An introductory film about the development of industry in the USSR. Intended for showing to foreign viewers.
Khabarovsk airfield, the plane enters the runway.
Airplane takeoff.
Panoramas of the taiga.
Airplane in the sky Interspersed: hydroelectric power station structures, thermal power plants, factories.
Dam construction.
High-voltage power lines.
Chronicle of the 1920s: Fallen power line supports.
A pole falls.
Broken locomotive.
Destroyed bridge.
Cobwebs on the coupling of carriages.
Crying child.
Woman with baby.
Street children.
Dust over the cobblestones.
Split screen: Lenin's office in the Kremlin, photographs.
GOELRO plan.
Chronicle of the 1920s - 1930s: Locomotive whistle.
Locomotive passes a switch.
Construction of the Dnieper Hydroelectric Power Station.
Dam.
Rally at the opening of the dam.
Interspersed: newsreel footage, faces of modern workers.
Construction of the Krasnoyarsk Hydroelectric Power Station.
Views of the dam from different sides.
Turbine hall.
Water boiling.
Multiscreen: hydroelectric power station dam, workers in factory shops, special equipment.
Divnogorsk.
Residents walk along the bank and the streets of Divnogorsk.
View of the city and the Yenisei.
Construction of the Sayano-Shushenskaya hydroelectric power station.
Working model of the station.
River waves.
View of the thermal power plant.
Thermal power plant structures.
Novovoronezh NPP, control room.
Machine room.
Operator at the control panel.
Operational center of the Unified Energy System of the USSR. Cartoon: development of electrification of the USSR. Structures of metallurgical plants.
Melting metal in a blast furnace.
1920s-1930s
Khabarovsk Krai Krasnoyarsk Krai Moscow Ukraine
Chronicle of the 1930s - 1940s: Construction of Magnitka (Magnitogorsk Iron and Steel Works, MMK).
Launch of the first shops.
Plowing the land.
An ingot of metal is taken out of the furnace.
A worker unloads the rails.
Ingots on a conveyor.
Tanks drive across the field, planes fly above them.
A missile battery fires.
Production processes in the plant's shops (metal smelting, teams of workers).
Sheet metal rolling.
Alternation: Bratsk Aluminum Plant, workers going to shift.
Workers in the plant's shops, aluminum production.
Complex of mechanisms.
Miners entering the elevator.
Miners at the face, ore mining.
Mountain peaks.
Mining in quarries.
Rock on a conveyor.
Airplane in the sky.
Alternation: crew members, instrument readings.
Computing centers, computer operation.
Processing a part on a carousel machine.
Cutting metal on CNC machines.
Automatic continuous rolling line for pipes.
Grain harvesters.
Harvesting.
Tractors plowing the land.
Collective farmers in the southern regions of the USSR. Cotton field.
Mechanized cotton harvesting.
View of the river.
Rails.
Freight and passenger trains on the railways.
Sea waves.
Freight and passenger ships at the berths.
Seagulls above the waves.
A ship enters the port.
The captain at the helm.
Alternation: an airplane taking off, helicopters.
An airplane engine (view from the window).
An airplane in the clouds.
1930s-1940s
Chelyabinsk region Irkutsk region
Helicopter.
Panorama of the taiga.
Chronicle of the 1960s - 1970s: The feet of people walking through a swamp.
People walking along the trunk of a fallen tree.
A truck driving through a quagmire.
Felling trees.
All-terrain vehicles in a winter forest.
Work on drilling rigs.
People opening a valve.
Oil gusher.
Workers congratulate each other.
Panorama of the drilling rig.
Work on the drilling rig.
Drilling equipment.
View of the rig.
Gas flare.
Smoke from the flare, the sun behind the clouds.
GDS structures.
The operator at the control panel.
Laboratory.
Chemical experiments.
View of the enterprise from the water.
Packaging of mineral fertilizers.
Forest processing from the air.
Production of synthetic fiber.
Products on display.
Rubber plant.
Rubber production.
Manufacturing of car tires.
Volga Automobile Plant (AvtoVAZ), a worker puts a wheel on a car.
New cars.
Checking the wheels.
A car rolling off the assembly line.
The driver drives the car to the warehouse.
Transportation of new cars by rail.
Road traffic in the cities.
The new KAMAZ truck.
Construction of the Kama Automobile Plant.
Naberezhnye Chelny, new residential areas.
Construction of houses.
Residents on the streets of the city.
An airplane in the sky.
The flight attendant announces landing.
Electronic board.
A man fastens his seat belt.
Landing of the plane in Moscow.
Launch of a space rocket.
Space satellite.
Chronicle of April 12, 1961: Yuri Gagarin walks to the rocket.
The cosmonaut climbs into the rocket.
Yuri Gagarin in the rocket.
The rocket on the platform.
Launch of the rocket.
Models of lunar rovers.
Automatic satellite stations.
The rocket rises upward.
Cartoon: planet Earth moves in space.
Gagarin Yu.A. -- pilot-cosmonaut
Hero of the Soviet Union.
1960s-1970s 12.04.1961
Republic of Tatarstan Siberia Tolyatti Kazakhstan Moscow