Released:
1983-11-28

Overview:
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.

Director:
Nikolai Gusarov

Runtime:
1h 16min

Genre:
History, Adventure

• Cast:
• 
  Aleksei Buldakov
  as
  Semyon Dezhnyov
• 
  Leonid Nevedomsky
  as
  Mikhailo Stadukhin
• 
  Viktor Grigoryuk
  as
  Gerasim Ankudinov
• 
  Margarita Borisova
  as
  Abakayada
• 
  Ivan Krasko
  as
  merchant Guselnikov