How it was 16.01.2000 (2000)

The program is dedicated to the events that took place in Temirtau in August 1959. On August 1, 1969, one of the first - and the largest - workers' rebellion at that time broke out in the city of Temirtau.

About five thousand people, Komsomol members who had come to build the famous Magnitka, barricaded the construction site, and then tried to storm the city service buildings.

The Komsomol builders were unhappy with their living conditions: they were brought to the construction site ahead of schedule and housed in tents.

There was no water or basic amenities.

But the main thing was that there was no work, and therefore no wages.

Then, for the first time, the city authorities decided to use weapons against the people.

As a result of the "spontaneous" shootings, 14 people died, hundreds were wounded.

Several dozen instigators were sentenced to death.

Participants: Korkin Alexander - Soviet party activist, Kazankin Alexey - participant in the uprising in Temirtau, Dudyshkin Boris - investigator of the prosecutor's office of the city of Temirtau, Chistyakov Nikolay - Head of the Investigative Department, Lelchuk Vitaly - Chief Researcher of the Institute of History of the Russian Academy of Sciences.

Chronicle b/w: Announcers on Western radio stations read the news, panorama of a metallurgical plant, metal smelting, handles of an old radio receiver, radio mast, damming the Angara River with stones, dam, new buildings in Temirtau, reel-to-reel tape recorders winding tape.