The Country and Science (1974)
The Voronezh Nuclear Power Plant reactor; Novgorod’s archaeological excavations. Archaeologist Boris Rybakov on importance of historical science. Lenin’s Materialism & Empirio-Criticism. The first university dept of natural compound chemistry in the Soviet Union, located in Tashkent, Uzbek SSR. Agriculturalist Pavel Lukyanenko develops winter wheat varieties at Krasnodar Research Institute of Agriculture. French physicist Hubert Curien on USSR–France collaboration in nuclear physics. Foreign members of the USSR Academy of Sciences: Albert Einstein, Max Planck, Niels Bohr; theoretical physicist Igor Tamm on nuclear transformations in planetary & meteoritic matter, study of the Moon in relation to the Earth’s evolution. Dedicated to the 250th anniversary of the founding of the Academy of Sciences. Archival film, photographs, manuscripts, books, interviews from Academy members, explore its role in the development of science, economics, and its prominent figures throughout its history…
Director:
Arkadiy Zenyakin
Writer:
Aleksey Gastev
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Yuri Kolychev as Narration |
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Boris Rybakov as Himself |
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Nikolay Semyonov as Himself |
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Igor Kurchatov as Himself |
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Aleksandr Sidorenko as Himself |
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Hubert Curien as Himself |
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Viktor Ambartsumian as Himself |
| Writing | Aleksey Gastev | Screenplay |
| Directing | Arkadiy Zenyakin | Director |
| Crew | Arkadiy Levitan | Cinematography |
| Sound | Edison Denisov | Sound |
| Editing | S. Surkova | Editor |
| Editing | A. Sum-Shik | Editor |
| Sound | Viktor Kotov | Sound Engineer |
| Production | К. Иванов | Production Manager |