Tatarstan. The Land of Four Rivers (1930)

Peasants, a horse, a plow. "Part 1. The Country of Four Rivers".

Animation - Tatarstan on the map of the USSR, map of Tatarstan.

River.

Rye.

Panorama of the Volga River from the sky.

Fishing nets are drying.

Staged shots: barge haulers on the Volga.

The boat's propeller is turning.

Fishermen are turning the handle.

The helmsman is steering the boat.

Rafting of logs down the river.

Loaders at the pier carry bundles of hay.

Pier.

Kama River.

Rafting of logs.

Sunset.

Ships are sailing.

Belaya River.

A raft of logs.

Vyatka River.

Landscape.

Horseman.

Horses with a cart with hay are passing a ford.

Overlay of shots - forest and river.

NPR through the trees from bottom to top.

Landscape.

River, barge, ducks by the water.

Ears of wheat.

Water, church.

Monastery on the shore.

Wooden manor.

Sheaves in the field.

Factories on the river bank.

Rafts are being dismantled into logs.

Kazan.

Monument to the conquest of Kazan.

Church dome.

View of Kazan through the bars.

Churches of the city.

Tatar settlement – Poland.

Dust on the road.

Women carrying water.

Streets of the settlement.

Entrance and signboard "M.S. Ishmurzin's Manufactory and Grocery Trade".

Man.

Windows of houses.

Hay, road.

Field.

Tower.

Ruins.

Slab with Arabic script.

Tower on the hill.

«Part 2. The Earth Does Not Feed».

A tower on a hill.

Coast.

Clouds.

Landscape, night.

Minaret.

Hut.

Staged shot: a beater.

Field, ravine.

Ploughed land.

A man reaps.

Grass, earth.

Staged shots until the end of the part: Hay is transported on a horse.

A peasant is sitting.

A haystack.

Peasants are reaping.

Peasant women are threshing sheaves under the supervision of a landowner.

A peasant woman threshes a sheaf.

A child is pushing a stroller.

A peasant woman is sorting grain.

A mullah is reading a prayer.

A peasant is repairing a plough.

A peasant woman is carrying buckets on a yoke.

A horse.

An empty feeding trough.

A peasant is putting a collar on a horse.

A cow.

A boy is leading a blind man along the road.

A peasant is sowing.

A peasant is ploughing with a plough.

A peasant woman is milking a cow.

She is pouring milk into a pot.

A child.

Horse's hooves on the ground.

Horse fell.

Horse lies.

Staged shots: A peasant near a fallen horse.

A plow.

A peasant with a collar in his hands.

A country road.

A birch tree.

Clouds.

A hut, a peasant.

A cow being led through the village.

A peasant woman with children.

A barn.

Peasants walking through the village.

Peasants leaving to earn money. "Part 3. Hard Years." Newsreel: the celebration of the tercentenary of the Romanov dynasty.

Nicholas II with Alexandra Feodorovna and her retinue are walking.

Photography.

Feature film: Czechoslovaks are walking, girls are waving scarves from the window.

Istanbul – a view from the water.

A camel, people on the street.

Feature film: a meeting of the military and civilians during the Civil War.

Muslims are praying in front of a mosque.

Feature film: horsemen are galloping through the desert, a meeting of the military and civilians during the Civil War.

The execution of the Tatar commissar Vakhitov.

People are walking along the road.

A cart is passing.

A soldier stands on a locomotive.

A line of soldiers.

A barge with guns.

An armored train.

Military operations.

The Red Army enters Kazan.

Soldiers walk through the city.

A destroyed church.

A soldier on a locomotive.

An armored train is moving.

A barge with guns.

Artillery on a platform.

A fight.

A corpse.

Troops are marching.

An explosion.

A barbed wire fence.

The capture of Kazan by the Red Army.

Troops are entering the city.

Steamboats are sailing along the river.

A building, artillery is moving.

Destroyed buildings.

A destroyed church dome.

Soldiers on the shore.

Filming from on board a steamboat.

Soldiers are sleeping.

Soldiers on the deck.

A sunken ship.

Soldiers are disembarking.

Riders are galloping.

Staged shots: a telegraph wire is being damaged.

«Part 4. At the Turning Point».

Surveyor at the device.

Carrying out measuring work.

Carts with peasants are driving.

Barges are floating along the river.

Things are being brought into the house.

A girl is pressing water in the river.

Sapling.

Apple tree.

Birdhouse.

Children.

A child with a kitten in her arms.

Experimental and demonstration vegetable garden of pioneers.

Pioneers are marching in formation along the beds.

Pioneers are working in the vegetable garden.

Watering cabbage.

Builders are sawing a log with a two-handed saw.

Driving in piles.

An old man on the bank.

Young people are carrying logs.

Old people are sitting.

Komsomol members are carrying boards.

Construction of a bridge.

A peasant is reaping with a sickle.

Peasant women are sifting grain.

Staged shots: kulaks are drinking tea.

A mullah is walking down the street.

Women are sitting on the grass.

A woman is speaking.

Women on the grass, next to them are baby carriages in a row.

The woman is a member of the village council.

Poster with children.

Children in strollers.

Women voting.

Horse, peasants.

Reaping grain with the help of a horse.

A boy typesets a newspaper page.

A newspaper is printed.

Newspapers.

Workers read newspapers.

Printing house.

Workshop.

Books in the Tatar language.

Theatre posters.

A man talks, young people listen.

A student dissects a frog.

A student looks through a microscope.

Students.

The frog's heart beats.

Students in the audience at a lecture.

A globe.

Classes at the workers' faculty.

A teacher gives a lecture at the blackboard.

Students at their desks.

Feature footage: people in the desert.

Newsreel: Africans working, women and children, harvesting palm leaves.

China: a soldier speaks.

Execution.

Superimposed footage: a worker uses a crowbar, a church.

A meeting.

A Tatar driving a tractor.

Russians - red square.

Chuvash - red square.

Mariyka - red square.

The cavalry gallops. "Part 6. Renewed Land".

Tractors reap the harvest.