Construction and restoration of the economy in the USSR (1946-1950)

Footage №194828,

Reel №1

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Construction of a plant in Rustavi; work at the plant.

Steelworkers at a steel furnace.

Hot steel is poured into a ladle.

Keywords

enterprise, metal, enthusiasm, Job

Shooting locations:

Georgia, Georgian SSR

Reel №2

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Miners at work.

Coal mining in the Donbas.

Coal on a moving conveyor.

Coal minecarts.

A minecart emerges from a tunnel, greeted by people bearing flowers.

Keywords

mechanism, energy, enthusiasm, five-year plan

Shooting locations:

Ukraine, Ukrainian SSR

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Magnitka director Nosov walks along a train.

Steelworkers at work.

Keywords

metallurgy, five-year plan, plant, enthusiasm

Persons:

Grigory Nosov - Soviet metallurgical engineer

Shooting locations:

Magnitogorsk, Chelyabinsk Oblast

Reel №4

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Oil rigs at sea.

Camels walking along the sand dunes.

Rails being laid on a sand embankment.

Keywords

five-year plan, prey, desert, Job

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An explosion in a sandy slope.

Construction of the Farhad Hydroelectric Power Plant.

Welders working on the structure.

Panorama of the power grid.

Water floods the ground, a canal.

The dam is opened.

Keywords

energy, Syr Darya, five-year plan

Shooting locations:

Uzbekistan, Uzbek SSR

Reel №6

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A view of the Irtysh Hydroelectric Power Station under construction.

Plans for other power plants.

The opening of the inter-collective farm Sergievskaya Hydroelectric Power Station.

Surveyors in a boat on the Irtysh.

A view of Kakhovka from the Dnieper.

Keywords

energy, five-year plan, enthusiasm, Job

Reel №7

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An excavator rolls out of the assembly line.

The tractor factory welcomes the anniversary tractor.

A train carrying new tractors rolls along.

Keywords

products, five-year plan, enthusiasm

Reel №8

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Grain harvesting.

Combine harvesters in the field.

Grain pours into the back of a truck.

Columns of trucks carrying grain drive by.

Keywords

collective farm, Job, bread, five-year plan, enthusiasm

Reel №9

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Masons laying bricks.

New houses in the village.

Room plans.

Keywords

collective farm, five-year plan, everyday life, village

Reel №10

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Interior plans of a department store.

People near an accessories shop.

Shoes on the counter of a shoe store.

Women trying on shoes.

A salesperson showing a dress.

A fabric store.

Keywords

sale, purchase, five-year plan

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People are building houses.

Raising walls.

Putting in windows.

A panorama of renovated neighborhoods (from an airplane).

Keywords

mason, builder, five-year plan, housing, new building

Reel №12

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People crowd around the bookstore counters.

A young Sholokhov. S. Marshak signs and presents a book.

Tvardovsky in military uniform. K. Simonov with a pipe.

Sculptor E. Vuchetich with a model of the monument to the Liberator Soldier.

Keywords

book, poet, reader

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