Movie Unforgettable years. (Rushing through the years). (1957)
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Annotation:
The film, timed to coincide with the celebration of the 40th anniversary of the Great October Revolution, tells the story of the country from 1917 to the present day.
Annotation:
The film, based on newsreels kept in the Russian State Archive of Film and Photo Documents, reflects the main events in the history of Russia from 1917 to 1957. The building of the Winter Palace; the overthrown emblems of tsarist power. The funeral of the victims of the October events in Moscow. Members of the Russian and German delegations who arrived in Brest-Litovsk to sign the Brest Peace Treaty. Foreign intervention against Russia; the Germans at St. Sophia Cathedral in Kiev; British ships in the Arkhangelsk and Murmansk ports; American and Japanese ships in the port of Vladivostok. Lenin's speech in Moscow before sending soldiers to the front. Combat operations of the Red Army on the fronts of the Civil War. The unemployed at the labor exchange. Street children. Soviet diplomats V. V. Vorovsky, G. V. Chicherin, M. M. Litvinov, who arrived in Genoa for an international conference. The funeral of V. I. Lenin; the funeral procession on Red Square. The meeting hall of the 13th Congress of the CPSU. I. V. Stalin on the tribune. The book "Five-Year Plan". Construction of the Dnieper Hydroelectric Station, Magnitogorsk Iron and Steel Works, Gorky Automobile Plant, Turkestan-Siberian Railway. Peasants vote to join a collective farm. The first tractor rolls off the assembly line of the Stalingrad Tractor Plant. Production innovators: A. Stakhanov, A. Busygin, M. Mazai, P. Krivonos; agricultural leaders: M. Demchenko, P. Angelina. Soviet scientists: K. A. Timiryazev, V. M. Bekhterev, A. N. Bakh, V. V. Michurin, O. Yu. The Chelyuskin crew returns to Moscow. Soviet pilots V. P. Chkalov, G. Baidukov, A. Belyakov in America after a non-stop flight. The First All-Union Congress of Writers; A. M. Gorky speaks. Construction of the Moscow metro. The war in Spain, Abyssinia, and Poland. Combat operations of Soviet troops on the fronts of the Great Patriotic War. The Victory Parade on Red Square on June 24, 1945. The meeting hall of the 20th Congress of the CPSU. N. S. Khrushchev speaks. Power plants: Kakhovskaya, Bratskaya, Kuibyshevskaya. Uralmashzavod, Magnitogorsk Iron and Steel Works, oil fields in Baku and other industrial enterprises.
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Portrait plans of workers of the Soviet country.
Factory workshops.
Virgin lands.
Work on virgin lands.
Pastures.
Vacationers on the Black Sea beach.
The village of "Mirny".
Synchrophasotron - general. D.F. Oistrakh gives a concert in Japan.
The ensemble of I. Moiseyev gives a concert in Paris.
Ukrainian dance is performed.
Performance of G. Ulanova in Rome.
Shahanshah of Iran Mohammed Reza Pahlavi and Shahinya Soreyya inspect the Dnieper Hydroelectric Power Station.
Mr.
U Nu at the oil fields of Baku.
Jawaharlal Nehru at the plant in Rustavi.
Vietnam.
Residents greet Ho Chi Minh, K.E. Voroshilov.
Khrushchev, Mikoyan respond to the greetings of the residents of Berlin.
Serafima Kotova goes around the machines.
Viktor Shumilin at the machine.
Terenty Maltsev inspects the ears of wheat.
Academician Semyonov works in the laboratory.
Newsreel from 1917-1920. V.I. Lenin - cf.
Petrograd.
Smolny during the revolutionary events.
Torn down emblems of tsarism.
Soldiers at Smolny.
Moscow.
Streets and buildings of Moscow in October 1917. Funeral of the victims of the October events.
Footage showing battles on the front of the world war.
Brest-Litovsk.
Delegations that participated in the peace negotiations with Germany pass by.
White Guard detachments - cf.
Generals Kornilov, Admiral Kolchak, General Yudenich - cf.
White Guard troops march.
Kyiv.
German interventionists march.
Building of the German commandant's office.
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Newsreel of 1917-1920. Foreign intervention.
Murmansk: British interventionists.
Far East: American interventionists.
Japanese intervention.
Merkulov brothers.
Unloading of Wrangel's ships in Crimea.
Georgian Mensheviks, among them N. Zhordania.
Meeting.
Sailor Dybenko, chairman of Tsentrobalt, speaks.
Chairman of the Military Revolutionary Committee Podvoisky, speaks.
Antonov-Ovseenko speaks.
Soldiers and sailors listen.
Ya. M. Sverdlov speaks. M. I. Kalinin speaks from the propaganda train. M. I. Kalinin among the peasants. N. K. Krupskaya - cf.
Poet Demyan Bedny among the peasants. V. Mayakovsky at his desk, reading his poems.
Soldiers and sailors go to the front. V. I. Lenin delivers a speech to the soldiers and commanders leaving for the front.
Stalin, Ordzhonikidze, Kirov, Voroshilov, Frunze – cf. V.I. Lenin on Red Square.
Red soldiers march past. S.M. Budyonny and K.E. Voroshilov in the First Cavalry Army – general. V.I. Chapayev – short.
Demonstrations under the slogan "Hands off Russia!" - on the streets of London, in China, in Berlin.
Workers' demonstrations in Germany, Austria, Hungary.
USA, Statue of Liberty.
Dispersal of a demonstration. J. Reed at a rally.
The First Cavalry Army on the march. M.I. Kalinin is presented with a white flag - a sign of the capitulation of the White troops.
The Red Army crosses the Sivash. M.V. Frunze inspects the troops.
The Red cavalry on the march.
The interventionists leave Crimea, the Far East.
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Newsreel from 1917-1920. Destroying the bridge, wrecked carriages.
Baku.
Funeral of 26 Baku Commissars.
Bread queues.
Labour exchange.
Receiving coupons for the right to trade from stalls.
Crowds of unemployed.
Hungry, homeless people at railway stations.
Unloading food.
Workers on a subbotnik.
The first repaired locomotives.
Workers go to the plant. G.M. Krzhizhanovsky speaks.
Shatura Hydroelectric Power Station.
Turbine hall.
Peat development with a hydraulic monitor.
Dam of the Kuibyshev Hydroelectric Power Station.
Traders at the market.
Customers at the windows of a state store.
Private shops.
Money exchange.
Bank employees at work.
Genoa.
Soviet diplomats arriving for an international conference.
Foreign diplomats arrive, including Lloyd George.
Meetings of foreign ambassadors in Moscow.
Among those greeting are Chicherin, Kalinin, Litvinov, Vorovsky.
Demonstrations protesting against the provocation of the English imperialists.
The 1st All-Union Congress of Soviets.
Delegates to the congress.
Construction of new houses.
Construction in the South-West District of Moscow.
Students in classrooms, in the laboratory.
Newsreel from 1917-1920. F.E. Dzerzhinsky speaking.
Street children at work.
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Newsreel from the 1920s and 1930s.
Resort in Livadia.
Workers resting at the resort.
Newspaper issues reporting the death of V.I. Lenin.
Workers bid farewell to the ashes of V.I. Lenin.
Kirov, Dzerzhinsky, and Krupskaya are at the leader’s coffin.
The 13th Congress of the RCP(b).
Among the delegates: E.M. Yaroslavsky, N.K. Krupskaya. I.V. Stalin on the tribune.
Geologists at Magnitnaya Mountain.
Geologists in the Kazakh steppes.
The village of Monastyrka (near Nizhny Novgorod), where the Automobile Plant will be built.
The Dnieper rapids.
Industrial landscapes.
Construction work.
Workers arrive at the construction sites.
Construction work.
At a construction site in winter.
Construction of a blast furnace.
Student workers during classes.
Assembly of machine tools at the automobile plant.
Peasants in the fields.
The house of a kulak.
Grain.
Agricultural machines of the kulak.
A meeting among peasants.
Voting on the question of joining a collective farm.
Fires in the village.
Funeral of murdered collective farm activists.
The first tractor in a Soviet village; peasants and children run after the tractor.
A tractor plows the land in a field; peasants watch the tractor at work with surprise and delight.
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Newsreel of the 1920s and 1930s: Workers sign up for work on collective farms.
Seeing off workers leaving for the village.
Peasants joyfully greet the arrivals.
The first collective farm convoys with grain are on their way.
A rally to mark the release of the first tractor from the Volgograd Tractor Plant.
A tractor in the plant yard.
The first combine harvester of the Zaporizhzhya Kommunar Plant drives across Red Square.
Industrial landscape of the Magnitogorsk Plant.
Metallurgists at work.
Construction of the Turksib. S.M. Kirov among the builders.
A train is coming.
Zaporizhzhya factories – common.
Rally to mark the opening of the Dnieper Hydroelectric Station.
Alexey Stakhanov at work.
Miners greet Alexey Stakhanov.
Alexander Busygin works in the forge shop.
Makar Mazai at the open-hearth furnace.
Pyotr Krivonos drives a locomotive.
Stakhanovka E. Vinogradova, M. Vinogradova at work. M. Demchenko at work. P. Angelina at the field camp. A. M. Gorky in his study.
Academician Bekhterev gives a lecture.
Academician Bakh in the laboratory. I. V. Michurin in his garden. I. P. Pavlov's laboratory. I. P. Pavlov observes the experiment.
Launch of the stratospheric balloon "Osaviahim-1".
The Chelyuskinites unload ships.
On the streets of Moscow, residents greet the Chelyuskinites.
Lyapidevsky, Molokov, Kamanin, Vodopyanov, Slepnev, Levanevsky, Doronin, Schmidt, Tupolev - kr.
Members of the Glavsevmorput expedition at the North Pole.
Meeting in the USA of Soviet pilots - Chkalov, Belyakov, Baidukov.
Actors of the Moscow Art Theater are walking.
Among them are Stanislavsky, Nemirovich-Danchenko, Kachalov, Moskvin and others.
Celebration of the Maly Theatre anniversary.
On stage, in the presidium are A.I. Yushin, Yablochkina and others.
People's Commissar Lunacharsky presents the Banner to the theatre staff.
The Maly Theatre actors are greeted by Stanislavsky, Nemirovich-Danchenko, Kachalov, Moskvin and others.
The Maly Theatre actors are greeted by representatives of the Komsomol.
Yalta. N.A. Ostrovsky's house.
The writer is lying down, with his mother next to him.
Veshenskaya station. M.A. Sholokhov at work.
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Newsreel of the 1930s: The First All-Union Writers' Congress.
Delegates to the congress: Fyodor Gladkov, Aleksey Tolstoy, Aleksandr Fadeyev, Ilya Ehrenburg and S. Aigui, V.V. Veresayev. A.M. Gorky delivers a report (synchronously), among those present is L. Kassil.
A peasant woman at her desk.
A female worker speaks from the rostrum. A.M. Gorky among the workers. A.M. Gorky kisses a female worker. A.M. Gorky's house.
Romain Rolland and A.M. Gorky – cf.
Bernard Shaw's meeting in Moscow. H.G. Wells visits the Mausoleum.
Squares and streets of Moscow.
Reconstruction work in Moscow.
Construction of the metro.
Launch of the first line.
Bulganin and Khrushchev among the passengers.
Newsreel of the 1930s-1940s Weaving, shoe and rolling shops.
Workers at work.
Collective farmers of Western Ukraine march past.
Athletes with banners march.
Fascist soldiers march.
Krupa plant shop.
Arms production.
Rally in Berlin.
Ernst Thalmann speaks.
The Reichstag is burning.
Demonstration is dispersed.
Leipzig Trials.
Fascist mercenary and arsonist Van der Lube, G. Dimitrov and others are in the dock.
Fascist soldiers march.
War in Abyssinia. B. Mussolini presents orders.
War in Spain.
War in Albania.
Meeting of the League of Nations.
USSR representative Litvinov speaks.
Hitler's soldiers cross the Austro-German border.
Signing of the Munich Treaty.
Hitler and Goering sign.
Fascist troops in Czechoslovakia.
Nazis in Prague.
Fascists in Poland.
Hitler on an airplane.
London in fire and smoke.
Paris.
Women are crying.
A fascist flag is flying over Paris.
Hitler near the Eiffel Tower.
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Newsreel 1941-1945: Burning villages, corpses of the killed and tortured, crying people.
Agricultural machinery and trains with equipment travel along the roads.
Moments of battle.
Moscow.
City streets.
Air barrages.
Soviet military leaders talk.
Moments of battle.
Retreat of German troops.
The fascists set houses on fire.
A Hitlerite cameraman films.
Fighting on the streets of Berlin.
The Soviet flag over the Reichstag.
Field Marshal Keitel signs the act of unconditional surrender.
Victory Parade.
Meeting of demobilized Soviet troops.
Ruins of the Dnieper Hydroelectric Station, destroyed Stalingrad.
Restoration work.
The restored dam of the Dnieper Hydroelectric Station.
Factories of Zaporozhye.
Foreign guests of the All-Union Agricultural Exhibition.
Demonstrators walk along the streets of Prague.
Antonin, Zapotocki, A. Novatny, V. Shiroky on the tribune.
Demonstrations on the streets of Warsaw.
On the platform are W. Gomulka and other leaders of the Polish People's Republic.
Demonstrators on the streets of Tirana.
Demonstrations on the streets of Beijing.
The building of the Supreme Soviet of the USSR. The jubilee session dedicated to the 40th anniversary of the Great October. N.S. Khrushchev speaks (synchronously).
The delegates applaud.
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The building of the Supreme Soviet of the USSR. Landscape plans of Sochi.
Landscape plans.
Uralmash plant.
Workers labor in the plant shops.
Poland of the Magnitogorsk Iron and Steel Works.
Metallurgists at work.
Plant shops.
Chiatura.
A train is moving.
Rustavi.
Metallurgical plant.
Gorky.
Aircraft plant shop.
Baku.
Oil derricks.
Landscape plans.
Oil fields of Tatarstan.
Oil refinery in Bashkiria.
Dams of the Kuibyshev Kakhovka hydroelectric power station.
Construction of the Bratsk hydroelectric power station.
Streets of the cities of Bratsk, Angarsk, Magnitogorsk, Minsk.
Demonstrations on the streets of Leningrad.
On the tribune are the leaders of the communist parties and the Soviet government, among them N.S. Khrushchev.
Demonstrators pass by.