The film tells about the work of oil workers.
Boats at sea during bad weather - general, Wed.
Ramp at sea - Wed.
Oil workers working at a drilling rig - Wed, cr.
Oil rigs at sea, two boats on the horizon - general.
Large faces of oil workers looking up and into the distance - general.
The city of Baku, view from the sea (the sea is calm) - general, Poland.
A child is sleeping - Wed.
An oil worker says goodbye to his family and kisses his sleeping child - general, Wed.
Oil workers are going on a boat, among them Farid Mammad-zade, he graduated from a ten-year school and is going to work as a builder at the Oil Rocks - Wed, cr.
The sea alongside the boat - Wed.
The captain on the bridge is looking through binoculars - Wed, cr.
Logger at sea - general.
The logger approaches the pier - general, Wed.
Oil workers are disembarking on the ramp - various.
Oil workers walking along an overpass - different.
Oil workers' settlement "Oil Rocks" - common (view from the sea).
Piles - Wed.
A woman watering and washing flowers.
Pigeons on the ground - Wed, kr.
Fruit sold in a tent - common, Wed.
Grapes in a sieve - kr.
Apples and tomatoes - Wed.
Shop - shoe and fabric department - common, Wed, kr.
Bookstore - common, Poland, Wed.
Oil workers playing basketball - common, Wed.
Oil workers-boxers training - common, Wed.
Seagulls flying over the sea - Wed. "Post Office" sign - kr.
A woman works at the post office: talking to oil workers about correspondence received in their name (synchronously) - Wed, kr.
Telephone operators working (synchronously) - Wed, kr.
The settlement of "Oil Rocks" - general.
Overpasses, oil derricks - various.
A diesel train is traveling along the overpass.
A driver is driving a car - medium, medium, Poland.
A truck with a crane is traveling along the overpass - general.
Oil worker Kurban Abasov, Hero of Socialist Labor, deputy of the Supreme Soviet of the USSR, is walking along the overpass - general, medium.
Oil worker Yu.
Kerimov among oil workers - general, medium.
Yu.
Kerimov shows pictures of Egypt, where he recently visited - various.
Engineer, communist, Hero of Socialist Labor Bakhtiyar Mamedov talking with oil workers at the oil field - general, cf. B. Mamedov on a boat, against the background of the oil field - general, cf.
Newsreel from the 1940s: Seals on the rocky shore and in the water, the first oil field builders at sea, workers drag boards, build houses - various.
Drilling foreman M. Kaverochkin at work - general, cf.
The first fountain of oil - general, cf.
The first piles in the sea - general, cf.
The first houses, the first derrick - various.
Compressor station - general, cf.
Inclined well equipment - general, cf.
Cluster drilling area - general, cf.
Cartoon: drilling scheme - general, panorama.
Drilling rigs at sea - general.
Drilling rig at work - general, panorama.
A team led by young engineer K. Ashumov is working on drilling - various.
Construction of a trestle in the sea - various.
Farid Mamed-zade is working on the construction of a trestle in the team of Hero of Socialist Labor H. Bayramov - various. H. Bayramov is working - medium, medium.
Hands with a wrench - medium. H. Bayramov is talking to Farid at the construction site (synchronously) - medium, medium.
Electric welders are working - various.
A life preserver is thrown from the trestle into the sea to a drowning oil worker - various.
An ambulance boat is approaching the trestle - general.
An ambulance is approaching the hospital - medium, panorama.
Operating room: an operation is underway - general, medium.
A ward in the hospital - general, medium.
A patient is taking medicine - medium.
Dentist's office - various.
Piles being carried along an overpass - Wed, Poland.
Workers installing piles - various.
A diesel hammer is working, driving a pile - various.
Workers installing a cement slab-block on an overpass - Wed.
Construction of a storage tank farm - various.
Workers installing an iron sheet - various.
Electric welders working - various.
A welder is burning a round hole in the wall of a storage tank - kr.
A part of a working machine burning through metal - kr.
Construction of a tank farm - various.
Workers talking at the construction site (synchronously) - various.
Electric welders working - Wed.
Construction of a tank farm in the evening and under the moon - general, Wed.
Welders working - various.
Conversation between the boss and the workers (synchronously) - Wed, cr.
Overpass at night - general, Wed.
The interior of a power plant - general.
Mechanic near machines - various.
A car is driving along the overpass at night - general.
Control room house.
The dispatcher is talking on the phone (synchronously) - Wed, cr.
Construction of the overpass at night, welders working - general.
Diesel hammer working - Wed, panorama.
Builder Farid is working on the night shift - cr.
Overpass at night, clouds in the sky - general. K. Ashumov is working - Wed, cr.
Cartoon: a diagram of the passage of a new inclined well among existing ones - cr.
The well is drilled, K. Ashumov smiles - kr.
Overpass, oil rigs in the sea at dawn - general.
The sea, oil rigs in the distance - general.
Chief geologist F. Samedov is talking to K. Ashumov at the oil field - Wed, kr.
Oil workers are traveling by boat, approaching the main overpass, climbing up - various.
Panorama from the overpass to the canteen - general.
Oil workers are having lunch in the canteen - general, Panorama.
Oil workers are talking with the canteen manager (synchronously) - various.
An oil worker is catching gobies from a dormitory window - various.
Gobies in a bowl - kr.
Gobies in a frying pan - kr. K. Ashumov in the shower - Wed, kr. K. Ashumov at the hairdresser's - Wed, kr. K. Ashumov is studying in the reading room - Wed, cr.
Panorama of the reading room - general.
The sea before the storm - general.
An oil workers' settlement during a storm - various.
The sea during a storm - general, cf.
A boat at sea during a storm - Wed.
Oil workers are working at the drilling rig - various.
A damaged oil pipeline, oil is flowing, oil workers are climbing along the line to get to the damaged area - general, average.
Various moments of repairing an oil pipeline during a storm - various.
Classes at a technical school, among those studying are Farid, K. Abasov and others - various.
Postgraduate student Yusuf-zade is studying - average.
Oil workers are resting in the dormitory, panorama from the room to the street of the village - general.
The street of the village in the evening, people on the street - general.
Oil workers are drinking tea - general, panorama, average.
Women's dormitory for oil workers: the girls are sewing, embroidering, reading - various.
The girls are talking (synchronously) - various.
Young geologist Minira Mammadbeyli on the territory of the oil field and on the tower - various.
Surveyor Maria Krivospitskaya is climbing the ladder to the tower, writing down data in a notebook - general, average.
Engineer Gamar Aliyeva is working in the laboratory - Wed, kr, Poland.
At the site of the accident, gas is escaping from the oil pipeline along with the oil, firefighters and oil workers are working, everyone is covered in oil and water - various.
Firefighters are wiping their faces covered in oil - various.
Firefighters are driving along the overpass - general.
Oil workers are in the auditorium of a club at an amateur concert - various.
A pop ensemble is on the stage, engineer Gamar Aliyeva is singing (synchronously) - various.
Evening shots - the sea, oil rigs in the distance, a barge is floating on the sea, an overpass is in the distance.
Ships at sea - various.
Vacationers are sitting on benches in the evening - various.
A girl and a boy are standing at the railing - general, Wed.
Engineer S. Gamidov and Minira Mammadbeyli in the reading room - Wed, kr. S. Gamidov and M. Mamedbeyli are riding a boat - Wed, kr.
Construction of a new power plant - general, panorama, Wed, kr.
Construction of an improvised stage, the stage is decorated with carpets - various.
A ship is sailing out to sea, approaching the overpass, those meeting on the overpass - general.
A panorama of the street in the village.
A concert by artists from the Bolshoi Theater - general, panorama.
The theater's soloist Pankov is singing (synchronously) - short.
The ballet dancer Tikhomirnova is dancing with her partner - various.
Oil workers are watching and applauding - various. K. Ashumov and production foreman Mr.
Shirinov are standing on the drilling rig - medium, short.
After drilling, K. Ashumov hands over the well to foreman Shirinov - medium, short.
The meter - medium.
Workers are pressing the handle of the device - medium, panorama. K. Ashumov, Shirinov and workers at the device - medium.
Worker is turning the wheel - medium.
Oil started flowing from the well - general, medium, panorama.
Oil fountain - general, medium, short.
A measuring cup with oil in hand, a panorama of K. Ashumov’s face - general, panorama.
An oil fountain in the Shirvan steppe (Azerbaijan) - general, panorama.
Installation of an oil rig in the steppe – various.
A panorama of the chemical plant in Sumgait - general, panorama.
A workshop of the chemical plant - general (with military equipment).
A workshop for processing chemical substances - general, cf.
An oil fountain - general.
An oil worker working at a drilling rig - various.
A tanker passes by in front of a tank farm - general.
A new tank farm - general.
A worker painting a tank - general, cri.
Testing a tank: workers turning the wheel, water pouring out of the tank - various.
Oil workers applauding - general, cf.
A panorama of the oil workers’ faces - cri.
The inscription on the tank “In honor of the 21st Congress of the CPSU” - cri.
The Caspian Sea in winter, oil fields in the distance - general.
Traffic on overpass - general. (with air conditioning).
Lower part of overpass, snow falling - Wed.
Snow on oleander leaves - Wed, cr.
Workers climbing onto drilling rig - Wed, panorama.
Overpass in winter, view through car window - general.
Oil workers playing snowballs in the street, making a snow woman - various.
Man at weather booth - Wed.
Clouds - cr.
Foreman giving instructions to worker - various.
Worker running along overpass - Wed.
Worker talking on the phone - cr.
Boat at sea during an emerging storm - general.
Overpass in the evening during a severe storm - various.
Work on the drilling rig during a storm - various.
Workers' faces - various.
A car is driving along the overpass, an oil worker is running up to it - general.
Chief Engineer B. Gadzhiev gives the order to stop work at the drilling rig - general, kr.
Oil workers are walking along the overpass during a storm - misc.
Oil workers run along the overpass at night during a storm - general.
A strong wave strikes the span of the old overpass, oil workers crawl along the pipe - general, cf.
Oil workers carry boards - general, cf.
Various shots of the oil workers' struggle with the elements of the storm - various.
Faces of oil workers - cl.
Raging sea near the drilling rig - various.
Sea - cl.
Radio room: an oil worker is talking (synchronously) - cl.
The drilling rig is collapsing - general.
Faces of K. Abasov, Yu.
Kerimov, Shirinov - cl.
Newsreel from the 1940s: Stills from the film "The Tale of the Caspian Oil Workers": M. Kaverochkin with oil workers - various.
Oil workers are standing, panorama of the memorial plaque with the inscription "The first drilling rig of master M. Kaverokin, which marked the beginning of the offshore oil industry.
Oil Rocks produced oil on November 7, 1949." A boat named after Kaverokin is at sea - general.
Oil workers are sitting in the hall (at the meeting) - Wed, panorama.
Oil workers are working at the drilling rig - various. K. Ashumov is working - Wed.
The communist labor brigade of engineer Akif Jafar is working - various.
Faces of the workers - red.
Pressure gauge - red, red.
Oil workers are walking along the overpass, among them the delegate to the 21st Congress of the CPSU Yu.
Kerimov - red.
Panorama of the Oil Rocks oil fields - general.
The premises of the research institute: engineers are standing by the model of the left crane - red, red.
Construction of overpass: diesel hammer working - general, general.
Farid at overpass construction - general, general, general.
Crane and diesel hammer working - general, general (with military equipment).
Tanker is standing near tank farm - general (with military equipment).
Oil tanker is sailing by sea - general, general (with military equipment).