This film was shot during the 17-month expedition of Alexander Litvinov to Chukotka, in the far north-east of Russia. Yuri Smirnitsky was Litvinov's assistant. This film shows what was the new approach of ethnographic cinema. It combines staging and documentary observation of the Sovietization of Chukotka. The nature of the peninsula and the depiction of the life of the natives alternate with staged sequences showing the artistic activities of the inhabitants, the work of the cooperative, the dispensary, the kindergarten and the school of "Likbez" (= "liquidation of illiteracy").
