The First

3.1 (7 votes)• 2017• 96m•Released

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Vasily Pronchishchev and Vasily Chelyuskin were young lieutenants of the Russia fleet, who set out from Yakutsk along the Lena River to the Arctic Ocean on a sailing ship under the leadership of the commander Vitus Bering in the summer of 1735. Contrary to the imperial prohibition, incredible trials and deadly danger lying ahead of all the members of this expedition, a young girl enamored with one of the characters got onto this ship. However, neither storms or severe northern frosts and hunger were able to stop them, since fulfilling of their duty, reaching of the most northeastern point of Eurasia and putting of the vast Arctic territories on the world maps were their main purpose in life.

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Languages: Russian

Director: Dmitriy Suvorov

Starring Cast: Nail Abdrakhmanov, Alina Lanina, Evgeniy Tkachuk, Valeriy Barinov, Danila Yakushev, Egor Tsimtsunik

Cast

Nail Abdrakhmanov

Vasiliy Pronchishchev

Alina Lanina

Tatyana Pronchishcheva

Evgeniy Tkachuk

Semen Chelyuskin

Valeriy Barinov

Vitus Bering

Danila Yakushev

boatswain

Egor Tsimtsunik

Sergey Rost

Farvarson

Sergey Tereshchenko

Aleksandr Dyachenko

Petr I

Jurij Stebakov

Stanislav Lelkhov

Vitaly Khadzhiev

Dmitry Golovanov

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