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Semyon Dezhnyov (1983)

Semyon Dezhnyov (1983)

Adventure History
Release Date: 1983, November 28
Directors: Nikolai Gusarov
Countries: Soviet Union
Production: Sverdlovsk Film Studio
Cast: Bolot Beyshenaliev, Ivan Krasko, Oleg Korchikov, Viktor Grigoryuk, Aleksei Buldakov, Gennadiy Yukhtin, Leonid Nevedomsky, Olga Sirina, Margarita Borisova, Stepan Yemelyanov

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.