Semyon Dezhnyov
movie
View on VideBits →Veliky Ustyug at the beginning of the 17th century. Semyon Dezhnyov falls in love with the daughter of a rich merchant — Avdotya, but the groom is poor. The girl's father sets a condition: Dezhnyov must go to Siberia and get rich — only then will he receive consent to marry. Dezhnyov agrees and leaves for Siberia. Although he passes the test, he does not return to Avdotya. He finds a strait "from a warm sea to a cold one": from the mouth of the Kolyma he swims to the Pacific Ocean and opens the strait between the continents.
Cast & crew
Aleksei Buldakov · Gennadiy Yukhtin · Ivan Krasko · Leonid Nevedomsky · Margarita Borisova · Nikolai Gusarov · Oleg Korchikov · Olga Sirina · Stepan Yemelyanov · Viktor Grigoryuk · Yaroslav Filippov