The film talks about ways to solve the problems of youth outflow from the village, providing the population with food in light of the implementation of the Food Program using the example of the Omsk Region.
A boy lets goats out of the barn.
A peasant family in the yard with piglets and a cow.
Chickens graze on a pile of firewood.
Poultry in the yard.
Children drive a flock of geese.
View of an abandoned wooden house.
Abandoned houses in one of the unpromising villages of the Omsk region.
Hands of an elderly woman.
Women chop and carry firewood in the yard.
The Cheremisin spouses, left alone in the village of Yadrino, are doing housework.
Panorama of the wall of a wooden house with windows boarded up crosswise.
Anna and Timofey Cheremisin tell about the history of the village, recall the names of streets (synchronously).
Operation of the computer center equipment.
Creating a drawing using a drawing machine.
View of the railway track on the bridge.
Winter Siberian landscapes.
Transportation of large-sized cargo by a Mi-10K crane helicopter.
Flames burst out of a gas well (above).
View of part of the territory (above).
Loading coal into wagons using an excavator.
Production processes in the shops of a metallurgical plant.
Panorama of a weather station house covered with snow up to its roof.
Laying railroad tracks.
Dispatcher in the control cabin of automatic cranes.
View of a dam under construction.
Panorama of a part of Omsk (from above).
A bus stops at a bus stop, passengers boarding and disembarking, a blizzard is sweeping.
People on a city street in a blizzard.
A man puts a child on a sled.
String bags with food hanging out the window, ice on the window frames.
Production processes and transportation of meat carcasses at a meat-packing plant.
Production process in the packing shop of a poultry farm.
The icebreaker Sibir goes through the ice.
The cargo ship Pavel Ponomarev is towed behind the stern of the icebreaker.
Delivery of a container with food to an airplane.
Winter Siberian rural landscape (panorama).
Houses covered with snow, children playing snowballs.
Villagers on the street during the spring thaw.
A teenager crosses a huge puddle of melt water on a homemade raft.
Work of the computing center.
The center employee lays out punch cards on the table.
Children go to school.
Training in harnessing horses and milking cows at the Yeremeyevskaya secondary school.
A livestock specialist conducts a lesson on animal husbandry, students pet and examine a piglet.
Children learn to feed calves with milk.
Rural landscape at sunset.
Steam rises above the frozen ground.
Spring drip.
Birds on tree branches.
View of part of a Siberian village (from above).
Children receive seeds.
Seeds in the palms of a child.
Teaching children how to plant seeds in the ground.
Planting tomato seedlings in a bed, schoolchildren's faces.
A girl in a plowed vegetable garden.
1983
Omsk region
Summer Winter Spring
Junior school students of the Yeremeyevskaya Secondary School enter the Museum of Labor and Military Glory of the Yeremeyevskiy State Farm.
School Director I.F. Taran leafs through documents in the museum.
Views of parts of the museum exhibition, photographs dedicated to the history of the village, portraits of state farm veterans.
Taran places a model of a tractor in a museum display case.
A portrait of the former director of the state farm P.F. Grebennikov in one of the museum halls.
Taran talks about his work in a rural school, about providing the educational process (synchronously and behind the scenes).
Students of the state farm school study agricultural machinery in a mechanical engineering lesson.
A lesson on studying milking equipment.
A schoolchild runs after a teacher who is driving a walk-behind tractor with a trailer to the school site.
Teaching schoolchildren to drive in an auto lesson using a driving simulator, one of the students is behind the wheel of the driving simulator.
High school students working in an apple orchard, digging the ground and digging around trees.
Panorama of state farm lands (above).
Plowing the land with a hand-operated walk-behind tractor.
Schoolchildren working on a plot of land rented from the state farm.
A tractor with seeding units in a field during spring sowing.
A tractor driver in the tractor cabin.
Sowing work in the field.
Machine operators and schoolchildren wash their hands before lunch.
Young machine operators having lunch in the field.
High school students working on agricultural machinery.
A girl puts on a headscarf before a veterinary lesson on a livestock farm.
Cattle on a farm.
Wheeled tractor driving test.
A young man taking the test is driving a tractor.
Young people watch the tractor pass.
Applications from young people asking to be hired at the state farm.
The hand and face of a young man writing an application.
Young men writing applications.
Panorama of state farm fields (top).
Tractors with seeding units in a field during spring sowing.
A flock of sheep is driven out of a pen to pasture.
Inspection of the wool of one of the sheep.
Sheep in covers in a pen.
Cows in stalls on a farm.
The process of machine milking of cows.
Cages with laying hens on a poultry farm.
Examination of newborn chickens.
Types of livestock complexes (top).
A girl with her younger brother in the yard of a house listening to a gramophone record.
Puppies and a kitten near a dog kennel.
The face of a girl.
Children playing on a rural street.
A cat and cheeks near a dog kennel.
Children, sitting on the porch of a house, playing with baby rabbits.
Faces of children talking about livestock and animals that they have at home on the farm, children playing with a goat in the yard.
Washing strawberries.
Watering a redcurrant bush.
A girl helps her grandmother put cucumbers in a jar.
A boy feeds ducklings.
1983
Omsk region
Summer Spring
Residents of the village gather in the meadow for the village meeting, sit on the installed benches.
Panorama of the village meeting.
Documents and text of the decision of the village meeting of residents of the Mikhailovsky village council.
Faces of village residents during the meeting.
Panorama and view of the village meeting.
A man beats a scythe.
Faces of men beating scythes.
Grass under a scythe.
A man mows the grass.
Grass in the meadow, the sun shines through the branches of the trees.
The mower sharpens the scythe.
Insects on the berry bush.
Mushroom picking.
Children clean the collected mushrooms from clods of earth.
Girls pick flowers in the meadow.
Men mow the grass.
Rural mechanic A.G. Morosh and his relative mow hay on homemade mowers.
Morosh talks about the capabilities of his mower (synchronously).
Hay is being swept into a stack on one of the forest plots, a girl with a rake.
Sale of compound feed by a state farm to owners of personal livestock at low prices.
Weighing sacks of feed.
Men removing sacks of feed from scales.
Loading sacks into the back of a scooter.
Filling sacks with feed.
Retired couple Movchan tie up sacks. F.K. Movchan places baby nutria in a cage, his story about his personal farm is heard in the background.
Nutria and rabbits in cages.
Movchan feeds turkeys.
Goats grazing in the grass.
Movchan talks about the situation with livestock before 1978 and after, about the possibility of selling surplus milk and meat on the market (synchronously).
Start of milking cows in the field, women go to milk the cows.
Pouring milked milk into cans.
Sheets of the register of milk sales by collective farmers.
Checking the payroll, people receive money for the milk sold.
People gather for a village meeting.
A man speaks at a village meeting.
A man with a child in his arms listens to the speaker.
Speeches by participants of the meeting.
Faces of participants of the meeting.
Girls sitting on the grass.
View of a village meeting (from above).
Movchan talks about the problems of handing over meat to the state (synchronously).
Purveyors accept livestock and poultry from owners.
Weighing another bull, the bull is taken away from the scales.
1983
Omsk region
Summer
Meat on the counter of a cooperative store in Omsk, the face of a saleswoman.
The saleswoman serves customers.
Pieces of meat on a refrigerated display case, price tags for meat.
View of one of the meat rows of the city market.
The seller chops meat with an axe.
An employee of the market's trade services bureau stamps meat brought by a collective farmer for sale.
Issuing money at the cash desk to the owner of meat handed over for sale.
Counting banknotes.
A collective farmer counts the money he received without leaving the cash desk.
Chairman of the Omsk Regional Consumer Union S.M. Malkov talks about the city's dependence on the village in terms of food supplies, the direct dependence of the standard of living in the city on the standard of living of the peasant (synchronously).
People walk home from the market with string bags of groceries in their hands.
Selling vegetables at the city market.
Selling honey at the market.
Bees at the entrance to the hive.
Movchan puts on a protective net from bees at the apiary.
Fumigation of hives at the apiary.
Extraction of honeycombs from the hive.
Movchan and his wife extract honeycombs from the hive.
View of the vegetable garden and rural houses.
Bulldozer during the construction of rural residential buildings.
Face of the construction team leader.
Installation and assembly of concrete structures using a crane.
Siberian landscape.
Panorama of rural settlements and livestock complexes (top).
Pages of a collection of government regulations in the field of agriculture, excerpts from the text of the resolution on the construction of individual houses in the countryside.
Chairman of the collective farm named after the 22nd Congress of the CPSU I.F. Regeda discusses with builders a plan for the construction of new residential buildings for collective farmers, faces of the builders.
Tractor laying a road.
View of the construction site.
View of the building of the design institute.
Builders during rest.
The concrete mixer is rotating, the builders are sifting cement.
Builders are preparing cement mortar.
Manufacturing of molded concrete blocks at the construction site.
Stacking finished blocks.
View of the site where blocks are formed (above).
Production processes at the brick factory of the Sibiryak state farm.
Asphalt production at the state farm plant.
View of the plant equipment and territory.
Felling and removal of timber at one of the timber industry enterprises.
Views of the timber yard territory, stacks of logs on the territory.
1983
Omsk region
Spring Summer
A man planes a beam in the yard of a house.
View of the erected wooden frame of the building.
Carpenters at work.
View of the construction of a wooden house, delivery of building materials.
Insulation of the walls of the house with bundles of dry reeds and sawdust.
Facing the walls of the house with one layer of brick, masons laying bricks.
Checking the corner of the house with a plumb line.
Insulating cracks with sawdust.
Chairman of the 22nd Congress of the CPSU collective farm I.F. Regeda hands the builders a decorative casing.
Regeda at the construction of one of the houses.
Regeda talks about the conscientious work of construction teams in the village of Pokrovka, about the shortage of workers in the Omsk region (synchronously).
Builders prepare mortar, lay the foundation of another house.
Builders carry logs to the site.
View of the house under construction, panorama of the street with houses erected on it.
Cleaning logs from bark.
Panorama of the street with erected houses, carpenters install roof rafters.
Regeda at the construction of one of the houses.
Builders of various specialties at work.
Erecting a wall from concrete blocks.
Sealing cracks with sawdust.
The face of one of the builders.
Installing decorative architraves under the roof of a house.
Regeda near the collective farm administration building examines flowers picked by a woman.
Panoramas of rural settlements in the Omsk region (above).
Panorama of a street with new manor-type houses for collective farmers in the village of Pokrovka.
Regeda walks through a garden, a woman stands by the fence.
Regeda talks to women tending flowers.
Views of rural houses built according to new individual designs.
Industrial landscape.
People on one of the streets of Omsk.
Open-pit coal mining.
View of the hydroelectric dam under construction.
Railroad cars for builders on the BAM route.
Production processes in a metallurgical plant workshop.
Rural landscape at sunset.
The collective farm herd is driven out to pasture from the pen (above).
Plowing a field with tractors (top).
Panorama of part of the territory with agricultural lands (top).
1983
Omsk region
Spring Summer