Woke up early, at 6 in the morning, since I went to bed yesterday at 8 PM and today decided to observe the Far East, but I can’t record it on the video recorder — it’s broken. Dead silence on the station. I took caviar, crab, and quail meat out of the refrigerator and set it to warm up. From Baikal toward the Far East, the ground is covered with a light layer of snow that nicely highlights the terrain.

The contours of the Zeya Reservoir on the map and in reality don’t match. Strange. It’s hard to do positioning on the monotonous landscape of hills. In shadow, I shot a roll of PSN film. I photographed emission layers and the sunrise. Then I started repairing the Niva video recorder. Disassembled it — things aren’t as bad as I thought. A tab broke off on the spring-catch gear. I see Tolya coming over, and he says: “I’m sorry, I was wrong yesterday.” He means about leaving me too little time to talk with my family. I silently handed him the recorder, and we got to work. Spent the whole day on Niva.

In the evening we did some unloading from Progress, looking for the liquid breakthrough indicators for the water regeneration system, since they need to be replaced tomorrow. Right now I want to look through the Puma sight with its 15x magnification at what color steps appear at the edges of the Sun’s disk at sunset, how wide they are, and how many there are.