Soviet Lithuania (1947)

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A meeting in a Lithuanian village.

The participants are peasants who took part in the war and were awarded orders and medals.

The chairman of the meeting reads an appeal from the residents of Lithuania to Stalin from the Lithuanian newspaper Tiesa (Pravda).

Peasants inspect seeders before the 1947 sowing season.

Leaders of a collective farm from the Šiauliai district, together with the secretary of the party committee Žilinskis, discuss the plan for building a collective farm settlement.

A model of the settlement.

Houses for the collective farmers are being built.

According to folk custom, a wreath is raised above the rafters when the roof is finished.

Horses walk to the farm.

A local breed of heavy draft horses.

Pig herds inspect young piglets.

A pig herd brings feed for a sow with piglets.

Breaking in local horses.

A milkmaid inspects a Lithuanian Red cow.

Piglets.

A herd of pigs on a pasture.

A peasant stands in a field with sprouts of grain.

A peasant at a horse-drawn plough.

Tractors arrive in the village.

Children watch the equipment arrive through the open windows of the school.

Farmers inspect and repair tractors.

Tractor driver competition.

A committee follows the winner and checks his furrow.

Machine and tractor stations and rental points rent out farmer equipment for tilling the land.

Milk processing equipment.

Farmers gather for a meeting of the agricultural credit union.

They receive loans through the union and buy seeds, fertilizers, and complex machinery together.

Trains with new agricultural machinery.

Flood.

Harvesting.

The reaper is working.

Women are gathering sheaves.

Horses are grazing by the river.

Horse training.

Poultry house.

Ducks are swimming on the river.

Pigs are grazing in the field.

A pig with piglets in a pen.

Cows are grazing in a meadow.

Milk is being delivered to the cooperative.

Construction on the Žemaitija collective farm Threshing the sheaves.

Farmers are finishing harvesting the grain.

Panorama of a field with sheaves.

Gathering sheaves.

Peasants take hay out of the fields.

Peasants plough the land with horses and sow grain by hand.

Lakes of Lithuania.

A patrolman in the protected areas of Lithuania.

Migratory birds on the lakes of the reserve.

Wild geese.

Swan.

Map of Lithuania.

The map shows Klaipeda.

The Curonian Spit Neringa.

Dunes on the spit are 70 meters high.

The dunes are planted with bushes.

The spit is being studied by scientists led by M. Taujatis.

Panorama of the spit during a storm.

Pine forest.

Deer.

Sailing in the vicinity of Klaipeda.

A female crew.

Children from pioneer camps relax at the sea.

The resort of Palanga.

People relax on the beach.

Vacationers from all the republics of the USSR. People's Artist of the USSR Kipras Petrauskas and the President of the Academy of Architecture Mordvinov fish.

Pensioner Vasiliev relaxes in Lithuania.

Alternation of shots from health resorts of Lithuania.

Vacationers go home.

The pioneers go home, September begins.

Children go to school on September 1. Schoolchildren on the streets of the city.

Pupils of the naval school.

The Academy of Sciences (AS) of the Lithuanian SSR unites 13 research institutes.

Scientists enter the building of the AS. A meeting of the Presidium of the AS of the Lithuanian SSR. President of the AS, Professor Iozas Matulis.

Vice-President of the AS, Iozas Žiukšta, speaking.

Professor Plašys.

Professor Kreššunas.

Professor Prokis.

Scientists help solve the problems of Lithuania’s restoration and development.

A meeting of scientists of the AS of the Lithuanian SSR. Children in a kindergarten.

Schoolchildren listen to a teacher who was awarded orders and medals during the war.

Library.

Readers receive books.

Students.

Vilnius University.

The interior of the university.

Telescopes and old books.

Globe.

The large auditorium of the university.

A lecture on physiology.

The lecture is given by Professor Jonas Šipauskas.

Students during lectures and laboratory work.

Public library.

Higher education institutions of Kaunas, such as the Institute of Chemical Technology.

Polytechnic Institute.

Veterinary Academy.

Institute of Physical Education.

Rhythmic gymnastics classes.

Sports gymnastics training.

Graduate of the institute, USSR boxing champion Algerdas Shocikas.

Awards of the students of the institute.

Students walking down the street. 11 institutes of the republic graduate about one and a half thousand specialists per year.

Botanical Garden.

Head of the institute, Professor Grybauskas.

Republican breeding station in Dotnuva.

Scientist Pudalas is working on new varieties of barley, oats, and rye.

The station breeds 48 varieties of different crops.

Alternating shots of Lithuanian museums.

Folk art.

Examples of such art.

A weaver works on a loom.

Examples of Lithuanian peasant outfits.

Examples of socks and mittens with a folk pattern.

Clay products of folk crafts.

State Art Institute.

Leonas Tamulis draws the restoration of Vilnius.

The statue of a fisherman was created by the young sculptor Kazys Varnas.

Educational sketches of students of the State Art Institute.

The painting is created by the former partisan A. Gogin.

The painting is called "To be shot".

The artist Žmulcinevičius and the sculptor Mikenas discuss their works.

The sculptor Mikenas created the Victory Monument in Kaliningrad.

Landscapes of Žmulcinevičius.

In 1947, the academy is preparing to celebrate the 400th anniversary of the Lithuanian book.

First printed Lithuanian publications.

Professor Pokarklis examines the manuscripts of the Lithuanian poet Daniilāitis, discovered in Kaliningrad.

Russian translation of the poem.

Translations of Russian classics into Lithuanian.

Filming of Salomeja Neris, poetess.

Writers Peteris Svirka and Bolis Stuoga, Antanas Svenslavas and Boris Daugavėtis discuss new works at the Writers' Union.

Port work.

Moored seiners.

The seiner crew is getting ready to sail.

Fish barrels are loaded.

The bells are rung and the vessel sets out to sea.

The captain of the vessel.

A Lithuanian trawler is selecting a trawl with fish.

Fishing is being done from boats near the shore.

The boat has a catch of eels.

The nets are designed to catch only large fish, the young fish go out to sea.

Panorama of the port of Klaipeda.

Unloading a vessel.

Komsomol member Vytautas Manaitis unloads machines for a spinning mill.

Women are repairing nets.

New vessels have appeared in the fishing harbors, sea trawlers for fishing at great depths.

Fishermen are working on the deck.

Klaipeda port work.

In 1939, the Germans took Klaipeda from Lithuania, the Soviet Union returned Klaipeda to Lithuania.

Ships from many countries visit the port of Klaipeda.

A Polish vessel is unloaded.

A platform for unloading coal.

Unloading timber.

Panorama of moored trawlers.

Fishermen resting on the shore.

Portraits of fishermen in special clothing, some smoking pipes.

Boats approaching the shore.