Point of view (1976)

The gates leading to the territory of the Ural Heavy Machinery Plant ("Uralmash") open, a car enters the territory of the plant.

Production processes in the plant shops, assembly of large-sized units and machines.

Chief Designer of continuous steel casting machines V.M. Niskovskikh discusses a production issue with engineers.

View of one of the machines during assembly, machine rotation.

Niskovskikh observes the production process.

Niskovskikh discusses the equipment assembly process with one of the engineers.

A banner in the shop, transportation of a large-sized part using a crane beam.

A stand with information about the manufacture of orders for the Azovstal plant.

Running text on an electronic board in the shop.

View of the Azovstal plant.

Gates and checkpoint of the plant.

Panorama of the construction of the new Azovstal shop.

Interior views of the shop under construction, welding and installation work.

A sign on the door of the plant director's office.

Plant Director V.V. Leporsky talks about the plant's lack of choice in the equipment manufacturer, about the problems of manufacturing a new machine at the Uralmash plant, about the reasons for the delays in order fulfillment, about the technical parameters of the continuous steel casting machines that Azovstal wants to receive (synchronously and off-screen).

Niskovskikh listens to a tape recording of Leporsky's opinion.

Niskovskikh's face.

Niskovskikh refutes Leporsky's opinion, about the advantages of the machines and installations manufactured at the Uralmash plant, about the desire of the Azovstal plant to receive a radial-type installation (synchronously and off-screen).

A sign at the entrance to Moscow.

Entrance to the building of the Institute of Metallurgical Engineering.

Entrance to the office of Academician A.I. Tselikov.

Tselikov expresses his opinion on the current situation, talks about the ultimatum nature of Uralmash's decision, about the advantages of radial-type machines (synchronously and off-screen), Niskovskikh's face.

Tselikov demonstrates a drawing of a radial steel casting machine, reveals its operating principle (synchronously and off-screen).

Niskovskikh proves the fundamental advantage of curved machines, explains their operating principle on a drawing, talks about their prospects (synchronously and off-screen), Tselikov's face.

Tselikov expresses his opinion on the productivity of curved steel casting machines (synchronously).

Academician Tselikov expresses his opinion on the productivity of curved steel casting machines (synchronously).

Running text on an electronic board in one of the shops of the Uralmash plant.

Processes of processing large-sized parts for continuous steel casting machines in the plant shops.

Interior view of part of one of the shops.

Production processes in various shops of the plant.

View of part of the Uralmash plant.

Photographs of the construction of the Uralmash plant in 1928-1933, a portrait of the metallurgist scientist Professor Grum-Grzhimailo.

Photograph of the head of the plant construction Alexander Bannikov.

Photographs of the plant builders.

Photographs of the construction sites of various buildings of the plant.

Text of a telegram addressed to the Chairman of the Council of People's Commissars of the USSR on the need to increase appropriations for the construction of the plant.

Fragments of the text of an article on the shortcomings arising during construction, published in the Komsomolskaya Pravda newspaper in 1931. Photographs of the life and housing of the Uralmash builders.

Self-supporting tokens, issued to builders instead of money, on display at the plant museum.

Photo portrait of Bannikov.

Texts of Bannikov's telegrams to Moscow.

Photographs of the plant's construction.

Portrait of Bannikov.

Photograph of the first smelting being issued at Uralmash.

Medal minted in memory of the first casting in the plant's steel foundry.

Documents on the launches of new Uralmash shops, certified by the Chairman of the Supreme Council of the National Economy V.V. Kuibyshev.

Photographs of a rally in honor of the plant's launch in 1933 and People's Commissar of Heavy Industry of the USSR G.K. Ordzhonikidze speaking at the rally.

Photo portrait of Professor Grum-Grzhimailo.

Panorama of the square and the park in front of the checkpoint, part of the Uralmash plant's territory (above), workers going to their shift.

Niskovskikh talks about the plant's team's accumulation of extensive experience in manufacturing continuous steel casting units, criticizes NIIMETMASH's opinion on creating other machines and the research institute's reliance on foreign experience, compares units manufactured abroad and in the USSR (synchronously and off-screen).

A sign at the entrance to Lipetsk.

Panorama of the square in Lipetsk.

View and panorama of the Novolipetsk Iron and Steel Works.

A continuous steel casting unit manufactured at the Uralmash plant, in the steel foundry of the Novolipetsk Iron and Steel Works, the production process.

Operation of the unit manufactured by the foreign company Demag.

Plant Director S.V. Kolpakov compares the Soviet and foreign units, talks about the differences between the domestic curvilinear unit and the foreign radial unit, and the shortcomings of the domestic unit (synchronously).

A lamp on the table.

A continuous steel casting plant manufactured at the Uralmash plant in the steel foundry of the Novolipetsk Iron and Steel Works, the production process.

Plant operators at the control panel.

Chief designer of rolling equipment at the Uralmash plant G.L. Khimich talks about using the experience of the Novolipetsk plant in further equipment manufacturing, about the conflict between the designers of the Uralmash plant and NIIMETMASH (synchronously and off-screen).

View of Mount Fujiyama in Japan.

Photos of cities in Europe and the USA. Photos of representatives of a Japanese company with engineers from the Uralmash plant.

A photo of a Soviet steel casting plant installed at one of the Japanese enterprises.

Niskovskikh goes to work, a signboard of the Uralmash plant administration.

Niskovskikh discusses the drawing of the plant with engineers.

Azovstal Director Leporsky talks about taking into account the opinion of Japanese specialists, the difference in production tasks facing us and the Japanese, and the experience of other enterprises in using domestic and foreign installations (synchronously).

Academician Tselikov talks about the construction of a steel casting installation in Japan under a Soviet license (synchronously).

Trucks on the territory of the Novolipetsk Iron and Steel Works.

Views of the plant's territory in 1974. Participants in a meeting in the workshop construction headquarters discuss the issues of the order of starting up the units.

The director of the plant Kolpakov asks the site managers questions about starting up the ventilation system, reprimands the person responsible for disrupting the start-up, and demands specific answers to questions about the start-up (synchronously and off-camera).

Faces of the meeting participants.

The production process in one of the plant's shops.

Workers inspect one of the units before starting it.

Kolpakov and the plant's management near the installation before starting it.

Niskovskikh inspects the installation, Kolpakov's face.

Plant managers and representatives of the workforce before the start of the ceremonial meeting on the occasion of the launch of the unit.

Niskovskikh among the engineers, a bottle of champagne on the floor.

Launch of the unit, the beginning of the steel casting process.

Niskovskikh smashes a bottle of champagne on the unit body, accepts congratulations.

Niskovskikh and Kolpakov congratulate each other, hug.

Niskovskikh among the workers and engineers.

Part of the production process.

Niskovskikh watches the steel casting process.

Niskovskikh's face (still frame).

The announcement of the launch of the continuous steel casting unit at the Novolipetsk Plant and a photograph of the plant workers, published in the Pravda newspaper.

Niskovskikh talks about the creation of a continuous steel casting plant for the Novolipetsk Iron and Steel Works (synchronously).

The production process in one of the plant's shops in 1974. Workers inspect one of the units before startup.

Kolpakov and the plant's management near the plant before startup.

Niskovskikh inspects the plant, Kolpakov's face.

Plant managers and representatives of the workforce before the start of the ceremonial meeting on the occasion of the launch of the plant.

Niskovskikh among engineers, a bottle of champagne on the floor.

Launch of the plant - the beginning of the steel casting process.

Niskovskikh smashes a bottle of champagne on the body of the plant, accepts congratulations.

Niskovskikh and Kolpakov congratulate each other, hug.

Niskovskikh among workers and engineers.

Part of the production process.

Niskovskikh watches the steel casting process.

Niskovskikh's face (freeze frame).

News about the launch of a continuous steel casting plant at the Novolipetsk Plant and photographs of the plant's workers published in the Soviet press.

The production process in the steel foundry of the Novolipetsk Plant.

A metal breakthrough at the plant, Niskovskikh's face.

Frozen metal on damaged units of the plant.

Damaged parts of the plant.

Printing of the text of the experts' report on the accident.

Photographs of Niskovskikh.

A nameplate on the door of Niskovskikh's office.

A clock on the shelf.

Photographs of damaged parts of the plant lying on the table.

Niskovskikh speaks of the gross errors made in the manufacture of units and parts of the plant, the conclusions made and the measures taken, the confidence in the correctness of the chosen design solutions and the creation of new plants, the readiness of the team to take responsibility for the operability of the complex of plants being created (synchronously).

Niskovskikh's face.

A self-propelled artillery unit on a pedestal on the territory of the Uralmash plant.

Newsreel from 1941-1945: workers going to their shift.

View of a part of the plant grounds.

Production processes in the plant shops.

Manufacture of cast tank turrets, portrait of Muzrukov, director of Uralmash during the Great Patriotic War.

Control panel for equipment in the steel foundry.

Production processes in the shop, workers' faces.

Female welders at work.

Stakhanovite Ponomarev at work.

Workers and engineers in the plant shops at work.

Turner P. Spekhov at his machine.

The process of processing a part.

Photos of Spekhov teaching teenagers turning.

Newsreel from 1943-1944. T-34 tanks on the assembly line (panorama, from above), transportation of a tank turret using a crane beam.

Assembly of tanks in the shops of the Uralmash plant.

Newsreel from 1943-1944: a heavy tank leaves the gates of the Uralmash plant workshop.

Testing T-34 tanks at the plant's proving ground before sending them to the active army, a driver at the controls of the vehicle.

Tanks on railway platforms of a train going to the front.

Tank columns advancing to the front.

Commemorative inscriptions on a pedestal with a self-propelled artillery unit (SAU) installed on it on the territory of the Uralmash plant, a panorama of the SAU. A running line on an electronic information board in one of the plant workshops.

Director of the Novolipetsk plant Kolpakov talks about the rapid replacement and selection of efficient materials for the manufacture of units of a continuous steel casting plant through the efforts of the Uralmash plant (synchronously).

Printing of a text about the reliability of the design of the unit after the replacement of the units and the need to continue work on the unit at the Uralmash plant.

Kolpakov talks about a dispute between designers of a continuous steel casting plant (synchronously).

Designer Niskovskikh works on a drawing, discusses with colleagues issues of designing various units and assemblies, his story about his work on solving a certain problem is heard off-screen.

Faces of design engineers.

Engineers of the Uralmash design bureau work on drawings.

Niskovskikh discusses with colleagues another scientific and production problem.

Academician Tselikov talks about the inventor achieving positive results in his work, thanks to his persistence (synchronously).

Director of the Azovstal plant Leporsky talks about Tselikov's support of the point of view of Azovstal management in a dispute with Uralmash about the installation of a continuous steel casting plant (synchronously).

Kolpakov talks about Leporsky being wrong because of his commitment to imported equipment (synchronously).

Leporsky expresses his point of view (synchronously).

Niskovskikh talks about the tendency to force Uralmash to produce equipment based on imported designs, about the plant's critical attitude to imposed foreign designs (synchronously).

Photos of Niskovskikh in different years, with family members and workmates.

Panorama of part of the Uralmash plant buildings in the evening.

Niskovskikh at home pondering his latest invention, off-screen Niskovskikh summing up the interim results of his work and creativity.

The face of Niskovskikh smoking a cigarette.

Drawing instruments and a slide rule on a drawing spread out on a table.

View of part of the plant through an open window.

View of the Uralmash plant in the evening, the windows of the buildings are lit up.

Processing of large-sized parts in the plant shops, welders at work.

Production processes in the shops of the Uralmash plant.

View of part of one of the plant buildings in the evening, a running line with text about the fulfillment of Azovstal orders on an electronic board.