The film was shot for the 25th Congress of the CPSU. The geography of the largest construction projects: BAM, KAMAZ, Sayano-Shushenskaya hydroelectric power station, Ust-Ilimskaya hydroelectric power station, development of Samotlor, Kursk magnetic anomaly, agriculture of the Non-Black Earth Region. The film tells about the main achievements of various branches of the national economy on the threshold of the 10th Five-Year Plan. Filming of workers, interviews with leading workers, and chronicles of different years are used.
View of the Moscow Kremlin.
Ice floes on the ocean surface.
A man near a helicopter, the blades are swinging.
Movement along the seashore.
Pilots in the cockpit.
View of the taiga from the helicopter, cargo on the sling.
Panorama of the taiga.
Opencast coal mine.
Coal mining.
Trucks drive past a sign.
A city under construction.
A stroller on the roof of a dump truck.
Workers walk along a construction site.
Icebreaker in the ocean.
View from the icebreaker.
Panorama of an oil field, a gas flare. "Tyumen Meridians".
A man walks toward a group of workers.
People warm themselves near a burning flare.
Chronicle of the 1950s: Unloading a helicopter.
People walk through the mud.
Workers are laying a temporary road through the forest.
Special equipment drives through a swamp.
Extraction of soil samples.
A worker's face.
A drilling rig, an oil gusher.
A man laughs.
A worker is rocked in his arms.
People hug.
Panorama of the field.
Landscapes around Samotlor.
Interlacing: G.I. Norkin narrates, frost on the glass.
Oil pump. G.I. Norkin in the helicopter. G.I. Norkin's team.
All-terrain vehicles make their way through the swamp.
Interlacing: G.I. Norkin narrates, winter views of the drilling rig.
The team at work.
Team leader V. Glebov narrates.
Trucks drive along the road.
City blocks, passers-by.
A child on a sled.
A man walks along the path.
Girls with skis in their hands.
Workers walk through the yard.
The pilot at the controls.
View from the cockpit of the drilling rig.
The helicopter is approaching to land.
View from the cockpit, workers below.
The helicopter lands.
Workers at the drilling rig.
Shift change, workers leave, G.I. Norkin waves goodbye.
Special equipment at the site.
Pipeline welding.
A bulldozer drags up sections of pipes.
Worker in the pipe.
Oil, Gas, Energy resources
Norkin G.I. -- Senior Drilling Master
Excellent exploration specialist
discoverer of the Samotlor oil field.
1950s
Moscow Tyumen region Republic of Sakha (Yakutia) Khanty-Mansiysk Autonomous Okrug - Yugra Siberia
Autumn Winter
Helicopter over the site.
View from above on the drilling rig.
Helicopter crew.
View of the river. "Siberian acceleration".
Alternation: cascades of water, dam under construction.
Chronicle of the 1950s: Slogan on the cab of a dump truck.
Alternation: dumping stones into the river, rearing trucks.
The dam of the Bratsk hydroelectric power station.
Honor board in front of the entrance to the station.
A truck drives past.
A sign at the entrance to the city.
Views of Bratsk.
Cars drive under the sign-banner.
Workers walk along the street.
Poster.
View from the tower crane.
Construction work on the dam of the Ust-Ilimsk hydroelectric power station.
Workers.
Raising the tower.
High-voltage power line.
View of the river.
Fencing tape.
Construction of a dam on the Yenisei.
Members of the commission and workers.
Opening of the construction site.
Photojournalists run ahead of the bulldozers.
The beginning of work on damming the Yenisei.
Chronicle of the 1950s: Workers digging.
Workers tamping the earth.
Removing earth from the site.
The frame of the dam under construction.
Cameramen.
Dump trucks dump stones into the river.
Rocks on the bank, workers on the slope.
Alternation: interviews with workers, work on damming the riverbed.
Banner.
Dump truck.
Helicopter over the site.
Alternation: the head of construction of the Sayano-Shushenskaya hydroelectric power station S.I. Sadovsky talks about the dammed section of the river.
A woman reads a newspaper.
Streets of an urban-type settlement.
The dammed section of the river, construction work.
View from the embankment from under the bridge.
Factory workshop.
Engineers discussing plans.
Factory laboratory.
Work in the factory workshops.
Ust-Ilimsk hydroelectric power station, workers preparing to lift the structures.
Welders.
Views of Ust-Ilimsk.
Rehearsal of an amateur art ensemble.
Children looking in the windows.
Hall decoration.
Photos on the walls.
Foreman V. Voropai tells the story.
People at the table.
Curtain.
People singing to the guitar.
Hydroelectric power station dam.
Construction work.
Helicopter with a metal structure on the suspension.
Energy resources
Sadovsky S.I. - hydroelectric engineer
Honored Builder of the RSFSR
1st Deputy Minister of Energy and Electrification of the USSR.
1950s
Siberia Tyumen region Irkutsk region Leningrad
Autumn Winter
"The Path to the Ocean".
A helicopter taking off.
Workers cutting down trees.
The helicopter flies away.
Panorama of the taiga.
People walking through the taiga.
Tree crowns.
A clearing.
A forest stream. A.A. Pobozhiy and his wife on a walk in the forest.
A woman pours tea. A.A. Pobozhiy tells the story.
The prospector's wife.
A daughter with a dog in her arms.
Interspersed: taiga panoramas, photographs.
People walking through the taiga. A.A. Pobozhiy tells the story.
An axe is driven into a tree.
Survey engineers are working in the taiga, taking measurements and recording data.
Marking the boundaries of a plot of land, people driving posts into the ground.
An all-terrain vehicle is driving through the taiga.
Interspersed: dump trucks crossing, road equipment.
Aerial view of the railroad.
Laying the railroad bed.
The story is told by the secretary of the Dzheltulak (Tynda) district committee of the CPSU V.A. Leskov.
Panorama of the village of Mogot.
Satellite communication antenna.
Streets of the village.
Schoolchildren.
A dump truck drives out onto the road.
A teenager learns to drive.
View of the river.
Railway bridge.
Aerial shot of the road under construction.
Panorama of the river.
Views of the ocean coast.
People swimming near the shore.
View from the shore to the bay.
A man with a child in the water.
The story is told by the foreman V. Belinsky.
Ships at the berths, a tugboat goes by.
Roads, The country's transport network
Pobozhiy A.A. -- survey engineer
BAM builder
Member of the Union of Writers of the USSR.
Moscow region Siberia Amur region Primorsky Krai
Autumn Winter
Port of Nakhodka, work at the container yard.
Foreign cargo ship.
Meeting with the Japanese crew.
Group photo with the ship in the background.
Loading and unloading operations.
Freight train with road equipment.
Vostochny Port under construction.
A train passes by the cranes.
Workers inspect the electrical panel.
Port berths and cranes. "Iron Land".
Steppe grasses.
Monuments to the heroes of the Great Patriotic War, fog.
The Eternal Flame burns.
Chronicle of 1943: Combat operations on the Kursk Bulge, a combined attack by aviation, tank troops and infantry.
Wounded soldier.
A bullet-riddled party card.
Soldiers run to a burning tank.
Steppe grasses.
Explosion.
Bush branches, view of the city.
Photographs.
Panorama of the quarry.
Alternation: A.G. Malygin narrates, photographs.
Work in the quarry, ore mining.
Panorama of the quarry.
A truck drives past houses.
View of an industrial facility.
Transport at the entrance to Stary Oskol.
Metal structures.
Alternation: the commission inspects the construction site of the Oskol Electrometallurgical Plant, says the head of construction A.A. Babenko.
A train with ore on the railway.
Conveyor.
Movement of special equipment in the quarry.
Transportation of goods, Mining industry
Malygin A.G. -- mining engineer
foreman
Veteran of the Kursk Magnetic Anomaly (KMA). Babenko A.A. -- Soviet statesman and economic figure
civil engineer
manager.
1943
Kursk region Belgorod region Primorsky Krai
Autumn
"The Rhythm of KAMAZ".
A KAMAZ truck is driving along the road.
Chronicle of the 1920s: The first Soviet trucks.
Poster.
A truck on a steppe road.
Residents of Turkmenistan meet participants of the Moscow - Kara Kum - Moscow motor rally.
A slipping wheel.
People push the car out.
The hood of the KAMAZ is closing.
The structure of the cabin.
Emergency signals.
Test driver V. Peretolchin tells the story.
Welding work under the roof of the workshop.
Plant workers, processing parts.
Trucks driving along the highway, it is snowing.
Entrance to the engine plant.
Workers gather for a plant rally.
Fragment of the rally.
An honorable assignment.
Starting the first engine.
Production processes, workers in the shops.
Interview with a representative of the Chicago Pneumatic company.
Decoration on the grille.
A KAMAZ is driving along the road. "New virgin lands".
Agricultural land.
A truck is driving along the edge of the field.
Grain is sorted by hand.
Teenage boy.
Grain field.
Harvesting.
Machine operators.
Grain is pouring out.
Presentation of the challenge banner to the vanguard team.
Collective farmers congratulate grain growers.
Children give flowers to the winners.
People talking in a field.
Trees on the side of the road.
Tractors leaving the city.
Tractor with a trailer.
Clearing land for arable land.
Fertilizing fields.
Livestock complex of the Lensovetovsky state farm.
Herd of cows.
Interior of the cowshed.
Feed delivery.
View of the complex.
Administrative building.
The herd is grazing in the field.
The family of technologist S. Patalakhin.
Portrait of P.I. Tchaikovsky. S. Patalakhin tells the story.
Wife with child in her arms.
Silo towers.
Complex workers walking along the corridor.
The technologist operates the conveyor.
Feed on the conveyor.
The team is preparing cows for milking.
Automatic milking.
Urban-type settlement.
A girl near a rowan tree.
The center of the village.
A boy eats a rowan tree.
Automotive industry, Agriculture, Plant growing, Animal husbandry
01.12.1975 1920s
Republic of Tatarstan Leningrad region Turkmenistan
Winter Summer
Dawn over the village of Sakmara.
The Cherdintsev family walking along the road. V.M.Cherdintsev with his daughter.
The family gets together. G.V.Cherdintsev at work in the field.
Intercut: the Cherdintsev family at home, a woman baking bread.
Haystacks in the field.
Sailors in formation.
The Baltic Fleet awards G.V.Cherdintsev with a banner. G.V.Cherdintsev makes a speech.
Rows of sailors.
View of the deck.
Sailors give striped shirts to combine operators. G.V.Cherdintsev puts on a striped shirt. G.V.Cherdintsev signs a magazine.
Procession with a banner. "Lights of the Arctic".
Polar landscapes.
Chronicle of 1932: Ice floes on the surface of the ocean.
Icebreaker "Alexander Sibiryakov".
Intercut: people's faces, expedition members chipping at the ice.
Setting up the sails.
The icebreaker is on the way.
Shots in the air.
Chronicle of 1971: Nuclear-powered icebreaker Lenin on the route of Alexander Sibiryakov.
Nuclear-powered icebreaker Arktika.
Crew in the wheelhouse.
Specialists are about to refuel the ship with uranium.
The team at the control panels.
Monitoring the refueling through cameras.
Icebreaker captain Yu. S. Kuchiev.
A polar bear cub descends the gangway.
The bear cub is given a bath.
The bear cub rubs against a towel, rolls around on the deck.
Navigation and communication equipment, strong wind.
The captain behind the glass of the wheelhouse.
View of the ocean from the wheelhouse.
The helicopter is secured to the deck.
The captain looks out the window.
Storm.
Lunch in the dining room.
The captain fills out logs.
Alternation: Yu. S. Kuchiev narrates, views of the icebreaker deck, storm waves.
The ship's flag.
A caravan of cargo ships.
Crew in the wheelhouse.
Waves.
The flag in the wind.
Icebreaker crushes ice. "Arktika" paves the way.
Agriculture, Dynasty, Maritime trade routes
Cherdintsev V.M. - Honored agricultural machine operator of the RSFSR
Twice Hero of Socialist Labor. Kuchiev Yu.S. -- Arctic captain
Honorary Worker of the Navy
Honorary Polar Explorer
Honorary Member of the Geographical Society
Hero of Socialist Labor.
08.1932 06.1971
Orenburg region Arctic
Summer Autumn Winter