GESLO

"GESLO" - in this abbreviation of five letters one of the brightest and" closed " pages in the history of the Russian Arctic is encrypted. Hydrographic expedition of the Arctic ocean, accomplished in the early twentieth century from 1910 to 1915, made the last great geographical discovery opened up the North Land (then the Land of Emperor Nicholas II) and the first passed the Northern sea route from East to West, from Vladivostok to Arkhangelsk, after wintering at Cape Chelyuskin. In Soviet times, the history of this expedition was suppressed or falsified. The reason - participation in the organization of Kolchak and the emigration of most of the officers after the revolution. The most productive and the most prosperous of the Arctic expeditions of the beginning of the century was dropped out, "disappeared" from history.

Film was a participant of the festivals "Sea calls" (St. Petersburg, special Prize of the organizing Committee of the festival), Krasnoyarsk international festival(jury diploma), "Russia"(Yekaterinburg, one of the leaders of the audience voting), the festival "Cilantro" (Tyumen), "Volokolamsk frontier" (Volokolamsk), "Stalker" (Moscow), XIII international festival "Man and the sea" (Vladivostok, winner in the nomination "Maritime history of Russia"), Arctic open (Arkhangelsk)-a special prize from the national Park Russian Arctic.