The colour widescreen picture introduces us to the land of Tyumen, with its huge construction sites, cities, and industries. Oil and gas determine the scope of the local work. Chronicle footage is used.
On the screen there is a collage of foreign newsreels from the 1960-1970s - dollars, gold, oil, oil rigs, Western banks, trading, stock exchange, bankers, politicians, streets of foreign cities, military equipment, armed conflicts, bombs being dropped, etc.
Panorama of forests, river, plains, fields (shot from the air).
A train passes over an iron bridge.
A compartment, flowers on a table.
The territory of an oil refinery - various shots (tanks, pipes, oil storage tanks, etc.).
View from the train window.
Moscow, river, embankment, view of the Kremlin.
City streets, bus stop.
The building of the Palace of Congresses in the Kremlin.
Newsreel, April 1978 - the 18th Congress of the All-Union Leninist Young Communist League, Komsomol deputies in the hall, L.I. Brezhnev speaking from the rostrum, panorama of the hall of the Palace of Congresses.
A train passes.
Komsomol members are sitting in a compartment, playing the guitar and filling out paperwork.
It's evening, there's a neon sign on the roof of the house - "The Subsoil of the Tyumen Region at the Service of the Motherland." A modern building, a banner hangs - "Warm greetings to the fighters of the All-Russian shock detachment." A military orchestra is playing.
A ceremonial meeting on the occasion of sending young specialists, geologists, oil workers, etc. to the North.
Geologist Salmanov F.K. is speaking.
Winter, northern landscape, a house on a hill.
Wooden houses with smoking chimneys.
A window with ice patterns.
The indigenous population cuts holes in the ice for fishing, rides reindeer sleds.
A nomadic camp - there are yurts.
Various shots - women with children, etc.
A man takes a group photo of the pilots and the indigenous population near the helicopter.
Parcels, boxes and various cargo are loaded into an all-terrain vehicle on skis.
All-terrain vehicles are driving across a snowy plain.
It is snowing, a blizzard is starting, cars are parked.
In an office, a woman in uniform is sorting through telegrams and radiograms.
Blizzard, snow - a helicopter, cars.
A female telephone operator is taking a call.
Blizzard, helicopter.
Tyumen airport, people in the waiting room.
The ancient Siberian village of Berezovo.
Close-up - a hand is typing out a telegram.
The wall is a control panel, with buttons, levers, etc.
Close-up - a red flag, a sign on the house - "Gubkina Street 5".
Dobrovolsky G. D., a physics teacher, is walking down the street.
Dobrovolsky is speaking.
Dobrovolsky is developing film.
Close-up - pages from Dobrovolsky's photo album with photographs of a gas derrick and an article from a newspaper about a new gas field.
A shot with a derrick (shot from below), people are standing nearby.
An airplane.
Female employees are receiving messages in the office, typing on typewriters.
An airfield, cargo is being loaded onto an airplane.
Female communications employees.
Airfield - various shots of the runway, in the control tower.
A plane takes off.
The controller speaks on the radio.
Shots of planes taking off, images on the instrument screens in the control tower.
A plane on the runway.
People in the waiting room.
A helicopter in the air.
Images on the instrument screens in the control tower.
A forest, a snowy plain.
A road, an all-terrain tractor passes, there are residential trailers.
Men with some kind of document stand near the tractor.
All-terrain tractors with people drive by.
XVIII Congress of the Komsomol, train, airplane, helicopter, airport, aerodrome, tower, oil, gas
Brezhnev L. I. - Soviet political figure
General Secretary of the Central Committee of the CPSU Polevoy Batalin Salmanov
1960-1970 1978
Tyumen region Moscow
Winter
Men are pulling wires with dynamite.
An employee in the control center is pressing buttons on the instrument panel.
Shots of a snowy forest, an instrument panel, and a printout of instrument readings alternate.
A man takes out a printout with data.
A computing center, numbers are running across the screen, employees are studying printed sheets of information.
Employees of the computing center, equipment, etc.
Rolls of paper.
Residential trailers.
A laboratory, special utensils, equipment, employees are conducting various experiments and research.
Nesterov I. I. is speaking, Corresponding Member of the USSR Academy of Sciences.
Large - a hand is writing in a notebook.
An all-terrain vehicle is driving through the snow.
A gas derrick, a pump is working, a drill, various shots with workers, with production processes, etc.
Surgut, a stele with the name of the city at the entrance.
A bus and trucks are driving along the road.
A view of a city street, new houses.
A window with a curtain, new houses are visible.
It is snowing, transmission line towers are visible.
Surgutskaya GRES (power plant).
A cut with different shots of the power plant - pipes, equipment, machines, control center, etc.
View of the buildings of the Surgutskaya GRES, transmission line towers.
A helicopter takes off, carries a metal structure in the air.
A pilot in the helicopter cockpit.
Installation of a transmission line tower.
A man climbs onto a transmission line tower, connects wires.
Winter northern landscape, snow, blizzard.
Greenhouse with plants - watering is in progress.
Tree.
Greenhouse with plants.
Monument to pioneers in Nadym (an all-terrain vehicle is on a pedestal).
Panorama of new houses in the city.
Streets of new microdistricts.
Temporary houses - house interior, rooms, furniture, etc.
New houses.
General development plan for Nadym.
A meeting of architects in the office, discussing the development plan.
An architect with a pointer near a photograph of a model.
Various construction shots - a crane is working, slabs and blocks are being lifted, a woman is laying bricks, etc.
A tree.
A boy with a backpack is walking past trailers.
A child's face, dogs near trailers, a poster with a clown.
Deer near a helicopter, a child in a stroller, Father Frost and Snow Maiden are performing, people are watching the performance on the street, girls in costumes are singing, a guy is climbing a pole for a prize, folk festivities.
Skiers are running.
Excavators are working in a quarry, loading sand into dump trucks.
Logs are lying on the ground.
Computing center, laboratory, all-terrain vehicle, gas rig, power plant, State District Power Plant, Power transmission line, helicopter, cabins, construction, excavators
Tyumen region Siberia Nadym Surgut
Winter
A large roll of road surface is being unrolled on the road.
Dump trucks are driving, A dump truck is dumping sand.
A cameraman is behind the camera, filming an interview on the road.
A crane is moving pipes.
A crane operator is in the crane cabin.
The process of loading large pipes.
Pipes are transported on long trucks.
The driver is in the cabin behind the wheel.
A truck with a large pipe is driving along the road.
Panorama of a snowy plain, a forest, a road (shot from above).
Men are in the helicopter cabin.
Panorama of the road, cars, work equipment (shot from above).
The pilot is in the cabin.
The helicopter is descending.
Cars are transporting pipes.
Welders are working on the pipe.
A tractor is driving.
Various works on installing and connecting large pipes.
The helicopter is taking off.
May 1st, a holiday, flags are waving, small children are walking in pairs.
Telephone operators are working.
A large radar antenna.
A conference call in the office.
In the frame is Batalin Yu. P. - First Deputy Minister of Construction of Oil and Gas Industry Enterprises.
The frame shows the participants of the meeting, listening to the report on the intercom from Siberia.
The telephone operators are working.
A large radar antenna.
Batalin is speaking.
A truck is driving through the mud and washed-out road.
The frame shows workers on the road.
An all-terrain vehicle is driving, excavators are working, special equipment is working on laying a pipeline.
Birds in the snow.
A forest clearing with melted snow, trees in the water, birches, buds on the branches.
Portrait of the discoverer of Berezovsky gas Bystritsky A.G. (at the funeral).
Close-up - the ground, the legs of the people carrying the coffin.
Faces of the grieving people, a portrait of Bystritsky, awards on red pillows.
The setting red sun, a river, a forest.
A ship in the ice.
Panorama of the gas workers' settlement - a derrick, buildings, a hangar, etc.
A drilling rig.
A ship in the port, trucks are driving.
Pipes are being unloaded from the ship.
An all-terrain cargo vehicle carries pipes.
A crane lifts a residential trailer.
Evening - a ship in the port, cars are driving by.
Summer, a river, wooden houses on the bank.
An elk is chewing a tree branch.
A bear in a forest clearing.
Tyumen - different views of the city, people in parks and on the streets, construction of new houses.
Workers in helmets are walking along the corridor of the enterprise.
Workshops - a plant - various production processes.
Compressor stations and oil field equipment are being assembled.
Welders and other specialists are working.
Shipyard - a large ship at the shipyard.
Panorama of different river vessels.
The Ob River, a river vessel is sailing.
View from the wheelhouse.
Close-up - a hand switches the lever on the control panel.
The captain of the vessel at the helm.
Panorama of a barge with cargo on the river.
Pipe, pipeline, dump truck, excavator, telephone operators, derrick, ship, vessel
Siberia Tyumen region Yamal Tyumen Ob
Winter Spring Summer
Panorama of a barge with cargo on the river.
The barge is transporting pipes.
The river transport dispatcher picks up the phone.
Shots of different river vessels.
Shots of the loading and unloading process at the port - a crane is working, various cargo, containers, boxes, equipment, residential trailers, cars, pipes, slabs, etc. are being lifted.
A helicopter in the sky.
Different plans of the city of Tobolsk.
View of the Tobolsk Kremlin.
Construction of a petrochemical plant in Tobolsk.
Builders, welders, etc. are working.
Different shots from the construction.
Oil plant - huge tanks, equipment, etc.
Oil workers tighten valves, check equipment, etc.
View of the oil complex, oil flares are burning in the background.
An employee in the control center, talking on the phone.
Different plans of the plant.
The river, a tower and oil workers' cabins are visible on the bank (shot from the side of the ship).
Oil workers working at the oil field.
Oil workers' canteen - the cook is preparing food, workers are having lunch at the table.
Canteen - general plan.
Oil rig.
Oil workers are working.
Herd of horses.
Shift work at the drilling rig - different plans of the production process.
River, rig, oil flare.
Monument-stele - "The First Well of Samotlor".
Construction site - general plan.
A crane is working, builders are laying bricks, etc.
Nizhnevartovsk.
Building of the Oktyabr cinema.
New microdistrict, alley, people are walking, children on the carousel.
New houses, microdistricts.
Tundra, land covered with reindeer moss, a construction site is visible in the background (Novy Urengoy is being built).
Various shots of construction work.
Conference call in the office.
The meeting is chaired by Strubtsov Yu. A. - the manager of the trust.
Strubtsov with people at the site.
Strubtsov gives an interview in the office.
General plan - view of the oil and gas plant.
Various shots taken at the plant - equipment, pipes, tanks, reservoirs, control center, devices, etc.
Road, man with leveling device, tractor driving behind.
Workers, equipment laying a rail track.
Shots with rail track.
In the frame - a specialist with a leveling device.
Various industrial landscapes - construction, cranes, barge on the river, etc.
Shots from the construction of a railway bridge.
Oil, oil workers, derrick, rails, railway track, dining room, level
Siberia Tobolsk Nizhnevartovsk Novy Urengoy
Summer Spring
Yunost-Komsomolskaya station, station building, freight train with tanks passing.
Sign on the building - "Yunost Station".
Moscow, Garden Ring.
Large - hanging emblem of "Yunost" magazine.
In the editorial office of the magazine - on the table shelves gifts from young railroad builders from Siberian construction sites.
In the frame, B. N. Polevoy - editor-in-chief of "Yunost" magazine giving an interview.
Northern landscape - river, small trees, construction site visible in the background.
One-story building, poster "Smena Urengoy" hanging, dump truck passing.
Library, shelves with books, reading room.
Librarian lays out books.
Woman reads book.
Librarians with books.
On the table - different books.
Books on the shelves, large - books by L. I. Brezhnev.
Train rides.
Young builders, specialists are solemnly greeted in Tyumen.
Building, on the end face the inscription "Tyumen" and a clock.
The frame shows volunteer builders from Tashkent.
Interviews with various young volunteer builders.
Northern landscape - a river, trees, snow falling.
Special equipment at work, the start of construction work, a worker digs into the frozen ground with a crowbar.
Builders lay slabs.
A tractor is driving.
Northern landscape, a helicopter.
People in the helicopter.
View from the pilot's cabin.
Various Siberian landscapes - plains, fields, forests, rivers (shot from a helicopter).
Pilot in the cockpit.
An oil flare is visible (shot from a helicopter).
A man looks out the window.
View of the ground from the helicopter.
Passengers in the helicopter.
Various shots of Siberian nature, drilling rigs, etc., shot from a helicopter.
Monument to the Conquerors of Samotlor.
Magazine "Youth", library, helicopter, derrick
Siberia Tyumen region Moscow Tyumen
Summer Spring