Leningrad Popular Science Film Studio

Soviet cosmonauts land on the planet Venus and find it teeming with life, some of it dangerous.

This film consists of three parts. The first dramatizes the life of the founder of Soviet astronautics, Konstantin Tsiolkovsky; the second describes the development of rocket technology; and the third visualizes the future with enactments of the first manned spaceflight, spacewalk, space station construction and humans on the moon.

A rare Soviet documentary film from 1951, directed by Pavel Klushantsev. It explores the history of humanity’s study of the universe, from ancient astronomy to modern understandings of the solar system, examining the structure of the cosmos, the planets, and advances in scientific space research.

A color documentary on the latest advancements in molecular biology and genetics.

The film is based on excerpts from the works of the great Russian thinker Fyodor Mikhailovich Dostoevsky. The consultants are Doctor of Philology B.I.Bursov, Honored Worker of Culture of the RSFSR V.M.Glinka.

Documentary film introduces the principles of color cinema, from the spectrum of light sources to the structure of multilayer film, and traces the entire process of how color is reproduced on screen.

Science fiction/documentary film about man's voyages to the moon.

Like the previous film Luna produced by Klushantsev, the film Mars was created at the intersection of educational science films and science-fiction. It consists of seven pieces, which tell (based on scientific understanding of the 1960s) of the physical conditions on planet Mars, the possibility of life on Mars and what forms it might take, of Martian canals and "seas" of the Red Planet. In addition, the film includes the director's fantasy hypothetical forms of life on mars, and of the exploration and colonization of Mars in the near future.

Stones from the sky - tangible pieces of other worlds. After millions of years of wandering in the darkness and the cold expanses of space, meteorites find shelter in the windows of museums. By studying meteorites, scientists know their origins, how they get to the Earth, and from which substances they are comprised. This film also explores the attitude towards this phenomenon in different nations through different times in history.

Problems of Futurology, the film is an experience of recreating the future on the example of some scientific discoveries and phenomena of today's social life.

A popular science film on the physical properties of matter and nuclear physics, which simply and clearly presents complex phenomena. From Democritus and alchemists to the first nuclear power plant, and dreams of nuclear ships and spacecrafts.

The film tells about a simple Soviet school and its problems.

Reflections of the Dandelion the computer on the future of cinema.

An attempt to analyze Fyodor Dostoevsky's creative process through sketches and doodles in the margins of his manuscripts.

City of Perm. Views of wooden sculptures of gods in the Perm Museum. The museum houses more than 350 sculptures. The announcer's voice-over tells about A. V. Lunacharsky's visit to the museum.

For the first time in the world, Soviet scientists conducted a unique experiment. In the conditions of central Russia, on an island in Pskov region, five anthropoid apes were released into the wild. Film observations of them became the basis for the movie.

Follows the Second Soviet Himalayan Expedition, which made the first traverse in history of all four peaks of the Kanchenjunga mountain range.