From spring to spring (1984)

Winter, spring, summer, autumn rural landscapes.

Buds are opening on tree branches, flowers are blooming (slow motion).

Germination and development of a cereal ear (slow motion).

Agricultural machinery on the exhibition grounds, parts and units of combines (panorama).

View of the territory of one of the farms (top).

Panorama of the field during harvesting, the combine picks up mown swaths, alternates with a diagram of the regional agro-industrial association - RAPO. Interior view of the agricultural machinery repair shop (panorama, top).

Tractor repair in the shop.

Sign of the technical exchange point.

Transportation of the repaired engine using a crane beam.

Face of the worker.

Panorama of a part of the repair line.

Loading the repaired engine into the back of a truck using a controlled vertical platform.

A collective farm herd fords a river.

Sign of the technical service station, view of the administrative building.

The process of washing milking machines.

Interior view of a milking machine maintenance shop.

A technical assistance vehicle (Tekhpomoshch) leaves the service station.

A technical assistance vehicle on the way to one of the farms.

A team of mechanics arrives at one of the farms.

The mechanics approach a heavy wheeled tractor and begin inspection.

Interior view of part of a chemical fertilizer production shop.

Views of one of the chemical fertilizer plants.

A dump truck loaded with sacks of fertilizer leaves the enterprise.

Heavy wheeled tractors with trailers pass along the road.

Unloading manure from a trailer into a field.

Automatic unloading of chemical fertilizers into a field while moving.

Equipment at the construction site of an irrigation system as part of the land reclamation program.

Laying out an irrigation canal.

Layout of the components of the district agricultural management system (animation).

The land cracked by drought.

Chairman of the Lenin Collective Farm in the Gorky Region, M.G. Vagin. talks about matters uncharacteristic of agriculture, which are handled by the regional association "Selkhoztekhnika" (synchronously).

Withering lettuce leaves (slow motion).

Trenin V.A. talks about the interest of processing enterprises of the Ivanovo region in making a profit, talks about the reasons for the unprofitability of collective farms (synchronously).

The car of the director of the state farm drives off-road.

The director of the state farm "Suvovrovsky" Evloev M.D. gets out of the car, inspects the area.

Evloev talks about the unsatisfactory condition of the roads as the reason for the outflow of people from the village (synchronously and off-screen).

An elderly woman walks past wooden houses in the Kostroma region.

The woman talks about the gradual departure of residents from the village to the city (synchronously and off-screen).

Abandoned village houses with missing windows.

Village landscape (panorama), children walk along the road from school.

The woman talks about the difficult conditions of village life (synchronously).

Panorama of village buildings, woodshed with half-dismantled roof.

Machine operator Zamaskin A.I., sitting on the porch near the house, talks about the extinction of his village, says that he is the only one left of all the neighbors, about the reasons for the departure of the inhabitants of the nearby villages, about the overgrown fields, about his decision to stay in place (synchronously and off-screen).

Panorama of an abandoned plot of land overgrown with weeds.

Weeds in a field, view of an abandoned village house.

Panorama of a part of a field overgrown with weeds.

Corn in a field in the rain (panorama).

Germinating cereal crop (slow motion).

View of a country road.

Beekeepers and members of the RAPO council at the apiary.

Panorama of a part of the apiary, the arrival of beekeepers at the apiary, the story of the chairman of the district council of RAPO Talsi district of the Latvian SSR Klembegs V.Zh. is heard off-screen.

On the establishment of a regional apiary association based on cooperation between beekeeping farms.

Closing the hive entrances, loading the hives into the back of a truck.

A truck with hives leaves the apiary.

A truck with hives on the way.

The truck enters a clover field.

Panorama of a clover field, beekeepers unload hives from a truck, place them in the field (top).

Bees fly out of an open entrance.

Panorama of hives arranged in a row in a clover field.

Bees fly over clover flowers, sit on flowers.

A medicine bottle with royal jelly, other samples of beekeeping products.

Samples of beekeeping products and honey products in the display cases of the exhibition hall, visitors examine the exposition.

Buildings of the Beekeeping pavilion at VDNKh.

Panorama of clover fields with hives arranged along the edges (top).

View of a storage facility for treated seeds for several farms included in the RAPO system (top).

Panorama of a seed treatment station built in the Talsi District of the Latvian SSR as part of a cooperation between farms.

A stream of seeds is poured out of the loading sleeve into the back of a truck.

The station’s dispatchers maintain contact with the farms.

A truck with seeds is heading to one of the farms.

Panorama of a plowed field before spring sowing, a truck with seeds is driving along the road.

The truck is approaching a seeding unit.

Filling the hoppers of a seeding unit with seeds.

Tractors with seeding units are driving out into the field during spring sowing, view of the field (top).

The seeding unit in operation.

A dispatcher of a seed treatment station accepts requests for seeds.

A truck with seeds is leaving the station’s territory.

The driver is in contact with the dispatcher.

A truck with seeds is driving along the road.

Filling seeds into the bunker of the seeding unit.

Panorama of the field, tractor with a seeding unit.

Sowing, seeding units in the field.

Views and panorama of the territory of one of the farms united in RAPO (top).

RAPO diagram (animation).

Chairman of the RAPO council of Novomoskovsk district of Tula region Kopylov A.S. speaks about the structure of management of agriculture of the district before the creation of RAPO, about the meaning of restructuring of management of the group of farms and processing enterprises (synchronously).

Views of Kulikovo field.

Signpost to the source of the Don.

Summer landscape at the source of the Don.

Kopylov speaks about the rights of the RAPO council to influence various departments, about the advantages of RAPO, speaks about changes in the system of management of the district farms as a result of the creation of RAPO (synchronously).

Meeting of heads of farms and the RAPO council, Kopylov asks questions concerning the provision of repair of equipment, construction and other agricultural issues, demands to show the justification for sending parts for agricultural equipment, makes claims to the head of the local repair association (synchronously).

Dispute between members of the RAPO council and the head of "Selkhoztekhnika".

View of the meeting.

Kopylov criticizes the management of Selkhoztekhnika, accuses them of routine and bureaucracy (synchronously).

Kopylov and the members of the RAPO council ask questions to the head of the repair association, make claims, argue, accuse him of padding and issuing fictitious orders, faces of the council members.

The representative of Selkhoztekhnika answers questions from the RAPO council members, tries to justify himself (synchronously).

Faces of the disputing participants of the meeting.

Speech by one of the RAPO council members, panorama of the meeting.

RAPO council members during a field trip.

Discussion by council members of current issues and problems of seed germination.

Kopylov talks about the changes that have occurred in the economic relations between farms and service enterprises (synchronously).

Members of the RAPO council inspect a seeding unit in a field and listen to the machine operator explain how to improve its operation.

Faces of the council members.

Kopilov speaks about the difficulties that arose in the process of interaction between farms and service enterprises (synchronously).

Tea harvesting.

View of a tea plantation.

Deputy Director of the Research Institute of the Tea Industry of the Georgian SSR Kutateladze L.Sh. speaks about the production of the drink "

Bakhmaro"

from tea concentrate, speaks about the deployment of drink production with the assistance of RAPO, the creation of a plant for the production of the drink "

Bakhmaro", about making a profit from production, about the speed of implementation of the research institute's developments in the conditions of RAPO operation (synchronously and behind the scenes).

A bottle with the drink "Bakhmaro".

The bottling line for the drink in operation, automated production processes at the plant.

Panorama of a tea plantation, a tanker truck with the drink "Bakhmaro" drives by.

A tanker with the drink on the way.

View of a field with cabbage shoots.

Fertilizing cabbage with a towed unit.

Vagin M.G. talks about people working in agriculture, about the Human personality, about attention to a person (synchronously and behind the scenes).

Winnowing grain.

A combine operator at the helm.

Panorama and views of rural residential buildings and vegetable gardens.

Construction of a private house.

Director of the Institute of Agriculture of the Lithuanian SSR Budvytis A.Ya. talks about the tasks of retaining people in the countryside, about ways to solve these problems and create attractive living conditions in the countryside, about studying the positive experience of neighbors, about attracting young people, about building decent housing (synchronously and behind the scenes).

Children on horseback.

Faces of girls.

Children cleaning horses.

Children riding horses.

Private cars in garages provided by the farm.

View of part of the territory of the new garage cooperative.

People work on landscaping a flower garden.

Schoolchildren stack boxes with seedlings.

Panorama of the flower garden area with greenhouses.

Views of the streets and houses of the village, everyday life in the village.

People tidy up the area around their houses.

A family takes care of flowers.

A combine leaves for the night shift during harvesting.

Combines harvesting at night (panorama).

Interior view of one of the halls of the computing center, employees of the center at the computers.

The program on the monitor screen.

Deputy Director of the Computing Center of the USSR Academy of Sciences Moiseyev N.N. on the role of mathematics and computer science in the analysis of the activities of RAPO, on the work of the center to improve the activities of RAPO, on the capabilities of computer technology in this area (synchronously and behind the scenes).

Data and diagrams on the monitor screens.

A member of VASKhNIL speaks from the rostrum about the problems of developing the RAPO system and ways to solve them, about the petty guardianship of farms by various departments (synchronously).

Budvitis in the meeting hall.

One of the meeting participants speaks about the harm of administrative methods (synchronously).

Budvitis speaks from the rostrum at a meeting on issues and tasks of RAPO activities (synchronously and behind the scenes).

The meeting participants listen to Budvitis, take notes.

President of VASKhNIL Nikonov A.A. speaks of strengthening centralization on the one hand and granting independence to RAPO on the other, of fighting departmentalism (synchronously and off-screen).

View of a field during harvesting (top).

Selection of mown swath.

Sugar beet harvester during harvesting.

Cultivation of the soil.

Agricultural machinery during harvesting, cereal crops and sugar beets.

Combine reel.

Trailed cultivator in a field.

Seedlings sprouting from the ground (slow motion).