The film is dedicated to the problems of soil conservation agriculture in our country. The film is based on events on virgin lands in the first years of its development.
A girl is running along a path across a field.
A dump truck is dumping soil.
A girl is in a man’s arms.
A young man is walking along a path across a field.
A tractor is plowing a field.
A herd of horses is going to water.
A tractor is on a pedestal.
A field, in the distance you can see factory chimneys.
Terraced lands.
A field covered with snow.
A strong wind, tumbleweed balls are rolling across the field. A.I. Barayev, Director of the Grain Institute, is standing in a field.
Filming from a helicopter, with a tent city below.
Close-up: a flat cutter.
Shortandy, a village in Kazakhstan.
Branches covered with snow. A.I. Barayev in his office.
Chronicle: plowing the land.
Dust storm.
Dead seedlings.
Fallen wooden power transmission line supports.
Cracked earth.
Boarded up windows of a house. A.I. Barayev (synchronously).
Design bureau.
Baraev and colleagues in an experimental greenhouse.
Baraev A.I. -Director of the Grain Institute
agronomist
the founder of the soil conservation farming system.
1960
Kazakhstan
Winter
Chronicle of virgin land development: plowing a field.
Tractors in a field. A. Barayev with colleagues in an experimental greenhouse. A. I. Barayev (synchronously).
Burning stubble.
Birds' nests on trees.
Plowed field, heavy rain.
Gully-ravine relief.
Tank on a pedestal. V. I. Manchenko (synchronously).
Manchenko V.I. - chief agronomist of the Matveyevo-Kurgan district
student of N. Vavilov
1961
Kazakhstan Rostov region
Summer
V.Manchenko walks through a meadow.
An excavator digs the earth.
The dried-up Mius River.
Plowing a field with a plow.
The river is overgrown with grass.
Bulldozers are driving along the road.
Vineyards.
Work to retain water. V.Manchenko in a field.
Close-up: ears of wheat.
A man leads a horse by the bridle through a feather-grass steppe.
The quarry of the Kursk Magnetic Anomaly.
Quarry dumps. V.Pavlenko walks along the hydraulic dump.
V. Pavlenko - hydrogeologist of Lebedinsky Mining and Processing Plant
Rostov region Belgorod region
Bulldozers on a hydraulic dump. V. Pavlenko (synchronously).
Land reclamation. V. Pavlenko in the field.
A dump of black soil.
The wall of the Spaso-Evfimievskiy Monastery (Suzdal).
Central Russian landscapes.
Mowers. N. A. Baturin smokes.
Land reclamation works. N. A. Baturin (synchronously).
Pavlenko V. - hydrogeologist of Lebedinsky mining and processing plant Baturin N.A. - chairman of the collective farm "Kushalino" of Tver region
Belgorod region Tver region
Land reclamation works. N. Baturin (synchronously). N. Baturin in his office.
Wheat field.
Pond near the house.
Girl getting water from a well with a crane.
Central Russian landscapes.
Mowers.
Herd of cows in a pasture.
Tver region