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Panorama of Troitsk neighborhoods in Chelyabinsk Oblast (top).

View of a section of the river (top).

Sellers and buyers at the city market.

Faces of buyers and sellers in the vegetable row.

Fruits and vegetables on the counters, faces of sellers and buyers.

Men who came to the city to sell their goods stand by their horses, adjusting the harness.

Views of Troitsk streets, transport and people on the city streets.

Views of the city's administrative, public and residential buildings.

Local historian E.I. Skobelkin tells about the history of Troitsk since its foundation (synchronously and behind the scenes) on the territory of the ancient fortress.

View of the abandoned building of the Orthodox church on the territory of the fortress.

View of the fortress on the bank of the Uy River.

Photograph of the city square in the late 19th century.

Portrait of the founder of the city, the governor of the Orenburg region I.I. Neplyuev.

View of part of the bell tower of the abandoned Orthodox church.

Photograph of a trade caravan in Troitsk in the late 19th - early 20th centuries.

Photographs of Troitsk in the late 19th - early 20th centuries.

Views of historical buildings in Troitsk, boys' and girls' gymnasiums.

Photograph of the Mars cinema from the 1920s.

The building in Troitsk where the cinema was located.

The building of the Tatar-Bashkir library.

Photographs of city buildings in the early 20th century and their modern appearances.

Cover of the satirical magazine in the Tatar-Bashkir language "Akmulla", published in the 1910s.

Portrait of the poet and educator M. Akmulla.

Photograph of the Kazan Convent.

Exhibits of the Troitsk Museum of Local History.

Portrait of E.M. Pugachev.

Painting depicting Pugachev under the walls of the Trinity Fortress.

Photographs of Troitsk buildings in the early 20th century.

Museum stands dedicated to the history of the periodical press of Troitsk, the Steppe newspaper and a portrait of the editor on one of the stands.

Portraits of revolutionaries and public figures who collaborated with the newspaper.

Photograph of the first train that arrived in Troitsk in 1911. Old books on display at the museum.

The modern view of the city drugstore building and its old photograph.

People entering the drugstore.

Photographs of Orthodox churches in Troitsk in the early 20th century.

Photographs of the demolition of St.

Michael's Cathedral in 1966. The site where St.

Michael's Cathedral stood, people are collecting signatures for its restoration.

Restoration of the facade of one of the city buildings, workers on scaffolding.

Interior view of the wagon repair shop at the Troitsk railway junction.

A welder at work.

The process of repairing wagons, workers' faces.

Repair of power plants and wheel sets.

Transportation of a wheel set using a crane beam.

Panorama of a part of Troitsk in the Uy River area.

A memorial plaque on one of the buildings.

Production processes in the shops of the Troitsk Electromechanical Plant, assembly of heat exchangers for electrical machines, workers' faces.

A freight train passes.

Veteran railway workers pose for a photographer.

Veterans talk about their combat path and work in the rear during the Great Patriotic War (synchronously).

Veterans' faces.

Veterans during a minute of silence at the Eternal Flame.

Veterans of the Ural Volunteer Tank Corps at the monument with the names of their fallen comrades.

Veterans during a meeting at the monument.

Performance by the children's brass band "Trubachi".

The bandleader, honorary citizen of Troitsk P.E. Zasypkin, conducts a rehearsal outside.

Orchestra rehearsal outside, Zasypkin conducts the orchestra on the move.

Students of the Troitsk Veterinary Institute go to class.

A sign with the name of the institute.

Students of the Veterinary Institute during practical classes.

Professor of the Department of Pathology and Therapy A.A. Kabysh during a class with students in the laboratory.

Students conduct scientific research.

A senior student examines a cat during a reception at the clinic.

Students examine and treat cows during practical training at the Novotroitskoye educational farm.

Students of the institute, members of the equestrian section, ride horses.

Riders direct horses to a watering hole.

Bathing horses.

Students ride along a forest edge.

A horse-drawn carriage passes along the road, followed by riders.

Production processes in the shops of the Ural Gas Cleaning Equipment Plant.

Panorama of the mothballed construction of the plant.

Plant Director Ivanov holds a meeting, his story about the plant, the products manufactured and the problems of the enterprise is heard off-screen.

View of the Troitskaya GRES. Acting Head of the production and technical department of the State District Power Plant P. M. Kharlov speaks about the work of the State District Power Plant (synchronously and behind the scenes).

Interior views of the work premises of the State District Power Plant, control equipment, equipment of the machine room.

Panorama of the control panel in the dispatcher room of the State District Power Plant.

Engineers and dispatchers discuss the current issue.

Dispatchers at work.

View of part of the territory and communications of the State District Power Plant.

Member of the Presidium of the City Council of War and Labor Veterans S. A. Troitsky speaks about changes in the development of the city in the 1960-1970s, housing construction (synchronously and behind the scenes).

Workers at the construction of a residential building.

A surveyor at work.

Masons lay bricks.

A weather vane in the form of a rooster on the roof of the house.

Carved decorations of the wooden fence of one of the houses in the private sector.

A woman with a ladle of water in her hands comes down from the porch.

A sign with the name of the Troitsky Machine-Tool Plant.

Checking the operability and quality of the finished products of the plant.

Production processes in the workshops, faces of workers and engineers.

Checking the operation of electrical circuits of machine tools.

Workers and engineers in the workshop discuss production issues.

Machine tools in the finished goods warehouse.

Plant worker Igoshin at home making a folk musical instrument, the zhaleika.

Igoshin plays the zhaleika.

Performance of the folk musical instrument ensemble "Zhaleika" under the direction of Igoshin.

Preventive inspection of passenger aircraft engines at the airfield on the outskirts of Troitsk.

Cadets of the aviation technical school during practical classes.

An airplane monument on the territory of the school.

A sign with the name of the Troitsk aviation technical school of civil aviation.

Cadets of the school during theoretical and practical classes, faces of the cadets.

Classes on simulators and models.

A boy plays near the airplane monument.

A meeting with war veteran Z.M. Stolyarova in the television studio of the school.

Stolyarova gives an interview.

A picturesque portrait of Stolyarova.

Artist G.M. Levshich paints a picture, and her story about her work is heard in the background.

Doctor V.I. Sakharov examines a patient.

Sakharov's face.

Portrait of Sakharov painted by Levshich.

Portrait of the builder of the Troitsk State District Power Plant V.I. Rybka painted by Levshich.

Levshich paints a female portrait from life in his studio.

Paints on a palette.

Kitten on a bedspread.

Levshich paints a portrait.

Portraits and still lifes created by Levshich.

Meeting of members of the Troitsk literary association "Steppe", faces of the association members.

Director of the Troitsk Diesel Plant A.V. Karpov discusses production issues with workers and engineers; his story about the plant’s products is heard off-screen.

The process of manufacturing diesel engines at the plant, assembling units and assemblies, and the workers’ faces.

Teams of assemblers at work.

Students of the plant’s vocational school during a lesson in the computer lab.

A lesson in one of the classrooms.

The face of one of the students taking an exam.

A young man leaves the classroom for the corridor after passing the exam; his classmates congratulate him.

A patient of the plant’s health resort during a physiotherapy session.

View of the health resort building.

Household and medical services for workers and employees of the plant and their families (combined photography).

Children in kindergarten.

Children during water procedures.

Harvesting cucumbers in one of the greenhouses of the plant’s greenhouse complex.

Automatic watering of cucumbers in the greenhouse.

First Secretary of the Troitsk City Committee of the CPSU V.N. Luzin discusses another issue with a member of the city committee.

Production processes at the Troitsk meat-canning plant, work of automated lines.

Packing meat into cans, faces of the plant's workers.

Work of automated lines of the Troitsk fat plant, packing finished products into cans.

Work of the butter packing line.

Luzin behind the wheel of a car.

Production processes for the manufacture of bags and other products in the shops of the Troitsk leather goods plant.

Finished products of the plant.

Production processes for sewing shirts at the Troitsk sewing factory, faces of the workers.

Samples of finished products of the factory.

Pupils of a kindergarten play on playgrounds during a walk.

A game of traffic rules in one of the children's factories of Troitsk.

Children water the beds.

Children play, participate in sports competitions.

Performance of Tatar folk ensembles on City Day.

Sack fight on a log.

Faces of young spectators.

Competitions and contests during the holiday.

Awarding of the winner of one of the competitions.

Chairman of the Troitsk City Executive Committee M.B. Tazetdinov speaks about his love for his native city, about the revival of its former glory, about attracting tourists, about the need to restore historical buildings (synchronously and behind the scenes).

Tazetdinov works at his desk in his office.

Views of historical buildings of Troitsk subject to restoration.

Restoration of church domes.

Views of city streets.

Participants of the film talk about their city, its uniqueness (synchronously).

Children drink water from a street pump.

Children run along the street.

Children stand by a motorcycle.

Monastery gates.

Bell ringers ring the bell returned to the bell tower, faces of the bell ringers.

Panorama of Troitsk quarters (from above).

The bell ringer rings the bell.