The film is a chronicle of the nationwide socialist competition in the USSR in the 1930s.
Newsreel from the early 1930s: industrial landscape.
Panorama of chemical plant buildings.
Workers in the iron foundry of the plant.
Rally to mark the delivery of the first batch of iron.
Faces of workers.
People at a rally in the shop.
Molten iron pouring.
Panorama of a coal mining plant.
Coal on a conveyor belt.
Pouring oil.
Rally at the Stalingrad Tractor Plant.
The hood of the first tractor off the plant's conveyor.
The tractor leaves the assembly shop.
Construction of a railroad.
Rally to mark the ceremonial link in the construction of the Turksib.
People rock the leaders.
Kirov S.M. speaks.
Turksib builders ride on the first train.
Bridge on the Turksib.
Local residents look at the train.
A camel sniffs the rails.
Faces of local residents.
View of a part of a locomotive.
People gallop after the train.
General view of the Dnieper Hydroelectric Station dam.
General view of the rally on the occasion of the launch of the Dnieper Hydroelectric Station.
A ceremonial procession along the streets of Donetsk on Miner's Day.
A brass band is marching.
A view of a Donetsk street from the window of a moving bus.
The bus stops.
Veteran miners get off the bus.
People greet Stakhanov A.G. as he gets off the bus.
Banners are fluttering on the flagpoles.
The presidium of the ceremonial meeting dedicated to Miner's Day.
Stakhanov in the presidium of the meeting.
The chairman of the meeting reads out a welcoming speech.
The people in the hall listen to the chairman.
One of the meeting participants speaks.
Stakhanov applauds, sitting in the presidium.
The people in the hall applaud.
Stakhanov A.G., Borisenko G.K., Petrov K.G., Kontsedalov D.M. enter the room and sit on chairs.
The faces of Petrov, Borisenko, Kontsedalov.
Stakhanov gives an interview (synchronously).
Kontsedalov's face.
Stakhanov gives an interview (synchronously).
Landscape outside the train carriage window.
Photographs of people hiring themselves out to work in the mines at the beginning of the 20th century.
Surviving old miners’ houses.
Mine waste heap with a lift.
Newsreel from the 1910s: miners working in the coal face, mining coal by hand.
A miner pulling a coal load in the coal face.
Miners emptying a coal wagon.
Industrial landscapes outside the train carriage window.
Newsreel from the 1920s: miners going to work.
A miner pushing a coal wagon.
Photograph of a horse harnessed to a coal wagon.
Newsreel from the 1920s: a horse driver leading a horse harnessed to a coal wagon.
Borisenko giving an interview (synchronously).
Kontsedalov’s face.
Stakhanov’s face.
Petrov’s face.
The first five-year plans in the USSR
1910s 1920s
Ukraine
Summer
Stakhanov gives an interview (synchronously).
Newsreel from the 1920s-early 1930s: miners heading to the coal face.
Miners working in the coal face.
A miner uses a jackhammer.
Coal is poured into a mine cart.
Stakhanov's face.
Stakhanov takes a qualification exam in using a jackhammer at a refresher course.
Stakhanov disassembles and assembles a jackhammer.
Jackhammer parts.
A member of the examination committee signs a qualification certificate in Stakhanov's name.
Stakhanov receives a certificate.
Stakhanov's face.
Stakhanov's qualification certificate.
Presentation of certificates to miners who have completed the courses.
Stakhanov conducts a lesson with lagging workers.
People listen to Stakhanov's explanations.
Stakhanov explains the structure of a jackhammer.
Stakhanov gives an interview (synchronously).
Photograph of Stakhanov.
Newsreel from the 1930s: miners heading to the coal face.
Coal cars moving along the drift.
A train loaded with coal.
Industrial landscape.
Petrov giving an interview (synchronously).
Stakhanov listening to Petrov.
Petrov giving an interview (synchronously).
Kontsedalov listening to Stakhanov giving an interview (synchronously).
Street in a mining village.
Photographs of Stakhanov.
Newsreel from the 1930s: miners working in the coal face with jackhammers.
Coal on a conveyor belt.
Meeting of the party committee of one of the mines.
Petrov and Borisenko listening to Stakhanov.
Interior of a miner's living room.
Alarm clock on the table.
Newsreel from 1935: miners heading to the coal face.
Miners entering the lifting cage.
The cage is lowered.
Petrov giving an interview (synchronously).
Newsreel from 1935: Stakhanov working in the coalface.
Chipped coal is pouring out.
Stakhanov is chipping away at seams of coal.
Clamper Borisenko is installing clamps.
Stakhanov is working in the coalface.
Coal is on the conveyor belt.
Stakhanov is chipping away at another seam of coal.
Borisenko and Stakhanov are finishing their work.
A miner is calculating the amount of coal Stakhanov has mined during his shift.
A sheet of paper with the calculations.
Stakhanov is examining the sheet of paper.
Stakhanov is among the miners after being lifted out of the coalface.
The exterior of the mine's lifting mechanism.
Stakhanov is honored at a rally after his shift.
Miners are greeting Stakhanov.
Stakhanov is holding a bouquet of flowers.
Miners are congratulating Stakhanov.
Stakhanov is holding a bouquet of flowers.
Faces of the rally participants.
Stakhanov's face.
Record
Stakhanov Alexey Grigorievich - miner
Leading worker Borisenko Gavriil Kirillovich -- miner-timberman
1930s 1935
Ukraine
Summer
Petrov gives an interview, reads out the resolution of the mine party committee on Stakhanov’s record (synchronously).
Stakhanov sits at a table and listens to Petrov.
Petrov reads out the text of the resolution (synchronously).
Stakhanov’s face.
Kontsedalov’s face.
Petrov gives an interview (synchronously).
Kontsedalov’s face.
Petrov talks about the start of the competition in the mines and Stakhanov’s subsequent records (synchronously).
Stakhanov’s face.
Petrov reads out the text of a telegram from Ordzhonikidze G.K. Newsreel from 1935: a rally at a mine to mark the start of socialist competition.
The rally participants applaud.
The red challenge banner.
Krupskaya N.K. speaks in the Kremlin.
Leading workers in the plant’s forge shop.
Gorky Automobile Plant blacksmith Busygin A. at work.
Finished crankshafts.
Engine driver Krivonos P. inspects a locomotive before leaving.
Krivonos climbs into the locomotive cabin.
Krivonos in the cabin window.
The switchman gives the signal to depart.
Krivonos in the locomotive cabin.
View of a passing freight train (above).
A freight train is coming.
Weavers of the Vichuga factory Evdokia and Maria Vinogradovy service the weaving machines.
Shop of the shoe factory "Skorokhod" in Leningrad.
Smetanin N. at work.
Finished products of the shoe factory.
Steelmaking shop of the plant.
The face of the leading steelmaker Mazai M. A girl on a motorcycle drives up to the trailer of the tractor brigade at the field camp.
A girl at the wheel of a tractor.
The foreman of tractor drivers Angelina P. gives instructions to her subordinates.
The girls prepare the tractor to go out into the field.
Sugar beet grower Demchenko M. collects the grown sugar beet crop.
Faces of the girls-sugar beet growers.
Krupskaya Nadezhda Konstantinovna - state
political and revolutionary figure
1935
Moscow Leningrad Gorky Ukraine Ivanovo region
Summer Autumn
Stakhanov gives an interview (synchronously).
Newsreel from 1935: Stakhanov looks out of the train carriage window.
Landscapes outside the carriage window.
General view of the Moscow Kremlin.
Military buglers give a signal before the start of the parade on Red Square on the 18th anniversary of the October Revolution.
Stakhanov's face.
Vinogradovs Maria and Evdokia in the guest stands.
Voroshilov K.E. rides out of the gates of the Spasskaya Tower on horseback.
Voroshilov receives a report from the parade commander.
Troops in parade formation.
Voroshilov begins to inspect the troops.
Red Navy and Red Army soldiers shout "Hurray".
People in the guest stands.
Demonstrators carry banners.
Demonstrators carry models of airplanes.
The demonstration moves along a Moscow street.
Views of the Kremlin towers.
Ordzhonikidze G.K. opens the All-Union Conference of Stakhanovites in the Kremlin on November 14, 1935, with Kalinin M.I. and Andreev A.A. sitting nearby.
The people in the hall applaud.
Stakhanov stands on the podium.
The people applaud.
Voroshilov and Stalin I.V. applaud and sit down.
Stakhanov speaks from the podium.
The people applaud.
Voroshilov and Stalin applaud.
Krivonos P. applauds Stakhanov.
Krivonos speaks from the podium.
The people in the hall applaud Krivonos.
Vinogradova E. speaks from the podium.
The people applaud Vinogradova.
Busygin A. speaks from the podium.
The people applaud Busygin.
Tkachikha Chistova speaks from the podium.
The people listen to Chistova's speech.
Chistova continues her speech.
The delegates of the conference applaud Chistova.
Voroshilov's face.
Railway worker Pichugin speaks from the rostrum, Postyshev P.P., Kosior S.V., Mikoyan A.I., Kalinin, Ordzhonikidze are sitting in the presidium.
Kalinin, Ordzhonikidze, Postyshev applaud Pichugin's speech.
Faces of Stakhanov, the Vinogradovs.
Kalinin presents Stakhanov with the Order of Lenin on February 5, 1936. Stakhanov's face.
Awarded miners-leaders walk.
A woman's face.
General view of the rally in honor of Stakhanov.
Awarded miners greet the rally participants.
Rally in honor of the advanced miners.
Stakhanov and Kontsedalov on the rostrum.
Stakhanov gives an interview (synchronously).
Newsreel from 1936: the entrance to the "Industrial Academy" in Moscow.
Stakhanov and Kontsedalov walk along the corridor of the academy, talking to each other.
Stakhanov at a lesson.
Stakhanov's face.
Stakhanov and other students doing their homework.
Miners working at a coalface during the Great Patriotic War.
Stakhanov at a coal conveyor belt at a mine in Karaganda.
A slide rule in Stakhanov's hands.
Coal on a conveyor belt.
Stakhanov shows a miner how to knock down a coal seam.
A miner working at a coalface.
Coal pours onto the conveyor belt.
Stakhanov gives an interview (synchronously).
Petrov and Borisenko listen to Stakhanov.
A meeting of the Donetsk branch of the Soviet Peace Committee.
People in the hall listen to the speakers.
Stakhanov in the presidium of the branch meeting.
Stakhanov inspects a model of a new mine.
Panorama of the model.
Engineers consult with Stakhanov.
Stalin Joseph Vissarionovich - statesman and political figure Voroshilov Kliment Efremovich - statesman and political figure
military leader Ordzhonikidze Grigory Konstantinovich -- statesman and political figure Kalinin Mikhail Ivanovich -- statesman and political figure Andreev Andrei Andreevich -- statesman and political figure Postyshev Pavel Petrovich -- statesman and political figure Kosior Stanislav Vikentyevich -- statesman and political figure Mikoyan Anastas Ivanovich -- statesman and political figure Stakhanov Aleksey Grigorievich -- miner-slaughterer
Leading worker Borisenko Gavriil Kirillovich -- miner-timberman
1935-1936
Moscow Karaganda Ukraine .
Autumn Winter Summer
Stakhanov gives an interview (synchronously).
Students of the mining vocational school in class.
Stakhanov teaches the class.
Students are sitting at their desks.
A ceremonial event at the Polytechnic Institute.
Students greet veterans entering the hall.
Stakhanov is sitting on the presidium.
Students are listening to the speaker.
Stakhanov presents diplomas to graduates of the Polytechnic Institute.
Stakhanov gives parting words to the graduate.
Stakhanov presents diplomas.
Graduates applaud Stakhanov.
Stakhanov, accompanied by engineers and mine managers, inspects new models of mining equipment.
Stakhanov removes a jackhammer from a stand.
Students listen to Stakhanov.
Stakhanov with a jackhammer in his hands.
Stakhanov conducts a tour with students around the territory of one of the mines.
General view of the mine hoisting mechanism.
Hoisting mechanism scale.
Miners in a high-speed cage.
The wheels of the high-speed mine elevator are turning.
Miners go to the coal face.
Coal mining combine in the coal face.
Combine in action.
Coal on a conveyor belt.
Miners work under the protection of mechanized roof supports.
The roof supports move along the coal face.
Mechanized coal mining.
Remotely controlled train of coal cars.
Stakhanov tells students about the work of the central control room at the mine, panorama of the control room.
Students' faces.
Fragments of the mine diagram at the control panel.
Students' faces.
Dispatcher at the panel.
Electronic computer in the control room.
Stakhanov gives an interview (synchronously).
Text of the report by L.I. Brezhnev dedicated to the 50th anniversary of the USSR and published in the Izvestia newspaper.
A train is coming.
The managers greet the leading miners who came out of the coal face.
A ceremonial meeting at the mine.
The face of the miners' foreman V. Murzenko.
People congratulate the miners on their new record.
Stakhanov among the miners.
People applaud.
Stakhanov congratulates the hero of the 9th Five-Year Plan Dovbysh V. Dovbysh with a bouquet of flowers.
Stakhanov shakes Dovbysh's hand.
Stakhanov talks about the development of socialist competition in Donbass.
Stakhanov Alexey Grigorievich - advanced miner
1973
Ukraine
Summer Autumn