A herd of deer runs through the winter tundra. Writer Alitet Nemtushkin talks about the importance of deer for the north. Hunting wolves from a helicopter. Commercial hunter Yu. Dorofienko speaks of the “nursing tundra.” Undisturbed animals and birds in the tundra. Deer swim across the river. The shadow of the plane falls on a herd of deer running across the summer tundra. Shooting deer crossing the river. Director of the Taimyrsky state industrial enterprise S. Lineytsev speaks about the difficulties of planning a reindeer farming industry. Biologist F. Shtilmark declares the unnecessary cruelty of shooting and the inexpediency of this method. The wind blows sand over abandoned barrels in the desert. Wild animals run away from the helicopter. A motor boat goes along the river, approaching swimming deer.
