For the 40th anniversary of the pioneer organization.
Pupils of one of the Moscow schools in the pioneer room talk with the pioneer leader (synch.), sit in the classroom during the lesson. Pioneers on the excursion to the 16th Moscow printing house. Footage from the chronicle of the 1920s, dedicated to the history of the pioneer organization: the pioneer parade on Red Square, admission to the pioneers in one of the villages, the design of the wall newspaper, the enrollment of adults in the illiteracy program, the fight of pioneers against homelessness, the participation of pioneers in amateur activities, in the motor rally in cars built by their own hands, at the All-Union pioneer rally in Moscow in 1929. A meeting of pioneers of boarding school #3 in Gorlovka. A meeting of pioneers with miners. A visit to the city museum of pioneer glory. Collection of scrap metal by pioneers of Gorlovka. Novosibirsk pioneers are studying at the young technicians club, testing a device that measures the electrical conductivity of the soil. Pioneers from the village of Lebedevka in Siberia are helping on a poultry farm. Students from the boarding school in the city of Kandovo are independently repairing the boarding school building, working in a pottery and weaving workshop, and playing national instruments. Kyiv pioneers are helping to repair books in one of the city libraries. Schoolchildren from the city of Riga are working in a pioneer service bureau: they are repairing sleds, delivering a washing machine to homes, and telling stories to children in a kindergarten. Schoolchildren from Moscow are studying at one of the aircraft modeling clubs and in an art club. Performances at competitions of young gymnasts, hockey players, and figure skaters. Admission to the pioneers on Red Square. Parade of young athletes.
A schoolboy in a birch forest in early spring – short, medium.
Birds' nests on birches in winter – short.
Panorama.
Birds hover over their nests in early spring.
Rural school building – general.
Wall electric clock: 7:53 – short.
A classroom illuminated by the morning sun (without students).
Two schoolchildren walk along the school corridor before classes begin.
Panorama of the pioneer room in one of the schools – general.
Schoolchildren – short.
A pioneer leader talks to boys who will be accepted as pioneers (synchronously).
Cartoon: a globe, fade-in onto the inscription: "Country of pioneers".
Children in the city are going to school.
Children are going to a rural school – medium.
In the far north, a boy rides to school on reindeer.
In a mountainous region of the country, a boy rides to school on a horse.
Pioneers are going to school.
A lesson in an elementary school classroom.
Children in classes during lessons – cf.
Schoolchildren working with microscopes and devices during lessons.
Former pioneers: academician and Hero of the Soviet Union Yevgeny Fyodorov at work in his office.
Three times Hero of the Soviet Union General Ivan Kozhedub among the pioneers.
Sea captain and Hero of Socialist Labor Aleksey Solyanik on board the whaling ship Slava.
Hero of Socialist Labor Nikolay Mamay and Serafima Kotova chatting in the Kremlin.
People's Artist of the Soviet Union Maya Plisetskaya dancing on stage – cf. N.S. Khrushchev and the first cosmonauts Yu.A. Gagarin and T.S. Titov on the Mausoleum tribune.
Pupils of Moscow School No. 103 chatting in class, then heading to Printing House No. 16 to look for pioneers from the first pioneer detachment.
Printing shop – cf.
Schoolchildren in the printing house.
A sign with the inscription: "Party Bureau" - cf.
The guys in the party bureau of the printing house are talking with one of the first pioneers (synchronously).
The sign on the kiosk: "Information bureau No. 165 Mosgorspravka", PNR for pioneers - cf.
Hands putting a letter in a mailbox - cr.
Legs climbing the stairs in the entrance of a house - cr., cf.
A hand dialing a phone number - cr.
Former pioneer Bella Osipovna Rutshteyn is talking on the phone.
Pioneers are talking on the phone.
Radio - cr.
A man at home on the sofa listens to the radio, reads a newspaper.
A postman hands a letter to the addressee on the street.
Lists of the first pioneers - PNR, cf.
Pioneers of School No. 103 are looking at old photographs they have collected over three years.
Photos telling about the first pioneers of the country, an old pioneer mandate issued in the name of team leader Boris Kudinov.
A copy of the first pioneer magazine "Drum" - kr.
Photos of the first pioneer detachments.
Newsreel of the 1920s: V.I. Lenin – general, medium, ed.
The first pioneer organizations: children at the parade, accepting children into the pioneers in the city and in the village.
Protocol on accepting children into the pioneers – ed.
The work of the pioneers: designing a wall newspaper, writing slogans, enrolling adults in a literacy program, teaching the illiterate to write.
A hand writes "Lenin" – ed.
Children take part in construction.
A tram passes along a city street; a homeless boy sits on the buffer.
A homeless boy on the buffer – ed.
Komsomol members talk to homeless children.
A homeless boy writes an application for admission to a pioneer detachment.
Application by a homeless boy – ed.
Pioneers work in the club they organized for the youth.
The children play knives and fight in the yard.
The pioneers organize an orchestra for the yard children.
The children play musical instruments and do exercises in the yard.
Young athletes lined up in a pyramid – cf.
Children riding pedal cars made by pioneers.
A kid on a city street looks at children – cf.
A motorcade on the way from Moscow to Noginsk.
In Noginsk, young motorists are met and greeted by local residents.
Newsreel from 1929: Pioneers.
Houses in Moscow decorated in honor of the All-Union Pioneer Rally – cf.
A passenger train passes.
Children of different nationalities travel by train to the Pioneer Rally.
The delegates to the rally are met in Moscow.
Pioneers from foreign countries who have arrived for the Soviet Pioneer Rally.
Dynamo Stadium in Moscow during the Pioneer Rally – general (from the top point).
Parade of rally participants at the stadium – general S.M. Kirov, M.I. Kalinin, N.K. Krupskaya – general N.K. Krupskaya and A.M. Gorky at the opening of the All-Union Pioneer Rally. A. M. Gorky's speech at the opening of the rally.
Pioneers listen and applaud.
Pioneer march at the Dynamo stadium - general.
Newsreel of 1935: The First All-Union Congress of Soviet Writers in the Column Hall of the House of Unions.
Pioneers greet the congress.
Irkutsk pioneers talk with A. M. Gorky at the congress.
The cover of the book "Paza snubnosykh" and illustrations for it, created by Irkutsk children.
A printing press is working in the printing house.
The book "Listen Up, Everyone" is being typeset.
Gorlovka - general. (from the top point).
Meeting of the council of the squad of Gorlovka boarding school No. 3 - general.
The children talk about concluding a competition with the brigade of communist labor of Hero of Socialist Labor F. P. Golubyatnikov (synchronously).
At a meeting of the Gorlovka boarding school #3 team council, the pioneers talk about their obligations in the competition with the miners (synchronously).
The boarding school students go to the mine to sign a competition agreement.
Hero of Socialist Labor Fyodor Polikarpovich Golubyatnikov and members of his team talk to the children and sign a competition agreement.
A lesson is going on in the classroom.
The children answer questions at the blackboard.
The miners, representatives of the competing team, are present at the lesson at the boarding school.
After class, the miners talk to the children.
Gorlovka Palace of Pioneers - community.
The Museum of Pioneer Glory in the Palace of Pioneers, created by the children themselves.
Museum exhibits - PPR, community.
Photos of former Gorlovka pioneers, Hero of the Soviet Union Viktor Mozolev and Hero of the Soviet Union Vasily Ermakov.
Pioneers in the Gorlovka museum.
The first issue of the pioneer literary newspaper.
Poems by eighth-grader Yuri Timoshenko in the newspaper (People's Artist of the Ukrainian SSR - Tirokunka).
Timoshenko (Tirokunka) speaking (synchronously in Ukrainian).
A tram built from metal collected by Gorlovka children passes along Gorlovka street.
Children in the factory shop near cars built from metal collected by pioneers - PNR. Coal combine (made from scrap metal).
Pioneers collect scrap metal in the city.
A train passes through the Moscow metro.
The "Barabinsky schoolboy" train, built from pioneer scrap metal, passes along the Siberian railway.
A column of pioneer trucks at the Minsk Automobile Plant - general, medium, small.
Pioneers are presented with documents on the release of a column of cars from their metal.
Young designers demonstrate a car controlled by radio.
Novosibirsk young technicians Zhenya Solodov, Igor Gibin, Vitya Yolkin are building a device that measures the electrical conductivity of the soil.
The boys are testing the soil in the forest with the device.
The boys are writing a letter with the results of their soil measurements.
Poltava pioneers are working in a collective farm field, transporting corn cobs.
A room in the editorial office of Pionerskaya Pravda, where a map of the country hangs with marks of the most interesting and important events on its territory.
The boys in the editorial office of Pionerskaya Pravda.
Numerous letters from readers of the newspaper – cf.
Poland.
A letter from pioneers of the Siberian village of Lebedevka.
Pioneers with their leader Galya Lebedeva are walking along the street of the village of Lebedevka (winter).
Komsomol member Galya Lebedeva is working in the collective farm poultry house.
The pioneers are helping to look after the chickens.
Pupils of the boarding school in Kandava, Latvian SSR, draw, weave national patterns, make ceramic items.
Bedroom in the boarding school, pioneer room.
The children from the boarding school in the city of Kandava make national musical instruments in the workshop and tune them (synchronously).
Hands play a national string instrument – cf.
Girls play national string instruments.
The banner of revolutionary Cuba, which Fidel Castro awarded to the boarding school for exemplary aesthetic education of children - PNR. The pioneers greet the 22nd Congress of the CPSU in the Kremlin Palace of Congresses (synchronously) – general, medium; tie ties on N.S. Khrushchev and other leaders of the party and government.
Cosmonaut G.S. Titov in a pioneer tie at the congress – cf.
A street in Kostroma.
A signboard of a pioneer squad – kr.
A meeting of a pioneer squad (synchronously).
A pioneer reconnaissance mission takes place along a street in Kostroma.
Children sledding down a hill – general, medium, kr.
A girl on a sled rushes down a hill towards an oncoming truck.
A woman hurries to the kindergarten to pick up her child.
A postman hands a woman a letter.
The guys from the pioneer reconnaissance on the street observe life around them, take note of interesting things.
The guys from Kostroma make a work plan in the action zone.
Map: Leninsky district of Kiev, divided into pioneer action zones.
Pioneers in zone #1 restore books in the library, in zone #2, children study in a dance club under the guidance of pioneer instructor Tanya Kravets.
Riga street - community.
A five-year-old girl brought a broken sled to the workshop to fix.
Pioneers in the workshop repair household items.
Sign "Free workshop".
A pioneer helps a pensioner take home a washing machine repaired in the workshop.
Pioneer Eha Dakhtma from Pärnu reads fairy tales to the children in a kindergarten and shows them pictures.
The girls listen to fairy tales – ed.
First-graders during a lesson in a Ukrainian village – ed.
A pioneer puppet theater performs in English at school.
Children – ed.
Children applaud – ed.
The building of the Riga International Friendship Club – ed., ed.
The children in the club look at souvenirs and read letters.
The counselor reads a letter from little Marineu in Italy asking her to send her the medicine Nivolin.
The pioneers go to the city pharmacies, collect a parcel of ampoules with the medicine and hand the parcel to the pilot at the airport for delivery to Italy.
The plane takes off from the airport – ed.
Children of different nationalities in the international camp "Friendship" in Artek.
The building of the camp "Friendship".
Children sunbathe on the beach, swim in the sea, play – ed., wed., ed.
Artek – ed.
Children on holiday at a camp: morning exercises.
Children picking flowers on a walk, a children's orchestra playing - Poland.
Mountain landscape of Central Asia - general.
Children from the pioneer film studio "Yunfilm" (Tashkent) are filming in a mountain valley.
The girls are dancing for the camera.
A girl camerawoman is recording a concert of musicians.
A portable tape recorder is working - cf.
The "Yunfilm" film crew at the studio is watching the footage on the screen, discussing it (synchronously).
On September 1st, a family is getting a first-grader ready for school.
The children are walking to school.
The mother catches up with her child and gives him the school bag he forgot at home.
Schoolchildren lay flowers at the memorial plaque to the pioneers who died in the war with the fascists.
Newsreel from 1941-1945: Children help adults work.
Soldiers in a liberated city take the son of a regiment to his unit.
A young partisan with adults in the forest.
A partisan hut in a dense forest that has survived to this day – Poland.
Pioneers lay flowers at the grave of fallen soldiers.
Monument to pioneer, Hero of the Soviet Union Valya Kotik – kr.
Monument to pioneer, Hero of the Soviet Union Lyonya Golikov at VDNKh.
Children lay flowers at the monument.
Children in the Palaces of Pioneers of different cities.
A teenager plays the violin (synchronously).
Aircraft modelers make models in a workshop.
A circle of young artists studies at the Chisinau House of Pioneers.
Drawings by young artists – kr.
Diplomas and memorable gifts received for drawings at international exhibitions.
New Year's tree for children in the Grand Kremlin Palace. N.S. Khrushchev at a children's party by the tree.
Artists perform.
Children at the "tree" - kr.
Radio tower – medium.
The radio program "Pioneer Dawn" is on.
Acrobatics competitions between equestrian athletes from Minsk and Moscow at the stadium of "Young Pioneers".
Moscow schoolgirl S. Yakubova performs.
A girl performs, then a boy.
In Sverdlovsk, a competition of teams of the children's sports school "Spartak" in hockey is underway.
Team captains Rashid Tagirov and Vova Musikham on the ice field.
Moments of the game at the goal - Wed, cr.
Children applaud - Wed.
Training of young wrestlers at the sports school at the Lenin Stadium in Luzhniki – general, Wed.
Figure skater Irina Goloshchapova performs.
Girl skaters from the figure skating school train at the Young Pioneers Stadium.
Newsreel from the 1950s: Ira Goloshchapova trains.
Figure skaters perform at the Christmas tree in Luzhniki – general.
Children skiing in the forest.
A boy on a horse overcomes obstacles.
Pioneers go on a long hike.
Children on a hike prepare lunch.
The boy tries the food – general.
Children examining a cave.
Stalactites in a cave – general.
Children on the shore and in a boat – general.
Snow-capped peaks of the Sayan Mountains – general.
Poland.
Children taking pictures of the area, V.I. Lenin’s hut near Shushenskoye.
The house in Shushenskoye where V.I. Lenin lived – general (summer).
Children playing – general.
Children take pictures of Lenin's places, prepare photos for mailing.
Children of Ulyanovsk celebrate V.I. Lenin's birthday: a ceremonial line-up at the Lenin monument, a ceremonial march of pioneers.
A pioneer leader talks to the children.
Pioneers give a solemn pledge (synchronously in different languages).
Pioneers on Red Square give a solemn promise (synchronously).
Pioneer march on Red Square – general, medium, short.