The film is about the greatest building of our century - the construction of the Intercontinental pipeline from Western Siberia. (Shooting in Moscow, Leningrad, the Discovery, the Carpathians, the Volga region, Western Siberia and Germany).
1-3h.
Types Soviet tundra.
Landscapes with drilling rigs.
Gen. drillers and pipeline builders "Western Siberia - Western Europe"; town of cabins, dining room.
Nadym.
Views of cities in Western Europe: the people on the streets read newspapers with skeptical articles about the failure of the Soviet Union to build a pipeline in the short term.
Effects of the embargo, the U.S. announced the supply of pipes and equipment in the USSR: Interview Director of the West Plant "AEG-Kanis" U.S. claims assessment.
4h.
Unloading of ships in Leningrad and Nakhodka, arrivals from Western Europe and Japan with the technique for the construction of the pipeline.
Soviet engineers invention: rotary excavator, swamp, etc.
5h.
Sending ground nodes pipeline - block-boxes by rail.
Employment Research Institute for the construction of main pipelines: engineers, programmers and others at work.
Board meeting Minneftegazstroy USSR. Pipe welding underwater pipeline (b.
Volga).
6h.
Gas pipeline in the Carpathian Mountains.
Red welding seam on the border of Mordovia and Gorky region.
Key words
Fuel, gas, construction, economic ties.