The second discovery of helium (1983)

The dome of one of the observatory telescopes is opened.

An astronomer at the telescope, equipped with a spectrograph, studies the sky during a solar eclipse.

Solar eclipse, helium released in the spectrum of the solar corona.

Photographs of nebulae and galaxies.

View of the Earth from space.

Diagram showing the percentage composition of the chemical elements that make up the Universe.

Types of thermal springs that release helium.

Results of volcanic activity.

A diagram showing the amount of helium contained in the atmosphere.

Newsreel from 1926: the Norge airship is taken out of the hangar.

The airship rises.

The airship in flight.

The sign and place of helium in the periodic table of elements.

Mendeleyev.

Academician E.L. Andronikashvili talks about the properties of liquid helium (synchronously and off-screen).

Equipment and control and measuring devices in the laboratory.

A laboratory employee takes readings from the devices and enters them in a journal.

Conducting laboratory research on the properties of liquid helium.

Scientists and laboratory staff during the research.

View of the pipeline of one of the gas processing plants.

Panorama of the plant, gas processing equipment.

View of the gas processing plant (from above).

Filling a balloon with helium.

The balloon rises into the air.

Newsreel from the 1960s: filming of the Earth and its atmosphere from space.

View of the Earth from space.

Professor Eremeev talks about the amount of helium that the Earth loses daily, the concentration of helium in the Earth's atmosphere, the supply of helium from the bowels of the Earth, and the compilation of a map of the helium field in the USSR (synchronously).

Conducting laboratory analysis of rocks and minerals for the presence of helium.

A working recorder.

Pumping an air-helium mixture into a particularly strong metal structure to check its tightness, listening to a weld with a helium leak detector.

Control panel of the helium leak detector.

Fragments of the physical map of the USSR. Panorama of the foothills.

One of the mountain landscapes of the Pamirs.

Cars on a mountain road.

View of part of a mountain river, a car stops on the bank.

Geologists remove heliometric equipment from a car.

Geologists examine a source of underground water for the presence of helium.

Taking a water sample from a source.

Preparing a field device for detecting helium in water.

Mountain landscapes of Tajikistan (panorama).

View of a working drilling rig.

Faces of drillers, extracting a drill.

View of a foothill pasture.

An automatic station for monitoring the movement of helium from the earth's interior.

A scientist enters the observation point and takes readings from the control devices.

The recorder in operation.

Employees of the computing center processing the received data.

Map of helium fields of one of the regions of the USSR. Map of helium fields superimposed on a tectonic map of the same region, coincidence of helium anomalies with intersections of active faults in the earth's crust.

Icons of useful minerals on maps of regions of the USSR. Professor Eremeev A.N. speaks at a meeting about the need to complete the compilation of a map of the helium field on the territory of the USSR, about clarifying the techniques, methods and criteria for identifying earthquake precursors (synchronously and off-screen).

The meeting participants take notes.

Faces of the meeting participants.

Types of cracks and faults in the earth's crust.

Longitudinal mother-in-law on an asphalt highway.

Curvature of the railway track as a result of a fracture in the earth's crust.

Newsreel from 1966: the aftermath of the earthquake in Tashkent.

Views of city blocks, people on the streets.

View of part of a city block (top).

Employees of the computing center at work.

Scientists studying a map of the interaction of helium fields with active phenomena in the atmosphere.

Creating a map using an automatic device.

Photograph of part of the starry sky.

View of the Earth from space.

Helium in the periodic table.

The sun above the clouds.