Ice-Free Port of Hope

Overview

What is a war in the Far North and how can military operations be carried out among ice, rocks and bad weather? Many facts of the Great Patriotic War in the Arctic were hushed up for long Soviet years, there were too many losses and shortcomings. Admiral of the Northern Fleet, 34-year-old Arseniy Golovko, describes in detail the ups and downs of the beginning of the war in his diaries, which are now being restored for publication by his son Mikhail, who served in the Navy.

Directed by Darya Khrenova

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