares. Or are we all in one big trap anyway? Running around in a small circle, counting those who vanished.

On the remote coast of the Russian Arctic, a lonely man spends months in an old hut near the Chukchi Sea, waiting to meet mysterious creatures.

The film tells about the most familiar to us and at the same time about the most still unexplored substance, about water.

Aleksey, the lighthouse keeper, lived on the island of Zhuzhmuy for eleven years. Every morning he went into radio contact with Arkady, a lighthouse from Rombak Island. Lighthouses were lit every evening at the lighthouses. All these years they shone regularly, until one day one of them went out.

The phrase "Black holes" appeared thanks to science fiction, but came into use thanks to science, which thereby confirmed their existence. Black holes remain as much a symbol of a bold scientific hypothesis as white spots are a symbol of scientific mystery.

The film is about a day in the life of a colony of mentally ill people. On the one hand, there is a feeling of the purest idyll, the joy of joint work and harmony, on the other hand, a growing sense of anxiety and doom.

The film tells about a simple resident of the village of Palauz, Sysolsky district of the Republic of Komi, Leonid Turyshev. For him, a horse named Sailor and a pig named Paul are best friends. And the life of these friends is organically woven into his life. He perceives the death of a pig as a great personal tragedy.

Their houses will soon go under water, and the officials do not care! How does Siberia turn into a new Atlantis? Quiet whirlpools of loud construction projects and extra people of a big country.

More than 6000 km from the Russian capital. Coast of the Chukchi Sea. Enurmino village. Getting here and getting back out is only a miracle. But if you ask questions, where is the real Chukotka, then the answer is obvious. Here!