Domestic newsreels (1927-1930)

Earthworks at the Magnitogorsk Iron and Steel Works construction site in 1930. Sod being ploughed by a tractor.

Soil being removed by horse-drawn transport.

Horse-drawn transport moving across the construction site (above).

Drilling earth for piles using horse-drawn equipment.

Mining cars idling on the rails due to the absence of locomotives.

A train of mining cars being pulled by horse traction.

Open-pit ore mining for blast furnaces, manually using a pick.

Manually loading a mining car with ore.

A mining car being transported along the rails by a horse-drawn car.

Manually hauling the mining cars.

Wooden barracks and buildings of a brick factory that was built and is now inactive.

Excavation pit being dug using mechanical equipment.

The groundbreaking of one of the first blast furnaces.

A rally to mark the groundbreaking of the first blast furnace at the Magnitogorsk Iron and Steel Works, a panoramic view of a banner with a slogan.

Construction supervisor Ya.P. Schmidt speaks from the podium.

Banners with slogans hang over the heads of rally participants.

Panorama of the rally.

View of the Berezniki Chemical Plant on the eve of its launch.

Freight being transported in overhead wagons.

Panorama of the plant and soda plant.

Banner with the name of the Stalin Production Shock Commune of the Hammer and Sickle plant in Kharkov, with a portrait of Stalin above the banner.

Assembly line assembly of agricultural equipment.

Production in the lamp shop of one of the plants.

Assembly of electric lamps, lamp bulbs.

Pioneer detachments from Krasnaya Presnya march in formation along the road to a war game.

They practice prone movements during an offensive maneuver and crawling with weapons.

A Pioneer unit, led by military instructors, attacks a simulated enemy in the forest.

A Pioneer detachment charges.

Participants in the war game take up positions, exploiting the terrain.

The Pioneers rise and charge.

A wooden machine gun crew in a trench simulates firing.

Pioneers climb out of a ravine.

Establishing a first aid station.

Pioneers conduct reconnaissance of the simulated enemy's positions and inspect the forward line.

Retreat maneuvers.

River crossing during a "gas" attack.

Participants in the war game cross the river on a wooden structure.

Smoke screen on the bank.

Maneuvers under cover of the smoke screen.

Pioneers attack a simulated enemy.

Conscripts at the entrance to a military recruitment office in Alma-Ata.

Information stand at the military recruitment office.

A conversation with one of the conscripts.

Filling out a conscript card.

Issuing orders to conscripts.

Conscripts in line for a medical examination.

Doctors examine conscripts.

A meeting of the draft board.

One of the conscripts stands before the members of the draft board.

A conscript getting a buzz cut.

Conscripts sit in line to see a barber.

A serving window in the canteen of the assembly point.

Conscripts during a meal.

The military commissar speaks to conscripts at the military registration and enlistment office.

Filling a balloon with gas in February 1927. Employees of the field gas laboratory fill a balloon with hydrogen using a pump.

The dome of the balloon is filled with gas.

The balloon before takeoff.

Members of OSOAVIAKhIM hold the slings.

The dome of the balloon filled with hydrogen.

Faces of local residents.

Balloonist V.G. Garakanidze before boarding the wire basket of the balloon.

Faces of children.

The face of a peasant.

Local residents watch the balloon's ascent.

Garakanidze in the balloon's basket.

The balloon ascending into the sky.